Recent content by sikrut

I really have no knowledge of particle physics, unfortunately. I haven't really had the urge to learn more until reading that article. You mind if I ask you what is a pion and how it interacts? (I'm actually doing QM homework right now, or else i'd read up myself :P )

So there was this article published today that some researchers may have found a dark matter signature emanating from the sun in the form of xr-ray emission from axion interactions with Earth's magnetic field. Article...

I think that's what I'm having some trouble with. I can tell you all sorts of specific research areas to do with astronomy, but i haven't really done my homework learning active areas of research with AE. Any resources you could point me too?

Yeah, I'm planning on taking that pretty soon, so I guess that'll help quite a bit. What do you think about going mechanical vs aerospace?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Keep in mind, just because a class is easy does not mean you won't have to spend much time on them. Phi 101 will more than likely require you to read quite a bit of material nightly. The essays and the debates may be easy, but they will still be time consuming. Always keep that in mind

Let me firstly and quickly apologize if this topic has been covered before. I know you all answer a lot of these questions, so please link me to some past discussions as you see fit. I am going into my last year as an astrophysics major, and I'm a bit dismayed at my job outlook with just a...

I guess I really wanted a more finite answer, but that's not always true in physics. My derivative ##\rightarrow 0## when ##a \rightarrow \inf##, which mean this sheet starts to look like an infinitely long and thin line along the axis of the diagonal and the angular velocity vector. Solving...

As an undergraduate also studying physics and astronomy at a school that is not exactly recognized for its physics and engineering programs, what I can tell you is that you should plan to be sprinting right out the gate. Don't feel you've dug yourself a grave by going to a school of lesser...

Looks like I'm still running into a problem. When I plug in everything, it simplifies to this. then when I take the derivative. I can't solve for a in this answer. Could my initial ##\tau## be incorrect then? edit: I've solved and resolved this solution by hand a few times now and I keep...

Dam. You are completely right. So i basically would make ##\phi = \phi(a)##, and take the respective derivatives. What I'm wondering about this is that since for example, ##sin(\phi(a)) = \frac{b}{\sqrt{a^2+b^2}}##, could i just say that ##\frac{d}{da}sin(\phi(a)) = cos(\phi(a))...

Homework Statement Introduction to Classical Mechanics by David Morin - problem 9.43, page 424 A uniform flat rectangular sheet of mass m and side lengths a and b rotates with angular speed w around a diagonal. What torque is required? Given a fixed area A, what should the rectangle look...

Homework Statement Show that, inside a straight current-carrying conductor of radius R, the vector potential is: $$ \vec{A} = \frac{\mu_{0}I}{4\pi}(1-\frac{s^2}{R^2}) $$ so that ##\vec{A}## is set equal to zero at s = R Homework Equations ## \vec{A} =...

Is there not some way to manipulate the flux ratio so that you can calculate the fluxes of each star?

But what if the absolute magnitudes and distances of those stars are known?