Re: [Phys-l] physics lessons from wikipedia

[chuck britton <cvbritton@mac.com>]

This is one of the greatest things about the wikipedia.
It appears that several of the typo's have already been fixed.

As far as I can tell - this article is not (yet?) being moderated.
It can be modified by anyone who is willing to make it better.



At 5:01 AM -0700 3/11/10, John Denker wrote:
> Here's a snippet from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_equation :
>
> >  Suc waves are generated by a point surce, and they make possible
>  > sharp sinals Whose form is ltered only by a decreae in amplitude
> >  as r increases (see an illustration of a sperical wave on the top
> >  right). Such waves exist only in cases of space with odd dimensions.
> >  Fortunately, we live in a universe that has three space dimensions,
> >  so that we can communicate clearly with acoustic and electromagnetic
> >  waves.
>
> A remarkable conclusion.  I never knew that.
>
> Anybody care to comment?