2 papers
cond-mat.stat-mech2005
Brownian motion and magnetism
Supurna Sinha, Joseph Samuel
We present an interesting connection between Brownian motion and magnetism. We use this to determine the distribution of areas enclosed by the path of a particle diffusing on a sph…
physics.ed-ph2005
Of Connections and Fields
Joseph Samuel
We describe some instances of the appearance of Chern's mathematical ideas in physics. By means of simple examples, we bring out the geometric and topological ideas which have foun…