Tag: 3
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Bumblebees and Ellipsoids (Poinsot’s Paper Spaceship #3)
In the movie Ice Age, Manny the Mammoth says he is not fat – just poofy! It is just the fur! I feel the same must be true for bumblebees – they are fluffy, but not really fat! And yes, these were the things going through my mind, when I created this geometric drawing: A…
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Circles to Circles #3. Using the Invisible Simple Box
When you do your geometry homework, everything fits nicely on a sheet of standard paper. Problems have been carefully designed to make this happen! I had never appreciated this – until I created my own geometry challenges. Either the different views were overlapping too much or interesting features were pushed beyond the edges of the…
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Electron Blues
a specific reducing agentmay change without notice progressively less time on the progressively more distantaccumulation of electrons electromagnetic round lensesthe existence of which had earlier been doubted three electron donors were interacting withstructures known for polyanions An electron transporting bluethe other orbitals being far away these terms describe the same concepta situation which requires a…
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Mastering Geometry is a Lost Art
I am trying to learn Quantum Field Theory the hard way: Alone and from textbooks. But there is something harder than the abstract math of advanced quantum physics: You can aim at comprehending ancient texts on physics. If you are an accomplished physicist, chemist or engineer – try to understand Sadi Carnot’s reasoning that was…
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Spam Poets Write Weird Things
The title has been provided by this blog’s visitors, I guess licensed as Creative Commons. It has been a month since I have posted the last search term poem – here we go again! This time I don’t break my own rules – despite of having quoted two intriguing search terms here. But since this…