Recent content by Gavran

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    Undergrad Why is water pressure increased in a plastic bag in a bucket?

    https://ceramicartsnetwork.org/ceramics-monthly/ceramics-monthly-article/quick-tip-reconstituting-clay
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    Number trick

    Great. The formula can also be written in the form of ## (10_d-1_d)\cdot11_d\cdot11_d ##.
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    Number trick

    I get ## 1089 ##. There is a number ## a=100x+10y+z ## and there is a number ## b=100z+10y+x ## where ## a\gt b ##. ## c=a-b=99(x-z)=9\cdot11\cdot(x-z)\implies c\equiv0\mod11 ## ## (c=100x’+10y’+z’\wedge c\equiv0\mod11)\implies x’+z’=y’ ## ## c=99x’+11y’=11(9x’+y’) ## ##...
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    Praise 2025 PF Member Awards Ceremony

    It was an honor. Congratulations, @PeroK, @Ibix, @Orodruin, @kuruman, @DaveE, @fresh_42, @Charles Link, @Baluncore, @Chestermiller, @Astronuc, @DaveC426913, @jtbell, @PAllen, @pinball1970, and @TensorCalculus.
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    Undergrad Find the Number of Triangles

    I can solve the problem by using a combination of brute force counting and symmetry.
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    Why Are You Still Here? A Curious Question

    “Dum vivimus, discimus” or “While we live, we learn”
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    High School Area of Overlapping Squares

    This is my interpretation of the problem statement in the original post.
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    Undergrad Erroneously finding discrepancy in transpose rule

    The transposition of a complex number is the same complex number, and the conjugation of a real matrix is the same real matrix. It is obvious that the transposition of a complex number corresponds to the conjugation of its 2×2 matrix representation. ##...
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    Undergrad Erroneously finding discrepancy in transpose rule

    The conjugation of a complex number is also a complex number. So the conjugation of a complex number twice corresponds to the transposition of its 2×2 matrix representation twice.
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    Undergrad Trigonometry problem of interest

    There is an interesting text regarding degrees versus radians on https://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-guide-to-angles-degrees-and-radians/. The next picture illustrates in a simple way when to use degrees and when to use radians for measuring angles.
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    Einstein vs Newton - Who is your favorite and why?

    I do not know what you are trying to say here. If you want to take any step in your life, first you have to be born.
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    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 final answer is Isaac Newton.
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    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 ## is mapped to the 2x2 matrix ## \begin{pmatrix}a&-b\\b&a\end{pmatrix} ##. The conjugation of a complex number corresponds to the transposition of its 2x2 matrix...
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    High School More similar triangle problems

    All right. Based on post #19, there are the next steps. $$ \frac{d}{d\phi}(8+\frac{8}{\tan\phi}+2\tan\phi)=0\implies(-\frac{8}{\tan^2\phi}+2)\cdot\sec^2\phi=0\implies $$ $$ -\frac{8}{\tan^2\phi}+2=0\implies\tan^2\phi=4\implies\tan\phi=\pm2\implies\phi=\pm63,435^\circ $$ ##...
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    High School More similar triangle problems

    I suppose that you use the Pythagorean theorem here. (see below) $$ \sqrt{(a+2)^2+(b+4)^2}=\sqrt{b^2+2^2}+\sqrt{a^2+4^2}\implies0=0 $$ So, there is not a unique solution. The minimum of ## S ## where $$ S=8+\frac{8}{\tan\phi}+2\tan\phi $$ you can find by equating the first derivative ##...