Professor E. Brian Davies’s Mathematical Empiricism This commentary is on the relevant parts of Davies’s book, Science in the Looking Glass. The following is not a book review.
Geometrical Beauty: The Properties of the Tautochrone Curve When a Sliding Bead at Rest Reaches Its Minimum Independently of Its Where It Started
What, Exactly, is Entropy? Entropy is a bit of a buzzword in modern science. Usually it is used as a synonym for “disorder,” but it is so much more interesting than that.
Finding the Shape of the Surface of Water Rotating in a Bucket A Simple Application of the Basics of Newtonian Physics in Accelerated Reference Frames
The Genius of Isaac Newton A Modern Derivation of Newton’s Revolutionary Proof of the Inverse-Square Law