Recent content by zk3381

Hey everyone, I'm currently in Calc 2 and the only thing I seem to be having a problem with is a couple of the convergence tests. When I take pretty much any math course, I always use mathematica to help check my answers when I'm doing HW or practicing so I don't waste time. My question is...

I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good supplemental text for a college-freshman level mechanics course (calc 1 being the pre-req). I am pretty solid on the math, and I feel like that ends up hurting me sometimes because I think of things more in terms of the mathematics and sometimes I...

Yeah essentially. They say give you a question on, for example, angular motion and they tell you that the initial angular velocity is x rads/s and it is accelerating/decelerating at a constant whatever rad/s^2. I'm interested in how to take that information and turn it into a function, say...

I guess what I'm saying is if there is any way to take the information you are given in a general physics problem and turn it into a function you can differentiate or integrate (if that is applicable for the situation)? I mean, in the questions that do have functions in them, they had to get...

I'm a sophomore Physics major currently taking Mechanics, and I recently noticed something when I was going over some homework. I am really good at Calculus, and I noticed I tend to do way better on the calculus based problems (i.e. work, finding force from potential energy etc) than some of the...

I've just always found them particularly fascinating, and I like the fact that there is still a lot about them that is still to be discovered. I've always thought they were really cool and got turned on to the physics of them while reading about Joan Feynman. I figured somewhere northern might...

Hey everyone, I'm a 24 year old junior working on a BS in Physics. (Like everyone else) my main interest is theoretical astrophysics/astronomy. I'm a good student (3.2) and work at the observatory at my school and do a couple of other various jobs in the Physics department. I am particularly...