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	<title>King is sailing, they say &#187; Math</title>
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		<title>Physics Puzzler 1- Noah&#8217;s Flood</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The myth of the Flood of Noah, found in Genesis 6-9, presents many hypothetical physics problems.  Here is one I have never heard anyone consider:
The flood of Noah drowned the entire earth, and covered all the dry land.  Let&#8217;s assume this means it rained at least 9000 meters in order to cover Mount Everest.  The [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The myth of the Flood of Noah, found in Genesis 6-9, presents many hypothetical physics problems.  Here is one I have never heard anyone consider:</p>
<p>The flood of Noah drowned the entire earth, and covered all the dry land.  Let&#8217;s assume this means it rained at least 9000 meters in order to cover Mount Everest.  The atmospheric pressure at sea level before the flood matched our currect sea level, call it a pressure of 1 atmosphere.  Noah carried a brand new Vaisala weather station on board the ark.  When it finally stopped raining, Noah checked his atmospheric pressure. </p>
<p>What did the gauge read?</p>
<p>And as I used to explain to my old students, explain your reasoning and show all your work. </p>
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		<title>LaTeX Coding Test</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LaTeX is a typesetting system particularly well suited for documents of a mathematical persuasion. It’s used almost exclusively by many technical, scientific and mathematical disciplines both in academia and industry. Let us see if i can implement it here onto this poor neglected blogsite.
Nothing like a Schrodinger wave equation to breathe new life into a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LaTeX is a typesetting system particularly well suited for documents of a mathematical persuasion. It’s used almost exclusively by many technical, scientific and mathematical disciplines both in academia and industry. Let us see if i can implement it here onto this poor neglected blogsite.</p>
<p>Nothing like a Schrodinger wave equation to breathe new life into a suffering blogsite:</p>
<p>$latex i\hbar\frac{\partial}{\partial t}\left|\Psi(t)\right&gt;=H\left|\Psi(t)\right&gt;$</p>
<p>WoW!! Not bad!!</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s try a simple Gaussian function:</p>
<p>$latex G_{X,\sigma}(x) = \frac{1}{\sigma\sqrt{2\pi}}e^{\frac{(x-X)^{2}}{2\sigma^2}}$</p>
<p>how about a string of Greek letters:</p>
<p>$latex \alpha \beta \gamma \delta \epsilon \zeta \eta \theta \iota \kappa\lambda \mu \nu \xi \pi \rho \sigma \tau \upsilon \phi \chi \psi \omega $</p>
<p>I am not sure what it is questioning here.<br />
Test Greek mu: $latex \mu$<br />
nu: $latex \nu$<br />
upsilon: $latex \upsilon$<br />
phi: $latex \phi$<br />
omega: $latex \omega$</p>
<p>hmmm.. I&#8217;m not sure why it is giving me question marks. All the Greek letters are in place, so I am a little confused by that.</p>
<p>Now capital letters:<br />
$latex A B \Gamma \Delta E Z H \Theta I K \Lambda M N \Xi \Pi R \Sigma T \Upsilon \Phi X \Psi \Omega $</p>
<p>Very cool. So it looks like general equation writing with LaTeX is ok, but document writing is out. And I am not sure why it is not printing this last sentence out.</p>
<p>$latex \alpha \beta \gamma \delta \epsilon \zeta \eta \theta \iota \kappa\lambda \mu \nu \xi \pi \rho \sigma \tau \upsilon \phi \chi \psi \omega $</p>
<p>Cool, I think I have the Greek figured out. I am ready to start putting some of my favorite math puzzlers here.</p>
<p>Next week, a review of Inverse Fourier Transform Spectroscopy.  Stay toooned.</p>
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