Hi there,
Lately, I've been trying to gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between the Coulomb force F, electric field E, electric potential V, and electrostatic potential energy U.
In regards to electrostatic potential energy, as I understand it, if you had, say (made up a few...
Puzzling "roll X dice, choose Y highest" problem
Hi folks,
Over the past few days, a friend and I have been wracking our brains over a dice throw probability problem. As the post title describes, it's simply rolling X dice and picking the Y highest (we coined the notation 'xky' for 'roll x...
Thank you both for the replies!
To gabbagabbahey, yeah that vector calculus is a bit beyond my skill, though I did still look into it and it gives me an idea of what math I can look forward to learning :)
I realize now this thread really is more mathematical than physics, so I'll...
Hello all, new here.
In the past few weeks, I have been trying to gain a basic understanding of classical electricity and magnetism through the fantastic lectures at http://ocw.mit.edu, specifically the physics course...