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ITT: beautiful graphs/diagrams/ect 2016-05-03 17:26:27 Post No.8047663
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ITT: beautiful graphs/diagrams/ect
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it's all in the name
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Wow that distorted sine wave would sounds pretty cool
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Dr. Sylvester James Gates, Jr. Theoretical Physicist PhD. 2016-05-03 16:39:30 Post No.8047586
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Dr. Sylvester James Gates, Jr. Theoretical Physicist PhD.
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>Dr. Gates, is an American theoretical physicist, known for work on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory.
Thoughts on Dr. Gates's work /sci/?
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He's a great supporter of the simulated universe theory, he's working with other great minds to prove it true. Brilliant man, my role model.
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It's super
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I love this guy
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Why all matter in Galaxy spin in the same direction around its center? How can matter synchronize it's movement on such giant distance? Why matter around massive object forms disk instead of sphere? At the beginning it falls on the center of the mass chaotically in different directions and then something arrange it.
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Imagine you have a solar system that's still forming. Some dust is going clockwise, some dust is going counter clockwise (1). Eventually, the dust is gonna collect itself under gravitational influence, and the newly formed dust grains/ rocks are going to crash into each other, going opposite directions and all(2).
Eventually, dust/ rocks going one way will eventually be eliminated by the dust going the other if the majority of it is larger (3) and fall into that dust's gravitational influence.
Eventually everything in the system will orbit one particular way in order to preserve momentum as it experiences a gravitational pull from the sun.(4)
It's the same with galaxies and planetary rings.
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These clumps interacted gravitationally, putting tidal torques on each other that acted to give them some angular momentum. As the baryonic matter cooled, it dissipated some energy and contracted toward the center. With angular momentum conserved, the matter near the center speeds up its rotation.
Now you don't know, but that's cosmology; story telling.
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I've always heard that where you do undergrad doesn't matter that much if you're gonna go on to do your master's, but you need to go to a good school for your master's.
I just applied for grad school and got into Boston U with a weak GPA and terrible GRE scores. I got in with a scholarship.
A couple of my dumb ass friends who have mediocre GPAs also just got in... to Columbia and Johns Hopkins.
This was pretty amazing to me. BU's acceptance rate is 34%, and Columbia's is 7%...
but then I found out the grad school rankings. The school of BU I applied and got into has a 66% acceptance rate. The grad school of Columbia my friend is in, which is actually one of Columbia's most prestigious schools, has a 40% acceptance rate... which makes me feel like an idiot for not applying. It makes me think I should just get a semester out of the way at BU, retake the GRE, and then go to fucking Columbia.
If grad school matters so much, I can't believe it's so fucking easy to get in. I almost wanna call it a scam since it's so expensive, except that these useless liberal arts master's degrees really do land you amazing jobs and opportunities, as I've seen repeatedly with my peers. Which kinda just shows that the whole fucking system is a scam - I know a guy who dropped out of high school who's smarter and more competent than the kids I know in grad school.
So what the fuck? Is the system this broken?
And more importantly, can I get the master's at BU, which I think I'll really like, or am I obligated to go to Columbia so I can snake my way that much further up the ladder?
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Universities are businesses.
Businesses like money.
You have all these retards just dying to give you money
So you take their money.
You distract with a couple of fetch quests and at the end of it you give them a piece of paper
Somehow the retards feel satisfied
Profit percentage: 100000000%
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>paying for grad school
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>>8047637
most everyone I know does, except a BRILLIANT physicist roommate who got a full-ride to Rochester, and some creative writing MFAs
Calculating everything out, after the program I'll be ~$50K in the hole after grad school, and all the people I know who went to grad school laugh because apparently that's less than half of what most any of them owe.
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I need help /sci/. This was in my math professors room, the previous occupant of the room put it up and no one has been able to figure it out. It says something in the center, and has a key around the outside to decrypt it. Help me?
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Anybody?
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Each patch corresponds to a letter, the key is along the border, with a-z in order. But you need to reflect it in a mirror to get the final answer.
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So the bottom right square would be the first letter? Or the
Top right?
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I need to open the window in my room occasionally for some fresh air. However during summer there are bugs outside. We all know the odds of bugs entering my room while the window is open is proportional to the time my window is kept open and how far it is open.
For the sake of getting as much fresh air as possible while keeping as many bugs out, should I open my window very far for a short time or open it just a little for a long time?
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Just buy a bug net you dummy
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Incoming Goldman start intern here. Just ran the numbers on my window model and it concluded that you should keep your window open wide for a short amount of time
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>>8047466
Dumb makiposter. What about a net?
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trigonometric functions 2016-05-03 15:14:37 Post No.8047465
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where are the trigonometric functions derived from, how the hell did someone think of creating sin/tan/cos (arc funcs too)
thanks, non pic related
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I don't know the history of trigo functions, but I can tell you that , nowadays, the formal definitions of sine, cosine, tan... are infinte sums based on the Taylor series of the functions (aka sum of polynomials).
Sine in spanish is "seno" which means "boob" and the greek letter "theta" pronounced in spanish is "teta" that also means "boob" so, if you say "sine of theta" you are saying "boob of boob". wew.
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Speaking of which, since the question's answered, are there any geniuses here who wouldn't mind getting paid to take care of some work for me?
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sorry for being a maths noob but are the sin/cos/tan functions derived from the taylor series then? if not where from, where do they come from, how where they founded
Explain to me how your life will ever be better than that of Dr. Brian May.
>> You can't
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simple. i dont like curls.
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imagine trying to comb that mess
pass
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That's Sir Dr. Brian May to you, pleb.
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Is this expression for the efficiency of a fan blade correct?
I'm making a ducted fan and seeing as these things take a long time to draw and a lot of money to manufacture I want to have some idea of the efficiency even if it's basic. I'm worried because it's a 12 blade fan which means the blade angles have to be quite steep in order for it to all fit together. Other EDF manufacturers seem to have done the same thing and theirs works fine but I want to check anyway because mine is much bigger.
If pic related is right then I can compute the coefficents of lift and drag on the chosen NACA 4412 airfoil using XFOIL and hence the efficiency. Vortex losses are being ignored because it's in a duct.
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If /sci/ helps me out I'll post a video of it in operation. It's gonna sound amazing. Might rice it out as well with supersonic swept back blades and afterburners
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Oh come on seriously fuck this board, Loads of people eager to spew bullshit about quantum mechanics or inter universal teichmuller theory but these same people somehow don't know enough physics to verify a simple efficiency expression? I'd use physicsforums if I was good at LateX.
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Unintentional millitary applications of your research 2016-05-03 12:28:16 Post No.8047288
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Unintentional millitary applications of your research
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Hello /sci/ i figured this would be the best place to get some insight to something I thought about just now.
I just came off watching an episode of Big Bang Theory (yeah yeah i enjoy the show so hold your laughter for later) and the characters are musing about the problems they have with their new invention being adapted by the military to improve their systems. This isn't the first time I have heard about the internal crisis faced by well meaning scientists when they see their invention co-opted for use either as a weapon or a part of a weaponized system, especially when the inventor only had peacetime applications in mind but instead find their hard work being co-opted into a war machine when word got around.
Now in my own field I am a digital designer, and I've worked on a range of things with a particular interest in interactive entertainment and digital media, but a common theme is that many in my profession would refuse on ethical grounds to do work for tobacco companies or gambling/slot machine makers. I personally dont mind the gambling side but I wouldn't like the idea of working directly or on behalf of a Tobacco company.
Is potential interest by the Military in your research something that the scientist anons among us here actually worry about? Do you think about it beforehand and try to avoid going into areas that may end with you holding meetings with men wearing golden stars or perhaps pursue it intentionally hoping to catch some lucrative patents? I can imagine that if the tech is good the financial windfall would set you up for life, but you would still have to live with the knowledge that something you made for the good of mankind is being used as a component of war and not everyone would be able to reconcile that with themselves.
Of course this sort of question is directed at those who do not work directly for military research facilities since they know what they are getting into.
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>I just came off watching an episode of Big Bang Theory
stopped reading right there
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>Big Bang Theory
End it already.
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Question Time. Astrophysics related.
My friends and I have had a discussion and cannot think of a solution.
If a large object, e.g. the size of the moon but completely hollow is orbiting an even bigger object e.g the earth (Tidally locked) and there was a very small object, e.g. a pencil at the center of this hollow bodied moon what would the pencil do?
Would it remain at the center of the 'moon' or slowly gravitate towards the sides?
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The pencil would feel no gravitational force from the hollow body that it's inside - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_theorem
The pencil would only feel a gravitational force from the earth, and would stay orbiting in the centre of the moon.
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By Gauss' law gravitational force at a point a distance r away from the centre of this sphere is only dependent on the amount of mass enclosed by the sphere of radius r. That is to say, if you have no mass inside if the sphere then the gravitational field inside of it will be 0.
So the pencil remains where it is, regardless of if it is at the centre or anywhere else inside the moon.
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The pencil wouldn't feel any gravitational effects from the hollow moon but it would feel centrifugal forces on it. It would move to the back of the moon on the far side away from the planet.
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How does math work?
This shit is fucking voodoo magic. Especially complex numbers.
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Elegant right?
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I stopped caring about math when I was introduced to the concept of imaginary numbers. What a crock of shit. If your equation can only be solved by inventing numbers that can't exist, like some kind of math deity , then you are fucking wrong and the math is flawed. Same for algebra solutions that basically say "the correct answer is whatever the correct answer is". Thats what the math said transcribed to words but god forbid if i wrote in down in english instead of the ancient math runes the teacher word mark me wrong.
Math is logical and numbers never lie my ass. Math is just as flawed as any other human construct.
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pls be troll
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A person wants to attach a variable resistor/potentiometer to an appliance with power output of “P” to dim it’s light, what is the maximum power to be used by the variable resistor in terms of "P"?
HINT: the answer is independent of the voltage
Have fun!
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No.
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Isn't it P/2
If we reduce the appliance to a Thevenin equivalent, power consumption across the load resistor occurs when the variable resistor equals the source, so equal power loss over both means P/2
I'm just a chemistry student so I may not remember my circuits right
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are we allowed to talk psychology/psychometrics here yet? 2016-05-03 08:45:33 Post No.8047039
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are we allowed to talk psychology/psychometrics here yet?
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Just wondering...
i saw a show on discovery with morgan freeman that said black people avg lower iqs than whites and asians and jews avg higher than whites...
I think the butthurt shockwave will be detectable by the nearest solar system that is home to tech advanced aliens.
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> are we allowed to talk psychology/psychometrics here yet?
You can talk whatever you wanna talk about.
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What show? I wanna see!
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>>8047039
Psychometrics is politically incorrect.
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Isit possible to teach yourself physics? I left highschool with little knowledge in physics, i really liked it but i couldnt pick it because of the teacher that taught it.
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I started learning physics and math after high school because I wanted to build myself a video game with a physics engine. (At that time there were no physics engines like ageia, box2d or ODE to download from the internet). Had to learn everything from scratch, newtonian physics, matrices, quaternions, tensors etc. It's possible but you will need some dedication. Today I understand most relativistic physics and even some quantum mechanical notations. I'm not professionally taught. But I'm very proud of what I've learned coming from absolutely zero. I say go for it!
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>>8046986
You can, but it won't very easy. You gotta push through it lad.
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Definitely although you might find it more difficult to motivate your study since you aren't paying tens of thousands of dollars to have people tell you what to do.
Depending on how far you want to go, it might be better if you learnt mathematics to a intermediate level first.