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    Radial Distribution of Points over the Area of a Circle

    Wow thank you! I don't know why I got so confused by that... totally over-thought it.. Amazing how much my mathematics skills have left me in just 1.5 years of not using them...
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    Radial Distribution of Points over the Area of a Circle

    yes that is understood... but how do we go from f(r)~1/r to f(r)~1/(2πRr) ?? if we set up an integral normalized to 1 with limits of integration are 0 to R and 0 to 2π, we would have 1 = ∫∫f(r) * r * dr *dθ ... add in a term of 1/r and we have 1 = ∫∫f(r) * 1/r * r * dr *dθ ... 1 =...
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    Radial Distribution of Points over the Area of a Circle

    BUMP I'm thinking I need to somehow integrate 1/R over the circumference of infinitesimal rings to get an equation: normalized to equal 1 of course... 1=f(r)*(2pi*r)(R) But how and why could I do this? What would allow me to integrate this way? Thank you!
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    Radial Distribution of Points over the Area of a Circle

    sorry, I meant just points. Updated in first post.. Will post any alternate link to Jaynes' paper I can find, for now I have updated the OP to a new link from Google, which at least doesn't crash my Firefox...
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    Radial Distribution of Points over the Area of a Circle

    This is a tiny part of a presentation I am giving Friday, any and all help is appreciated. Homework Statement Suppose we have a circle centered on O. We are looking for the distribution of the points generated by the following method: We choose a random radius of the circle, and then choose...
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    Simple Spectrometer and Spectroscopy Question

    Yes that is what I ended up doing. I just turned it in. I ended up just chalking it up to measurement error, and averaged the two for the angle. That was just really out of character for the textbook. First problem in 35 Chapters I've seen that would have some kind of practical measurement...
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    Explaining the relationship between launch angle and displacement

    correct josh, the relationship varies at every different angle
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    Solve Elastic Collision: Find Velocity & Direction

    To find the velocity remember Momentum and Energy are conserved. Hard to understand from your question, but it sounds like they are both traveling different 2D or 3D directions before collision, thus when they collide you can remember that Momentum is conserved in the x, y, and z direction...
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    Simple Spectrometer and Spectroscopy Question

    Homework Statement Two first-order spectrum lines are measured by a 9650line/cm spectroscope at angles, on each side of the center, of +26*38', +41*02' and -26*18', -40*27'. Calculate the wavelengths based on these data.Homework Equations \lambda= (d/m)sin(\theta) The Attempt at a Solution i...
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    Can't Find Error in Application of Gauss's Law

    OH! I see! Yea for anyone else that might stumble here from google like i always do, I forgot to subtract out the inside of the outer sphere. Thank you vela!
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    Can't Find Error in Application of Gauss's Law

    The book gives the answer as exactly: -(1.1 x 10^8 N*m^2/C)/r^2 + (3.0 x 10^11 N/C*m)r And as my outer shell matches the second part of their answer exactly, i can only assume that the first part is what my inner shell should amount to...
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    Can't Find Error in Application of Gauss's Law

    Can't find the error I made... Rudimentary problem i know but i can't find where my mistake is... Homework Statement A nonconducting sphere is made of two layers. The innermost section has a radius of 6.0 cm and a uniform charge density of -5.0 C/m3. The outer layer has a uniform charge...
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