Other Topics Index

General Topics

Miscellaneous fun stuff

Crazy Theories

Teena, The Sun and Shadows

  1. Teena Meets The Eclipses
  2. Shadow Play
  3. Space Potatoes

Miscellaneous but not quite as much fun

Metaphor

  1. Math Poetry
  2. Making Things Simpler
  3. Wait For It
  4. Chocolate, Mint And Notation

Math (or Maths, if you prefer)

Dimensions

  1. What’s 4-D?
  2. Twirling in 4-Space
  3. Klein’s Thingy
  4. To Infini-D And Beyond
  5. You Ain’t From Around Here, Are You?
  6. Tiny Dimensions
  7. And Now For Some Completely Different Dimensions
  8. Calvin And Hobbes And i
  9. Is Cyber Warfare Imaginary?
  10. Thinking in Spacetime
  11. Hyperbolas But Not Hyperbole

Complex numbers

  1. A Complex Question
  2. … With Imaginary Answers
  3. Why Physics Is Complex

Logs and Exponentials

  1. Log-rhythmic gymnastics
  2. Powers to The People
  3. A Log by Any Other Name

The Logistic Curve

  1. The Curve To Be Flattened
  2. Flattening The Curve

The Hysterical Penguin (various effects of hysteresis)

  1. Hysteria
  2. The Hysterical Penguin
  3. The Tale of A Nail
  4. Elephant and Pengy
  5. Hysteresis Everywhere
  6. The Latte Connection
  7. The Edge of Pinkness
  8. Getting Over The Hill

Spherical Harmonics

  1. Zoning Out Over Jupiter
  2. Screaming Out Of Space
  3. A Pencil In Space
  4. Sectorial Setbacks
  5. Completing The Triad
  6. A Loose-end Lagniappe
  7. Shapes And Numbers
  8. Jupiter And The Atoms
  9. A Spherical Bandstand

Symmetry

  1. Three Ways to Get Dizzy
  2. Edged Things and Smooth Things
  3. Deep Symmetry
  4. Symmetrical Eavesdropping
  5. The Gelato Model
  6. Reflection, Rotation And Spacetime
  7. Symmetry And The Loopholes
  8. A Carefully Plotted Tale

Math And Physics Poetry

  1. Math Poetry
  2. Making Things Simpler
  3. Wait For It
  4. Chocolate, Mint And Notation

Computer Science

Space Travel

Lightsail 2

  1. Sail On, Silver Bird
  2. Fly High, Silver Bird

Rocket Science (No, Really)

  1. The Cold Equation
  2. Carefully Considered Indirection
  3. Not Too Fast, Not Too Slow
  4. Climbing Out Of A Well
  5. The Frame Game
  6. Soggy Euclid

Chemistry

Snow

  1. The Sight And Sound of Snow
  2. A Deeper Dive into Snow
  3. Snowflakes

High-pressure Chemistry

  1. Diamonds in The Tough
  2. Futile? Nope, Just Zero
  3. Only H2 In A Gilded Cage

The Methane Story

  1. Going from Worse to Bad
  2. It’s A Trap!
  3. The Venetian Blind Problem
  4. Candle, Candle, Burning Bright
  5. Save The Whales, Burn Turpentine

Molecule Counting

  1. It’s The Heat AND The Humidity
  2. The Threshold of Stuffiness

Gases

  1. A Fleeting Shadowed Sky
  2. The Ideal Gas Game

Hyperlinks to specific topic headings…

  1. General Topics
    1. Miscellaneous fun stuff
    2. Crazy Theories
    3. Teena, The Sun and Shadows
    4. Miscellaneous but not quite as much fun
    5. Metaphor
  2. Math (or Maths, if you prefer)
    1. Dimensions
    2. Complex numbers
    3. Logs and Exponentials
      1. The Logistic Curve
    4. The Hysterical Penguin (various effects of hysteresis)
    5. Spherical Harmonics
    6. Symmetry
    7. Math And Physics Poetry
  3. Computer Science
  4. Space Travel
    1. Lightsail 2
    2. Rocket Science (No, Really)
  5. Chemistry
    1. Snow
    2. High-pressure Chemistry
    3. The Methane Story
    4. Molecule Counting
    5. Gases