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BTW thanks for the link to Wolfram - I tried it with numbers of four significant figures and it worked. -
TSny replied to the thread Some work on MTW Figure 25.7.I think 1.86 is good. Using simple numerical differentiation, similar to your approach, I get 1.83. The approximate formula ##\frac...
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TSny replied to the thread Undergrad Why is the Lorentz Force always perpendicular to velocity?.Consdider the case where the test charge moves perpendicularly away from the conductor ("wire") in the lab frame ##S## and suppose the...
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TSny replied to the thread Some work on MTW Figure 25.7.For online calculation of the incomplete elliptic integral ##F[\phi, m]##, where ##m = k^2##, see this site at WolframAlpha. The link...
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TSny replied to the thread Some work on MTW Figure 25.7.I don't see much difference between the MTW (Darwin) calculations and your calculations using ##r_1, r_2, ## and ##r_3##. Darwin shows...
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TSny replied to the thread Some work on MTW Figure 25.7.The relations between the three root ##(r_1, r_2, r_3)## and the quantities ##R## and ##Q## are given in the paper by C. Darwin...
