Wednesday, October 30, 2013

The Physics of Jack O'Lanterns

HALLOWEEN! PHYSICS! PUMPKINS!

Here are some pumpkins that we carved last Halloween. 

This would make an awesome cover for The Physics Teacher magazine, am I right?




I am particularly proud of the Planck’s formula pumpkin, E=hv  which I carved, because at the time I was studying the history of Planck’s constant, h. This seems to be the same h in the formula for a derivative with lim h->0 . It is appropriate that this equation appears in the positive space of a pumpkin, because it is the formula for the energy quantization of light.


I hope this physics-themed pumpkin brings a smile to the faces of all you physics teachers and friends
 out there this Halloween!!



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