http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/physics PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/ered/42920 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/ered/42920 <div class="mlacite">Einstein Archives Online<br />The Einstein Archives Online Website provides the first online access to Albert Einstein's scientific and non-scientific manuscripts held by the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and to an extensive Archival Database, constituting the material record of one of the most influential intellects in the modern era. <br /></div> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/27918 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/27918 <p>The development of internet communities, the phenomenon of file-sharing, chat room hosting, and surfing are all aspects of cyberspace social behaviors that have coalesced to create a thriving social organism, or ecology.&nbsp; In the book, Huberman makes a scientific observation of this phenomenon as statistically goverened patterns. While discussing the application of such physics concepts as Brownian motion and Zipf's Law, Huberman researches the mechanics of internet social behaviors, and the value of such findings to the future development of internet busines models and application architecture.</p><p>In relation to my project, and the accusations from Viacom, YouTube is being accused of actually inducing illegal behavior.&nbsp; Huberman looks at various problematic features of file-sharing networks, and their contribution to the dilemma of creating user-friendly file-sharing functions at the risk of creating illegally replicated material (69).</p><p>Huberman, Bernardo A. <u>The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information </u>. Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2001 </p><p>&nbsp;</p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/27142 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/27142 <div class="mlacite">Martensson-Pendrill, Ann-Marie. &quot;The Manhattan project-a part of physics history.&quot; <span style="text-decoration: underline">Physics Education</span> [0031-9120] 41.6 (2006). 493-.</div><div class="mlacite"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In her article, Pendrill argues that military endeavors, such as the Manhattan Project in the 1940s, led by physicists and other scientists are important parts of physics history and should be included in physics textbooks in order to give students a fuller understanding of the intersections of science, politics, and everyday life. She discusses how the project and life at Los Alamos affected the scientists both mentally and emotionally during various stages, how the creation of extreme and potentially dangerous technologies relates to ethics and responsibility, and how all these issues are tied up in the real, everyday jobs of many scientists.</div><div class="mlacite">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Understanding the connections between science, the government, and real people as presented by Pendrill gives insight into Hitchcock's portrayal of the villains in <em>Notorious</em> in several ways. First, knowledge of the Manhattan Project and the postwar creation of the atomic bomb is crucial to understanding the importance of uranium in any film from the 1940s, not just <em>Notorious</em>. Here, historical context is key to the film's meaning and cultural relevance. Secondly, Pendrill's article sheds some light on how the audience is somehow strangely able to sympathize to a certain extent with Alex and some of the villains of <em>Notorious</em>. We recognize that, despite their secrecy and dangerous experimentation, some of these men are scientists doing their jobs, and they do not have much of a choice in the matter. We can especially sympathize with Emile when we see how the smallest slip-up, a slight human error, cost him his life in the high stakes game that results when powerful institutions come together for dangerous work. </div> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/18913 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/18913 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/18660 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/18660 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/18659 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/18659 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/17318 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/17318 Nobel laureate Gerard t'Hooft wrote this page for perspective theoretical physicists. He has included some good advice and an impressive list of free online texts in mathematics and physics.<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/16798 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/16798 <p>I read that Euler found the first solution to the three body problem in 1765: three point masses all in a line. In 1772, Lagrange found a second: three point masses at the corners of an equilateral triangle. Apparently there have been no new analytic solutions since then.<br /><br />It looks like chapter 5 of this book might discuss these.<br /></p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/257 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/257 This beloved handbook contains a wealth of useful information, such as physical and chemical properties of substances, common integrals, fundamental constants, thermodynamic and optical properties of compounds, common bond lengths, and many other things. The editors scoured the literature so that you don't have to! http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/255 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/255 Over 900 articles authored by expert physicists that cover the scope of physics today. Topics covered include quantum mechanics, the big bang, subatomic particles, black holes, fiber optics, nanotechnology and relativity. Each article has a bibliography to enable you to find further readings on a topic. http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/263 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/263 Containing 4,000 entries, including biographies of key scientists, this work covers all the commonly encountered terms and concepts and includes feature articles on important topics, and chronologies that chart discoveries in main fields of the subject. http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/253 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/253 A guide to information resources in physics.