Jerry Zani

30 years Managing, making, doing Physics demonstrations and supporting Engineering Labs and student makerspace.

[Ben Noll @BenNollWeather]

Copernicus Day for May 2025 has arrived, a day for long-range weather fans around the world!

Let's take take a look at what the data is showing for the upcoming summer 🧵

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.

[Jerry Zani @JerryJazzani]

The Physics of Radio Waves. #physics https://t.co/Z6CyCGmKh5

[Jerry Zani @JerryJazzani]

Ant face.

[STYLYR🇬🇭 @stylyrr]

The World Though A Microscope

A Thread🧵🪡🪡

1. An Ant’s Face 🤯

[Jerry Zani @JerryJazzani]

Breaking! The FBI has sued Trump/DOJ!
A group of FBI agents who assisted in criminal investigations stemming from the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol has filed suit Tuesday to block the Justice Department. https://t.co/dcNuKH8q9U

[Reuters Legal @ReutersLegal]

An anonymous group of FBI agents and employees took the unusual step of suing the DOJ in a bid to prevent President Trump and his allies from publicly disseminating a list of names of all the bureau's employees who worked on Jan. 6 criminal cases https://t.co/Q3ECBO3Flt

[Jerry Zani @JerryJazzani]

@PhysInHistory Faith.

[Andy Kim @AndyKimNJ]

After going out with police to observe reports of possible drones, I was with the help of civilian pilots and others able to do deeper analysis and concluded that most of the possible drone sightings that were pointed out to me were almost certainly planes. Let me explain: THREAD

[Jerry Zani @JerryJazzani]

@PhysInHistory Time is a sequence of events. https://t.co/qs8D195KLh

[Jerry Zani @JerryJazzani]

@PhysInHistory In Physics, Time is a sequence of events.

[Keenan Crane @keenanisalive]

Entropy is one of those formulas that many of us learn, swallow whole, and even use regularly without really understanding.

(E.g., where does that “log” come from? Are there other possible formulas?)

Yet there's an intuitive & almost inevitable way to arrive at this expression.

[Zenit Research Lab @ZenitLab]

Had a lot of fun teaching physics to some brilliant young minds @SquashBusters. Who says professors can't handle teenagers? (Spoiler: they ask tougher questions than my grad students.) @brownengin

[Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky @EmanuelDerman]

Fabulous book, in general, and especially the introduction, which confirms my beliefs about the meaning of the words models, theories, metaphors.

[wendy schiller @profwschiller]

What might Biden do to solidify his legislative successes before January 20th. https://t.co/QDA7XmrRmn @SmithInAmerica @WatsonInstitute

[Jerry Zani @JerryJazzani]

@stan_sdcollins Nice, Stan. Thanks for sharing. Rhode Island is experiencing a drought now, the worst Fall season drought on record.

[Harris Lab @FluidDanamics]

New #harrislab open-source hardware released!

Introducing FIEVel: A Fast InExpensive Velocimeter based on an optical mouse sensor.

The device can nonintrusively measure pointwise x-y velocities at rates up to 6.4 kHz, all for around $100.

@arxiv: https://t.co/1YFz13qy50

[Jerry Zani @JerryJazzani]

@helenrey @kilroi22 I buy afforadable physics teaching supplies and lab equipment from both Arbor Scientific https://t.co/caC5PvUSrb and also from The Teachersource, aka Educational Innovations https://t.co/aQIyR7ANGH

[Jerry Zani @JerryJazzani]

@PhysicsRandall It is a double Thistle Tube, aka an Osmosis Apparatus. Membranes are attcahed like Dialysis tubing, a semi-permeable membrane is attached. Water diffuses through the membrane into a concentrated solution to teach Osmosis. https://t.co/jBa4RrhHHw

[wendy schiller @profwschiller]

Must see discussion of #electionssecurity hosted at @BrownUniversity on Tuesday October 8th from 5-6:30PM. See below for details.