论文标题
乐高的可视化和测量质量功能
The Visualization and Measurements of Mass Functions with LEGO
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论文摘要
我们打算促进跨学科科学教育和交流的群众职能概念。质量函数表征了宇宙中对象质量的频率分布。我们提出了一个实验,向多样化的科学专业学生(使用流行的乐高玩具)展示了这一概念。我们发现,与天文对象(例如恒星和星系)的质量功能相比,乐高质量功能令人惊讶地相似。
We intend to promote the concept of mass functions for interdisciplinary science education and communication. A mass function characterizes the frequency distribution of the masses of objects in the universe. We present an experiment to demonstrate this concept to a diverse audience of science students, using popular LEGO toys. We discovered that the LEGO mass function is surprisingly similar compared to mass functions of astronomical objects such as stars and galaxies.