UWI Physics

01/02/2012

jus reminding everyone that anastasia's presentation is tomorrow at 3 pm

09/10/2011

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21021-venus-has-an-ozone-layer-too.html

Its discovery on the hellishly hot planet suggests that astrobiologists must tread carefully when using ozone as a potential signpost for life

09/10/2011

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21017-physics-nobel-winner-we-discovered-a-cosmic-mystery.html

Adam Riess explains why his discovery of accelerating cosmic expansion is Nobel-worthy – even though we don't understand its cause

09/10/2011

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21006-stillmysterious-dark-energy-takes-physics-nobel.html

Cosmologists who used exploding stars to deduce that the expansion of the universe is accelerating have won the physics prize

25/09/2011

A useful link for labs...just browse through n u might find one useful
http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/pdfs/current/sphys/3yr_lab/

21/09/2011

optics and polarization...making people happy!..

http://gizmodo.com/5842052/mongolian-nomads-see-a-picture-of-themselves-for-the-first-time-in-their-lives

We all take seeing ourselves for granted. We're surrounded by it. It happens a disgusting amount. Login screens, buddy icons, Facebook vanity bonanzas—portraits mean nothing.

15/09/2011

http://www.youtube.com/profile?src_vid=CV9nS_5kYgM&user=brusspup&annotation_id=annotation_425710&feature=iv

I am fascinated with the science of optical illusions. What happens in our brain when we view an optical illusion? The information gathered by the eye is processed in the brain to create an idea or image that does not match with a physical measurement of the stimulus source. On this channel you wi...

15/09/2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc

Dr Quantum - Double Slit Experiment

07/09/2011

http://www.ted.com/talks/a_robot_that_flies_like_a_bird.html

TED Talks Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011.

07/09/2011

http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_bloom_the_origins_of_pleasure.html

TED Talks Why do we like an original painting better than a forgery? Psychologist Paul Bloom argues that human beings are essentialists -- that our beliefs about the history of an object change how we experience it, not simply as an illusion, but as a deep feature of what pleasure (and pain) is.

07/09/2011

The videos posted ...are posted for your viewing pleasure AND to help final year students who are currently preparing for final year projects:

Take note of a few simple things:

(i) Words spoken clearly

(ii)Correct Pronunciation

(iii) Fluent Delivery

(iv) Appropriate Pausing

(v) Principal Ideas Emphasized

(vi) Suitable Volume

(vii) Modulation

(viii) Enthusiasim

(ix) Gestures and Facial Expressions

(x) Visual Contact

07/09/2011

http://www.ted.com/talks/lucianne_walkowicz_finding_planets_around_other_stars.html

TED Talks How do we find planets -- even habitable planets -- around other stars? By looking for tiny dimming as a planet passes in front of its sun, TED Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz and the Kepler mission have found some 1,200 potential new planetary systems. With new techniques, they may even find on...