(urth) "been teaching literature for over 35 years"

Gerry Quinn gerry at bindweed.com
Mon Sep 9 07:30:22 PDT 2013



From: Marc Aramini
> Curious Gerry, do you have an extensive physics background?  I have
>  a biochem degree and I really love math to the more concrete calculus
> but physics was always one of my least favorite fields. If I were writing
> something this is the kind of information I would certainly gloss over,
>  though of course half life and radioactive decay are familiar since I
> dealt with them all the time in chemistry.

No, my degree is in engineering, but I have always taken an interest in 
physics.

Half the battle in this sort of thing is developing the confidence to do 
calculations with big, approximate numbers!

- Gerry Quinn




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