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This month:I
was not a typical Physics Major back in the Fall of 1996. For one thing
I already had a degree - in Economics, for another I already had a job
and nearly 10 years on most of my fellow students. I was very pleasantly
surprised to find several other "adults", also working, also
in the UMD Physics program. In fact, I married one of them but that is
another story....
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This month:
The
hydrogen atom is composed of a single proton and a single electron. One
must supply about 2 x 10**-18 Joules of energy (13.6 eV) to pull the two
apart or "ionize" the hydrogen. Those who have traveled in Europe
and were inclined to read a candy bar label know that a typical candy bar
provides the hungry snacker about a mega-Joule, or 10**6 Joules. Evidently,
one could ionize a lot of hydrogen with a single Kit-Kat! ....
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