The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them
Thursday, September 22, 2011
An introduction to dimensional analysis
This is a nice article giving a brief account of dimensional analysis, which is an extremely powerful tool for scientists. Still, many postgraduates don't know how to use it !
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