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I have been looking over some of the posts and I was wondering how you were able to get textbook written problems on the forum that were pictures. As apposed to (2^3/5) as an example.

How do I improve text scrolling of my computer? It used to work fine, but I reinstalled windows and now when I scroll the text moves along in a staggered fasion, not smooth :(

I was reading through my linear algebra book and came across a picture of a mass on a spring! We are not on that chapter but i decided to look at it anyways since we just finished oscillations in physics! :wink: . But it seems to me that the author of the linear alebgra book might not...

Hello, I was hoping if somebody could point me to a starters text on differential geometry. I have done some calculas ~4 years ago - I can refresh stuff as I need to. My physics is at high school level, but I do read up on stuff every once a while My aim in learning diff geom is to be...

Hi Those of you who have read Bohr's Theory in Chemistry may have encountered the relation, \frac{1}{\lambda} = RhcZ^{2}(\frac{1}{n_{1}^{2}}-\frac{1}{n_{2}^{2}}) for the wavelength of radiation emitted when an electron goes from a higher energy level n_{2} to a lower energy level...

This is my first post, by the way. Hello everyone. I just received R. Shankar's text on QM a few days ago. I am thorougly impressed with the general layout of the book. I've heard introducing Dirac notation first is an excellent idea. The first ~ 80 pages of the book are of a introductory...

how do you convert a text file into a LaTeX file? thank you soooo much...

This is my first java gui program. When I try to get the text from the text fields i get a null pointer exception. I looked at the text fields with the debugger and found that the text fields were null even though i had typed stuff into them. could someone help me out here? btw I know my...

For those of you with the Alberts text... Page 999, top paragraph: "Once the pre-RC has been assembled in G1, the replication origin is ready to fire . The activation of S-Cdk in late G1 pulls the trigger and initiates DNA replcation. The initiation of replication also requires the...

I'm a high school senior who's never taken physics but I plan on doing so in college. I'd like to get a good start...I'm very good w/ the sciences..i'm in the IB-program so I really would like to get a good headstart..plan on studying over the summer. Just two days ago I bought PHYSICS...

Say you have a website with mainly text, but that you want people not to be able to just "copy-paste" from it. Is there a way to make the browser: 1. Download the content as text (so that the speed stays ok), 2. Display it normally, but 3. Block any user from selecting a portion of it (so...

Question for a Taoist. I've come across a reference to a text called 'the Kuan Tsu'. I thought Kuan Tsu was a person. Is there also a text by this name? I've searched but can't find it.

hi. i have worked through the mechanics and waves/optics portions of halliday/resnick/walker "fundamentals of physics" 6/e (an introductory physics text), and i want to continue on self-studying mechanics. could you suggest a formal mechanics text (or maybe it would be called a classical...

could anyone suggest a good quantum field theory text? i mean a text for a beginner who is familiar with basic quantum mechanics...also, since i am going to study it by myself( i am not taking a physics course ), a text that is simple in language and informal would be great.(i mean, like...

Hi. I am new to this discussion group, so forgive me if this is not the appropriate forum for this question. A friend of mine and I are going through the first volume of Weinberg's QFT trilogy. My question regards the first problem at the end of chapter two. I think I completely understand the...

Hi, I'm taking grade 12 physics atm and having a bit of a problem. The textbook we are using is also very old... published during 1980 so its very hard for me to try and learn by myself. My teacher is not helping much because in class many students end up helping the teacher solve the...

I found what appears to be a decent online text for an intro to differential geometry and general relativity. See - http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/Stefan_Waner/RealWorld/pdfs/DiffGeom.pdf Pete

If you cover printed text with a piece of transparent polyethylene film you can still easily read it. As you gradually lift up the film, the text becomes increasingly blurred and may even disappear. Why that? I guess it has something to do with the structure of the film's surface, but I'm not...

Analysis by Its History E. Hairer & G. Wanner Published by Springer, as part of their Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics series. ISBN 0-387-94551-2 http://www.springer-ny.com Introduction: For many first year Mathematics undergraduates an introduction to Analysis is often...