Tag Archive for 'physics'

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Cirno Throw

Published on May 20, 2009 in Flash, Life and Touhou. 42 Comments
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I don’t really know why I made this, actually. I guess I had nothing else to do. But anyway, it’s based on the actionscript on this site with some slight changes. Drag/drop/toss Cirno! The directional arrows on your keyboard do stuff too. There’s not much else you can do because I didn’t really add anything other than Cirno, but with the power of imagination… no wait, there still isn’t much else to do.

In other news, I will be taking late-administration-date AP exams for the next two days! Tomorrow is Calculus BC and the next day is Physics B (even though I won’t get college credit for Physics B if I do well on it). And I have to be at school at 7:30AM, which is about an hour and a half earlier than I would normally start school (just like when I had zero-period gym!), so I should probably go to sleep earlier.

Photoelectric Effect

Published on April 21, 2009 in Daily flash and Touhou. 35 Comments
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I really do spend too much time writing these fake newspaper articles. But it’s fun, so that’s fine. Also, if I hadn’t decided to make this daily flash, I would not have looked up the photoelectric effect on Wikipedia and I would not have known that it was discovered by Heinrich Hertz, who has a nifty SI unit named after him.

They probably stopped calling it the Hertz effect because then there would be two things named after him, which we all know can’t ever happen because it’s completely impossible. Or maybe because “photoelectric effect” is a name that actually says something the effect itself, rather than about the person who discovered it. Because it has to do with photons which are part of electromagnetic radiation.

Fiber Optics

Published on April 2, 2009 in Daily flash. 28 Comments
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I guess this could be considered a follow-up to the total internal reflection flash because fiber optics uses it to send information. Yes, the beginning is some more educational stuff! Click here if you would like to learn more about how fiber optic cables actually work! It’s interesting! Also, in the end, Long-Haired character is actually flickering that flashlight a billion times per second, but we just can’t see it because it’s so fast. Well, either that or she’s not really doing any flickering at all. You decide!

Total internal reflection

Published on March 30, 2009 in Daily flash and Touhou. 26 Comments
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Wikipedia article about total internal reflection can be found here! You can probably find some cool examples on YouTube or something. Here‘s an example… with laser water. The recent daily flashes have been kinda over-educational, if that’s even possible, but I guess that’s fine, because learning is fun! Especially outside of school!

Actually, total internal reflection isn’t even really used in the latter part of the flash, since there’s just mirrors, but yeah. Anyway, Patchy’s first line was stolen from somewhere that I can’t really remember (I think it may have been an edit of a Touhou doujinshi page somewhere from a very long time ago where she says something similar). Yeah. Oh, and also, this flash serves as an excuse to bring up the diffraction daily flash again. That’s all.

Mirrors

Published on March 25, 2009 in Daily flash. 35 Comments
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For those unfamiliar with the concept of “real” and “virtual” images in terms of optics in physics, there’s always Wikipedia! Anyway, I remember when I was little and I used to believe mirrors were some sort of other world. That was probably influenced by cartoons…