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    Sign of Hamiltonians: Plotting U & Phase Portraits

    How do you decide on the sign of a Hamiltonian function? For example, I have the following system of differential equations: x'=y y'=-\dfrac{3}{2}x^{2}-2x With the following Hamiltonian: H^{\oplus}=\dfrac{1}{2}x^{3}+x^{2}+\dfrac{1}{2}y^{2} because \dfrac{dH^{\oplus}}{dt}=0. But if...
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    Hyperbolic path in Minkowski space

    Thanks, that makes total sense.
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    A spring attached to the other side of the galaxy

    What would happen if you had a very rigid and strong, but also brittle rod and you would suddenly pull it very hard? Would it break?
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    Hyperbolic path in Minkowski space

    It's the same, but I made a calculation error. I did \sqrt{25+4}-3 instead of \sqrt{25+4}-2 I prefer my version though, since it's in the form of c times a time. In my formula it's also much more obvious that d increases with increasing a'.
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    Hyperbolic path in Minkowski space

    x\left(t=0\right)=c^2/a' So I should define a new axis x'' then? x''=x-c^2/a'=c\sqrt{c^2/a'^2+t^2}-c^2/a'=c\left(\sqrt{c^2/a'^2+t^2}-c/a'\right) If a' goes to infinity: x''=ct If a' goes to zero: x''=c\left(\sqrt{c^2/a'^2}-c/a'\right)=0 Let's say a'=0.5c/yr, t=5 yr...
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    Hyperbolic path in Minkowski space

    The path described by a constantly accelerating particle is given by: x=c\sqrt{c^2/a'^2+t^2} where a prime denotes an observer traveling with the particle and a letter without a prime a resting observer. If we leave the c^2/a'^2 out it reduces to x=ct, which makes sense. The distance...
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    Why Choose High Frequency Radio Waves for Long-Distance Communication?

    The higher bandwidth and smaller antenna make sense and is something I already should've known. Of course higher frequencies are damped more easily. I was thinking that orange light essentially is Wi-Fi at a 200k times larger frequency.
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    Why Choose High Frequency Radio Waves for Long-Distance Communication?

    What is the advantage of high frequency radio waves over low frequency radio waves? E.g. Wi-Fi 2.4 GHz over FM radio ~100 MHz.
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    How Should Citations Be Placed Within Academic Reports?

    That link was not really helpful. It details how you should write entries in a list of references for which I use Bibtex and it explains how you should use parenthetical references (which I don't, I use [#ID], which is regularly seen in the natural sciences). It doesn't explain where citations...
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    How Should Citations Be Placed Within Academic Reports?

    What is the standard format?
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    How Should Citations Be Placed Within Academic Reports?

    I'm not sure where to put this question, so I'll try it here. I'm currently writing a report and I'm asking for advice on citations. I know that when you write down a fact or an idea which is not original, you add a citation which explains where you got it from (e.g. bananas are yellow [1])...
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    Matlab - What does an array definition mean

    Thank you very much. When I have time I'll will try to read up on handles. My plots now look exactly the way I want them to look.
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    Matlab - What does an array definition mean

    I'm trying to make a MATLAB plot with two types of data, i.e. temperature and air flow rate. Since the temperature and air flow rate are on different scales I wanted two y-scales and since there are quite some data sets, I wanted to make the two air flow rates bold. I tried this, but it doesn't...
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    Conference Proceedings in BibTex

    No, I was being sincere. I've already seen the styles come by and now I know what to do to solve my problem. Thanks.
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    Conference Proceedings in BibTex

    Thanks, that's very useful :)
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