NO!! ... keep-on 'being sensitive'
Drook's summary [on imprecise explanations] is, IME among the best definitions of where 'useful simplicity' finally runs into simplistic,
thus next confusing for someone who really does want to learn (a topic.)
Your nit-picking, especially where [M] is part of an (any!) equation, could not be more appropriate: if the sucker wants to wave-[M]-away: an imprecation on the lines of..
If you want us to ignore mass, write your equation wherein it CANCELS-OUT, so that our grey-cells are not driven to seppuku via, does-not-compute!
is demanded. Innit?
(Mentioned before: my quip on a physics test re "Bohr's somewhat nebulous Cloud Theory of the electron.." (in context of a slightly-fuzzy exposition of The Question.)
The humorless note later: Is this a pun? demonstrates yet another irritation of the then; Teaching of ScienceÂ; even in big, $-rich Institutes:
the undergrads are oft (then: always) fed to impoverished Grad Student TAs whose minds are in the aforementioned Clouds, quite far from the guaranteed confusions of
[in Physics especially! Newton Poundals anyone?] --too fucking-many! different Standard Notation schemas, intermixed by lecturers willy-nilly.
as-if: all of us were raised with English as a second-language to physics taxonomy.
Ah well, pedagogy is perhaps the least-comprehended topic of All Time, but big Institutions seem to spend very-few-$$$ focussing directly on that Black Hole.
(As you know, the first Feynman Lectures utterly snowed the Frosh/Sophs ... and some Seniors. And He was Mr. Clarity! We Are Doomed.)
..Seeks seppuku via Owsley-acid + some methyl-benzoyl-ecgonine + diacetyl-morphine:
(the Scientific 7% Solution?)
Ed: annotate
Kant above cant
Carlin above Friedman
Robespierre punishing Cheney
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grand Inquisitor's Xmas List? . . . . . .
Edited by
Ashton
Dec. 22, 2013, 08:01:40 PM EST
NO!! ... keep-on 'being sensitive'
Drook's summary is, IME among the best definitions of where 'useful simplicity' finally runs into simplistic, thus next confusing for someone who really does want to learn (a topic.)
Your nit-picking, especially where [M] is part of an (any!) equation, could not be more appropriate: if the sucker wants to wave-[M]-away: an imprecation on the lines of..
If you want us to ignore mass, write your equation wherein it CANCELS-OUT, so that our grey-cells are not driven to seppuku via, does-not-compute!
is demanded. Innit?
(Mentioned before: my quip on a physics test re "Bohr's somewhat nebulous Cloud Theory of the electron.." (in context of a slightly-fuzzy exposition of The Question.)
The humorless note later: Is this a pun? demonstrates yet another irritation of the then; Teaching of ScienceÂ; even in big, $-rich Institutes:
the undergrads are oft (then: always) fed to impoverished Grad Student TAs whose minds are in the aforementioned Clouds, quite far from the guaranteed confusions of
[in Physics especially! Newton Poundals anyone?] --too fucking-many! different Standard Notation schemas, intermixed by lecturers willy-nilly.
as-if: all of us were raised with English as a second-language to physics taxonomy.
Ah well, pedagogy is perhaps the least-comprehended topic of All Time, but big Institutions seem to spend very-few-$$$ focussing directly on that Black Hole.
(As you know, the first Feynman Lectures utterly snowed the Frosh/Sophs ... and some Seniors. And He was Mr. Clarity! We Are Doomed.)
..Seeks seppuku via Owsley-acid + some methyl-benzoyl-ecgonine + diacetyl-morphine:
(the Scientific 7% Solution?)
Kant above cant
Carlin above Friedman
Robespierre punishing Cheney
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grand Inquisitor's Xmas List? . . . . . .