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berkeman reacted to Baluncore's post in the thread Undergrad Capacitor Voltages at t = 0: Zero or Split? with
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Welcome to PF. An impossible situation has been hypothesised. If V1 is an instant step function, then it must instantly charge the two... -
berkeman replied to the thread Are Recent Students All Google Crazy?.:oops:
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When I was a grad student teaching assistant in the early 1990's, I assigned a design problem for the gears and bearings class. The...
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Robert, Condolences to you and your family Yes, he did have a wonderful effect on people in this forum. 😍 I am going to miss the...
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berkeman reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread Why Are You Still Here? A Curious Question with Like.
One more reason: Procrastination. I come out to my Dave Cave on the pretense of getting some writing done (and smoking a stogie) in my...
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berkeman reacted to OmCheeto's post in the thread Why Are You Still Here? A Curious Question with Like.
Ditto! And where did being told I was a genius get me? Lugging gallon jugs of urine down endless halls of a university hospital. That's...
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berkeman reacted to Baluncore's post in the thread Why Are You Still Here? A Curious Question with Like.
We cannot take our hard-won knowledge with us when we go, so we entrust it to PF, to pass on. We leave it here so google can index it...
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berkeman reacted to DaveE's post in the thread Why must residential electrical systems be connected to Earth (soil)? with Like.
Also, note that isolation transformers aren't just your run of mill transformer. They will (should) have appropriate construction with...
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berkeman reacted to DaveE's post in the thread Why must residential electrical systems be connected to Earth (soil)? with
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google, dude. It works great... https://staleyelectric.com/understanding-electrical-grounding-and-how-it-works/... -
It comes down to the two different meanings of the term "vector", which in computing, can refer to both a 1D array of many elements, or...
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239 families would like closure, Airline would like to know what went wriong and how they can mitigate it, Airline would like to be able...
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Thank you very much for the suggestion. I will go through these. It's been very touching seeing the effect he had on this community by...
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Parachutes don't give you precision, so you can only do an ocean splashdown. That's bad for the engines, and the corrosive salt water is...
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berkeman reacted to PeroK's post in the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life with Like.
Another point I would make is that saying that the observable universe is "teeming with life" is not a very useful conclusion. If, say...
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berkeman replied to the thread Collection of Lame Jokes.
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