Program Definition and 1000 Threads

Homework Statement The function cos(x) can be approximated using the following series expansion: Write a MATLAB function called seriesCos that takes a single scalar argument, x, uses the above formula to compute cos(x), and returns the result. Your function should use a while loop and...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100826/tc_yblog_upshot/renegade-unmanned-drone-wandered-skies-near-nations-capital" I'm glad the grounded the "fleet" until they figure out what happened. If anything, the Navy is usually fairly conservative with respect to their ops. I am all for...

i am allways looking to the news on daily bases and i believe the fallowing: Iran can not use WMD on Israel duo to the fact of existing MAD situation Iran Can not deliver WMD , poor technology Science are in syria and Egypt not Iran now what bad thing can come from Iran N...

Hi all I just bought a 50g and don't know how to install tis one program for plotting root locus'. Here is the address of the files (http://www.hpcalc.org/details.php?id=1178) . I am familliar with library instalations but this is beyond me because these files are only .dir and .src So...

I need a computer program I can use for studying chaotic systems. I should be more particular. I need something for drawing bifurcation diagrams or whatever one does in an introductory chaos and non-linear dynamics class. Here is a link to the text being used ...

hello all, I'm currently doing a undergrad program in SPECIALIST PROGRAM IN PHYSICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS (Physics And Astronomy Concentration), i want to know what are my career options, because after finishing undergrad in my program i do not want to be jobless, i would like to do something...

i am trying to write a program that encodes and decodes. my code works fine for encoding 1 string of characters with no spaces, but when there is any type of white space, it fails. also, when i try to decode, i get a random mix of characters and symbols. any help would be appreciated. for...

C program help! Hey guys I am having trouble completing this C program. Its suppose to ask the user to enter a file to read from, read the file, count how many times each word appears and print the results in a different file(also user input) arranged from high occurrence. Heres what i...

Alright, so at the moment I am registered in a physics-chemistry double majors program, but I have some compunctions about whether this is the best program for me. My eventual ambition is to do something at the crossroads of physics and chemistry, like nanoelectronics or something. (I will post...

The instructions are to calculate the odds of winning if you are dealt King and 9 of clubs, what are the odds of winning? I am finding myself spending more time trying to figure out texas hold em (never played before) than writing the program. So far I found a list on wiki that breaks down the...

I wrote a program to find the percent of each element in the decay chain for U238 after a certain amount of time. I used the Bateman equations for serial decay chain below: N_n(t)= \frac{N_1(t)}{\lambda_n } \sum_{i=0}^n \lambda_i \alpha_i \exp({-\lambda_i t}) \alpha_i=\prod_{\substack{j=1 \\...

can anyone help me understand the following project specs? it is supposed to be relatively simply to code, but i can't even figure out what exactly I'm supposed to do. there are 1000000 people choosing A or B. the process repeats 1000 times. 520000 chose A while 480000 chose B. but there was a...

Hey I'm wondering if anyone has ever heard or knows of a touch screen program that would maybe use something similar to the Mathematica engine. I have seen some handheld touch screen computers for very cheap. It would be really useful(and just plain awesome) to be able to create equations and...

I am attempting to program Mathematica to multiply the square free terms of an integer. Basically say we are looking at 252, its prime factors are 2^2*3^2*7. So what I want to do is have Mathematica return to me just 2*3*7 when I enter 252. So I have this S := FactorInteger[252]...

any one can tell me how to make aprogram via c++ to have the ability to e-mail me or any e-mail other than mine . i searched along and no any results i could have . please it is urgent case

I am trying to write this program, it runs fine but I can't get the imaginary numbers to print correctly. I have been trying this for a few hours now and can't figure it out. Here is the code, I am running Force 2.0. Thanks in advance for the help. Program Quad Implicit None...

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Hello guys. I am taking an introductory course in computer programming. For one assignment I was to make up a word problem, then write a program to solve it. I wrote a program to calculate the radius of a circular orbit based on the orbiting object's current velocity, and other parameters. Can...

Hi, I'm a bit new to the forums, this is my first post in fact, but I didn't know where else to go for help on this kind of matter. I'm not sure if anyone here has used ISIS image subtraction program written by Alard, available online at http://www2.iap.fr/users/alard/package.html, but I'm...

Okay, what I really want to ask is how often do people graduate in less than 4 years from a 4-year bachelor program and they actually get into top programs? Will grad schools be impressed that you graduated in less than 4 years or look down on you because you may not have enough experience?

So I'm wondering what the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Grad program is like? I'd like to know what it takes to get in, what the professors are like, what kind of research is going on, if whether or not you like it... things like that. Please talk to me if you know anything about it...

Hi everyone! I'm a student at IT-BHU,India.I've completed 2 semesters and i have a cgpa of 9.65.I'm a Mechanical Engineering student.I want to apply for the MIT transfer program.Since I have limited funds,I want to know about my chances before applying.I took the SAT 1(2240), SAT 2 (790 in...

I don't know if this is the right place to post a question like this...but help? Does anyone know of a good program that can be downloaded to a ti84 that can solve integrals? It doesn't have to show the steps...just an answer [that you could check while doing homework...if you don't have...

Hi I wanted to make a program that would check if a number if it was an integer or not in Java. here's the source code: import static java.lang.Math.*; public class gcd { public static void main(String [] args) { double a = 1; double b =1; double c = 1...

Hi I am currently holding a place to study physics at Oxford(MPhys) and BSc Physics at National University of Singapore(NUS). Studying at Oxford will cost me much more than studying locally at NUS. I was wondering what are the chances of getting into a good US PhD physics programme (such as...

Will A "Good" Undergrad Program Help? This Fall I'll be starting my freshman year at the University of Chicago as a prospective physics major. From what I can tell, research opportunities for undergrads are pretty good and the faculty are good as well. But what I want to know is, will having...

I found this code on my computer a while ago, and I want to adjust the algorithm so that I can have a zero pivot, whereas now the program will try to divide by zero and gives the #undef message that we all know and love. Is there another type of Gaussian Elimination that I can look into? I only...

I have been creating simple programs from the hello world one to simple math and loops - all of a sudden when I went to practice more today my programs would be completed but the window showing the result would pop up and almost instantaneously close itself - in the end I can't see the result...

Hi, I am going to be starting to teach the IB Physics program in a few months so wanted to get up to speed on it. What is the level of knowledge required? I am currently teaching the physics syllabus in the irish system. The practicals that are to be done? How many should be done? is there...

Homework Statement #include <stdio.h> main() { long nc; nc=0; while (getchar() !=EOF) ++nc; printf("%ld\n", nc); } Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution I'm trying to learn C and am using the book "C Programming Language". It says that...

i need help making a program that only displays the prime factors ex: 100 = 2*2*5*5 i got the program to display all the factors but after that I am lost. here is the code so far oh its in C++ #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { cout << "Enter a number: "...

I will be attending Coastal Carolina University in the fall as an applied physics major, but the school also has a 3+2 program with Clemson where I would get a Physics degree from Coastal and an Engineering degree from Clemson. My question is would it be better to do the 3+2 and then graduate...

This month at PI there will be a 3 day workshop on the Laws of Nature. As outsiders, what can we learn? http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/en/Events/Laws_of_Nature/Laws_of_Nature%3A_Their_Nature_and_Knowability/ Smolin and Unger have a book in the works about this (time and the laws of nature)...

Mars Now -- Third Alternative To NASAs Mars "Who Knows When" Program My main objective, using current state of technology, is to safely get men and women to Mars and back to Earth without having to utter the phrase "People Will Certainly Die" as NASA does. To achieve this I would freeze all of...

hey I was trying to draw some fine structure diagrams like this one but it is too slow and unflexible with normal graphic softwares. Does anyone know a good graphing software *expecifically* designed for atom structure diagrams like the above one? Thanks, valleyman

So apparently MIT has no M.S. program in math. I got this directly off their site: http://math.mit.edu/academics/grad/admission/. My question, then, is would it be appropriate (or reasonable) to apply for the Ph.D. program without going for an M.S. first? By the time I get my B.S., I will...

I've already received a bachelor's degree in Political Science. I wanted to do something science related but nearly failed out freshman year for slacking off and getting awful grades. Thus I was forced to choose a different path and although my grades picked up after that, I ended up graduating...

I'm a freshman majoring in Physics & Mathematics (Just added a CS minor) at a small liberal arts school. I managed to get accepted into a prestigious REU program that seems to be quite heavy in engineering & programming (I'll be constructing/programming something). I'm really excited for it, but...

Hello, i want to write a function in the form of "float estM( Planet *body);" to calculate radius^3/period^2 for the planet earth, where i have an array of values for radius and period of different planets. Here is the program so far, i am getting a -NaN error: #include <stdio.h> #include...

Homework Statement Fixed Point Iteration MATLAB program Homework Equations To test for convergence: abs(g'(x))<1 The Attempt at a Solution Hi all, I am trying to write a Fixed Point Iteration program but when I enter in the command line it kept giving me an error message. Can you...

We made a program for our thermo class and when we go to run it, it tells us errors were encountered but will not display what errors it has. It won't print out anything. I appreciate any help you guys have to offer. Print *, 'Nicholas Grover / Corey Demers' Print *...

So, its kind of a hard decision, just looking for opinions. I assume its more suited to theoretical stuff than Honors Physics, but if you just take Honors Physics will it still teach the mathematical methods necessary if one decides to go into theoretical physics? One major difference I've...

Hey, I'm a junior is high school and am beginning my college search. I am most interested in engineering. While I am most interested in SU or RIT they are too expensive atleast for my entire undergrad. I am wondering if any of you know how good or beneficial it is to instead go to Geneseo and...

Hello, everyone. I am an Oregon resident who has decided to switch from Electrical Engineering to Physics. I feel like my true passion lies in Physics :) My hope is to earn a PhD. So my primary concern is getting into a school that can get me a strong PhD. Anyway, I live in Portland...

I want to know which university has the best physics program, my main university goals are MIT and Caltech, but I want to know if there are any universities with a better undergraduate program for physics.

I start working with the OCA15plus tensiometer and I don't know what the three red lines that appear in the program SCA20 means and how should I position them in the image of the drop on an analysis of surface tension by pendant drop method, for example. Can anyone help me?

hello ok i think i posted this in the wrong area so i hope this is right. so I have to write a program using matrix, however i have some of it done, i just want to know if i am on the right track before i continue on with my program. here is what i have to do: Give an integer matrix...

I am sorry because i recreate this post because the old thread is missing =( I need to create a GUI using Visual basic to get input from user.A simple button click will be enough for the GUI.After i get the input, i need to load the input into PIC18F2550 through USB. This will then control my...

I was reading my textbook to study for a test in my C++ class and I cam across this question and the answer is not in the book. I'm afraid I might need to know how to do something like this for my test and there isn't an example of one like it in my book. I'm not sure how to do it so I don't...

I am confusing the heck out of myself here. This is what I have Square matrix that is M = 'm x m' A column vector that is C = 'm x 1' a smaller square matrix that is R ='r x r'Here is what I am trying to accomplish; I usually do this by hand: The entries of the column vector C are either 1...