Current = (I) News: The Physics Club Newsletter 

Attention: We are taking votes for next semester’s lecture days, topics and times, as well as for a club field trip, vote here: http://tiny.cc/qWHza

Lecture Series

We are off this week.  Next week we return with our very own soon-to-be graduate of CCSU Mallory Smith.  She will be speaking on some of the research she has done at Yale.  The talk will be Thursday December 3 at 12:30 pm in the Planetarium.  The title of her talk is, ”Rotationally Deformed Nuclei and a Look at Hf-170.”

News

Spring Classes: Symbolic Computation with Mathematica (MATH 250) is being offered in the spring, which can be very handy for physics majors.

Also, Astrophysics is being offered in the spring (ESCI 330), which can be used as an elective for a physics major.

Physics Link(s) of the Week

This site covers sixty symbols in physics and astronomy through video instructions: http://www.sixtysymbols.com/

Interested in over 250 free physics books?  E-Books online has them, all kinds of them: http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/physics.php

This Week in Physics

Max Planck was appointed as an extraordinary professor of theoretical physics at the University of Berlin on November 29, 1888. 

Here is a short paper on Max Planck:

http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Printonly/Planck.html. 

One of the most interesting concepts he came up with was the Planck Length: http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/PlanckLength.html. 

How small is the Planck Length and why is it important? http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/lengths.html

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