Jim Baggott selects the topics for his books by writing about things he wants to know more about Updated 2025-07-16
Mentinoned at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Baggott quoting popsciencebooks.blogspot.com/2012/09/jim-baggott-four-way-interview.html
Ciro Santilli and Jim would get along mighty well: there is value in tutorials written by beginners.
Josephson equations Updated 2025-07-16
Two equations derived from first principles by Brian Josephson that characterize the device, somewhat like an I-V curve:where:
- : Josephson current
- : the Josephson phase, a function defined by the second equation plus initial conditions
- : input voltage of the system
- : current across the junction, determined by the input voltage
Note how these equations are not a typical I-V curve, as they are not an instantaneous dependency between voltage and current: the history of the voltage matters! Or in other words, the system has an internal state, represented by the Josephson phase at a given point in time.
To understand them better, it is important to look at some important cases separately:
- AC Josephson effect: V is a fixed DC voltage
Josephson junction Updated 2025-07-16
A device that exhibits the Josephson effect.
Archaea Updated 2025-07-16
Journey to the West Updated 2025-07-16
This is just the most charming of the Four Great Classic Novels.
The definitive television series adaptation is obviously Journey to the West. It just manages to capture all the charms of Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie.
jq Updated 2025-07-16
Yet another awk-like domain-specific language to do things from the CLI in a ridiculously short humber of character? Oh yes.
Electrical connector Updated 2025-07-16
Arithmetic logic unit Updated 2025-07-16
Electric guitar player Updated 2025-07-16
Artificial gene synthesis Updated 2025-07-16
Note that this is a specific application of de novo DNA synthesis, e.g. polymerase chain reaction primers is another major application that does not imply creating genes.
Electromagnetic four-potential Updated 2025-07-16
A different and more elegant way to express Maxwell's equations by using the:instead of the:
Quantum Field Theory book by Mark Srednicki (2006) Updated 2025-07-16
Free to view draft: web.physics.ucsb.edu/~mark/ms-qft-DRAFT.pdf Page presenting it: web.physics.ucsb.edu/~mark/qft.html
Number of pages: 616!
Don't redistribute clause, and final version by Cambridge University Press, alas, so corrections will never be merged back: web.physics.ucsb.edu/~mark/qft.html. But at least he's collecing erratas for the published (and therefore draft) versions there.
The preface states that one of its pedagogical philosophies is to "Illustration of the basic concepts with the simplest examples.", so maybe there is hope after all.
Biathlon Updated 2025-07-16
Chorus effect Updated 2025-07-16
Binary-to-text encoding Updated 2025-07-16
Binary translation Updated 2025-07-16
Binary tree Updated 2025-07-16
Convex polytope Updated 2025-07-16
Lab vs cyclotron X-ray crystallography Updated 2025-07-16
cyclotrons produce the better images, but they are expensive/you have to move to them and order a timeslot.
Lab-based just use some X-ray source from the lab, so it is much move convenient e.g. for a pharmaceutical company doing a bunch of images. The Wikipedia image shows such a self-contained lab system: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Freezed_XRD.jpg
Atomic clock Updated 2025-07-16
A similar model was used in the Hafele-Keating experiment to test special relativity on two planes flying in opposite directions. Miniaturization was key.
Contains a disposable tube with 6g of Caesium. You boil it, so when it runs out, you change the tube, 40k USD. Their tube is made by Agilent Technologies, so a replacement since that opened in 1999, and the original machine is from the 60s.
Detection is done with an electron multiplier.
youtu.be/eOti3kKWX-c?t=1166 They compare it with their 100 dollar GPS disciplined oscillator, since GPS satellites have atomic clocks in them.
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