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    When Is It Energetically Favorable for Rock to Split?

    When is it energetically favourable for a piece of rock to crumble into two pieces? I couldn't paste latex code here for the life of me so I attached a pdf containing my calculation. It is obviously wrong because it leads to the fact that a box-shaped rock of height sqrt(2) (say meters) would...
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    Understanding the Lotka Volterra Equations: Explained in Simple Terms

    Homework Statement Hello everyone. I'm trying to figure out the meaning of the multiplier N in the following equations, called the Lotka Volterra equations. They describe the growth rate of predators (P) which grow by eating prey and die from ageing, and the growth rate of their prey (N)...
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    Maximizing Your Free Time: A Guide to Further Studying Physics

    I am an Israeli, but I'd like to read books in English so I'll know the terms by their "real" names. Calculus for instance is something I think I do know a tiny bit of, now that I've read about what it is, but I know it by a different name. It would be much more comfortable to know the terms...
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    Maximizing Your Free Time: A Guide to Further Studying Physics

    Thank you, I'll look for that book then.
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    Maximizing Your Free Time: A Guide to Further Studying Physics

    No, could you please tell me where to find them? I searched for "feynman" and "feynman lecture" using the search engine but that yielded many many results, I suppose he's either a famous physicist or an active forum poster.
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    Maximizing Your Free Time: A Guide to Further Studying Physics

    Hello everyone. I finished high school recently and I have 3 months of free time before I am to be recruited to the army. I'd like to do something productive with those 3 months and study some more physics, since in school I was only taught the basics. Other than articles on wikipedia...
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