# Recent content by kumusta

1. ### Prove Vector Quadruple Product with Levi-Civita/Index Notation

The given equation is correct: ##\qquad\qquad(\vec A \times \vec B)\times(\vec C \times \vec D) = [ \vec A \cdot (\vec B \times \vec D) ] \vec C - [ \vec A \cdot (\vec B \times \vec C) ] \vec D## The result I got was ##\qquad\qquad(\vec A \times \vec B)\times(\vec C \times \vec D) = [ \vec A...
2. ### Prove Vector Quadruple Product with Levi-Civita/Index Notation

I don't know how and where to start. I'll just think for a minute.
3. ### Prove Vector Quadruple Product with Levi-Civita/Index Notation

I found the mistake in my solution. I don't know if you're interested in knowing where the mistake is.

8. ### Show the identity ##\vec{\nabla}(\vec{r} \cdot \vec{u})##

I find the use of brute-force method and suffix notations both tedious and cumbersome. Why don't you try using first useful vector identities to simplify your equation. The BAC minus CAB rule is one such useful identity. But I noticed in your OP where you wrote: that you didn't properly group...
9. ### Calculation of pressure & volume both isothermally & adiabatically

I think you're right there. Just two steps away from the answer. Using ln, just doing two computations won't give you the answer yet. You'll need to do at least three; first the value of ln##~y~##, then the value of (ln##~y##)/##n~##, then that of ##exp[{\frac {\ln y}{n}}]~## before you finally...
10. ### Calculation of pressure & volume both isothermally & adiabatically

Isn't ##~x^n = y~\Rightarrow~x = y^{1/n}~##taking the nth root? Why wouldn't a log do, or an ln?
11. ### Special Relativity Problem -- Speeding through a red light to make it look green

@kuruman ... You know fairly well what we were talking about. We were not arguing about the acceptability of settling a $75,000 debt by paying back only$15,000 , which you mentioned in post #26 and that seem to imply, that according to my own point of view, should be acceptable because they...
12. ### Special Relativity Problem -- Speeding through a red light to make it look green

@jbriggs444 ... Of course I wasn't talking about any two numbers having the same order of magnitude in general. I was talking to kuruman about these numbers given by the OP in post #1: and these numbers that I wrote in post #20: I know that they are not equal but for the purposes of my...
13. ### Special Relativity Problem -- Speeding through a red light to make it look green

@kuruman again ... Your post #9 said: There you mentioned nothing about ##|β|~,## that ##β## can be ##\pm~.## Then, suddenly in post #19, only after 10 messages had already been posted, you surprisingly come up with the idea that ##β~,## in the formula you used in #9 , can be ##\pm~.## Why...
14. ### Special Relativity Problem -- Speeding through a red light to make it look green

You said in post #21: I posted in #20 to which post #21 was referring to: I replied in post #22 to answer #21: ##\text {terra} = 10^{12}##
15. ### Special Relativity Problem -- Speeding through a red light to make it look green

@kuruman ... Of course they are, they both have the same order of magnitude There are minimum and maximum values of the frequency for any given color. I used the average value.