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Inductance of two-conductor line - Proof Questions
I am trying to understand how to derive equations for the inductance of an x-conductor line. Any number really. But I want to understand the proof for a two-conductor line first. So to start any of these proofs you first need the equation for the per unit length inductance: I know R is...- Marcin H
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- Inductance Line Proof
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- Forum: Electrical Engineering
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Circle and a line dividing the circumference
Homework Statement The line "4x + 3y -4=0 " divides the circumference of circle centred at (5,3) in ratio 1:2.whats the equation of the circle Homework Equations 2πr Distance of a line from point Radius of general circle The Attempt at a Solution I tried finding the distance of the centre...- Navin
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- Circle Circumference Coordinate geometry Line
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- Forum: Precalculus Mathematics Homework Help
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Transmission Line Transposition - Conceptual Question
This is more of a conceptual question and not a homework question. I am having a hard time understanding why we have to transpose transmission lines and how physically moving them changes anything. Do we only transpose in 3 phase transmission lines when we have 3 wires? Does the orientation...- Marcin H
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- Conceptual Line Transmission Transmission line Transmission lines
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- Forum: Electrical Engineering
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Finding the equipotential surfaces of a finite line of charge
Homework Statement Consider a line of charge stretching along the z-axis from -L to +L. Find the potential everywhere. What are the surfaces of constant potential. (The next question answers the previous question and says its a prolate ellipsoid. Homework Equations I will upload an image of...- Faizan Samad
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- Charge equipotential Finite Line Surfaces
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MHB Find the equation of the line through (-9, 2); perpendicular to y= -1
Find the equation of the line through (-9, 2); perpendicular to y= -1. Use standard form : y=mx+b- bcm322
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- Line Perpendicular
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- Forum: General Math
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Line Integral for Electromagnetic Force
http://web.mit.edu/sahughes/www/8.022/lec01.pdf So I'm trying to understand how to get from F = ∫[(Q*λ)*dL*r]/(r^2) to F=∫q*λ*[(xx+ay)/(a^2+x^2)^(3/2)]*dx Like I don't understand why the x and y components of r are negative, or why "The horizontal r component is obviously zero: for every...- gibberingmouther
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- Electromagnetic Electromagnetic force Force Integral Line Line integral
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How to compute distance of points to a line?
I have computed a line from point A to point B by just subtracting the coordinates as below: line = np.array (x2-x1, y2-y1) I am not sure if I need to form the formula for this line first by computing the slope and intercept but I continued my code as below, slope being m and b being the...- msn009
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- Geometry Line Points Python
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I How to calculate angular rotation for a 2D line?
For illustration purposes, I have attached an image of the line with the angle that I want to calculate. I am trying to determine the angle of rotation and the calculation that I am using currently is as below: angle = math.atan2(y,x) I use this formula to calculate the rotation for A and A'...- msn009
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- 2d Angular Line Rotation Trigonometery
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Find the center of a circle given a tangent line & point
Homework Statement "Find the center and radius of the circle that passes through A(1,1) and is tangent to the line y=2x-3 at the point B(3,3). (Picture of the graph: https://imgur.com/a/0wAnqcU) Homework Equations Here's a link: https://imgur.com/a/y71Z9GY The Attempt at a Solution Soo, I've...- NormanJaden12
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- Center Circle Line Point Precalculus Tangent Tangent line
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B How to calculate a perpendicular line?
Hi, i get the math that is involved but if I have only the x,y coordinates for 2 points to connect and if i want to know what will be the perpendicular line to the line connecting these two points, how can I do that?- msn009
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- Line Perpendicular Perpendicular lines Perpendicular vector
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MHB Intersecon between a line and hypershere in R4 to RN
Hello Again, If I have point B in an orthogonal n-space and point C at the origin of the same space, point_B = 0.03299720 0.00585822 -0.36979000 -0.43413200 -0.60787700 0.61335300 0.76003400 point_C = 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000000...- LMHmedchem
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- Line
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Symmetric bowl associated with a line element
Hi! I have the following problem I don't really know where to start from: A bowl with axial symmetry is built in flat Euclidean space ##R^3##, and has a radial profile giveb by ##z(r)##, where ##z## is the axis of symmetry and ##r## is the radial distance from the axis. What radial profile...- Confused Physicist
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- Element Line Line element Symmetric
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A Why Does the Core of Certain Chromospheric Lines Appear in Emission in Sunspots?
What makes the core of some chromospheric lines such as the transition at 8542 A of the infrared Ca II triplet appear in emission in the dark umbra of sunspots?- spossatamente
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- Core Emission Line
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How Do You Calculate Null Geodesics for the Given Schwarzschild Line Element?
Hi, I'm the given the following line element: ds^2=\Big(1-\frac{2m}{r}\large)d\tau ^2+\Big(1-\frac{2m}{r}\large)^{-1}dr^2+r^2(d\theta ^2+\sin ^2 (\theta)d\phi ^2) And I'm asked to calculate the null geodesics. I know that in order to do that I have to solve the Euler-Lagrange equations. For...- Confused Physicist
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- Element Euler-lagrange General relativity Geodesics Line Line element Null geodesics
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I Christoffel symbols knowing Line Element (check my result)
Hi! I'm asked to find all the non-zero Christoffel symbols given the following line element: ds^2=2x^2dx^2+y^4dy^2+2xy^2dxdy The result I have obtained is that the only non-zero component of the Christoffel symbols is: \Gamma^x_{xx}=\frac{1}{x} Is this correct? MY PROCEDURE HAS BEEN: the...- Confused Physicist
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- Christoffel Christoffel symbols Differential Element Geometry Line Line element Symbols
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- Forum: Differential Geometry
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MATLAB Troubleshooting Best Fit Line and Distance Calculation in MATLAB
I have some experimental data, and I would like to plot a graph in MATLAB and also find the best fit line. I also want to find the distance between each point and the best fit line, and if the distance is greater than 1 unit, an error will be shown. For this, I have written a function. Here it...- Wrichik Basu
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- Data Fit Line Points
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- Forum: MATLAB, Maple, Mathematica, LaTeX
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I 3p->2s: Why spectral line split into three lines in m. field
Hello, suppose we have an excited hydrogen atom in 3p state which makes a transition to 2s state. Then the atom loses some energy by emitting a photon which can be detected (or seen). I have no problems with that situation. If there is an external magnetic field, the energy levels of the...- HastiM
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- Field Hydrogen Line Lines Split Splitting Zeeman effect
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- Forum: Quantum Physics
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MHB Intersection between line and plane in R4-RN
Hello, I believe that this is the correct forum for this post but please let me know if otherwise. I have the following data in R4, id x y z a B -0.0700177 0.382249 -0.289338 0.00349957 A 1.13388 1.77602 -0.679365...- LMHmedchem
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- Intersection Line Plane
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- Forum: Linear and Abstract Algebra
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A Number Line in Synthetic differential geometry
Hello! I just start looking at SDG and I'm already having difficulties with a few concepts as expressed by A Kock as: "We denote the line, with its commutative ring structure (relative to some fixed choice of 0 and 1) by the letter R" "The geometric line can, as soon as one chooses two...- Srr
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- Abstract algebra Differential Differential geometry Geometry Line
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B The correlation between a dimensionless point and a line
I see no correlation between a dimensionless point and a line although it appears that math has made one. I'm just a philosopher so it's quite possible that I've got it all wrong. It seems as though any location along a line is always the same location. If a location has no size then it can't...- Erk
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- Correlation Line Point
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- Forum: General Math
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Find the equation of a tangent line at each given point
Homework Statement in title Homework Equations x=2cotθ y=2sin2θ dy/dx = 2sin3θcosθ y-y1=m(x-x1) point = (-2/√3,(3/2) The Attempt at a Solution Have been stuck for hours I solved for the dy/dx above, now I need to figure out how to get rid of the θ to get my equation in terms of x so I was...- isukatphysics69
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- Line Point Tangent Tangent line
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Can a Copper Coil Harvest Power from Power Lines for an FM Radio Receiver?
I had an idea of building an FM receiver that is powered from the electromagnetic fields generated by power-lines. My question is , how can I make the electromagnetic field receiving antenna? Will a simple copper coil work? If so, can the same coil be used as the RF antenna or will that have to... -
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Condition of tangency of a line on a general form parabola
<Moderator's note: Moved from a technical forum and thus no template. Effort in post #3.> What is the condition of tangency of a line y=mx+c on parabola with vertex(h,k) ,say for parabola (y-k)2=4a(x-h)? I could only find the condition of tangency on standard form of parabola, in the internet...- rajeshmarndi
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- Condition Form General Line Parabola
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I Meaning of cross terms in line element
In a problem from Hartle's Gravity, we are asked to express the line element in non-Cartesian coordinates u, v which are defined with respect to x, y. I have no problem getting the new expression for the line element, but then we are asked if the new coordinate curves intersect at right angles...- beefbrisket
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- Cross Element Line Line element Terms
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Lattice Diagram of a transmission line
In lattice diagram, if the voltage wave is generated at Junction that there is an overhead transmission line before it, will the wave be in two directions with the same magnitude, or one in neglected ? Picture may illustrate .- Ana Mido
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- Diagram Lattice Line Transmission Transmission line
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Doppler shift of a hydrogen line on sun
Homework Statement Homework Equations [/B] delta lambda/lambda = velocity/speed of light radius of the sun= 696 *10^6mThe Attempt at a Solution Hello, the solution states the correct answer for this problem is 5.8*10^-12m. This is exactly 2x my answer but i don't really know what i did...- Krashy
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- Doppler Doppler shift Hydrogen Line Shift Sun
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Single Line Diagram - Power Systems
Hey everybody, Its recurrent in Power System Analysis and Electrical Instalations the SL diagram. I need recommendations of books in which I can read about it. I've done a little research but couldn't find anything. Thats amusing, in which classes are this diagram teached for the first time...- Phellippe Marques
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- Diagram Line Power Power system Systems
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- Forum: Science and Math Textbooks
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Region bounded by a line and a parabola (polar coordinates)
Homework Statement ##r=\frac 1 {cos(\theta)+1}## y=-x A region bounded by this curve and parabola is to be found. 2. The attempt at a solution I have found the points of intersection but I am not sure what to do with the line (I need polar coordinates and it is not dependent on r :( )...- Poetria
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- Bounded Coordinates Line Parabola Polar coordinates
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Find the distance from the point P to a line - linear algebra
Homework Statement Find the distance from point P (1,7,3) to the line (x,y,z) = (-2,1,4) + s(1,-3,4), s is a free variable Homework Equations projnQP = ( QP⋅n/(lengthQP)(lengthn) )(n) The Attempt at a Solution I'm not quite sure about how to find the normal (n) here, but if I make s=0, I'm...- Oliviacarone
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- Algebra Line Linear Linear algebra Point
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Coupling signals to a stripline transmission line
Hello. I have a question about the place where signal enters or gets out from a line (strip or not) Sorry I don't know the exact word in english, may be tap or tapping ... For different lines 1/4 or 1/8 wavelength these points are sometimes @ a 1/4 from the cold point, sometimes elsewhere. I...- Ravaner
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- Coupling Line Signals Transmission Transmission line
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- Forum: Electrical Engineering
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Vector problem: distance between a point and a line
Homework Statement Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution My answer is d = |(a-b)x(p-b)|/|(b-a|). I first find out the area of the parallelogram produced by BA and BP and divide the area by length AB to get the height. Why am I wrong?- Clara Chung
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- Line Point Vector
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Problem with line integrals for electric potential
Homework Statement I have a problem understanding the equation $$\Delta V = -\int_{a}^{b} \vec{E} \cdot d \vec{l}$$ In the case of a parallel plate capacitor whereby the positive plate is placed at ##z=t## while the negative is at ##z = 0##, my integral looks like $$\Delta V = -\int_{0}^{t}...- WWCY
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- Electric Electric potential Integrals Line Line integrals Potential
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Electric Field of a Line of Charge
If the electric field of a line charge at a distance 'a' is µ/2Π ε0a (µ is linear charge density), then the potential at that point should be µ/2Π ε0 (since potential = electric field x distance). This means that the potential is constant at every point around the line of charge. Hence, this...- Sarah Kumar
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- Charge Electric Electric field Field Line Potential
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- Forum: Electromagnetism
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Are two coincident lines the same line?
Homework Statement My son's textbook says In a plane, given a line and a point not on it, at most one line parallel to the given line can be drawn through the point. He asked me why two lines couldn't be drawn on top of each other...to which I replied that they would have the same algebraic...- tomwilliam2
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- Line Lines
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- Forum: Precalculus Mathematics Homework Help
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Calculating Christoffel Symbols from a given line element
Homework Statement Given some 2D line element, ## ds^2 = -dt^2 +x^2 dx^2 ##, find the Christoffel Symbols, ## \Gamma_{\beta \gamma}^{\alpha} ##. Homework Equations ## \Gamma_{\beta \gamma}^{\alpha} = \frac {1}{2} g^{\delta \alpha} (\frac{\partial g_{\alpha \beta}}{\partial x^\gamma} +...- Destroxia
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- Christoffel Christoffel symbols Element General relaivity Line Line element Physics Symbols
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- Forum: Advanced Physics Homework Help
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Estimate primary line coeffiecients
Homework Statement Figure shows a 50 Hz, high-voltage, transmission line. The relationships between the sending and receiving end voltages and currents are given by the complex ABCD equations: where 'S' stands for sending-end and 'R' stands for receiving-end (a) Given the parameter...- billyray
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- Estimate Line
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- Forum: Engineering and Comp Sci Homework Help
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Input impedance of a "Ladder" transmission line
Homework Statement My electronics&physics lecture notes contain the following side note: ___ "A ladder transmission line comprises an alternating sequence of segments of two different transmission lines both of length $l$ with characteristic impedance $Z1$ and $Z2$. If the line is constructed...- Marcus95
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- Electromagetism Impedance Input Input impedance Line Transmission Transmission line Waveguide
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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I Understanding the Eigenvalue Concept in Diffusion Equations
I'm Sorry for the vague title, but I don't know what to write. Can someone tell me the meaning of the passage I underlined? Thank you Ric- dRic2
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- Line Mean
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- Forum: Differential Equations
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Converter not starting up once line input voltage connect
Hello guys, I have designed and built a prototype with the aid of PI Expert Designer tool according to the following characteristics: - Vinput = 85-305Vac - Voutput / Ioutput = 12Vdc / +700mAdc I also attach you the schematic of the converter, which was taken from DER-528 application note (14...- Joshua_S
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- Converter Input Line Voltage
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What Are the Secondary Coefficients of a Transmission Line at 1GHz?
Homework Statement A transmission line has the primary coefficients . R=2Ω/m L=8nH/m G=0.5mS/m C=0.23pF/m Determine the lines secondary coefficients Z0, α and β at a frequency of 1GHz Homework Equations included in upload The Attempt at a Solution included. I think its just a case of...- billyray
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- Coefficients Line Transmission Transmission line
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How to make thick line in 3D graphics (webGL)?
Hi guys, I have a webGL application and my understanding is there is no option or at least the option to make thick lines is not working so I thought I would try to write my own routine. I suppose I could just make a double plot of the data just off-set a bit but I'm not exactly sure how to do...- aheight
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- 3d Graphics Line
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- Forum: Programming and Computer Science
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Figure 3a shows a 50 Hz, high-voltage transmission line
Homework Statement Figure shows a 50 Hz, high-voltage, transmission line. The relationships between the sending and receiving end voltages and currents are given by the complex ABCD equations: where 'S' stands for sending-end and 'R' stands for receiving-end (a) Given the parameter...- Spongecake
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- Electronics Figure Line Transmission Transmission line Transmission lines
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Calculating Line Integral in xy-Plane
Homework Statement Calculate the line integral ° v ⋅ dr along the curve y = x3 in the xy-plane when -1 ≤ x ≤ 2 and v = xy i + x2 j. Note: Sorry the integral sign doesn't seem to work it just makes a weird dot, looks like a degree sign, ∫.2. The attempt at a solution I have to write something...- KUphysstudent
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- Integral Line Line integral Parameterize Vector field Xy-plane
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- Forum: Calculus and Beyond Homework Help
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MHB [ASK] Reflection of a Line by Another Line
The reflection of the line 5x - 7y - 13 = 0 by the line y = -x is ... A. 7x + 5y - 13 = 0 B. 7x + 5y + 13 = 0 C. 7x - 5y - 13 = 0 D. 7x - 5y + 13 = 0 E. 7y + 5x + 13 = 0 This one I totally have no idea. Like, at all.- Monoxdifly
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- Line Reflection
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- Forum: General Math
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MHB Reflecting B(3,-1) on Line g: 4y + x - 15 = 0
The point B(3, -1) is reflected by the line g and results in B'(5, 7). The equation of line g is ... A. 4y + x - 15 = 0 B. 4y + x - 9 = 0 C. 4y + x + 15 = 0 D. 4y - x - 15 = 0 E. 4y - x - 9 = 0 Since I didn't know how to approach the problem in a formal, textbook way, I tried to get...- Monoxdifly
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- Line Mirror
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I Clarification of a line in a proof
This comes from a line of a proof in my book, and I need help resolving why the equality is true. Suppose that ##M>N##. Why is it true that ##\displaystyle \sup \{\frac{1}{n} (s_{N+1} + \cdots + s_n) ~|~ n>M \} = \frac{n-N}{n}\sup \{s_n ~|~ n > N \}##?- Mr Davis 97
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- Line Proof
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- Forum: Topology and Analysis
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How Do You Determine the Polar Equation of a Line Perpendicular to a Given Ray?
Homework Statement [/B] Consider the line whose shortest distance to the origin is 5 and that is perpendicular to the ray ##\theta= \frac {5*\pi}{7}## for r>0 Find its polar equation ##r=r(\theta)## and ##\theta_1<\theta_2## in the interval ##[0, 2\pi]## such that ##r(\theta)\geq 0## for all...- Poetria
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- Line Perpendicular Ray
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- Forum: Precalculus Mathematics Homework Help
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Writing an alternate vector Equation for a line.
Homework Statement Write an alternate vector equation for the following line. Change both the point and the direction vector: w⃗ =(4,−1,3)+t(−2,1,7) Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution Did I write a proper alternate vector equation here? I'm still new to vectors in 3-space any tips or...- Physics345
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- Line Vector Writing
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- Forum: Calculus and Beyond Homework Help
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MHB Quadratic Equation Help: Find 3 Points to Determine Answer
In a graph , straight line intersects the parabola at(-3,9) & (1, 1) Then the equation is A) x^2-2x+3=0 B) x^2+2x-3=0 C) x^2-3x+2=0 D) x^2-2x-3=0 I know that I can find the answer by substituting the known values to each options, but how to do it the proper way? We need at least three known...- Monoxdifly
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- Line Parabola Quadratic Quadratic equation Straight line
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MHB Angle between line and the axis
Consider a 3D straight line passing through z-axis. Following two angles are given (available): (1) Angle of the line with the z-axis in X-Z plane (2) Angle of the line with the z-axis in Y-Z plane I want to know the true angle of the line with the z-axis, i.e.,the angle of the line with...- karthikS
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- Angle Axis Line
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- Forum: General Math