Dec 12 2011
Thermo for Normals is a short book (~100 pages) I wrote that conveys the basics of thermodynamics without all of the mathematical complexity. Over the next year I will be posting 1 or 2 sections of the text per week. I don't know whether I will ever try to publish it in any other form, …
Dec 04 2011
Thermo for Normals is a short book (~100 pages) I wrote that conveys the basics of thermodynamics without all of the mathematical complexity. Over the next year I will be posting 1 or 2 sections of the text per week. I don't know whether I will ever try to publish it in any other form, …
Nov 25 2011
Thermo for Normals is a short book (~100 pages) I wrote that conveys the basics of thermodynamics without all of the mathematical complexity. Over the next year I will be posting 1 or 2 sections of the text per week. I don't know whether I will ever try to publish it in any other form, …
Mar 21 2010
During our most recent storm, I found myself victim of the surprisingly harsh Riverside wind. With my umbrella directly out front of me, pointing into the wind, I found I barely had enough strength to hold my position, so great was the force imparted by the wind. I got to thinking about just how strong …
Feb 15 2010
Introduction The most basic law of nature that I know of is about probabilities. If you flip a coin, we say that the probability of getting heads is 1/2. The probability of getting tails is the same. The probability of getting either heads or tails is the sum (1) Something has to happen, so the …
