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Re: physics without first-order approximation



At 06:12 PM 4/1/00 -0500, Chuck Britton wrote:

yeah, yeah I KNOW there are pathological math functions but do they
apply to any current physical phenomena?

I don't know if it deserves the name "pathological", but many physical
quantities have *no* Taylor expansion of any kind in powers of (T-Tc),
where Tc is the critical point.

http://www.nobel.se/laureates/physics-1982-press.html