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Galileo Unbound
Blogs inspired by the book Galileo Unbound (Oxford, 2018)
• Books by David D. Nolte
• YouTube Channel
• Table of Contents
• Featured Posts
A Short History of Chaos Theory
Who Invented the Quantum? Einstein vs. Planck
100 Years of Quantum Physics: de Broglie’s Wave (1924)
A Short History of Fractal Dimension
Orion’s Dog: The Serious Science of Sirius
The Iconic Eikonal and the Optical Path
• HISTORY OF DYNAMICS
The Light in Einstein’s Elevator
A Short History of Neural Networks
The Vital Virial of Rudolph Clausius: From Stat Mech to Quantum Mech
The Surprising Simon Stevin of Bruges
The Ubiquitous George Uhlenbeck
A Brief History of Nothing: The Physics of the Vacuum from Atomism to Higgs
A Short History of Quantum Entanglement
George Green’s Theorem
Looking Under the Hood of the Generalized Stokes Theorem
Brook Taylor’s Infinite Series
Hermann Minkowski’s Spacetime: The Theory that Einstein Overlooked
Galileo’s Moons in the History of Science
Who Invented the Quantum? Einstein vs. Planck
A Short History of Multiple Dimensions
Paul Lévy’s Black Swan: The Physics of Outliers
Paul Dirac’s Delta Function
A Short History of Quantum Tunneling
Timelines in the History and Physics of Dynamics (with links to primary texts)
Karl Schwarzschild’s Radius: How Fame Eclipsed a Physicist’s own Legacy
Georg Duffing’s Equation
The Anharmonic Harmonic Oscillator
Johann Bernoulli’s Brachistochrone
Huygens’ Tautochrone
The Iconic Eikonal and the Optical Path
Chandrasekhar’s Limit
The Many Dimensions of Oskar Klein
The Bountiful Bernoullis of Basel
Henri Poincaré and his Homoclinic Tangle
A Commotion in the Stars: The History of the Doppler Effect
George Stokes’ Law of Drag
The Solvay Debates: Einstein versus Bohr
Bohr’s Orbits
Science 1916: Schwarzschild, Einstein, Planck, Born, Frobenius et al.
Dirac: From Quantum Field Theory to Antimatter
Freeman Dyson’s Quantum Odyssey
Feynman and the Dawn of QED
The Three-Body Problem, Longitude at Sea, and Lagrange’s Points
Top 10 Books to Read on the History of Dynamics
Physicists in Revolution: Arago, Riemann, Jacobi and Doppler
Dark Matter Mysteries
Wave-Particle Duality and Hamilton’s Physics
Geometry as Motion
Descartes’ Odd Geometry
The Oxford Scholars
A Wealth of Motions: Six Generations in the History of the Physics of Motion
• CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY
A Short History of Chaos Theory
Fat Fractals, Arnold Tongues, and the Rings of Saturn
Is There a Quantum Trajectory? The Phase-Space Perspective
Is There a Quantum Trajectory?
Quantum Chaos and the Cheshire Cat
The Ups and Downs of the Compound Double Pendulum
Orbiting Photons around a Black Hole
Vladimir Arnold’s Cat Map
Life in a Solar System with a Super-sized Jupiter
The Physics of Robinson Crusoe’s Economy
Physics of the Flipping iPhone and the Fate of the Earth
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: A Mechanical Model
Surfing on a Black Hole: Accretion Disk Death Spiral
Random Walks with Paul Langevin: Stochastic Dynamics
A Random Walk in 10 Dimensions
The Butterfly Effect versus the Divergence Meter: The Physics of Stein’s Gate
Locking Clocks in Strong Gravity: Synchronization in General Relativity
A Short History of Fractal Dimension
Edward Lorenz’ Chaotic Butterfly
Up-side-down Physics: Dynamic Equilibrium and the Inverted Pendulum
Henri Poincaré and his Homoclinic Tangle
Hermann Grassmann’s Nimble Wedge Product
The Physics of Modern Dynamics (with Python Programs)
How Number Theory Protects You from the Chaos of the Cosmos
Limit-Cycle Oscillators: The Fast and the Slow of Grandfather Clocks
How to Weave a Tapestry from Hamiltonian Chaos
The Wonderful World of Hamiltonian Maps
Biased Double-well Potential: Bistability, Bifurcation and Hysteresis
How to Teach General Relativity to Undergraduate Physics Majors
Getting Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins Home from the Moon: Apollo 11 and the Three-Body Problem
Top 10 Topics of Modern Dynamics
Second Edition of Introduction to Modern Dynamics (Chaos, Networks, Space and Time)
• AT LIGHT SPEED
Maxwellian Steampunk and the Origins of Maxwell’s Equations
Orion’s Dog: The Serious Science of Sirius
Timelines in the History of Light and Interference
Relativistic Velocity Addition: Einstein’s Crucial Insight
The Aberration of Starlight: Relativity’s Crucible
Book Preview: Interference and the Story of Optical Interferometry
Book Preview: Interference. The History of Optical Interferometry
Francois Arago and the Birth of Optical Science
The Many Worlds of the Quantum Beam Splitter
A Short History of the Photon
Twenty Years at Light Speed: The Future of Photonic Quantum Computing
Twenty Years at Light Speed: Photonic Computing
Twenty Years at Light Speed: Fiber Optics and the Future of the Photonic Internet
Snell’s Law: The Five-Fold Way
The Iconic Eikonal and the Optical Path
Caustic Curves and the Optics of Rays
The Lens of Gravity: Einstein’s Rings
The Doppler Universe
The Transverse Doppler Effect and Relativistic Time Dilation
A Commotion in the Stars: The History of the Doppler Effect
The Secret Life of Snow: Laser Speckle
Quantum Seeing without Looking? The Strange Physics of Quantum Sensing
Is the Future of Quantum Computing Bright?
2018 Nobel Prize in Laser Physics
• SCIENCESCAPE
Anant K. Ramdas in the Golden Age of Physics
Frontiers of Physics (2024): Dark Energy Thawing
Science Underground: Neutrino Physics and Deep Gold Mines
Counting by the Waters of Babylon: The Secrets of the Babylonian 60-by-60 Multiplication System
Physics and the Zen of Motorcycle Maintenance
Albert Michelson and the American Century
Frontiers of Physics (2024): Dark Energy Thawing
Frontiers of Physics: The Year in Review (2023)
Frontiers of Physics: The Year in Review (2022)
Why Do Librarians Hate Books?
Where is IT Leading Us?
The Physics of Starflight: Proxima Centauri b or Bust!
Climate Change Physics 101
Of Solar Flares, Cosmic Ray Physics and American Vikings
The Physics of Authoritarianism: The New World Order
The Physics of U. S. Presidential Elections (why are so many elections so close?)
Cancer Holography for Personalized Medicine
Physics in the Age of Contagion: The Bifurcation of COVID-19
Physics in the Age of Contagion. Part 2: The Second Wave of COVID-19
Physics in the Age of Contagion. Part 3: Testing and Tracing COVID-19
Physics in the Age of Contagion: Part 4. Fifty Shades of Immunity to COVID-19
• MACHINE LEARNING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
A Short History of Neural Networks
Ada Lovelace at the Dawn of Cyber Steampunk
The Mighty Simplex
A Random Walk in 10 Dimensions
From Coal and Steam to ChatGPT: Chapters in the History of Technology
George Cantor meets Machine Learning: Deep Discrete Encoders
Post-Modern Machine Learning: The Deep Revolution
Second Edition of Introduction to Modern Dynamics (Chaos, Networks, Space and Time)
• QUANTUM EXPLORATIONS
100 Years of Quantum Physics: Pauli’s Exclusion Principle (1924)
100 Years of Quantum Physics: The Statistics of Satyendra Nath Bose (1924)
100 Years of Quantum Physics: de Broglie’s Wave (1924)
A Short History of Quantum Entanglement
A Short History of Quantum Tunneling
A Short History of the Photon
Who Invented the Quantum? Einstein vs. Planck
The Many Worlds of the Quantum Beam Splitter
Chandrasekhar’s Limit
Dirac: From Quantum Field Theory to Antimatter
Twenty Years at Light Speed: The Future of Photonic Quantum Computing
Quantum Chaos and the Cheshire Cat
Feynman and the Dawn of QED
Freeman Dyson’s Quantum Odyssey
Is There a Quantum Trajectory?
Is There a Quantum Trajectory? The Phase-Space Perspective
Bohr’s Orbits
Quantum Seeing without Looking? The Strange Physics of Quantum Sensing
The Many Dimensions of Oskar Klein
Wave-Particle Duality and Hamilton’s Physics
The Solvay Debates: Einstein versus Bohr
Modern Dynamics Blog Post Links
Introduction to Modern Dynamics: From Classical Mechanics to Complex Systems
Table of Contents: Introduction to Modern Dynamics
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