pheloniusfriar | Across the pond again...

I am going to be heading to Geneva (CERN) Nov. 10, getting in on Nov. 11, for a three day conference on the coming upgrades to the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (I worked on the New Small Wheel due to be installed in the next couple of years, but I am mostly working on the replacement for the inner tracker [ITk] due to be installed in 2025 or so). From there, I will be flying to London, and then taking the train to Oxford where I will be staying until Dec. 4 (commuting to/from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on the weekdays). If you're in the area (where area is quite a broad notion with tremendous flexibility... I will at least be popping into London from time to time), and care to get together for some tea or a pint, let me know.

Also, I have posted the latest instalment (i.e. the second one) of something I'm experimenting with called Phelonius' Pedantic Solutions where I solve a physics problem in ~~painful~~ exacting detail, where I moot the mathematical and conceptual tools needed as I go. In essence, this is the kind of stuff I wish I had when I was doing my undergraduate degree. The latest just builds and solves the differential equation for exponential growth/decay that is used in just about every field of science and engineering.

Decay and growth rates

My first entry was Relativistic energy expansion, which uses Taylor expansion on the relativistic version of E=mc² to reproduce a comment in Griffith's particle physics textbook.

I would have preferred to have posted them on Dreamwidth, but I needed MathJax and the last couple of times I've checked, it just wasn't supported. YouTube seems to be broken as I post this, so no video today...