Climate Policy

[--Pete]

Hi,

Although being a mere chemist and no physicist, this seems to be a first year university physics class question to me. Not one that I am able to answer:)but using classical mechanics formula.

Not quite, since to do it right involves a bit of more advanced math and physics, though still classical. Don't make the mistake that 'classical' means 'simple' (although I did have a quantum prof who claimed 'classical' meant 'wrong':)).

A doctoral thesis is however not the same as answering several difficult exam questions.

Indeed. The main difference being that the answer to exam questions is known and thus boring. The results of a dissertation were not previously known, and thus interesting (at least to someone).

--Pete