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Category Archives: ScotBlogs Contributed
Creating a Hydrological Profile of Northern Shreve, Ohio, Through Groundwater Well Analysis — The Independent Study project of Ryan Sullivan (’23)
Editor’s Note: Independent Study (IS) at The College of Wooster is a three-course series required of every student before graduation. Earth Sciences students typically begin in the second semester of their junior years with project identification, lite… Continue reading
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Trace Fossils in the Middle Jurassic Carmel Formation of Southwestern Utah — The Independent Study project of Shipei (Vicky) Wang (’23)
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A new paper on crinoids from the Wooster Shale (Lower Carboniferous, Tournaisian) of northeastern Ohio
My wonderful Ohio State colleague Bill Ausich and I have a new paper in the Journal of Paleontology. It just appeared this morning online. It is Open Access, but let me know if you want a pdf and can’t get … Continue reading → Continue reading
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An IS student gathering at the end of a busy school year
This afternoon Gloria and I hosted my Junior and Senior Independent Study students for a dessert reception in our home. We haven’t done this since 2019, and it is the first time we joined the juniors and seniors. It was … Continue reading &… Continue reading
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A Century of Compton Scattering
One hundred years ago today, the Physical Review published Wooster graduate Arthur Compton‘s famous article on the scattering of light and electrons, which earned him a Physics Nobel Prize four years later. By relativistically conserving spacetim… Continue reading
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We Are Going
After half a century confined to low-Earth orbit, humans once again intend to leave Earth and voyage to Moon, currently planned for late next year. The reality of this exciting adventure crystallized earlier this month when NASA announced the diverse &… Continue reading
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Wooster Junior Independent Study students shine with their project poster presentations
The College of Wooster has a required Independent Study system for all students, and it is a marvelous program. Each student, usually in the spring semester of their junior year, signs up for the Junior Independent Study course. It is … Continue … Continue reading
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Behold, an ein Stein!
This academic year has been thrilling: first nuclear fusion breakeven, now an ein Stein! Last week, a preprint at arxiv.org by David Smith et al. announced an “ein Stein”, or one stone, a shape that forces a non periodic tiling … Cont… Continue reading
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Fossil of the Week: A thoroughly bored bivalve from Florida
The Fossil of the Week series is no longer weekly, and the gnarly specimen above is not actually a fossil, but the brand is so embedded in this blog that I’m still using it for occasional contributions. Like the specimen … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Generalizing Coulomb’s Law
The forces between two electric charges in arbitrary motion are complicated by velocity, acceleration, and time-delay effects. The forces need not even lie along the line joining the two charges! Suppose a source charge [latex]q^\prime[/latex] is at po… Continue reading
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