[TriLUG] OT: Home Depot and Cat 5

[Mike M]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:05:39PM -0400, Rob Lockhart wrote:
> 
> Mike M wrote:
> 
> | On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 05:26:04PM -0400, Rob Lockhart wrote:
> |
> |> 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 :-)
> |
> |
> | 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)

Hey, that's pretty easy.  So it's not arbitrary :-)?  You should've
been teaching that optics class.
> 
> 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.

It would be fun to go back and try it again without the pressure to
graduate and get a job.  Maybe that's the true test of geekdom - you
would study physics...for FUN!
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Mike

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