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haushofer replied to the thread The Universe’s Brightest Explosions Were Discovered by Accident.Serendipity: looking for a needle in a haystack, but rolling out of the haystack with the farmer's daughter. -
haushofer reacted to Demystifier's post in the thread Graduate Is the variation of the metric ##\delta g_{\mu\nu}## a tensor? with
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After some thinking, I believe it's only a problem in notation. To make the explanation simpler, I find convenient to use an index-free... -
haushofer replied to the thread Physics/math: how much knowledge does a high school teacher need?.I have a feeling my question was not properly formulated. Let me rephrase it: How much surplus knowledge does a teacher need to be...
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haushofer posted the thread Physics/math: how much knowledge does a high school teacher need? in STEM Educators and Teaching.Dear all, as some of you may know I'm a math/physics teacher at a teachers education in Holland, where we prepare teachers at...
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haushofer replied to the thread Undergrad Ramsauer and Townsend effect: history and explanation.I found this historical overview, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27757746 -never mind the request, I can read it online
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haushofer posted the thread Undergrad Ramsauer and Townsend effect: history and explanation in Quantum Physics.Dear all, I'm writing an article about the didactics of teaching quantum physics, and in particular the phenomenon of resonant...
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haushofer replied to the thread High School Gravitons/Gravity passing through objects.It turns out that in certain limits the gravitational field acts similarly to an electromagnetic field and has a "magnetic component"...
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haushofer replied to the thread Undergrad Why is gravity a fictitious force?.I don't think so, but I have to think about this a bit more. My gut reaction would be that this is similar to the question whether...
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haushofer reacted to Demystifier's post in the thread Undergrad Why is gravity a fictitious force? with Like.
@Dale and @PeterDonis I'm still somewhat confused, so I will ask a slightly more general question. Consider a Newton-like theory of...
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haushofer replied to the thread Undergrad Why is gravity a fictitious force?.I don't see that clear distinction between "interactions" and "spacetime curvature"; Fierz-Pauli is an interactive description of GR...
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haushofer replied to the thread Undergrad Why is gravity a fictitious force?.My 2 cents: a fictitious force is due to your (accelerating) frame of reference; there is no interaction involved (if you don't...
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Hi all, I've been in the world of physics for about 4 years. I teach physics only and want to continue doing so. Teaching high school...
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haushofer reacted to Demystifier's post in the thread Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture with Like.
I don't know whether Coleman's position contains something original, but there is something else that I find problematic. Coleman first...
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haushofer replied to the thread Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture.It's comparable to the time where the geocentric and heliocentric models both successfully explained planetary orbits. It was only in...
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haushofer replied to the thread Advice on visiting CERN?.My advice: don't mention the war or supersymmetry.