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The captain should be. He is responsible for the safety of the crew, ship, and cargo. The ship maintains a log of pertinent information regarding the ship and its voyage. Regulations for maintaining a log are summarized in...

Exactly. Was DALI's captain under pressure to get going to keep a schedule? Many professions are taught to serve one master but real life gives them another. They often have to make a choice and take the consequences for not choosing the first. Let's not leave out the ship's engineer who fixed...

Anyone who has worked in any enterprise knows that not all rules are followed. Most of the time these lapses have no effect or serious effect except perhaps a fine or citation by a regulatory or certification authority. But serious effects do happen and often are very costly in life, property...

That would depend on the importance of the problem relative to the mission and safety of the ship and crew. Your magnet was a new piece of equipment. Ships' electrical and mechanical systems are decades old and have accumulated a lot of information to make checklists reliable. If you haven't...

@kvidtr at that altitude aren't high-energy muons and pions still plentiful? Since you cannot distinguish them from gamma rays both detectors would register them. The decay products of muon and pion are electrons and positrons of a very high energy also which would easily penetrate both...

I assume by academia you mean graduate school. If you made learning an end goal then you have the wrong motivation. That spark that you mentioned is what lights the fire that burns inside of you to find out what has yet to be learned. Academia as a career is not a nine-to-five commitment...

The charge on the capacitor drives the current through the inductor until the charge has been transferred to the other side of the capacitor. The inductor's back emf resists the initial surge from the capacitor but the charge on the capacitor continues to flow building up to a maximum while...

Keep up the good work and return at your senior year's beginning. You will show us if you are on the trajectory you had forecast and presumably, you will have narrowed your area of interest.

From the Newsweek article:

More research is confirming that taking handwritten notes improves learning. The discussion of this research appeared in https://www.newsweek.com/neuroscientists-reveal-trick-help-study-1863968.

Patience. Believe in yourself. You are still developing. Concentrate on your own work, effort, and accomplishments Set reachable goals to build confidence. You have a lot of time to develop your skills before you need to prove yourself to others. Be satisfied with your accomplishments...

Sometimes you see a news article that grabs your attention mainly because it makes a statement where you say wait, what? “I don’t get it.” Much of these are political, but luckily, there are still some left for this thread I read an article about the FDA’s having different regulations for red...

I did not intend to sound sarcastic. I did not know if Edison was bad at math in the vernacular sense or how he felt about it until a few minutes ago. As a student, he tried to read Newton's Principia but it left him with “a distaste for mathematics from which I never recovered.” So he hired...

Being clever comes to mind. No math needed. Think along the line of Edison.

Just to restate which was talked around. What is meant to be bad? When someone says that to me it means they have difficulty understanding how to use math usually in relatively simple situations. This is not true of physicists. We know Einstein was good at university math. When he...