I'm interested in the book! While there are a multitude of interesting problems I could choose, I'll present a fun problem I came across and solved last week:
Problem: Write down the conserved quantities for a classical mechanical system described by the Lagrangian ##L =...
Hmm... I am not totally sure how this relates at all to the question, but if you would like to comment on the original post, I would really appreciate it.
P.S. I don't have the tenth edition of H&R, but if you really would like, you can PM the questions and I could give them a shot. But this...
@haruspex While I can see where you are coming from, I am still not totally convinced. Here is my line of reasoning:
Though not the inspiration for this problem, I like to think of the example of the rolled up sleeping bag, a rough cylinder, which has a rope tied around it to compress it. Said...
For an introduction to the Curiosity Questions, please see the intro to Curiosity Question 1
Here is the first part of another problem I made up.
As I said in Question 1, I am posting this for
a) the enjoyment of everyone who reads them
b) work checking to see if they are riddled with mistakes...
I thought of a practical example of the use of the compression force--tying up a rolled sleeping bag with a rope. It seems like the bag could be compressed the same amount by A) a rope around it with a tension FT, with total compressive force of ##2\pi F_T## or B) a direct force on one side of...
Of course, infinite tension would produce infinite compressive force. But the point of the question, which has now been answered, was to find the maximum compressive force given a FT. Another way of stating it was to say, "Find the maximum compressive force in terms of FT."
Thanks for your...
Thanks for answering. So what you were saying was that n going to infinity is basically the same as 1/x where x is going to 0, and the same inside sine's argument.
But it is not the same, because of the 180 degrees term inside. Now I made a mistake by missing the 2 inside the limit. It should...
Here is some background for this post and for future "Curiosity question" posts.
So last year in 10th grade, I took AP Calc AB and AP Physics B, and scored 5s on both, but a particularly high five on the physics, as I truly enjoy doing physics just for the bliss of it. Well this year, I stepped...