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Related: Fermi's report on estimating yield by dropping small pieces of paper during a nuclear blast and measuring their displacement. http://www.dannen.com/de
by antman 6y ago
Related: Fermi's report on estimating yield by dropping small pieces of paper during a nuclear blast and measuring their displacement.
http://www.dannen.com/decision/fermi.html http://www.dannen.com/decision/fermi.html
- semi-extrinsic 6y agoAlso related: G.I. Taylor who developed the theory of blast waves to the point where he could estimate yield from photographs published in newspapers, and wrote papers that published the classified yield of the first US nuclear tests. Edit: His estimate was between 17 and 23 kilotons of TNT, the real yield was 22 kilotons. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.1950.0049 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.1950.004... https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.1950.0050 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.1950.005...
- qubex 6y agoThis remakrable achievement is often used as the setting-off point to explain dimensional analysis.
- jedimastert 6y ago> This remakrable achievement is often used as the setting-off point to explain dimensional analysis. I was always a fan of dimensional analysis as it tickled "puzzle solving" aspect of my lizard brain, but if it were introduced via nuclear blast analysis in my classes I bet it would have grabbed a lot more attention.
- ramshanker 6y agoThis reminded me of the quote "Any science well done, is as good as magic."