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Saturday, 11 October 2014

My first report on hydrogen

I'm trawling through my undergraduate course notes, looking for stuff that will be useful with simulations. I came across this, my first ever write-up about extragalactic neutral hydrogen (second year "topics in astronomy" module). Robert Minchin [my now very good friend of many years] supervised me, but he doesn't remember. Just as well, a mark of 56% is not particularly auspicious...




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  1. Robert Minchin11 October 2014 at 15:05

    You've got better at putting references in since then :) My handwriting hasn't improved though...

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  2. Rhys Taylor11 October 2014 at 15:06

    I also learned the difference between "natural" and "neutral"...

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  3. Fred Beckhusen11 October 2014 at 16:18

    Interesting read. I give it two spins up.

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