Subject: Britney Spears's Guide to Semiconductor Physics
From the Scientific American website ... www.sciam.com
(Make sure you check out the Britney's neckline follows a parabolic function approximating the covalence band of electrons in a semiconductor on http://britneyspears.ac/basics.htm.)
This week we draw your attention to one of the stranger approaches to teaching science that we've seen lately: Britney Spears's Guide to Semiconductor Physics
Honest. We're not kidding. This may be the only site where you can enter the mind of Lucky , a Britney song character, and vote on which semiconductor or telecommunications technology will fill the meaningless void in her angst-ridden adolescent life. (For what it's worth, perfection in the growth of high-quality GaInAsN is in the lead.)
And it is definitely the only site that mixes celebrity headshots and hairy equations in a unique melding of physique and physics. In the photo at right, for instance, Britney's neckline follows a parabolic function approximating the covalence band of electrons in a semiconductor, whereas other curves trace functions associated with the valence band. (The highest energy level in an atom that is still filled with electrons is, of course, the valence band, whereas the first unfilled level is the covalence band, involved in conductance.)
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