Recent content by mt8891

Whoops.

You've lost stuff. If you can't observe it you can't observe it...after that we move into quantum physics. What happens to water inside of an infinitely long pipe of radius R? I dunno, the pipe is infinite. We can make measurements and say "at such and such point the quality will be such and...

By the change of phase you have lost a whole lot of stuff. What can we define, what can we measure, what can I contemplate?

Closed and open depend on if you want stuff to go to boundary or not. I can have a lot of STUFF go on in a closed boundary system, but I can also have a little stuff go on inside a system but a lot of stuff HAPPEN because the boundary isn't closed.

Ti-83 equipped with slide rule and tables. You shall SO pass.

I probably saw such a figure but thought 1.8c was just too odd for me.

alright to expand on this a little bit... the other night a question was presented: given that there is a one-fourth chance of getting disease X for one parent...ie if one parent has X then there is a 1/4 chance that any offspring has X...then..what are the conditions that it goes to zero...

what is the deal with this theorem? does anyone have any attempted proofs? I am just curious as to what the big deal is with this proof since it seems so (damn) "simple" (recognizable).

the subject is all there is to it. I mean, is randomness a provable property of the integers? can there be such thing as a random integer? to me it seems no IF the "one way function" theorem is disproved. at the same time, what about those wacky isotopes from half lives, ie Schrödinger. what's...

yeah, the problem is how it is in the text. edit: It took some trial and error but I've got it. I took the length contraction for 6ly proper as was measured by the folks on the spaceship. 6 ly * \sqrt{1- (.8c)^2 / c^2} = 3.6 ly after some fridge logic reference frames: 3.6 ly + 6.0 ly = 9.6...

in this book I have by G.L Squires. One of the questions is: if \phi1 and \phi2 are normalized eigenfunctions corresponding to the same eigenvalue. If: \int\phi1*\phi2 d\tau = d where d is real, find normalized linear combinations of \phi1 and \phi 2 that are orthogonal to a) \phi 1 b)...

I was just curious as to how someone could find a Quantitative answer out of the equations for general relativity. I've tried to mess around with stuff related to tensors and manifolds but yeah, I can only compute so much given my foundation. In an attempt to build and forge that foundation I...

I think the idea is that if things were 'frozen' and there was nothing moving around..what would a reference frame be like in that situation. the problem I sense is that of "the universe" becoming increasingly unstable as it cooled since there would still be the conservation of all the mass and...

quantum field theory has something to do with quantum mechanics and special relativity.

Since it's summer and I'm only taking a chem class I picked up my physics text and started browsing. I found the following problem and I was able to get an answer close to what the book has in the back..I can't really explain why that is so. it's my opinion on the matter that even though I found...