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#1 2005-12-01 13:14:31
- annski729
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Calculus in the suspension bridge
I'm looking for information/math problems of calculus in the suspension bridge. Can anyone help me out?
I know this is rather broad, but anything would be helpful. Thank you 
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#2 2005-12-01 16:47:51
- Jai Ganesh
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Re: Calculus in the suspension bridge
Go to this page or this.
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.
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#3 2005-12-13 16:07:15
- Kelp Kid
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Re: Calculus in the suspension bridge
why?
Don't know don't care 
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#4 2005-12-13 18:29:56
- jU
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Re: Calculus in the suspension bridge
well why would you ask??
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#5 2005-12-18 01:57:35
- annski729
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Re: Calculus in the suspension bridge
Go to this page or this.
Thank you very much
I ask because I'm curently enrolled in a math program where I have to present a project in a math fair. It has to be on something that's one or two years ahead of what I'm learning now. I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing and I was having difficulty finding information. LOL
Thanks again
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#6 2005-12-18 09:07:52
- MathsIsFun
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Re: Calculus in the suspension bridge
Hope you do well!
But it is odd ... years ahead of you ?
The only trouble is, you can get confused by stuff you haven't learned, and that is a recipe for disliking the subject (in my humble opinion)
Advice to everyone: don't skip too far ahead, it only makes you upset with the subject. Pick some things you can do, and get better at them. Natural progress is best.
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
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#7 2005-12-20 17:49:06
- John E. Franklin
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Re: Calculus in the suspension bridge
That's an interesting point, MathIsFun, I never gave that too much thought.
I suppose being aware that jumping ahead may cause some disappointment is
a good thing to be aware of. Maybe you should eat homemade chocolate chip
cookies and milk to alleviate the confusion that the new material has brought on!
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