Comments on: Teach Me Something Tuesday #8

By: The First Comments from the Puntabugang | Puntabulous

The First Comments from the Puntabugang | Puntabulous — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:53:04 +0000

[...] Ryan: May 20, 2008: This allows you to simulate a laser. It even allows you to blow it up if you make it too powerful. However, Electric Field Hockey is probably the most fun simulation they have. [...]

By: Tony P

Tony P — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:14:07 +0000

The LASER has been a boon to the communication medium we’re using now. You could squeeze many more connections into a fiber than you could copper, so most of the net traffic from node to node is fiber. To the curb it’s brought in as coaxial though since that has pretty good bandwidth too.

If you want to cover another how it works try the MASER. It’s the reason 802.11G, DECT, CDMA, TDMA, etc. all work.

By: Angel

Angel — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:49:44 +0000

Stimulated emission was a vocabulary word in my physics book in high school. I laughed every time I saw it. I kind of chuckled typing it just now.

And I love Teach Me Something Tuesdays, Craig. The BSG LOLCats not so much, but I don’t watch BSG so that’s probably got something to do with it.

By: john

john — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:04:38 +0000

You can’t trust everything a man says:

“I’m 5’9″.” (he’s 5’6″)
“Of course I’ll respect you in the morning.” (no he won’t)
“Teach me something Tuesday is boring.”(no it isn’t – with all due respect to the family)
and in the case of Super Viagra:
“I’ve never done this before.” (yes he has)

Oh and BSG LOLCats is pretty funny too.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:25:34 +0000

Sorry BSG LOLCats aren’t universally liked. But The Underwire sent thousands of readers to see them, and they continue to pop on message boards and blogs, so they must be kinda good.

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/04/battlestar-ga-1.html

By: NefariousCarrot

NefariousCarrot — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:22:00 +0000

Ahahah, it’s, not its.

By: NefariousCarrot

NefariousCarrot — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:21:19 +0000

Actually, written out completely, LASERs stands for “Light Amplifications by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.” I know, it sounds a bit odd, because its LASERs, not LAsSER, but that’s how acronyms are pluralized. The “by Stimulated Emission of Radiation” part is just modifying the noun part, which you can pluralize without a problem.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:19:11 +0000

This allows you to simulate a laser:

http://phet.colorado.edu/new/simulations/sims.php?sim=Lasers

It even allows you to blow it up if you make it too powerful.

However, Electric Field Hockey is probably the most fun simulation they have:

http://phet.colorado.edu/new/simulations/sims.php?sim=Electric_Field_Hockey

By: brad

brad — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:17:52 +0000

I support teach me something tuesdays, but agree about the battlestar gallactica LOL cats. no LOL on this end.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:09:56 +0000

Wait, so let me get this straight: You don’t like Teach Me Something Tuesdays?