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Originally Posted by steve meltzer
By the numbers, it was just sl > 40 gallons....that's a big tank, not sure they even offer that anymore. (Their website says the upgrade to 30 gallons is $2255!).
Yeah calculus and quantum mechanics aren't particularly useful in my day-to-day living, but...our most recently adopted cat has been named Schrödinger after the famous Austrian physicist's cat "thought" experiment. I do remember hearing about him and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, tho' I was never certain i really understood. Gotta "B" in that class and was ecstatic. In case you just can't stand it and are bored...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger%27s_cat
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We had to read Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland. I had a copy of Mr Tompkins in Paperback (combines Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland, Mr Tompkins Explores the Atom in one volume) but I can't find it and I think my wife donated it to goodwill.
There was a calculus problem that I remember that goes like this: You're driving to a destination, and your speed is such that you are always one hour away. That is, at 100 miles away you are driving 100 mph, at 60 miles, 60mph, 30 miles @ 30mph. How long does it take to get there?
Heisenberg applied to the stuff I did on serial interfaces. As the speeds got higher, instrumentation attached to the system definitely affected the way it operated. The last scope I bought that didn't screw things up cost nearly 750K.