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		<title>The Magnetic Monopole</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Moore</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I tell my students that if they can discover a magnetic monopole, then they will receive a Nobel Prize in Physics. An article published recently in Science discusses experiments that seem to have uncovered the elusive magnetic monopole. Why is this important? Why is this news not quite as exciting as you might think?
Maxwell&#8217;s Equations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shameless self promotion and the physics of punting</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2009/08/25/shameless-self-promotion-and-the-physics-of-punting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2009/08/25/shameless-self-promotion-and-the-physics-of-punting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Moore</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dallas Morning News called me yesterday to see if I could help with their research on NFL punt trajectories. The obvious reason was because A.J. Trapasso hit the Dallas Cowboy&#8217;s center-field score board while punting.
In 2006, I wrote a blog post on this site about the optimum angle for kicking a punt. That is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jerry Jones is wrong. That scoreboard IS too low.</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2009/08/24/jerry-jones-is-wrong-that-scoreboard-is-too-low/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2009/08/24/jerry-jones-is-wrong-that-scoreboard-is-too-low/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Moore</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A.J. Trapasso hit the Dallas Cowboy&#8217;s 90-foot high scoreboard with a punted football during the Tennessee/Dallas pre-season match-up a couple of days ago. Jerry Jones claims that A.J. was trying to hit it, and must have kicked the ball straight up. He&#8217;s wrong.
ESPN reports on the incident here.
Jones implied that having the video board in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moon landing hoax: People believe the dumbest things</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2009/07/18/moon-landing-hoax-people-believe-the-dumbest-things/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2009/07/18/moon-landing-hoax-people-believe-the-dumbest-things/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Moore</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bad Physics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve gotten into tangles with the 9/11 Troofers on this site before. But I&#8217;m always amazed at what people will believe. The moon landing was faked! Come on &#8230; really?
Apparently, the story is big enough that Newsweek decided to run a story this week.
Despite the amount of evidence increasingly available online, a sizeable number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common misconceptions: light slows down in a medium</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2009/07/15/common-misconceptions-light-slows-down-in-a-medium/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2009/07/15/common-misconceptions-light-slows-down-in-a-medium/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Moore</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Common Misconceptions]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[excited state]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As students of physics, we learn when studying Special Relativity that the speed of light is constant. When we study geometric optics, we learn that the speed of light slows down in a medium. This seeming contradiction leads to a completely understandable misconception about the nature of light.

I was reminded of this while reading this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A research lesson for 9/11 Truthers</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2009/07/06/a-research-lesson-for-911-truthers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2009/07/06/a-research-lesson-for-911-truthers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Moore</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[9/11 Troofers like to think that they have &#8220;researched&#8221; the collapse of the Twin Towers, when most have done little more that read a few articles on Alex Jone-like websites, watched a few YouTube videos, and romped around in Troofer forums/echo-chambers. I&#8217;m a researcher by profession, so I can assure you that none of these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We are now a Linux family</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2009/05/05/we-are-now-a-linux-family/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2009/05/05/we-are-now-a-linux-family/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 14:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Moore</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Product Reviews]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Random Stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[linux]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PuppyLinux]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ilovephysics.com/?p=268</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife&#8217;s hard drive crashed. I believe it was a mechanical failure, so pretty much no hope for recovery. Thankfully, I had a PuppyLinux CD in my office, so last week she had a functioning operating system that allowed her to check the weather and email. I bought a new hard drive and opted not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My charmed academic life reborn</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2009/04/29/my-charmed-academic-life-reborn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2009/04/29/my-charmed-academic-life-reborn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Moore</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[The Physicist Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I was a bit down because I had two papers rejected and a grant proposal go un-funded. This week, I&#8217;m back on top (at least emotionally.)
For one of the papers, the referee recommended publication in a different journal. So I sent it off, thinking that I would have to start [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common Misconceptions: Work Done by Magnetic Field</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2009/04/20/common-misconceptions-work-done-by-magnetic-field/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2009/04/20/common-misconceptions-work-done-by-magnetic-field/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Moore</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Common Misconceptions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was looking at search terms that lead people to this website from Google and stumbled across this one: &#8220;the work done by the magnetic field on the charged particle during the semicircular trip.&#8221; Someone obviously was interested in how much work a magnetic field could &#8220;do&#8221;, and Google was kind enough to point them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of my charmed academic life</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2009/04/11/the-end-of-my-charmed-academic-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovephysics.com/2009/04/11/the-end-of-my-charmed-academic-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Moore</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Within my first year on the tenure-track at a small, liberal-arts focused public university, I managed to land a 3-year, $300k National Science Foundation grant. I also got an article in press and made the papers in Lynchburg, Richmond, and Farmville. Not bad for my first year on the job.
My former research advisor told me [...]]]></description>
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