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mrslant ([personal profile] mrslant) wrote2010-08-07 07:30 pm

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Further to this post, I've got my final result for my physics course - I got a Distinction!

Have also just come back from a week in Durham on this course, which was fun (but hectic - non-stop from Saturday evening to Friday afternoon). I measured Planck's constant to about 20% accuracy - I made it 0.00000000000000000000000000000000052 rather than 0.00000000000000000000000000000000066, which I reckon is not bad. I also demonstrated that photons carry momentum, ascertained the mass and charge-to-mass ratio of the electron, measured the speed of sound and the gap between the atoms in a salt crystal, and built a radio.

Now I have to write up my experiments, whereupon I shall be entitled to a Certificate in Physics. Next up I have this starting in November, this starting in February and this in April!

[identity profile] lebeautemps.livejournal.com 2010-08-07 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Excellent! Well done.

[identity profile] basement-jax.livejournal.com 2010-08-08 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
Show-off!

;-)