Questions tagged [calculus]
Calculus is the branch of mathematics which deals with the study of rate of change of quantities. This is usually divided into differential calculus and integral calculus which are concerned with derivatives and integrals respectively. DO NOT USE THIS TAG just because your question makes use of calculus.
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Force due to pressure on a curved surface/wall [closed]
Most solutions that I found on the internet concerning the net force due to pressure on a curved wall were using free-body diagrams and I could not find any using a calculus approach
Assuming the ...
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Is the answer given in the option wrong? [closed]
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"An Object moves along a straight line. The graph illustrates how the acceleration of the object changes with time. The direction of the motion of the object changed only once, ...
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Derivation of Schrödinger equation in Feynman-Hibbs
I am going through the derivation in chapter 4-1 of "Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals. Emended Edition" by Feynman and Hibbs. The chapter starts with a proof of the equivalence of the ...
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Precise relation between temperature change and physical quantities [duplicate]
I've learnt that many physical quantities like length or volume etc depend on the change in temperature and some proportionality constant as: $\Delta{L}=l\alpha\Delta{\theta}$. In our physics class, ...
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In equation (3) from lecture 7 in Leonard Susskind’s ‘Classical Mechanics’, should the derivatives be partial?
Here are the equations. ($V$ represents a potential function and $p$ represents momentum.)
$$V(q_1,q_2) = V(aq_1 - bq_2)$$
$$\dot{p}_1 = -aV'(aq_1 - bq_2)$$
$$\dot{p}_2 = +bV'(aq_1 - bq_2)$$
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