Recent content by ksmith1281

Thanks! I agree with you comparison. The funny thing about physics is it can be approached from a physics or math approach. I guess to refine my question: Does the ability to commute derivatives have any implication on the physics. I trust you can commute (I have already assumed and done so in...

I am curious if there are any issue with commuting the curl of a vector with the partial time derivative? For example if we take Faraday's law: Curl(E)-dB/dt=0 And I take the curl of both sides: Curl(Curl(E))-Curl(dB/dt)=0 Is Curl(dB/dt)=d/dt(Curl(B)) I assume this is only...

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I see. So when someone says Shape Birefringence, do they refer to what you are talking about. A form of Birefringence due to the crystal structure?

I am reading some papers that mention evanescent waves. From what I can find, evanescent waves occur because of the Maxwell Boundary Conditions but I don't really see how. Could some please comment on this or just on the general topic. Thanks!

I am trying to understand all the possibilities that a linear birefringent material can provide. The resources I am finding on the internet seems to only claim that each component of the wave (the parallel and perpendicular components) will propagate at different speeds. Is this enough to say...

Another clue when doing physics problems like this one comes from what is used from the problem to get the solution. The problems tells you that the puck travels with an initial velocity of 45m/s. However in your calculations you haven't used this initial velocity at all. This would imply that...

This looks to be what I heard to be called a Magic Square. It is a unique square matrix where the sum of any row, column, and diagonal will equal some constant. From what I know, this is the only requirement of the Magic Square however I have only seen ones where the constant that each row...

One thing that you can do is create questions that it isn't asking. Question that might help check your answer. For example, you know that the puck is accelerating from 45 m/s to some unknown final velocity after 3 sec. If you assume it isn't accelerating then you can figure out how far it will...

Firstly, thanks to everyone for posting. It has really helped. I figured I could also contribute a little fact I noticed. If you open the Microsoft Word Equation editor (which can be done simply by Alt+=) and move your cursor over any symbol within any of the banks, it will show you the slash...