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Revision 5 . . December 10, 2001 12:40 am by Little guru [added hyperlink to PDE]
Revision 4 . . December 9, 2001 9:00 am by AxelBoldt [Moved from /comments]
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Revision 2 . . November 25, 2001 9:05 am by (logged).144.199.xxx [An example would be most appropriate.]
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::I do not agree. Dimensional analysis is used to solve PDEs. The statement just describes e.g., stochiometry.
::I do not agree. Dimensional analysis is used to solve PDEs. The statement just describes e.g., stochiometry.

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I admit that I don't know how to use dimensional analysis to solve PDE's (do you have any references?), but this paragraph was really just the beginning, showing the most primitive "dimensional analysis" as taught in college chemistry classes: make sure that the dimensions are right. I agree there's much more to Dimensional Analysis than that, and the rest of the article shows it, so I think the criticism is not justified. --AxelBoldt
I admit that I don't know how to use dimensional analysis to solve PDE's (do you have any references?), but this paragraph was really just the beginning, showing the most primitive "dimensional analysis" as taught in college chemistry classes: make sure that the dimensions are right. I agree there's much more to Dimensional Analysis than that, and the rest of the article shows it, so I think the criticism is not justified. --AxelBoldt
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