Recent content by PhDeezNutz

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    Volume with spherical coordinates

    I noticed your supposed solution paper is from 15.8 of Stewart’s calculus book. Is it something like this?
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    Volume with spherical coordinates

    You made the effort to post what I presume is the answer guide. Can you post a picture of the actual question? You talk about a cone at first and the picture shows a cylinder. I’m with many others. Confused.
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    Announcement RIP Vanadium 50

    I’m gonna be honest I was a little bit scared of him so I never ended up being lashed by him. But Rest in Peace!! My favorite post by him (in a now closed thread) was in regards to Sabine Hossenfelder is Post in thread '"The 7 Strangest Coincidences in the Laws of Nature" (S. Hossenfelder)'...
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    Lingusitics Who writes this stuff? (Starship X article)

    The distance depends on the distance……who would have thought? That article is exceptionally bad.
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    RIP Chuck Mangione (84), Jazz Musician, flugelhorn, trumpet, piano

    Man I’m so sorry I didn’t see this thread until now. Even more sorry that I didn’t know until now. R.I.P.
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    I Adding total time derivative to Lagrangian/Canonical Transformations

    On a side note (or maybe not a side note?). I think I see the motivation for defining the Poisson Bracket. If we add a total time derivative ##\frac{dF(q,p,t)}{dt}## to the Lagrangian and ASSUME that Hamilton’s equations hold, that is ##\dot q = \frac{\partial H}{\partial p}## ##\dot p = -...
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    I Adding total time derivative to Lagrangian/Canonical Transformations

    Based off of these MIT Notes: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/8-09-classical-mechanics-iii-fall-2014/f00f7f68ac7ba346a0868efb7430582c_MIT8_09F14_Chapter_4.pdf 1) This set of notes starts with the premise that ##L’ = L + \frac{dF(q,t)}{dt} = L + \frac{\partial F}{\partial q} \dot q + \frac{\partial...
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    Slight Confusion in Introductory Mechanics (Dynamics Problem)

    OP are you familiar with solving second order linear non-homogenous differential equations? I was able to get the correct answer (Which is A btw as others have pointed out) Use the ansatz ##x(t) = Ae^{\sqrt{5} t} + Be^{-\sqrt{5} t} + C## Apply the initial conditions ##x(0) = 0## and ##...
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    🔹RC Circuit with Series Capacitors — One Pre-Charged, One Uncharged

    I think the answer for the charge across the second capacitor that was initially charged to ##C\epsilon## should be ##\frac{1}{3} C \epsilon \left(e^{-\frac{3t}{2CR}} + 2 \right)## Which i was able to get through Laplace Transforms. This answer at the very least supports the initial condition...
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    🔹RC Circuit with Series Capacitors — One Pre-Charged, One Uncharged

    I think a partial answer to OP’s question “without integration or differentiation” is using Laplace transforms. I will give it some more thought as to how I would incorporate initial conditions.
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    🔹RC Circuit with Series Capacitors — One Pre-Charged, One Uncharged

    What is the meaning of CE? (Capacitance times electric field?) I’m not sure that has units of charge as the problem statement indicates.
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    Formulate this as a linear programming problem

    I believe ##x## is used for desktop diaries and ##y## is used for pocket diaries. They key word is “at least” “They will need at least twice as many pocket diaries as desktop diaries”……translation: “the number of pocket diaries must be greater than or equal to 2 times the number of desktop...
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    Most Hard-Driving Music?

    Did you just get your username changed to “Death Metal”? Nice.
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    Classical Is there a major difference between 'Fundamentals of Physics' editions?

    I have the third edition of Goldstein but I have heard that the 2nd edition is much better. Users have stated on this forum that there are problems with the treatment of non-holonomic constraints in the 3rd edition.