Category Archives: Misc
Laws of Thermodynamics
A long time ago, the running joke of the three laws of thermodynamics was introduced. They are the following: You cannot win. You cannot break even. You cannot get out of the game.
BOLT2
Congratulations to the entire BOLT2/NASA/AFRL hypersonics boundary layer transition flight-test team on their successful launch yesterday.
Dryden, Prandt, von Kármán, and Tsien
Psautier de St Louis, 1270
Combustion
Nobody knows what the energy of the future will be but it will involve combustion.
On Teaching Philosophy
You asked me how should I best teach them. Should I teach them from the point of view of the history of science the applications? My theory is that the best way to teach is to have no philosophy. We must be chaotic and confuse them in the sense that you use every possible way …