On Error
Say the answer you get is 3 when you’re supposed to get 4. Did you do something wrong? And how does that make you feel?
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Of Lifetimes and Linewidths
Resonance can help us understand a deep connection between time and frequency that applies to all waves, from light to sound to quantum physics.
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The Uses of Natural Units
As a grad student TA for a freshman physics lab, I occasionally encountered statements like “the mass of the ball was ten.”