Notes Definition and 207 Threads

Back in High School, our Algebra 2 teacher did the whole Cornell notes thing, and would take points off if we didn't set it up with that format. Do you guys use them? For those of you who are scratching your head, this is the Cornell Notes Format...

I think this is the best forum to post in, if not, feel free to move it (maybe career guidance?). Over the course of my undergrad/grad studies I have found that I never look back at notes that I take. This is almost certainly a problem -- not in that I get all my info from books, but rather...

I been googling videos and notes regarding the sketching of geometric figures, such as: planes, solids, 3rd/ 2d geometric shapes. Could not find decent resources. The reason i ask is that I am having a hard time picturing certain problems with my mediocre drawing skills and I also tutor so it...

Hello Seniors, I have done BSc in Physics but couldn't take lectures of Classical Mechanics. I am Almost blind in this subject. Since it's a core course in Physics, so i need your help to understand the basics in this course. If anyone of you have any helping material/notes/slides etc which...

Good morning, I am going back to school to get a degree in Physics in September. I am concerned about how to make clean summary/notes of what I'll learn. For information, I have a really really really bad handwriting and it is just painful to read what I write. That's why I thought about...

A B C D E F G Sharp, flat, neutral Beat 8 4 1 half quarter eighth ... Vocal chords Three different hertz variances, this may be in the wrong thread. Vowels can be extended for ever

Let 0-->M-->V-->W-->0 be an exact sequence of algebra's. We can then see that W = V/M. (is this true? Wouldn't W = V/Im(M)?) Then i wrote 'codimension 1 in a nilpotent algebra,' no idea why i wrote it. Anyone, if V is a nilpotent algebra, then V^2 < V. Let M be a comdension 1 subspace of V...

Hi there, Thank you for stopping by this thread. I'm an engineering student rekindling an interest in Maths. I just love studying Maths in my free time (and sometimes it trespasses into my non free time). I have plenty of fantastic books on my iPad and it's really helping me. However, I have...

Hi everybody, I'm an engineering student with an avid interest in Maths. I wish to do some kind of research in Maths someday and Really enjoy studying it. Of late, I have been reading a lot of Maths books on different topics and it's getting hard to keep track of everything I've read. I have...

I am trying to understand Differential Topology using several textbooks including Lee's book on Smooth Manifolds. I am looking for some good online lecture notes at undergraduate level (especially if they have good diagrams and examples) in order to supplement the texts ... Can anyone help in...

I note that I spend a long time taking/rewriting messy class notes, (~1-2 hours a day) time which I could rather be practicing/studying. Is it worth rewriting these notes and storing them in an archive, or would I better spend my time doing practice problems and just highlighting important...

Any one who can help me to get notes on Kitchoff's laws so i can understand them well

hi can anyone help me to get complete lecture notes of a many body course which is taught according the book of "many body theory of solids" by John C.Inkson, please?

I have been taking an ineffective method in my physics intro class: reading the textbook and taking notes -- each chapter of notes comes out to at least 4 pages, front and back. So I'm wondering if there is a more effective way to learn physics? Should I just read, highlight, make sidenotes...

I've been stuck trying to figure out what's going on in a particular section of my notes for the last couple days. The biggest issue is the lecturer has just not explained where the example has come from and what it represents. I thought I would post the relevant section here and see if anyone...

Hi. Currently I'm taking an advanced particle physics course, and apparently Einstein notation takes up a lot in this course. Unfortunately for me, and several others in this course, we have never had anything with this kind of notation before. And pretty much from day one, we were put right...

I've myself have lots of notebooks, full with math and physics notes, from high school and uni that i keep on my shelf. I ve used regular notebooks, 60 80 100 pgs, squared and i find that organizing them is a real mess!They bend, curl, tear and deteriorate. So I've been thinking about some...

On a post involving the proof of the Fourth Isomorphism Theorem for vector spaces (in which I was immeasurably helped by Deveno) I have become aware that my knowledge of sets and functions was not all it should be when it comes to things like inverse images, left and right inverses and the like...

Mistake 1. In the lecture slides from my university it says that: "The response of a stable first-order transfer function to a unit sine wave input is:" Y(s)=\frac{1}{s+a}*\frac{\omega}{s^2+\omega^2} Isn't this missing an a in the numerator since the standard form of a first order transfer...

Homework Statement It has been suggested that reaction time to brake a signal from standard brake ligths can be modeled with a normal distribution having a mean of 1.25 seconds and a standard deviation of .46 seconds. What is the probability that the reaction time is between 1. and 1.75. Use...

Homework Statement Given the continuous probability density function f(x) = (x-2)/18 2 ≤ x ≤ 8, find P(6<x≤8)? Homework Equations For a continuous random variable, if you have a pdf f(x) on the interval a to b, P(c≤x≤d)=∫dcf(x)dx E(X)=μ=∫baxf(x)dx Var(X)=∫ba(x−μ)2f(x)dx For this...

1. Problem - Notes Jumbled, do not know if I am missing variables or not needed to answer the questions? Disclaimer: I am good at maths, fine with algebra and derivations, I just forget the formulae and units, especially when I haven't practiced things a lot, such as this topic (other subjects...

Homework Statement When an instrument plays a note, the resulting sound is a combination of all the possible harmonics for that instrument in its momentary configuration. For instance, a musician changes notes on a violin by pressing the strings against the neck of the instrument, thus...

Hi, So I'm studying Chemistry and biology and I'd like to hear your advice on notetaking. Perhaps some of you can help me find some good software for taking notes faster? First let me paint the picture for you: Whenever I learn a new subject such as electrochemistry or Entropy etc., I like...

Hello, I am design electrical engieer, & as part of my job i am responsible to prepare fabrication & detail drawings. However this requires extensive experience in yard & fabrication work, since there is a lot of consumbale items that need previous experience to make the correct details &...

So basically I'm in the 1st year of EE and we're going to design the wiring diagram. Pretty much all we put at this stage are grounded electricity sockets, lights, water heater, and the oven. The problem is that the book that I've gotten from my school is 95% about mechanical drawings, which...

Just finished Physics I and II, and getting ready to start Thermo/Stat Mech, Wave/Particle Theory (Modern Physics), ODE, Electronics lab, and a Cryptography elective next week. When I look back at how I took and organized notes, I feel that I wasted a lot of time shuffling through loose leaf...

Hi, I am looking for a good book or any other online resource on semiconductor physics. What I need the book to cover is: The PN junction i.e. the diode BJT transistors MOSFETS In particullar I am interested in the derivation of the equations of the above components, the Shockley...

Does anyone know good notes or a book on quantum mechanics that covers well the interpretational issues? Especially, which deals also with the last fifty or sixty years, i.e. that has Bell, decoherence, GHZ, Aspect experiment, Mach-Zehnder interferometer, delayed-choice, mesocopic Schrödinger...

It seems that lots of physics students, even graduate students have a problem with finding the most effective way of learning by themselves. So...how do you do it? Here's the situation: you have 1 book, 1 chapter, say around 30 pages, divided into subchapters, and some problems at the end...

This is from my course notes http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/2630/ckyl.jpg In line 3, there's the integral \int_0^t ||y'(s)||ds which represents the length of the curve as a function of t (which I am thinking of as time). Here, I think s is a dummy variable for time. The equation in line...

Hello, In my electrodynamics course, there's a "maths" introduction and there's something i don't get ! Homework Statement It says that : the integral on the surface of a sphere is ∫1/r da = 4πr'/3 with r=|r'-R|, R the vector from the element da to the center. r'=r'*z^ The Attempt...

I just got a tablet and am wondering, are there any good apps for taking notes in a math class? I'd rather not have to type out all the LaTex in class, I think that would be too distracting for me. Is there a keyboard or something that comes with math symbols?

I am playing with creating boxes around my examples in my notes. I could do this: What I have currently it this https://imageshack.us/a/img850/2041/k460.png

Hi, I’m looking for a good library software for managing notes for university classes. Let’s say for exsample that I see “electrochemistry” in a book and I forgot the basic principles of electrochemistry, but I have some very understandable notes with drawings that explain electrochemistry...

Homework Statement Why are the bass notes of a car radio heard by people on the street and not the high notes The Attempt at a Solution I think it has something to do with fixed and free end boundaries and may have something do with the fact that the high notes are being reflected...

Here are my problems I'm experiencing, I'm sure my note taking is very relative to the fact that I have to study 6-8 hours a day to keep up (Or more!) I was wondering if anybody has any tips to improve efficiency and effectiveness of my note taking so that I can spend less time trying to...

Does anyone know any site with a good set of notes on coupled oscillations?

Hi! I'm trying to follow the video lectures of the course 'Quantum Field Theory II' by Francois David given at the Perimeter Institute PSI programme, but it would be nice to have some notes or a book which were similar to the lectures. I am especially interested in the part on Wilsonian...

Hello PF. Thanks for reading. My understanding of Bandwidth in the context in which I learn it (Analogue and Digital Communications) is that it is the spectral width of a signal, BW = f[upper] - f[lower]. However, my lecture notes then define 'fundamental limitations' as, Bandwidth...

Hi, is there are good archive/library database software that enables me to archive and easily search for documents. The idea is regarding University: I would like to make a database of notes digitally for all semesters, but creating maps within maps on my desktop and clicking all those folders...

I was wondering whether Oppenheimer's legendary QM lecture notes still exist and can be found somewhere. I only found the content of theses lectures at http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/physics/learning03.html I assume Bohm's book ``Quantum Theory" from 1951 must contain some of the...

I'm attempting to accumulate as many Application Notes from as many places as possible, and I would like some suggestions about where to get them. I've found them to be an enormously helpful supplement to the textbooks at school, sometimes explaining certain concepts clearly where the books...

A question my friend gave me the other day: If I start humming a constant note and, once 1/2 a wavelength exits my mouth, I start humming the same constant note starting at the same point along the wave while somehow managing to produce both of the same note, what will you hear? His logic is...

Greetings PFers I've got a Capricorn Electronics Caroling Christmas Bells. http://www.digitalfires.com/bells/ I'm not going to pay $90 for another music cartridge, so I've decided to program in my own songs... yay!... My trouble is that I need a piece of software to convert some simple...

I am having trouble understanding a section in http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~francisv/publications/XXV-ICGTMP-Proceeding/dkdv.pdf: . It is on page 3. Section 3 -- Discretization of the Korteweg-de Vries equation. I don't understand why V_4=x∂_x+3t∂_t-2u∂_u generates a symmetry group of the KdV. I...

I am in precalculus right now and I am trying to better myself as a student. I take all the notes the professor gives (which are none because all he does is solve problems from the class textbook) and from the textbook. I was wondering if anyone would mind posting their notes as perhaps an...

Homework Statement P_0 (t+dt)=P_0(t)(1-\gamma dt ) (1) Therefore P_0 (t)+\frac{dP_0 (t)}{dt} \approx P_0 (t)-\gamma P_0(t)dt. (2) Where the approximation is due to a Taylor expansion apparently. Homework Equations Taylor expansion of f around x_0 : f(x)\approx...

Hi This is a really trivial comment in my notes but for some reason I'm not seeing it... The following image demonstrates the perpendicular distance from an origin to the line of action of the force given as x*sin(x,F). So the moment, M = f*x*sin(x,F) which I understand. But why is it...

I have 4/5 of step-by-step notes starting with a generalization of sophomore differential equations via Lie symmetries all the way to advanced physics. Differential equations, abstract algebra, topology are presented to physics and math majors alike as very disjointed subjects. Nothing is...