Paper Definition and 1000 Threads

I was wondering how do you know when you have a, what i will call, somewhat 'decent' paper to submit to an undergraduate mathematics journal for publishing?

Solve -r*(T^2 + T + 6) + 1 = 0 4r*(T^2 + T) - T = 0 For T and r One solution is T=0 and r=1/6 There are 2 more. I have T = +- i/(2)0.5 and r = 1/[4(1+T)] But MATLAB is disagreeing with my solutions, can anyone rectify them for me please?

Writing papers usually takes a long time and have many small revision. It is especially true when it comes to collaborate with other people because someone may hold the paper for a very long time. So is there a better workflow for collaborative writing? One method is to send the email to the...

First up apologies if this is a violation of a rule or COC. Anyway new paper was published a couple of days ago concerning first flowering dates of flowers in the UK. http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/04/01/rspb.2010.0291.full" A report on it was published in...

This paper was a "sleeper" for much of the past 16 years. But in the past 12 months, since March 2009, it has received 8 citations. Just random fluctuation or can we point to something that stirred up interest? http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9406019 Von Neumann Algebra Automorphisms and...

Hello! I'm writing a paper on Einstein's special theory and Einstein himself for my high school freshman science class; I was told this would be the best place to post it. I'm trying to make my explanation clear; if it's not, suggestions on how to improve it would be appreciated. Thanks! :smile:

A paper cup shpaed as a frustum of a cone with R_2=1.3R_1 is designed to have a volume of 240 cm3. Determine R_1 and height hof the cup such that the least amount of paper will be used for making the cup. The problem must be done in MATLAB, so please keep that in mind. We have learned commands...

Hello I am looking for a certain paper by Albert Einstein (sometime between 1905 and 1920), where Einstein discusses Entropy - in this paper, he presents entropy, but then says that the term in the exponential or logarithm (cant remember which) need to be dimensionless. So he divides the term...

Of these fifteen candidates, please indicate the paper or papers which you think will contribute most significantly to future quantum gravity research. Multiple choice is possible in the poll, so please select several if you wish. Newest papers are listed first. In some cases, a pair of related...

If you went to a university, but did not graduate and are no longer in any classes, and you do not work for them, do you still put "University of [x]" on the title page of a scientific paper? Thanks, Jake

Hi, I need to write a 4000 word math research paper and I'm looking for a topic. Some sample topics that were given are, Solving the problem: A piece of land of a square shape with dimensions 10m x 10m is divided into 100 square parcels with dimensions 1m x 1m. Initially, 9 of the parcels...

I recently decided for some reason to re-read some of the first part, the kinematical part, of Einstein’s initial paper on relativity, “The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”, in which he develops the conceptual framework of special relativity and derives the Lorentz transformations. I must have...

I'm new here, so sorry if this is in the wrong place. I'm writing a paper on Carbon Nanotubes for my Intro to Modern Physics class. I suck at writing science research papers, primarily because I never know where to begin. I was hoping someone could point me in the direction of some reputable...

Hey everybody, this is not exactly a homework question, but I am writing a term paper on the topic of laser trapping and cooling, and would appreciate any good sources that anyone could provide. This is an undergraduate thermal physics class, and does not need to be extremely technical...

Well, word has just come through so I'm going to announce it here. I'm now officially a published physicist! If you really go into the details it isn't quite as impressive as might appear at first glance, but hey. I'll accept congratulations in any case! :approve: I'm very pleased, but to...

a-) In 1954 Linus Pauling was awarded the Chemistry Nobel Prize for his work on the nature of the chemical bond. Covalent bonds are one example of intramolecular bonding. Explain the formation of the following: i) \sigma (sigma) bonding ii) \pi (pi) bonding iii) double bonds iv) triple...

Hi guys, Not actually a mathematics question as such (sorry) but does anyone know where i can get my hands on a copy of Chen's paper "On the representation of a large even integer as the sum of a prime and the product of at most two primes". For the life of me all i can find is references to it...

Hey guys, I'm completely new to these forums, but I'm hoping someone here can help me out. I'm a Junior in high school, and I basically need some help with the 7 page research paper I'll have to write. I love physics in general, mostly quantum physics, particle physics, theories of...

http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.1497 :-p :smile: :smile: I just mentioned RCHO in other thread, and an article appears. Very predictive, I am :-DDDI haven't read it. I will not, most probably, in a few days. But I feel it could be place for a thread on the topic of relationship between unification and...

Its becoming more common for journals to have preprint repository sections...i.e. even nature are doing it for neuroscience, and i noticed some respectable scientists are just using this channel to publish stuff at preprint then get colleagues to review, and then not bothering to publish if that...

When I did my undergraduate thesis, my project was a small part of a larger project being done by an MSc. student at the time. We obviously both had the same supervisor. This student completed his MSc. degree a few months ago, and I have since learned from him that he and his supervisor have...

Hello. What avoid us to insert our hands on a wall for example? i think its the electron force of each atoms right? so is it possible to construct a matrix of electrons, that will make a thin layer of electrons where a think paper can float ? Maybe an electron emission or something...

Has anyone read and digested "Alternatives to dark matter: Modified gravity as an alternative to dark matter" by Jacob D. Bekenstein? http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.3876

There are these things where you can write on by putting pressure, and by lifting the paper it clears. I really want one to like write ideas & scratch work and stuff down and quickly erase it. I used to have one a long time ago and looking for it again

Homework Statement I have a heavy ball on a piece of paper on the floor. The paper is grabbed and moved horizontally with acceleration a. What is the acceleration of the center of the ball? The ball is assumed to not slip with respect to the paper. Homework Equations The Attempt...

Czes discussion re Compton wavelength and new Smolin paper These are posts from the bibliography thread (which has enough to do just listing the new papers, without discussing them :biggrin:)

Homework Statement My physics teacher is making us do an egg drop after only being in school for two weeks. We can only use up to four 8.5" x 11" sheets of regular computer paper and as much tape as we want. The tape cannot be used as more than a form of attachment. Meaning that the tape...

I'm slowly working my way through what I need to really understand the Bell papers. Everyone says that a good start is the EPR paper. I understand that Einstein may not have read the final version before publication and may not even have wanted his name appended (sort of convoluted logic and...

Hi, I have my AS Maths exam on Monday and so I was looking at some previous papers and I couldn't do this question: The quadratic equation (k+1)x² + 12x + (k-4) = 0 has real roots (a) Show that k² - 3k - 40 ≤ 0 I don't even understand where to start so I was hoping you could help me...

i must write paper on big bang theory but i don't really know what should be included. i am from korea and the words are so confusing. maybe if i had a brief outline i understand more better. thanks physicists

Homework Statement the mass of a paper clip is approximately? Homework Equations it is mutiple choice but i don't know if there an equation for it the mass of a paper clip is apporoximately? 1) 1 x 10 exponenet(6) kg 2) 1 x 10 exponenet(3) kg 3) 1 x 10 exponenent(-3) kg 4) 1 x...

Of these twelve candidates, please indicate the paper or papers which you think will contibute most significantly to future research in 4D quantum gravity. Multiple choice is possible in the poll, so pick several if you wish. Barrett Fairbairn Hellmann http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.4907 Quantum...

Interesting development. We already knew nonstring QG at UC Davis, but hadn't heard of LQG research in the UC Berkeley physics department. The acknowledgments thanked Rovelli among others, for discussions and hospitality---at least one of the authors must have visited Marseille and Pavia* while...

Hello, I am doing a PhD in computer science (on simulation and modeling) and my research is based on the work of a few physicists. I have written around 10 papers (journal, IEEE and other international conferences and local ones) on this topic. I normally add a contribution (let's say 4-5...

1905 paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon its Energy-Content? In his 1905 paper Einstein uses a Taylor expansion and keeps only the first term (an approximation) to derive E=mc^2 which is good if v<<c but if v is not <<c then we need more terms. If we keep the first three terms then...

Does anyone of you have experience with making paper movies? :biggrin: The ones where you have a booklet with images and when you flick through it you have the illusion of a movie. I'm making a booklet and have the idea of making a moving worm in it, but I am wondering whether every page...

Hello everyone, I am currently reading a paper on medical imaging and it is talking about linear and higher order transformations in 3D. So, we can represent a transformation for each 3D position (say in a discrete image) as follows: T(x) = x + u(x) Here x is (x1, x2, x3) coordinates in...

Does this paper prove GR emerge from LQG with matter? A common criticism of LQG is that despite intense research, no semiclassical limit has been shown to connect GR with LQG in the low energy limit. And hence, it is not even a candidate theory of quantum gravity. This paper...

Homework Statement Water is falling gently into a large tank at 0.2m^3s^-1 and leaves through a small hole in the bottom of the tank of area 0.05m^2. What is the water velocity as it leaves? How full is the tank in the steady state? Homework Equations Well if the rate of water...

Term Paper: "Is the brain immunologically privileged?" I have to write a term paper for my neuroscience class and the theme is "Is the brain immunologically privileged?". According to my professor I have a pretty nice introduction that explains the anatomical aspects of the brain that makes it...

I am an undergraduate with an article in peer review right now (first author of three) by one physics journal. I am also applying for grad schools at this time, and I wanted to know if there are any ethical issues or discouragements about mentioning the general contents or abstract of this paper...

I need to get this paper: "P. Erdős and R.J. Wilson, On the chromatic index of almost all graphs, J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B 23 (1977), 255-257" J. Comb. Theory is on ScienceDirect, but they only have the abstract online, and I can't find a hard copy of this journal in my library. Does anyone...

Hey guys, I have a problem in that I am just out of hospital after having to get a lungs transplant (i have cf). Anyway, i was not expecting it till next year but it came up suddenly and has messed up my studying. My college are willing to be flexible with me and have informed me that I have...

In the following link below, consider page 2, paragraph 2 ("To illustrate the ideas involved..."). The author Podolsky considers a particle with a 'single degree of freedom.' Then in eq. (6), he shows a true cartesian coordinate system. Isn't this an inconsistency with the paper? And as...

contrary to AGW theory. I have not yet read the actual study. http://bristol.ac.uk/news/2009/6649.html"

Ok, hopefully this is the right place to post about this. I'm writing a project on General Relativity and need access to a specific paper. I'm not very good at finding stuff online or in libraries. The paper is: Gowdy, R. H.: "Vacuum Spacetimes with Two-parameter Spacelike Isometry Groups and...

Hi everyone Long time since i posted something. (May be i have posted at the wrong place, Doc Al...feel free to move it) I am in my first year... Basically i will have to start writing research papers from the next year... But i am really interested to start from the first year... I...

Homework Statement If you take an 8.5in by 11in piece of paper and fold one corner over so it just touches the opposite edge as seen in figure (http://wearpete.com/myprob.jpg ). Find the value of x that makes the area of the right triangle A a maximum? Homework Equations A = 1/2(xy)...

Screening arXiv i found this really interesting paper by Requardt. altough i don't undestand it completely. i think his idea of emergent relativity and quantum mechanics is really good. It is also what my landsman Gerard 't Hooft proposes. Greetings John. http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.4017...

Lash Maitra is a postdoc in Loll's group at Utrecht. Her first paper just posted on arxiv was an eyeopener for me, so here's for sharing if you want: http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2117 Can causal dynamical triangulations probe factor-ordering issues? R L Maitra 12 pages (Submitted on 12 Oct 2009)...