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I always thought that steel, bronze, and brass were metals. But that's the problem with vernacular language, it all depends on how you...

Pure metals? "Like that", like what? There is Galena (PbS), Pyrite (FeS2), Stibnite (Sb2S3) Plus more exotic metals...

Motivation is the first step in teaching. Students will only rarely learn and remember things that they don't think are interesting or...

Can you describe an empirical observation or experiment which would distinguish between an electron that actually "exist(s) in our...

Are you comfortable with long division using pencil and paper? My generation was taught how to do this. There is no problem in...

Yes, I do think it is possible that kids today don't need to learn the Riemann - Roch theorem. I don't think your birthdate is the issue...

Try speaking with faculty at your institution working in computational physics/chem/bio or applying ML to physical/chemical/biological...

- Cloning mammals. Dolly the sheep was a bit of a surprise. - Gene editing (CRISPR etc.). Still early days, but I doubt Watson, Crick...

All of the problems? No one does every exercise, do they? I'm pretty sure we did Goodman, Fourier Optics, cover to cover at school...

It may be easier to express the first two as $$ (1 - sN_i)(1 - c_i \lambda) + sN_i = 1 - c_i\lambda + sc_iN_i \lambda = 0.$$ Newton's...

OK, disclaimer... Native California guy here... So what? Today there were 8 M2.5 or bigger earthquakes in the US. M 2.5 is the smallest...

Golgi was Italian I believe. Besides discovering the Golgi Complex, Golgi came up with the Golgi stain which fills a subset of neurons...

Google says this: And I use "sunk" as a verb, like "the whale sunk the boat".

Maybe you need a psychiatrist instead of a psychologist. Many mental illnesses begin to manifest severe symptoms at around your age...

This was (is?) a significant human factors design issue with aircraft cockpit displays. In older or cheaper aircraft the gauges were...