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Purcell also showed how a rocket launches and what the gas argon would like like from the viewpoint of a molecule using polaroid transparencies and an overhead projector.
Simple demonstrations can illustrate profound concepts in physics, Nobel-prize winning physicist Edward M. Purcell--who called the overhead projector "the greatest invention since chalk"--told a small crowd in the Science Center yesterday.
Using a tennis racquet, a cardboard box and an overhead projector, Purcell, Gade University Professor Emeritus, demonstrated that light is transmitted in waves rather than particles, and other basic theories of physics.
That was enough bad news to convince investors that interest rates, instead of falling as the Administration has long promised, are likely to be going higher. Says William LeFevre, market strategist for the Wall Street investment banking firm of Purcell, Graham & Co.: "It is simple. Confidence that interest rates were...
* A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Alvin Epstein. The premier ART production--revived from the Yale years--stripped away decades' worth of accumulated glitter from Shakespeare's play, revealing a darker fairy world than we're used to. Epstein uncovered hidden streams of conflict--between fairy and fairy, fairy...