Recent content by b_schoenfeld

It may just be a typo on your part, but the derivative of e^5x is 5e^5x, not 5e^x. With derivatives of e^(stuff), you start out by simply re-writing e^(stuff) and then multiplying by the derivative of (stuff). Like in e^5x, you re-write e^5x and then multiply by the derivative of 5x, which is...

Stpehen Hawking does a really good job, I think, in explaining physics to the layman in his A Brief History of Time.

russ_watters said, "If what you really mean is is the speed of light constant, the answer is not really: it depends on the properties of the medium it is travleing in" In this type of setting, when one talks about the speed of light, he means the value of c. This "cosmic speed limit" is...

Electrons do not "orbit" the nucleus of an atom like the planets orbit the sun. They are very strange particles that exhibit not only particle-like characteristics, but wave-like characteristics, so I don't think your analagy is valid in that aspect. If you were to change your analagy from an...