Recent content by Hirams_bro

My reply about string theorists was to Chronos. But Drakkith, you're right. You're smart, I'm not. I beg your forgiveness. Just ignore my thread ok? I don't want to argue with a "scientist". I'm not in 10th grade anymore.

I guess you dislike String Theorists for being needlessly complicated. Well, you're certainly not the only one. Seems a lot of people are fed up and dissatisfied with it. I can't say I blame them necessarily, I think we all need to consider the matter further. I'm not in the string theoriy camp...

Does everything have to be "scientifically relevant" ? I get your point though. It can't be expressed by a Linear ODE, but then not very much in our universe can. I think it's more than just a cool idea but to explain why I'd have to bring in a lot more "scientifically irrelevant" stuff like...

What Higher Dimensions "Feel" Like nevermind.

nova, thank you for your trenchant observation on the age of this thread. It 's good to know if I ever have any questions about dates, timezones, daylight savings, or any other time-related issues, I know just where to turn. Like you I find the whole concept of timestamps extremely atavistic and...

XTP i understand your frustration. They don't have a clue what you're even asking. What a bunch of amateurs! I read this thread and it made me laugh; it reminded me of that movie idiocracy. If these are anything but high schoolers then this nation is doomed! How are we ever going to survive and...

Sorry, that drawing came out a lot cruder once it posted. I could scan the page from my book, but I don't know html and wouldn't know how to post it.

In my Mechanics of Materials book by Hibbeler, it discusses residual stress loading diagrams. I'm sure anyone who has taken a Strenths of Materials course will remember the classic problem in residual stress analysis of a statically indeterminate bar between two fixed supports with an external...

Thank you. I'm sure after this semester, when I finish Calc 3, I'll be able to make sense of Maxwell's Equations, gradient and curl, etc., and derive it from those. Until then is there any other way of showing this relationship, one that might be more familiar for a Physics 2 student?

Say we have a simple circuit with just a battery and two capacitors. Why must the voltage of each capacitor in series add up to the total voltage of the battery? It seems intuitively plausible, I admit. But can someone show how to go about proving this using the laws of electrostatics ( please...