Difficulty Definition and 261 Threads

I am physics major and just started taking my upper level physics course at the beginning of the fall semester. Obviously, the jump in difficulty from freshmen level physics is quite large, as I expected. However, on exams, many of the questions expect us to conjure up clever manipulations, or...

Hey Guys, I'm having trouble designing an inverter to power an ac motor using a fuel cell with MATLAB. With the inverter, the output current of the DC converter dips below 0 and the fuel cell does not like that at all because it causes a 'ln of -ve number' error. I have tried placing an...

I somehow managed to get Bs in two calculus courses and was pretty confident that in a pinch I was capable of doing work involving lagrange multipliers, Green's theorem, convergences of improper integrals, and such. My textbook was multivariable calculus by Larson and Edwards which I was sold...

I want to start taking math one day a week to get the credits done and I'm wondering what the Mathematical ladder is relative to the level of difficulty?

Homework Statement There is a rollercoaster. A car starts 35m "high" and descends to the ground. A.) What is the velocity at this point? The car continues an goes 28m above the ground. B.) calculate its velocity at this point. C.) If the car descends another 13m from this point, what is the...

Homework Statement Determine the eigenvector for (S \cdot \hat{n}) |eigenvector> = (\hbar)/2 |eigenvector> where S = (\hbar)/2 \sigma. The sigmas are the Pauli spin matrices and \hat{n} = sin\beta cos\alpha \hat{i} + sin\beta\ sin\alpha \hat{j} + cos\beta \hat{k} You have to solve for the...

I get the impression that people who review research papers want to see recent papers listed in the bibliography. To me, this implies that I would have to list papers that are not neither the biggest landmarks nor the most relevant. When I do research, it's mostly my own thing. It's...

How can we rank and compare the difficulty of theorems in different fields?

HI I have difficulty with imagine why i must see the shift in the interference fringes when we rotate the apparatus 90 degrees ! what exactly happen to make me assuming see this shifting?( in michelson-morley experiment) because when i finish from rotating, the same rays will be...

Which course is more difficulty in terms of which subject contains more rigorous proofs, Complex variables or Real analysis. I don't know whether I should dropped Complex variables, but the only reason I am taken it is because of the useful physics applications found in this course. I my...

Well, I plan on leaving my current job as an electromechanical engineer on a venture capital project and starting grad school this fall to eventually get my PhD. However, I'm having a lot of trouble leaving on good terms. I'm giving them written notice in person with my last date of employment...

I am currently an electrical engineering major at Fenn College of Engineering. I passes calculus 1 with b and calculus 2 with b and calculus 3 with a and linear algebra with A. Also took pre calculus if that counts. How much more math I need for minor besides differential equations? Also is...

I'm having trouble with Ax=b matrices. I get really confused when dealing with matrices that have a different number of rows from columns. An example is this problem: (A is a 3x2 matrix) A = 3 1 4 2 -5 -1...

ive been hearing about this course in the community college i attend and from what I've heard is that this is the hardest lower division physics course that most people take. I am a civil engineering major and the people I've talked to are also engineering majors. any advice for those who have...

[SOLVED] Work and energy Hello, I've been having difficulty with this question... Homework Statement A 25.6kg child pulls a 4.81kg toboggan up a hill inclined at 25.7° to the horizontal. The vertical height of the hill is 27.3 m. Friction is negligible. Determine how much work the child...

Hello. Can someone shed some light on this: Are the topics Integers, Diophantine Equations, and Congruence supposed to be difficult? How easy are they relative to other topics in first year math curriculum? Like in comparison to topics in Calculus, Linear Algebra, or Physics? Do these...

I seem to be having some trouble processing non-inertial frame homework problems. I hear that sometimes attempting to explain the problem helps with the understanding so here goes. I don't think I have any difficulty visualizing the problems. Creating free body diagrams (FBD) from the...

People seem to think Calc 2 is a very difficult course. Is it that much more difficult than calc 1?

Hello, Can someone please explain to me something here please? In this oxidation problem Na2Cr2O7 + HNO3 + Na2SO3 yields NaNO3 + Cr(NO3)3 + Na2SO4 + H2O I know S is Oxidized and Cr is Reduced. However, when I look at the solution set, I am get completely confused. They are putting...

Hi all, I'm afraid this may sound rather trivial but a friend of mine brought up this topic and we're quite confused about it: how does a rocket change its velocity in space? My understanding is that the rocket releases gas, and this gas will cause the rocket to accelerate. If you take...

According to the text, at a distance of 50 m from a jet engine, the sound intensity is 10 W/m2. This corresponds to a loudness (or an intensity level) of 130 dB. [You should convince yourself that this is true.] If you find the sound too loud and you want to reduce the intensity by a factor of...

Homework Statement How far will a stone travel over level ground if it is thrown upward at an angle of 35 degrees with respect to the horizontal and with a speed of 20 m/s? What is the maximum range that can be achieved if a stone is thrown with an initial speed of 24 m/s? The...

Homework Statement The region in the second quadrant bounded above by the curve y=-x^3, below by the x-axis, and on the left by the line x=-1, about the line x=-2 Homework Equations It's basically the big radius squared minus the small radius squared, integrated in terms of y, and...

Let's try something--let me know if you have difficulty Let's try something. Everybody imagine an expanding three-sphere. When cosmologists give you the balloon analogy, that is what they are trying to illustrate. the balloon is just the 2D analog of the 3-sphere. It is easy to imagine the...

Ok so I am in Calculus II this summer and its pretty easy so far. However, I have heard the hardest part about Calc II is series and seqence. Why so? And what can I do to make it easier on myself? What was your expierence with sequence and series. Thanks in advance.

The speed of light is 3.0 x 10 exponent8 m/s. How Many minutes does it take for light to reach the Earth from the sun. Which is 1.5 x 10 exponent11 m away? I know the formula is t=d/v so ?=1.5 x 10 exponent11 m /3.0 x 10 exponent8 m/s The answer is 500s=8.3min...I just don't know how...

In statistical mechanics, we define \frac{1}{\tau}=\left( \frac{\partial \sigma}{\partial U} \right)_N This formula gives the temperature as a function of the energy of the system and N. So knoweldge of U and N determines the temperature of the system. Conversely, at least when the...

Hi all. I have difficulty in visualizing the concept of divergence of a vector field. While I have some clue in undertanding, in fluid mechanics, that the divergence of velocity represent the net flux of a point, but I find no clue why the divergence of an electric field measures the charge...

Homework Statement going through my a level text i found a prob i cannot solve Homework Equations 1) a helicopter of total mass 1000kg is able to remain in a stationary position by imparting a uniform downward velocity to a cylinder of air below it of effective diametre 6m. Assuming the...

Hi, I am sorry about the length of this but I would appreciate if some you took the time to read and reply. I guess I am posting this because I require a little direction at the moment. I am entering into my last year of a math degree in Australia. I have studied quite a bit of math in my...

I know this is a simple part of Quantum Mechanics, but I seem to be having trouble with it, I'm not sure if my math is just wrong or if I'm applying it wrong. The questions that I have are: Prove the following for arbitrary operators A,B and C: (hint-no tricks, just write them out in...

could anyone explain (no calculation) how to work the following identity so could get an understanding of it thank you tan(45+A)degrees tan(45-A)degrees=1

can anyone help[ me prove the following identity i keep on ending up in a dead end tan3A=3tanA-tan^3 A/ 1-3tan^2 A thank you

We perform Bernoulli processes of respective probabilities p and q. What is the probability of getting n consecutive successes before getting m consecutive failures? Sol: We define the following events: E: getting n consecutive successes before getting m consecutive failures. F: The first...

Hi, having difficulty solving the following question.. Any1 can help me and guide me through solving it ?? or is there any good website or reference to recommand ?? Thankz alot..

Halliday 7e chapt 4 #16 (with web generated values) In the figure (attatched), particle A moves along the line y = 33 m with a constant velocity of magnitude 3 m/s and parallel to the x axis. At the instant particle A passes the y axis, particle B leaves the origin with zero initial speed...

What is the "organic chemistry" class in math? Is real analysis considered by many to be this type of class? In your opinion, what have been your easiest/most difficult math classes (in ascending order)? Any feedback is appreciated Thanks

Does anyone know where I might find a rough guide of how difficult it is to learn different musical intruments? I guess I'm specifically interested in the fiddle. I know music theory, I can read music (at least, if given indefinite time) and even mangled a trumpet in high school, but have...

I have an equation of the following form: \frac {dz}{z^2 - z} Of course, I factor this into: (z + \sqrt{z})(z - \sqrt{z}) then, \frac{A}{z + \sqrt{z}} + \frac{B}{z - \sqrt{z}} of course cross multiply the denominators to get: A(z - \sqrt{z}) + B(z + \sqrt{z}) = 1 But...

-44x^2 -2y^2 - 47xy + 45x + 2y + z =0 ; -2x^2 + y^2 + 43 xy + 2x + z =0; x^2 - 44y^2 - 41xy - 2x + 43y + z =-1 _____________________________________ :rolleyes: Can we obtain all REAL solutions of this system without using numerical math tools? I have problems with it and would...

I'm not sure if i did this problem correctly. Could someone check it over. A 730-N man stands in the middle of a frozen pond of a radius of 5.0 m. He is unable to get to the other side because of a lack of friction between his shoes and the ice. To overcome this difficulty, he throws his 1.2...

I finally managed to work through my difficulty with frictionless force problems involving Newton's second law, but now what's throwing me off is how to throw friction into the mix. For this problem, for example: A 68 kg crate is dragged across a floor by pulling on a rope attached to the...

This time I'm having trouble with this problem: If the position of an object is given by x = 2.30t^5, where x is measured in meters and t in seconds, find (a) the average velocity and (b) the average acceleration between t = 1.0 s and t = 2.0 s. Then find (c) the instantaneous velocity v and...

I want to be able to prove that S=T \, \Leftrightarrow \, \langle Sx\,|\,x \rangle = \langle Tx\,|\,x \rangle given that S,T \in \mathcal{B(H)} and x \in \mathcal{H}. If S and T are bounded linear operators and I suppose that S = T then I have to be able to prove that \langle...

Unfortunately, I can't help him. The problem is this: a=2d/t(squared). Distance=30 cm. t=.9 seconds. We're not looking for the answer, just the way to figure it out.

I shall give a short example to illustrate where I am confused. If we take the K.E. of a particle in spherical polar coords. T = \frac{1}{2}m( \dot r^2 + r^2 \dot\theta^2 + r^2 sin^2 \theta \dot \phi^2) And T' = \frac{1}{2}( \dot r^2 + r^2 \dot\theta^2 + r^2 sin^2 \theta \dot...

Relist, in your opinion, these five kinds of engineering in terms of difficulty. aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, chemical engineering and civil engineering.

Help!A question very difficulty! The question is: Three identical small spheres of mass m are suspended by threads of negligible masses and equal length L from a common point.Acharge Q is divided equally between the spheres and they come to equilibrium at the coners of a horizontal equilateral...

Hi. So, I don't quite understand EXACTLY what they're asking me here. Problem statement: A fan blade rotates with angular velocity given by \omega _{z}(t) = ( 5.10 rad/s) - ( 0.785 rad/s^3) t^{2} a.) Calculate the angular acceleration as a function of time. Alright, I understand...

Hi everyone, I've tried searching over and over again in my textbook and online, but I can't seem to find anything about the specific nature of parallel batteries. So I have the following problem that I can't get anywhere with: There is a 6 ohms light bulb connected to two 1.5 V...