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- Subject: Pondering..
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- From: sralsto@eis.calstate.edu (Scott)
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 08:52:17 GMT
- Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services
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- I'm a highschool senior, currently enrolled in physics. It's a great
- class and I'm discovering that the world of physics is very diverse, and
- sometimes seemingly illogical. It will take some getting used to.
-
- Anyway, about this time of year we are challenged with engineering a
- physics project. I've been thinking and reading up on some things that
- interested me (mainly the diffraction and interference of light, mulling
- over trying to play with Pohl's experiment or Young's.) Light seems like
- it would be a mildly entertaining subject for a project, focusing in on
- some property or aspect of it. My questions are: Am I getting in over my
- head? Is this a worthy thought for a project? Is there a chance that I
- can successfully execute these experiments? Is there something that I
- might find more interesting? Researching a project such as this for a
- student as unknowing as I is like taking a stab in the dark...
-
- Suggestions? Comments? Flames? Advice? --> I'd be exuberant to receive
- any of these. :)
-
- Thanks.,.
-
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- Scott Ralston <-> sralsto@eis.calstate.edu
- "Everyone has written poems in adolescence; true poets destroy them, bad
- poets publish them. Belbo, too cynical to save them, too weak to chuck
- them out, stuck them in Uncle Carlo's cupboard."
- --Umberto Eco, _Foulcault's_Pendulum_
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