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Core dump (II)

Well, again one month later, here they go some more links I´ve been keeping in my del.icio.us temporal folder to blog about them:

Size comparison
From Pluto (2302 km diameter) to Mu Cephei (1,654,014,000 km diameter) in a spanish flash animation.

The Inner Workings of CD/DVD Drives
This page takes apart a CD / DVD drive to show the clever micro-optical-mechanical system that reads information by automatically focusing and tracking a semiconductor laser along tracks of data.

The Wolfram demonstration project
A website dedicated to compile all kinds of mathematical demonstrations, including physics and specially optics. Mathematica users can download the code, otherwise you can see a limited flash animation.


Atmospheric optics
Light playing on water drops, dust or ice crystals in the atmosphere produces a host of visual spectacles - rainbows, halos, glories, coronas and many more. Here you will find a nice collection of photo galleries with all kinds of atmospheric optical effects.

Masters of improvisation
This month's issue of Symmetry, a magazine jointly published by SLAC and Fermilab, is featuring an article that points out the sometimes extemporaneous and unconventional solutions physicists have come up with in (and out of) the laboratory.

posted by Goto @ 14:24