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    Compliance matrix from strain matrix, Matlab

    Ok, I solved it. For potential future persons with a similar problem: the matrix elements (in this case the elastic constants and compliance coefficients) are symmetric about the diagonal, which means that c12=c21, c13=c31 etc. I wrongly assumed that all elements below the diagonal were zero...
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    Compliance matrix from strain matrix, Matlab

    Homework Statement (I'm trying to replicate some results in an academic paper where they have calculated elastic properties of a crystal. Because I'm going to do a lot of similar time-consuming calculations following this one, I need to learn how to do them using a computer.) The compliance...
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    Mean of the square of a sum of exponential terms

    Homework Statement [/B] Calculate \widehat{Y^{2}} (i.e., the mean of the square of Y. Homework Equations Y=\sum_{k=0}^{N-1}y_{k} where y_{k}=e^{-\gamma t}e^{\gamma \tau k}G_{k} and t=N\tau The quantities y_{k} (or G_{k}) are statistically independent. The Attempt at a Solution...
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    Show the equality of two expressions

    Thanks. That gives me \sum_{k=0}^{N-1}e^{\gamma \tau k}\int_{k\tau}^{(k+1)\tau}F'(t')dt'. What's left now is to move the exponential into the integrand, but I'm not sure how that can be justified.
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    Show the equality of two expressions

    Homework Statement Show that \sum_{k=0}^{N-1}e^{\gamma \tau k}\int_{0}^{\tau}F'(k\tau+s)ds can be written as \int_{0}^{t}e^{\gamma t'}F'(t')dt' Homework Equations 1. t=N\tau 2. \int_{0}^{\tau}F'(k\tau+s)ds has the same statistical properties for each interval of length \tau, and is...
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    Solution to differential equation

    I'm not self-taught and have, now that I think about it, indeed used the chain rule before. It is, however, definitely one of the rules of differentiation that I've had the least practice on. Ok, so I checked your work and get \frac{dv}{d\tau}=-N\gamma v_0 e^{-\gamma\tau...
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    Solution to differential equation

    Just confusion on my part. It's my textbook that claims the solution to the differential equation can be written in that form. Ok, so differentiating w.r.t. \tau the chain rule gives me, first of all, that \frac{d\int_{0}^{\tau}F'(k\tau+s)ds}{dt} =\frac{1}{N}(k+1)F'(\tau(k+1)). Is this...
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    Solution to differential equation

    Homework Statement This is actually a problem from my physics textbook, but I think it's mostly a mathematical problem, which is why I post it here: Show that the Langevin equation 1: \frac{dv}{dt}=-\gamma v+\frac{1}{m} F'(t) is solved by 2...
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    Integrating a Bessel Function with a Constant: Is This the Correct Approach?

    Oh, of course. I then get dx=dy/a, which solves the problem for me. Thanks!
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    Integrating a Bessel Function with a Constant: Is This the Correct Approach?

    Homework Statement I've been given that the Bessel function ∫(J3/2(x)/x2)dx=1/2π (the integral goes from 0 to infinity). Homework Equations ∫(J3/2(ax)/x2)dx, where a is a constant. The Attempt at a Solution Is the following correct? a2∫(J3/2(ax)/(ax)2)dx=a2/2π (This...
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    How Does a Steel Bar Sink Through Ice?

    I'd really need some help. Substituting ∆\tau in the last expression for \frac{\delta p ∆v\tau}{l} (a rearrangement of the Clausius-Clapeyron equation, and using the fact that δT and ∆\tau are equal), I get v=\frac{\kappa bc\delta p \tau}{2mgal}(\frac{1}{\rho_i}-\frac{1}{\rho_w})...
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    How Does a Steel Bar Sink Through Ice?

    No one? Perhaps I should state my answer to b) explicitly: the speed with which the bar sinks is v=\frac{∆z}{∆t}=\kappa\frac{∆\tau}{2mga}. Is this correct?
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    How Does a Steel Bar Sink Through Ice?

    Homework Statement Question no. 4 in this document (there's a helpful picture, too): Homework Equations The Clausius-Clapeyron equation: \frac{\delta p}{\delta \tau}=\frac{l}{\tau ∆v}, where v is the volume per unit mass, i.e., the inverse of the density. The Attempt at a...
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    How can I find x in terms of c for this expression?

    Ok, mr. Wolfram Alpha solved the problem for me (quite the dude, isn't he?).
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    How can I find x in terms of c for this expression?

    No one who has any suggestions? I'm pretty sure it's a pretty simple error :)
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