Physicist at Large
Personal blog for Alex Small, a young and cranky traditionalist physics professor.
Sunday, August 30, 2015
Next Book: Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems
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After enjoying excerpts from Galileo's dialogues, I've decide that my next reading project will be the full text of Dialogue Concern...
Friday, August 28, 2015
The Journals of Irreproducible Results
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A group of psychologists recently attempted to replicate 100 studies published in psychology journals in 2008. The results are in , and t...
Monday, August 24, 2015
Surprising data on student loans
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Like just about everyone else out there, I took narratives of spiraling student loan debt at face value. Why? I don't know. I'm n...
Mach-ing sense of buckets
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I've thought more about why Mach worried over Newton's bucket, and I understand it better now: Mach took Galileo seriously. Galil...
Friday, August 21, 2015
Lies, damn lies, and PhD job statistics
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Today I went to the physics student club room (a place where physics majors hang out and study and socialize) to drop off a few science mag...
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Mach-ing more sense
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I've finished Mach's Science of Mechanics . There's a lot that I don't feel like summarizing, but I will say a few things a...
Friday, August 14, 2015
Mach 3
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I'm trying to learn something from Chapter 3 of Mach's book, but he's showing how the principles of mechanics are used, which me...
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