Introduction
Fermi's Piano Tuner Problem
How Old is Old?
If the Terrestrial Poles were to Melt...
Sunlight Exerts Pressure
Falling Eastward
What if an Asteroid Hit the Earth
Using a Jeep to Estimate the Energy in Gasoline
How do Police Radars really work?
How "Fast" is the Speed of Light?
How Long is a Light Year?
How Big is a Trillion?
"Seeing" the Earth, Moon, and Sun to Scale
Of Stars and Drops of Water
If I Were to Build a Model of the Cosmos...
A Number Trick
Designing a High Altitude Balloon
Pressure in the Vicinity of a Lunar Astronaut Space Suit due to Outgassing of Coolant Water
Calendar Calculations
Telling Time by the Stars - Sidereal Time
Fields, an Heuristic Approach
The Irrationality of
The Number (i)i
Estimating the Temperature of a Flat Plate in Low Earth Orbit
Proving that (p)1/n is Irrational when p is a Prime and n>1
The Transcendentality of
Ideal Gases under Constant Volume, Constant Pressure, Constant Temperature and Adiabatic Conditions
Maxwell's Equations: The Vector and Scalar Potentials
A Possible Scalar Term Describing Energy Density in the Gravitational Field
A Proposed Relativistic, Thermodynamic Four-Vector
Motivational Argument for the Expression-eix=cosx+isinx
Problem: Compute the number (i)i where i = (-1)1/2 and state which type of number it is.
Solution:
This number is a real, transcendental number.