[TriLUG] OT: Home Depot and Cat 5

[Rob Lockhart]

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Mike M wrote:

| On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 05:26:04PM -0400, Rob Lockhart wrote:
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|> I have MSEE and coursework of MSPhysics but generally what you're
|> looking for is the propagation velocity; approximately 0.7c (c =
|> 3x10^8 m/s).  Optically it goes as c/n (n=index of refraction)
|> but electrically you have to look at the problem as a waveguide.
|> More details follow, gotta pick up my son from daycare :-)
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| Now it's going to get fun B-).  I had to drop Optics 'cause I was
| blown away by the math at the time.  Particle? Waves? Pick one.
|

The right answer is "both".  It acts like both, depending on which
property you're trying to exploit (i.e., momemtum info => particle;
reflection/refraction => wave)

Heh yeah the optics was pretty fun and the most applicable to real
life.  It gets really weird when you start talk about tunnelling and
other such effects in Quantum Mechanics, and perturbation theory, etc.

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