h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Very good entry.

One comment which is both itsy and bitsy:

"If you vary the frequency of the light for a given intensity, the kinetic energy of the emitted electrons increases."

Shouldn't this be "if you increase the frequency of the light"?

Or possibly leave this bit and change the end to "energy of the emitted electrons varies."

Small comment. Good entry. I'll go and read about BBR!

Another comment - could you add something which clarifies that red light has a low frequency, as not everone knows this, and it will make the answer to the red light question more clear.

(Perhaps I should be a Sub!!)

J.

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Thankyou for that, Joolsee.
I will edit accordingly.
You probably should sub
Or try the fieldcritic funrun.
~jumps up and down in excitement... someone has seen fit to read her entry again~

I've edited it; is it clearer now?

Yup.

One thing I would suggest is that you footnote the words "work function" opposed to the w, so nobody wonders if the w in the equation should be w cubed. (Or am I going a bit far?)

Feel free to ignore this.

Hadn't thought of that...
Do you feel like casting an eye over any of my other entries? You're good at this!
Joanna

Are you sure you want me to?

I think I am pretty good at it, as I have to do quite a lot of writing for my work, but I don't know how I would feel if someone else decided to criticise my stuff, even if it was constructive criticism.

I'd probably get all pouty for a bit, before making the changes, all the while trying to pretend they were my idea really.

But that's me.

If you'd really like me to, I will.

Tell me if you do.

If so, please choose from the following levels of cricisim:

1) Namby pamby powderpuff
2) Straight talking, but with all due respect for the authors feelings
3) Almost Yorkshire-like in bluntness
4) Duke of Edinburgh
5) Gengis Khan

I'm sure we could arrange a suitable donut shaped payment for my time!

Somewhere between 2,3, and 4?
You choose
As long as I can reserve the right not to implement all your suggestions

Oh that goes without saying, though if we go with 5 I do have the right to slaughter all of your cattle if you don't comply with my recommendations.
Shall we say 3 then?

3 is good

OK. I'll try to keep the constructive critisim count high and the whippets and flat hat count under control. OK,Chuck?

Danke Schoen... or Merci Beaucoup if you feel french...
That would be great.
Although I seem to have come over in snippets of foreign languages, which is disturbing...

Lekker!
That's my one word of Dutch.
It means 'delicious', apparently.
OK. I'll take a gander at them and send you as many comments as I can get together, on the basis that:

1) you can ignore any of them
2) you can tell me to stop if it all gets too much
3) if we ever meet at a researcher get-together, you don't hit me.

Yah?

Deal