Do you know derivatives yet? Or are you working strictly with trig identities?
If you take the derivative of the function and find the zeroes you will have the maximum/minimum of the original function.
I took an undergraduate course in stat mech last semester and we used Reif, which was good. However, the best source I found for an easy to understand overview was online: http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/sm1/statmech.pdf
That source actually helped me more than Reif in understanding it...
Found a video on youtube with a visual explanation of special relativity. Seemed to clear some things up for me with my original question. Here it is if anyone is interested.
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2VMO7pcWhg&feature=related
Oh yeah, red is longer wavelength...
What I don't understand is how the speed of the wave propagation can remain constant relative to the observer. It seems that if you are moving towards the source, your relative velocity would be higher.
I do not fully understand the Doppler effect in light.
A theoretical question:
If I was traveling near the speed of light, towards a source of light. Would all the wavelengths in the visible spectrum be shortened and therefor, everything shifting towards red?
I thought the speed of...
I don't see how inflation solves the problem with the spatial distance between two ends of the universe. As I understand it, the horizon problem includes the "fact" that parts of the universe are out of each-others sphere of influence because they are separated by a distance that could not be...