Complex systems can cause difficulty for students. When two different systems are connected together, there are some factors they share in common. Identifying these connections can make solving problems easier. This example problem has a complex system of two blocks connected by a massless string. Example Problem:Two blocks are connected […]
Daily Archives: August 17, 2014
August 17 is Walter Noddack’s birthday. Noddack was a German chemist who co-discovered the element rhenium. Noddack was investigating platinum ores with Ida Tacke, who would become Ida Tacke Noddack and Otto Berg. They had hoped to fill in some of the holes in the Periodic table, namely the missing […]