Reflection on Slide Rules, Calculators, Log Tables, and Computers

• Thomas B. Greenslade Jr ^[1]
  1. [1] Kenyon College

     Kenyon College

     Township of College, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 60, Nº. 9, 2022, págs. 736-737
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • As I approach my 70th year in physics, let me tell my younger colleagues about my adventures with computation. When I was 14, my father gave me a slide rule because I appeared to be headed toward a career in physics. Since then, I have had experience with many other calculating devices.