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To: SBeck
Equations I remember...

E=MC^2

KE=1/2MV^2

Pv=nRT

A=PiR^2 (But no, Pi R Round)

There are some cool astronomical ones involving gravity that I can't recall, also; G=m something. Newtonian stuff, very elegant. Also the aerodynamics equations for lift & drag are remarkably simple also IIRC. Thermodynamics has some great ones too.

The most incredible stuff I remember involves the application of natural and base 10 Logarithms, and how well Calculus can describe the physical world. I don't understand it, but it works.

8 posted on 03/26/2002 10:13:29 AM PST by xsrdx
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To: xsrdx
Nice to see, as I toil through a hypsometric equation, that someone remembers the gas laws.
9 posted on 03/26/2002 10:30:42 AM PST by SBeck
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To: xsrdx
Is anyone else troubled by the fact that the beautiful equations for gravity, relativity, etc. are just approximations (relativity falls apart at the atomic level). And the really great numbers are irrational?
11 posted on 03/26/2002 10:51:54 AM PST by js1138
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