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Shackleford
Oct17-10, 01:10 PM
I can't get rearrange the last equation into a nice form to integrate with respect to x to minimize the surface area.

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cloudy14
Nov8-10, 04:42 PM
The photos cannot be viewed

berkeman
Nov8-10, 04:43 PM
I can't get them either. He may have figured it out by now and taken them down.