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| Sep 15, 2014 at 17:30 | comment | added | ftiaronsem | awesome, answered my question to the point, thanks a lot! | |
| Sep 15, 2014 at 17:29 | vote | accept | ftiaronsem | ||
| Sep 13, 2014 at 0:06 | comment | added | CuriousOne | @DavidZ: You are right... that was a poorly chosen example. Maybe I am more thinking along the lines or an example where a constant is fundamental vs. the result of an internal dynamic. I'll try to sort this out for myself before embarking on another poor example. | |
| Sep 12, 2014 at 23:12 | comment | added | David Z | @CuriousOne you can express your results in terms of the ratio $T_2/T_1$ in such cases. But this ratio is not something you can set to 1 the way you would set a unit or constant to 1. (Which is clear if you keep in mind that "setting a constant to 1" really means choosing a system of units such that the given constant has a numerical value of 1 and then leaving the units implicit.) | |
| Sep 12, 2014 at 22:59 | comment | added | CuriousOne | What to do for cases with e.g. two or more timescales? What if I have to deal with formulas for e.g. magnetic resonance, where there is $T_2 >> T_1$, and both show up in the final result, but there is not much common ground between the physics that causes $T_1$ vs. that of $T_2$? | |
| Sep 12, 2014 at 22:44 | history | answered | Void | CC BY-SA 3.0 |