PHYS 3102
Spring semester 2026
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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

  • 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 , 2023

Order-of-magnitude physics

  • Francis Nimmo (UC Santa Cruz), Order-of-Magnitude Estimation

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

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

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