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    Sign convention of bolometric correction

    Okay..the othermore straightforward question why is the bolometric correction always positive? Wouldn't the bolometric correction be negative since the bolometric magnitude is smaller than the visual magnitude
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    Sign convention of bolometric correction

    Okay I realize that stars emit at least some radiation outside the visual range but I have seen stars with positive BC when I thought that most values are negative due to the radiant flux over all wavelengths being greater than its flux over a certain wavelength. Is the sign of the BC the same...
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    Conducting Sphere in a nonconducting fluid

    Homework Statement I had a question there is a conducting sphere submerged in a nonconducting fluid with a dielectric constant do I treat the fluid as if it is a uniform field? Or do I go ahead and use Legendre polynomials? I asked to find E,D and the polarization. Homework Equations...
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    Solving Laplace's Equation with Separation of Variables

    Homework Statement \frac{1}{s} \frac{\partial }{\partial s} (\{s} \frac{\partial V}{\partial s}) + \frac{1}{s^2} \cdot \frac{\partial^2 V}{\partial \phi^2} When you do separation of variables what happens to the \frac{1}{s} and the \frac{1}{s^2} after you divide through by \Phi and S to...
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    Method of Images: How does the uniqueness theorem apply?

    Thanks that makes sense and I will look into LaTeX since I am not familiar with that, but to your questions yes and that does make sense. I guess I overlooked the uniqueness theorem but the uniqueness theorem does not apply to all problems like this does it?
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    Method of Images: How does the uniqueness theorem apply?

    [b]1. Point charge in the presence of a grounded conducting sphere given the boundary conditions phi(x)=0 at r=a (V=0) and at r=infinity (V=0) [b]2. The equation I used phi(x)= (q/abs(x-y))+(q'/abs(x-y))=(q/abs(x*nhatsubx-y'nhatsuby))+ (q'/abs(x'*nhatsubx-y'*nhatsuby') [b]3. The...
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