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Beyond the Tidal Bulge

Overview That there is no tidal bulge is the key premise of this article. Upper-level oceanography undergraduates and above know this. Yet the tidal bulge is still used to portray why the Moon is receding the Earth. If there is no tidal bulge, some other explanation is in order. That other explanation uses gravitation as…

Why Your Software is Never Perfect

We occasionally have students ask for help on software, “My software is perfect, but it doesn’t work!” Your software is never perfect. My software is never perfect. I recently found that I made someone’s top ten list of software that I had written 37 years ago. It’s not a top ten list anyone would aspire…