ESP Biography
MARY ELTING, Stanford Applied Physics grad student
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Major: Applied Physics College: Stanford University Year of Graduation: G |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
I'm a fourth year graduate student at Stanford in the Applied Physics department. I'm a member of the Spudich lab, where we study myosin, a molecular motor that produces all kinds of important motion in your body and cells, including allowing your muscles to contract, helping your cells divide, and transporting cargo within the cell. In my spare time, I like to hike, take photographs, and blog about cooking. Past Classes(Look at the class archive for more.)How the First Cameras Worked in Splash! Spring 2010
The first cameras were camera obscuras, created by tiny holes in a dark room or cave that project an image onto the walls. The same concept developed into pinhole cameras, and eventually into the cameras we have today. A pinhole camera is the simplest camera possible -- just a tiny hole, a dark box, and a piece of film.
We'll talk about the basic optics of how a pinhole camera works, and how "old-fashioned film" negatives and printing works. We'll play with a camera obscura and printing photos from negatives using the sun. If there's time, we'll get started making pinhole cameras that you can bring home and use to take photos with regular 35 mm film that you can have developed, or at the least I'll send you home with instructions for making your own pinhole camera.
Physics of Vision in Splash! Spring 2009
We'll talk about how your eyes (and brain!) take in light and turn it into an image in your mind of what's around you, including a little bit of basic optics. We'll also look at some cool optical illusions and see if we can explain why they work.
Physics of Vision: How do Our Eyes Work? in SPLASH (2008)
What are rods and cones, and what do they do? Why do we have a blind spot? Why are two ...
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