I've heard the phrase, “It's too cold to set the charge!” for as long as I've been in the trade. “We need to come back and set the charge,” or we need to come back to do XYZ [some other thing]. Granted, there are cases where you do actually need to come back, but in […]

MATLAB Handle Graphics It was December 5th, 1952, only seven years after the end of WWII in London, England, when the “great smog” settled across the city. The “great smog” was the result of a meteorological anomaly combined with unchecked industrial pollution. Still, even once it settled on the city, bringing business to a screeching […]

  The second law of thermodynamics puts the first law into context and establishes entropy as a concept. We can simply define entropy as a state of disorder that can only increase or remain the same in natural processes. Processes in which entropy remains the same are reversible, but ones that result in an entropy […]