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While I appreciate the knowledge I gained from my calculus and physics classes, none of these courses developed my skills in premier leadership, personal growth and career success.
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My high school physics teacher spent a week teaching students how to use a slide rule.
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For my own part, this book is now a permanent fixture at my desk so I can refresh myself on physics concepts that get discussed in papers that I read.
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By 2010, my beloved North High, where I had taught Physics for 13 years, was the lowest scoring school in the state of Iowa.
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My friend Seitaro in Tokyo, who studied nuclear physics in college, faults the Japanese government for stoking panic over the breakdowns at the Fukushima reactors Friday and Saturday by failing to adequately explain what was going on.
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Given my background, it is not surprising that my favorite parts of the book have to do with physics and mathematics.
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In my contact with organizations, I find a curious kind of physics at work.
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And my admiration stands even though I know that the recent history of physics is filled with attempts to unify quantum mechanics and relativity that have crashed and burned.
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My desperation is lessened, however, by some of the more quantum physics theory which seems to suggest that, if at a sub-atomic level quarks can be in two places at once, then logically there must be a parallel universe where NZ were 130 all out and we are about to win.
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The physics are apparently a modified version of Box2D, which I personally have experience with and am embarrassed looking back at my own attempts to work with it after playing Intrusion 2, as I had not ever seen a game use physics like this while managing to still look fairly natural.
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