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    Is it common to have dimensionally wrong equations in physics?

    You're correct to make a slight difference between a fundamental constant (which is always a constant) and a constant parameter (which is a constant for your study). It's obvious that you can only "drop" terms that are constant (as you have to assign them a numerical value when doing that)...
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    Is it common to have dimensionally wrong equations in physics?

    Hi. Here i am not talking about a basic physics equations, but a research paper (so if someone with good and broad knowledge of the scientific literature can answer, that would be nice). The case I want to discuss is the very specific one given in the research paper in the first message i.e. a...
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    Is it common to have dimensionally wrong equations in physics?

    Exactly. Ok. So you do agree that what they have done in this paper is common practice in any kind of research paper, right ? I know that 99% percent of theoretical physics paper are written this way as they all drop c, h,... you just have to keep track of them as authors always say what...
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    Is it common to have dimensionally wrong equations in physics?

    Hi, I have two very specific questions. I was trying to read this paper : http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/looknorthyorkslincs/sun_climate_connection.pdf and i noticed that equation 3 and equation A6 were different : Eq3 : L(t)=Q(t)/£(t) (not dimensionally correct) and Eq A6 ...
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