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		<title>Summer Physics Reading List</title>
		<link>http://gmunu.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/summer-physics-reading-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 06:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to use some part of this summer to learn some Standard Model physics &#8211; my ignorance is growing rather inexcusable. The plan is to first brush up on Nonabelian gauge theories, and then jump to the Standard Model as soon as is convenient. The main text I&#8217;m going to follow is Srednicki&#8217;s book [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gmunu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2170160&amp;post=178&amp;subd=gmunu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solitons: the tireless lumps</title>
		<link>http://gmunu.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/solitons-the-tireless-lumps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As kids tend to discover rather early on, it&#8217;s fun to throw stones into water. As the stone hits the water, it gives it energy and creates ripples that move outwards in concentric circles. These ripples carry the energy outwards, and as they move further out they eventually die out and the water is smooth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gmunu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2170160&amp;post=150&amp;subd=gmunu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The chubby pyramid</title>
		<link>http://gmunu.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/the-chubby-pyramid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aatish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q) Why is it that manhole covers are round? The question achieved notoriety when it started being used by microsoft as an interview question. The answer that I&#8217;ve always liked is that a circular manhole cover can never fall into a circular hole. If you were to use a square, for example, it could easily [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gmunu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2170160&amp;post=141&amp;subd=gmunu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Donate for basic science education</title>
		<link>http://gmunu.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/donate-for-basic-science-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aatish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is now my second year as a TA, and I&#8217;ve been able to see first hand some of the problems with science education in the US pre-college school system. Most of the student I&#8217;ve been teaching physics to are not physics majors, but engineering, pre-med or biology students. The students have drastically different levels [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gmunu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2170160&amp;post=133&amp;subd=gmunu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LHC delay</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like the LHC will miss its run this year. Every once in a while, one of the 1232 superconducting dipole magnets that bend the beam can heat up to above the critical temperature, causing it go from being superconducting to normal conducting. This rise in temperature is usually caused by some small misalignment in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gmunu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2170160&amp;post=128&amp;subd=gmunu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dirac proves 0=1</title>
		<link>http://gmunu.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/dirac-proves-01/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aatish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Jones put up a neat little puzzle on physicsforums. Following up on this taught me quite a bit about some of the mathematical subtleties of QM that physicists tend to gloss over. &#8220;Suppose A is an observable, i.e., a self-adjoint operator, with real eigenvalue a and normalized eigenket . In other words, Suppose further [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gmunu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2170160&amp;post=85&amp;subd=gmunu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First beam!</title>
		<link>http://gmunu.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/first-beam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aatish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The clock is ticking to the imminent startup of the LHC. (that link is now my new home page!) As usual, the good folks at CV are on the ball.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gmunu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2170160&amp;post=109&amp;subd=gmunu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Straight out of science fiction</title>
		<link>http://gmunu.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/straight-out-of-science-fiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aatish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that I love about science is that it frees us from our parochial, human-centered world view. It allows us to extend our range of experiences far beyond our limited innate faculties. After all, there is no good reason why the sensory apparatus on an east-african-plains ape should come close to sampling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gmunu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2170160&amp;post=100&amp;subd=gmunu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Done with quals</title>
		<link>http://gmunu.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/done-with-quals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aatish</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[qualifiers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hope I passed! It&#8217;s a pretty painful ordeal. I wasn&#8217;t happy with some of the problems, they seemed to test diligence and memory over skill. In any case, for the moment I can stop letting my schooling interfere with my education. Most hideous experience &#8211; the first question on my quantum exam was to write [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gmunu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2170160&amp;post=98&amp;subd=gmunu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging hiatus</title>
		<link>http://gmunu.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/blogging-hiatus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aatish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posting here has been slower than its usual trickle. This is probably mostly because of the following - I&#8217;ve started studying for my PhD. qualifiers in late August. Am going through my old undergrad textbooks. The physics community collectively owes David J. Griffiths a giant hug. - My dad put me onto the Fantastic Contraption [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gmunu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2170160&amp;post=94&amp;subd=gmunu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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