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    Solve Otto Cycle Problem: Max Pressure Lambo Murcielago w/r=11.0

    Haha, excellent. I basically just handed in a load of rubbish!
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    Solve Otto Cycle Problem: Max Pressure Lambo Murcielago w/r=11.0

    Homework Statement (a.) This was just a log-log plot of the otto cycle (b.) Derive an expression for the ratio of maximum to minimum temperature experienced by the cylinder head during the part of the cycle that contains only isochoric and and adiabatic transitions in terms of the compression...
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    Thermodynamics - Carnot Engine

    For example, one of the methods I used was: \frac{dQ_H}{dt} = \frac{\theta_H}{\theta_H - \theta_C} \frac{dW}{dt} Which, when \theta_H = 275 K and \theta_C = 270 K give \frac{dQ}{dt} = \frac{1}{55} \frac{dW}{dt} But then I don't really know what to do with that?
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    Thermodynamics - Carnot Engine

    Homework Statement (a.) For an Ideal Gas Carnot engine, what is the relationship between heat absorbed and rejected by the reservoirs and their temperature? If a heat pump is used to transfer this heat, what is the rate at which heat is added to the hot reservoir in terms of the temperatures of...
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    Surface Integrals: Solving for S_1 & S_2

    Excellent. I'm happy with the question now! Thanks a lot for your very helpful input =)
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    Surface Integrals: Solving for S_1 & S_2

    Oh sorry that was supposed to be z = 0 - (1 - \rho^{1/3}) I had considered the limit of \rho to be the problem, but isn't the lower limit of \rho = 1 when w's lower limit is 0?
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    Surface Integrals: Solving for S_1 & S_2

    Okay, thanks. That makes sense One final point I wanted to ask about (sorry to have dragged this out so much!) in calculating the volume using spherical polar coordinates, I'm getting a negative answer still... I think it could be perhaps a problem with my limits, which I've used (in...
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    Surface Integrals: Solving for S_1 & S_2

    I was comparing homework questions with a friend earlier and they've confused me now. They were assuring me that for the part where we have the two surfaces and have to use the divergence theorem, that we add the two surfaces together on the RHS (as I did) but on the LHS calculate (\nabla...
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    Surface Integrals: Solving for S_1 & S_2

    Ah great thanks. After using the divergence theorem to compute the volume of the body, (which I did by adding the integral of s1 to the integral of s2) the next part is to verify the result by explicitly calculating the volume in polar coordinates. To do so I calculated \int_v (\nabla \cdot...
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    Surface Integrals: Solving for S_1 & S_2

    Homework Statement Consider the surface S_1 described by the equations x = (1-w)^3cos(u), y = (1-w)^3sin(u), z = w, 0 <= u < 2\pi, 0 <= w < 1 The first few parts of the question were quite simple. Firstly we had to calculate dS and then compute the surface integral for the vector field...
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    What Is the Transmission Probability Through a Potential Barrier?

    I realized I mixed up A with C in my first post when I gave the transmission probability. Will it still work if I keep the transmission as a ratio with C as the denominator rather than normalizing it?
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    What Is the Transmission Probability Through a Potential Barrier?

    My constants correspond to those on the wikipedia article. So I have, A = B_2a \\; B = B_1 \\; C = A_r\\; D = A_l\\; G = C_r\\; I understant that the constant I would've had F disappears because there is no particle from the right, but I don't understand why D \; (or \; A_l) becomes 1...
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    What Is the Transmission Probability Through a Potential Barrier?

    Homework Statement A beam of particles, each of mass m and kinetic energy E, is incident on a potential barrier V(x) = V_0 \; \; for \; \; 0 \leq x \leq a \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; = 0 \; \; for \; \; x < 0 \; \; and \; \; x > a E = V_0 \; \mbox{is the special case} The part...
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    Why Is My Matrix Not Diagonalizing Correctly?

    Oh, yes, it was down to wrong order. Very silly! Thanks for clearing that up
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