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    Simple Double Mass Spring System

    Homework Statement A mass m1 is held a length L above a second mass, m2, which rests on a table. There is a massless spring connecting the masses with spring constant K. You throw mass m1 upwards with velocity v0, determine the equations of position for each mass. Standard idealized conditions...
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    Interval of Integration Symbol

    Thank you very much! It looks great! I was very surprised this wasn't actually detailed somewhere already. In my searching I also learned about the cancel package, which you can use to show expressions canceling to zero or one or whatever!
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    Interval of Integration Symbol

    Latex Question: I am having a hell of a time finding how to put the large vertical bar used to denote the interval over which a definite integral should be evaluated. Can you please help me?
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    MATLAB Octave vs Matlab: Will I Run Into Trouble?

    /agree with roeb I am only a few hours deep into the Matlab/Octave world and already the ratio is >1. Matlab wins because Octave doesn't have a complete package for controls. Biggest missing tool is the symbolic laplace transform... Its really unfortunate. If I had more time, or didn't have to...
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    MATLAB A Mathematica/Maple/(Matlab?) replacement

    Its really too bad octave doesn't have more packages to bring it up to par with Matlab...
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    What is the validity of the vector identity Ax(BxC)?

    Ah yes, I forgot the identifying portion of the identity: Ax(BxC) = B(A dot C) - C(A dot B) Same qualifying question as before. Obviously this identity does not just fall out of the sky and is the product of a process. I am wondering if the process is disrupted (invalid identity) by having...
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    What is the validity of the vector identity Ax(BxC)?

    Homework Statement Regarding the identity Ax(BxC) Homework Equations Does this identity only hold when A != B != C?
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    If helium is 'superfluid' at low temperatures

    Sounds clever, regard with suspicion...
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    Help with Inductance Homework: Calculate from 84V, 80kOhms & .5355mA

    Actually I believe he has his battery voltage right there as Vin. First you got to specify your initial conditions more clearly. Was the inductor attached to the battery prior to t=0 or was the battery connected at t=0? Or was the battery disconnected at t=0? This is important as it will...
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    Edit Tab Delimited Text File w/Data for Use w/Gnuplot

    Hello! I am running ubuntu, I have a copy of open office excel, but I need to edit a tab space delimited text file with my data in it so I can use gnuplot to plot it. The editing consists of subtracting one column of data from a file, from another column of data in another file. Each row...
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    A question with capacitor and a switch

    First, Farads are units of capacitance not charge.
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    What is the equation to solve for muzzle speed in a ballistic pendulum problem?

    The square root should be over everything on the right hand side.
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    What is the equation to solve for muzzle speed in a ballistic pendulum problem?

    Instead of just applying the formula you might want to consider where the formula comes from. A simple energy relationship will tell you that your square root is in the wrong place. L = L(overall)/2 this is correct.
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