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    Ideal gas law in two dimensions?

    Interesting...well according to my professor it should work! Haha. Oh well, thanks anyway. Jason
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    Ideal gas law in two dimensions?

    Initial velocities are assigned randomly. I use a random number generator to get an absolute velocity between 0 and 50. I then randomly generate an angle between 0 and 2 Pi, and resolve those into Vx and Vy velocities. I didn't just make that up, it's exactly what the project description says to...
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    Ideal gas law in two dimensions?

    Nope, you pretty much have the idea exactly. Essentially, my particles only have an X&Y coordinate, and Vx and Vy velocity. Collisions are handled with 2D collision equations and are all regarded as perfectly elastic. When a particle hits a wall, a momentum of 2mvxy is absorbed by the wall. All...
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    Ideal gas law in two dimensions?

    Hi everyone, I know that in P=nRT/v R = 8.314 m3*Pa/mol*k Now, when you are trying to calculate P, if you have volumn in m3 on the bottom, everything cancels out and you are left with Pa. I've just developed a simulator which simulates particle motion over time and calculates...
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    Solving Tangent Line Problems for Quartics & Beyond

    sorry, I didn't know where I was supposed to put it. Anyway, I've got: f(x1) - f'1(x1)x1 = f(x2) - f'(x2)x2 So I set the y intercepts equal and got that. But where do I go from there? What would I use as (a, f(a)) and (b, f(b)). I'm not sure what you mean by that.
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    Solving Tangent Line Problems for Quartics & Beyond

    Need Help Please! Tangent Line Problems! Hey, Okay, so here's the problem. I've got this quartic: 0 = -9x^4 + 190x^3 + 840x^2 + 1992x I need to find if this graph has two or more points with the same tangent line, and I'm at a loss. Given a point, I have no problem finding the tangent...
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