Animating New Physics
Douglas Sweetser '84
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Please register using the link below to let us know you which session(s) you plan to attend.
Web: https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/register-login.vm?eventID=49481&groupID=194
Contact: Douglas Sweetser '84, sweetser@alum.mit.edu
Sponsor: Alumni Association
Derive the Maxwell Equations and More
Douglas Sweetser '84
The Maxwell equations will be derived using Euler-Lagrange. Repeated the derivation with a different multiplication rule leading to field equations that unify a linear approach to gravity and the standard model symmetries. All this fits on a t-shirt which will be given to participants for free so long as they pre-register stating t-shirt size and color preference.
MOVED TO THURSDAY, JANUARY 13
Thu Jan 13, 03-05:00pm, New Room 3-270, No longer in 4-153
Quaternion Quantum Field Theory Demystified
Douglas Sweetser '84
Four rules will be used to rewrite any physics equations with
quaternions: 1) keep 4-vectors together 2) drop all factors of i 3) write all constants 4) make terms dimensionless. This approach will be applied to Newton's second law, the uncertainty principle, the Schrodinger wave equation, the Klein-Gordon equation and the Dirac equation.
MOVED TO FRIDAY, JANUARY 14.
Fri Jan 14, 03-05:00pm, New Room 3-270, No longer in 4-153
Analytic Animations Using Quaternions
Douglas Sweetser '84
Descartes gave us analytic geometry. Modernize this tool to make animations from the same expressions. When animated, triangles and squares are fleeting but of interest to physicists. See a real spacetime cube. A vast new way of thinking visually about time's relationships with space is opening up. A dinner will follow at the Asgard Bar & Grill. A free drink for anyone wearing "the t-shirt." MOVED TO SATURDAY, JANUARY 15.
Sat Jan 15, 03-05:00pm, New Room 3-270, No longer in 4-153
Latest update: 11-Jan-2011
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