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Where can I find the original (but translated) General Relativity papers? I've been searching the net everywhere, and to my surprise I really couldn't find it. You'd think it would be everywhere..
Hey folks,
Sorry if this is in the incorrect section. I'm not sure where to post.
Quick question, when you download papers from archive say, does anyone know if it is possible to obtain the original LATEX file??
This would save me a lot of time in my own work when referring to...
Put this on another forum if appropriate but I have mostly QM in mind.
Is there an online source for classical papers, and in particular for obviously desirable translations of classical papers, which in QM were often in German? If with historical or scholarly gloss giving additional...
I found the following link which clearly delineates and explains how exam papers are graded by professors:
http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/12/a_guide_to_grad.html
Hello,
I'm looking at the moment for past papers for the AP Physics B exam (apart from the ones in www.collegeboard.com). If any of you have anything to offer or know somebody please pm me. I need practice questions as I have not been doing great lately on the course.
Thank you!
A detailed introduction of the new LQG spinfoam model---flipped version of the Barrett-Crane vertex amplitude---appeared in August*. Quite a lot of follow-up work has been posted, including three papers that appeared yesterday. Recently posted extensions include numerical work by Rovelli et al...
Hard to decide which forum this should be in, sorry if it's not appropriate here.
I am writing a science article as a university project. We have been told to reference any pictures, but my only picture if the opening / title picture, with the title embedded in it.
But I am not sure how I...
Hello People!
Could somebody help me?
i am looking for
OCR exam AS past papers + mark schemes for last 7 years
but i need some other web page where i can get it free...not www.orc.org.uk
i am really dissapointed because i need to fine them and what i really need...
What do you think about recycling one of your old papers? I don't see how it would be plagiarism if it was your original work in the first place. Heres my situation - I wrote a 5 page on the history of a topic I am studying in my freshman intro class. Now, a few years later, I am in this...
ok, so in english, i can write really solid analytical essays on books and such.
however, i have a really tough time writing and developing ideas on profound topics.
For example, a while ago we had to write a paper on "the meaning of life." I just found it hard to develop ideas on it. I had...
Can anyone refer me to some webpages where elementary matrix treatment to charged beam kinematics and optics can be found?I am working on this myself and need to refer to some papers.
the problem is that I cannot access this from my home.Please help...
LQC is a subset, a symmetry reduced minisuperspace of LQG, which appears to have a Hamiltonian with a good semiclassical limit that reproduces GR.
First, Randano papers addresses Witten's earlier paper on Kodama's state being nonrenormalizable.
Now, thanks to Marcus, it appears Eyo Eyo Ita...
~~~~Guidance needed!~~~~
When someone applies for masters to any U.S. University, does it matters if he/she has written research paper(s) ? Does it makes a difference if he/she had worked on some ( or many ) technical projects which involved sort of research ? or both of them? Or just one of...
Is there anything online or elsewhere which I can use to create Kmap images? and gate images? I'm writing a paper and I hate to just draw them on there.
The internet is an absolute nightmare for finding papers, particularly ones that are so old the author has died and the copyright has expired.
Anyone got a link to Einsteins 3 papers
And also his paper on special and general relativity. Apparently I can buy it for $x, but since it should...
Hello,
Hey I was just wondering, is there any grand database of all papers published in the materials science industry. I have found some effects which seem unique to my current knowledge of the literature (the some 100 or so relevant papers I have looked at). Do I just have to google into...
Dear All,
I would be interrested by reading some original paper on the classical evaluation of the advance of the perihelion.
I found a few simplified models (see...
Is security really that bad at Los Alamos, or is this just media hype? I don't know if there is anyone here who works there, or has worked there, but from the way CBS wrote this article it sounded like this type of security problem is ongoing and uncorrected. I certainly hope that isn't the...
i am not sure it this is a corret place to post this but i am looking for GCE A level pass papers and mark scheme if possible it might be good if this fourmc an provide some and if not can some one direct me to tright place to get pass papers
I have just read that Schrödinger had wrote six research papers ( in 1926) in which he presented the complete mathematical foundation of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics . Also read that De Broglie supported his proposal (the duality) by a proof derived from relativity theory . Are these...
How do you go about having your paper published in a journal?
How does copyright work?
What is the minimum length of your paper?
In what format do you have to sent in your paper?
I don't know much about journals, I'd appreciate any other useful info,
Thank you.
M&B Journal Club: I hope this will be thread #6, if not please rename it appropriately.
Date: First week of Sept 06.
Topic: Computational Neuroscience Papers
Papers: I will attempt to present 2(maybe 3 papers) on the topic above, all models using Neural nets. The first Paper deals with...
not sure where to put this for maximum visibility
belated congratulations to Patrick on the earlier publication
of four papers-----having to do with improved detection of
neutral particles and related methodology.
they were just posted today on arxiv, but (unless I am mistaken)
were published...
The aim of this thread is to highlight recent (as in within the past 3 months) noteworthy physics papers that have been published in peer-reviewed journals. Anyone can post here, subject to the guidelines listed below:
1. Papers must be from respected peer-reviewed journals. This includes...
Here is the choice for the April-June quarter of 2006:
one by Padmanabhan
http://arxiv.org/gr-qc/0606061
two by Rovelli
http://arxiv.org/gr-qc/0604044
http://arxiv.org/quant-ph/0604064
two by Ashtekar
http://arxiv.org/gr-qc/0605011
http://arxiv.org/gr-qc/0602086
two by Baez...
There may already be a thread but I couldn't see it - if so, please direct me there.
I thought it would be nice to find and post links to classic, first papers by, eg. Einstein, which are available online...
< goes off to do some hunting >
the clearest of the "Higher" papers
I came to an odd conclusion as I was trying to read three papers and see where they were going---I'll toss it out in case anybody might be able to elaborate, or have a different idea
It is that the clearest of the papers is the 2005 one "Higher Gauge Theory"...
hi
Does anyone have any Advanced Extension physics past papers?
other than the specimen and 2002 paper which i have...i looked at them and they look scary! silly teacher(not really) put me in for the exam.
before next week thursday would be helpful.
Thanks!
Hello,
I am looking for some assistance finding classic papers in physics. Specifically I am trying to track down Lorentz' paper of 1899 in which he first published the Lorentz transformations, and I am also trying to find Schrodinger's original papers in QM. I have An undulatory theory of...
I want to do research in "Optical Data Storage" but before I can I have to choose one post-grad physics paper from these 3:
- Quantum Mechanics
- Electromagnetism
- Solid State Phyics
Which one of these papers should I take?
Most scientific papers are probably wrong!?
from New Scientist.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7915
Well that would certainly undermine the credibility of the scientific community.
The rush to publish could be a factor, as well as publications from questionable work, e.g...
So, who wants a free CS research paper ready for submission?
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/"
My research paper is on "Decoupling IPv4 from Local-Area Networks in the Ethernet"
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0604130
Algebraic approach to quantum gravity II: noncommutative spacetime
S. Majid
26 pages, 2 figures; book chapter to appear in D. Oriti, ed., Cambridge Univ. Press
"We provide a self-contained introduction to the quantum group approach to noncommutative geometry...
From: http://www.lauralee.com/rflemath/e-h.htm
I know people have used this theory to explain myths of ancient civilizations and dinosaurs in the Lock Ness etc... However, when we strip away the automatic reactions to the ideas exchanged between Dr. Einstein and Mr. Hapgood and look at the...
i tried everywhere to look for papers on microprocessors...i am the very primitive level studying sdlx microprocessor at the moment..but i could not find any useful information o n the interenet..
Ok, the quick and dirty: The given Theorem: If f is analytic everywhere in the finite complex plane except for a finite number of singular points interior to a positively oriented simple closed contour C, then
\int_{C}f(z)dz=2\pi i \mbox{Res}\left[ \frac{1}{z^2}f\left( \frac{1}{z}\right)...
if these don't grab you, just let them pass.
I don't know whether or not i think they are interesting, so I am hoping for some help deciding.
The point is I know Louis H. Kauffman to be a very creative guy who does unexpected things.
I also know that a lot of Smolin work is based on the idea...
I want to write something for journals published weekly/monthly, Are there any conditions you know so I can be a journal writer ?
Money is not my purpose to accept the job, to be honest.
Any help, pointers are appreciated.
Na
hi, does anybody know where to find a-level ocr physics past papers, as my so called teacher does not feel the need to 'help' his students.
thanks in advance:smile:
I know there has to be a program better than Microsoft Word. When I try to move images/graphs around in MS Word they jump around all over the place. I end up having to reformat a paper 20 times because everytime I add a image, it effects the whole paper.
Or if MS Word is popular how do you...
Google scholar has 651,000 results for dark matter and 521,000 results for
dark energy, more than i could read in a life time, can anyone suggest the
hot pappers on these subjects.