A midterm exam of waves was finished today.
The result was...
I lost at least two problems. -_-
But that's not a big problem.
The reason I stay relaxed...
The previous exam of the same lecture was scored full marks!!
My grade would be "A" as long as I keep the same score at the next final exam. ^^v
The problem I have now is the exam I will take next Tuesday.
The class is for Special Relativity!!
This is one of the class I've wanted to take.
But I don't really get comfortable at all to the theory after I was explained by professor about its concepts...
What mechanism behind the theory lies?
What is reference frame?
How does time move slow in a moving rocket?
How does the length of the moving rocket shrink?
Although each phenomenon is acceptable,
I can't construct whole phenomena without any contradiction.
I'm gonna ask the professor millions of questions about the contradiction in my mind.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Discovery of a Indian food restaurant
Today's Saturday.
I usually stay home and go for a grocery shopping to a mall on Saturday.
But next week I'll have three midterm exams,
so I went to the library to study for the exams.
Since I always have brunch at a cafe on campus,
I headed for the cafe before going to the library.
The cafe that was supposed to be open was closed.
Shit!
I didn't know why.
I confirmed its business hours, and it was saying it was open!
Holly crap!
So I had to walk to some restaurants on campus.
I knew there was only a restaurant that serves meals on Saturday.
It was that Chinese restaurant.
I was reluctant to eat chinese food as brunch because it has oily and too much.
Scientifically, hungriness definitely makes people being lack of concentration,
so I should eat something...
It was just an excuse. To tell a truth, my stomach was just rumbling...
The decision was right.
I found a new indian food restaurant there!
It interested me, so I sneaked to peek a peek inside of it.
It wasn't actually necessary to do it though.
There were several curries and rice, and they seemed delicious!!
I couldn't stop leaving without eating the curries!!
I chose chicken curry and fried rice with nan.
The curry was good, and the nan fresh from oven was great!
I could be satisfied with only nan as lunch.
I usually stay home and go for a grocery shopping to a mall on Saturday.
But next week I'll have three midterm exams,
so I went to the library to study for the exams.
Since I always have brunch at a cafe on campus,
I headed for the cafe before going to the library.
The cafe that was supposed to be open was closed.
Shit!
I didn't know why.
I confirmed its business hours, and it was saying it was open!
Holly crap!
So I had to walk to some restaurants on campus.
I knew there was only a restaurant that serves meals on Saturday.
It was that Chinese restaurant.
I was reluctant to eat chinese food as brunch because it has oily and too much.
Scientifically, hungriness definitely makes people being lack of concentration,
so I should eat something...
It was just an excuse. To tell a truth, my stomach was just rumbling...
The decision was right.
I found a new indian food restaurant there!
It interested me, so I sneaked to peek a peek inside of it.
It wasn't actually necessary to do it though.
There were several curries and rice, and they seemed delicious!!
I couldn't stop leaving without eating the curries!!
I chose chicken curry and fried rice with nan.
The curry was good, and the nan fresh from oven was great!
I could be satisfied with only nan as lunch.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Vocabulary
個人用英単語メモです。
読み飛ばして下さい。
potency: power or influence;
immunology: the branch of medicine and biology concerned with immunity
antibody: a blood protein produced in response to and counteracting a specific antigen
antigen: a toxin or other foreign substance that induces an immune response in the body, esp. the production of antibodies
multitude: (a multitude of) a large number
infectious: likely to be transmitted to people, organisms, etc., through the environment
agent:???
microbe: a microorganism, esp. a bacterium causing disease or fermentation
pathogenesis: the manner of development of a disease
enterotoxins: a toxin produced in or affecting the intestines, such as those causing food poisoning or cholera
mutant: resulting from or showing the effect of mutation
mutation: the changing of the structure of a gene, resulting in a variant form that may be transmitted to subsequent generations, caused by the alteration of single base units in DNA
mucosal: a mucous membrane
mucus: a slimy substance, typically not miscible with water, secreted by mucous membranes and glands for lubrication, protection, etc.
adjuvant: applied after initial treatment for cancer, esp. to suppress secondary tumor formation
elicit: evoke or draw out from someone in reaction to one's own actions ore questions
evoke: bring or recall to the conscious mind
bore: make (a hole) in something, esp. with a revolving tool
sinus: a cavity within a bone or other tissue
lining: a layer of different material covering the inside surface of something
genital: of or relating to the human or animal reproductive organs
tract: a major passage in the body, large bundle of nerve fibers, or other continuous elongated anatomical structure or region
読み飛ばして下さい。
potency: power or influence;
immunology: the branch of medicine and biology concerned with immunity
antibody: a blood protein produced in response to and counteracting a specific antigen
antigen: a toxin or other foreign substance that induces an immune response in the body, esp. the production of antibodies
multitude: (a multitude of) a large number
infectious: likely to be transmitted to people, organisms, etc., through the environment
agent:???
microbe: a microorganism, esp. a bacterium causing disease or fermentation
pathogenesis: the manner of development of a disease
enterotoxins: a toxin produced in or affecting the intestines, such as those causing food poisoning or cholera
mutant: resulting from or showing the effect of mutation
mutation: the changing of the structure of a gene, resulting in a variant form that may be transmitted to subsequent generations, caused by the alteration of single base units in DNA
mucosal: a mucous membrane
mucus: a slimy substance, typically not miscible with water, secreted by mucous membranes and glands for lubrication, protection, etc.
adjuvant: applied after initial treatment for cancer, esp. to suppress secondary tumor formation
elicit: evoke or draw out from someone in reaction to one's own actions ore questions
evoke: bring or recall to the conscious mind
bore: make (a hole) in something, esp. with a revolving tool
sinus: a cavity within a bone or other tissue
lining: a layer of different material covering the inside surface of something
genital: of or relating to the human or animal reproductive organs
tract: a major passage in the body, large bundle of nerve fibers, or other continuous elongated anatomical structure or region
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Vocabulary
英単語の個人用メモ。
日記ではありませんので、読み飛ばして下さい。
colloquial: not normal or literary
cabin fever: a state characterized by anxiety, restlessness, and boredom
engage in: participate or become involved in.
blah [informal]: (the blahs) depression
combat: take action to reduce, destroy, or prevent
excursion: a short journey or trip, esp. one engaged in as a leisure activity
intramural: taking place within a single educational institution
piggy banks: any small bank in which coins are kept
an arm and a leg: a great deal of money
lousy: very poor or bad; disgusting
disturbance: the interruption of a settled and peaceful condition
worsen: make or become worse
irritable: having or showing a tendency to be easily annoyed or made angry
psychiatrist: a medical practitioner specializing in the diagnosis and of mental illness
日記ではありませんので、読み飛ばして下さい。
colloquial: not normal or literary
cabin fever: a state characterized by anxiety, restlessness, and boredom
engage in: participate or become involved in.
blah [informal]: (the blahs) depression
combat: take action to reduce, destroy, or prevent
excursion: a short journey or trip, esp. one engaged in as a leisure activity
intramural: taking place within a single educational institution
piggy banks: any small bank in which coins are kept
an arm and a leg: a great deal of money
lousy: very poor or bad; disgusting
disturbance: the interruption of a settled and peaceful condition
worsen: make or become worse
irritable: having or showing a tendency to be easily annoyed or made angry
psychiatrist: a medical practitioner specializing in the diagnosis and of mental illness
Thursday, March 13, 2008
From the library (図書館から)
There is still snow on the ground that piled up three days ago.
At the middle of the picture, there is a city where I live.
Plain ground is spreading as far as you can see and you can't see any mountains and hills.
３日前に降った雪がまだ残っています。
写真中央に見えるのが自分が住んでいる街です。
真っ平らな平野が見渡す限り続いていて、山や丘が見えないでしょ。
You see many PCs in the photo.
This is in the university library.
And this space is called "CYBERY".
That's because It's a coined word that two words "CYBER" and "LIBRARY" are added together.
Since I take my own computer to school, I don't usually use these computers.
But these have lots of useful softwares such as office 2003, office 2007, photoshop, matlab mathematica, maple, autocad etc.
So I sometimes need some of them to do my homework.
Some people use the PCs to just watch youtube!
It's ok but I want to kick them off the space!!
Such people occupy the space whenever I need to use the computer immediately...
パソコンがたくさんあるでしょ。
ここは図書館の中です。
その名もサイバリー。
サイバーとライブラリーの造語です。
自分は学校にパソコンを持って行くので、普段はここを利用しないのですが、
自分の持っていないソフトがたくさん入っているので、
宿題をやるのに利用しています。
中にはyoutubeを見てるやつもいます。
べつにいいんですけど、、、でも追っ払ってやたい！
すぐに使わなきゃ行けないときに限ってそんな人たちがたくさん居るんですよね。。。
At the middle of the picture, there is a city where I live.
Plain ground is spreading as far as you can see and you can't see any mountains and hills.
３日前に降った雪がまだ残っています。
写真中央に見えるのが自分が住んでいる街です。
真っ平らな平野が見渡す限り続いていて、山や丘が見えないでしょ。
You see many PCs in the photo.
This is in the university library.
And this space is called "CYBERY".
That's because It's a coined word that two words "CYBER" and "LIBRARY" are added together.
Since I take my own computer to school, I don't usually use these computers.
But these have lots of useful softwares such as office 2003, office 2007, photoshop, matlab mathematica, maple, autocad etc.
So I sometimes need some of them to do my homework.
Some people use the PCs to just watch youtube!
It's ok but I want to kick them off the space!!
Such people occupy the space whenever I need to use the computer immediately...
パソコンがたくさんあるでしょ。
ここは図書館の中です。
その名もサイバリー。
サイバーとライブラリーの造語です。
自分は学校にパソコンを持って行くので、普段はここを利用しないのですが、
自分の持っていないソフトがたくさん入っているので、
宿題をやるのに利用しています。
中にはyoutubeを見てるやつもいます。
べつにいいんですけど、、、でも追っ払ってやたい！
すぐに使わなきゃ行けないときに限ってそんな人たちがたくさん居るんですよね。。。
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Snowed again (また雪だよぉ)
It was too early to declare that spring had come.
Two days ago it snowed about 30 cm high.
In front of my apartment it is a pile of snow.
春到来宣言！を出したのは少し早かったようです。
二日前に30 cm雪が積もりました！
アパートの前には雪が山のようです。
But snowplow cars ran all the roads on campus all day and got the snow off from the road.
So residents on campus didn't really need to shovel snow to get out of the houses.
I appreciate the work!
でも除雪車が一日中キャンパスの道を走り回って除雪てくれたのです。
そのおかげで家から出るのにシャベルで雪かきをしなくても良かったのです。
感謝！！
I hadn't taken pictures for a while but I took some at school today.
This is a class room for Math.
The instructor is that Chinese who speaks Chinese English.
At the first class there were about fifty people but now there are only twenty people attending the math class...
Most of people might have dropped the class or they would just attend exams.
The professor doesn't mark attendance.
長らく写真取っていませんでしたが、学校で写真取ったのでアップします。
これは数学の教室です。
先生はあの中国なまり英語をしゃべる先生です。
最初の授業はは５０人くらいいたのに、いまでは２０人くらいしかいません。。。
ドロップしたのか、テストだけ受けるのか。。。
先生は出席を取らないからね。
This is a bulletin board.
There are so many messages posted on it.
Selling cars, renting rooms, information about internship etc.
I found today a message about a kendo club.
Is Japanese martial art popular in the U.S?
掲示板です。
メッセージで埋め尽くされています。。。
車売ります、部屋貸します、インターンシップの情報等々。
今日剣道クラブのメッセージを見つけました。
日本の武道は人気なんでしょうか？
These are bending machines at school.
You can buy whatever you want when you are hungry.
You see purple, yellow and red colored drinks in the picture.
I've never felt I want to buy the poisonous-looking drinks!
学校にある自販機の写真です。
お腹が空いたときは欲しいもの何でも自販機で買えます。
紫、黄色、赤の毒々しい飲み物が見えますか？
飲もうと思ったことは一度もありません！
Two days ago it snowed about 30 cm high.
In front of my apartment it is a pile of snow.
春到来宣言！を出したのは少し早かったようです。
二日前に30 cm雪が積もりました！
アパートの前には雪が山のようです。
But snowplow cars ran all the roads on campus all day and got the snow off from the road.
So residents on campus didn't really need to shovel snow to get out of the houses.
I appreciate the work!
でも除雪車が一日中キャンパスの道を走り回って除雪てくれたのです。
そのおかげで家から出るのにシャベルで雪かきをしなくても良かったのです。
感謝！！
I hadn't taken pictures for a while but I took some at school today.
This is a class room for Math.
The instructor is that Chinese who speaks Chinese English.
At the first class there were about fifty people but now there are only twenty people attending the math class...
Most of people might have dropped the class or they would just attend exams.
The professor doesn't mark attendance.
長らく写真取っていませんでしたが、学校で写真取ったのでアップします。
これは数学の教室です。
先生はあの中国なまり英語をしゃべる先生です。
最初の授業はは５０人くらいいたのに、いまでは２０人くらいしかいません。。。
ドロップしたのか、テストだけ受けるのか。。。
先生は出席を取らないからね。
This is a bulletin board.
There are so many messages posted on it.
Selling cars, renting rooms, information about internship etc.
I found today a message about a kendo club.
Is Japanese martial art popular in the U.S?
掲示板です。
メッセージで埋め尽くされています。。。
車売ります、部屋貸します、インターンシップの情報等々。
今日剣道クラブのメッセージを見つけました。
日本の武道は人気なんでしょうか？
These are bending machines at school.
You can buy whatever you want when you are hungry.
You see purple, yellow and red colored drinks in the picture.
I've never felt I want to buy the poisonous-looking drinks!
学校にある自販機の写真です。
お腹が空いたときは欲しいもの何でも自販機で買えます。
紫、黄色、赤の毒々しい飲み物が見えますか？
飲もうと思ったことは一度もありません！
Sunday, March 9, 2008
A symposium （シンポジウム）
A symposium of spintronics took place in my school.
スピントロニクスのシンポジウムが学校でありました。
Spintronics is abut physics related to spin.
Technology that uses electrons is called electronics while technology that uses spin is called spintronics.
What's spin?
Spin is a physical property elementary particles have and is necessary to understand superconductivity.
スピントロニクスはスピンに関する物理です。
電子（エレクトロン）を使った技術はエレクトロニクス、スピンを使った技術はスピントロニクスです。
スピンとは何でしょうか？
スピンは素粒子のもつ物理的な性質で、超伝導を理解するのに必要とされています。
あまり説明になっていませんが。。。
There will be broad possible applications using spin.
As an important application using spin, there is a computer memory using spin called spin-RAM.
Spin has two states, which are “spin up” and “spin down”.
The two states can apply to the states “o” and “1” , which is suitable for digital computers.
What is most significant is that the memory doesn't need to be refreshed to retain information in it.
This property help to reduce its energy consumption.
スピンを使った様々な応用技術が考えられています。
そのうちの重要な応用として、スピンを使ったコンピュータメモリがあります。
スピンは「上向きスピン」と「下向きスピン」の２つの状態があり、ディジタルコンピュータに向いています。
これ利用するメリットは、記憶保持にリフレッシュが必要ないということです。
この性質はメモリのエネルギー消費を抑えることが出来ます。
I attended the symposium of spintronics.
The reason was to meet Nobel laureates!
Two Nobel laureates were attending the symposium.
To look at them I went to the site, but unfortunately they didn't make their presentations.
So I didn't recognize who were Nobel Laureates...
このシンポジウムに参加しました。
その理由が、、、ノーベル賞受賞者に会えるということだったのです！
二人の受賞者が参加されていました。
見る（会うではない。。。）ために会場へ行った野のですが、残念ながらその方々の発表はありませんでした。
誰がノーベル賞受賞者なのかすら分からず会場を後にしました。。。
Since a presentation done there was designed for non-physicists, the symposium itself was fun.
A presenter showed us a metal levitating above a superconductor as often showed on TV.
シンポジウムは一般向けで、それ自体は面白かったです。
テレビでよく見る、液体ヘリウムで冷やされた超伝導体の上で金属が浮いているを見せてくれました。
Scientific symposium in Japan is apt to be very formal
But this symposium has sociable atmosphere and the presenter often made the audience laugh with his jokes.
I wish I could understand what he said.
日本では科学に関するシンポジウムはとってもフォーマル。
でもこのシンポジウムは和やかな雰囲気で、発表者がジョークを言って、どっかんどっかん大爆笑なんです！
でも一人理解出来ずに厳しい顔をしてました。。。
英語が全然上達しません。。。
スピントロニクスのシンポジウムが学校でありました。
Spintronics is abut physics related to spin.
Technology that uses electrons is called electronics while technology that uses spin is called spintronics.
What's spin?
Spin is a physical property elementary particles have and is necessary to understand superconductivity.
スピントロニクスはスピンに関する物理です。
電子（エレクトロン）を使った技術はエレクトロニクス、スピンを使った技術はスピントロニクスです。
スピンとは何でしょうか？
スピンは素粒子のもつ物理的な性質で、超伝導を理解するのに必要とされています。
あまり説明になっていませんが。。。
There will be broad possible applications using spin.
As an important application using spin, there is a computer memory using spin called spin-RAM.
Spin has two states, which are “spin up” and “spin down”.
The two states can apply to the states “o” and “1” , which is suitable for digital computers.
What is most significant is that the memory doesn't need to be refreshed to retain information in it.
This property help to reduce its energy consumption.
スピンを使った様々な応用技術が考えられています。
そのうちの重要な応用として、スピンを使ったコンピュータメモリがあります。
スピンは「上向きスピン」と「下向きスピン」の２つの状態があり、ディジタルコンピュータに向いています。
これ利用するメリットは、記憶保持にリフレッシュが必要ないということです。
この性質はメモリのエネルギー消費を抑えることが出来ます。
I attended the symposium of spintronics.
The reason was to meet Nobel laureates!
Two Nobel laureates were attending the symposium.
To look at them I went to the site, but unfortunately they didn't make their presentations.
So I didn't recognize who were Nobel Laureates...
このシンポジウムに参加しました。
その理由が、、、ノーベル賞受賞者に会えるということだったのです！
二人の受賞者が参加されていました。
見る（会うではない。。。）ために会場へ行った野のですが、残念ながらその方々の発表はありませんでした。
誰がノーベル賞受賞者なのかすら分からず会場を後にしました。。。
Since a presentation done there was designed for non-physicists, the symposium itself was fun.
A presenter showed us a metal levitating above a superconductor as often showed on TV.
シンポジウムは一般向けで、それ自体は面白かったです。
テレビでよく見る、液体ヘリウムで冷やされた超伝導体の上で金属が浮いているを見せてくれました。
Scientific symposium in Japan is apt to be very formal
But this symposium has sociable atmosphere and the presenter often made the audience laugh with his jokes.
I wish I could understand what he said.
日本では科学に関するシンポジウムはとってもフォーマル。
でもこのシンポジウムは和やかな雰囲気で、発表者がジョークを言って、どっかんどっかん大爆笑なんです！
でも一人理解出来ずに厳しい顔をしてました。。。
英語が全然上達しません。。。
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