Re: HOT FUSION

[Ludwik Kowalski <kowalskil@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU>]

On Monday, Feb 16, 2004, Bernard Cleyet wrote:

> Panzers to L.!
> How did you do it?
> bc who found the evil =3D20 's in the most confusing places.

1) I do not know. What seems to be working fine
     sometimes does not work on other occasions.
     It is too bad that Phys-L is on an archaic server.
     It would be great to have it on a server accepting
     the rtf format and allowing other conveniences.

2) Back to the subject of this thread. Those who do
     not want to deal with the concept of screening
     in condensed matter might ask students "why do
     fusion reactions in ionized gasses occur at stellar
     temperatures only?" This will naturally lead to two
     interesting topics outside electrostatics: the QM
     tunneling and the Maxwellian distribution of kinetic
     energies of ions at various temperatures. Students
     love digressions but one must make sure that the
     main topic is electrostatics.

     Too many digressions may interfere with learning
     along a chosen track, as most of us know.
Ludwik Kowalski