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The Sovereign Child: 18,000 copies sold, free PDF!
Thanks to everyone who has bought, reviewed, and shared The Sovereign Child!
Jan 22
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MAGA Immigration: Ignoring Economics Isn’t ‘America First’
in the absence of the H1-B visa program, some tens or hundreds of thousands of Americans would have jobs, but hundreds of millions Americans would be…
Jan 9
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MAGA Immigration: Ignoring Economics Isn’t ‘America First’
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December 2024
Section II, Chapter Nine: Kinetic Energy, Potential Energy, and Work
Can our notion of work tell us anything interesting about classical physics that Newton’s laws of motion cannot?
Dec 6, 2024
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Section II, Chapter Nine: Kinetic Energy, Potential Energy, and Work
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Section II, Chapter Eight: Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation
Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation is an example of an inverse square law—the magnitude of the force due to gravity falls with the square of the…
Dec 1, 2024
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Section II, Chapter Eight: Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation
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November 2024
Section II, Chapter Seven: Acceleration, Force, and Momentum
But if we can apply Newtonian mechanics to each object independently, why bother considering the set of objects to be a system at all?
Nov 25, 2024
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Section II, Chapter Seven: Acceleration, Force, and Momentum
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October 2024
Section II, Chapter Six: Mathematical Interlude
Note—the mathematics of scalars, vectors, derivatives, and integrals are more general than this chapter suggests. I’m highlighting a few of the main…
Oct 27, 2024
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Section II, Chapter Six: Mathematical Interlude
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Section II, Chapter Five: The Culmination
At long last, humanity had a physical theory that could explain the motion of stars and rocks alike using a single mathematical and conceptual…
Oct 16, 2024
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Section II, Chapter Five: The Culmination
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Section II, Chapter Four: Inching Towards Universal Law
Astronomer Johannes Kepler’s (1571 - 1630) improvements to the Copernican model ultimately caused Newton to formulate his universal theory.
Oct 6, 2024
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Section II, Chapter Four: Inching Towards Universal Law
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September 2024
Relativists Are Not Heroes
The relativist is no highfalutin hero—he keeps evil on life support long past its expiration date.
Sep 15, 2024
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August 2024
Section II, Chapter Three: Galilean Invariants and Inertia
If the principle was to survive, something fundamental had to replace the apparently shapeshifting concepts of inertia and impetus.
Aug 26, 2024
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Section II, Chapter Three: Galilean Invariants and Inertia
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Section II, Chapter Two: Galileo's Tools
Abstracting away irrelevant details, experimentation as a means of ruling hypotheses out, mathematical analysis over qualitative description, and…
Aug 18, 2024
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Section II, Chapter Two: Galileo's Tools
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Section II, Chapter One: Copernicus, Heliocentrism, and New Modes of Criticism
Copernicus improved upon the prevailing theory even though data could not yet adjudicate between the two. He realized that (in)consistency with data was…
Aug 11, 2024
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Section II, Chapter One: Copernicus, Heliocentrism, and New Modes of Criticism
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