Sentences with phrase «physics special topic»

One of the students, David Starkey, reflects on the Physics Special Topic Journal article: «We decided to investigate the practicalities of teleportation as a means of everyday travel.

Nevertheless, four intrepid physics students at the University of Leicester in England crunched the numbers in the university's 2013 Journal of Physics Special Topics.

The students presented their findings in a series of short articles for the Journal of Physics Special Topics, a peer - reviewed student journal run by the University's Department of Physics and Astronomy.

The students published their findings in a final year paper for the Journal of Physics Special Topics, a peer - reviewed student journal run by the University's Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Their paper, «Travelling by Teleportation,» was published in the latest volume of the University of Leicester's Journal of Physics Special Topics.

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Lighter, more comic versions of this can be found in novels like Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys or Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics, where bored students and academics wreck their lives or the lives of those around them in search of moments of excitement.

The latest issue of EPJ Special Topics examines the question as to whether econophysics, a physics - based approach to understanding economic phenomena, is more useful and desirable than conventional economics theories.

Our September special issue on Einstein — «100 Years of Genius Without Limits» — served as a primer for the gathering, four glorious days of talk and think on topics like «Culture in the Age of Space - Time Relativity» and «Einstein the Empiricist and the Frontiers of Condensed Matter Physics.»

Physical Review Special Topics — Physics Education Research 1 (1), 1 - 8.

I enjoyed Shulock's ode to precocious young narrators defined by «idiosyncratic voices, unapologetic intelligence and bold curiosity» (à la Blue van Meer in Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics — which, as a side note, was probably my favorite book of 2006).

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The author, whose 2007 debut, Special Topics In Calamity Physics was structured around a syllabus for a college literature course, switches focus to a different art form in a literary thriller about a reclusive movie director.

Marisha Pessl discusses her first novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, which is structured around the syllabus of a Great Works of Literature class, and what inspired her to write it.

Special Topics in Calamity Physics is your first novel.

A few immediately come to mind: Michael Chabon (The Mysteries of Pittsburgh was Chabon's honors thesis and published when he was 25); Marisha Pessl (Special Topics in Calamity Physics debuted when Pessl was 28; Night Film is forthcoming in 2010); and Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated was drawn from Foer's senior thesis and published when he was 25).

When the then -25-year-old Cline signed a three - book contract for $ 2 million + in 2014, the news was met with a level of skepticism and resentment not seen since the announcement of the multi-million-dollar deal for Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics.

Pessl's debut novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, became the talk of 2006 and went on to sell nearly 200,000 copies in hardcover.

MARISHA PESSL Night Film (Random House, August) OK, we know — Pessl's been watched before, when her debut novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, became the talk of 2006 and went on to sell nearly 200,000 copies in hardcover.

Brilliant, haunting, breathtakingly suspenseful, Night Film is a superb literary thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster debut Special Topics in Calamity Physics.

After the soaring critical and commercial success of her first novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, it took Marisha Pessl quite a while to settle into the creation of her moody, boldly ambitious new novel Night Film.No, it wasn't anxiety about the so - called sophomore jinx, Pessl says during a call to her writing studio.

If you're a Marisha Pessl fan (Special Topics in Calamity Physics), here's our Salon@615 talk at Nashville's Main library about her new novel, Night Film.

- O Magazine «Hysterical and moving, The Year of the Gadfly fuses Special Topics in Calamity Physics with Portnoy's Complaint for girls.

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Find out more about Marisha Pessl's works, including the bestselling novels Special Topics in Calamity Physics and Night Film.

Okay, I loved Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics and couldn't wait for her next book to come out.

From the book jacket: Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious coming - of - age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer.

This mesmerizing debut, uncannily uniting the trials of a postmodern upbringing with a murder mystery, heralds the arrival of a vibrant new voice in literary fiction Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious coming - of - age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer.

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessi.

At the end of the day, Special Topics in Calamity Physics is worth reading if only to admire the audacity of a first time novelist creating something new from such a well - trod theme (the coming - of - age in a prep school novel in the form of a memoir) and, on the whole, pulling it off with style.

Comment: As you probably know, Pessl structured Special Topics in Calamity Physics, her first novel, around the syllabus of a Great Works of Literature class - the sort of course that a prestigious 4 - year college might offer.

Reviews of Special Topics in Calamity Physics have been mixed - USA reviews (where it was first published) are generally positive; reviews from Britain (where it was published a few months later) are generally more muted.

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«Enter a realm where fears are physical and memories come alive in this absorbing psychological suspense thriller with a twist, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of «Special Topics in Calamity Physics» and «Night Film.»»

After the soaring critical and commercial success of her first novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, it took Marisha Pessl quite a while to settle into the creation of her moody, boldly ambitious new novel Night Film.