The Source-Point Conundrum
Graduate Student Seminar
12:30 pm
Jorgensen Hall Room: 207
**Note that this event is for graduate students only.**
Andrew Vikartofsky presents….
The Source-Point Conundrum
Isodiffraction and an Oblate Spheroid (whatever that means)
A recent point of confusion in my research will be described in detail. This problem has very interesting physical implications, accenting the subtlety of widely-used but poorly-understood concepts. A resolution will be presented in terms of elementary physical and geometric concepts which any remotely intelligent physicist should have noticed much sooner, despite the fact that the details of what things actually mean have been lost in decades of literature wherein nothing was ever actually defined and nobody bothered to explain their assumptions beyond simply citing another author who had done the exact same thing previously <\rant>
Andrew Vikartofsky presents….
The Source-Point Conundrum
Isodiffraction and an Oblate Spheroid (whatever that means)
A recent point of confusion in my research will be described in detail. This problem has very interesting physical implications, accenting the subtlety of widely-used but poorly-understood concepts. A resolution will be presented in terms of elementary physical and geometric concepts which any remotely intelligent physicist should have noticed much sooner, despite the fact that the details of what things actually mean have been lost in decades of literature wherein nothing was ever actually defined and nobody bothered to explain their assumptions beyond simply citing another author who had done the exact same thing previously <\rant>