Memories for Sale
A short story I wrote in 2015 that can be loosely classified as speculative fiction. The story is about a man who sells his memories for money. You can also find this story on Reddit’s ‘nosleep’ forum.
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Information Engineering
I gave this presentation at the STFC in Harwell and at ARUP in London as part of the Engineering Development Trust’s ‘Future Industry Leaders Award’ competition. Although I didn’t win, I was offered a job as a result, which makes me feel better about not winning. This presentation focuses on how to design user experiences (UX) for highly technical websites, and why it’s important to do so.
Lawyer Guy: The North Side
The North Side is the first test area for Lawyer Guy: Defender of Justice, an action-platformer set to be released sometime. I started developing Lawyer Guy in around 2008 as a joke, abandoned it for around 6 years, then started working on it again in late 2014. This article is about the design and implementation of The North Side – being the first playable area, it took quite a lot of work.
Calculation of the Bohr Magneton Using the Zeeman Effect
The Bohr Magneton is a physical constant which is used to express the dipole moment of electrons. It corresponds to the angular momentum of an electron in the lowest orbital. The Bohr Magneton relates the splitting of atomic energy levels to the strength of an applied magnetic field. The Zeeman effect offers us an easy way to observe this splitting. In this lab report, I discuss a how to observe the Zeeman effect, and how it can be used to compute an accurate value for the Bohr Magneton.
Visualising Quantum Random Walks in Python
A random walk (sometimes called ‘the drunkard’s walk’ describes the motion of a particle that undergoes a series of random steps. But what happens if that particle is a quantum particle? This article presents a few interesting ways of visualising this motion, using Python and matplotlib.
Calculating Crystal Structure and Lattice Parameters Using X-ray Diffraction
X-ray diffraction is an experimental technique that can be used to look at structures made of repeating lattices – anything from crystalline solids to crystallized biological molecules. In this lab report, I describe an experiment to determine the lattice parameters and Bravais lattice using 1-D X-ray diffraction patterns.