The following attachment is a review presentation that I prepared as part of my application to lead the Auckland Advanced Physics Lab next year, for which I am unsuccessful. The inability to tell beginnings and pinnacles apart is an ever-relevant phenomenon of the human condition. References to internal and other previliged material have been removed.
Category: Little Demos
[Little Demo] 06A – Catching Vortices
Don't smoke, though.
[Little Demos] 05 – Patterns on a Leaf, and How to Imitate Them
Another mathematical oddity in the natural world.
[Little Demos] 04 – What Curve Do Shadows Trace (On a Spherical Earth)?
This was a cancelled "Work-At-Home" experiment for physics undergraduates, due to local weather conditions, and a second thought that this project is better suited for high school students. Conic Sections You may skip to the next section if you are comfortable with analytic geometry or related mathematical fields. If you use a plane to cut … Continue reading [Little Demos] 04 – What Curve Do Shadows Trace (On a Spherical Earth)?
[Little Demos] 03 – The Lunar Terminator Illusion
The sky is an infinite void, but also a dome.
[Little Demos] 01 – Wine Glass Einstein Rings
Qualitatively representing space-time optics with actual optics.
[Little Demos] 02 – Home Made Laminar Flow
One of my oldest physics party tricks, now photographed in makeshift home studio.