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#1 Re: Help Me ! » Calculate the area of a triangle » 2024-11-29 20:28:39

Thank you, Phrontister, for the interesting explanation.

#2 Re: Formulas » Find series expansion of dilogarithm at x=1/2 » 2024-11-29 20:18:33

It is always very good to have on hands as many formulas as possible.

I used to think that each of them was found in order to be used in certain specific applications, in the first place.

But I seldom hear someone mentioning even one application for which a rather complex formula could ease the calculus related to it.

#3 Re: Help Me ! » Calculate the area of a triangle » 2024-11-29 12:33:14

Although I can't follow you, I just wonder if this problem may have more than one solution.

#4 Re: Science HQ » Energy creation/destruction » 2024-11-29 09:52:59

Nothing is nothing smile
It is like I was nothing before I was forced to exist by a certain Will.
I said 'I was forced' because I had no will while I was nothing smile

#5 Re: Science HQ » Energy creation/destruction » 2024-11-28 00:41:33

As I see it, Creation is somehow like creating two opposing equal things from nothing. Anytime they will be combined they return back to nothing.
It is like charging the electrodes of a capacitor. When one electrode is charged with a positive charge, the other will be charged automatically with a negative charge of equal amount. Combining/shorting the two electrodes, the capacitor will return back to its inert/idle state.

#6 Re: Science HQ » What is a field? » 2024-11-22 19:10:42

paulb203 wrote:

Thanks, Kerim F

“For instance, not every scientific question has an answer.”

Could it be that every (valid) scientific question DOES have an answer; it’s just that the answer, in some cases, may be beyond our reach, or beyond our understanding even if it was presented to us?

“What could be the mechanism/process that lets a body detect (or be detected by) another nearby body in space? We simply see its fruit (result) only, their force of attraction. This unknown mechanism forms a certain field (which could be called gravity for example) in the region in which the two bodies exist.”

Why do you say the mechanism is unknown? Don’t physicists tell us that the mechanism is gravity, a force (or the curvature of spacetime)?

I meant, what could let this force to exist between any two inert (inert, apparently) matters in vacuum (no sign in it of any particle we know in these days).
And if this force lets them be combined to form one body, this, in turn, needs an energy (Energy = Force x Displacement, though not linear because F and D varies with time) to occur.

But from where could this energy come? from 'curvature of spacetime'? If so, how could we build the energy generator which is called 'curvature of spacetime'?

In my humble opinion, I am afraid that the human brain will likely need more years to be evolved before discovering how to build real flying saucers in which the electrical energy is transferred directly to signed gravity energy (and vice versa).

#7 Re: Science HQ » What is a field? » 2024-11-19 03:39:58

For instance, not every scientific question has an answer. When I was learning at the university, I tried to answer the following question:
What could be the mechanism/process that lets a body detect (or be detected by) another nearby body in space? We simply see its fruit (result) only, their force of attraction.
This unknown mechanism forms a certain field (which could be called gravity for example) in the region in which the two bodies exist.

#8 Re: Help Me ! » Dividing powers of 10 » 2024-10-28 03:36:41

This came to mind (though not exactly what you have in mind):
10^6/(2) = 10/2*10^(6-1) = 5*10^5 = 500,000

#9 Re: Science HQ » Gravitational Field Strength » 2024-10-25 23:19:45

I guess this is related to "Newton's universal law of gravitation".
F=K*m1*m2/(d^2) = W = m*g

if 'm1' is the mass of earth, 'm2'=m is of a person on its surface and 'd' is the distance between the earth center and its surface, we may say:
g = K*m1/(d^2)
This explains why g, at the equator, is lower than at the North/South poles.

#10 Re: Science HQ » Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion » 2024-09-29 05:08:20

Hmm... What about NASA rockets and big volcanos smile

#11 Re: This is Cool » Physics Formula » 2024-09-27 03:42:47

Oculus8596 wrote:
KerimF wrote:

So, I guess, v=at is also a differential equation.

Oh, you don't believe me, right?

See link below.

https://brainly.com/question/36809487

I did believe you. I just gave another example, unless you think my example is wrong.

#12 Re: Help Me ! » Possible 'new knowledge' » 2024-09-27 03:23:24

1. All governments are corrupt.

I am afraid, this is a natural fact (by design). Therefore, nothing and no one can change it.

2. In the United States, the government has been on a mission to dump down its citizens for many decades. Why not? The dumber society is the easier to control.

As far as I know, this tactic has been also followed in all other countries since many decades ago. I noticed it too in my country.

4. As I age, solving math problems is my suduko puzzle, it's my cross word puzzle; it keeps my brain cells alive. No pun intended.

Although my private business is almost paralyzed since after year 2011 due to world's events and regulations, I keep designing new products (that needs lots of math) just to keep my brain cells alive.

5. To be honest with you, my circle of friends is very small for three reasons:

You are fortunate for having a very small circle of friends. My circle has zero radius smile
There is no one around me lately who enjoys math and education. It seems almost all people are attracted by other things.
About trust, two humans cannot decide to trust each other really before they discover each other while facing real hard times together.

ALL GOVERNMENTS do not want it's people to be well-informed. Like I said before, the dumber we are, the easier to control and brainwash. ALL GOVERNMENTS are bad, corrupt and not trustworthy.

Any government has to be run by rich persons or serving rich ones. Naturally, they have to protect each other, besides being protected by their masters (working behind the scenes). This was simplified 2000 years ago when it was said that a rich man is not supposed to enter ...

#13 Re: Help Me ! » Possible 'new knowledge' » 2024-09-25 17:50:45

I wish I am wrong, but I can't see how someone could be secure really while he uses tools of advanced technology done by some others.
On the other hand, powerful rich groups only have the means to offer such advanced tools to the world's multitudes. And one of the natural truths (revealed clearly 2000 years ago) the members of these powerful rich groups have no right to be sincere while addressing the world's multitudes openly, otherwise they become traitors. But to be sane, it is always better for someone to believe he is secure (after all, one is secure while he obeys their rules).

For instance, two decades ago, for fun, I wrote a PC program (for DOS since I am not allowed to download any new high language compiler) to encrypt files using a private protocol. If a file is encrypted 'n' times, the result is 'n' new files which are different in their data and size. Naturally, if any of these 'n' files is decrypted, their same original file is restored. I said, I did it for fun, because using it on the internet will mean (to the watchers) that I am hiding important secrets that their computers cannot recover smile

#14 Re: Science HQ » BBC Bitesize (Acceleration) » 2024-09-25 04:22:35

paulb203 wrote:

If I walk at a pace of 2m/s, I cover a distance of 2m for every second that ticks by. Does that mean 2 metres DIVIDED BY 1 second? Which equals 2m (per second).

And if I walked at a pace of 2m/2s, i.e, 2m for every 2s that tick by, the fraction would be; 2m DIVIDED BY 2S, which equals 1m per second?

Apologies in advance if this sounds ridiculously basic.

Your remark is good.

And you are right. In the expression (2 m/s), the forward slash symbol, in itself, doesn't represent a division as in the formula v=x/t.
In 2 m/s, it simply tells us that the result 2 came from a division (as mentioned by Jai).
Similarly, 2 m/s² just tells us that 2 is the result of two divisions.

#15 Re: This is Cool » Physics Formula » 2024-09-24 21:26:48

So, I guess, v=at is also a differential equation.

#16 Re: Science HQ » BBC Bitesize (Acceleration) » 2024-09-17 10:47:43

I guess you know that x^m/x^n = x^(m-n)
Therefore, x^a/x^a = 1 = x^0, x could be any number.

Now we can write:
1/s = s^0/s^1 = s^(0-1) = s^-1 ===> s-¹
Similarly,
1/s^2 = s^0/s^2 = s^(0-2) = s^-2 ===> s-²

#17 Re: Help Me ! » How Far Can You See? » 2024-09-10 04:45:57

Which part of the ship appeared?
I mean, isn't its height important too?

#18 Re: Help Me ! » GCSE result » 2024-08-23 09:30:54

paulb203 wrote:
KerimF wrote:

7! What the highest grade could be in this case?
In my math exams [French style], I couldn't avoid, once a while, to make silly mistakes due to mistyping or the like.
Fortunately, in real life, I have time to correct such silly mistakes which I still do in every new design. After all, I am just a human, robots only don't do such mistakes wink

The highest is 9, which is equivalent to the old A star.

I asked this because getting 7 instead of 9 now doesn't imply that you are not (and will not be) very good in math in real life.

I recall, during my MS studies, I got the lowest grades (around 70/100) in two courses related directly to electronics. My grades in the remaining 6 courses were not less than 95/100. The irony is that I became, in real life, professional in electronics (as a private designer since then till now) while I forgot almost all what I learnt in those 6 courses!

On the other hand, if someone searches my BS grades, he finds that I was the only student who failed to pass the exam of the final year related to transformers design. This happened to me due to a mistyping made by the one in charge to copy the grades onto the final list! Although my true grade was the highest one, I didn't complain. I simply repeated the exam.

Anyway, from what you wrote so far (questions, remarks and comments), I see in you a future specialist/professional in one of the scientific fields, if not more.

#19 Re: Help Me ! » GCSE result » 2024-08-22 00:37:54

7! What the highest grade could be in this case?
In my math exams [French style], I couldn't avoid, once a while, to make silly mistakes due to mistyping or the like.
Fortunately, in real life, I have time to correct such silly mistakes which I still do in every new design. After all, I am just a human, robots only don't do such mistakes wink

#20 Re: Maths Is Fun - Suggestions and Comments » Password recovery is not working. » 2024-08-20 19:21:57

On cloudy days, he looks at the watch (waterproof for raining days too) which is placed on it smile

#21 Re: Introductions » Any 10th grader here? » 2024-08-20 18:55:05

Speaking practically:

A human doesn't choose where he likes to be born on earth. And, once born, he likes or not he will be given a name and an identity by a certain authority (represented/leaded by the most powerful persons in the region). 

Then, a man accepts to join officially a certain group (civil or religious) when he needs its authority to legitimately approve (by a civil law) or bless (by a religious law) his marriage. So, I had to be single to avoid being deliberately a follower of any official group (political or religious). Fortunately, my earthly father wasn't a philosopher as I am, otherwise I wouldn't be here smile

Since I was teen till now (75 year), I like math because it is based solely on logic.

#22 Re: Help Me ! » Possible 'new knowledge' » 2024-08-19 00:28:15

woodturner550 wrote:

By now it is hard to believe that the government (NSA, NIST) does not know about this ‘new math knowledge’.

Question, Why would they NOT even acknowledge the ‘new math knowledge? Have not even reply to emails.

They surely have their good reasons to play ignorance, openly in the least, though they are surely not less intelligent than we are smile
I am afraid that one has to be rich (I mean rich really) or is serving a powerful rich group to be acknowledged as a first step.

For instance, I didn't hear yet of a well-known inventor, in the human history, who wasn't of a rich family or wasn't serving a rich group (a company).
I mean, this is life since always, we like it or not.
Simply speaking, what is happening to you is natural. It also happens to any other ordinary person around the world (as I, for example). This is why every time I try to find/discover something new, I see if it can be useful to me in the first place, because the world has no time to listen to me big_smile

Anyway, I hope that such negative reactions don't prevent you to keep thinking of new ideas.

#23 Re: Help Me ! » The difference between two integers » 2024-08-15 18:38:37

paulb203 wrote:

What is the difference between, say, 10 and 2?

You discovered already 3 possible solutions (perhaps there are more). This is math's work, and you did it well.
But you will also know the right one when you know to what 10 and 2 refer in real.

#24 This is Cool » Smallest Angle in Right Triangle » 2024-08-10 20:21:32

KerimF
Replies: 0

Approximated formulas for a basic calculator (addition, multiplication and division):

θ(deg) = 172*a/(b+2*c)
θ(rad) = 3*a/(b+2*c]

where:
θ the smallest angle in a right triangle
a the smallest right side
b the other right side
c the hypotenuse

From:
Technology Mathematics Handbook [Tuma] 1975
Numerical Procedures, page 275

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