{"id":35,"date":"2012-09-12T20:33:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T00:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/BillAngel\/?p=35"},"modified":"2012-09-12T20:33:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T00:33:58","slug":"remembrance-of-physics-experiments-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/2012\/09\/12\/remembrance-of-physics-experiments-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance of Physics Experiments Past&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"3\" width=\"580\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/bill_angel\/pic\/0011cp09\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/bill_angel\/pic\/0011cp09\/s640x480\" style=\"border-width: 0pt;border-style: solid\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bill_angel\/6797357125\/\" title=\"A heavy camera to hold... by Bill A, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A heavy camera to hold...\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7008\/6797357125_e2b796d26f.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><i><strong>The human mind is certainly remarkable in its ability to retain long term dormant memories.<\/strong><\/i><br \/>\nI&#039;ve been reading the book &quot;For the love of Physics&quot; which is the autobiography of the physicist Walter Lewin. (cover shown at left)&nbsp; I&#039;ve also been watching several videos of him delivering lectures on physics to undergraduate students at MIT. I majored in physics in college, so there was an element of faint recollection watching him explain the basic principles of mechanics, especially the motion of a pendulum.<br \/>I recently purchased an old Polaroid camera at a thrift shop (see image at right). Fooling around with the camera brought back memories of a physics experiment that I did in college where I documented the movement of a double pendulum by making time lapse exposures with a Polaroid camera. What startled me was being able to recall this activity from 45 years ago that I had not thought about in 45 years! It&#039;s like this memory had remained dormant for 45 years, awaiting only the proper stimulus (reading Dr. Lewin&#8217;s book and fooling about with the camera) to return it to my conscious thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human mind is certainly remarkable in its ability to retain long term dormant memories. I&#039;ve been reading the book &quot;For the love of Physics&quot; which is the autobiography of the physicist Walter Lewin. (cover shown at left)&nbsp; I&#039;ve also &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/2012\/09\/12\/remembrance-of-physics-experiments-past\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[16,22,32,47,54,63],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-recollections","category-sciences","tag-books","tag-college","tag-education","tag-memories","tag-physics","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}