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    Undergrad Spinning bottle on the surface of the water

    No, it is not vertical! The axes and the bottle is horizontal!
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    Undergrad Spinning bottle on the surface of the water

    Let us suppose that a cylindrical bottle is on the surface of the water (filled with air for simplicity). A little spin is given to the bottle makes it rotating around the symmetry axis of the cylinder. After a while the bottle stops rotating. How to calculate the time duration of spinning?
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    Graduate How to fit plane onto sampling data?

    "binning so the data would represent a frequency instead of isolated measurements. " This is, what I do not want! So the question remains!
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    Graduate How to fit plane onto sampling data?

    For example I have the variables x, y and a probability distribution p(x,y). I want to approximate p(x,y) as a linear function, a plane in this case, at least somewhere in the domain. However I only have samples from the distribution. In case of big amount of data the it is easy to collect them...
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    How to describe motion of the wall of a liquid container?

    I would like to solve it dynamically (with some assumptions), but my liquid is not viscous!
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    How to describe motion of the wall of a liquid container?

    I think that energy and work is not useful in this case, since I would like to describe the motion in time. I have already tried. Maybe the horizontal momentum is more useful, however I do not know how to deal with the flow of the water, since the total negligence is not good, but the general...
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    How to describe motion of the wall of a liquid container?

    Hi, I wonder I cannot solve the following simple problem. I really don't know what kind of equations are relevant. Imagine a rectangular tank, with vertical walls containing some water. The surface area is big. The wall of the tank is movable without friction, and its mass is negligible. All...
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    Graduate How to fit given function to blurred data points?

    Yes, I know all the principles. But I need a practical example with equations, maybe a book chapter or a paper with this kind of problem. For example what kind of keyword should I search for? The distributions can be the same, but not Gaussian. Is it practically possible to calculate at all...
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    Graduate How to fit given function to blurred data points?

    Are there any elaborated theory or method how to fit parameters of a function family to data given by probability distributions of data points instead of given coordinates of points precisely without error? I think this is a very general problem, I hope it is already solved. Important: I...
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    Graduate Is it possible to measure Hausdorff dimension for real world objects?

    Is it possible practically to measure Hausdorff dimension of the surface of the Brain or the broccoli? For a broccoli Hausdorff dimension is equivalent to the so called box counting dimension, which is far more practical? I think, following the original definition Hausdorff dimension it is quite...