diy Physics Blog

  • Book
    • Book Contents
    • Adopt the Textbook
    • Back Cover
    • Instructor’s Guide
    • Software
    • Book Errata
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Policy

Category Archives: Physics Humor

According to Quantum Mechanics…

Posted on July 21, 2013 by David Prutchi Posted in Physics Humor

 

Quantum Mechanical Effects in Microgravity

Posted on July 3, 2013 by David Prutchi Posted in Administrative, Physics Humor

Dorith and David Prutchi floating in zero g on board the "G Force One"

If there were any quantum effects to be seen, I wasn’t paying attention… Dorith (Mrs. diyPhysics) and I were having too much fun!

  httpv://youtu.be/iFr5OSR0sk8

Click here for photos of Day 1 in the G Force One zero-g airplane

Click here for photos of Day 2 in the G Force One zero-g airplane

For more information about Zero G go to http://www.gozerog.com/

 

 

Loved the Book “How the Hippies Saved Physics” by David Kaiser

Posted on April 23, 2013 by David Prutchi Posted in Bell's Inequality Test, Chapter 8 - Entanglement, Physics Humor, QKD

How the Hippies Saved Physics www.diyPhysics.com David Prutchi PhDI just finished the book “How the Hippies Saved Physics” by David Kaiser and absolutely loved!

The book was fun and immensely educational regarding the seemingly unlikely seed of modern-day quantum information theory.  I must confess that when I first saw the book on the shelf at my local Barnes & Noble I dismissed it as yet another pseudo-scientific account of quantum physics.  However, I bought a copy after reading the following review in New Scientist:

“David Kaiser’s How the Hippies Saved Physics is a reminder of the unexpected influence a bunch of freewheeling 1970s physicists had on fundamental theories

IT’S certainly a provocative title, but for the life of me I could not recall an era to which How the Hippies Saved Physics might have applied. Things made more sense, though, on reading David Kaiser’s mention of two other books, both of which had left a big impression on me: Fritjof Capra’s The Tao of Physics and Gary Zukav’s The Dancing Wu Li Masters.

Continue reading→

I Really Understand QM…

Posted on January 20, 2013 by David Prutchi Posted in Physics Humor

I really understand Quantum Physics, or may be not...  www.diyPhysics.com  David and Shanni Prutchi

Bad Physics at the Equator – Shame on the Intiñan Solar Museum!

Posted on December 8, 2012 by David Prutchi Posted in Physics Humor, Uncategorized
Abigail Prutchi at the official "Mitad del Mundo" monument commemorating the 18th Century French Geodesic Mission marking of the Equator

Abigail Prutchi at the official “Mitad del Mundo” monument commemorating the 18th Century French Geodesic Mission marking of the Equator

Abigail and I just returned from a trip to the Galapagos Islands.  On the way, we visited the iconic Mitad del Mundo (Middle of the World) monument which commemorates the 18th-century French Geodesic Mission expedition carried out for the purpose of measuring the roundness of the Earth and measuring the length of a degree of latitude at the Equator.

The monument is constructed at the site where the Geodesic Mission calculated the passing of the Equator.  Modern measurements show that the Equator actually crosses about 240 meters north of the marked line.  Not bad at all for 18th-Century Physics, and an accomplishment worthy of the beautiful monument that commemorates it!

The Intiñan Solar Museum is a shameless tourist trap.  Tour guides get a kickback from the uscrupulous owners of this site where credulous turists are shown tricks that supposedly can happen only at the Equator.  This is prime wxample of Bad Physics fueled by greed!

The Intiñan Solar Museum is a shameless tourist trap. Tour guides get a kickback from the unscrupulous owners of this site where credulous tourists are shown tricks that supposedly can happen only at the Equator. This is a prime example of Bad Physics fueled by greed!

Recently however, a group of unscrupulous investors led by Mr. Humberto Vera started the Intiñan Solar Museum, which reportedly marks the true Equator.  Not true!

Tour guides take tourists there because the museum pays them a kickback (which the official Mitad del Mundo doesn’t).

Continue reading→

Happy Quantum Halloween!

Posted on October 21, 2012 by David Prutchi Posted in Physics Humor


No Joke: Science Is A Laughing Matter – NPR’s Science Friday April 1st Edition

Posted on March 31, 2012 by David Prutchi Posted in Physics Humor

 h bar joke.  www.diyPhysics.com

Yesterday, Friday, March 30th, 2012, NPR’s Science Friday had its yearly April 1st “No Joke: Science Is A Laughing Matter” program.  Want to hear a joke about sodium hypobromite? NaBrO! Can science be the butt of a good joke? Ira Flatow and guests test the hypothesis in an annual April Fools’ joke-a-thon. They share the best gags in the business. Sidesplitting or groan-worthy? You decide.

Program announcement in NPR’s Archive:

 http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201203301

Download mp3 of the show: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/sciencefriday/scifri201203301.mp3

 

Engineer’s Date Night

Posted on February 5, 2012 by David Prutchi Posted in Physics Humor
Engineer's date night by Daniel Vasconcellos

Image Credit: Daniel Vasconcellos

From:  http://www.edn.com/article/471834-Something_from_nothing.php

 

Our New Photomultiplier :)

Posted on January 5, 2012 by David Prutchi Posted in Chapter 2 - Light as Particles, Photomultipliers, Physics Humor

A very funny cartoon by Prof. Dr. Claus Grupen of Siegen University:

Funny physics photomultiplier cartoon by Prof. Claus Grupen

 

Buy our book at Amazon.com

Navigate diyphysics.com

  • Book
    • Book Contents
    • Adopt the Textbook
    • Back Cover
    • Instructor’s Guide
    • Software
    • Book Errata
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Policy

Categories

  • Administrative
  • Book Chapters
    • Chapter 1 – Light as a Wave
    • Chapter 2 – Light as Particles
    • Chapter 3 – Atoms and Radioactvity
    • Chapter 4 – The Priciple of Quantum Physics
    • Chapter 5 – Wave-Particle Duality
    • Chapter 6 – The Uncertainty Principle
    • Chapter 7 – Schrödinger's Wave Equation
    • Chapter 8 – Entanglement
  • Experiments
    • Attenuation of Radiation
    • Bell's Inequality Test
    • Compton Scattering
    • Doppler Effect
    • e/m Measurement
    • Emission Spectrometry
    • Entanglement
    • Glow Discharge
    • Ionizing Radiation Detection
    • Maltese Cross CRT
    • Plasma Physics
    • QKD
    • Quantum Dots
    • Quantum Random Number Generation
    • Quantum Tunneling
    • Radio-Isotope Identification
    • Relativistic Time Dilation
    • Rutherford Alpha-Particle Scattering
    • Single-Electron Experiments
    • Single-Photon Experiments
    • Single-Slit Diffraction
    • Two-Slit Interference
    • β-Particle Magnetic Deflection
  • Instrumentation
    • CDV700 Pro Geiger-Müller Counter
    • Electron-Beam Tube
    • Entangled-Photon Source
    • Gunnplexer Transceiver
    • High-Voltage Power Supply
    • Lasers
    • Mach-Zehnder Interferometer
    • Magneto-Optical Trap
    • Marx Generators
    • MCA/PHA
    • Photomultipliers
    • Photon/Coincidence Counter
    • PMT/Scintillation Processor
    • Polarimetric Imaging
    • Polymeric Radiation Detector
    • Precision Clocks and Timers
      • Atomic Clock
      • GPS-Disciplined
    • Radioisotopes
    • Scintillation Detector
    • Single-Photon Counting Modules (SPCMs)
    • Single-Photon Imaging
    • Spectrometer
    • Thermal Camera
    • Ultraviolet Illuminators
    • Vacuum System
  • Medium Wave Infrared Imaging
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance NMR
  • Physics Humor
  • Theoretical Physics
  • Ultraviolet Imaging
  • Uncategorized

Educational Resources

  • ALPhA Advanced Laboratory Physics Association
  • American Journal of Physics
  • Circuit Cellar
  • Dr. Enrique Galvez' Correlated-Photon Experiments Guide
  • Dr. Mark Beck's Undergraduate QM Experiments
  • The Bell Jar

Blogroll

  • Dorith Prutchi's Professional Website
  • More of our projects at prutchi.com
  • My Blog on Implantable Devices
  • My Infrared-to-UV Photography Site

Pages

  • Book
    • Book Contents
    • Adopt the Textbook
    • Back Cover
    • Instructor’s Guide
    • Software
    • Book Errata
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Policy

Archives

  • November 2023
  • September 2023
  • May 2021
  • March 2021
  • July 2019
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • July 2016
  • March 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • February 2014
  • December 2013
  • July 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011

Categories

  • Administrative (9)
  • Book Chapters (61)
    • Chapter 1 – Light as a Wave (2)
    • Chapter 2 – Light as Particles (10)
    • Chapter 3 – Atoms and Radioactvity (27)
    • Chapter 4 – The Priciple of Quantum Physics (3)
    • Chapter 5 – Wave-Particle Duality (13)
    • Chapter 6 – The Uncertainty Principle (2)
    • Chapter 7 – Schrödinger's Wave Equation (7)
    • Chapter 8 – Entanglement (18)
  • Experiments (57)
    • Attenuation of Radiation (2)
    • Bell's Inequality Test (8)
    • Compton Scattering (8)
    • Doppler Effect (2)
    • e/m Measurement (3)
    • Emission Spectrometry (2)
    • Entanglement (12)
    • Glow Discharge (1)
    • Ionizing Radiation Detection (18)
    • Maltese Cross CRT (1)
    • Plasma Physics (1)
    • QKD (3)
    • Quantum Dots (1)
    • Quantum Random Number Generation (3)
    • Quantum Tunneling (2)
    • Radio-Isotope Identification (7)
    • Relativistic Time Dilation (1)
    • Rutherford Alpha-Particle Scattering (1)
    • Single-Electron Experiments (1)
    • Single-Photon Experiments (22)
    • Single-Slit Diffraction (1)
    • Two-Slit Interference (4)
    • β-Particle Magnetic Deflection (2)
  • Instrumentation (79)
    • CDV700 Pro Geiger-Müller Counter (7)
    • Electron-Beam Tube (4)
    • Entangled-Photon Source (6)
    • Gunnplexer Transceiver (2)
    • High-Voltage Power Supply (10)
    • Lasers (3)
    • Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (1)
    • Magneto-Optical Trap (1)
    • Marx Generators (3)
    • MCA/PHA (10)
    • Photomultipliers (15)
    • Photon/Coincidence Counter (4)
    • PMT/Scintillation Processor (9)
    • Polarimetric Imaging (4)
    • Polymeric Radiation Detector (1)
    • Precision Clocks and Timers (3)
      • Atomic Clock (2)
      • GPS-Disciplined (1)
    • Radioisotopes (1)
    • Scintillation Detector (14)
    • Single-Photon Counting Modules (SPCMs) (12)
    • Single-Photon Imaging (3)
    • Spectrometer (1)
    • Thermal Camera (1)
    • Ultraviolet Illuminators (3)
    • Vacuum System (2)
  • Medium Wave Infrared Imaging (1)
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance NMR (3)
  • Physics Humor (9)
  • Theoretical Physics (1)
  • Ultraviolet Imaging (1)
  • Uncategorized (28)

WordPress

  • Log in
  • WordPress
© diy Physics Blog