It’s been a while since I last rounded up physics posts from Forbes, so there’s a good bunch of stuff on this list:<\/p>\n
— How Do Physicists Know What Electrons Are Doing Inside Matter?<\/a>: An explanation of Angle-Resolved Photo-Electron Spectroscopy (ARPES), one of the major experimental techniques in condensed matter. I’m trying to figure out a way to list “got 1,800 people to read a blog post about ARPES” as one of my professional accomplishments on my CV.<\/p>\n — The Optics Of Superman’s X-Ray Vision<\/a>: Spinning off a post of Rhett’s, a look at why humanoid eyes just aren’t set up to work with x-rays.<\/p>\n — Why Do Solids Have Band Gaps?<\/a>: A conceptual way to see why there are some energies that electrons simply can not have inside a periodic structure.<\/p>\n — How Tropical Birds Use Quantum Physics<\/a>: Blue feathers on many birds aren’t blue because of pigment, but thanks to the same physics that gives solids band gaps.<\/p>\n — Why Do We Teach Old Physics? Because It Works<\/a>: We had another round of people lamenting the emphasis on “old” topics in introductory courses; here’s my defense of the standard curricular order.<\/p>\n — How Hard Does The Sun Push On the Earth?<\/a> In which one of The Pip’s silly superhero books gets me thinking about radiation pressure forces.<\/p>\n — How To Use A Laser Pointer To Measure Tiny Things<\/a>: In which I use a green laser to settle the question of who in Chateau Steelypips has the thickest hair.<\/p>\n — Don’t Just Talk About Science With Your Kids, DO Science With Your Kids<\/a>: A simple home experiment, and a pitch for the importance of doing simple experiments at home.<\/p>\n — How Quantum Physics Starts With Your Toaster<\/a>: A blog version of my half-hour fake class on the “ultraviolet catastrophe” and why Planck needed the quantum hypothesis to solve black-body radiation.<\/p>\n Both blogs are likely to be on a sort of hiatus for the next little bit. I’m giving a talk at Mount Holyoke tonight, which will get me home really late, then Thursday and Friday I’m going to NYC for a space conference<\/a>. Then on Saturday, we’re flying to Florida with the kids and my parents, and going on a Disney cruise in the Caribbean for all of next week. Which will provide a badly needed opportunity to kick back by the pool, because oh, God, so busy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a while since I last rounded up physics posts from Forbes, so there’s a good bunch of stuff on this list: — How Do Physicists Know What Electrons Are Doing Inside Matter?: An explanation of Angle-Resolved Photo-Electron Spectroscopy (ARPES), one of the major experimental techniques in condensed matter. I’m trying to figure out… Continue reading Physics Blogging Round-Up: ARPES, Optics, Band Gaps, Radiation Pressure, Home Science, and Catastrophe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,135,13,19,6,265,238,339,2,7,23,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-condensed_matter","category-education","category-experiment","category-forbes-recap","category-in_the_media","category-optics","category-outreach","category-personal","category-physics","category-quantum_optics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}