@BYU professor & former Dept. Chair @BYU_PhysAstro. Karl G. Maeser award '24. Tweets about acoustics, physics, faith, running, baseball, & misc. Opinions mine.
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Have you seen the video about @BYU_PASCAL's experience making acoustical measurements at the @NASAArtemis I launch of @NASA_SLS? I'm so grateful @BYU students get to have these kinds of experiences.
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Fascinating. Not going to comment on @Harvard's issues, but I'm teaching a physics class on noise this semester. Would be interested to know more about the building's construction, the proximity of the protestors to the exam takers, and if the protestors had hearing protection.
Any Harvard graduate student who participated in this planned class disruption should be disciplined to the fullest extent possible under Harvard’s policies.
The professor tried to move the class and couldn’t. His students were disrupted while trying to complete an in-class exam.
Completely unacceptable.
🎵I wanna widdly wombat for Christmas... (Not really.)
Australian officials have issued a reminder to shut your car doors after one wombat helped himself to several passenger seats. The notice followed complaints from visitors at a popular picnic area, where the same wombat reportedly kept climbing into parked cars while people unloaded bags or packed up lunch.
At first, staff thought they were receiving several calls about one incident. Then they realized the cars were different. The passenger wasn’t.
One couple waited nearly an hour before he climbed out. Another visitor said he settled into the seat before she’d even finished putting her things in the boot. Officials asked visitors to keep their doors closed and contact staff if they found an unexpected occupant.
After the photos spread online, a park spokesperson clarified the situation. “He hasn’t been abandoned. He lives here. Please stop calling to say someone’s left their wombat in a car.”
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This image is AI-generated.
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3 of the top 5 from the @Big12Conference
Colorado is coming 🦬
With a strong performance at the Big 12 Championship in a competitive field, Colorado has risen to #2 in this latest set of the FloTrack College XC Rankings. Can the Buffaloes end up stopping the New Mexico Lobos?
Check out the full rankings at the link in our bio.
#CollegeXC
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After 32 years leading @byusoccer_w , Jen Rockwood shares her feelings ahead of tonight’s final regular-season home match as head coach
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Something a middle-schooler emailed us about:
“A ‘combination lock’ should *technically* be called a ‘permutation lock,’ because the order of the numbers matters in permutations, but in combinations the order doesn’t matter.”
10/10, no notes.
This is as political as I will get on here. I thank Elder @PatrickKearon for his message.
“Let’s use politics as an example.
“We need to listen to, we need to watch, we need to talk to those who don’t share our ideas.
“Recognize step-by-step that above all, they are children of God too. They want happy lives for themselves and happy lives for their children and grandchildren.
“Watch your rhetoric and be calm. Be considerate. Be thoughtful as you consider the ideas, the ideologies, the positions of others. Come close and understand them.
“You may never fully agree, and that’s OK, but be a voice for peace.”
Elder Patrick Kearon, “Avoiding the Poles,” December 1, 2020.
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As of today Voyager 1 is one light-day from Earth - 25.9 billion km (16.1 billion miles) away.
A radio signal now takes 24 hours to reach it. In ~50 years, it has traveled about 1/1500th of the way to Alpha Centauri, our nearest star at 4.27 light-years.
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Not today. Voyager 1 will reach one light-day away from Earth, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2026, at 5:16:07 a.m. EST.
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It's Rivalry Week and the Cougs Care service project is a literacy drive for Kids Read: Salt Lake.
You can select a book from the Amazon Wish List and/or drop off new or gently used books on campus in the Hinckley or McKay buildings. #GoCougs!
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OTD, 4 years ago: SpaceX launched a Falcon Heavy rocket and the USSF-44.
Thick fog made the launch nearly invisible from the Press Site, but it was a different, epic scene at LZ-1 and 2.
(Audio on, especially for the second clip)
🎥: me, 11/1/2022
We used 76 launches and 400+ measurements to develop statistical models for Falcon 9 noise. For 6 noise metrics, we know the average decay and uncertainty with distance.
And maybe I'll learn to say the word heteroskedasticity.
doi.org/10.1121/10.0046889
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4 Peat 4 the Cougs!
@Big12Conference
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🧵A sampling of some of this year's creative costumes #BYUHalloween
ALT byu chocolate milk costumes
ALT hymn book costume
ALT vitruvius wizard costume
ALT parking ticket costume
Make it happen, @MLB.
