Recent content by Richard Parker

Yes, maybe I ran into a problem of semantics. I understand the problem of language on science, specially for me that have to translate the concepts to my native language. What worries me is the physical meaning of the concepts "stationary state of a system" and "steady state of a system". But...

The problem is that I taked the two concepts, stationary state and steady state, to be the same. Only now that I started to think if there is a difference. In portuguese the word estacionário is used to describe a system that is not changing over time. If you translate estacionário to english...

I was recently working on a problem of Griffiths and in the solution's manual it used an argument to solve a diffential equation that caught my attention. It said that it would look first to the steady state solution of the ODE. I tought "All right, I get that" but when I got to translate the...