Lab manager for Lower Division Physics for the University of California at Santa Cruz.
This is a translation from "Zeitschrift für Physik" of a discussion between Albert Einstein and some physicists who worked around the turn of the nineteenth century.
The topic is the nature of electromagnetic radiation. This discussion is interesting not only because of the subject matter but also because it gives insight into the way Einstein thought about the world.
This begins investigations of the mysteries of real aerodynamics, i.e. aerodynamics without the usual fluid approximations. The Vienna Circle, influenced by Ernst Mach, believed that what could not be seen did not exist. They apparently thought of a fluid as a fundamental entity, not composed of particles. Even though we know better now, the fluid approximation is central to most physical descriptions of the behavior of liquids and gases. The fluid approximation, however, does not account for interaction of the fluid with surfaces or with itself. Recent results from a simple kinematical simulation illustrate the Coanda effect and also some attendant surprises. (Results to come).
| Retired 28 April, 2007 | |
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| email: | charlie.crummer@gmail.com |
| Web sites: | http://physics.ucsc.edu/~ccrummer/, http://web.mac.com/charlie.crummer1 |
Translation of some early papers on electrodynamics by Albert Einstein and Walter Ritz.
Understanding and perhaps expanding the work on the ontology of Quantum Mechanics devised by Louis de Broglie, David Bohm, Basil Hiley, Jean-Paul Vigier, and others.
Understanding and presenting an intuitive picture for the flow of fluids around objects.
PhD from the University of California at Riverside. I had the privilege to work with Hendricus Loos in the exciting time just prior to the wide acceptance of gauge theory and the development of the Standard Model for elementary particles. Dissertation : "The Effects of C, P, and T on the Quantized, Self-interacting Yang-Mills Field.", UCR (1977). I've been at UCSC since 1995.