Monthly Archives: April 2014

Maxwell to Snell

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Andy Rundquist

Today was a really interesting day in my optics class. We’re doing chapter 9 in our text and I wanted to make sure that I motivated the material well. What’s weird about this text is that it waits until chapter … Continue reading →

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Group digital lab books

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Andy Rundquist

Last summer I bought a LiveScribe Sky pen for my lab group, with the hope that we’d connect it to a group Evernote account that we’d use as a group lab notebook. Unfortunately, it didn’t work very well. The Evernote … Continue reading →

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Relativistic explosions

Posted on April 5, 2014 by Andy Rundquist

Earlier this week I got an email from a friend who has been working with his students modeling how momentum works in a situation where two carts start connected and then explode apart. I’m not sure, but I think that … Continue reading →

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