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Rhett Allain @rhettallain.bsky.social · 1h

I think I will take that as a compliment

Rhett Allain @rhettallain.bsky.social · 3h

As a #physics blogger, am I going to be replaced by AI? Maybe someday - but that day is not today. I asked AI to make a physics diagram for circular orbits. The results weren't too good.

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Can A.I. Make Physics Diagrams? Let’s Find Out.

I’m not sure if you already know this, but I often create physics diagrams for blog posts and stuff. Sometimes I even create stuff for…

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Rhett Allain @rhettallain.bsky.social · 2d

New #physics #electrodynamics video - using #python to display the electric field due to dipole water molecule.

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Electrodynamics: Calculating the Electric Dipole Moment For Water

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Rhett Allain @rhettallain.bsky.social · 2d

New #physics post - mass vs. weight and measuring them with just a rubber band. #iteachphysics

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Rubber Band Physics: Measuring Weight* and Mass

What’s the difference between mass and weight and how do you measure both of them? Yes, that’s what we are going to do — measure these two…

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Scott Kardel aka Palomar Skies @palomarskies.bsky.social · 3d

Another look at Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) from this morning. Here's three 8-minutes exposures showing its motion against the background of the stars. 🔭

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Rhett Allain @rhettallain.bsky.social · 5d

New #physics #electrodynamics video - 2 different ways to find the electric field from the dipole moment.

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Electrodynamics: Two Versions of the Electric Field due to a Dipole Moment

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Rhett Allain @rhettallain.bsky.social · 6d

This #physics #electrodynamics video is for future-Rhett because he's going to forget how to make a quiver plot and contour plot due to an electric dipole. #python #iteachphysics

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Electrodynamics: Plotting the Potential and Electric Field for a Dipole with Python

YouTube video by Dot Physics

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Rhett Allain @rhettallain.bsky.social · 9d

New #physics #electrodynamics video - finding the electric potential and electric field due to a dipole. #iteachphysics

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Electrodynamics: Finding the Electric Potential and Field due to a Dipole

YouTube video by Dot Physics

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Rhett Allain @rhettallain.bsky.social · 9d

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Rhett Allain @rhettallain.bsky.social · 9d

#infrared cameras are fun, but also super useful. You can easily find water leaks even if a wall doesn’t look wet. Here’s a fun #physics demo

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Rhett Allain @rhettallain.bsky.social · 11d

I came up with a new line that I like.

We don’t do science to get stuff, we get stuff because we do science

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mrmalvikscience.bsky.social @mrmalvikscience.bsky.social · 12d

#iteachphysics check this out!

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Rhett Allain @rhettallain.bsky.social · 12d

New #physics #electrodynamics #python video - AGAIN doing the finite difference calculation of electric potential, but this time with Jupyter notebooks. Bonus: calculating the electric field. #iteachphysics

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Electrodynamics: Solving Laplace Equation for Potential Using Python

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Rhett Allain @rhettallain.bsky.social · 15d

New #physics #electrodynamics video - solving 2d electric potential with python and a finite difference relaxation method. #iteachphysics

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Electrodynamics: Finding Potentials with Boundary Conditions Using the Finite Difference Method

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Rhett Allain @rhettallain.bsky.social · 16d

New #physics video (this one is long). Using separation of variables to find the electric potential in a 2D area with boundary conditions ( #electrodynamics). Yes, 3D surface plot included at the end.
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Electrodynamics: Using Separation of Variables to Find the Electric Potential

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Rhett Allain @rhettallain.bsky.social · 22d

This is what is looks like

Rhett Allain @rhettallain.bsky.social · 22d

New #physics #python #electrodynamics video - showing that we can repeat the method of images for a charge near a plate with a many body problem.

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Electrodynamics: Charge Near a Conducting Plate, Modeling with Python

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Rhett Allain @rhettallain.bsky.social · 22d

Don’t forget @phyphox.org - there are some great experiments where you can get data using a smartphone

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Rhett Allain @rhettallain.bsky.social · 23d

New #physics video - analysis of a collision between a #UAP and a missile to estimate the UAP mass. #python code included (for visualization). #iteachphysics

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Do UAPs Conserve Momentum? A Physics Video Analysis of a Collision with a Missile

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Rhett Allain @rhettallain.bsky.social · 23d

On the NASA Mars biosignature page - I love this paragraph that subtlety asks for future funding with a totally unnecessary gives a shout out to Trump.

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Rhett Allain @rhettallain.bsky.social · 25d

I couldn't help myself. I had to do a #videoanalysis of that collision between a missile and a #uap - you know, for #physics. Is momentum conserved? Can we find the mass of an orb? Well, we can try. #iteachphysics

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Do UAPs Conserve Momentum? A Video Analysis to Find the Mass of an Unidentified Orb

There’s a lot of stuff I don’t know about this situation. Here’s what I do know. There’s a video from a drone that shows the impact between…

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Rhett Allain @rhettallain.bsky.social · 26d

For my #electrodynamics class, I made a tutorial to help students build a #python program to solve the 1D potential boundary problem using the finite difference method. Here it is in case you find it useful. #physics #iteachphysics

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Laplace Equation

Laplace Equation Recall that the combination of Gauss’s Law and the definition of electric potential gives the following. The last equation gives a relationship between the potential and the cha...

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Rhett Allain @rhettallain.bsky.social · 28d

I'm pretty sure you can turn on a color-temp bar. Need to double check. But yeah, these cameras are so much more affordable than they were 10-15 years ago

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Rhett Allain @rhettallain.bsky.social · 28d

Morning coffee in #infrared

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Rhett Allain @rhettallain.bsky.social · 28d

My #physics students wanted me to write up a tutorial for the 3D #python calculations for Gauss's law - here it is in case you want to use it. #iteachphysics

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Gauss’s Law Python

Gauss’s Law Python Here we want to calculate the electric flux through a spherical surface for any charge distribution. Simple Gauss’s Law Suppose I have a point charge (q) at the origin. If we as...

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