Math Vignette & Pictures ~ A Special Dedication to PCH & Mathematics

Her Interior Angle
By: Twilit ^ ^
There’s no way that I can focus in math class when she’s sitting right there, right in front of me. What I wouldn’t give to be her interior angle! And why oh why could we not at least be perpendicular lines that meet up just once? Nope, we just had to [...]

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Bubbles and Interference

This week, you shall be entertained with the physics of soap bubbles! Soap-bubble rainbows are caused by thin-film interference. When a light ray strikes the film of of soap bubble, some of the light reflects off of the film’s top surface (Ray 1). Other rays (Ray 2), however, pass into the film, reflect off of [...]

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Funny Political Quotes to Brighten Up Your Week!

Schindler’s List

Theme

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” —Groucho Marx
“Politics, noun. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.” —Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
“The Democrats are the party of government activism, the [...]

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Mirage®

The Mirage® is a very special device consisting of two parabolic mirrors (the top mirror has a hole in the middle) with the concave sides facing each other. The mirrors have identical focal lengths and the Mirage® is constructed so that the focal point of a mirror coincides with the center of the other mirror [...]

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Relaxation

Forrest Gump

 
Feather Theme

 
No particular reason for this post.  Just a beautiful & calming tune. ^ ^

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Concave Mirrors

I wear hard contact lenses so its no big surprise to me that if you’re close enough, a concave mirror will magnify the pores on your face and your eyeballs.

To magnify your image in a concave mirror, you must place yourself within the mirror’s focal point.  Using a ray diagram, you would see that this [...]

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