Physics

End of Exams

Posted on 18th December 200729th May 2009 by jdkrabbe

So I squeezed my way through semester 7. My Quantum Mechanics final exam today came blasting right down the calendar and arrived all too soon. Any time I’ve had to write more than 2 exams back to back one of them often suffers. I think that’s mostly due to the fact that any time you […]

Asymmetric Capacitance…

Posted on 16th April 200729th May 2009 by jdkrabbe

Here’s the abstract for the latest paper… Electric Field Properties of Asymmetric Capacitances Properties of the electric field produced between two parallel charged conducting wires are described and analyzed. A DC high voltage supply is used to charge a capacitive configuration of narrow gauge wire which produces a strong electric field. An electrostatic model of […]

Antigravity

Posted on 21st March 200729th May 2009 by jdkrabbe

For my final Physics 397 lab I’m working with Andrew Burke and Steve Jim, we’re studying propulsion. The idea is that we ionize air in the presence of a strong electric field, accelerate the electrons in one direction and the cations in the other direction. As a result in the mass difference (more than 10000:1 […]

Why I love James

Posted on 1st March 200731st December 2019 by jdkrabbe

Here’s a high quality musing by James Bell the First: If an intelligent outside observer is required for a waveform to collapse (and thus for anything to exist), how is the entire universe here? Who is the extra-dimensional intelligent outside observer who makes the waveform of the universe collapse into the form that we experience […]

When a Gaussian is not a Gaussian

Posted on 10th February 200729th May 2009 by jdkrabbe

I’ve been sitting in an ETLC computer lab for quite a few hours here trying to write a computer simulation of the phys 397 lab that Rob Joseph and I have been working on for the last month. What should have ended up being a “straight line” passing through a nice series of 60 data […]

Quantum Mechanics

Posted on 9th February 20071st January 2020 by jdkrabbe

Quantum Mechanics is honestly the sweetest course I have ever taken in the history of my life. I’m now checking it off on my list of life goals as complete Now, anybody else in the course right now might be thinking otherwise as we are all finishing up the largest “weekly” assignment of our lives. […]

LaTeX

Posted on 13th January 200729th May 2009 by jdkrabbe

My Phys 397 lab course requires that my lab reports be submitted according to a specific style. LaTeX is strongly recommended as this allows us to use a template provided to develop our lab reports and equations etc. in an efficient, neat and standard manor. I therefore downloaded the freeware MikTeX distribution of the LaTeX […]

Days of Physics underway

Posted on 9th January 200729th May 2009 by jdkrabbe

Tuesday and Thursday this semester are certainly days that will teach me that even great things like physics need to be managed in moderation. Hopefully this semester won’t turn me against it (I have little doubt that this is impossible) but I’ll certainly get my fill. Starting with Electrodynamics and then Quantum for 3 hours […]