part 2:

estimating solid surface energy:

3blue1brown is arguably the math GOAT on youtube. He covers a wide variety of topics in an accessible manner but his video on the Fourier Transform is one of my favorites. Going through it step by step visually makes it loads easier to understand how it all works.

!math

https://www.reddit.com/r/FighterJets/s/14WwIjeWwB

Really cool simulator with a neat story about it on the burnt umber websight: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38515435

How bizarre! Me and a colleague ( who's still a good friend ) wrote this in like, 2012-2013! Well, more accurately we ported this from a older Delphi/Pascal program that was using raw OpenGL calls ( a legitimately very impressive bit of code for what it was written in ) into WebGL ( a relatively new piece of technology at the time )

The primary reason for porting this to a modern platform was ( as far as I understood ) so that it could be run on interactive events for schools and such. It's definitely more optimised for fun than realism. I remember a few good memories of various people who were actually nuclear engineers complaining that realistically the demand would never change that fast on any commercial nuclear power plant!