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High School Crazy orientation of solid oblong

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Undergrad Rotate 1 plane in 3d space to be parallel to another

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Undergrad How to calculate radius of curvature of beam?

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High School Conic sections: Can focal points be outside the ellipse?

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Graduate Relations between compactness and connectedness

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Graduate How does changing the metric on a manifold affect the shape of the manifold?

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Graduate Perimeter and surface area of skewed end semi cylinder

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Graduate Introduction to Tensor Calculus and Continuum Mechanics

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Graduate Relationships of hyperbolic Paraboloids

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Undergrad Why is the unit normal of a sphere important in vector calculations?

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Graduate Proving the contracted epsilon identity

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Graduate Distance from a point to a line defined in R^N

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Graduate Is any relation between curl and uniform shear available?

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Graduate Cartan's 1924 mystery formula differential Geometry

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Graduate Solve Gradient Squared: ((grad(f(x,y,z))))^2

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Graduate Understanding Nonlinear Exponential Maps for Vector Fields

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Graduate Is a Tesseract the only model we have for 4D?

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Graduate A tetrahedral expanded to a icosahedron

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Undergrad Finding Coplanar Vectors: r1v & r2v

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Graduate Solving an irregular tetrahedron given 3 angles and 3 lengths

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Graduate Finding Unit Normal to Curve Defined by Parametric Equation

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Graduate Covariant derivative of a 1-form

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Graduate Covariant Derivative Commutation

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High School In a Right Triangle you have one angle - how do you find the other?

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Graduate Star Geometry: 10 Lobed Star Shape Described by Parametric Equation

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Undergrad A circle tranforming into ellipse

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Graduate Second differential of a function

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Graduate Submanifolds vs Manifolds / Immersion vs Charts

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Graduate Non-coordinate basis for vector fields

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Undergrad Distance from a plane to the origin question

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Undergrad Surface and Volume of a cone without calculus

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Undergrad Ray vs. Line: Equivalent Freedoms?

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Undergrad Someone explain continuity principle

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Graduate Constructing a Solid Klein Bottle

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Undergrad What Is the Best Interactive Model for a Topology-Themed Math Expo?

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Drawing 4, 5, 6, and 7 dimensional objects

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Graduate How are 1-forms related to infinitesimal displacements?

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Graduate Can someone draw a picture of this situation? I can't make sense of it

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Graduate Defining Right-Handed Coordinate Systems in Non-Orthogonal Bases

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Graduate Using the div-flux theorem (Gauss) to derive divergence in polar coördinates?

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Graduate Covariant/contravariant transform and metric tensor

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Graduate Is a change of coordinates a diffeomorphism?

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Graduate Horizontal Lift vs Parallel Transport in Principal Bundle & Riemannian Geometry

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Graduate Understanding Dual Vectors in Fluid Mechanics: Purpose and Derivation Explained

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Undergrad Convert parametric equation into f(x,y,z)

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Graduate Computer simulation of geologic processes using multidimensional functions

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Graduate Can Metric Tensors Have Equal Determinants?

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Undergrad Hello i'm new over here Hope i'm writing where it should be

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Graduate Connecting N points pairwise in volume V, average density of lines?

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Graduate Neighborhood Retract of Boundary

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Undergrad Finding a parabolic equation with unknown variabilic constants?

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Graduate Metric of Manifold with Curled up Dimensions

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Graduate How Do Quaternion and Spinor Structures Impact the Geometry of Vector Spaces?

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Graduate Trying to Understand Generalized Coordinates

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Graduate How Do Imaginary Components Affect Vectors in a 2D Complex Vector Space?

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Undergrad What Does Rotating a Circular Arc Create?

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High School Find radius if a circle is inscribed in quadrilateral

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Graduate Finding base number with Hausdorff Dimension Approximation methods?

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Graduate Projections from Tubular Neighborhoods

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Graduate How exactly to obtain Frenet Frame via Gram-Schmidt process?

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Graduate Asymptotes of hyperbolic sections of a given cone

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Undergrad Simple Geometric Proof: Inscribed Triangle in a Circle of Diameter d

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Undergrad Question about parametrization and number of free variables

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Undergrad Graphing an oblique circular cone.

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Graduate Infinitely long piece of string.

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Graduate What is the mathematical expression for fluid rotation in 3D?

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Graduate Is There a Paradox in the Equation for Oblate Spheroids?

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Undergrad Isoparametric Curve: Definition & Meaning

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Graduate What different between covariant metric tensor and contravariant metric tensor

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Undergrad Positioning Shape Inside of Ellipse

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Graduate Principal curvature used in a contact problem

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Graduate How to generalize the fixed point iteration

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High School How to calculate the end point of a vector?

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Graduate The space between a unit 'sphere' in n dimensions within an n-dimensional cube

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Graduate Calculating Induced Metric on Vector Bundle E

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Graduate Mixed symmetry property and degrees of freedom

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Graduate How Do You Find the Angle Between a Moving Point and a Line in a Vector Space?

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Graduate Q about magnetic buckyballs and knots

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Graduate Is the Set BxB \ D in the Unit Disc Non-Contractible and Disconnected?

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Graduate What are the formal operations of tensors and their applications?

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High School It seems so simple, But what do I know?

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Undergrad Where will you find mathematics of n spacial dimensions?

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Graduate Lawn Mower Curvature: Calculating & Applications

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Graduate Circle-Sphere 3D Intersection Points

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Undergrad P1 & P2 Path Partition: Same End Vertices Possible?

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Graduate Parsing the Fibers of Critical Values

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Graduate Nonregular icosahedral die approximating a bell curve

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Graduate Solving Linear Geometry for a 'projected intersection'

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Undergrad Curvature of Catmullrom spline

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Graduate Deriving the Christoffel Symbols

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Graduate I am not sure - a manifold is locally connected and has countable basis?

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Graduate Riemannian symmetric spaces and Lie algebras

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Graduate What Is the Difference Between Covariant and Contravariant Vectors?

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Undergrad How Can a 3D Pipe Be Unwrapped into a 2D Topology?

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Graduate The divergence operator in a rotated reference frame

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Graduate Commutator SO(3) - what am I doing wrong?

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Undergrad Constructing Tangent Circles for an S-Shaped Design

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Graduate Composition of infinite deformation retracts

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Undergrad How to Stretch an Elipse Made of Bezier Paths

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Graduate What is a co-variant derivative?

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