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DEvens reacted to Charles Link's post in the thread Undergrad Trigonometry problem of interest with
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See He has kind of a simple solution. Still no hidden symmetry, but he does have a good solution. His arithmetic is kind of simple... -
DEvens replied to the thread Is it possible for a vertical rod balancing on a table to lose contact by striking the top of the rod?.That's a pretty little problem. Yes, it is possible for the lower mass to lose contact with the table. The motion right after that is a...
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DEvens replied to the thread Bernoulli vs real life experiment.About lowering the internal pressure below atmospheric and "sucked in." There is a Star Trek reference. Riker: "You were right...
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DEvens replied to the thread Undergrad One does not “prove” the basic principles of Quantum Mechanics.There is a lot going on here. I think the quoted text is talking about the ideas of a Popper-like approach to science. But let me sneak...
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DEvens replied to the thread Physics Career Prospects (outside of academia).About physics in industry. I only know about the nuclear industry in Canada. There is some indications of new build in Canada. So it...
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DEvens replied to the thread Modeling a graph that shows age in relation to depth of an ice sample.I don't have Excel installed right now so I can't graph your data. But here's what I would do. Plot your data. Try to guess what a good...
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DEvens replied to the thread The Nuclear Power Thread.Is it the nuclear renaissance? Or is it just a flash? $1 Billion to restart Three Mile Island, at least partly because Microsoft has a...
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DEvens replied to the thread Foundations A rigorous approach to learn Mathematics.The word "rigorous" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. You should figure out which specific area of physics (or math or etc.) you...
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DEvens replied to the thread Insights What Exactly is Dirac’s Delta Function? - Insight.Oh, I didn't notice the insite article. How do I delete a posting?
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DEvens replied to the thread Still shocking students.Google search for physics questions. Might have been MCNP while I was learning it.
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This place seems to have a sponsor in the form of some PDF program. The adverts for it are obnoxious. They're inserted into threads and...
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DEvens replied to the thread How should 10 to be pronounced?.There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary and those who do not.
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Ansel Adams for sure! Alfred Stieglitz Dorothea Lange - some famous photographs of the Depression and Dust Bowl...
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DEvens reacted to berkeman's post in the thread Fusion research idea involving more pressure with Like.
Presumably you mean Magnetic Confinement reactors (Tokamaks and similar), and not Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) reactors. Magnetic...