Radford Physics
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Feliz Navidad from the music students in PHYS 230: Physics of Sound class @radfordu. They are playing self-made instruments! #acoustics #physics
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A reminder for all of the students who have gone on the Arctic trip. If you were there now, the sun would be going down for a solid 2 months...
Massimo@Rainmaker1973
Today the sun will rise at 12:40 in Utqiagvik (formerly known as Barrow), Alaska to set just 63 minutes later. It will be the last time the town sees the sun this year. Next sunrise will be on January 23rd, 2023 after 1584 hours of darkness [time & date: buff.ly/3V9DBAa]
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Happy birthday special relativity!
Robert McNees@mcnees
Happy 117th birthday to special relativity! Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in the paper "On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies," published #OTD in 1905 in the journal Annalen der Physik. Manuscript: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100… English: fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstei…
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Here's a cool comic describing the results of the Microscope experiment which showed that weak equivalence principle, that inertial and gravitational mass are the same, was true to a part in 10^15!!! physics.aps.org/articles/v15/95
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Stealing this from @pickover - can you make these equations true using only mathematical operators? You may not write any numbers, just mathematical operators.

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Great little video focus on our Dean's Scholar, Sami Reitz.
radford.edu/content/radfor…
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Jordan Eagle ('16) is featured on Clemson's web page. She's finishing up her PhD at Clemson and will be starting work at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in August! news.clemson.edu/ph-d-student-r…
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