If I was looking at a self-luminous object, and all of a sudden a great pass appeared directly between me and the object, in the line of sight between me and it, I could potentially see an Einstein ring.
Q: If that mass then started moving radially towards me (distance to self-luminous source...
I have been analyzing some data at work, and I have measured the occurrence rates of some event. How do I give a one sigma confidence interval to go along with it, assuming it is a Poisson event? For example, I found that something occurs 20 out of 10 000 times, something else occurs 43 out of...
If I have a vector nhat = [nx, ny, nz] which is normal to some plane, how can I write the vectors (I assume there are infinitely many) which are perpendicular to that plane?
Hard to pick just 5, given that I am a major music junkie, but they most likely are:
Cibo Matto - Stereotype A
Cibo Matto - Viva la Woman
Depeche Mode - Violator
Leftfield - Leftism
Moloko - Do you like my tight sweater?
This isn't a homework question at all, but I thought I should try not to pollute the general math forum with it.
At work, I am trying to create an artificial distribution of a quantity. It has a peak at a certain location in 2D space (x',y') and then falls off with a gaussian profile in every...
I have a bunch of spectral images of a star taken at various points in the Earth's orbit. I have used IRAF to determine the heliocentric corrections necessary. I am trying to get a rough estimate as to the difference between these heliocentric corrections, and what a barycentric correction would...
I know that, for time-independent potentials, we have E=sum (Vi*partial dL/dVi) - L
What if one or more of the potentials are time-dependent?
Is the relationship between energy and the lagrangian then "total dE/dt = - partial dL/dt "?