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Oct 16th, 2009
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?
Jul 15th, 2009
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.
Apr 20th, 2009
I was looking at search terms that lead people to this website from Google and stumbled across this one: “the work done by the magnetic field on the charged particle during the semicircular trip.” Someone obviously was interested in how much work a magnetic field could “do”, and Google was kind enough to point them [...]