Yep, they're using Haliday and Resnick still (10th edition):
https://smile.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Physics-Binder-Ready-Version/dp/1118230647/
The available covers have improved from the basic orange or blue. ;)
On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 12:47 PM bobcook39...@hotmail.com <
bobcook39...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Jones—
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> New Fixxic books are popping up all the time, but cannot get money for
> marketing.
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> Maybe a catalogue of free thinking schools with at least 50% new Fixxic
> books on the list for courses being offered in “physics” is warranted. It
> may help marketing funding, as well as attract students desiring to advance
> the understsnding of physical reality.
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> HIGH SCHOOLS SHOULD BE THE FIRST SCHOOLS LISTED. Listing might even
> foster progressive education in civilization to counter the
> establishments’s, both public and private, current focus on strictly
> teaching dogmatic “science.” from well funded publisher texts. (Such a
> paradyme occurance would be a “black swan” event.)
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> (We should beware of the stake)
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> Bob Cook
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> *From:* Jones Beene
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 24, 2019 7:30:42 AM
> *To:* Vortex List
> *Subject:* [Vo]:The Many Phases of Matter - a degenerate state of affairs
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> At first there were only three - the solid, liquid and gas phase.
> Everything in Nature could be explained with these three categories...
> except maybe the sun.
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> "Plasma" was identified as a fourth phase by Crookes in 1879 and/or
> Thomson in 1897 but it took man years for this big change in outlook to
> sink in - along with the recognition of stars being composed of mostly
> hydrogen plasma. To confuse things even more, physicists of late tries to
> distinguish "states of matter" from "phases of matter". This is basically a
> semantic gesture to save face.
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> Fizzix, which is the dark side of the practice of mainstream Physics, is
> not quite as conservative as religion, but closer than it should be. For
> instance, it took much longer than it should for the mainstream to accept
> that there is a fifth phase - the condensate or BEC. The great Indian
> physicist Bose (who also first described the boson) first proposed the
> state mathematically but the mainstream of physics would have rejected the
> idea as entirely fringe, without Einstein's name on.
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> Nice strategic move. Even so, it was not till 1995 that the Bose-Einstein
> condensate (BEC) was actually proved to exist physically by Cornell and
> Weiman using laser-cooled rubidium. Plus, the other four phases of matter
> follow the Pauli Exclusion Principle - which says that matter can't exist
> in identical quantum states so as to occupy the same space at the same
> time. Bose-Einstein condensates seem to break that rule as do some or all
> of the other states not yet included in the big five. In short - we should
> dump Pauli and move on without it.
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> And that is about where Fizzix stands nowadays - with five phases of
> matter to describe all of nature ... err... almost.
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> If we ditch the artificial distinction between phases and states, it has
> been proposed that the "Quark-gluon plasma," seen in the debris of beam
> line experiments, is important enough to be a distinct phase of matter (in
> the guise of the crossover between matter being converted into energy and
> back again). This is not simply a plasma with the highest energy level
> since it has dozenss of features which no ordinary plasma has. This
> category can be called the "quark soup phase" and the clearly, entire
> Universe started out in this phase and most stars end up there in the end -
> in a nova.
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> Then, the next category is where LENR can enter the picture - if there is
> indeed the so-called "Degenerate matter" phase which is characterized by
> extreme density. This grouping can include neutron stars, quasars, possibly
> black holes and even the elusive "dark matter" making up the bulk of the
> Universe: The compressed state exists in cosmology, but there could be a
> counterpart on earth - especially in the proposed ultra-dense state of
> hydrogen. This ultra-dense state derives from Rydberg matter which is also
> a candidate in itself for an entirely new phase of matter.
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> These new phases of matter are not found in textbooks yet - Fizzix is
> conservative after all and prefers to keep things recognizable to
> practitioners who graduated half a century ago, even at the risk of
> semantic confusion which makes the Internet hum with "alternative facts."
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> Nevertheless, in a fair appraisal - the bulk of actually mass in the
> Universe is probably to be found in the two overlooked phases - degenerate
> matter and quark soup phase. Recently these same two (proposed new phases)
> actually turn up in LENR, in the same body of work.
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> ... one of the many reasons that the pioneering work of Holmlid is so
> intriguing.
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