Recent content by Oddbio

I really don't like mnemonics. IMO it's always best to just remember anything exactly as it is, in most cases at least. Maybe it's just me.. but I really think what I am describing is completely different from a mnemonic, but maybe I'm wrong.

+ the lowered responsibilities due to school ending. lol That is a tough one.. as I do rather enjoy math. I think I would simply prefer to be able to do them faster like a computer, instead of magically knowing the answer. That's a possibility. But I am more inclined to think that numbers...

I don't really have a fetish for remembering large numbers or anything lol. Believe it or not, I intended this to just be a fun little "hypothetical" what if.. It doesn't seem that way anymore though.

I agree for the most part and that is why I suggested that this wouldn't be good for calculations.. However, that might not be as much of a complication as it seems. For instance, we don't read out all of the zeros. So I'm sure additional things can be used to make it easier to read long strings...

ugh... I apologize. I should have used a different topic title. Did you read all of the posts magpies?

I didn't actually propose that particular combination. That's why I said I would have to play around with it a bit to try and find the best combination of letters that won't give you words like tktdgbjBut really I don't see what the big deal is... This isn't a mnemonic or anything. It's not to...

I just see it as a potentially interesting trick, and would not have any relevance to actual calculations. However, I strongly disagree about the "mistake". I was actually going to put something in there about that, but I left it out. The 10 letter key would always be used and is not particular...

I was just thinking why is it hard to remember a 15 digit number for example? (some people might not have trouble, but I think the majority would find 15 digits difficult without seeing it more than once). But I think it's because we assign an entire word to a number. For instance, remembering...

This is a fairly simple question so I wasn't sure if it belongs here, but it is not a homework question. Just a question on something I'm reading. The book says there are N solid bodies with initial speed vi (i=1, 2, 3, ..., N) and final speed vi' after some shock to the system. The book then...

But can we really notion a future infinity? I don't think we have any reasons to say that at all. Just because we as humans in our incredibly limited lifetime here on Earth observe that time seems like it can go on forever, doesn't necessarily mean it will. But you could also be right I...

I don't know the validity of this, and I admit that I don't really know much about the big bang other than what your average person would know, but I just thought I'd offer it. What I always understood to be the meaning of "the universe coming from nothing", was that we would have to assume in...

Your missing some equations. For resistors in series the resistances simply add. R_{tot}=R1+R2+R3+... For resistors in parallel: R_{tot}=\frac{1}{R1}+\frac{1}{R2}+\frac{1}{R3}+... Also the voltage across R1 will not be Vo because there will be a voltage drop across the block of other...

Actually I'm kinda new here myself, and considering that no moderator moved your thread then I guess this is the correct forum, my bad :) I guess the author meant it as a hint then. However, I think it would be more straightforward from there if you found C and B in terms of A, instead of A...

This is posted in the wrong section of the forum. But, the idea is to model this as a realistic situation. If you were trying to measure the transmission and reflection you wouldn't be firing particles at both sides. So basically you only have the A' coefficient, however because there could be...

I want to construct the ground state wave function of orthohelium. Here is my reasoning, please let me know if I am correct or not. I forgot to add that for this post I am ignoring the electron-electron interactions. Orthohelium has the triplet spin state which is symmetric. Because the total...