protip: INDENT PROPERLY! It saves you a LOT of time and it will help you to ALWAYS close brackets. Like so:
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <math.h>
#include <fstream>
const int NUM_MON = 12; // number of months
using namespace std;//function prototypes
void...
I'm at a community college right now and... the physics/math classes there are depressingly boring. I do a lot of studying on my free time, and I have a tutor who's helping me in my self-studies, but every once in a while I start thinking that self-studying isn't enough. After all I'll probably...
Here's a novel idea, try teaching them some programming!
I started programming when I was ten or so with dark basic professional (it's free, a variant of BASIC), and I think that's what got me interested in mathematics. I think it allows a lot of creativity. My motivation when I was little was...
One thing to keep in mind is that there is no centrifugal force. There's only one force in this problem, and that is the inward acceleration.
The key idea in circular motion is that the acceleration is always perpendicular to the path of the object. Here's how I would explain to someone why...
No... If you say that x=Sqrt(b)+c-d, then yes this equation implies that 0*x=0*(Sqrt(b)+c-d) which means that 0=0. The opposite, going from 0=0 to x=Sqrt(b)+c-d involves division by zero, which doesn't make sense.
I think Michael C hit the nail on the head.
I'm not quite happy with my justification of a problem. I'm not posting this in the homework section because it's not homework, and my trouble with doesn't revolve around finding the answer. The problem is this:
I based my answer around kinetic energy. We can let v_1 and v_2 be the...
I'm an undergraduate aiming for a physics major, and I love computer science and numerical algorithms. I'm wondering: What does a computational physicist do? Would a computational physicist be programming all day or solving equations all day?
I'm just kind of confused where the physics ends...
So... I'm trying my hand at programming an n-body simulation. For those of you unfamiliar, that is a simulation where every body attracts every other body. I have something effectively like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byI9yhITDsM"
But now... these straightforward n-body simulations...