Recent content by chawk

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...