How Physicists Get Started Thinking About New Phenomena: 2025

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25-03-3dimensionalSCommons.pdf (1.26 MB)
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dimensional analysis
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2025
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Dimensional reasoning is a general-purpose tool to organize physical ideas, catch clerical errors, and even generate physical hypotheses. The presentation outlines high points of dimensional reasoning, starting at high school level and moving up from there.

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2025-04-12
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