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I'm still not able to picture it. What does the top view look like?

Thank you!

Greetings, I am trying to learn more about Rayleigh scattering. I'd like to be able to calculate the amount of light scattered away from a beam as it travels through a volume of gas. So, I checked out the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raleigh_scattering I am not sure I...

One thing that you might really enjoy studying is Special Relativity. The basics of it can be derived with just algebra. It gets a little hairy when talking about distances between points spacetime (Minkowski space), but there is a book by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw called Why Does E=mc2 (And...

It is mathematically useful, because you can add torque vectors together to get the net torque, in the same way that you can add force vectors together to get the net force. Where you seem to be getting hung up is that there's no actual motion in the direction of this vector. That's because the...

In that case, ##y## is ##\theta## and the rest is the same, although I think Wolfram Alpha must have had a factor of ##t## on the ##c_1^2##, did it not? Since ##\alpha = d\omega / dt##, you can rewrite the first equation as: $$\frac{d\omega}{ dt} = 50\sqrt{\omega}$$ And then through...

Welcome! I am new as well. I sort of see math as a means to an end; it's daunting on its own, but if it can help me understand something I'm interested in (e.g., physics, computer graphics, etc.), then it becomes my best friend. Finding a satisfying answer to most things in physics, for me at...

Yeah, that's fair. I'll steer clear of mentioning the site. If someone has a homework question that is relevant, I'd probably prefer to type a tailored response anyway.

My name is Frank. I found this place through Google, and it looks like a great physics community. I regret that I didn't search long ago. In 2006, I began my career as a software developer. I did not have a college education at the time, which made it difficult to find jobs, particularly in the...