Homework Statement
A film director films a scene by photographing it in a plane mirror. The distance from the camera to the actor is 12.0m. The perpendicular distance from the camera to the plane of the mirror is 8.0m. The perpendicular distance from the actor to the plane mirror is also...
I heard of this theory that says if you lean on a wall for a couple of billion years then at some stage you should fall through it. What's this called?
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Just had me algebra exam and that was a question!
I pretty much put what HallsofIvy said. I asked the lecturer after and he said that zeroes were to do with the function and roots were an algebraic property.
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Nope. Think of x_1 = x ... x_2 = y ... x_3 = z etcetera
So yours is just g(x), but for a polynomial g(x_1,x_2)=g(x,y) and could be like x^2-3y-14x^3+37 y^99. Then you switch x and y so give g(y,x)= y^2-3x-14y^3+37 x^99
which is different to g(x,y) so they aren't symmetric.
Thanks. By root I mean (x-3)(x+4)=0 =>x=3,-4. Not square roots or anything.
I just remembered something being said like (x-2)^3 has three roots but only 1 x-intercept, and then another question which I can't find seemed to imply it was the same case with zeroes and roots.
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I think he means something like, for matrices A,B
A.B=0
But the problem is is A=[1 1] and B= [-10 0]
...... [0 0] ... [ 10 0]
but obviously A=0 or B=0 is not necessarily true. Something like that.
How can I show that
1+\frac{n}{1!}+\frac{n(n-1)}{2!}+\frac{n(n-1)(n-2)}{3!}+...= 2^{n}
This comes from proving that the power set of a set with n elements is 2^{n}.
I got so far that nCn+nC(n-1)+ ... = what I have above. Now for the induction...
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What does line integral really mean, what is it doing?
Say you have a function f(x,y,z) and you integrate it w.r.t. arc length along some curve C.
Is this like finding the area under C over f? Like if you are walking along C, and the vertical area covered below you is the integral?
It's...
No, it's plausible because the slope is flat. What about a linear function, y=mx+c? The slope isn't changing, it's constant...but the deriv isn't 0.
So the bit in brackets should say "and the second derivative is the rate of change of slope"
Depends on the country. In Western Australia (math capital of the world), a few textbooks have been written specifically for the syllabus. Calculus by OT Lee and Calculus by AJ Sadler. Find them on eBay.
Alternatively, you can do chapter 1 of undergraduate calculus books.
Nope. Inventing questions is quite good because it makes you think.
And you could make a question that is impossible to solve, work out why, and you've learned something new.
That entire post took me about 45 minutes to read so don't anticipate many responses.
Just hit up the exercises in the end of the chapter. Invent some questions. Listen to Pink Floyd and power through it.
pretty sure he doesn't get the concept but he knows how to do it.
It's like the derivative wrt x (say) along a curve where z,y are constant. Drawing a picture will make it easy straight away. Think of a solid shape. Chop it into two pieces. The rate of change along the edge is kind of doing a...
What sort of jobs could someone get if they got a degree in maths i.e BSc(Pure/Applied Maths)?
Apart from being a maths teacher, professor, researcher etc..., but more industry work?
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This is for a Signals and Noise unit. Part of this assignment is to calculate the transfer function H(f) of an amplifier and do some stuff. I can do the 'stuff', but can't find H(f) which I need.
Homework Statement
The circuit is a voltage source (geophone) connected to an amplifier which...
Can you get logarithms of imaginary numbers?
The reason I was wondering is because integrating 1/(1+x^2) WRT x.
I know the answer is arctan(x), but how about breaking it into partial fractions by doing 1/(1-ix)(1+ix)?
Of the five universities in Western Australia, one is a private Catholic uni which mostly focuses on Arts, Med, Law and Theology.
The others have also the cool stuff like engineering, Phys+Math, Chem dadadadadadada...
In terms of how good the unis are in general, the private one (I reckon) is...
Second derivative is the rate of change of the derivative, i.e "how fast is the gradient changing?".
Say the second derivative is 1 at point A and 2 at point B on the same function. Then the gradient (the derivative) is changing faster at point A than point B.
It was in an assignment.
I wanted to post the whole question but have no idea how to use latex that well (only basic).
If you can get this, it was:
Show that:
Integrate[e^(ix(m+n)),{x,0,2pi}] = 2pi*delta(m+n)
the LHS should vaguely resemble a Mathematica input and the RHS (m+n) should...
Homework Statement
Prove that
E(X) > a.P(X>a)
Homework Equations
E(X) is expectation, a is a positive constant and X is the random variable.
(Note, > should be 'greater than or equal to' but I'm not too sure how to do it)
The Attempt at a Solution
Well I can show it easy enough...