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Dimensional Analysis

Dimensional analysis provides a powerful and unambiguous way of querying (and ultimately answering) someone who blithely says, "oh, that effect is small and negligible". As I tell students, to be meaningful and robust, the correct retort to such statements is "small compared to what?".—McKinley

Recommended

McKinley, G. H. (2024). Getting the (dimensionless) numbers right. Nature Chemical Engineering, 1(1), Article 1.