Author Archives: M. Eric Carr

Non-Newtonian Motion…?

Posted on 2016-11-19 by M. Eric Carr

NASA’s counterintuitive EM drive keeps passing peer review. If these results are valid, we just figured out how to make much more efficient spaceships. Continue reading →

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Batteries, visualized

Posted on 2016-10-30 by M. Eric Carr

Researchers at the University of Michigan have made a see-through battery to research battery physics and directly observe dendrite formation. Continue reading →

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A Weather Prognosticator

Posted on 2016-09-22 by M. Eric Carr

A Weather Prognosticator, to visually show the hourly forecast temperature by color. Continue reading →

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Endianness

Posted on 2016-08-05 by M. Eric Carr

Math is weird and is sometimes frustrating, but it can certainly be beautiful.   When I first took a Digital Electronics course years ago, the instructor started talking about what sounded like “big-Indian” and “little-Indian” formats. I wasn’t really sure what … Continue reading →

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