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Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar
Dimensional Analysis: Can a trick to help physics students pass exams provide insight into the Nature of the Universe?
Date: Tuesday, December 13th
Time: 12:05 pm
Place: 4274 Chamberlin
Speaker: Jim Blair, Milton and Edgewood College
Abstract: 1- Equations, Units and Dimensions 2- The Fundamentals: Mass, Length and Time. (and the Derived: all the others.) 3- Some Anomalies: Fractional Exponents? Different things with the Same Dimensions? The same things with Different Dimensions? 4- Add Charge, Temperature and Angle to the Fundamentals to resolve the anomalies (But the units are arbitrary and not explainable to Aliens.) 5- Change the Fundamentals to Angle, Charge, Mass, Velocity, Action, and Entropy, and make a unit system that Everyone can understand. (even Bug Eyed Monsters and Little Green Men all over the Universe) 6- Another way to look at the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
Host: Sprott
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