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I've been reading a few books on scattering of light from particles, in particular mie scattering of cylinders. At first I want to look at infinite cylinders, then finite cylinders once I understand a bit better. The problem is that all of the books I've looked at treat the problem where...

I'm thinking of doing a PhD in http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/vacancies/adverts/studentships/2011/Zwijnenburg_2011_1" . I come from a physics background and have a MSci Mathematical Physics. I'm confident that this PhD is suitable for me, and all I have to do now is accept the offer, but I...

Hi, I'm helping my friend with a space combat game he is programming. What I'm trying to figure out is how to model the collisions between spheres in 3D. So far I've figured out how to calculate final velocities of 2 colliding spheres using conservation of linear momentum. I found a...