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Hi, I’m Dan.
One thing I enjoy doing in my spare time is learning about physics, maths and other technical topics. While doing this I often make notes which explain things in a way which makes sense to me. For example, expounding on parts of derivations that required some thought on my part to understand. Primarily I made this webpage for myself, to serve as a reference for future Dan. But perhaps it may be of interest to others too.
Given the posts will be written to make sense to my future self, I am assuming background knowledge at least vaguely similar to my own; a physics undergraduate degree, which is heavily rusted due to the passage of time, and a marginally less rusty computational fluid dynamics doctorate. That being said, because this is stuff I look at purely in my limited spare time, I often return to these notes after long periods of time. Therefore I will also try to lean towards explicitness in derivations and exposition. I won’t always assume things as given that may seem obvious once deeply immersed in a topic.
Some posts will likely remain as reference material, with minimal exposition, whereas others may fit a narrative style better. I will tag such reference posts as Notes . But, of course, really there’s a spectrum between the two types.
Generative AI
For me, the point of writing these articles is either to learn new topics, or to refresh material I once knew. Although GenAI can be a very useful tool (I certainly use it as part of my day job!) using it certainly wouldn’t help me learn the material presented here. Therefore everything you see on this site was created by hand (so to speak).
Site
Although I have some experience with HTML, CSS & JavaScript, I am not a web developer. If you notice anything broken, or that could be improved, please let me know.
Miscellaneous suggestions & comments are more than welcome!
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