Recent content by alyosha17

Ah, I see now. I suppose that is in fact what it's asking. And thanks for pointing out the degrees-of-freedom/dimensional space confusion I had. I think I was misinterpreting those concepts.

1. The question asks, why is the external chamber in the Millkan Oil Drop experiment so large? The Millikan Oil Drop is a classic experiment for determing the value of e, fundamental charge, on an electron. In my version of the experiment, I spraw droplets into an external chamber, and then...

Oh thanks. I see what you meant now. I guess I shall answer the question with a caveat explaining such things.

Thanks for input,but I don't really understand what the hint is insinuating though, to be honest. The hint is what threw me off in the first place and provoked me to post this question on this forum. But I still don't really get why it disagrees with my answer. Could you be less cryptic in...

Yeah, the solutions are general for each normal mode, so I guess that does indeed mean their superposition is also a general solution. Thank you.

I am tasked to answer the following question on the subject of coupled pendulums: QUESTION: The Antisymmetric and symmetric normal modes can be superposed to obtain new solutions. Can ANY solutions be written as a superposition of these two modes? Justify your answer. Hint: Is a solution...