Recent content by Jeff Cook

@ Halls of Ivy, Yes, you are correct, those are instructions into how equations are to be evaluated. In fact, I retract much of what I wrote above in that it seems upon further investigating this, there is no authority over this matter. But also note, that this isn't a Physics take alone, and...

* "Physical Review Style and Notation Guide". American Physical Society. Section IV–E–2. Retrieved 5 August 2012. * the third edition of Mechanics by Landau and Lifgarbagez contains expressions such as hPz/2π (p. 22), and the first volume of the Feynman Lectures contains expressions such as...

@ CDUX, Your post was straight forward and clear, and as easy to understand as "what is the physical meaning of subtraction?" If 4 parts amount to a whole, if you take away 2 parts, you get still 2 parts. If you take away 1/2, you get 3 1/2. Similarly goes for division in my answer to your...

The American Physical Society states that multiplication is of higher precedence than division with a slash, as do texts by Feynman, Landou, Lifgarbagez and others. The original question asked about the "physical meaning", and the physical world does require precedence of multiplication in a...

Whatever, Stephen. Good luck. And have a good holiday.

Stephen, I think I found the fundamental problem with this equation and I have been able to simplify it. Considering a, b and c (a-b)^-4 - b^2 = sqrt{b} = c There is only one possible argument for a that will ever provide a solution: a = lim A If A is a function, then (lim (A)-b)^-4 - b^2...

Iif there is no straight forward solution to the above alone as it is expressed, then I should explain I am working with two matrices, one proportionate to another. d is the divisor of the differentiation operator of another matrix, a matrix of a probability distribution. Hope those facts of...

It can be expressed in terms of two Hermitian Matrices, one 2X2 if you consider z and the d the limits of two parameterized constants z(t), d(t), and the other an infinite Hermitian matrix including all points in z(t) and d(t). I typically work with the limits, thus 2X2 for solutions involving...

Take 2 right triangles back to back to form an isosolese. How many triangles do you have? 3? The two rights and the isosolese, the sum of the two? Take one away from 3, how many do you have? 1? 3-1=1? No...cause the whole is equal to the sum of its parts. Gotta follow that else all math...

It's an expression so it could express just about anything you want, the past, the present or the future or something else. But the origins of the concept of division must follow after multiplication...don't you think? Else one runs into paradoxes and maybe even 2+2=5 if you continue forward...

I don't think it's possible to know what you are talking about. Could you please try to explain your question over?

Or by the order of operations, the whole is a product first. Then it can be divided. How does one crack and egg before it is created?

"dividing by 2, means we cut something in two." Not necessarily...the deeper meaning of a fraction to me is how many halves does it take to add up to a whole, as wholes are created before they are destroyed. J

Also forgot it here... a^-2=b^2+ic^2 Should be a^-2=Sqrt{b^2+ic^2}

I forgot my square root above in =(-(1-d)/2)^2 +/- (i sqrt((1-d)^2+d/4)/2)^2 Should be =sqrt((-(1-d)/2)^2 +/- (i sqrt((1-d)^2+d/4)/2)^2)