Oct 14, 2017
Conservation of Intellectual Momentum: Staying connected to the field of physics even if your job doesn’t make you. My four years of studying physics in undergrad had opened my mind to a way of thinking I had grown to love and didn’t want to give up. Would teaching provide the same intellectual stimulation I had enjoyed in college?
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Talks & PublicationsApr 20, 2017
During the 2017 INAAPT Spring Meeting, I listened to a talk about GlowScript as a way to create VPython
animations online. I created the following projects just to learn the programming language and illustrate a couple physics concepts.
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ProjectsJul 04, 2014
If an unstable particle used in a two-path interference experiment decays before reaching a detector, which-way information becomes available that reduces the detected interference fringe visibility.
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Talks & PublicationsJun 22, 2014
The Quest for Uncertainty: Recovering an Appreciation for Truth. I here present a simplistic view–the idea that the world is wholly knowable and that education is what Dewey called a ‘quest for certainty’–and attempt to recover from it a more robust and subtle sense of Truth by exploring the philosophical differences between mathematics and science.
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Talks & Publications