Homework Statement
Hi, with regards to the negative zero error , do we read the vernier scale from the left or from the right?
In this case, should it be -0.04cm or -0.06cm?
Thank you !
hello office_shredder,
may i know why the indices rule is invalid for negative numbers? i tried for example, (-2^6) and split them up to [-2^(2*3)] = 4^3 and i still yielded 64.
where does taking exponents of negative numbers breakdown?
thanks!
oh... do you mean since 1+kx is a straight line, so at the point 0, it is just 1 + kx ?
so if i had a curve, would taylor expansion ( approximation? ) make more sense here?
that means the first term of the expansion gives me a straight line, the 2nd makes it more curve, the 3rd makes it...
oh, we can just define a as x?
does it mean i can define a as -kx or -k also?
but i thought a is the point that we evaluate the taylor expansion on?
am i right to say if i taylor expand on a point say x =1 for a curve graph. then as my orders of taylor expansion become greater, the...
hi everyone thanks for helping
but the taylor expansion was for x-kx
or perhaps only -kx was expanded?
but anyway it was given as x - kx f'(x) + ...
with regards to the above, how did you get that formula?
because i only know this f(x) = f(a) + f'(a)(x-a) + 1/2! f''(a)(x-a)2 as the...
i am very confuse how my profs always use taylor expansion in physics which somehow doesn't follow the general equation of
f(x) = f(a) + f'(a)(x-a) + 1/2! f''(a)(x-a)2 and so on...
like for example, what is the taylor expansion of x - kx where k is small
it was given as something like...