Thinking about Science with David Hukins
Understanding science NOT learning "facts".
- By David Hukins
- Based in France
- Roughly seven posts per year
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Most recent posts
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 …
Before you read this, I suggest you read post 18.15. In post 22.17 we saw the effect of predators on the population of a species: the example I used was the natural control of a …
In post 23.4, we saw that the interpretation of x-ray diffraction patterns from crystals involves a temperature factor because atoms are displaced from their ideal lattice points by thermal vibrations. We have seen that heat …