WILLIAM J. BEATY
Research Engineer
HV/Electrostatics specialist, Lecturer, Sci. Exhibit Designer, Textbook Consultant, Amateur Physicist
Links
- Staff website at U. of Washington, and my page there
- Citations, goog scholar, also Researchgate and ORCID 0009-0005-2352-002X
- IMDB shows, recent articles, more about billb, also Site FAQ and
- How electricity really works (articles here)
- Various large Art devices, and some inventions
- Physics Sermon #49
- A 'shocking' career
- Various videos
- On physics misconceptions and 'nitpicking'
- Website FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
- Answering science questions at:
- Strong opinions on the Benefits of 'Pseudoscience'
- Websites: THE SCIENCE CLUB, SCIENCE HOBBYIST , TRAFFIC WAVES
- Photo
- Disturbed photo (gif)
Television
- IMDB listing
- WSJ 10/12/2016 "How one driver can prevent a traffic jam , (yt)
- yhbw "You Have Been Warned" Series 3 #7, Discovery UK, October Films (in process) , (IMDB)
- yhbw " You Have Been Warned" Series 2 #1 Kings of Carnage, Discovery UK, October Films, (youtube) , (IMDB)
- "William Shatner's Weird or What?" Season 2 #8 Electrical Powers, Cineflix Productions, (youtube) , (IMDB)
- "The Truth About Traffic" Discovery chan., Silent Crow Arts, 2009 (vimeo clips) , (IMDB)
- "Black Blizzard" History chan., Engel Entertainment 2008 (youtube) , (IMDB)
- "A Machine to Die For" Discovery.ca, Eliot Jarvis Productions 2003 (youtube) , (IMDB)
- NPA Conference 2010 no new Einsteins?
- Dark Side of Amateur Science 2001 Dallas
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Drawing Holograms by Hand SPIE 2003
, see Abrasion holography
Co-author papers
- Oblique Effect
- ALS disease
- vision psychophysics equp: response unit
- CITATIONS via google scholar
cv
- BSEE U. Rochester NY, 1980
- html version
- msWord .doc
Invited papers
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William J. Beaty 6632 Corson Ave S. Seattle, WA 98108 206-762-3818 |
At the moment I'm a Research Engineer on staff at the University of Washington in Seattle:
Computer Electronic Services, Chemistry Department
Box 351700
( Bagley Hall 74, U. of Washington)
Seattle, WA 98195-1700
Lat 47.6534, Long -122.3091
In the past I've spent time as an embedded
designer and software engineer, consulted on textbooks, lectured about
electricity education, designed science projects for kids, and built
physics exhibits while running the electronics dept. at the
Museum of Science in Boston.
Today I spend my free time running SCIENCE HOBBYIST, a large website for
amateur science and science education. You'll also find me hanging out on
the PHYS-L
physics education forum,
holding forth about various ways to
explain all things
electrical.
I was born in the US but I was raised on the island of Guam, which gave me a bit of an "outsider" viewpoint which I've carefully tried to preserve. And when you're in 3rd grade while both your parents are school teachers, it gives you a critical eye regarding the foibles of educators. I was bitten by the science bug at an early age and had fun with a chemistry set, but I soon discovered where the REAL magic was hidden: hobbyist electronics. Even more magical is the Black Art of electrostatics. And to search for traces of true magic in the sciences, nothing beats actual magic.