2d Definition and 1000 Threads

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    2D kinematics - conveyer belt question

    Homework Statement Sand moves without slipping at 6.0m/s down a conveyer belt that is tilted 15°. The sand enters a pipe 3.0m below the end of the conveyer belt. What is the horizontal distance between the conveyer belt and the pipe? Not sure where to start.
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    How Can I Solve 2D Kinematics Problems Using the Quadratic Formula?

    Homework Statement A projectile is shot from the edge of a vertical cliff 60.0meters above the ocean. It has a speed of 100m/s and is fired at an angle of 35 degrees above horizontal. How far from the foot of the vertical cliff does the projectile land. Homework Equations Yf= Yinitial + ViT...
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    2d Elastic collision concept and formula

    Would the 2 items displayed in the image below act as I expect in a zero G environment? Assuming that item A had a mass of 100kg and was stationary, Items B have a mass of 1kg and travel at 10m/s. what formula would I need to use to calculate the velocities and vectors of the items after...
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    Displacement of Sam's Walks: How to Calculate Using a Diagram and Equations?

    Homework Statement Sam Walks: 100m (S30W) + 200m (N30E) + 50m (N) Find sam's displacement using a diagram as well as mathematically.Homework Equations b(sq) = a(sq) + c(sq) - 2acCOSB a(sq) + b(sq) = c(sq) The Attempt at a Solution Okay I drew my graph, Scaled it 1cm = 50m So I first drew 100m...
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    Solving Projectile Motion Homework: Displacement, Velocity, and Equations

    Homework Statement I have been given the Horizontal Displacement (Distance), Vertical Displacement (height), and Time (secs). How would I find total displacement? Velocity? Average Horizontal Velocity? Average Vertical Velocity? Homework Equations Um something with cosine and sine...
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    2D Friction-Finding the Force of Friction without Mu

    2D Friction--Finding the Force of Friction without Mu Homework Statement A 1500kg car is parked on a 4-degree incline. The acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s2. Find the force of friction keeping the car from sliding down the incline.Homework Equations FW=mg [Sigma]Fy=0, so Top=Bottom "Friction...
  7. S

    Simulating Pseudo-Newtonian Motion on a 2D Plane

    Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask a question like this, but I am at wits end trying to make this system function properly while remaining computationally efficient. A summary of what I have so far: An iterative simulator that computes gravitational attration of objects on a cartesian...
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    Analyzing 2D Fin Temperature with Separation of Variables

    Homework Statement We have a 2D fin that has length L (x-axis), and thickness t, (y-axis). The left side has a fixed temperature, the right side is insulated, and the top and bottom surfaces are subject to convection. Find an analytical solution for the temperature at steady state. Homework...
  9. S

    Solving 2D Kinematics Problem: Distance OP in m

    I have a problem with this question. An arrow is shot horizontally towards point O, which is at a distance of 20.0 m. It hits point P (right below point O) 0.10 s later. What is the distance OP (in metres)? What do i need to find? How would i know the time taken for the arrow to reach o?
  10. M

    What is the maximum height of the stadium at its back wall?

    Homework Statement Ted Williams hits a baseball with an initial velocity of 120 miles per hour (176 ft/s) at an angle of θ = 35 degrees to the horizontal. The ball is struck 3 feet above home plate. You watch as the ball goes over the outfield wall 420 feet away and lands in the bleachers...
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    Solve 2D Motion Q: Wiley E Coyote & Roadrunner

    Homework Statement wiley e coyote is out once more to try to capture the elusive roadrunner. the coyote wears a pair of acme jet powered roller skates, which provide a constant horizontal acceleration ac. the coyote starts off at rest D meters from the edge of a cliff at the instant the...
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    Laplace's equation (2D, cartesian)

    Homework Statement Rectangular pipe, infinite in the z direction. The sides in the y-z plane (at x=0 and x=a) are held at V=0, while the sides in the x-z plane (at y=0 and y=b) are held at V=V0 Explain why there cannot be a non-trivial solution to this configuration. Homework...
  13. jfy4

    Bead and Hoop in 2D: When Does the Particle Fall Off?

    Homework Statement A particle of mass m is placed on top of a vertical hoop of radius R and mass M. The particle is free slide on the outside of the hoop without friction while the hoop is free to roll in a vertical place without slipping. Use the method of Lagrange multipliers to determine...
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    Calculating Projectile Motion: Time to Reach 10m Below Launch Point

    A ball is tossed from an upper story window of a building. It has an initial velocity of 8.00 m/s at an angle of 20 degrees below the horizontal. How long does it take the ball to reach a point 10.0m below the level of launching. I tried using the equation yf=vi(sin(theta))-.5gt^2 Which I...
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    Find the lattice type and base in 2D crystal

    Homework Statement Draw the position of the atoms in the two neighboring planes of the GaAs crystal perpendicular to vector [010]. Find the type of the lattice and the basis of 2D crystal which is made by singling out those two neighboring layers from 3D lattice. Homework Equations...
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    How Do You Solve a Cargo Plane's 2D Kinematics Problem?

    A cargo plane is flying horizontally at an altitude of 10.9 km with a speed of 850 km/h when a large crate falls out of the rear loading ramp. (Ignore any effects due to air resistance.) (a) How long does it take the crate to hit the ground? (b)How far horizontally is the crate from the point...
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    How Much Does Gravity Affect a Baseball's Trajectory Over 18.4 Meters?

    1. While trying out for the position of pitcher on your high school baseball team, you throw a fastball at 76.4 mi/h toward home plate, which is 18.4 m away. How far does the ball drop due to effects of gravity by the time it reaches home plate? (Ignore any effects due to air resistance and...
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    Is Sight an Illusion? Exploring the 2D vs. 3D Debate

    I am sure this question has been asked many times before. I searched for a thread on this topic and could not find one. I am an artist. I am looking for an answer on the nature of sight. What is the best explanation for how sight occurs. Do we see a 3D world illuminated by 2D photons? Can we...
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    The Role of Boundary Conditions in the 2D Ising Model: A Finite Lattice Study

    http://books.google.rs/books?id=vrcHC9XoHbsC&pg=PA252&lpg=PA252&dq=Nolting+Finite+Ising+lattice&source=bl&ots=5uRHp0iALf&sig=_YBUSvbCBbhNQJ5Zu1go9AsEkM8&hl=sr&sa=X&ei=y_E4UIEyyobiBPvFgMgM&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Nolting%20Finite%20Ising%20lattice&f=false A finite lattice X with so...
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    How do we decide if a trajectory is 1D, 2D or 3D?

    Hello Forum, In kinematics we study motion and the trajectories of moving bodies. The trajectory is a line (straight or curved) that joins all the positions occupied by the object in the various instants of time. A trajectory has an equation that contains only spatial coordinates (not...
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    Calculating Standard Error of Mean for 2D Histogram Data

    Hey everyone, I'm not sure if there is an effective answer to my problem, but here goes: I am working on Ramachandran plots for short peptides (3 amino acids long). For every snapshot of the protein (this would be my data point) there are two angles being recorded, the phi and psi angles...
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    Solving Steady Fokker-Planck Equation in 2D using standard software

    Hello all, I am trying to solve the FPE in 2D, The equation is (with implied summation over repeated indices): 0 = \left(- \displaystyle \frac{d}{dx_i} D_i^{(1)} + \frac{d}{dx_i}\frac{d}{dx_j} D_{ij}^{(2)}\right) ( n ) where my diffusion coefficients (the D are functions of position...
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    Sunset / sunrise diagrams in 2D

    Hi, Can anyone point me to a reference where the complete amplitude for a sunrise diagram in 2D with generally different masses is written down. That is, I want the value of the following integral $$ \int d^2k d^2l \frac{1}{(k^2-m_1^2)(l^2-m_2^2)((p-k-l)^2-m_3^2)} $$ where p is the...
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    MATLAB MATLAB: Adding 2d plot to 3d surface

    Consider the 3d graph of a quadratic form: 1/2*trans(x)*A*x-trans(b)*x Plot via matlab: surfc(X,Y,Z); add following lines: hold on x=-10:10; y=0.5*(2-3*x); plot(x,y); This plot a straight line which intersects the 3d surface. However, I wish for it be graphed on the contours: i.e...
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    Periodic boundary conditions for 2d grid

    Hello , i am trying to implement this algorithm for 2d grid. 1) i am not sure if my calculations are correct. 2 ) i don't understand how to return my final calculation ( how will i insert to the matrix i want (the 's' in this example) the new coordinates (xup,xdow,yup,ydown)). I mean ...
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    How Do You Solve a 2D Statics Frame Problem with Multiple Unknowns?

    Homework Statement I will attach a scanned pic of the problem, but it seems to be a basic frames problem. However, everything seems to have to many unknowns on it to solve. I feel like I'm missing something simple, but I can't seem to make any more progress. Homework Equations ƩM=0...
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    Friction acting on a ball (2D)

    Hello, I am a coder trying to build a game 2D rigid body physics engine. So far I am working with an impulse-based approach and all is going pretty decent. Everything does it's job, except one thing: friction acting on a rolling ball. First I will explain how my collision resolution system...
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    C/C++ C++ Rotation function works in 2D perspective but fails in 3D

    I'm making a 3D rotation of a poligon.The problem is when I rotate some points in 2D, it works, but if I use the same function to rotate the same points in a 3D perspective , while rotating the vertices move to the center of the object and remain there. I also wrote the 3D rendering part.At...
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    How to draw 2d objects on 1d paper?

    Here in the 3d world, we have 2d paper where we can draw 2d representations of 3d objects. How would a 2d being draw a representation of a 2d object on a line? Is that even possible?
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    Diagonalization of 2D wave equation

    Homework Statement I've just derived the 1D wave equation for a continuous 1D medium from a classical Hamiltonian. I simply wrote Hamilton's equations, where the derivatives here must be functional derivatives (e.g. δ/δu(x)) since p and u are functions of x, and I got the wave equation (see...
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    Initial Y-Velocity (time unknown) in 2D Game

    I have a character who needs to jump to a certain height, I want to calculate his initial vertical velocity so that he can achieve that height. Distances and speeds are in logical pixels per second. The character's position is stored in a 2D vector \begin{pmatrix} x \\ y\end{pmatrix}, and...
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    Exploring the Milne Universe in 2D: Rindler Spacetime Comparison

    I'm studying the Milne Universe in two dimensions. The metric is similar to that of Rindler spacetime, but with time and space inverted. ds^{2}=-dt^{2}+t^{2}dx^{2} The Carter Penrose diagram of this spacetime would be the same of Rindler spacetime?
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    How Can a 3D Pipe Be Unwrapped into a 2D Topology?

    Hi, I am not very strong in maths, so sorry if these sounds simple. If I have a 3D geometry of a pipe which has its surface defined by triangles (such as that in Computational Fluid Dynamics or Finite Element Analysis) and I have the coordinate points for all the triangles, how can I...
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    How can I model an agent's movement in a liquid using 2D physics?

    Firstly, this is not homework - it's a project I have started our of sheer curiosity. I have searched quite at length, but cannot really find anything that suits my problem. I want to model this on a computer and would like to implement it myself as I would like to understand the...
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    Acceleration of a 2D circle due to Gravity.

    Hello Im wondering how to calculate the acceleration of a circle down an inclined plane (due to gravity). I am familiar with caclulating the acceleration of a body sliding down a inclined plane, but not a circle. How do you determine the acceleration of a circle (preffer rotation per second, if...
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    Resultant velocities from 2D collision

    Homework Statement Suppose you have two 2D circles, where size ≈ mass, each of which is moving with known x- and y-velocities. The two collide, not necessarily head-on (one could broadside the other, etc). How do I calculate the resultant velocities, assuming no elasticity or friction...
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    Collision of Ball with Table Tennis Playing Robot 2D Elastic Collision

    Hi ! I am working on a table tennis playing robot. The picture of the robot is attached. I have few questions. 1) Can I consider the collision between Ball and the plate as the two dimensional collision ? ? (At this time I am not considering z-axis) 2) If I am considering the...
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    Solving 2D Elastic Collision of (3.5 kg, 5 kg) Bodies

    Hallo ! I am working on a problem. The data of the problem is: Two bodies are coming towards each other: Body 1: Mass = 3.5 Kg Body 2: Mass = 5 Kg The velocity of body-2 before hitting was 3m/sec and angle was 45 degree. The velocity of body-2 after hitting is 3.26197 m/sec and the...
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    C/C++ Visualizing the 2D Ising Model with Monte Carlo Algorithm

    Hi, So I'm trying to solve the 2D Ising Model using a simple Monte Carlo algorithm, for small square lattices, imposing periodic boundary conditions. Before I compute any thermodynamic quantities though, I want to study the energetics of the system with only nearest-neighbour interactions...
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    Exploring 2D Fermi Surfaces and CDW Effects

    why cdw occurs at low dimensional solids with anisotropic fermi surfaces that have prominent nesting vectors?/ what it means : cdws are also common at the surface of solids??where they are more commonly called surface reconstruction or dimerization . PLZ tell me about two dimensional Fermi...
  41. Kawakaze

    Complicated path question - 2D vectors

    Homework Statement A model car of mass m moves on a horizontal track so that its displacement r from a fixed origin at time t is given by r(t)=2cos(t)i + sin(2t)/sqrt2j where 0<t<2pi (a) If r is the position vector of a particle, explain the physical significance of r . r and show...
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    Deriving the 2D KdV Equation for Overcoming Nonlinear Theory Challenges

    Does anyone know of a derivation or has a reference to the derivation of the 2D KdV equation (known as the KP equation I believe). I have done the linear theory for this problem and the results look good but the next stage is the weakly nonlinear theory and I am having trouble with a certain...
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    MATLAB Matlab code for 2D inverse Fourier transforms

    I have written some routines that compute the 2D inverse Fourier transform, if anyone thinks that this may be useful at all then please let me know and I will gladly post the code.
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    Mathematica Mathematica: mean of 2d function

    Dear all, I wonder if there is a function implemented in Mathematica to find the average value of a 2d function f(x,y). So averaged over a specified domain. Thanks in advance for any help! Sue
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    Fractal Question :Rodin Scupture to Low density Mesh to 2D to Iterative Function

    Hello there, Subdivision modeling is a tool which all 3D Modeling Softwares uses. Its about creating a low density mesh and computer creates higher density mesh until your box turn into a sphere.I found something about finding iterative fractal function of a 3D object for example Rodin...
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    Creating 2D Irradiance Distribution with Exact Scalar Method

    I am trying to create (in matlab) an irradiance distribution in a 2-D array, using the exact scalar method. As of now I have a 2-D array defined as my aperture function and I also have a 2-D array defined as a Gaussian function (light source). I believe that I know how to do this with a...
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    Solving 2D moments about point O

    (a) The moment the force, F, makes about O is 15 N-m clockwise, and θ = 30˚, find the magnitude of F. (b) If the force F = 100 N, determine the angle θ so the force develops a clockwise moment about point O of 20 N-m. Limit your answers to a range of 0º ≤ θ ≤ 90º. I'm a little lost can...
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    2d absolutely elastic vector collision

    Homework Statement I have mass of two points ma and mb than their vertical horizontal vector velocity parts before collision vxa0 vya0 vxb0 vyb0 and i need to calculate vector velocities after collision vxa1 vya1 vxb1 vyb1 I found something like the same vector componets of momemtums will...
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    Converting Standard For Loop to Mathematica Code for 2D Iteration?

    here is the pseudo java (processing) code I'm trying to run float x0,y0,x,y,t; x0 = 2; //arbitrary value y0 = 5; //arbitrary value x = x0; y = y0; for(int t = 1; t <= 100; t++){ //one hundred iterations t =atan2(y,x); x += cos(t); y += sin(t); print( x...
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    A particle in a 2d circle with potential

    Hello, What would be the right approach to solve for a particle's wavefunction/ energy eigenvalues inside of a 2d cicrle with a potential V(r) where r is the radial distance of a particle from the center of the circle? V(r) is known and is some sort of a well potential going to infinity at R...
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