ESP Biography
KATHRYN LEDBETTER, Physics grad student, secretly doing chemistry
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Major: Physics College/Employer: Stanford Year of Graduation: 2021 |
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Not Available. Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)C6098: Physics Through the Ages in Splash Fall 2017 (Nov. 11 - 12, 2017)
Today, when we want to know something, we often Google it. But have you ever wondered how people throughout history knew the things they knew? From ancient civilizations measuring the circumference of the Earth, to early 20th century crystallographers doing multi-dimensional Fourier transforms by hand, science was different in the old days. This class will show some examples of incredible ingenuity, without great technological advancement, from the history of physics. Then, we will try to reproduce some of these measurements using the techniques of the day.
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