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[neutrino]

http://sciencehack.com/pages/about

This looks promising.

 

[bham10246]

Consider the following space X, consisting of two 2-spheres and two arcs glued together. Compute its fundamental group.

Since I can't draw a picture online, call the first sphere S_1 and call the second sphere S_2. Then one arc connects x_1 \in S_1 to x_2 \in S_2 and another arc connects y_1\in S_1 to y_2 \in S_2, where all the points are distinct.

I thought about this problem and contracted the arcs (so it looks like two 2-spheres identified in two points), and I want to use van Kampen. But I'm having a hard time figuring out two open sets A and B so that A \cup B = X and A\cap B is path connected.

Thank you!

Actually, can I contract one of the arcs so that the two 2-spheres touch at one point, then move the points x_1, x_2, y_1, y_2 to the point of intersection? Then I have S^2 \vee S^1\vee S^2. Then \Pi_1(X) = \mathbb{Z}[\itex]. Is this a correct analysis?

 

[Astronuc]

This subject seems to be coming up quite often, especially for those studying wave mechanics.

Here is a brief intro. I'll be looking for better articles and I hope others will contribute references or insight from personal experience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispersion_relation

and related topics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_velocity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_velocity

http://tosio.math.toronto.edu/wiki/index.php/Dispersion_relation - note that this is a wiki page from Department of Mathematics at U. Toronto

I also hope to address anharmonic and non-linear systems.

I think it important for students to understand the significance of the higher order spatial (and temporal) derivates with respect to the dependent variable, u_xxx or \partial^3_x\phi in the KdV equation.

 

[rewebster]

I was looking for a reference for something relating to something mentioned, and ran across a nice site for a lot of references. If there is a thread that it can be re-posted--let me know.

http://web.mit.edu/redingtn/www/netadv/


This site organizes topics from various sources including arXiv alphabetically for you.

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oh--and I still couldn't find what I was looking for though

 

[EnumaElish]

Free e-books of algebraic structures, geometry, number theory, etc.
can be downloaded from Digital Library of Science at the following address:

http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/eBooks-otherformats.htm

 

[MathematicalPhysicist]

well i don't know how much you can trust a site where it says there something like:
"physics hypothesis that there is no speed barrier in the universe"

i would say quite unpopular approach is it not?

 

[fizixx]

Agreed 'loop"...and if you nav to the home page it is filled with java errors that make looking frustrating and counterproductive.

 

[IITian]

http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/Teaching/index.html