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GGavran replied to the thread Einstein vs Newton - Who is your favorite and why?.Isaac Newton was a great physicist, and he was also a great mathematician, which made him more independent than Albert Einstein. My...
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GGavran replied to the thread Undergrad Erroneously finding discrepancy in transpose rule.There is an isomorphism between the field of complex numbers and a specific set of 2x2 real matrices where a complex number ## a+bi ##...
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The way to determine ##(a,b)## uniquely is to pick an angle ##\phi##. Then we have ##b=2tan(\phi)## and ##a=4/tan(\phi)##. As ##\phi##... -
GGavran replied to the thread High School More similar triangle problems.All right. Based on post #19, there are the next steps. $$...
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There are an infinite number of solutions but for each one there is a different angle and thus a different triangle. I meant for a given... -
GGavran replied to the thread High School More similar triangle problems.I suppose that you use the Pythagorean theorem here. (see below) $$ \sqrt{(a+2)^2+(b+4)^2}=\sqrt{b^2+2^2}+\sqrt{a^2+4^2}\implies0=0 $$...
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Newton was a lot more influential but that was just luck because he was first. As someone said, "the order of the Universe can only be... -
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Thank you very much .Scott, haruspex, Gavran -
GGavran replied to the thread Einstein vs Newton - Who is your favorite and why?.And what is your answer? Einstein or Newton? Please choose one, not both of them.
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GGavran replied to the thread Which one is correct statement regarding lightning?.When we speak about electrostatic induction, we speak in the context of charges of regions of the object, not in the context of charges...
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GGavran replied to the thread Einstein vs Newton - Who is your favorite and why?.Newton His work was the groundwork for later discoveries.
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GI remember this local disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Blue_crane_collapse
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GGavran replied to the thread Engineering Disasters.Top three: Chernobyl, the Bhopal Disaster, and the Titanic.
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GWhat about the escalator failure in Italy in 2018? Football fans of a Russian team took the escalator going down. Without warning it...