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 Topic: Kepler's 2nd |
jonk
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 Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 2:30 pm Subject: Kepler's 2nd |
| Now, if you think about the above a little, and in particular consider the case where the force/acceleration due to gravity is zero and a particle simply follows a line at a constant velocity, and if ... |
| Topic: Your curent computer specs! |
jonk
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 2:04 pm Subject: Your curent computer specs! |
| I have something similarly slow and the only thing, which slows it down to a crawl is Lyx - but then, it maybe was a bad idea to put a modern word processor (or document processor, for the nitpickers ... |
| Topic: Kepler's 2nd |
jonk
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:37 am Subject: Kepler's 2nd |
| Okay. So here is a slight modification of the orbit. Again, the ellipse isn't necessary. It could be a corkscrew, for all I care. It's just there because it sometimes helps to think that way, but ... |
| Topic: Kepler's 2nd |
jonk
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 3:53 am Subject: Kepler's 2nd |
I'm with you, I just ducked out of sight for a day or two to work on some assignments.
So, the "infinitesimal analysis" point of view isn't necessarily one that's widely seen. Personally, I would h ... |
| Topic: Kepler's 2nd |
jonk
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:19 pm Subject: Kepler's 2nd |
| I hope I'm not losing lau and wolphin on this. This is what I meant when I talked about the use of infinitesimals in a context that is just slightly different that the usual exposition found and I th ... |
| Topic: Kepler's 2nd |
jonk
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 6:00 pm Subject: Kepler's 2nd |
| Okay. I guess I'll take it slower. Let's just make sure that the first derivative steps are laid out and understood. If we can agree that far, I'll go through the 2nd derivative in painstaking deta ... |
| Topic: Your curent computer specs! |
jonk
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:23 pm Subject: Your curent computer specs! |
Sounds really neat!
Having ISA slots is really nice. The machine really isn't all that slow, either. I do a lot of work on the machine and it always works well and quickly. It's in the case of mod ... |
| Topic: Not getting jokes |
jonk
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:45 am Subject: Re: Not getting jokes |
| i have read in several places that autistic people often do not realise people are joking & take what people say literally. this is true for me in some cases, but i have also noticed that on the o ... |
| Topic: Date gift |
jonk
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Forum: Love and Dating Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:41 am Subject: Date gift |
Try and make a good impression with yourself alone.
That seems wise.
Jon |
| Topic: Amorous dolphin targeting swimmers |
jonk
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Forum: News and Current Events Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:39 am Subject: Amorous dolphin targeting swimmers |
| It's an old story. Lots of male dolphins have behaved that way and been reported from time to time in the news. I think the first time I heard about such things was more then 35 years ago, and it wa ... |
| Topic: Date gift |
jonk
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Forum: Love and Dating Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:27 am Subject: Date gift |
Something that represents you is another option. What is it that is a piece of who you are?
It might be a book I really enjoyed and is about a subject I care a lot about, for example, if there is ... |
| Topic: Global environment science -- learn or debate? |
jonk
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:13 am Subject: Global environment science -- learn or debate? |
Evolution works quite rapidly, I disagree. Mutations can happen quite rapidly but evolution takes more than one generation.
Well, that is a strawman as that wasn't what I was saying. It would obviou ... |
| Topic: Kepler's 2nd |
jonk
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:39 am Subject: Kepler's 2nd |
I thought I'd start here and suggest these things about Euclidean geometries (and in local regions of manifolds where such geometries roughly hold):
The specific area swept per unit time, in the pres ... |
| Topic: Global environment science -- learn or debate? |
jonk
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 4:50 am Subject: Global environment science -- learn or debate? |
The only way we can preserve and nurture other and more precious freedoms is by relinquishing the freedom to breed..."
Educated women are less likely to have large families. Educating women throughou ... |
| Topic: Global environment science -- learn or debate? |
jonk
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 4:08 am Subject: Global environment science -- learn or debate? |
| Othila, if you get a chance, see about fixing up the quoting a bit. I think, at the end, that you have my words placed as your voice, in fact. And nothing after that, which makes me curious if you h ... |
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