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Hello everyone! I'm a college student with a passion for math, physics, philosophy, etc. I wanted to get more involved with the... -
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.
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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...