Dan Summons: PhysLink.com Expert

   Dan Summons
Dan Summons
Masters Degree in Physics with Theoretical Physics Student
University of Southampton, UK 		Questions answered
to date:
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Biography Dan Summons is a student at the University of Southampton, working towards his Masters Degree in Physics with Theoretical Physics. He was born in 1982.

His main areas of interest are astrophysics and theoretical physics. He especially enjoys looking at stellar evolution and in particular he is fascinated by the physics of neutron stars and black holes.

His other interests other than physics are, reading, sports, Internet, watching films and socialising with friends. He also owns a 4' Newtonian Reflecting Telescope that he uses on occasions when it’s not to cold.

At university he is a part of the Physics society and the Astronomy society. He is also part of Nexus, which is to do with the Institute of Physics in UK.

Published Answers All answers by Dan Summons published at PhysLink.com up to date are listed here:
  1. What is a neutrino?

  2. What are Lambert's Laws?

  3. How fast would the Earth have to rotate so that it would neutralize gravity?

  4. What is a simple defintion of the laws of thermodynamics?

  5. What is Planck length? What is Planck time?

  6. What is a quasar and what does it have to do with a black hole?

  7. What is a Bose-Einstein condensate?

  8. How does an atomic clock work?

  9. What is a Higgs Particle?

  10. If neutrinos have mass, as my physicist nephew from Fermilab says is now the consensus, how can one explain the virtual simultaneous arrival of neutrinos and photons from the Supernove1987A in a Magellanic cloud about 300,000 light years away?

  11. What is the Schrodinger equation, and how is it used?

  12. What is the Pascal's law?

  13. How does a cat land on its legs when dropped?

  14. I noticed that pouring hot coffee into cold cream results in a higher final beverage temperature than pouring the cold cream into the hot coffee. Can you explain the physical principle behind this observation?