Bob Hirst, general editor of UC Berkeley's Mark Twain Papers & Project, tells us the story behind the title of the new book, "Who is Mark Twain?," a collection of 24 previously unpublished pieces by Mark Twain.
Video by Roxanne Makasdjian
Press release and video at: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/04/21_twain.shtml
History 162A, 001 - Fall 2014
Europe and the World: Wars, Empires, Nations 1648-1914 - David Wetzel
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Chair: Michael Szonyi, Harvard University
Shelley Rigger, Davidson College
Redefining "China:" From the China Inside to the China Outside
Yu-shan Wu, Academia Sinica
Lowell Dittmer, UC Berkeley
What Drives the Cross-Strait Rapprochement? Political Competition, Globalization, and Strategic Triangle
From Salvation to Spirituality
Susumu Shimazono,Professor of Religious Studies, University of Tokyo
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Susumu Shimazono, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tokyo for a discussion of popular religious movements in Japan. Professor Shimazono discusses the origins of his interest in religious studies; the role of religion in modernization; and the emergence of new religions as a global phenomena in the 1970s with special reference to Japanese examples. Professor Shimazono distinguishes these spiritual movements from salvation religions by
identifying their unique features and their future evolution. He also analyzes Aum Shinrikyo as an abhorrent manifestation. He concludes with an analysis of the implications of new religions for politics and suggests their strengths and weaknesses as an enduring phenomena.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/iis/Kreisler.html
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/
http://conversationswithhistory.typepad.com/conversations_with_histor/
http://www.thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1721
Physics 111 Advanced Laboratory. Professor Sumner Davis
This video accompanies the Hall Effect in a Semiconductor Experiment, providing students with an introduction to the theory, apparatus, and procedures.
The Hall effect is the phenomenon of a voltage developing across two boundaries in a direction transverse to the current flow in a system of charged particles in a magnetic field owing to the Lorentz force q(v x B).
Semiconductors fall in between two extremes, conductors and non-conductors, and their properties require some knowledge of condensed matter physics. The Hall Effect illustrates the Lorentz force v X B. For a doped germanium crystal, you measure the resistivity, concentration of the free carrier, and the Hall coefficient as functions of the temperature. When a current is passed through a sample in the x-direction, the Lorentz force acting on the electric charges moving in a magnetic field B ( in Z) displaces some carriers in the y-direction and causes an internal electric field EH which cancels the Lorentz force in the equilibrium case. You will use the Van der Pauw method of measuring a sample of arbitrary shape for a temperature range from 300K to 77K to 400K.
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