David Politzer (UM AB 1969, Nobel Prize 2004) is an accomplished musician. His musical group, the Rho Mesons, has a rapper’s description of the damped harmonic oscillator ( © S. Lewicki, D. Politzer, and D. Priest, 1986) that anyone teaching mechanics will enjoy:
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Politzer’s Harmonic Oscillator Rap
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Posted by jenszorn on September 29, 2014
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/ September 29, 2014And I thought I didn’t like rap! Thanks for sharing that. Joe