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ITT: We start with this simple function and make it at convoluted as possible, one step at a time.

You may make any change to the function you want, as long as it remains equivalent to the previous post.
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>>8510240
[math] V= \partial_r \frac{\pi r^4}{3} [/math]
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>>8510244
>partial when there's only one variable
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>>8510247
thats general notation for a derivative

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I'm designing a recorder and trying to figure out why they have a fingerhole for the octave above the fundamental in addition to a register hole when the two should be in the same place for a simplified theoretical flute. Force the chamber to have a node in the middle, doubling whatever frequency, the fundamental or otherwise. My research gives me the impression that the tone hole is at the true half wavelength, but the register hole is slightly past it, having the effect of slightly distorting the center of the waveform on that side. I cant figure any reason for this to be desirable though, nor if it is important to the function of the flute - ie whether unifying the octave and register hole at half the fundamental length would screw up the fork fingerings essential to playing accidentals and higher registers.

Anyone familiar with the acoustics or design to help me figure it out?
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Maybe it's done to make it harder to overblow the recorder?

I've never played the flute, but I did play the recorder as a kid and I don't remember being able to produce the first overtone on it without adjusting the fingering, unlike all the other wind instruments.
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>>8510097
>the tone hole is at the true half wavelength, but the register hole is slightly past it

help me follow what you're talking about, I play a bit but the specifics...
is the tone hole on the back and you cover it with your thumb?
is the register covered by the index finger?
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>>8510185
Other way. Tone hole closest to the mouthpiece plays the Do above the fundamental (all holes closed). The register hole allows access to higher octaves beyond that Do (though fork fingerings seemt o call for the use of the register hole for that Do which confuses me a little.)

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>tfw youll never look at Earth from space
>tfw youll never wear your space suit floating in zero gravity
>tfw youll never be a space colonist
>tfw youll never be part of the greatest human endeavor
>tfw youll never feel the cold sweet suffocation of space
>tfw youll never get crushed into the singularity of a black hole
>tfw youll never have alien gf
why even live
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>>8510061
Study Physics or some Biology with a good masters and go to NASA or w/e European equivalent there is
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>>8510079
I'm an international studies/GIS major who speaks Japanese. I have the opportunity to go into Space Law. I guess that is the best a math-retard like me can do.
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>>8510085
Hmm, yeah maybe that's one of the things you can do

But hey, at least you don't need subs to watch anime or translations to read some manga
>RIP DJT

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How would one calculate a country's area with the curvature of the earth taken into account?

pic related, an example
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God damn Russia is huge.
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>>8509888
>Russia

Ah, another Kremlin troll spreading fake news.
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>>8509888
Well, there are several ways. But trigonometry is the best one. You just measure small triangles and compute their area. Then just add the areas of the triangles together.

P.S.
Yes, I know that Earth is a sphere. However, for small triangles, it does not matter. If you want to know the margin of error, learn some manifold topology.

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Redpill me on this stupid piece of shit.

From what I understand, the """proof""" that it works that Pop-Sci normies are fawning over is that it allegedly produced like 80 microNewtons of thrust or something.

Call me cynical, but that seems well within the margin of error for the instruments probably used to measure it. I'm not ready to throw out 400 years of physics because of a number that small.
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>>8509864
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>>8509866
Like I said I think it's retarded and easily debunked, but that's not really an argument against it. Our theories about the universe are not set in stone. Saying that a claim that contradicts the First Law of Motion can't be true because it violates the First Law of Motion is circular reasoning.

I'm just looking for people's inputs on whether or not the researches who built the thing just got experimental error.
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>>8509868
There are like 3 open threads on this in the catalogue, which you should check out before creating a thread on a popular topic.

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hey guys, I'm studying physics and i actually don't know why light is slower in a medium.
the velocity is always the same right, so photons must get absorbed and new ones emitted. which doesn't really seem right.
please tell me
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desperate bump
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>>8509508

The speed is always the same but because it travels through a medium it bounces and reflects around it so it takes longer to reach the end point.
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>>8510333
Nope.
Polaritons, OP.

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So how's your research going, /sci/?
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1.5 years into my master's degree

still at stage 0
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>>8509258
pretty good. finally got a journal paper accepted. now i just need to do a revision on in in the next 6 weeks
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>>8509355
Good journal?

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Hey, /sci/
How strong can lasers be made?

Lets say you had neigh infinite electricity, a 99% efficient conversion rate, and invulnerable components.

How intense a laser beam could possibly be made of a given diameter before no more light energy can possibly fit into such a small area? Is it infinite or does weird stuff start happening when photons get concentrated enough?
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>>8509255
Your apparatus will melt before you create a black hole.
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>weird stuff start happening when photons get concentrated enough?

I don't exactly remember the documentary (might have been times arrow) but they said light can effect gravity, or maybe photons have gravity, again I forgot sorry. If you had series of powerful enough lasers, arranged in a funnel shape it would create a gravitational distortion where you could fire photons into the funnel and the photons would travel back in time. Anyone know what my swiss cheese memory is trying to think of?
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>>8509448
Light has mass so of course it affects gravity

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How do two singularities merge?
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>>8509142
>2 holes merging
that's gay as hell dude
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>>8509142
Looks like a piggy
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>>8510267
Thats not funny. If you actually looked up at night to the sky and saw that piggy nose you and everyone you love would instantly die being sucked into that snout of certain hell. It would obliterate all

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>watch MIT videos, pretty easy to follow
>do the exercises, easy peasy lemon squeezy

>try Putnam problems
>can't solve a single one in weeks

What is happening?
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>>8509066
MIT needs to push diversity.

People complained their problems were too sexist and racist because women had trouble solving them and were feeling 'raped' by the problems.
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>>8509070
What?...
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>>8509073
MIT problems used to be hard but then women complained they were being raped by their difficulty so they put in friendly problems.

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How is this shit possible?
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Is that some motherfucking bismuth
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>>8509056

Colors=thin layers of oxide
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>>8509100
What about the shape?

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-1 x -1= +1 is WRONG, it is academic stupidity and is evil. The educated stupid should acknowledge the natural antipodes of +1 x +1 = +1 and -1 x -1 = -1 exist as plus and minus values of opposite creation.
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This is depressingly bad bait
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>>8508791
Wrong, you can't even refute it so you insult it instead.
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>>8508791
You do realize that -1 x -1 is the same as -(1 x 1) right

Why are there no large-scale, well-funded efforts to significantly remediate the biological ageing process through scientific and technological means?

There seem to only be a handful of small charities with a few researchers and annual budgets in the low single digit millions of dollars; and a few researchers at a smattering of universities.

It doesn't seem to be considered a very big deal; why is this, given that everyone in the world will suffer as a result of ageing - and the intensity of the suffering is usually quite severe - and there seems to be no in-principle reason why we could not do an awful lot more to significantly reduce - or even prevent - that suffering?

In particular, why are there not even any eccentric billionaires pumping serious money into this? It would be one thing for this to not be an issue that governments and their associated research institutes took seriously; but the fact that very few private citizens with considerable resources seem interested is particularly strange.

What gives?
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>>8508439
Because most useful research gets patented and you don't hear about it for decades

i.e. the technology behind touchscreen was known since the 1960s but only got mass commercialised once smartphones took off in 2008
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Anyone else?
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>>8508439
For one thing, it would probably destroy our entire ecosystem. Sure, it could lie developed but hidden for a few decades like >>8508448
says, but even if at first it is only available to the rich, it is such a breakthrough that I'd wager many would do anything they can to scrounge money together to afford the therapy/treatment/procedure/whatever it would be, especially when you rationalize that a longer lifespan will mean more time to make it back. Plus, like most technology, as it is further developed and streamlined it will only become more accessible.

So now our still-rising population is augmented with a lowering mortality rate, which means a substantial rise not only in food and other resources consumables, but also a decrease in available livable space.

tl;dr it sounds appealing, but would probably kill the human race.

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https://www.strawpoll.me/11774435
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>>8510028
>tfw entered a meme program
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>>8510028
>>Are you too stupid for all of the above
>CS
Kek
>>Are you a conman
What's that?
Did he mean't common man?
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>>8510083
>>8510083
Oh shit, i just google'd it, THAT'S MY SHIT BRAH
>tfw want to major on Stats or AppMath+MathFinance Masters
Breh, i also could do some Physics but eh, i have to get a PhD in order to have a nice job or something

So I was wondering if anyone can verify this answer.

For the moment of inertia, it's the sum of the mass times r squared, or in integral form, r squared times dm. Why is r squared left as a constant in the integral? Isn't r also changing according to each dm?

So I asked this to a physics major, and he told me to just take it as it is, since I'm only taking single variable calculus atm. He said the actual integral involves multivariable calculus, hence there would be a dr. Can anyone verify if he's correct?
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Try looking it up on the internet instead of asking, this is trivial and there are myriad resources that go into whatever level of detail you could possibly want.
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>>8509878
Wow, calm down, I've tried searching it up, but, there is no concrete answer. The only result I found were questions using this as an integral, without any proof as why r squared is left as a constant. Hence, I'm asking here as a last resort (professor still didn't respond).
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>>8509885
r^2 is the jacobian for spherical integrals
google that, then come back to me

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