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Fermi Questions

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Just found this nice list of Fermi questions. According to this Science Olympics site, A "Fermi question" is a question in physics which seeks a fast, rough estimate of quantity which is either difficult or impossible to measure directly. Here's a nice question from the list: If the mass of one teaspoon ...

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Continuous Compound Interest

Saturday, November 11th, 2006

Long time no blogging! A lot has happened since my last post. I got married, was out on a honeymoon, left my job and returned to school to finish my degree. But now I'm back, so read on and enjoy! We were in the office a while back, and we started ...

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