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I'm an Electrical And Computer Engineer under graded student. The only physics we learn in the University in which I'm enrolled is Electromagnetics and nothing more. Well in high school we learned Classical Physics but i don't remember anything (Except some of Newton's motion...
1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known
I don't understand the proof of the following theorem:
Theorem 3.1.1 Let ##g_{ab}## be a metric. Then there exists a unique derivative operator ##\nabla_a## satisfying ##\nabla_a\,g_{bc}=0##
2. Homework Equations
After some manipulations...
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I cannot understand this excerpt from a book on quantum mechanics with reference to observables.
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I lost my book on Quantum mechanics! It was published in the late 80s or early 90s in England. Title: Quantum Mechanics. The book used algebra with more advanced math in the appendices. If you know the author , please reply. Thanks!
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I've been watching the Khan Academy physics lectures and although they're nice (does anyone know a better one?) I'd like to get much deeper into the details of everything.
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Which calculus book self contains experiences in order, and is stable to the max, for all the problems known in the subject?
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Maybe it's explained somewhere in her book, but what do the Hs and *s mean beside some of the problems in Epp's Discrete Math, 4E textbook?
Are there any other notations I should make note of in the book as well?
Thank-you for your help.
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I would be grateful for opinions on the following book as a good advanced undergraduate/ beginning graduate book for self study ...
"Graduate Algebra: Commutative View" by Louis Rowen ... (American Mathematical Society, 2006)Conveniently Louis Rowen has published a book for a "first course" in...
I am taking a course in topology with Gamelin and Greene, Introduction to topology. I would like to have some supplement to extend and give more motivation and explanation. I am quite tired of the "theorem, proof, theorem, proof" pattern.
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1. I'm trying to calculate work it takes to lift 4 books, and stack them on top of each other in a 20 cm high stack. The problem reports:
- 5 books are lying on the ground. They are each: 2kg, 4cm thick.
Using the formula for Potential Energy (mgh), my calculations reflect it takes 8J:
- Book...
Although the question came to my mind while studying Weinberg's QFT books, the doubt is much more general than that, and is not a doubt about physics, but rather about how to actually study and learn the topic alone from the book.
From one point I agree that coming up with this doubt nearly...
Here is the Problem Statement:
Book solution
My solution
My solution and book solution has differed in the first item (marked red circle).
Could you please tell which is correct?
If I'm wrong, what did I do wrong?
MATH 4300 - Modern Geometry
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Prerequisite: MATH 3450 with minimum C grade. Topics selected from advanced Euclidean geometry, non-Euclidean geometry, projective geometry. May be repeated once for credit with approval of instructor as subject matter changes.
The above paragraph is the course...
I need your advice on understanding a proof of a lemma from a book I am reading.
I asked my question in overflow:
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/299408/lemma-4-5-1-on-page-77-in-the-book-averaging-methods-in-nonlinear-dynamical-syst
Does anyone understand the proof and can answer my...
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I have recently completed the study of Stewart's calculus. Next, I want to read Linear Algebra.
I have bought Sheldon Axler's "Linear Algebra done right" textbook. I want to know if my knowledge of calculus is enough to tackle this book or should I first...
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does anyone know an (more or less) easy differential geometry book for courses in generall relativity and quantum field theory? I'm looking for a book without proofs that focus on how to do calculations and also gives some geometrical intuition. I already looked at The Geometry of...
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I just created this account because it was actually the first time I wanted to ask a question myself, but this forum has helped me a lot in the past with my Physics and Maths related courses. So thank you for that.
Going back to the topic...Now that I've completed some of the...
I have a problem with an statement in the book Differential Geometry by Lipschultz(Schaum's outlines)
This book difines a coordinate patch as: A coordinate patch of class ##C^m## in ##S\subset R^3## is a mapping ##\vec{x}=\vec{x}(u,v)## of an open set ##U\subset R^2## into S such that:
(i)...
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I have a problem understanding a definition at page 93 of 'from perturbative to constructive renormalization', that is related to Graph Theory, and he uses it on the proof of the uniform BPH theorem for \phi_4^4 (\lambda \phi^4 in D=4).
You have a graph G, a forest of quadrupeds F, and g a...
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I am looking for any online supplemental courses to supplement my book reading of Introductory Econometrics 4e by Jeffrey M.Wooldridge.
The book is rather terse and jumps around a lot between ideas presented a couple of pages back and forth.
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Hi everyone, I'm a senior undergrad in an Astrophysics BSc, and I just started my first course in Particle and Nuclear Physics.
Our teacher didn't suggest anything as a textbook, and on my own I couldn't find any really relevant/useful book for my course type, and now I'm here, hopefully having...
The image is below. My question is, why he considers ##p' = p## on the RHS of ##(2.5.14)## but not on the LHS, i.e., the sub index on the left ##\Psi## remains ##p'##. Is it a mistake? And he continues on the derivation (not shown here) even considering ##|N(p)|^2## instead of ##N(p')^*N(p)## so...
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1. Homework Statement
A 415V to 11 kV transformer has a rating of 200 kVA. The winding resistance and leakage reactance when referred to the primary are 0.014 Ω and 0.057 Ω respectively...
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I am studying excitability in quantum dot lasers and I see a lot of bifurcation diagrams with saddle node bifurcations, Hopf bifurcations, homoclinic bifurcations, PD bifurcations etc. I know some basic things about non-linear systems but I have never met the notion of...
Hello! Currently I own Differential Equations by H.B Phillips, a really old book, but difficult and does it´s purpose. I have only 1 problem, certain exercises require certain geometrical functional study I suppose, for example:
"find the equation of the curves so that the part of every tangent...
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What textbook should I get for preparation for f=ma granted I literally know nothing in physics as of now?
I've heard David Morin's "Introduction to Classical Mechanics" is nice as well as "Fundamentals of Physics" by Resnick, Halladay, and Walker.
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Homework Statement
Attached is a picture..
the book went from
(-1 + \frac {2}{1+u} ) du + \frac {dx}{x} = 0
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to
-u + 2ln(1+u) + ln(x) = ln(c)
Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution
How in the world could the integral of 0 be ln(c)?
Maybe because it's 5 am and...
I just found an interesting book at BN, titled Reverse Mathematics Proofs from the Inside by Prof John Stillwell.
https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11143.html
He mentions that it’s a growing field in mathematics where we seek to discover the right axioms to prove a theorem...