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Thinking about Science with David Hukins

Understanding science NOT learning "facts".

  • By David Hukins
  • Based in France
  • Roughly six posts per year
  • First post on

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Mar 2023 3
Apr 2023 3
May 2023 2
Jun 2023 1
Jul 2023 0
Aug 2023 0
Sep 2023 0
Oct 2023 0
Nov 2023 0
Dec 2023 0
Jan 2024 0
Feb 2024 0
Mar 2024 2
Apr 2024 1
May 2024 2
Jun 2024 1
Jul 2024 0

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Most recent posts

24.6 Damped simple harmonic oscillator
Before your read this, I suggest you read post 24.5. In post 24.5, we saw that the displacement, x, of a damped simple harmonic oscillator is given by equation 1. Here t represents time, dx/dt …
On , by David Hukins, 845 words
24.5 Linear second-order systems
In post 18.24 we saw that we could represent the displacement, x, of a mechanical system subjected to a time-dependent force, F by equation 1a. We also saw that the charge, Q, in an electrical …
On , by David Hukins, 885 words
24.4 Logistic difference equation: self-controlled growth and chaos
In post 24.3 we explored a model of how a population could control itself. This model was based on a differential equation – the most common way to describe how things change with time. This …
On , by David Hukins, 1,394 words