User:CosineKitty/Work list
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To do
- Bipolar junction transistor: Convert PNG diagrams to SVG format.
- Donald Machholz: update with this discovery.
- Epoch (astronomy) and Equinox (celestial coordinates) have a doubtful distinction: the explanation of them being different seems obsolete.
Done Lagrangian point: listcruft.- Eddy current: find reference for discovery by Léon Foucault in 1851. (Add to both articles when found.)
- Found book source indicating that Foucault "studied carefully" (not necessarily discovered) eddy currents.
- Eddy currents appear to be a special case of Lenz's law, which certainly was understood earlier than Foucault's work.
- Lenz's law: needs rewording and citations.
- Rework confusing wording as mentioned in Ceres talk page.
- Done Redirect caesium-133 into caesium. (No opposition after 11 days.)
- Copy-edit tritium.
- Done List of moments of inertia: verify and add textbook references for as many formulas as I can in.
- List of moments of inertia: Remove thin plate formulas, because they are redundant with cuboid (and the diagram has ugly perspective problems). Remove redundant cuboid formulas, leaving only the one that matches the illustration.
- Done Add links to equation numbering templates to WP:MATH, as discussed in WP:MATH talk page (and before that, Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (mathematics)).
- Gradually building up Positron to contain the depth it deserves.
- Add more references to Dirac sea.
- Equatorial coordinate system: need more citations; going to look in my astronomy books.
- Rework Declination: lots of copyediting needed.
- Done Major work needed on Right ascension also.
- Reword Orbital eccentricity so that ordinary people can find it useful in the first paragraph: 0 means perfect circle, etc.
- Kepler orbit needs some references.
- Borrow the rotating liquid image from German page Zentrifugalkraft and incorporate it into Centrifugal force. Mention its use in liquid mirror telescopes.
- Done Resolve the issue of listcruft in Particle beam.
- Look for neutral sources for Tenth Amendment.
- Verify formulas for coordinate transformations on Horizontal coordinate system and provide references for them.
- Verify recent change to Q factor and see if I can provide a source for the formula(s).
- Mass–energy equivalence is confusingly worded and needs more citations.
- Quantum mechanics has a few references to web pages that seem questionable.
- Refractive index: resolve confusion between real and complex n: Re(n)<1 is what it should say (I think). If so, that stuff should be moved into the section on complex-valued index of refraction; otherwise, it keeps confusing people.
- Bandwidth (computing): Too many variant phrases, awkward sentences, and "refers to" repetition.
- Electrical resistance: Uses inconsistent terms for nonlinear resistance in lead section and later in text.
- Litz wire: the big diagram at the top is NOT litz wire! Need accurate diagram.
Disambiguation maintenance
- Bandwidth.
- Conductivity.
- Other terms that need disambiguation.
Finished
- I have written my first ever Wikinews article: US Supreme Court rules DC gun ban unconstitutional
- July 4, 2008 — Completely reworked Explorer 33.
- March 28, 2009 — Created a diagram and reworked mathematical derivations for the conical pendulum article.