(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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