Recent content by phasor

Maybe Kepler's Equation was a bad choice for an example. But there are plenty of equations loaded with transcendental functions that have closed form solutions. There's no method of discovering if a problem has a closed form solution other than algebra + inspection?

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this, but I think linear algebra is the best place to ask my question. Feel free to move this thread elsewhere if I am wrong. I would like to know how I can use linear algebra to help me figure out when I am deriving an equation if the derivation I...

Hello, I am having a hard time understanding the concept of the reciprocal space. Here is my general understanding of it so far: the reciprocal space contains all of the points that light could be diffracted to from the real space. But I don't understand why this is the case from the...