Poll: Have you heard of Dalton’s law and the principle of partial pressure? If so, where/when did you learn it?
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I feel like PV = nRT (pronounced pivnert, obviously) comes up in my daily life way more than I would have thought, and it's got to be in that 90% as well
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Yeah I don’t think you can casually drop that into a conversation and expect to be understood. But the underlying intuitions should be available to all (balloons, boiling kettles, pressure cookers...)
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Newton’s law of cooling is another with practical household implications which not too many people know
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I made it to AP Physics in HS but took NO chemistry. Also no chem in college for Elem. teaching degree.
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like, say, how exponents work or the geologic time scale
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There is a STEM way of thinking that is a bit foreign to the arts and commerce graduates. We realised this when I married
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Wanted to use it as a metaphor for a piece. Didn’t realize it was that obscure.
I think I learned it in 8th grade by which time I think STEM kids were already on a separate track. For the curious ones: