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Thinking about Science with David Hukins

Understanding science NOT learning "facts".

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

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Apr 2023 3
May 2023 2
Jun 2023 1
Jul 2023 0
Aug 2023 0
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Mar 2024 2
Apr 2024 1
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Jun 2024 1
Jul 2024 0
Aug 2024 1
Sep 2024 2
Oct 2024 0

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Most recent posts

24.9 Organic chemistry and biochemistry
This post is about how organic chemistry and biochemistry got their names. The Swedish chemist Jöns Berzelius (1807-1882) appears to have introduced the name “organic chemistry” for the study of molecules derived from living things. …
On , by David Hukins, 689 words
24.8 Passive damping – bathroom scales
You step on your bathroom scales to find your body mass. The idea is that gravity acts on your mass to exert a force that depresses a platform. The depression of the platform depends on …
On , by David Hukins, 1,448 words
24.7 Driven oscillator
Before you read this, I suggest you read posts 24.5 and 24.6. In post 21.1 we saw that an electrical circuit that consists only of a capacitor discharging through an inductor is a simple harmonic …
On , by David Hukins, 835 words