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Talking Physics
Personal blog · talkingphysics.wordpress.comsciencewriting
Talking Physics is a personal blog at talkingphysics.wordpress.com about science and writing. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a Manim tutorial with worked examples, which the Manim README points to, and for an order-of-magnitude physics post on how tall a mountain a planet can support.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A conversation about teaching and learning physics
Most-linked posts?
- /2019/01/08/getting-started-animating-with-manim-and-python-3-7/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-22
What Hacker News says?
The github readme points to a tutorial here: https://talkingphysics.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/getting-star...
Comment linking /2019/01/08/getting-started-animating-with-manim-and-python-3-7/
on “Manim – 3Blue1Brown's animation engine for explanatory math videos”In the tutorial linked in the README, there are many examples with output: https://talkingphysics.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/getting-star...
Comment linking /2019/01/08/getting-started-animating-with-manim-and-python-3-7/
on “Manim – 3Blue1Brown's animation engine for explanatory math videos”A classic question in Order of Magnitude Physics classes is to calculate the maximum height of a mountain that a planet can support. There are a couple of solutions to this around the internet [1--2], but the main result is that the maximum height is inversely proportional to the surface gravity. At constant density, the surface gravity, in turn, is proportional to radius. So the maximum height of a mountain is inve…
Comment linking /2011/09/08/how-high-can-mountains-be/
on “Alien Worlds Might Be Covered in Enormous Mountains”