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Manishearth

6:26 AM

@DavidZaslavsky I think a chat room for placing CVs would be nice... Just that we'd have to get the community to use it.. THoughts?

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Manishearth

8:15 AM

@annav You may want to consider supporting this area51 proposal

anna v

8:33 AM

Well, it does not have much chance of being approved, too few show interest. My irrelevant vote would not help in anything.

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Manishearth

10:22 AM

@annav K I see :/

Just saw it and thought you may want to have a look :)

@annav try to use @reply in chat or comments, otherwise the other party never gets notified.. :)

Manishearth

10:46 AM

@David did you get the swag yet? I got the email long long ago, but no package.. Or was the '6-8 weeks' literal(seems to be a meta meme)

by swag I mean the everyone-swag, not the DIS-swag. That, you got :P

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David Zaslavsky

1:30 PM

@Manishearth It's a good idea, but we should try to use this chat room... no point in creating a new one as long as the activity level here is so low

I don't have any particular ideas on how to get the community to use chat more

Also I haven't gotten the Physics swag yet. Last I heard it still needs to be designed.

By the way I remembered why I didn't create the light-visible-light synonym yet: I can't do it unilaterally without also merging the tags (AFAIK) and light still needs to be reviewed to see where it should be changed to electromagnetic-radiation

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Manishearth

3:10 PM

@David oh right manishs-todo-list :)

Well, if we use this chat room, then any conversation may drown it out.

I'll create the room later, and hope it catches on (it shows up on the front page)

Swag: K makes sense.. I thought that they just had to send it..

Since I don't want to clutter the main page with the light cleanup, I'll keep a meta post for it. That way I can just keep track there, and retag slowly.

Manishearth

3:34 PM

@DavidZaslavsky Exactly what should visible-light be used for? Check out the "not really [visible-light]" section here: meta.physics.stackexchange.com/a/1167/7433

David Zaslavsky

IMO visible-light seems fine for #1 and #3. #3 should also get biophysics. #2 is probably fine with just optics, but it could also take some lens- or telescope-related tag if there is one.

Basically visible-light is for questions involving how we see things

Manishearth

@DavidZaslavsky The tag excerpt says something different, it focuses on colors

edits

David Zaslavsky

@Manishearth that must have come from when I merged in color

Manishearth

Aah

David Zaslavsky

@Manishearth That's just the point though, we have no conversation here... of course you can create another chat room, but I'm not a fan of having other rooms on a permanent basis unless/until the activity level here becomes too high.

Manishearth

3:41 PM

Oh, right :P

The issue is, we do have atleast one discussion a day in here

and that will push everything back

edited

THough after your comment about color-merge, it may need more edits

David Zaslavsky

We'll have to discuss this later, I have some stuff to do

Manishearth

K, cya

Stack Exchange

Q: Tag cleanup--[light]

Chat link, Another one I'm currently retagging all questions tagged light to visible-light and/or electromagnetic-radiation Since editing them all at once will flood the main page, I'll keep track of them here, and slowly work my way through them. Feel free to help! Also vote for the syno...

Manishearth

4:21 PM

@StackExchange thank you ;)

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David Zaslavsky

5:34 PM

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Q: How do I know an initial speed of a thrown object using the max height

An object is thrown to the max height of $h$ with gravity of $g$, what is it initial speed? I tried the following: $v = v_0 - g t$ $0 = v_0 - g t$ $t = \frac{v_0}{g}$ $h = v_0 * t - \frac{1}{2}g * t^2$ $v_0 = \sqrt{2 * g * h}$ But putting it into physical simulation gives different max heig...