PHYS 2400
Spring semester 2025
  • Syllabus
  • Calendar
    • HW01
    • HW02
    • HW03
    • HW04
    • HW05
    • HW06
    • HW07
    • HW08
    • HW09
    • Homework guidelines
    • Homework grades
  • Downloads
    • Midterm 1
    • Midterm 2
    • Midterm 3
    • Exam grades
  • HuskyCT

Dimensional Analysis

  • Peter Goldreich, Sanjoy Mahajan, and Sterl Phinney (California Institute of Technology), Order-of-Magnitude Physics: Understanding the World with Dimensional Analysis, Educated Guesswork, and White Lies , 1999

  • E. van Groesen and Jaap Molenaar, Dimensional Analysis and Scaling , Continuum Modeling in the Physical Sciences, Ch. 1, 2007

  • J. David Logan, Dimensional Analysis , Applied Mathematics, Ch. 1, 2013

  • Ain A. Sonin (MIT), The Physical Basis of Dimensional Analysis , 2001

  • David Dureisseix (INSA Lyon), An introduction to dimensional analysis , 2016

Order-of-magnitude physics

  • Patrick Chuang and Francis Nimmo (UC Santa Cruz), Order-of-Magnitude Estimation , 2016

  • Linda Strubb, Order-of-Magnitude Problem Solving , 2014

  • Eugene Chiang (UC Berkeley) Order-of-magnitude physics , 2014

    Also see Order-of-Magnitude Physics: Hand-Waving as Performance Art

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\[ \begin{align*} \Gamma (1 \! - \! z) \, \Gamma (z) & ={\pi \over \sin(\pi z)} \\ \Gamma (z) \Gamma \left(z \! + \! \tfrac{1}{2} \right) & = 2^{1-2z} {\sqrt {\pi }}\;\Gamma (2z) \\ \oint_{C} f(z) \, {\mathrm d}z & = 2 \pi i \sum_k \operatorname{Res}(f, a_k) \end{align*} \]

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Resources

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  2. Classical mechanics
  3. Dimensional analysis
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