My Popular Articles
- Potentiometers Explored - Construction & Working Principles
- Constant Volume Gas Thermometer
- About Thermistors
- How To Identify A Zener Diode
- Simple Heat Transfer Experiments: Convection and Radiation
- Gay-Lussac's Law
- An Introduction to Thermal Stress
- Simple Heat Transfer Experiments: Conduction
- Charles' Law
- Rogue Waves in Sea and Land Disasters
MEMBER PROFILE
About Me
I have a doctorate in physics. My research specialities are theoretical and experimental nonlinear dynamics, as in chaos, and biophysics. I do freelance computer work and occasionally teach.
My professional memberships:
- American Physical Society (APS), including the Division of Biophysics and the Division of Computing
- IEEE, including the Circuits and Systems Society and the Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS)
- Optical Society of America (OSA)
My Latest Articles
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Thermal Expansion
Have you ever wondered why you can loosen the metal lid of a jar by applying hot water? The answer involves a special thermodynamic property of solids called thermal expansion.Published on August 31, 2011 to Mechanical Engineering
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Thermodynamic Mysteries: Giant Killer Hornets, Honeybees, and the First Law of Thermodynamics
How does the never ending battle between Japanese honeybees and giant Asian hornets help to demonstrate the first law of thermodynamics?Published on August 31, 2011 to Mechanical Engineering
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Shipwrecked - Water, Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink!
Are there really consequences to drinking sea water if you are shipwrecked? Or even if you are safely located on land, does it do any harm if you have to consume sea water?Published on August 31, 2011 to Marine Engineering
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