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This video breaks down a deceptively simple math word problem: "Sarah has twice as many pencils as Tom." We'll explore why so many students misunderstand phrases like “twice as many” and teach you how to confidently translate word problems into correct math equations.
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Sarah has twice as many pencils as Tom. Tom has four pencils. How many pencils does Sara have? Wait for a moment. Don't answer just yet. This problem seems easy, right? But guess what? Over 50% of students get this wrong on their first try. We're going to figure out why this simple looking question is actually tricky and how you can make sure you never fall into this trap again. Let's read the problem again carefully. Sarah has twice as many pencils as Tom. Tom has four pencils. How many pencils does Sara have? Seems simple, but when students see the word twice as many, some think they should add, some think they should subtract. Only a few realize this is about multiplication. So because they feel that they will come up with these answers 4 + 2 = 6 or 4 - 2 = 6. Why do so many students mess this up? Some students are thought that more always means add. So they think twice as many. Oh, I'll just add two. But that's not what the words actually mean. Let's break down the phrase twice as many. So the word twice, the meaning is two times. The word as many its meaning means compared to another amount. So in other words, twice as many literally means two times the amount someone else has. You know what? Let's draw it out. So the question said Tom has four pencils. Now if Sarah has twice as many, we just copy Tom's four pencils and do it again. So you will take Tom's amount which is four and Sarah has twice as many as Tom. So it means that you will be multiplying four 2 where Sara will have a total of eight pencils. Now, what if the question said, "Sara has eight pencils. That is twice as many as Tom." How many does Tom have? Pause the video and think. Put down your answer in the comment. Let's see if you can understand this word problem. Let's read the question one more time carefully. Sara has eight pencils. That is twice as many as Tom. How many does Tom have? So we know Sara has eight pencils and that refers as eight is twice as many as Tom. So it means Sarah has more pencils than Tom. But how many pencils does Tom have? Well, I want to ask you the question. What does twice mean? Twice means two. It means that we will be dividing 8 divided by two which is twice and we will get the total of four. So Tom has four pencils. Read the question one more time and you will notice that you are doing the opposite. Instead of multiplying we divide. That's a big hint. Understanding the wording changes how we solve the problem. Now, let's try a few quick ones together. Say your answers out loud or write them down. Let's look at the first problem. I always recommend to read a problem at least three times. Let's read a problem carefully. It says Jack has three marbles. Emma has three times as many. How many does Emma have? So, we know Jake has three marbles, right? And Emma has three times as many as James. So we will be multiplying 3 3 which equal 9 marbles. So Emma has nine marbles. Now let me know. Did you get this first problem? Perfect. Let's try another one. Let's read the question slowly and carefully. Liam has 12 stickers. That's four times as many as Noah. How many does Noah have? So, you know that Liam has 12 stickers, but it says that that's four times as many as Noah. If you read the sentence, that's four times as many as Noah. You are doing the opposite of multiplication with it with its division. So, you should write this as 12 / 4. If you divide 12 by four, you get a total of three stickers. So, how many does Noah have? Noah has three stickers. Now, let me know. Did you get this problem right? Problem number three. Let's read the question carefully. Amy has 10 candles. Sarah has half as many. How many does Sara have? Well, we know Amy has 10 candles and it says that Sarah has half as many. So, so what do you think? Are we dividing or are we multiplying? In this question, we are dividing and we are dividing 10 by half, which is we're dividing 10 divided by two because Sarah has half of what Amy has where we will get five candles. So Sara has five candles. Now, did you get three out of three? Let me know down in the comments how many did you get right? The three golden rules to solving these kinds of questions is that you should never assume more means add. And always remember that twice as many means two times the amount. Try to always flip the language. Ask yourself, is it multiplication or is it division? So, next time you see a problem like Sarah has twice as many as Tom, just ask yourself, do I need to multiply or divide? If you got tricked before, you're not alone. Math isn't about always being right. It's about learning how to think. Thanks for watching. I'll see you in the next lesson. |
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Antimicrobial therapy for cholera is an adjunct to fluid therapy and is not an essential therapeutic component. However, an effective antibiotic can reduce the volume of diarrhea in patients with severe cholera and shorten the period during which Vibrio cholerae O1 is excreted. In addition, it usually stops the diarrhea within 48 hours, thus shortening the period of hospitalization. No other drugs besides antibiotics should be used in the treatment of cholera.
The choice of antibiotics is determined by the susceptibility patterns of the local strains of V cholerae O1 or O139.
If antimicrobial therapy is to be initiated, it should be given when the patient is first seen and cholera is suspected. Little reason exists to wait for culture and susceptibility reports.
Furazolidone has been the agent routinely used in the treatment of cholera in children; however, resistance has been reported, and ampicillin, erythromycin, and fluoroquinolones are potentially effective alternatives. The use of quinolones is contraindicated in children with cholera.
Travelers to cholera-affected regions should receive a cholera vaccine. The cholera vaccine Vaxchora is the only one approved by the FDA for cholera prevention. It is a live, weakened vaccine administered as a single, oral liquid dose of about three fluid ounces at least 10 days before travel to a cholera-affected region. The only other existing cholera-prevention vaccines require 2 doses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A single-dose vaccine is especially beneficial to a person who needs to travel to a cholera-affected region on short notice.
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Empiric antimicrobial therapy must be comprehensive and should cover all likely pathogens in the context of the clinical setting. Although not necessarily curative, treatment with an antibiotic to which the organism is susceptible diminishes the duration and volume of the fluid loss and hastens clearance of the organism from stool. Pharmacotherapy plays a secondary role in the management of cholera; fluid replacement is primary.
Emerging drug resistance in certain parts of the world is a concern, as some V cholerae strains contain plasmids that confer resistance to many antibiotics. In areas of known tetracycline resistance, therapeutic options include ciprofloxacin and erythromycin. Strains resistant to ciprofloxacin have been reported from Calcutta, India.
Chemoprophylaxis of household contacts is not necessary.
Doxycycline (Adoxa, Vibramycin, Doxy)
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Doxycycline inhibits protein synthesis and, thus, bacterial growth by binding to 30S and possibly 50S ribosomal subunits of susceptible bacteria.
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Tetracycline inhibits bacterial protein synthesis by binding with 30S and possibly 50S ribosomal subunit(s). This agent treats gram-positive and gram-negative organisms and mycoplasmal, chlamydial, and rickettsial infections.
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This combination agent inhibits bacterial growth by inhibiting synthesis of dihydrofolic acid.
Trimethoprim is a dihydrofolate reductase inhibitor that prevents tetrahydrofolic acid production in bacteria. It is active in vitro against a broad range of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, including uropathogens (eg, Enterobacteriaceae and Staphylococcus saprophyticus). Resistance is usually mediated by decreased cell permeability or alterations in amount or structure of dihydrofolate reductase. It demonstrates synergy with sulfonamides, potentiating inhibition of bacterial tetrahydrofolate production.
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Ciprofloxacin is a fluoroquinolone with activity against pseudomonads, streptococci, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), S epidermidis, and most gram-negative organisms. It does not have activity against anaerobes. This agent inhibits bacterial DNA synthesis and, consequently, growth.
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Ampicillin has bactericidal activity against susceptible organisms.
Erythromycin (E.E.S., Erythrocin, Ery-Tab)
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Erythromycin inhibits bacterial growth, possibly by blocking dissociation of peptidyl transfer RNA (tRNA) from ribosomes, causing RNA-dependent protein synthesis to arrest. Erythromycin is used for treatment of staphylococcal and streptococcal infections. In children, age, weight, and severity of infection determine proper dose. When twice-daily dosing is desired, half the total daily dose may be taken q12h. For more severe infections, double the dose.
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This agent acts by binding to the 50S ribosomal subunit of susceptible microorganisms and blocks dissociation of peptidyl tRNA from ribosomes, causing RNA-dependent protein synthesis to arrest. Nucleic acid synthesis is not affected.
It concentrates in phagocytes and fibroblasts, as demonstrated by in vitro incubation techniques. In vivo studies suggest that concentration in phagocytes may contribute to drug distribution to inflamed tissues. This agent is used to treat mild-to-moderate microbial infections.
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In 2016, the first US cholera vaccine was approved by the FDA.
Cholera vaccine (Vaxchora)
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Contains live attenuated cholera bacteria that replicate in the gastrointestinal tract of the recipient to provide immunity. It is indicated for active immunization against disease caused by Vibrio cholerae serogroup O1 in persons aged 2-64 y traveling to cholera-affected areas.
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Electron microscopic image of Vibrio cholera.
Scanning electron microscope image of Vibrio cholerae bacteria, which infect the digestive system.
This scanning electron micrograph (SEM) depicts a number of Vibrio cholerae bacteria of the serogroup 01; magnified 22371x. Image courtesy of CDC/Janice Haney Carr.
This patient with cholera is drinking oral rehydration solution (ORS) in order to counteract the cholera-induced dehydration. Image courtesy of the CDC.
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Table 1. Assessment of the Patient With Diarrhea for Dehydration (based on WHO classification);)
Table 2. Fluid Replacement for Dehydration;)
Table 3. Approximate Amount of Oral Rehydration Solution to Administer in the First 4 Hours;)
Table 4. Estimate of Oral Rehydration Solution Packets to Be Administered at Home;)
Table 5. Oral Replacement Solution for Maintenance of Hydration;)
Table 6. Antimicrobial Therapy Used in the Treatment of Cholera;)
Table 7. WHO Guidelines for Cholera Management;)
Table 1. Assessment of the Patient With Diarrhea for Dehydration (based on WHO classification)
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| Sensorium | Eyes | Thirst | Skin Pinch | Decision |
| Abnormally sleepy or lethargic | Sunken | Drinks poorly or not at all | Goes back very slowly (>2 sec) | If the patient has 2 or more of these signs, severe dehydration is present |
| Restless, irritable | Sunken | Drinks eagerly | Goes back slowly (< 2 sec) | If the patient has 2 or more signs, some dehydration is present |
| Well, alert | Normal | Drinks normally, not thirsty | Goes back quickly | Patient has no dehydration |
Table 2. Fluid Replacement for Dehydration
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| Severe dehydration | Intravenous (IV) drips of Ringer Lactate or, if not available, normal saline and oral rehydration salts as outlined below | 100 mL/kg in 3-h period (in 6 h for children < 1 y) Start rapidly (30 mL/kg within 30 min, then slow down) Total amount for first 24 h: 200 mL/kg |
| Some dehydration | Oral rehydration salts (amount in first 4 h) | Infants < 4 mo (< 5 kg): 200400 mL Infants 411 mo (57.9 kg): 400600 mL Children 12 y (810.9 kg): 600800 mL Children 24 y (1115.9 kg): 8001200 mL Children 514 y (1629.9 kg): 12002200 mL Patients >14 y (¥30 kg): 22004000 mL |
| No dehydration | Oral rehydration salts | Children < 2 y: 50100 mL, up to 500 mL/day Children 29 y: 100200 mL, up to 1000 mL/day Patients >9 y: As much as wanted, up to 2000 mL/day |
Table 3. Approximate Amount of Oral Rehydration Solution to Administer in the First 4 Hours
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| Age | < 4 mo | 4-11 mo | 12-23 mo | 2-4 y | 5-14 y | ¥15 y |
| Weight | < 5 kg | 5-7.9 kg | 8-10.9 kg | 11-15.9 kg | 16-29.9 kg | ¥30 kg |
| ORS solution in mL | 200-400 | 400-600 | 600-800 | 800-1200 | 1200-2200 | 2200-4000 |
Table 4. Estimate of Oral Rehydration Solution Packets to Be Administered at Home
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| Age | Amount of Solution After Each Loose Stool | ORS Packets Needed |
| < 24 mo | 50-100 mL | Enough for 500 mL/d |
| 2-9 y | 100-200 mL | Enough for 1000 mL/d |
| ¥10 y | As much as is wanted | Enough for 200 mL/d |
Table 5. Oral Replacement Solution for Maintenance of Hydration
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| Age | Amount of Solution After Each Loose Stool |
| < 24 mo | 100 mL |
| 2-9 y | 200 mL |
| ¥10 y | As much as is wanted |
Table 6. Antimicrobial Therapy Used in the Treatment of Cholera
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| Antibiotic | Single Dose (PO) | Multiple Dose (PO) |
| Doxycycline | 7 mg/kg; not to exceed 300 mg/dose¡ | 2 mg/kg bid on day 1; then 2 mg/kg qd on days 2 and 3; not to exceed 100 mg/dose |
| Tetracycline | 25 mg/kg; not to exceed 1 g/dose¡ | 40 mg/kg/d divided qid for 3 d; not to exceed 2 g/d |
| Furazolidone | 7 mg/kg; not to exceed 300 mg/dose | 5 mg/kg/d divided qid for 3 d; not to exceed 400 mg/d |
| Trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole | Not evaluated | < 2 months: Contraindicated ¥2 months: 5-10 mg/kg/d (based on trimethoprim component) divided bid for 3 d; not to exceed 320 mg/d trimethoprim and 1.6 g/d of sulfamethoxazole |
| Ciprofloxacin§ | 30 mg/kg; not to exceed 1 g/dose¡ | 30 mg/kg/d divided q12h for 3 d; not to exceed 2 g/d |
| Ampicillin | Not evaluated | 50 mg/kg/d divided qid for 3 d; not to exceed 2 g/d |
| Erythromycin | Not evaluated | 40 mg/kg/d erythromycin base divided tid for 3 d; not to exceed 1 g/d |
| Antimicrobial therapy is an adjunct to fluid therapy of cholera and is not an essential component. However, it reduces diarrhea volume and duration by approximately 50%. The choice of antibiotics is determined by the susceptibility patterns of the local strains of V cholerae O1 or O139. Tetracycline and doxycycline can discolor permanent teeth of children younger than 8 years. However, the risk is small when these drugs are used for short courses of therapy, especially if used in a single dose. ¡ Single-dose therapy of these drugs has not been evaluated systematically in children, and recommendations are extrapolated from experience in adults. § Fluoroquinolones (eg, ciprofloxacin) are not approved in the United States for use in persons younger than 18 years. When given in high doses to juvenile animals, they cause arthropathy. Clinical experience indicates that this risk is very small in children when used for short courses of therapy. |
Table 7. WHO Guidelines for Cholera Management
| |
| Steps in the treatment of a patient with suspected cholera are as follows: |
| 1. Assess for dehydration (see Table 1) |
| 2. Rehydrate the patient and monitor frequently, then reassess hydration status |
| 3. Maintain hydration; replace ongoing fluid losses until diarrhea stops |
| 4. Administer an oral antibiotic to the patient with severe dehydration |
| 5. Feed the patient |
| More detailed guidelines for the treatment of cholera are as follows: |
| Evaluate the degree of dehydration upon arrival |
| Rehydrate the patient in 2 phases; these include rehydration (for 2-4 h) and maintenance (until diarrhea abates) |
| Register output and intake volumes on predesigned charts and periodically review these data |
| Use the intravenous route only (1) during the rehydration phase for severely dehydrated patients for whom an infusion rate of 50-100 mL/kg/h is advised, (2) for moderately dehydrated patients who do not tolerate the oral route, and (3) during the maintenance phase in patients considered high stool purgers (ie, >10 mL/kg/h) |
| During the maintenance phase, use oral rehydration solution at a rate of 800-1000 mL/h; match ongoing losses with ORS administration |
| Discharge patients to the treatment center if oral tolerance is greater than or equal to 1000 mL/h, urine volume is greater than or equal to 40 mL/h, and stool volume is less than or equal to 400 mL/h. |
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Sajeev Handa, MBBCh, BAO, LRCSI, LRCPI Chief, Hospital Medicine, Lifespan Physician Group, Rhode Island/Miriam and Newport HospitalsSajeev Handa, MBBCh, BAO, LRCSI, LRCPI is a member of the following medical societies: Society of Hospital MedicineDisclosure: Nothing to disclose.
John W King, MD Professor of Medicine, Chief, Section of Infectious Diseases, Director, Viral Therapeutics Clinics for Hepatitis, Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport; Consultant in Infectious Diseases, Overton Brooks Veterans Affairs Medical CenterJohn W King, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Association for the Advancement of Science, American College of Physicians, American Federation for Medical Research, American Society for Microbiology, Association of Subspecialty Professors, Infectious Diseases Society of America, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor SocietyDisclosure: Nothing to disclose.
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How to Teach Subtraction to Kids: 12 Best Methods
How to Teach Subtraction to Kids: 12 Best Methods
Jo-ann Caballes
reviewed by Camille Ira B. Mendoza
Updated on April 11, 2025
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Teaching subtraction to kids is both exciting and challenging. By using strategies from Brighterly math tutors, such as games, aids, and hands-on activities, you can make studying an enjoyable experience.
This guide explores the best methods of how to teach a child to subtract and build a strong foundation while having fun.
Key Points:
Visualize math wherever it’s possible
Make subtraction exercises a daily routine
Talk about math with a kid
How to teach a child to subtract? 12 best strategies
Learning subtraction with a math tutoring platform
“Borrowing” method or “regrouping” method in subtraction
Building number sense
Learning mathematical vocabulary
Transition to abstract numbers
Use interesting coursebooks
Teach subtraction without fingers using mental math technique
Teach subtraction using number lines
Memorizing subtraction facts
Visualize and strategize
Using real-world scenarios
Teach subtraction with math games
How to teach subtraction to kids? The best ways
The best way to teach subtraction to kids is to practice this skill daily with palpable objects such as a chart, interactive lessons, or real-life questions on your own and with a tutor.
#1: Learning subtraction with a math tutoring platform
The easiest way of learning subtraction is to collaborate with experts on the online tutoring platform, such as Brighterly. A professional tutor knows how to explain math concepts, so kids will memorize them easily.
They also provide guidance to the parents. So, if you are curious about questions like “How do you explain subtraction to a child?”, they help you to find the best approach to teach your kid. Look for a service with interactive lessons that grab children’s attention. Ensure that a tutor provides step-by-step guidance and creates a mental bond with the student. Mastering subtraction is a fundamental milestone in a child’s journey, and Brighterly math tutors make this process both effective and enjoyable.
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Brighterly not only offers one-on-one tutoring but also provides free resources for parents to support learning outside of sessions. Their free subtraction worksheets are designed that way so you can easily download and print them to study on the go.
Meanwhile, Brighterly’s interactive math tests, which are part of the knowledge base articles, allow your child to test their expertise while reading theme-related articles. For instance, free subtraction math tests examine your child’s knowledge of a chosen topic with simple questions.
Note:To evaluate a child’s math strengths and weaknesses, they need to complete a knowledge assessment test. Free diagnostic math testhelp you identify potential improvement areas not only in subtraction but in math in general.
#2: “Borrowing” method or “regrouping” method in subtraction
Write the Numbers in Columns: Let’s imagine that you need to solve “23-9”. Arrange the numbers vertically, ensuring the ones and tens lines are aligned. Write 23 in the top column and 9 in the bottom column.
Start from the Ones Column and Borrow from the Tens: Subtract 9 from 3. However, since it results in a negative number, it may be too hard for a youngster. So you borrow the tenth, converting 3 to 13.
Subtract the Ones Column: Subtract 9 from 13, which equals 4.
Subtract the Tens Column: Since you already “borrow” 1 from the tens column, you’ll get a “1-0” equation, as there is no 2 here. It means the equation in the tens column states that you have a 10 as the answer to this task.
Get the final answer: Once you draw together numbers from the tens and ones blocks, you’ll get the answer, which is “10 + 4” or 14.
The borrowing method, also known as regrouping, is one of the fundamental subtraction methods. It ensures accuracy while teaching students the concept of place value. This subtraction technique is easy to understand and fits all natural numbers.
How to teach subtraction with borrowing?
Asking yourself “How to teach a child subtraction with borrowing?” and “How to teach subtraction with regrouping?” are the two most burning questions for parents, so they need to lay a proper math foundation in other simpler aspects.
Just like Marshall from HIMYM doesn’t understand a Chinese girl, your child doesn’t understand complex math concepts
Keep in mind that math feels like a foreign language to a child. It’s counterintuitive and sometimes drives them crazy. Those who are interested in how to teach subtraction with borrowing should focus on the child’s current skills and explore educational platforms that offer age-specific resources.
#3: Establishing a number sense
Count to 20 & count back
Recognizing the ideas of “one more”/”one less”
Ability to “make up” numbers
Let’s examine how exactly those techniques can help your child to establish a number sense while playing.
1) Count to 20 & count back
Start by ensuring your kid can count to 20 and back without missing any numbers.
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2) Recognizing the ideas of «one more»/«one less»
Turn numbers into a fun adventure by teaching children to spot what’s “one more” or “one less.” This engaging activity introduces them to the step-by-step nature of numbers, making subtraction and addition feel natural.
3) Ability to «make up» numbers
Here is a crucial way of number sense and one of the best “how to teach subtraction” ways – the ability to «make up» numbers with items like counters, cards, or pencils. This allows kids to connect the abstract concept of numbers to tangible objects.
#4: Learning mathematical vocabulary
Another way how to learn subtraction is to simply have conversations using mathematical vocabulary. Scientists often use various words to talk about subtraction, and understanding each word in a sentence is a vital skill for a child.
How to teach subtraction via learning mathematical vocabulary?
You, as a parent, should simply talk with your children about non-school topics while using mathematical vocabulary. Some children may feel too shy to ask for help in class, so they may unintentionally fall behind in their journey.
By introducing subtraction early, you make it easier for your child to feel confident while talking about math.
#5: How to teach a child to subtract via transition to abstract numbers?
Teaching your kids how to subtract with abstract numbers helps them understand more complex concepts. This step includes your kid keeping a large number in their mind and counting backward via the large number, using subtraction ‘how to’ methods, and reducing it gradually until they find the answer.
While this transition of subtraction for kids may be hard with relatively large numbers, it is a critical step in fostering deep math expertise. If your kid now and again loses count with mental calculating, they can use their palms or dry marker notes as a counting aid.
#6: How to explain subtraction to a child with coursebooks?
Using pre-made coursebooks is a great way to explain subtraction to a child. Those resources can offer guidance in teaching methods.
They are made by experts, so they will not only benefit students but also guide you on how to teach subtraction methods to a child. For example «Subtraction Facts That Stick» – a coursebook that offers complete lesson plans, engaging games, and worksheets.
This book simplifies the teaching process, saving both time and effort in lesson planning. It’s an ideal solution for busy parents who want to support their kids’ success in math.
#7: How to teach a child subtraction without using fingers? Mental math
You can teach a child subtraction without fingers by using other tools that can count as visual aids. Encouragemental math strategies for long subtraction, like breaking numbers into parts or using subtraction facts.
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#8: Teach subtraction using number lines
Draw and separate a line with 20 equal segments. Number them from 1 to 20.
Explain that your kid can subtract by counting backward on the number line.
Let’s take 8 – 5 = 3 as an example. Find 8 on the number line. Then, jump five times back: 8 → 7 → 6 → 5 → 4 → 3. Consequently, 8 – 5 = 3. To ease the understanding, you can erase all other numbers in the line.
To save you some time, let’s check a series of Brighterly subtraction worksheets. They help your child understand the specifics of this operation. Number line subtraction worksheets from Brighterly can help you practice on the go.
#9: How to teach basic subtraction via memorizing subtraction facts?
It’s easy to teach simple subtraction by memorizing vital subtraction facts. With regular practice, they can solve problems like 10 – 5 or 6 – 3 instantly without taking a pause and thinking about a solution.
To strengthen a child’s memorization, incorporate engaging activities like flashcards, games, or timed quizzes. Those are great approaches to how to teach kids subtraction. To ensure that you root this knowledge into your child’s mind, implement Brighterly’s subtraction facts worksheets into your daily routine.
#10: Subtraction math strategies: visualize and strategize
Parents who aim to master basic subtraction for kids should turn to the visualization method and strategic approach. That way, they’ll focus on in-depth comprehension, not just memorization.
Note: It’s essential to teach your child the subtraction facts with comprehension instead of sole memorization.
By visualizing numbers as organized groups, children can move away from counting individual items. For instance, instead of manually removing counters when subtracting 12 from 4, they can simply think about it. The best way to teach subtraction is to show your kid the power of visualization.
#11: Using real-world scenarios
Using real-world scenarios is a wonderful way of how to teach a child to subtract. By crafting examples that involve subtraction, you allow your kid to visualize the process.
Real-life examples bring mathematical principles to life, making them relatable and easier to understand. These scenarios may be as simple as calculating the number of apples left after lunch or how much change will remain after purchasing a supermarket.
Groceries. A timeless classic of teaching kids the importance of math in daily life
There are countless ways how to explain subtraction to a child. Choose those scenarios that reflect your kid’s interests.
#12: Kids to master subtraction via games
Using interesting games is an exceptionally great and easy way to subtract for kids. Studies show that repetitive drills yield the best results. This approach helps kids memorize math concepts. However, the problem is that students can’t stand solving exhausting math drills for a couple of hours three times a week.
The good news is that you can give them enough practice with subtraction math games. Entertaining characters, smooth animations, and built-in math drills make math learning fun and simple.
Now, let’s explore some practical strategies and engaging activities on how to explain subtraction and make it enjoyable both for you and your child.
How to teach subtraction to kindergarten?
The best methods to teach subtraction to kindergarteners are hands-on activities and fun games that incorporate their current knowledge. Math is too abstractive for such young kids, so the easiest way how to do simple subtraction is to make it palpable with everyday examples and regular practice.
How to teach subtraction to Grade 1?
The best method to teach subtraction to first graders is using visual aids and concrete objects to represent numbers. Subtraction strategies for Grade 1 are similar to kindergarten, as they still need palpable solutions. Speaking about how to teach subtraction to Grade 1, start with simple tasks and gradually introduce fact memorization.
How to teach subtraction to Grade 2?
The best method to teach subtraction to second graders is to start making math more abstract by introducing regrouping (borrowing) alongside visual aids. How to teach subtraction to grade 2? Just continue using real-world problems encouraging more advanced methods like subtraction facts.
How to explain subtraction? Insights from a math educator parent (Case)
To help your child tackle challenging subtraction problems, use a combination of strategies, including number lines, visualization techniques, strategic thinking, and real-world examples.
Ways to teach subtraction
There are various ways to teach subtraction, but all of them share the common thing: they do their best to make math palpable. Geillan Aly, founder, and CEO at Compassionate Math, uses the methods of «Learning with Number Lines», «Visualization and Strategizing», and «Using Real-Life Scenarios» when working with her own child because of their effectiveness.
Geillan told us how she practices subtraction with her 5-year-old child, who is about to start kindergarten. Also, she shared with us her “no-nos” when teaching subtraction:
“My husband and I spend a lot of time supporting our child through games and play.”
We don't formally push any learning on him unless he shows he's ready for it. For example, we've used the game Snakes and Ladders and other similar activities to teach him to count, currently he can count to over 100. In terms of subtraction, we use very specific questions to help him understand the ideas behind differences.
Geillan Aly
Founder, and CEO at Compassionate Math
Geillan Aly supports the approach where students develop associations tied to math concepts. While sole memorization can be easy to forget, a child is most likely to remember some inside joke for decades.
“As a math educator and former college professor, I’m also conscious of teaching him ideas that will NOT adversely affect him later.”
Such as «You always subtract the little number from the big number.
I’ve worked with a lot of developmental algebra college students and when speaking to them, it seems that they picked up ideas that they hold onto later.
Geillan Aly
Founder, and CEO at Compassionate Math
What does college-level math have to do with the challenges kids face when they learn subtraction?
Many learning problems can be rooted in childhood, from the wrong approach to learning math or any other academic subject in the early years.
“This can be in the form of a «math rule» that only applies in one case, but that nuance gets lost, and then the student applies this «rule» incorrectly moving forward.”
Unfortunately, once they encounter other cases, they still hold onto the original rule without the nuance (e.g., subtract a smaller number from a bigger one). Similarly, in our home, we acknowledge that zero is a number that has no value. Believe me, these ideas will stay with students and cause issues when they go to college.
Geillan Aly
Founder, and CEO at Compassionate Math
So, how to teach subtraction to your child?
Here are some subtraction math strategies that Geillan employs with her own child, based on her extensive experience as a college professor and a parent.
“When counting, or when we're talking about numbers, I ask him «What is the number before 23?». The «number before» gets him to start thinking about the number line and that he can go in different directions. We don't use a formal number line, this is just part of our conversation.”
When he's eating something that is cut, I ask him how many pieces he has left (again, reinforcing 0). I also ask him if he has 8 pieces and he eats 3, how many he will have left. By counting something tangible, he can start to make connections between math concepts and the real world. We ALWAYS give him some sort of counter or allow him to use his fingers.
Geillan Aly
Founder, and CEO at Compassionate Math
Geillan and her husband don’t push these ideas in ways that conflict with other, more complex concepts while teaching subtraction. For example, they don’t ask their son what comes before 30 because it may not be age-appropriate.
“For now, I want him to understand the idea and gain confidence. I will say that when I think he's getting there. We’ve started asking «What is 2 numbers before, or 3 numbers before another?”
Overall, when discussing subtraction with him, I'm trying to get him to understand the differences and distances between numbers. We use a lot of cues, or fingers (as I said before).
At this point, we're just trying to convey ideas and don't press or push once he starts to get tired. Mistakes are corrected, and we don't revisit them for a bit in our conversations, so his confidence isn't shot. We don't contradict other rules in math. Finally, we tie all of this to play or something tangible happening at the moment.
Geillan Aly
Founder, and CEO at Compassionate Math
How to teach basic subtraction? Example #1:
To demonstrate a real-life example of how to teach subtraction methods in math, Geillan shared with us a recent dialog with her son where they practiced subtraction. Teaching 2-3 digit strategies for subtraction:
Mom: Honey, what number comes before 23?
Kid: 24.
Mom: One number before.
Kid: (lots of thought) 22!
Mom: Great. So what number comes before 20?
Kid: (thinking) 19!
Mom: GOOD JOB! Do you want a super hard number?
Kid: YES!
Mom: OK. What comes before 40.
Kid: (LOTS OF THINKING TIME) I don’t know.
Mom: OK. Let’s figure it out together. What’s a number that can help you?
Kid: 1
Mom: Bigger than 1.
Kid: 10
Mom: Bigger than 10
Kid: 20
Mom: Bigger than 20
Kid: 40
Mom: Between 20 and 40
Kid: Ummmm… (gets distracted and starts doing other stuff and playing with something else.)
Additions from Geillan Aly on teaching 2-3 digit strategies for subtraction:
“I just moved on from there. His attention span reached its limit and he tuned out when his cognitive load was overwhelmed. I didn't make a big deal of it but pushed him just enough.”
That's all that's necessary right now because, at this point in his life, there is nothing at stake. Also, I only ask him questions and don't interrupt his thinking. I let him answer at his own pace because it's clear he's engaged with the problem. All I want to see is that he’s recognizing patterns and enjoying himself.
Geillan Aly
Founder, and CEO at Compassionate Math
An example of subtraction practice #2:
Answering “What is the easiest way to learn subtraction?”, it’s safe to say that it’s simply paying attention to a child’s math struggles. There is no one-fits-all answer, as you need to adjust a study plan to the personal needs of your kid.
For instance, Geillan Aly found that her son liked to find patterns, so she used it as a strategy for how to do simple subtraction with a child:
“At one point, when counting down to zero, I asked him if there was a number before it, and he thought about it.”
I introduced -1 to him as a number that is smaller than zero. I also told him that the one before -1 was -2. Then, I asked what he thought was one before -2 and he correctly answered -3! He got this from building on a pattern. We talked about numbers being smaller than zero, but that was it. No need to go further, but I wanted to make sure that he didn't create rules in his mind that would later be contradicted.
Geillan Aly
Founder, and CEO at Compassionate Math
Which is the best method of teaching subtractions? Conclusion
The best method of teaching subtraction depends on a child’s age, learning style, and current knowledge level. Those who are interested in how to teach subtraction to kindergarten should focus on foundational techniques like using physical objects, number lines, and visual aids. The elementary school students can use more complex concepts, such as regrouping or mental math strategies.
To simplify this process and provide your child with the best learning experience, explore theBrighterly math tutoring platform. With one-on-one online tutoring, a personalized curriculum, and engaging resources, Brighterly offers the tools and support your child needs to master subtraction and beyond. Book the first free session to get a customized learning plan.
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As a seasoned educator with a Bachelor’s in Secondary Education and over three years of experience, I specialize in making mathematics accessible to students of all backgrounds through Brighterly. My expertise extends beyond teaching; I blog about innovative educational strategies and have a keen interest in child psychology and curriculum development. My approach is shaped by a belief in practical, real-life application of math, making learning both impactful and enjoyable.
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Okay, so my Real Analysis textbook defines a definite integral as follows:
Let $[a,b]$ be an interval and $f$ a function with domain $[a,b]$. We say that the Riemann sums of $f$ tend to a limit $l$ as $\text{m}(P)$ (the mesh of $P$) tends to $0$ if, for any $\epsilon > 0$, there is a $\delta > 0$ such that if $P$ is any partition of $[a,b]$ with mesh less than $\delta$, then $|R(f, P) - l| < \epsilon$ for every choice of $s_j \in I_j$. The value of $l$ is called the Riemann integral of $f$ over $[a,b]$, denoted $\int_{a}^{b} f(x) dx$.
We note in the above definition that if $P = {x_0, x_1, \ldots, x_k}$ is a partition of $[a,b]$, $I_j = [x_{j-1}, x_j]$. We will let $\Delta_j = \text{length of } I_j$. The book emphasizes that the points of the partitions of $[a,b]$ need not be equally spaced.
So, given the above definitions, I'm giving the task of showing that $$ \int_{0}^{1} x^2 dx = \frac{1}{3}$$
So, I basically have to show that $|R(f, P) - \frac{1}{3}| < \epsilon$ for every $\epsilon > 0$.
After giving this some thought without much success, I took a peak at the solution manual provided with my textbook, and I was surprised to discover that in the solution, the author considered an equally-spaced partition $P$ such that
$R(f,P) = \sum_{j=1}^{k} (\frac{j}{k})^2\Delta_j$ where $\Delta_j = \frac{1-0}{k}$
First, why can we do this? I know in most introductory calculus courses it's natural to let the Partitions of a given interval have points that are equally spaced, but the definition given in my Real Analysis book emphasized many many times that this doesn't need to be the case. In fact, I feel that by choosing a partition whose points are equally spaced, we have lost some level of generality because our definition of a definite integral requires us to consider any arbitrary partition of $[0,1]$, not just the partitions that make things easier for us to work with.
Second, if we are considering any arbitrary partition of $[0,1]$, how can we show that $|R(f, P) - \frac{1}{3}| < \epsilon$?
What I have so far is that
$$R(f, P) = \sum_{j=1}^{k} s_j^2\Delta_j \leq \sum_{j=1}^{k}\Delta_j \leq \sum_{j=1}^{k} \text{m}(P) = \text{m}(P)k < k\delta $$ since $0 \leq s_j \leq 1$ and $\Delta_j = \text{length of } I_j \leq \text{m}(P) < \delta$
I then need to choose a clever $\delta$ such that $|R(f, P) - \frac{1}{3}| < \epsilon$ but I don't know what I should choose. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated! I don't even know if I'm going in the right direction.
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$\begingroup$ If the function is continuous, the upper sum and the lower sum converge as the partition becomes sufficiently fine. For every sufficiently fine partition, the Riemann integral will converge. $\endgroup$
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If $f \colon [a,b] \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is continuous, then $f$ is Riemann-integrable over $[a,b]$ and then it is enough to take one shrinking partition, i.e. $(P_n)_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$ with $m(P_n) \rightarrow 0$ to evaluate the limes $\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} R(f,P_n)$.
Proof: $f$ is uniformly contiuous on $[a,b]$, i.e. for any $\varepsilon>0$ there exists $\delta >0$ with $|x-y|<\delta$, $x,y \in [a,b]$ implies $|f(x)-f(y)| < \delta$. Now let $P =(t_0,\ldots,t_m)$ be any Partition with $\mu(P)<\delta$ and take $n \in \mathbb{N}$ with $m(P_n)< \delta$, write $P_n=(s_0,\ldots,s_l)$, and $|R(f,P_n) - I| < \varepsilon$. We have $$R(f,P_n) = \sum_{k=0}^{l+1} f(\widetilde{s}_k) (s_{k+1}-s_{k})$$ with $\widetilde{s}_k \in [s_k,s_{k+1}]$. We can refine the sum, such that $m=l$ and $s_i =t_i$, and similiar for $R(f,P)$. We may loose the property that $\widetilde{s}_k \in [s_k,s_{k+1}]$. However, if $s_i \le t_k < s_{i+1}$, then $|\widetilde{s_i}-\widetilde{t}_k| < \delta$. Thus the new refinement has the property that the chosen intermediate points for both partitions have distance less then $\delta$. Then we have \begin{align} \tag{1}|R(f,P_n) - R(f,P)| \le \sum_{k=0}^{k-1} |f(\widetilde{s_k}) - f(\widetilde{t_k})| (s_{k+1}-s_k) &< \varepsilon \sum_{k=0}^{k-1} (s_{k+1}-s_k) \ & \le \varepsilon (b-a). \end{align} Thus, we find $|R(f,P) -I| < \varepsilon(1+b-a)$. The line (1) shows also (by modifing the notation), that $(R(f,P))_{P \text{ Partition}}$ is a Cauchy-net, i.e. convergent, because $\mathbb{R}$ is complete.
The integral definition, where we may only took one sequence of shrinking partition, is called Darboux integral. See also here, where you can find also the relation to Riemann integration.
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Arithmetico-geometric series
An arithmetico-geometric series is the sum of consecutive terms in an arithmetico-geometric sequence defined as: , where and are the th terms of arithmetic and geometric sequences, respectively.
Contents
1 Finite Sum
2 Infinite Sum
3 Example Problems
4 See Also
Finite Sum
The sum of the first terms of an is , where is the common difference of and is the common ratio of . Or, , where is the sum of the first terms of .
Proof:
Let represent the sum of the first terms.
Infinite Sum
The sum of an infinite arithmetico-geometric sequence is , where is the common difference of and is the common ratio of (). Or, , where is the infinite sum of the .
Example Problems
Mock AIME 2 2006-2007 Problem 5
1994 AIME Problem 4
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Sequence
Arithmetic sequence
Geometric sequence
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12406 | https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/downloads/j9602508c | Published Time: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 06:53:13 GMT
ANABSTRACTOFTHETHESISOF
ThamirRaufAl-Alusiforthedegreeof DoctorofPhilosophy
in MechanicalEngineering Presentedon
October3, 1989
Tiltle:
AnExperimentalStudyofNaturalConvectionHeat
TransferFromaHorizontalCylinderArrayVertically
AlignedtoandConfinedbyaSingleWallandTwoWalls
Ahdractnvins7nRwl
Redactedforprivacy
v7 DwightJ.Bushnell
Convectionheattransferwasexperimentallyinvestigated fortwodifferentgeometries.Onecasehadthreehorizontal cylindersinaverticalplaneplacedbetweentwoverticalwalls.
Thesecondcasehadthreehorizontalcylindersin averticalplane
withonlyoneverticalwall.Severaldifferentcylindercenter-to-
centerspacingswereinvestigated.Thewallspacingsforthetwo
wallandsinglewallcaseswerealsovaried.
Thecylinderswereplacedinastillairmediumat
atmosphericpressureandweremaintainedat aconstantheat
flux.ThemodifiedRayleighnumber,based onthediameterofthe
cylinders,rangedfrom6.2x104to1.2 x106.Ascaleanalysis
wasperformedtopredicttherelationshipbetweentheNusselt
numberandthemodifiedRayleighnumber.Astandardfinite-
differencecodewasemployedtoshowthe temperature distributionandvelocityvectorsdistributionaroundthe
cylinders.
Theresultsshowedthattherewasamaximumheattransfer
fromeachcylinderataspecific wall-arrayspacingandaspecific
center-to-centerspacing.Comparisonsofheattransferresults
withasinglefreecylinderandafreearrayofhorizontal
cylinderswere madeanddiscussed.Empiricalequationswere
proposedtopredicttheeffectsoftheexperimentalparameters ontheheattransferasexpressedbytheaverageNusseltnumber
ofeachcylinderortheaverageNusseltnumberofthewhole
array.
Flowvisualizationwasaccomplishedusinglasersheets.The
resultingstudiesshowedthatthepresenceofasinglewallorthe asymmetricalplacementofthearraybetweenthetwowalls eliminatedthepresenceofthevorticesinthespacesbetweenthe
cylindersanddisplacedthestagnationpoints.Theasymmetrical
placementofthearraybetweentwowallscreatedareversed currentbetweenthetwowalls. AnExperimentalStudyofNaturalConvectionHeatTransfer FromaHorizontalCylinderArrayVerticallyAlignedtoand
ConfinedbyaSingleWallandTwoWalls
by
ThamirR.Al-Alusi
ATHESIS
submittedto
OregonStateUniversity
inpartialfulfillmentof therequirementsforthe
degreeof
DoctorofPhilosophy
CompletedOctober3,1989
CommencementJune1990 APPROVED:
Redactedforprivacy
Professor echanicalEngineeringinchargeofmajor
Redactedforprivacy
HeadofDepartmentofMechanicalEngineering
Redactedforprivacy
DeanofGraduate/ hool
Datethesisispresented October3,1989
TypedbyCathrynWestbrookfor ThamirR.Al-Alusi .ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Iwishtothankmymajoradvisor,ProfessorDwightBushnell,
forhisguidanceandencouragementthroughoutmygraduate
studies.
Hispatienceandsupportoverthepastfiveyearshave
beengreatlyappreciated.
Iwouldalsoliketoexpressmy
appreciationtoeachmemberofmycommittee,Professor
JonathanIstok,ProfessorMiltonLarson,ProfessorAlanRobinson,
andProfessorCharlesSmith,fortheirtimeandassistance.
IwouldliketothankDr.DonaldTrent,visitingfacultyfrom
BattelleLaboratories,forhisguidanceandinputintheuseof Tempest,acomputersoftwareprogramwhichheco-authored.
Finally,Iwouldliketothankthemembersofmyfamilyfor theirunflaggingmoralsupportandencouragement. First,Iwish
tothankmyfather,RaufAl-Alusi, formakingitpossibleforme
topursuemygraduatestudies. Secondly,Iwishtothankmy
aunts,SabriahandFatimaAl-Alusi,andmybrothersandsisters,
fortheirongoingsupportoverthepastseveralyears. Andlast,
myloveandappreciationtomywife,CathrynWestbrook,forher
timeandassistancethroughoutthepreparationofmythesis. TABLEOFCONTENTS Chapter Page
1.INTRODUCTIONANDTHEORETICALANALYSIS 1
1.1
Introduction 1
1.2
ScopeoftheStudy 3
1.3
GoverningEquationsandScalingAnalysis 3
2.LITERATUREREVIEW 10
2.1
SingleCylinderwithoutconfiningwalls(s) 10
2.2 Arrayofcylinderswithoutconfiningwall(s) 11
2.3
Singlecylinderconfinedbytwoparallel
walls 14
2.4 Arrayofcylindersconfinedbytwoparallel
walls 18
2.5
Cylinder(s)confinedbyasinglewall 21
3.EXPERIMENTALAPPARATUSANDPROCEDURES 27
3.1
Introduction 27
3.2 Components 29
3.2.1 Heaters 29
3.2.2 Thermocouples 29
3.2.3 Cylinders 31
3.2.4 Wall(s) 37
3.2.5 MainFrameandEnclosure 40
3.2.6 ElectricalSystems 42 3.3 FlowVisualization 46
3.4 Procedures 50
3.4.1DataCollection 50
3.4.2DataReduction 53
3.4.3
Uncertainty 56 4.SINGLEWALL:RESULTSANDDISCUSSION 57
4.1
FreeSingleCylinder 57
4.2 Temperaturedistributionalongthearray
withvariouswallspacings: 60
4.3
HeatTransferCoefficientResults 68
4.3.1
Theeffectofthewallspacingonthe
lowestcylinderofthearray 68
4.3.2
TheEffectofthewallspacingonthe
heattransferfromthecylindersofthe
array 76
4.4
DataCorrelation 105
5.TWOWALLS:RESULTSANDDISCUSSION
5.1
Theeffectsoftherightwallspacing,(S/D)R,
onthetemperaturedistributionalongthe
array
5.2
Theeffectsoftherightwallspacing,(S/D)R,
ontheheattransferfromeachcylinderin
thearray
5.3
Theeffectsofrightwallspacingonthe
averageNusseltnumberofthewholearray,
Nua,,,Rw
5.4
DataCorrelation
112 112
118
147 156
6.NUMERICALANALYSISANDFLOW
VISUALIZATION
169
6.1
SingleWallCases 170
6.2TwoWallCases 177
7.CONCLUSIONSANDRECOMMENDATIONS
7.1 Conclusions
7.1.1
Singlewallcases
7.1.2Twowallcases
7.2 Recommendations
183 183
184
185 187 BIBLIOGRAPHY 188
APPENDICES
ADATAACOUISITIONPROGRAM 192
BRADIATIONCORRECTION 196
B.1
Radiationcorrectionfromafreesingle
cylinderandanarrayofcylinderswithouta
wall 196
B.2 Radiationcorrectionforanarraywitha
singlewall 198
B.3
Radiationheattransferfortwowallcases 205
CDATAREDUCTIONPROGRAM
213
DUNCERTAINTYANALYSIS 221 Figure
1.1
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6 3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
4.1
LISTOFFIGURES
Systemofcoordinates.
Page
5
Pictorialviewofthetestingsection. 28
Testsectionassemblyforthecylinders. 32
Thermocoupledisk. 34
End-Caps. 36
End-Block. 38
Sidewall. 38
Themainframe. 41
Theenclosure. 41
Powersupplysystem. 43
Temperaturemonitoringsystem. 44
Laserilluminationsystem. 47
Smokegenerationsystem. 49
Nusseltnumber,Nui,versusRaforafree
singlecylinder. 59
4.2
Theeffectofwallspacingonthenormalized
temperature atq= 49.338W/m2. 61
4.3
Theeffectofwallspacingonthenormalized
temperature atq= 149.014W/m2. 62 4.4 Theeffectofwallspacingonthenormalized
temperature atq= 493.380W/m2. 63
4.5
Theeffectofwallspacingonthenormalized
temperature atq= 986.762W/m2. 64
4.6
Theeffectofwallspacingonthenormalized
temperature atq=1480.143 W/m2. 65
4.7
Theeffectofcylinder'spositioninthearrayon
thenormalizedtemperature , 0,at S/D=
infinity(nowallcondition) . 67
4.8
TheaverageNusseltnumberofthelowest
cylinder,Nui ,versus Ra,atCC=1.5D. 69
4.9
TheaverageNusseltnumberofthelowest
cylinder,Nui ,versus Ra,atCC=2D. 70
4.10
TheaverageNusseltnumberofthelowest
cylinder,Nui ,versus Ra,atCC=4D. 71
4.11
TheaverageNusseltnumberforthearray's
cylinderswithoutawall,Nlli,f ,Vs.Raat
CC=1.5D .
4.12
TheaverageNusseltnumberforthearray's
cylinderswithoutawall,Nlli,f ,Vs.Raat
CC=2D
4.13
TheaverageNusseltnumberforthearray's
cylinderswithoutawall,Nui,f ,Vs.Raat
CC4D.
4.14
Theeffectofthewallspacing ontheaverage
Nusseltnumberofeachcylinder, Nui ,at
CC=1.5D .
73
74
75 77 4.33 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusselt
numberratio,Nui/Nui,f ,atCC=4Dand
q=986.762(W/m2). 98
4.34
TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusselt
numberratio,Nui/Nui,f ,atCC=4Dand
q=1480.143(W/m2). 99
4.35
Theeffectofthewallspacingontheaverage
NusseltnumberofthewholearrayatCC=1.5D .
4.36
Theeffectofthewallspacingontheaverage
NusseltnumberofthewholearrayatCC=2D.
4.37
Theeffectofthewallspacingontheaverage
NusseltnumberofthewholearrayatCC=4D.
4.38
ThemeasurementofYidimentionasusedin
equation4.7.
102
103
104
106
4.39
Theexperimental Nuivaluesandcorrelated
NuivaluesVs.RaatS/D=0.5andCC=1.5D . 108
4.40
Theexperimental Nuivaluesandcorrelated
NuivaluesVs.RaatS/D=0.5andCC=2D . 109
4.41
Theexperimental Nuivaluesandcorrelated
NuivaluesVs.RaatS/D=0.5andCC=4D . 110
5.1
Theeffectofrightwallspacingonthenormalized
temperature atq=49.338W/m2.
5.2
Theeffectofrightwallspacingonthenormalized
temperature at
q=149.014 W/m2.
113
114
5.3
Theeffectofrightwallspacingonthenormalized
temperature at q=
493.380W/m2. 115 5.28 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusselt
numberratio,Nui,Rw/Nui,f ,at CC=4D. 144
5.29
TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusselt
numberratio,Nui,Rw/NuLf ,atCC=4D. 145
5.30
Theeffectofthewallspacingontheaverage
Nusseltnumberofthewholearrayat
CC=1.5D. 148
5.31
Theeffectofthewallspacingontheaverage
Nusseltnumberofthewholearrayat CC=2D. 149
5.32
Theeffectofthewallspacingontheaverage
NusseltnumberofthewholearrayatCC=4D. 150
5.33
TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusselt
numberratio,Nui,Rw/Nui,f ,at CC=1.5D. 152
5.34
TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusselt
numberratio,Nui,Rw/Nui,f ,atCC=2D. 153
5.35
TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusselt
numberratio,Nui,Rw/Nui,f ,at CC=4D. 154
5.36
TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusselt
numberratio,Nui,Rw/Nui3O.5 ,atCC=1.5D. 157
5.37
TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusselt
numberratio,Nui,Rw/Nui3O.5 ,atCC=2D. 158
5.38
TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusselt
numberratio,Nui,Rw/Nui3O.5 ,atCC=4D. 159
5.39-aTheexperimentalNui,Rwvaluesandthe
correlatedNui,RwvaluesVs.RaatCC=1.5D . 161 -bTheexperimentalNui,Rwvaluesandthe
correlatedNui,RwvaluesVs.RaatCC=1.5D. 162
5.40-aTheexperimental Nui,Rwvaluesandthe
correlatedNui,RwvaluesVs.RaatCC=2D . 163
-bTheexperimentalNui,Rwvaluesandthe
correlatedNui,RwvaluesVs.Raat CC=2D. 164
5.41-aTheexperimentalNui,Rwvaluesandthe
correlatedNui,RwvaluesVs.Raat CC=4D . 165
-bTheexperimentalNui,Rwvaluesandthe
correlatedNui,RwvaluesVs.Raat CC=4D . 166
6.1
ThemeshmodelforTEMPESTforCC=2Darray. 171
6.2
Temperature,Velocity,andFlowfieldsfor
CC=1.5D
arraywithasinglewallatS/D=0.5. 172
6.3
Temperature,Velocity,andFlowfieldsfor
CC=2DwithasinglewallatS/D=0.5 . 173
6.4
Temperature,Velocity,andFlowfieldsfor
CC=4DwithasinglewallatS/D=0.5 . 174
6.5
Flowvisualization forarrayssymmetrically
placedbetweentwowallsatS/D=(S/D)R=0.5 178
6.6
Temperature,andVelocity fieldsforCC=1.5D
arraywithtwowallsatS/D=0.5and
(S/D)R=2.0 .
180
6.7
Temperature,Velocity, andFlow fieldsfor CC=2DarraywithtwowallsatS/D=0.5and
(S/D)R=2.0 .
181 LISTOFTABLES
Table Page
3.1
Spacingsofthecylindersandofthewalls for
the experiments. 51
4.1
Coefficientsofequation4.7, Nui/Rai°.2=Al+
A2Exp[-A3(Yi/CC)]. 107
4.2 Correlationcoefficient,B1,forequation4.8,Nuav
=B1 Rai0.2
111
5.1
Thecorrelationcoefficient,B1 ,inequation5.4. 160
5.2 TheCorrelationcoefficient,B1,forNtlav,Rw=
B1Ra1,Rw0.2
168 LISTOFAPPENDIXFIGURES
Figure Page,
B.1
Thewallnumbersfortheviewfactors. 199
B.2
Crossed-StringmethodtocalculateF3-4. 201
B.3
ThedimensionsofequationB.5 . 203
B.4
Thenumbersofthewallsfortwowallscases. 208 LISTOFAPPENDIXTABLES
Table Page
B.1
ViewfactorsforasinglewallcaseatCC=2Dand
S/D=0.5 204
B.2
RadiationcorrectionsforthearrayatCC=2Dand
S/D=0.5 206
B.3
ViewfactorsfortwowallscaseatCC=2Dwith
S/D=0.5and(S/D)R=2.0 . 210
B.4
Radiationcorrections for the arrayatCC=2Dand
twowallsatS/D=0.5and(S/D)R=2.0. 212 NOMENCLATURE
A
=Surfaceareaofthecylinder, DL),m2 .
Ac
=Endcapcrosssectionarea,m2
CC
=Cylindercenter-to-centerspacing,m.
Cp
=Specificheat,WHr/(KgK).
D
=Cylinderdiameter,m.
e
=Emissivity.
Gr
=ModifiedGrashofnumber,equation3.3 .
g
=Accelerationofgravity,m/s2.
h
=Averageheattransfercoefficient,W/m2K.
I
=Electricalcurrent,amp.
K
=Thermalconductivity,W/mK.
L
=Cylinderlength.
Nu =AverageNusseltnumberofthecylinder,=((h
D)/K)
Nuav
=AverageNusseltnumberofthewholearrayfor
singlewallcases,equation4.4 .
Nuavif
=Nusseltnumberratiofor singlewallcases,
equation4.5 .
=AverageNusseltnumberofthewholearrayfor
twowallscases,equation5.2 .
=Nusseltnumberratiofor twowallscases,
equation5.3 .
=Nusseltnumberratiofor singlewallcases,
equation4.6.
Nilav,RW
Nu av,RW/f
Nuay/a
Nui =AverageNusseltnumberforcylinder#i .
Nu i,f =AverageNusseltnumberforcylinder#iinafree
array .
Nui,Rw
=AverageNusseltnumberforcylinder#i fortwo
wallscases.
Nus
=AverageNusseltnumberforafreesingle
cylinder.
p
=Pressure,N/m2.
P
=Electricalpower,W.
Pr
=Prandtlnumber.
Q
=Totalpowerinput,W.
Qcv
=Heatfluxbyconvection,W.
Qcd
=Heatfluxbyconduction,W.
Qr
=Heatfluxbyradiation,W.
q
=Heatfluxperunitarea,W/m2.
R
=Electricalresistance,ohm.
Ra
=ModifiedRayleighnumber,equation3.4 .
Rai
=ModifiedRayleighnumberforcylinder#1for
singlewallcases.
Rai; =ModifiedRayleighnumberforcylinder#iforfree
arraycases.
RaiRw
=ModifiedRayleighnumberforcylinder#ifortwo
wallscases.
R1
=Oneohmelectricalresistance.
S
=Spacingbetweenthearrayandthewall,m .Sb =Stefan-Boltzmannconstant=5.6696x 10-8
wit-112.1(4
S/D
=Arraytoleftwallspacingforsinglewallcases.
(S/D)R
=Arraytorightwallspacingfortwowallscaces.
T
=Temperature,°C.
Tw
=Surfacetemperatureofthecylinder,°C.
Tw,i
=Surfacetemperatureofcylinder#i , °C.
Tinf =Ambienttemperature,°C.
U
=FluidvelocityinY-direction,m/s.
V
=Voltage,Volt.
v
=FluidvelocityinY-direction,m/s.
X
=X-coordinate,m.
Y
=Y-Coordinate,m.
Yi
=Distancefromthecenterofthelowestcylinderto
thecenterofcylinder#i .
a =Themaldiffusivity,m2/Hr.
=Coefficientofthermalexpansion,K-1.
8T
=Thermalboundarylayerthickness,m.
11
=Dynamicviscosity,Kg/mHr.
=Kinematicviscosity,m2/Hr.
P
=Density,Kg/m3.
=Angularlocationmeasuredfrom6o'clock position,radians.
0
=Normalizedtemperature,equation4.3. AnExperimentalStudyofNaturalConvectionHeat
TransferFromaHorizontalCylinderArrayVertically
AlignedtoandConfinedbyaSingleWallorTwoWalls
CHAPTER1 INTRODUCTIONANDTHEORETICALANALYSIS
1.1 Introduction
Naturalconvectionprocessesoccurbothinnaturaland technologicalapplicationswhenthefluidflowisdrivenby buoyancyforcesresultingfrominhomogeneitiesinfluiddensity.
Thesegravitationalforcesarisewhenabodyisplacedinan otherwisemotionlessmediumhavingahigheroralower
temperaturethanthatofthebody.
Establishmentofheattransferbynaturalconvectiontakes
placeinthreestages[1,2].Duringthesestages,thetemperature andvelocitychangesareassumedtobeconfinedtoasmall
boundarylayernexttothebody'ssurface. Inthefirststage,the
heatistransferred bypureconductionfromthebodytothe
adjacentfluidparticles.
Duringthesecondstage, theheatis
transferredbyacombinationofpureconductionandconvection.
Finally,inthethirdstage,thevelocityandtemperatureprofiles
areindependentoftimeandthesteadyconvectionflowisfully
established.
ParsonsandArey[2,3]showMach-Zehnder 2
photographsofthesestagesfornaturalconvectionheattransfer
forasinglehorizontalwireandfortwohorizontalwiresvertically
aligned.
Althoughnaturalconvectionhasalowerheattransfer
coefficientthanforcedconvection,heattransferengineering designerspreferthenaturalconvectionmodebecauseit ismore
reliableduetotheeliminationofthecooling/heatingfluid
circulationparts
. Theconvectionheattransfercoefficientis
afunctionofthefluidflow,thethermalpropertiesofthefluid
medium,andthegeometryofthesystem. Manyindustrialheat
componentshavehorizontalcylindersstackedverticallyneara
wallorpositionedasymmetricallybetweentwowalls. These
componentsarefoundinelectronicequipment(i.e.,computers
andpowersupplyequipment),heatexchangers,nuclearpower equipment,andpowertransmissioncableswhicharealignednext
toawall.
Whenhorizontalcylindersarestackedverticallynearawall,
theheattransferfromthelowercylinderbehavesmuchlikefree
naturalconvectionfromasinglecylinder.
Duetotheplume
risingfromthelowercylinderandtheboundarylayerbuildupby
thewall,
theflowaroundtheuppercylindersisnolongerafree
convectionflow.
Forasteadystatecase,thetemperaturesofthe
cylindersabovethelowercylinderarearesultofthebalance
betweenthesurroundingfluidtemperatureincreases(duetothe
lowercylinder(s))andthevelocityoffluidwhichisinducedby 3
theraisedplume. Theexactsolutionfornaturalconvectionforsuchan
arrangementiscomplicatedbycomplexgeometriesandbythe
nonlinearnatureoftheproblem. Thenonlinearitiesarisefrom
thefluidaccelerationtermsandthecouplingofthemomentum
andenergyequations.
Duetothewakeeffect(s),thecylinder spacingisacriticalandnotfullyunderstoodvariable.
Consequently,cylinderspacinghasbeguntoreceivemore
attention.
Thelackofquantitativeinformationconcerning
cylinderandwallspacingandtheneedtohavemore
understandingoftheflowaroundthecylindershasprompted
this study.
1.2 ScopeoftheStudy
Theobjectiveofthisstudyistoinvestigateheattransferby
naturalconvectionfromthreehorizontalcylinders,atconstant
heatflux,alignedverticallyparallelto averticalwall(s). During
thecourseoftheexperiment,theeffectofthewallspacing on
naturalconvectionfromthecylinderswasstudied. Theeffectof
cylinder-to-cylinderspacingonnaturalconvection wasalso
investigated.
Increasedunderstandingofthefluidflowaround
thecylinderswasaccomplishedbyvideotapingandtaking
photographsoftheflowfield. Lasersheetswereusedto
illuminatesmokeparticlesinthetestingsection. The 4
temperatureandvelocityfieldswerestudied(forsomecases)by
usingTempest(computersoftwarefromBattelleLaboratories)on
theFloatingPointsystemsupercomputeratO.S.U.
Pilotexperimentswereconductedwithasingleisolated
cylinderinordertocomparereadingswiththeresultsof previousstudieswheretheaverageNusseltnumberfroma
horizontalcylinderatconstantheatfluxwasexpressedasa
functionofmodifiedRayleighnumber,Ra. Theresultsofthe
pilotexperimentswerealsocomparedtothescaleanalysiswhich willbeshowninthenextsectionofthischapter.
1.3
GoverningEquationsandScaleAnalysis
Inthecasesofsteadystate,two-dimensionalflowand laminarfreeconvection,theboundarylayertheoryconcepts
wereemployed. Theseconceptsaregovernedbythe
conservationofmass,momentum,andenergyequations. With
theassumptionofconstantfluidproperties,exceptinthecaseof thedensityinthebuoyancyforceterm,thegoverningdifferential-
equationsappearasfollows:
au av + =0
DX DY
aU
au
u-arc+ g{3 Tindsin +a2u a2u
+
ax2 aY2
/ (1.2) av av
U-57+V = g TindcosA+
aT
,,aT a2T a2T
U + a 24-ay2
a2v a2v
ax2 ay2 (1.2b)
(1.3)
5
Thesystemofcoordinatesisshowninfigure1.1 .
FollowingthescaleanalysisrulesasoutlinedbyBejan, yisof
thesameorderofmagnitudeasthethermalboundarylayer,ar
Thiswillbewrittenas Y ST.Sincex=f(D,8),
X D
ar2 «D2
a2 a2
->> ay2 axe
Gravityfield
2X
e= D
Figure1.1 Systemofcoordinates. 6
a2
axe
equations (equations1.2a,1.2band1.3,respectively)are
neglected. Thescalingofthecontinuityequation,equation1.1,
gives
V U8T (1.4)
75-
Thusthe termsinthemomentumandenergy
andthescalingoftheenergyequationgives
AT V AT a
D ST
AT
convection I I conduction
BysubstitutingforVfromequation1.4inthelastequation,both
convectiontermsareoftheorderU AT Therefore,
U aD
T
Themomentumequations,equation(1.2a)and(1.2b),givethe
followingscalebalance:
(1.5)
iJ 2
,
VST or g13ATsin8
I_inertia I I_friction_I I_buoyancy_I
V2 V
UVor , g ATcos0 8T
I_inertia I I_friction I I_buoyancy_I 7
Hencethe STisruledbyanInertia Buoyancybalanceor
byaFriction Buoyancybalance. ForPrgreaterthanone,the
thermalboundarylayerthickness,ar ,ismuchsmallerthanthe
velocityboundarylayerthicknessandSTisruledbytheFriction
Buoyancybalance.
Byaddingthesquareofthefrictiontermsandthesquareof
thebouyancytermsintheaboveequations,thefollowing
relationshipis obtained:
2
U2V + g2132AT2
(7-8T 8T
(sin28+cos28)
Equation(1.4)impliesthat V2<< U2 .Therefore,V2canbe
neglected. Bysubstitutingfor(sin20+cos2 =1andrearranging
theterms,theaboverelationshipcanbewrittenas,
vU
g13AT
4 1
Bysubstitutingfor(U)fromequation1.5,
vaD
gI3AT4 1 (1.6)
Theno-slipconditionimpliesthattheheattransferadjacentto
thewallat0<Y<0 isbypureconductionandgovernedby
Fourier'slaw. q=K aT aY1(D
AT
Therefore, q K gives AT q81.
oT
SustitutingforthisvalueofATandfor a= E.equation(1.6)becomes
p. K2 D5
1
p2
gi3CpqD 8.r
45
K
pCp
(1.7)
and
Thus ST Ra -1/5 D (1.8)
whereRaismodifiedRaylieghnumber. Thewall-heat flux
equation,q=h(T-Tinf)=hAT ,andequation(1.7)give
AT
q-K hAT
oT
hence h K
ST
Usingequation(1.8)andrearrangingtheterms
Nu= hD Ra 1/5
K (1.9)
8
Therefore,theNusseltnumberforfreenaturalconvectionheat
transferfromasingleisolatedhorizontalcylinderisafunctionof themodifiedRayleighnumbertothe1/5thpower. Further,the 9
modifiedRayleighnumber,shownbyequation1.8,isofthesame
orderofmagnitudeastheratioofDtothethermalboundary
layerthickness,8. 10
CHAPTERER2
LITERATUREREVIEW
2.1
SingleCylinderwithoutconfiningwalls(s)
Numerousstudiesonnaturalconvectionheattransferfroma
horizontalcylinderhavebeenpublished. Morgantabulated
sixty-fourreferenceswhichpresentedthenaturalconvection
heattransferresultsfromanisolatedcylinderorarrayof
horizontalheatedcylinders(wires). Theratiosofcylinderlength
todiameterinthesestudiesrangedfrom2.8to9000. The
Rayleighnumber,Ra,basedonthecylinderdiameterandonthe
filmtemperature,Tf=(T w+ Tinf )/2,rangedfrom7x10 to
10 .
Onlyoneofthesestudies:Dyer,wasconducted'at
uniformheatflux. Basedonthedatafromthesereferencesand ontheircorrelationequations,Morganproposedthe
correlationfornaturalconvectionfromahorizontalcylinderas
M
Nu=B(Ra)
whereBandMareconstantsdependingontherangeofRa. Ra
isbasedonthecylinderdiameterandthefluidpropertiesatthe
filmtemperature,Tf
Inatheoreticalandexperimentalstudy,Kim,Pontikes,and WollersheimstudiedthelocalandtheaverageNusselt
number,Nu,fromahorizontalcylinderto aNewtonianfluid (mineraloil). Theyobtainedthefollowingrelationsforthe
averageNusseltnumber:
.19
Isothermalcylinder,Nu i= 0.89(Gri .Pr)
.2
11
Constantheatflux,Nu=0.57(Gre.Pr) whereGristheGrashofnumberandPristhePrandtlnumber. ThesubscriptsiandcmeanGrbasedontemperaturedifference
oruniformheatflux,respectively.
2.2
Arrayofcylinderswithoutconfiningwall(s):
LiebermanandGebhartinvestigatedtheheattransfer
fromanarrayofheatedwires. Thewireshadalengthto
diameterratioequalto1450. (TheRayleighnumberwasoforder
10andthearraytookdifferentanglepositions. Theresultswere
inferredfrominterferogramsofthetemperaturefieldandthe
risingplume.
Theyfoundthatthetemperaturesofthewires
increasedupthearraywhenthespacingbetweenthewireswas
37.5diameter(theclosestspacing). But,forhigherspacing(75
diameter),thetemperaturesdecreasedasthepositionofthewire
ascendedthearray.
Thiswasduetotheincreaseoftheair
velocityintheplume,whichresultedinloweringtheplume
temperaturewhiletheplumeroseupinthearray.
Marstersstudiedthenaturalconvectionforvertical 12
arraysofheatedhorizontalcylinders.
Inhisworktheeffectof
cylinder-to-cylinderspacingwasexperimentallystudiedfor
three,five,andnine-cylinderarrays. Thespacingtookvalues
from2to20cylinderdiameters. Airwastheworkingmedium
andtheGrashofnumber,basedoncylinderdiameterand
temperaturedifference,rangedfrom750to2000. Hefoundthat
theNusseltnumbersfornarrowspacingaresmallerthanthe
Nusseltnumbersforasinglecylinder(about50%smaller),while
forwidespacing,theNusseltnumbersareabout30%higherthan
forasinglecylinder. Thetemperaturedistributionalongthe
arrayagreedwiththeresultsofLiebermanandGebhart.
Furthermore,thelowercylinderinanyarraybehavesmuchlike
asinglecylinder. MarsterssuggestedthattheGrashofnumber
shouldbebasedonthecharacteristiclengthofthedistancefrom
thelowercylinderratherthanonthecylinderdiameterto explainthetemperaturedistributionalonganarray.
Theeffectofverticalseparationdistanceandcylinder-to-
cylindertemperatureimbalanceonnaturalconvectionforapair
ofhorizontalcylinderswasexaminedbySparrowand
Niethammer.
Intheseexperiments,thelowercylinderwall-
to-ambienttemperaturedifferencerangedfromzerotothree
timestheuppercylinderwall-to-ambienttemperature
difference.
ThevaluesofRayleighnumbers,basedonthe
cylinderdiameter,fortheuppercylinderwerefrom20,000to
200,000. 13
TheresultswerepresentedastheNusseltnumberratiosand
thetemperatureratios.
TheNusseltnumberratiowasthe NusseltnumberoftheuppercylinderdividedbytheNusselt
numberofanisolatedcylinderofthesameRayleighnumber,
whilethetemperatureratiowastheratioofthewall-to-ambient
temperaturedifferenceoftheuppercylinderdividedbythatof
thelowercylinder. AtaspecifiedtemperatureratioandRayleigh
number,theNusseltnumberratioincreasessharplyatasmall
separationdistance,S.
TheslopeoftheNusseltnumberratio
becomesflatteratlargerspacingandtheratiotakesamaximum
valueintherangeofS/Dbetweensevenandnine. Atlow
spacingratiotheincreaseofthetemperatureratiodegradesthe
Nusseltnumberratio.
SparrowandBoessneckstudiedtheeffectsoftransverse misalignmentonnaturalconvectionfromapairofparallel,
verticallystacked,horizontalcylinders.
Atseveralfixed
separationdistances (cylinder-to-cylinderdistance)the transverseoffsetwasvaried. Thetransversemisalignmenthad
eightvaluesrangingfromzerotothreecylinderdiameters. The
separationdistancetookseveralvaluesbetween2and9cylinder
diameters.
Thecylinderdiameterwas1.49inchesandits
length/diameterratiowas20. Rayleighnumberswerebasedon
thecylinderdiameterandthecylinder-to-ambienttemperature
difference.
Duringthecourseoftheexperiment,Rayleigh
numbersrangedfrom20,000to200,000andthetestingfluid 14
wasair.
Sincethelowercylinderisnotaffectedbymisalignment(i.e.,
itbehaveslikeasinglecylinder),thestudyfocusedontheupper
cylinderNusseltnumberratio.
Thisratiowasthemisaligned
uppercylinderNusseltnumbertotheperfectlyalignedupper
cylinder.
TheoffsettingenhancedtheNusseltnumberratio(up to27%)atsmallcylinder-to-cylinderverticalseparation.Whileat
largeseparationdistancestheoffsettingdecreasedtheNusselt
numberratio(upto22%). Forspecificoffset,theNusseltnumber
enhancedatlowerRayleighnumber. Thisenhancement
decreasedastheverticalseparationincreased. Inallthecases
theNusseltnumberreachedasinglevalue,whichwasabout3%
higherthanthatofasinglecylinderwhentheoffsetwaslarge. Theresults,whenallthecylinderswerealigned,agreewiththe resultsof,wheretheNusseltnumberoftheuppercylinder
wasenhancedastheverticalseparationbetweenthecylinders
wasincreased.
2.3 Singlecylinderconfinedbytwoparallelwalls:
Marstersstudiedtheeffectsof adiabaticwalls
confinementontheheattransferfromahorizontalheated
cylinder.
Duringthecourseoftheexperiments,Rayleighnumber valuesrangedfrom10to500,000. Thisrangewasachievedby
usingair,waterandfreon113asworkingfluidsandtwo 15
differentcylinderdiameterstogivecylinderlength-to-diameter
ratiosof70and67.9. Thewallspacingwasvariedbetween2to
20cylinderdiametersandthewallheight-to-diameterratiohad
valuesbetween5and128. Thestudyconsistedoftwoparts.
First,thecylinderwastestedwithno-wall(isolatedcylinder)and
acorrelationequationfortheaverageNusseltnumber,Nu,was
presented
(0.14+0.013logRa)
Nu=0.88Ra for10<Ra<500,000
whereRawasbasedonthecylinderdiameterandthe
temperaturedifference. Inthesecondpart,thecylinderwas
confinedbythewalls. Theresultsshowedthattheheattransfer
characteristicswereenhancedsignificantlybythepresenceofthe
walls.
Evenatlargewallspacing(20cylinderdiameters),there wasa30%increaseintheheattransferovertheno-wallcase. On
theotherhand,Marstersfoundthattherewasnoeffectofthe
cylinderelevation(thedistancefromthebottomofthewallsto
thecenterofthecylinder)aslongasthecylinderlaybetweenthe
walls.
Analysisofthedatagavethefollowingcorrelation
equationfortheNusseltnumber:
Nu=0.82Ra a.10 b
where
a=0.17(1+0.05LogRa)
b=0.02(11/w)0-0.018(H/t)-9.2(d/11))
H=heightofthewalls
w=spacingbetweenthewalls. 16
Thisequationindicatesthatthehigherorderofthegeometry
termswasunimportant.
Also,itshowsNudecreasedwhen
H/w>28forfixedvaluesofw,DandRa.
SparrowandPfeildeterminedtheheattransfer characteristicsofaheatedhorizontalcylindersituatedatthe
mid-heightofaverticalchannel withadiabaticchannelwalls.
Thecylinderlength-to-diameterratiowas20/1. Theexperiment
wascarriedoutinairwithRayleighnumber,Ra(basedon
cylinderdiameterandtemperaturedifference),between15,000
and200,000.
Theeffectsofthechannelheight,theinterwall
spacing(thedistancebetweenthewalls),andthewallmaterials
ontheheattransferwerestudied. ItwasfoundthattheNusselt
number,relativetotheno-wallcondition,wasenhancedasthe
channelheightincreased.
Thus,theverticalplacementofthe cylinderinthechannelenhancestheheattransfer. This
enhancementcanreachupto40%atsmallinterwallspacing, whileloweratlargeinterwallspacing.
SparrowandPfeil'sconclusiondoesnotagreewiththat
ofMarsters,wheretheverticalplacementofthecylinder
doesnotaffecttheheattransfercharacteristics. However,both
studies
agreethattheNusseltnumberwasenhancedatthesmall
interwallspacing.
Thisenhancementdecreasesasthespacing
increases.
InSparrowandPfeil'sexperiment,thespacing effectdecreasedastheheightofthechannelincreased. They
usedthreedifferentshroudtypes(thewallsparalleltothe 17
cylinderaxis)including: highlyconducting,highlyconducting
withinsulationonthebackside,andnon-conductingshrouds.
TheresultsrevealedthattheNusseltnumberwasinsensitiveto
thevarioustypesofshrouds. Theypresentedacorrelation
equationfortheNusseltnumberinthefollowingform,
n
Nu=CRa
whereCandnareconstantsdependingontheratiosofthe channelheightandinterwallspacingtothecylinderdiameter.
Karimetal.investigatedtheeffectsoftheinterwall
spacingandtheverticalplacementonthenaturalconvectionheat transferfromahorizontalisothermalcylindersymmetrically
placedbetweentwoparalleladiabaticwalls. Twodifferent
cylinderdiameterswereusedwithlength-to-diameterratiosof
17.4and25.98. AverageNusseltnumbersweredeterminedfora
Rayleighnumberof2,000to300,000. Theresultsshowedthat
theNusseltnumberdegradedwithincreasingRayleighnumber
forallthewallspacingratios(wallspacingtocylinderdiameter).
Theirexperimentsagreewith ,wheretheconfinement
enhancestheNusseltnumberandthereisnosignificanteffect
fromthecylinder'sverticalplacementontheheattransfer
characteristics.
But,theirfindingsdisagreewithwhenthere
isanoptimalspacingformaximumheattransfer. Acorrelated
equationtocalculatetheaverageNusseltnumberwaspresented
byKarimet.al.as .25
Nu=(0.481+0.172exp(-0.258(W/D))) .Ra 18
whereWisthespacingbetweenthewallsandRaistheRayleigh
numberbasedoncylinderdiameter,D,andoncylinder-ambient
temperature difference.
2.4
Arrayofcylindersconfinedbytwoparallelwalls:
MarstersandPaulusexaminedtheeffectsofconfining wallsonaverticalarrayofhorizontalcylinders. Thearray
consistedofnineheatedcylinderswithcylinder'slength-to-
diameterratioequalto70andwithcylinder-to-cylinderspacing
equalto6cylinderdiameters. Theyfoundthatthewalls
influencedtheheattransfercharacteristicsofanindividual cylinderinthearray,butthewallshadlesseffectontheoverall
heattransferofthearray. Theypresentedcurvesfornormalized
temperature (the
cylinder-to-ambienttemperaturedifference to
thebottomcylinder-to-ambienttemperaturedifference). The
curvesillustratethatthenormalizedtemperatureincreasedas
thecylinderwaselevatedinthearrayandasthewallspacing
decreased.
Theexperimentswerecarriedoutwith/without ventilatingwalls(thesidewallsperpendiculartothecylinder
axes).
Theyalsoexaminedthenormalizedtemperaturefora
singlewallspacedtwocylinderdiametersdistancefromthe centerofthearray. Again,inthiscase,thetemperature
increasedasthecylinderswereelevatedinthearray.
Naturalconvectioncharacteristicsforaverticalarrayof 19
heatedcylinderswith/withoutconfiningwallswere
experimentallyinvestigatedbyTokuraet. al. . The
experimentswerecarriedoutfor2,3,and5-cylinderarrayswith
cylinderlengthsequalto20.8cylinderdiameters. Fornon-
confiningarrays,theirresultsagreedwith[5and13]thatthe
averageheattransfercoefficientsincreaseasthecenter-to-center
distancesincrease. Thisenhancementreachesamaximumvalue
whenthespacingsareapproximatelyfivetimesthecylinder's
diameter.
Thefollowingequationswerepredicted:
(1)
TheaverageNusseltnumberforthesecondcylinder
inanarrayasafunctionofRayleighnumber,Ra,and
distancefromthecenterofthebottomcylindertothe
centerofthesecondcylinder,CC,andthecylinder
diameter,D.
Nu=0.26 (CC/D)3/4 [1-exp{-2.22/((CC/D) 3/4 )-1))]Ra 1/4
Thisequationproducedcloseresultstothoseobtainedin
thecaseofasinglecylinderwhenCCextendstoinfinity.
Theaboveequationcanbeusedfortheothercylindersin
thedownstreamofthearraywhenthespacingbetween
thecylindersislarge.
(2)
TheaverageNusseltnumberforawholearrayasa
functionofRaandb/Dwherebisthediameter-to-diametercylinderseparationdistanceandNisthe 20
numberofthecylindersinthearray.
Nu=0.41Ra 1/4 Ln([(b/D)/1.3] .055N) +0.434
Theerrorinthisequationis±10%for[(b/d)/1.3] .055N= 0.7
to 1.2 andGr=40,000to400,000.
Foranarraybetweentwoparallelplates,theyfoundthat
theNusseltnumberforawholearraywasenhanced. This
enhancementreacheditsmaximumwhenthespacingbetween
theplateswasthreetimesthecylinderdiameter,S/D=3. When
S/D=30,theeffectsofparallelplatesontheaverageNusselt
numberwasinsignificant. TheaverageNusseltnumberforeach
cylinderwasalmostthesameforallthecylindersabovethe
bottomonewhenthespacingbetweenthecylinderswas6D(i.e.,
b/D=6).
But,whenb=D,theaverageNusseltnumberforthe
cylinderabovethebottomonewasmuchsmallerthanthe
averageNusseltnumberforthebottomcylinder. Thisdifference
decreasesastheS/Dincreases. Ingeneral,theeffectofthe
spacingbetweenthecylindersisgreaterthantheeffectofthe
distancebetweentheplates. Relativetoanarraywithout
confiningwalls,theeffectofthewallsincreasedtheheattransfer by10to15%whentheseparationdistancebetweenthewalls
was2to6timesthecylinder'sdiameter. 21
2.5 Cylinder(s)confinedbyasinglewall:
Fivereferencesarecitedunderthiscategory.Fourofthem werepublishedwithSparrowasaco-author. Thearticleswere
publishedbetween1981and1987. Threeofthesearticles,as shownbelow,investigatethenaturalconvectionheattransfer
froma horizontalcylinder(s)fixedperpendicularlyonavertical
heatedwall.
Thenaturalconvectionheattransfercharacteristicsfroman isothermalhorizontalcylinderattachedtoanisothermalvertical
plateatthesametemperaturewereinvestigatedexperimentally
bySparrowandChrysler.
Duringthecourseofthe
experiments,thecylinderaxeswereperpendiculartotheplate
surface.
Theeffectofthecylinderpositionfromtheleadingedge
wasstudiedbyattachingthecylindertooneofthethree
positionsalongtheheightoftheplate. Twocylinderswith
length-to-distanceratio,L/D,equalto1and1/2wereused. The
Rayleighnumber,Ra(basedoncylinderdiameter,D),ranged
from14,000to140,000. SparrowandChryslerfoundthatata
givenRatheNusseltnumberwasinsensitivetothecylinder's
verticalposition.
Inaddition,theNusseltnumberwasenhanced
atthehigherpositionanditwasloweratthelowerpositionfora
givenRa.
However,atthemiddlepositiontheNusseltnumber
waslowerthanthatatthelowestposition. Thisdemonstrated
nonmonotonicvariationoftheNusseltnumberwiththeelevation 22
ofthecylinder. Thepresenceoftheverticalplatedegradedthe
Nusseltnumber
duetotheboundarylayerbuild-upbytheplate.
Thiseffectwashigherontheshortercylinderthanonthelonger
cylinderduetotheplate-cylinderinteraction. Fromthedata obtainedintheseexperiments,thefollowingempiricalequation
waspresentedtofindtheaverageNusseltnumberasafunction
ofRa:
Nu=CRa 1/4 for 14,000<Ra<140,000.
whereC dependsonthecylinder'slength-diameterratioandthe
cylinderpositionfromtheloweredgeoftheplate.
Theabovework,,wasextendedbySparrowet.al.
toinvestigatethenaturalconvectionheattransferforavertical
arrayofhorizontalcylindersperpendiculartoaverticalplate.
Boththecylindersandtheplatewereatthesameconstant
temperature.
Twoarrayscomprisedoftwoandthreecylinders
wereused.
Usingatwo-cylinderarrayallowedexaminationof
theeffectsofwidercylinder-to-cylinderdistanceandtwoarray
elevations(distancefromtheleadingedgeoftheplatetothe
lowercylinder).
Fourparameterswerestudied. Theseinclude
thefin(cylinder)length-to-diameterratio,theinterfinspacing, thepositionatwhichthefinisattachedtothehostverticalplate,
andtheRayleighnumber,Ra.
Foranindividualcylinderinthearray,theresultsshowed
thatthepresenceofacylinder(orcylinders)belowitlowerthe 23
Nusseltnumber(s)athigherRayleighnumber. Thelowest
cylinderofthearraywasnotaffectedbythepresenceofthe
cylinder(s)aboveit.
Forthetwo-cylinderarray,thepresenceof
thearrayatthelowerpartoftheplategavetheuppercylindera higherNusseltnumberthanthearrayatthehigherpartofthe
plate.
HigherinterfinspacingalsoproducedhigherNusselt
numbersfortheuppercylinder. Forthethree-cylinderarray,
theNusseltnumberdegradedasthecylinderelevationincreased
atlowRayleighnumber.
WhileathigherRa,thecylinderinthe
middleobtainedthehighestNusseltnumber.
Sparrowet. al. extended
theinvestigationofnatural
convectionheattransferfromanisothermalhorizontalcylinder
attachedperpendicularlyonaverticalplate atequi-temperature toincludetheduct-floweffects. Thewallsoftheduct(exceptthe
verticalplate)wereadiabatic. Duringtheexperimentalwork,the
spacing,S,betweentheisothermalverticalplateandtheopposite
wallwaschangedfromS/L=1.4toS/L=5.4,whereL=cylinder
length.
AtlargeS/Ltheconditionreachedexternalflowmode.
ThisalsooccurredinthecasesdiscussedbySparrowandChrysler
.
Theenhancementorthedegradationofheattransferwas
comparedasapercentageoftheexternalflowmode(largeS/L).
Theresultsshowedthattheheattransferfromthelowercylinder
positionwasenhancedby60%to20%astheS/Lchangedfrom
1.43to5.4 Thisenhancementwaslowerforthemiddlecylinder 24
position(about40to50%). Inbothcases(lowerandmiddle
cylinderpositions)theeffectoftheRayleighnumberwas
insignificant.
Fortheuppercylinderposition,theresultswere
sensitivetotheRayleighnumberatasmallS/Lratio. Conversely,
theresultswerelesssensitivefortheRayleighnumberat a
higherS/Lratio. AtlowS/Ltheenhancementdecreasedasthe
Rayleighnumberincreased.
AthighS/Ltheenhancementwas
zero.
Theseresultssuggestthattheexternalflowismore
preferablefortheuppercylinderposition.
Theeffectsoftheradiationconditionsoftheunheatedwalls
ontheheattransferwereexaminedduringtheseexperimentsby
usingblackbodywallsandreflectivewalls. Thereflectivewalls
showedlowerenhancementoftheheattransferthantheblack
bodywalls.
Thiswasduetothetemperaturedifferenceofthe
blackbodysurfacesbeinghigherthanthetemperaturedifference
ofthereflectingsurfaces. Thetemperaturedifferencewas
definedasthedifferencebetweenthewalltemperatureandthe
ambienttemperature.
Intheblackbodycase,thehigher
temperaturedifferenceshelpedtoinducemoreflowinsidethe
ductinadditiontotheinducedflowbytheisothermalvertical
plate.
Thishighervelocityenhancedtheheattransfer.
Thecharacteristicsofnaturalconvectionheattransferfrom aheatedisothermalhorizontalcylinderparalleltoanadiabatic
wall(s)wereexaminedbySparrowandAnsari. The
experimentalconfigurationsincludedasingleverticalwall 25
situatedtothesideofthecylinder,ahorizontalwallbeneaththe
cylinder,andacornerformedbyaverticalandahorizontalwall.
Thecylinderlengthwasequalto20timesitsdiameter. Theratio
ofthedistancebetweenthecylinderand.thewall(s),inoneofthe
specifiedconditions,tothecylinderdiameter,S/D,waschanged systematicallyfromS/D=1/12toS/D=4/3. Theresultswere
presentedastheratioofthedissipatedheattransferfromthe
cylinderinthepresenceofthewall(s)tothedissipatedheat
transferwithno-wall(s)(isolatedcylinder). Theexperiments
werecarried.outinairwithRayleighnumbersfrom20,000to
200,000.
Ingeneral,thepresenceofthewall(s)degradedthecylinder
heattransferrelativetotheisolatedcylinderheattransfer. In
thecaseofaverticalwall,therewasa20%reductionforS/D=
1/12.
ThisreductionwasnegligiblewhenS/D=1/4orgreater.
Forahorizontalwallbeneaththecylinder,thereductioninthe
heattransferwas5%greaterthantheverticalwallcase. The
effectofthehorizontalwallwaseliminatedwhenthespacing ratio,S/D,equalled1.33orgreater.
Thedegradationinheattransferforthecornercasewas40% attheclosestspacingand20%for1/4cylinderdiameterspacing
orgreater.
Theexperimentsalsodemonstratedthattheadiabatic
wall(s)experiencedatemperatureriserelativetotheambient
temperatureduetowall(s)-to-cylinderinteraction. Thehighest
temperaturerisereportedwasapproximately86%ofthe 26
cylinder-ambienttemperaturedifference,whichoccurredatthe
closestcylinder-wallspacingofthecorner-cylinderinteractions. McCoystudiedtheconvectionheattransferbehavior
fromanisothermalheatedhorizontalcylinderparalleltoan
isothermalverticalwall.
Theenhancementordegradationofthe
NusseltnumberrelativetotheNusseltnumberofanisolated
cylidner,Nu/Nus,wasexaminedwithdifferentcylinderpositions.
Thesepositionsincludedcylinder-wallspacingsandtheelevation ofthecylinderfromtheleadingedgeoftheverticalwall. Water
wasusedasaworkingfluidandtheRayleighnumberranged
from400,000to10,000,000.
ItwasfoundthatNu/Nusratio increasedslowlyasthewall-cylinderdistancewasdecreased.
ThisenhancementreacheditsmaximumatapproximatelyS/D=
0.2. ThenNu/Nusdroppedoffsharplyforcloserspacings. This
wasduetotheinteractionbetweenthecylinderandthewall
boundarylayer.
ThisinteractionwashigheratlowRayleigh
numberswheretheboundarylayerwasthick. 27
CHAPTER3
EXPERIMENTALAPPARATUSANDPROCEDURES
3.1 Introduction
Theoveralldesignoftheexperimentswasdevisedinorder
tosatisfythefollowingrequirements:
1)
Twodimensionalheattransferconditions. Thesewere
achievedbyspecifyingpropercylinderdimensionsand
cylinder'sendconditions.
2)
Steadystateheattransferconditions. Thesewere
accomplishedbyallowingadequatetimeforthe
experimentalset-upsandbyprovidingstable
environmentalconditions.
3)
Accuratedatareadings. Properdevicesand
computerizedtechniquestosupplyandcollectdatawere
usedtosatisfythiscondition.
4)
Rapidandefficientre-arrangementofthegeometrical
experimentalset-up(especiallywall(s)spacing). Figure
3.1showsapictorialviewofthetestingsection.
Theaboverequirementswillbediscussedindetailinthe
followingsections,wheretheexperimentalcomponentsand
instrumentationarediscussed. Attheendofthischapterthe
experimentalprocedure is presented. ACRYLLIC
LEFTWALL
INSULATION
CYLINDER3
CYLINDER2
CYLINDER1
RIGHTWALL
FOR2WALL
CASEONLY
Figure3.1
Pictorialviewofthetestingsection. 29
3.2 Components
3.2.1 Heaters
Etched-foilheaterswereusedtoprovideauniformsurface heatfluxandtoeasethefabricationprocessofthetesting
cylinders.
Twoetched-foilheaterswereusedforeachcylinder.
TheheatersweremanufacturedbyMINCOProducts,Inc. The
heatedfoilswereinsulatedby0.2mm(0.008inch)glass
reinforcedsiliconerubber. Theirdimensionswere7.62CmX
12.7Cm(3inchesx5inches)witha0.5mm(0.02inch)maximum
thickness.
Theworkingtemperaturerangeoftheinsulationwas
from-62degreesCentigradeto235degreesCentigrade.
Eachheaterhad 30.48Cm(12-inch)tefloninsulatedwires,
size24AWG.Theunheatedendsoftheheatersweretrimmedto
giveafinaldimensionof7.42Cmx12.38Cm(2.92inchesx4.875
inches).
Thisallowedforabetterfittingoftheheatersinsidethe
cylindersandreducedtheunheatedareaoftheheaterstosupply
uniformheatfluxtothecylindersurfaces.
3.2.2 Thermocouples
Constantanandcopper-nickel(type-T)thermocoupleswere
employedintheexperiments. Type-T waschosenbecauseit
hasalowrateoferroracrossthetemperaturerangeofthe 30
experiments.
Thistypeofthermocouplehasatemperaturerange
from-200degreesCentigradeto350degreesCentigradewitha
limitoferrorof1.0degreeCentigradeor0.75%,whicheverof
theseisgreater.
Smallthermocouplewiresof
.254mm(0.01inch)in
diameterwereselectedtoreducetheconductionheatlossfrom
thecylinders.
Thethermocoupleswerefabricatedbyusinga
Hot-SpotthermocouplewelderfromDCCcorporationand followingtheinstructionsin. Afterobtainingaspherical,
homogeneousthermocouplebead,thebareleadwiresclosetothe
beadwereinsulatedbythermocoupleepoxytopreventtheir
contact.
Then,thethermocoupleresistancewasmeasuredand
comparedtotheresistanceoftheleadwirestoinsureagood
electricalcontactinthejunction(bead). Allthermocoupleswere
calibratedbyusingboilingwaterandicewaterasreference
temperatures.
Thecalibrationprocessalsoincludedmeasuring
thevoltagedropacrossthethermocouplesandcomparingit to
thetablesinreference. Thosethermocoupleswhichpassed
thecalibrationtestwereselectedforuseintheexperiment. A
totalof26thermocoupleswasemployedintheexperiments. The
locationandmannerbywhichthethermocouples wereattached
toeachcomponentwillbediscussedinlatersections. 31
3.2.3 Cylinders
Threecylinderscomprisedthemainexperimentalapparatus.
Thesecylinderswerefabricatedtobeidenticalinallrespects(i.e.,
dimensionsandsurfaceradiationconditons). Thetestsection
assemblyforthecylindersisshowninFigure3.2. Thecylinders
werefabricatedfromaluminumtube witha2.54Cm(1.0inch)
outsidediameteranda2.36Cm(0.93inch)insidediameter.
Aluminumwaschosenastheheattransfersurfacebecause,
whenpolishedtoamirror-likefinish,itreducestheradiative
heatlosswhichcompeteswithnaturalconvection. Thehigh
thermalconductivityofaluminumisanotherimportantfactor as
aluminumprovidesamoreuniformheatfluxsurface.
Eachcylinderhadalength-to-diameterratioequalto10,
allowingforsuppressionoftheaxialheattransfereffect. The
cylinderswerepolishedtoamirror-likefinishbyusing afine-
metalpolishinordertoreducetheradiationeffect.
Eightthermocoupleswereusedforeachcylinder. Twoof
themwereusedfortheend-captemperaturegradient. Theother
sixthermocoupleswereusedto measurethetemperatureofthe
cylindersurface,Fig.3.2. Twothermocoupleswerecementedto
theinteriorsurfaceofthecylinderbyusingthermocouple epoxy
andplaced
2.54Cm(1.0inch)fromeachcylinder'send,below
thetopstagnationpointofthecylinder. Theepoxy,whichwas
manufacturedbyOMEGAEngineering,Inc., usesaluminum 10.0'
THERMOCOUPLE
1.0'
HEATER
ALUMINUM.
CYLINDER
END-CAP
1.0'
COPPER
CYLINDER
.125 DIA.
STEEL ROD
THERMOCOUPLE DISK
FIBER GLASS
Figure 3.2Testsectionassemblyforthecylinders. 33
powdertoenhancethethermalconductivityofthejoint. The
otherfourthermocoupleswereradiallypositionedatthemid-
lengthofthecylinderat90degreeintervalsfromthetop
stagnationpointaroundtheinnercircumferenceofeachcylinder.
Thesethermocoupleswerehosted inathermocoupledisk.
Eachdisk,Figure3.3,wasmadeof0.635Cm(0.25inch)
aluminumplate.
Thedisk'souterdiameterwas2.286cm(0.9
inch).
Thisleftenoughclearancefortheheaterstobeinserted
betweenthediskandthecylinderwall. Eachdiskhadtwoaxial
holes,onelocatedatthecenterandtheotherlocatedoff-center.
Thelatterwasusedtopasstheleadwiresofthefrontheaterand
thefrontendthermocoupletothebackendofthecylinder(the
endthroughwhichalltheleadwireswerepassed). Thecenter
hole
wasusedtopassthesteelsupportrodoftheend-caps. The
radialthermocoupleswerehostedinfourradialholes,90degrees
apart.
Eachradialholewasmadebytwodrillingstages.
Inthefirststage,a5mm(0.2inch)diameterwitha6.35Cm
(0.25inch)depthholewasdrilled. Athermocouplepinanda
3.17mm(0.125inch)outsidediameterspringwerehostedinthis
hole.
Thepinwasmadeof3.81mm(0.15inch)coppertubeand
was4.57mm(0.18inch)inlength. The pinwasusedtosupport
thethermocouplebead,whichwasthreadedthroughthepinand
cementedto
itby theepoxy. Thethermocouplebeadswerealso
threadedthroughthespring,whichpressedthepinandthebead
againstthecylinder'ssurface. Thethermocouplebeadswere A
-J
A
THERMOCOUPLEBEAD
COPPERPIN
RADIALHOLES
AXIALHOLE
SPRING
.15'
-411w
-.15'
SECTIONAA
Figure 3.3Thermocoupledisk.
THERMOCOPULE
LEADS 35
flattenedatthepointofcontactwiththecylindertoinsurea
largercontactarea.
Toinsureasafepassagefortheradial thermocoupleleads,a1.02mm(0.04inch)diametersecond-stage
holewasdrilledtoconnecttheradialholestothecenterholeof
thedisk.
Thethermocouplediskswereplacedatthemidpointofeach
cylinder.
Then,twofoilheaterswereinsertedfromeachendof
thecylinder.
Theseheaterswerebackedupby2.223mm(0.875 inch)diametercoppercylinderswithalengthof12.065Cm(4.75
inches).
Thecoppercylinderswereusedtosupporttheheaters
againstthealuminumcylindersandtopreventhotspotsonthe
heatingfoils
duetolossofcontactbetweentheheatersandthe
cylinders.
Inordertopreventaninternalnaturalconvectionin
thecoresofthecylinders,thecoreswerefilledwithpressedfiber
glassinsulation.
End-capswereusedtosealthecylinders.
Soliddelrinandartificialcorkwereusedtofabricatethe
end-caps.
Asshowninfigure3.4,eachcapconsistedoftwodisks.
Thefirstdiskwasmadeofdelrinandhostedtwothermocouples,
oneoneachaxialsurface. Thethermocouplesweregluedtothe
surfaceswiththermocoupleepoxy.
A3.81mm(0.15inch)
diameterholewasdrilledatthecenterofeachdisktoallow insertionofa3.175mm(0.125inch)diametersteelrodusedto holdthecapsattheendsofeachcylinder. Therearend-capshad
twoextraholesdrilledtothreadtheleadwiresoftheheatersand
thermocouplesthrough.
Thisleftthefrontendsfreeoflead THERMO-
COUPLES
DELRIN
CORK
SECTIONA-A
Figure 3.4 End-Caps. 37
wirestogiveclearflowvisualizationpictures. Theseconddiskof
theend-capswasmadeofartificialcorkandwasgluedwith
siliconerubberontotheexternalsurfaceofthedelraincap. After
thecylinderswereinstalledonthemainsupportingframe,the
end-capsofthecylinderswerehostedinablockofstyrofoam
withthreeholes. Thethicknessofthestyrofoamblockswas5.08
Cm(2.0inches)andeachblockextended2.54Cm(1.0inch)
beyondthesurfacesofthearray, Figure3.5
3.2.4Wall(s)
Twotypesofwallswereusedintheexperiment: theside
wall(s),whichwereparalleltothecylindersandtheendwalls
(thebaffles),whichwereperpendiculartothecylinders'axes.
Thesidewallsweremadefrom1.27Cm(0.5inch)thickacryllic
andwereconstructedwithaheightof63.5Cm(25inches)anda
widthof25.4Cm(10inches). Theywerebackedwith2.54Cm(1
inch)thickstyrofoaminsulationwhichwasgluedontheback
surfaceofeachwall.
Thesurfacesofallthewallsfacingthe
cylinderswerepaintedwithaflatblackpaintinordertoachieve
auniformradiationcondition,.
Aluminumbars1.27Cmx1.905Cmx35.56Cm(0.5"x0.75"
x14")werefixedatthetopandthebottomofeachwall. The
1.27Cmx35.56Cm(0.5"x14")surfaceofthebarslay onthe
sameplaneasthesurfaceofthewallsfacingthecylinders. The La'DIA.
HOLES
38
rA
Leg
2-A
ACRYLLIC STYRO
FOAM
SECTIONAA
Figure 3.5 End-Block.
ALUMINUMBAR
10'
Figure3.6 Sidewall. 39
barsextended5.08Cm(2.0inches)fromthesidesofthewallsto
forman"I"shapeasshowninfigure3.6. Tofacilitatethewall-
arrayspacingadjustments,eachextensionhada 1.27Cm(0.5
inch)holetohosta0.953Cm(3/8")diameteradjustingscrew.
Theadjustingscrewswereboltedonthemainframeaboveand
belowthebafflesupports. Eachsidewallwasequippedwith
seventhermocouples.
Thethermocoupleswereledinfromthe
backsurfaceofeachwallthrough1/32"holesandtheirjunctions layinthesameplaneasthefrontsurfaceofthewalls. Inordertoapproximatetheexperimentalconditionsoftwo-
dimensionalcases,endwallsmadeof3.175mm(1/8")thick
acryllicwereused. Theendwallsassistedinpreventingthe
transverseinflowofairtowardthecylinders. Threesetsofend
wallswerefabricatedtoaccommodatethethreesettings (CC= 4D,2Dand1.5D).Thepositionsofthetopcylinder(cylinder#3)
fromthetopendofthebaffleswerethesameforallthesets.
Thisleftthepositionsofthelowercylinders(#2and#1)
dependentonthecylinder-to-cylinderspacings. Thesurfacesofthebafflesthatfacedthecylinderswere
paintedwithaflatblackpaint. Therewerethree 2.54Cm(one-
inch)diameterholesoneachbaffletohosttheendsofthe
cylinders.
Therewasnodirectcontactbetweenthecylinders'
surfacesandthebaffles,sincethebafflessupportedtheend-caps
ofthecylinders.
Foreachset,twoendwallswereplaced25.4Cm
(10inches)apartonthemainframetoform aC-shapechannel 40
forasinglewallcaseandaclosedverticalductforatwo-walls
case.
3.2.5 MainFrameandEnclosure
AnillustrationofthemainframeisshowninFigure3.7.
Angle-aluminum
2.54Cmx2.54Cm(1"x1")wasusedtomake the40.64Cmx50.8Cmx182.88Cm(16"x20"x6')frame.The
bafflesupportsweremadeof1.905Cm(3/4"x3/4")wooden
bars.
Theloweredgesofthebafflesupports(whichwereatthe
samelevelastheloweredgesofthesidewalls)werethreefeet
abovethefloor. Thealuminumframewasmountedontheframe
base,whichwasmadeof5.08Cmx10,16Cm(2"x4")wooden
bars.
Fourscrews(1.27Cmx12.7Cm)wereusedonthefour
cornersofthebasetosupportthemainframeassembly. By
changingtheheightofthescrewsbelowthebase,thevertical planeandthehorizontallevelofthearraycouldbeadjusted. Toreducetheairmovementaroundthetestingsection,the
mainframewasplacedina1.1mx.765mx2.134m(3.5'x2.5'
x7')enclosure.
Theenclosurewasmadeof1.27Cm(1/2")
plywoodsheets.
Thetopandbottomendsoftheenclosurewere
open,Figure3.8.
Topreventairstratificationintheenclosure,a
2.54Cm(one-inch)gapbetweenthefloorandthebottomendof
theenclosurewasleft. Thetestsectionwasmadeaccessible througha91.44Cmx76.2Cm(3'x2.5')woodendoorononeside Figure3.7 Themainframe. Figure3.8 Theenclosure. 42
oftheenclosure.
Thedoorwasfittedwitha40.64Cmx22.86Cm (16"x9")acryllicwindow. Whiletheexperimentwasrunning,
thewindowwascoveredfromtheinsidewithablacksurface.
Theblackwindowsurfacewasremovedduringtheflow
visualizationprocedure.
Themainframewaspositionedinthemiddleoftheenclosure
whereits50.8Cmx182.88Cm(20"x6')sidewasparalleltothe
planeofthedoor. Thearrayplanewasplacedperpendicularto
the50.8Cmx182.88Cm(20"x6')sideofthemainframe. In
ordertomaintainauniformradiationcondition,themainframe
andtheinsidesurfacesoftheenclosurewerepaintedwithaflat
blackpaint.
3.2.6 ElectricalSystems
Thereweretwoelectricalsystemsusedinthisexperiment,
eachhaving differentfunctions.
Thepurposeofthefirstsystem
wastosupplypowertotheheatersinthecylindersandto
measurethepowersupplyforeachheater,Figure3.9. The
secondsystemwasusedtomonitortheoutputofthe
thermocouples,Figure3.10.
Aregulatedpowersupply,Model 62-121manufacturedbyDressen-BarnesCorporation, wasused
tosupplyadirectcurrenttoheatthecylinders.
Eachheaterwasconnectedinaserieswithanammeter,
rheostateandoneohmresistance. Theoneohmresistancewas al
Ml-1ohmrealstanoo. ilohootato. Am.Ampcnotor. Bogor
V1.,VoltairedropacrossMl. WhoVoltagedropammoH
Figure3.9 Powersupplysystem.
CYLUWEll
CYUXIMIUel
DT707T
SCREW
TERMINAL
PANEL
THERMOCOUPLE LEADS
FROM THE CYLINDERS
DT2085
ANALOG
TO
DIGITAL
CARDS
PCLAB
HPVECTRAPERSONALCOMPUTER
SCREEN
PRINTER
Figure3.10 Temperaturemonitoringsystem. 45
usedtomeasuretheexactcurrentthrougheachheaterby
measuringthevoltagedropacross theresistance. Tworotary
switchswithsixchannelsforeachofthem,twochannelsforeach
heater,wereused.
Ateachpositionoftherotaryswitchs,two
voltageterminalswereactivated. Oneterminalwasusedto
measurethevoltagedropacrosstheoneohmresistanceandthe otherterminalwasusedtomeasurethevoltagedropacrossthe
heater.
ThevoltagedropsweremeasuredbyaTektronixDM
5010programmabledigitalmultimeterandaTektronixDM502A
autorangingDMM.
Thetemperaturemeasurementswereaccomplishedbyusing
dataacquisitionboardsfromDataTranslation,Inc.,PCLab
softwareandaHewlett-PackardVectrapersonalcomputer,as
showninFigure3.10. Thehardwareandsoftwarewere
calibratedandadjustedaccordingtothespecificationsintheir
manuals[27,28]. Thethermocoupleleadswereconnectedto
DT707-Tscrewterminalwithacoldjunctioncompensationcircuit
board.
Whenthevoltageacrossthethermocouplesweresensed
bytheDT707-T'sbarrierstrip,asecondcoldjunction
thermocouplewasformed.
Thecoldjunctionthermocoupleisthe
sametypeastheactualthermocouple,butwithopposite
electricalpolarity,andisreferencedtotheambienttemperature
oftheDT707-Tscrewterminalpanel.
Thispanelhasa
thermocouplecold-junctioncompensation(CJC)circuitto
determinethetemperatureoftheDT707-T. Theoutput 46
signalsfromtheDT707-Twerefedinto DT2085analog-to-digital
cards.
ThesecardswereinstalledintheHewlett-PackardVectra
(IBMcompatible)personalcomputer.
Acomputerprogram,asshowninAppendixA,waswritten
toemploythePCLabsubroutines. Thisprogramconvertsthe
digitalvoltageoutputfromDT2085intotemperaturecentigrade.
Itprintsouttheaverageofsixteenreadingsforeach
thermocouplechannel.
Thenitwaitsfortwentysecondsand
repeatstheprocess.
3.3 FlowVisualization
Flowvisualizationwasaccomplishedbyilluminatingsmoke
particleswithlasersheetsperpendiculartothecylinders'axesas
showninfigure3.11. Thepatternsoftheflowfieldswere
recordedonavideotapeandonslides. Somemodificationswere
madetoaccommodatethisprocedure. A6.35mm(1/4")wide
stripofthebackinsulationalongoneofthe1.27Cm(1/2")
acryllicsidewallswasremoved. Thisstripwasextended
verticallyatthemid-widthofthewall. Astripoftheblackpaint, ontheoppositesideofthewall,wasremovedtoprovideaclear
striponthewall. Thisclearstripwasusedasanentranceforthe
horizontallasersheet.
Thesourceofthehorizontallasersheet
passedthrougha6.35mmx5.08Cm(1/4" x2")slotonthe0.762 mx2.134m(2.5'x7')sideoftheenclosure.Ahole,onthesame SIDE
WALL
ENCLOSURE
WALL
CYLINDRICAL
SHEET
BEAM
SPLITTER
LASER BEAIE
ER#1
0CYLINDRICAL
LENS
BEAM
REFLECTOR
LASERBEAM
BEAU
REFLECTOR
Figure3.11 Laserilluminationsystem.
LASER
HEAD 48
sideoftheenclosure,witha1.27Cm(1/2")diameterwasmadeat
alevel
15.24Cm(6.0inches)belowthebottomedgeoftheside
wallsofthemainframe. Thisholewasusedtopassthelaser
beamthroughtogeneratetheverticallasersheet.
Athree-wattArgonandKryptonIonLaser,Model85, from
LexelCorporation,wasutilized.
Abeamsplitter,twobeam
reflectorsandtwocylindricallenseswereusedtogeneratetwo
lasersheets,Figure3.11. Thesesheetsilluminatedonevertical
planeatthemid-widthofthearray. Theverticalplane,except
thosesectionsblockedoutbythecylindersthemselves,was
illuminatedbythehorizontalsheet. Thehorizontalsheetwas
createdfromthehorizontallaserbeam. Therefore,avertical
lasersheetcreatedfromtheverticallaserbeamwasusedto
illuminateanopaqueareaandtoenhancetheilluminationofthe
otherpartsoftheilluminatedplane.
Figure3.12showsthefabricatedsmokegenerationsystem
designedtoproducethesmokeparticles. Thissystemconsisted
oftwochambers.
Thecorechamberwasusedasaburner,while
theexteriorchamberwasemployedtofilterthelargeparticles
fromtheashes.Tobaccowasusedtogeneratethesmoke. First,
thegeneratedsmokepassedthrough a0.92m(3')pipeof
aluminum,whichwascooledbywetcloth. Thisreducedthe
temperatureofthesmokesubstantially. Then,thesmokewas
passedthroughathirty-foot, thin-wallteflonhosewitha9.53
mm(3/8")diameter.
Attheendofthislinethesmokewasat AIR
SUPPLY
-->
BURNER
0 0
0was.0
Q000 40
0ALUMINUM
PIPE
30'
TEFLON
HOSE
Figure3.12 Smokegenerationsystem.
SMOKE
OUTLET
ENCLOSURE
WALL 50
roomtemperature.
Thissystemwasplacedoutsidethe
experimentalroom,buttheteflonhosewaspassedintotheroom
andthroughthewalloftheenclosure.
3.4 Procedures
3.4.1DataCollection
Theaimofeachexperimentalrunwastoestablishathermal
equilibrium.
Foreachset-up,thecylinderswerealigned
verticallybyusingaplumbbob. Then,thewall(s)wasplaced
verticallyataspecificwallspacing,S,byusingfeelergaugesand
aplumbbob. Thiswasachievedbyusingtheadjustingscrewson
themainframebase. Next,theenclosuredoorandthetesting
roomdoorweresecurelyclosedpriortobeginningeach
experimentalrunandopenedonlyattheendofeachrun. The
powersupplyandrheostatswereadjustedinordertosupplythe
samepowerforeachcylinder.
Thepowerdissipationfromeachheaterwascalculatedfrom
P=IV
whereVisthevoltagedrop acrosstheheaterandIisthecurrent
measuredfromthevoltagedropacrossthe oneohmresistance.
ThemannerinwhichIismeasured overcomestheerrorinthe
powerdissipationifitiscalculatedfromP=12RorP=V2/R
duetoheaterresistancechangeswhenthe temperaturechanges. 51
Oncethepowerwasadjusted,it wasnotchangeduntilallthewall
spacingsresultsatfixedset-up(i.e.,fixed center-to-center
spacing,CC)wererecorded. Foralltheset-ups,thepower dissipationwasadjustedtogivethefollowingheatflux: 49.338
W/m2 , 149.014W/m2 , 493.38W/m2 , 986.762W/m2 , and
1480.143W/m2. Thewallspacingsettingswerestartedfromthe
smallesttothelargestspacing. ThesevaluesareshowninTable
3.1foreachcase.
Table3.1 Spacingsofthecylindersandofthewalls forthe
experiments
CC/D
Numberof Variablewall Fixedwall Total
Cylinders Walls spacing, S/D spacing
non 1 non ---- -- -- -- ---- 24
1.5,2,&4 31.081 .155.25 .50 .75 1.0 1.5 2.0
inf ---- 135
1.5.2.&4 32.50 .75 1.01.5 2.02.5 3.5
-- 0.5 105
Afterthepowerwasadjusted,the temperaturemonitoring
program,showninAppendixA,wasstartedontheHewlett-
Packardcomputer. Theprogramdisplayedthetemperature
readingsonthescreen everytwentyseconds. Whenthe
variationintheaverage temperaturewaslessthan0.2%forten minutes,steady-stateconditionswereconsideredtobe
established.
Thedatawererecordedonehourafterthe establishmentofthesteady-stateconditionsinorderto
accommodatetheslowthermalresponseofthe1.27Cm (1/2")
thickacrylicwall.
AsshowninTable3.1,atotalof264
experimentalrunswererecorded.
Sincethewallthicknessofthecylinder(s)isverysmall,
0.889mm(0.035inch),andthethermalconductivityof
aluminumismuchhigherthanthethermalconductivityofthe
air,thetemperaturereadingsofthethermocoupleswere consideredtobethesameasthetemperaturesofthecylinder
surfaces.
Thedifferencebetweenthetwotemperatures,the
innerandtheexteriorcylindersurfaces,wasfoundtobeless
than0.0066degreesCentigrade,ascalculatedfromequation3.1. Foraone-dimensionalsteadystateheatconductionfrom a
hollowcylinder,thetotalheattransfer,Q, canberepresentedas:
2IIKAIL(TinTw)
Q= Ln(rw )
Forthepresentcase:
rs =0.0127m
rin=0.011811m
L=0.254m
KAL=204W/m°Cfrom.
(3.1)
52 53
Therfore, Tw=Tin-(0.000222Q)
whereQ=totalinputpowerin
watts.
3.4.2DataReduction
Oncetheaveragetemperatureofthecylinder(s)andthe
ambienttemperaturewererecordedandthepowersupplywas
determined,thetotalheattransferbyconvection,Qcv,couldbe
calculatedfrom:
Qcv=QQr-Qcd
Qcdistheconductionheatlossfromthecylinders'end-caps. This
heatlosswascalculatedfromtheFourier'slowas:
Qcd=KA dT dX
Where
dTisthetemperaturedifferenceofthethermocouple
readingsbetweentheinnerandoutersurfaceoftheend-caps,
dXistheend-caps'thickness,Acistheend capcrosssectionarea,
andKisthethermalconductivityoftheend-caps'material(K =
0.0023w/m°C). Themaximumheatlossbyconductionwas
about.02%ofthetotalinputpower. Thisoccurredwhenthe
totalinputpower,Q,wasequalto30wattsatcenter-to-center
spacing,CC=1.5D,andwallspacingratio,S/D =0.081 .
Theradiationheatloss,Qr,rangedfrom6%to8%ofthetotal 54
inputpowerfornowallcasesandfrom4%to7%ofthetotal inputpowerforbothsingleanddoublewallcases. Sincethe
cylinderswerepolishedtomirror-likesurfaces,theemisivitywas
consideredequalto0.05,[8,22,5,16]. AppendixBshowsthe
methodsthatwereusedtocalculatetheviewfactorsandtheheat
lossbyradiationfromafreecylinder(withinaninfinite
medium),fromanarrayofcylinderswithoutwalls,andfroman arrayofcylinderswithwall(s).
Oncetheconvectionheattransfer,Q,,wasdetermined,the
averageheattransfercoefficientwasobtainedfrom:
Qcv
hA(Tw Ting)
ThentheaverageNusseltnumber,Nu,wasdeterminedfrom:
Nu= hD =QcvD
KAK(Tw Tiff)
(3.2)
Forcorrelatingthedata,themodifiedGrashofnumber was
calculatedfrom:
Gr
2Qcv 4
p-D
K21.1.2
ThemodifiedRayleighnumber wascalculatedfrom:
(3.3) 55
Ra=GrPr= G13p2Cp Acv) D4
K2 11
(3.4)
Alltheairpropertieswerecalculatedatthefilmtemperature,
Tf=:(Tw+Tinf)/2
fromthefollowingequations:
(1)
Thedensitywascalculatedbyconsideringtheairasan
idealgas:
PRgT=
0Kg/m3 (3.5)
wherep istheatmosphericpressureandRgisthegas
constant.
(2)
Thethermalconductivitywascalculatedfromthe
followingequationwhichisrecommendedfor temperaturesupto550degreesC,:
0.6325x10-5T" 360.
K12)
(0.86042)
[1.0 + x104 ]
K=()W/m.K
(3.6)
(3)
Thespecificheatoftheairwascalculatedfrom
equation3.7. Thisequationisvalidforatemperature
between260degreesKand610degreesK,: 56
Cp=(0.249679-7.55179x10-5T+1.69194x10-7T2
6.46128x10-11T3)
1.162=0WHr/(KgK) (3.7) (4) Thecoefficientofthermalexpansion,13,was
calculated as:
=inf
=0K-1 (3.8)
(5)
Hilsenrathet.al.showthattheviscosityoftheair,
,
atatmosphericpressurecanbecalculatedfrom:
145.8T(312)
P-(T+110.4) (360.0x10-7)=0Kg/mHr (3.9)
Equations3.5through3.9wereimplementedasasubroutinein
thedatareductionprogram,showninAppendixC.
3.4.3 Uncertainty
TheuncertaintyintheNusseltnumberwascalculatedas
showninAppendixD. Itwasfoundthatthereisamaximumof
5.0%uncertaintyinthecalculatedNusseltnumberfromthe
experimental results. 57
CHAPTER4
SINGLEWALL:RESULTSANDDISCUSSION
Theresultsoftheheattransferexperimentsandthe
correlationequationfortheNusseltnumberforanisolatedsingle cylinderwillbediscussedatthebeginningofthischapter.
Followingwillbeadiscussionoftheexperimentalresultsfora
threecylindersarraywithasinglewall. Thecorrelationequation
representingtheheattransfercoefficientinaknown
dimensionlessform
(i.e.Nu)willbediscussedforthethree
cylinders'arraywithasinglewallcaseattheendofthischapter.
4.1 FreeSingleCylinder
Thethreecylindersthatwereusedinthearrayweretested
separatelyasisolatedsinglecylindersinaninfiniteexpanded
medium(thesurroundingair). Thedatawerecollectedforeach
cylinderforeightdifferentheatfluxconditions. Theseconditions
wereasfollows: 49.338w/m2,149.014w/m2,197.352w/m2'
493.38w/m2,789.41w/m2,986.762w/m2,1480.143w/m2,and
1973.525w/m2. Thereweretwoprimaryreasonstostudythe
freesinglecylindercase. First,itwasnecessarytoverifythe
data-takingprocessandtochecktherelatedequipmentsetup.
ThiswasaccomplishedbycomparingtheNusseltnumberfrom 58
thisexperimnentwiththeavailabledataintheliterature. The
secondreasonwastofindacorrelationequationtorepresentthe
averageNusseltnumber forasinglefreecylinder,Nus,asa
functionofthemodifiedRayleighnumber,Ra . Thisequation
wouldserveasthedatumfromwhichtheheattransferinthe
othercaseswouldbeconsideredenhancedordegraded. Figure4.1showstheaverageNusseltnumberforeach
cylinderversusthemodifiedRayleighnumberfortheeightheat
fluxvalues. ThefunctionalrelationshipbetweenNusandRafor
thesedataisshowninequation4.1:
Nus=0.571Ra0.2027 3x104<Ra<106 (4.1)
The r2 ,
definedasthepercentageofthevariabilityinthe
dependentvariablewhichisexplainedbytheindependent
variable,forequation4.1is99%. Thesolidlineinfigure4.1
representsequation4.1,whilethedashedlinerepresents
equation4.2whichisthecorrelationequationofDyer[1O].
Nus=0.6Ra0.2 104<Ra<106 (4.2)
Equation4.1liesabout1.6%belowDyer'sequation. Equation
4.1alsoagreeswiththescaleanalysisresultsinChapter1where
NuisintheorderofRa0.2asshowninequation1.9. 10
98
z 7
6
5
4
0
CylinderI
Cylinder2 Cylinder3
Author;Equation4.1
Dyer :Equation4.2
2 4 6 10
(X100000)
Figure4.1 Nusseltnumber,Nut,versusRafor afreesinglecylinder. 60
4.2
Temperaturedistributionalongthearraywithvariouswall
spacings:
Thedataarepresentedasthenormalizedtemperature,0, whichisdefinedastheratioofexcesstemperaturefromthe ambienttemperatureforeachcylinderdividedbytheexcess
temperaturefromthebottomtemperature,asshowninequation
4.3 .
Tw iTinf (4.3)
Tiff
ThesedataareshowninFigures4.2through4.6. Eachfigure
showsthedataforconstantheatfluxandforthethreecenter-to-
centerspacings,CC,ofthearray.Thesevaluesareshownineach
figure.
Inthesefiguresthenormalizedtemperatures,0,forCC= 1.5DandCC=2Dhaveafixedpatternwherethehighestcylinder
alwayshasahighernormalizedtemperaturethanthesecond
cylinder.
Inbothcasesthenormalizedtemperaturesaregreater
thanone. Thisindicatesthattheuppercylinders,numbers2and
3,areatatemperaturehigherthanthatofthelowestcylinderin
thearray. Thisincreaseincylindertemperatureforcylinders
higherinthearrayisattributedtothebalancebetweenthe temperatureincreaseofthesurroundingairoftheupper
cylindersandtheincreaseoftheplumevelocityduetothe
densitychangefromaddingheatfromthelowercylinderstothe 1.4
1.3
1.2
Li
1
0.9
0.8 0.7
0
CC-1.5D CC-2D CC-4D
Cylinder3
0 4).
Cylinder2
0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5
S/D
Figure4.2 Theeffectofwallspacingonthenormalizedtemperature at
q= 49.338W/m2. 1.4
1.3
1.2
1.1
1
0.9
0.8
0.7
IV, ars VVi1.SI, 11
di lb . ,cl
)10K
-t Ni
CC-I.5D CC-2D CC-4D
Cylinder3 0 oCylinder2
aiita1gm lila tali.a11_I
0 0.5 1 1.5
S/D
2 2.5
Figure4.3 Theeffectofwallspacing onthenormalizedtemperature
q= 149.014W/m2. 1.4
1.3
1.2
1.1
0.9
0.8
0.7
ir
++
++00 4. +
olE 11
)1( 0
iii 1ii 9 AE
0
CC-1.5D CC-2D CC-4D
Cylinder3 0 0,
Cylinder2
fr.
A
. ltaIs a a slabs L 1 . a I
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5
S/
Figure4.4 Theeffectofwallspacingonthenormalizedtemperature at
q= 493.380W/m2. 1.4
1.3
1.2
1.1
1
0.9
0.8
0.7
0
+
02+ + :
oME Iii + 0
x( 0At ii w ) A(
4)---ox x
CC-1.5D CC-2D CC-4D
Cylinder3 0
Cylinder2
0.5
.1111
Mal
01
rem
li allI 1
S/D
1.5 2 2.5
Figure4.5 Theeffectofwallspacingonthenormalized temperature at q= 986.762W/m2. 1.4
1.3 1.2
Li
0.9
+
+
W)1(
a)1( )1(
0
xiIF-FM x
CC-1.50 CC-2D CC-4D
0.8 Cylinder3
Cylinder2
0.7
0
Figure4.6
at I la 1__al
0.5
11
1.5 2 2.5
Sip
Theeffectofwallspacingonthenormalizedtemperature at
q=1480.143 W/m2. 66
plume[13,18and19].
Thecylindersaremoresensitivetothewallspacingratio,
S/D,atahigherinputpowerthanatalowerinputpower. Atthe
higherinputpower,thenormalizedtemperaturedataforCC=1.5
DandCC=2DdecreasessharplyastheS/Dincreasesfrom0.081
toS/D=0.5. ThenthenormalizedtemperatureincreasesasS/D
increasesfrom0.5to2.0,andattemptstoreachthevalueof0
whenS/Disinfinity. ThiscanbeobservedbycomparingFigures
4.2to4.6withFigure4.7. Also,atS/D=0.5,thenormalized
excesstemperaturedifferencebetweencylinders2and3 isvery
smallandsometimesreacheszero. Thisindicatesthatthe
behaviorofthesecylindersisthesameatwallspacingratio,S/D
=0.5.
AsthewallspacingratiodivertsfromS/D=0.5,ineither direction,thevalueof(03 02)increases.
ForCC=4D,thenormalizedexcesstemperature,0 ,
isless
thanoneforbothcylinders(cylinders2and3). Thebehaviorof
thesecylinderswasnotconsistent. Ingeneral,themaximum
differencebetweenthenormalizedexcesstemperaturesfor
cylinders2and3islessthan0.03%fromthatofthelowest
cylinder,whereq1=49.338w/m2. Thisindicatesthattheupper
cylindersattainalowertemperaturethanthelowestcylinder.
ThisconditionwasalsoreportedbyMarsters,Marsterset. al.
,andbyLiebermanet.al.. Athigherinputpowerthanq1 andatS/D<1.0,thisdifference,(03 02),reacheszero. This
indicatesthatbothcylinders2and3behaveinthe samemanner. 1.4
1.3 1.2
1.1
0.9 0.8
0.7
0.6
q(W/m2)
49.338
149.014
493.380 986.762
1480.143
a
1
2
Cylinder number
Figure4.7 Theeffectofcylinder'spositioninthearrayonthenormalized
temperature ,0,at S/D=infinity(nowallcondition) .
368
Thedropoffinthenormalizedtemperatureisminimalandalmost
constantforS/D<1.0,butthedropoffincreasesasS/Dincreases
above1.0. Inallthecases(CC=1.5D,CC=2D,andCC=4D),the
uppercylindersbehavemorelikethelowestcylinderatS/D
0.5.
4.3
HeatTransferCoefficientResults
Theheattransfercapabilityofeachcylinderischaracterized
byitsNusseltnumber. Atthebeginningofthissection,theeffect
ofthewallspacingontheresultsofthelowestcylinder,cylinder
1,willbecomparedtotheNusseltnumberofafreesingle
cylinder.
Thentheresultsofallthecylindersforallthecases(CC
=1.5D,2D,and4D)willbepresentedandcomparedtothecase
wherethereisnowall,S/D =infinity .
4.3.1
Theeffectofthewallspacingonthelowestcylinderof
the array
TheNusseltnumberversusthemodifiedRayleighnumber
forthelowestcylinderatdifferentwallspacings wasplottedon
Figures4.8to4.10. AlsotheNusseltnumbersfromequation4.1
forafreesinglecylinder weresuperimposedonthesefigures. In
allthecases,theNuivaluesatS/D =0.5lie higherthanthe
valuesforthefreecylinder. ThisenhancementinNuisvery 10
98
7
6543
2
IMENO,
NINO
I
S/D-0.081 - --0 S/D-1.0
S/D-1.5
--- ---S/D-2.0
xS/D-Intin.
Equation4.1
5/D-0.155
S/D-0.250 S/D-0.500 S/D-0.750
10000
Figure4.8
100000
Ra
1E6
XT.
Theaverageilusseltnumberofthelowestcylinder,Nui , versus
Ra, atCC=1.5D. 10
9
5
3
2
Af
./
'/ 4e/
------S/D-0.08I --- ---S/D-I.0
it S/D-0.155 S/D-1.5
--x- S/D-0.250 - ---S/D-2.0 S/D-0.500 xS/D-In1in.
S/D-0.750 Equation4.1
10000 100000
R
1E6
Figure4.9 TheaverageNusseltnumberofthelowestcylinder,Nul , versus
Ra,atCC=2D. 10
98
7
6
5
4
2
10000
+
S/D-0.081 --- ---S/D-1.0
-
S/D-0.155 S/D-1.5
-x - S/D-0.250 ------- S/D-2.0 S/D-0.500 S/D-Inlin. xS/D-0.750 Equation9.1
100000
Wa
1E6
Figure4.10 TheaverageNusselt numberofthelowest cylinder,Nu l,versus
Ra, atCC=4D. 72
small.
Itisabout5%maximum.Fortherestofthevaluesofthe
wallspacing,withtheexceptionofS/D =0.081,theNuivalueslie
between
S/D=0.5andthevaluesofthefreecylinder. The
maximumpercentageoftheNuienhancementislessthanthe
uncertaintyinthevaluesofNu.Therefore,theeffectofthewall spacing,whereS/D>0.155,onthelowestcylinderisminimaland
thelowestcylindercanberegarded asafreesinglecylinder.
TheNusseltnumberatS/D =0.081isdegradedfromthatof
thefreecylinderby10to12%forCC =1.5Dand2Dandby0.03
to10%forCC=4D.Fromtheseplots(Figures4.8-4.10),itcanbe
seenthatthereisadegradationinNuiasS/Dincreasesfrom0.5
toinfinitywheretheNuivaluesreachthefreesinglecylinder
values.
ThisisalsoshowninFigures4.11,4.12and4.13where NuiversusRawereplottedforallthecylinders atS/D=infinity. Whenequation4.1issuperimposed onthesefigures,itbecomes apparentthatthelowestcylinderinafreearray(i.e.,S/D =
infinity)behavesthe sameasafreesinglecylinderanditisnot
affectedbythepresenceofthecylindersaboveit. Thisfactwas alsoreportedbyMarsters,Marsters et. al. ,andTokura
et. al..
Thepresenceofthelowestcylinderdegradesthe
Nusseltnumberforthecylindersaboveit atthesmallcenter-to-
centerspacings,CC=1.5DandCC
=2D.Ontheotherhand,atCC=
4D,thepresenceofthelowestcylinderenhancesthe Nusselt
numberforcylinders2and3. AtCC=4D,theplumehasthe
opportunitytoblendwiththesurroundingairparticlesandreach 10
9
865
4
i-1...
I
0:1
11--
aN
L...-....-1,-2
"1-11-11--r-T
+
ss-1_1.-1.
IN
Cylinder3
Cylinder2
CylinderI
.41-.-......1-....4.......-1........2 k I
1
1
!Roo
Ow. Ow.
4.1
11
110
10000 100000 1E6
R5
Figure4.11 TheaverageNusseltnumberforthearray'scylinderswithouta
wall,NI ,Vs.12aatCC=1.5D .rrr-i r--aa
Ooc' Cylinder3
qv Cylinder2
CylinderI
10000 100000
R
1E6
Figure4.12 TheaverageNusseltnumberforthearray'scylinderswithout a
wall, ,Vs.12aatCC=2D .10000 100000
Ra
ti
gr
OJ
Cylinder3
Cylinder2
CylinderI
1E6 1E7
Figure4.13 TheaverageNusseltnumberforthearray'scylinderswithout a
wall,Nui,f ,Vs.RaatCC=4D .76
theuppercylinder(s)atatemperaturelowerthanthatwhenCC=
1.5DorCC=2D.
Theenhancementoftheuppercylinder(s)Nusseltnumbers
werenoticedbyMarsterandTokuraet.al.. Forthe
threecylinderarraywithoutawall,Marstersshowedthatthe
enhancementinNustartsatCC>4D,andforCC=4D,theNuis
almostthesameasforthefreecylinder. Tokuraet.al.showed
thatNufortheuppercylinder(s)ishigherthanthatofthelowest
cylinderwhenCC=3D.
4.3.2
TheEffectofthewallspacingontheheattransfer
fromthecylindersofthearray
TheNusseltnumbersversusS/D,forallthecasesandfor
everycylinder,atspecificheatfluxareplottedinFigures4.14
through4.19. AtCC=1.5DandCC=2D,theNusseltnumbersfor
theuppercylinders,cylinders2and3,increaserapidlyasS/D
increasesfrom0.081to0.5. ThenastheS/Dvaluesincrease,the
NuvaluesdecreaseandapproachtheNuvaluesforthenowall
case.
ThedegradationintheNuvaluesforthethirdcylinderis
greaterthanthatforthesecondcylinder. Inbothcases,CC=1.5D andCC=2D,theNuvaluesdegradedasthecylinderposition
becomeshigherinthearray. Thisdegradationreachesits
minimumatS/D=0.5,whereNuvaluesforcylinders2and3 are
almostthesameandareclosesttotheNuvaluesforthelowest 10
9
44fr
Ai
rf I.
4>
sf . .......
Illk
fs q(w/m2).
Cylinder 3
Cylinder 2
Cylinder
49.338 493.380
I AllILIL1A
1480.143
. . I
0 0.5 2 2.5
Figure4.14 Theeffectofthewallspacing ontheaverageNusseltnumberof
eachcylinder,Nui ,atCC=1.5D .10
9
8
7
65
4
32
0.5
4(W/M2)-
Cylinder3
Cylinder2
CylinderI
1.5
SiD
2 2.5
Figure4.15 Theeffectofthewallspacing ontheaverageNusseltnumberof
eachcylinder,Nui ,atCC=1.5D .w..7"-----,....177-11-7 fir"----"------------.----.-41
...--.
.,"-. ..,
Z. al
0 0.5
q(W/m2)-Cylinder3 Cylinder2
CylinderI
49.338
....... 493.380
1
1.5
S/D
1480.143
-0 2 2.5
Figure4.16 Theeffectofthewallspacing ontheaverageNusseltnumberof
eachcylinder,Nui ,atCC=2D .10
98
7
5 65
4
32
0
(W/m2)
149.014
Cylinder3
CYlinder2 --
CylinderI
0.5 1 1.5
S/D
2 2.5
Figure4.17 Theeffectofthewallspacing ontheaverageNusseltnumberof
eachcylinder,Nui ,at CC=2D .12
11
10
98
7
6
5
4
0
q(W/m2) - 49.338
Cylinder3
Cylinder2 - -
CylinderI
493.380 1480.143
I..t A A A I Ra
0.5 1.5 2 2.5
S/D
Figure4.18 Theeffectofthewallspacing ontheaverageNusseltnumberof
eachcylinder, Nui ,atCC=4D .12
11
10
9
13
7
65
4
0
q(W/m2)
-
Cylinder3
Cylinder2
CylinderI
..
0.5 1 1.5
S/D
2 2.5
Figure4.19 Theeffectofthewallspacing ontheaverageNusseltnumber of
eachcylinder,Nui ,at CC--.---4D .83
cylinder.
ForCC=4D,Nuvaluesforallthecylindersincreasesharply
asS/Dincreasesfrom0.081to0.25. WhenS/Dbecomeshigher
than0.25,theNuvaluesofthelowestcylinderstaysthesame.
Whilefortheuppercylinders,theNuvaluesarethesameupto
S/D=1.
AtS/D>1,theNuivaluesforcylinders2and3increase
inanattempttoreachtheNuuvaluesatS/D=infinity(i.e.no
wallcases).
Theratios,Nui/Nui,f,oftheNusseltnumberforeachcylinder
atvariousS/DtotheNusseltnumberforthatcylinder(nowall
condition)atthesameinputheatfluxareplottedinFigures4.20
through4.34.
First,thediscussionwillbefocussedonthosecases
wherecenter-to-centerspacingsaresmall,CC
=1.5DandCC=2D,
showninFigures4.20to4.29.Inthesefiguresallthecylinders
experiencethesamepercentageofdegradation,whichisabout
20%atS/D=0.081. ThisdegradationdecreasesastheS/D
increasesandthevaluesofNui/Nuifreachunityat0.155 <S/D<
0.25forlowheatfluxcasesandatS/D =0.155forhigherheat
fluxcases.
AtS/D>0.25,theeffectofthewallspacingonthe
heattransferofthecylinderdepends onthepositionofthe
cylinderinthearray. Foralltheheatfluxvalues,exceptthe
lowestvalues(q=49.388w/m2),the uppercylindershavethe
highestenhancementatS/Dapproximatelyequalto0.5. Atthe peak,thehighestcylinder inthearrayhasanenhancement
between15%to22%abovethe nowallcase,whilethesecond z
1.3 1.2
.1
0.9
0.8
0.7
an
Wane
I; U
. 4
0Cylinder3
Cylinder2
CylinderI
Equation4.4
UII II II
OEM
&I 1 ga ag I
am.
e
lean
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5
S/D
Figure4.20 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui/Nui,f ,at CC=1.5Dand q=49.338(W/m2). 03 41. z
1.3
1.2
1.1
0.9
0.8
0.7
<>Cylinder3
Cylinder2
CylinderI
Equation4.4
0 0.5 1 1.5
S/D
2 2.5
Figure4.21 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui/Nuif ,atCC=1.5Dandq=149.014(W/m2). 1.3 1.2
1.1
0.9
0.8
0.7
Cylinder3
tCylinder2
CylinderI
Equation4.4
0 0.5 1 1.5
S/D
2 2.5
Figure4.22 Theeffectofthewallspacing ontheNusseltnumberratio, Nui/Nui,f ,atCC=1.5Dandq=493.380(W/m2). 1.3
1.2
1.1
0.9
0.8
0.7
4()Cylinder3
Cylinder2'
Cylinder
Equation4.4
0 0.5 1.5 2 2.5
Figure4.23 Theeffectofthewallspacing ontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui/Nui,f ,atCC=1.5Dandq=986.762(W/m2). L3
1.2
Li
0.9 0.8 0.7
0Cylinder3 Cylinder2
Cylinder1. Equation4.4
0
Figure4.24
0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5
S/D
TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio, Nui/Nui,f, atCC=1.5Dandq=1480.143 (W/m2). 1.2
1.1
0.9
0.8 0.7
Cylinder3 Cylinder2
CylinderI
Equation4.4
0 0.5 1 1.5
S/D
2 2.5
Figure4.25 Theeffectofthewallspacing ontheNusseltnumberratio, Nui/Nui,f ,at CC=2Dand q=49.338(W/m2). co 1.2
1.1
50.9
0.8
0.7
0Cylinder3
tCylinder2
CylinderI
Equation4.4
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5
S/D
Figure4.26 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui/Nui,f ,atCC=2Dand (1=149.014{W/m2). 1.2
1.1
1
0.9
0.8
0.7
0.Cylinder3
Cylinder2
Cylinder
Equation4.4
0 0.5 1 1.5
SAD
2 2.5
Figure4.27 Theeffectofthewallspacing ontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui/Nui,f ,atCC=2Dand q=493.380(W/m2). 1.2
1.1
5z
0.9
0.8
0.7
I III V ig
0
ir I I II
.3 .
0
.
t .... JD ..,1%,.
.
4:.
0
. .
0
Cylinder3
Cylinder2
Cylinderi
Equation4.4
.
I I I IL I I 11 I
0 0.5 1 1.5
S/D
Figure4.28 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusselt numberratio,
Nui/Nui,f ,at CC=2Dand q=986.762(W/m2).
2 2.5 i.2
1.1
1
z50.9
0.8
0.7
O 0
1V1
0Cylinder3
Cylinder2
CylinderI
Equation4.4
..Ia11IL I
. I
0 0.5 1 1.5
S/D
2 2.5
Figure4.29 Theeffectofthewallspacing ontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui/Nui,f ,atCC=2Dandq=1480.143(W/m2). 94
cylinderhasanenhancementbetween9%to15%. Thelowest
cylinderinthearrayreachesthepeakwithanenhancementof
about5%maximumatS/D=0.25atalltheheatfluxvalues
exceptthelowestvalue. Atthelowestheatfluxvalue(q=
49.338w/m2),allthecylindersreachthepeakatS/D=1for
bothofthecases(CC=1.5DandCC
=2D).Cylinder3atCC=2D
hasthehighestenhancement(i.e.,10%)ofanycylinder. The
secondcylinderatCC=1.5Dshowsthehighestenhancement(i.e.,
14%)comparedtothenowallcaseatS/D>0.75.ForCC=1.5D
andCC=2D,allthecylinders'enhancementsdecreaseastheS/D
valueincreasesfromtheS/Dvaluesatthepeakinanattemptto reachtheNui/Nuuvalueofunity.
Next,thediscussionwillbefocussedontheeffectofthewall
spacing,S/D,onNui/NuuforCC =4D,asshowninFigures4.30to
4.34.
Thelowestcylindershowsa10%maximumdegradationat
S/D=0.081. AsS/Dincreaseshigherthan0.155,theNui/Nuuof
thelowestcylinderincreasestoitsmaximumof10%atS/D =1.0
atthelowestheatflux,q=49.338w/m2.Forthehigherheatflux
values,themaximumenhancement forthelowestcylinderwas
5%atS/D=0.5.
Forthelowestheatfluxvalues,thethreecylindershave
similarratiosofNui/Nui juptoS/D=0.5wherethemiddle
cylindershows thelowestenhancement.
AsS/Dincreasesfrom
0.5atlowestheatflux,thehighestcylindershowshigher
enhancementthanthelowestcylinder,whilethemiddlecylinder 1.2
1.1
0.9 0.8
0.7
IVIIV1-V
I ff mo
.......,11 9-f-
.
QCylinder3 Cylinder2
CylinderI
Equation4.4
IAaAAA. AIAAAI
0 0.5 1 1.5
SID
2 2.5
Figure4.30 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumber ratio,
Nui/Nui,f ,atCC=4Dand q=49.338(W/m2). 1.2
1.1
z
0.9
0.8
0.7
Cylinder3 Cylinder2
CylinderI
Equation4,4
0 0.5 1 1.5
S/0
2 2.5
Figure4.31 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui/Nui ,atCC=4Dand (1=149.014(W/m2). 1.2
1.1
z
z0.9 0.8
0.7
III f1III I
:0
00
OCylinder3
tCylinder2
CylinderI
Et/Wilton4.4
IA A A1144_411,44.4_41
.II
0
AA A 1 11 I
0 0.5
S/D
1.5 2 2.5
Figure4.32 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui/Nui,f ,atCC=4Dand q=493.380(W/m2). 1.2
1.1
0.8 Cylinder3
Cylinder2 Cylinder
Equation4.4
0.7
0.5 1 1.5 2.5
Figure4.33 Theeffectofthewallspacing ontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui/Nui,f ,at CC=4Dand q=986.762(W/m2). 1.2
1.1
0.9
0.8 0.7
I
..
4-
V
O 0 0
:o
O
Iiv Ir
....... ..... O0,Cylinder3
Cylinder2
CylinderI
Equation4.4
Iaa
i
I
I
I
0 0.5 1.5 2 2.5
SiO
Figure4.34 Theeffectofthewallspacing ontheNusseltnumberratio, Nui/Nuif ,at CC=4Dandq=1480.143(W/m2). l.0 100
staysatalowerenhancementthanthelowestcylinder. Atthe
lowestheatflux, themaximumenhancementofthehighest
cylinderis18%atS/D=1.0,whileforthesecondcylinderitwas
6%atS/D=1.0.
Whentheheatfluxishigherthan49.338w/m2,the
maximumenhancementinthelowestcylinderwas5%atS/D
valuesbetween0.25and0.5. Fortheuppercylinders,the
Nui/Nuuvalueswerelessthanoneforq>49.338w/m2. These
degradationsarebetween12%to24%atS/D=0.081andthey
decreaseasS/Dincreases. ThereductionofNu3/Nu3,ffromunity
istwicethereductionofNu2/Nu2,ffromunity. Thesevalues,
Nui/Nuu(i=2&3) ,increaseasS/Dincreases.
TheaverageNusseltnumberratioforthewholearray,
Nuavg,issuperimposedonFigures4.20to4.34,whereNuvagis
shownbythedottedline,ascalculatedfrom:
3
Nui
i=1
Nuav
Nuav
Nuav
/f= ENuif
i=1
3.0
(4.4)
(4.5)
AlthoughNuav /f isplottedasaline,theplotisapointto
pointcurve. Atq=49.338w/m2,Nuavifshowsan8% 101
enhancementforCC=1.5andCC=2DatanS/Dbetween0.75and
1.0.
ForCC=4D,Nuavhasabout14%enhancementatanS/D
between1.0and1.5. ForCC=1.5DandCC=2Dwithq>49.338
w/m2,theNuavifvalueshavepeaks,with8 12%enhancement,
at.5<S/D<0.75. TheNuavgdecreasessharplyasS/Ddecreases
from0.5andreachesitslowestvalueabout0.82atCC=1.5and
about0.84atCC=2DatS/D =0.081.WhenS/Dincreasestomore
than.75,theNuavjvaluesdecreaseslowlyinanattempttoreach
unityatS/D=infinity.
TheNuav/fvaluesforCC=4Darealwayslessthanonewhen
q>49.338w/m2. ThesevaluesincreasesharplyasS/Dincreases from0.081to0.5. ThentheincrementsinthesevaluesofNuavif
becomesmallerasNuavgattemptstoreachunity.
Figures4.35to4.37showtheNusseltnumberratios,Nuavis
oftheNuavvaluestotheNusseltnumbersofasinglecylinder,
Nus,ascalculatedfromequation4.1atRaofthelowestcylinder
ofthearray. TheNuavisisdefinedinthefollowingequation:
Nuav Is= Nus [0.571Rai 02027
3
Nui
i=1
Nuav 3.0
(4.6)
TheenhancementsofNuavfromNuswereinsignificantand
Nuavisaremostlyequalorlessthan oneatCC=1.5DandCC=2D.
Inbothcases,therewerepeakvalues at.5<S/D<.75,exceptat tn
z
i.1
0.9
I1T
q- 49.338Wha2
0.8 q-149.014W/m2
q-493.380W/m2 q-986.762W/m2
-- -----q-1480.143Wha2
0.7 a A
0 0.5
1IL L
t 4 1 a
640
1
1.5
S/D
2 2.5
Figure4.35 Theeffectofthewallspacingonthe averageNusseltnumberof
thewholearrayatCC=1.5D .1.1
1
0.9 0.8
0.7
q- 49.338W/m2
q-149.014W/m2
O q-493.380W/m2
q-986.762W/m2
--- q-1480.143W/m2
0 0.5 2 2.5
Figure4.36 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheaverageNusseltnumberof
thewholearrayatCC=2D .1.2
1.1
0.9
0.8
q-49.338W/m2
q-149.014W/m2
q-493.380 W/m2
q-986.762 W/m2
0 0.5 1 1.5
S/0
2 2.5
Figure4.37 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheaverageNusseltnumberof
thewholearrayatCC=4D .105
thelowestheatflux,wherethepeakswereat.75<S/D<1.0. For
CC=4D,therewasamaximumofan8%enhancementinNua,
valuesat.25<S/D<.5inalltheheatvalues,exceptthelowest
heatfluxwherethemaximumenhancementwas10%at1.0<S/D
<1.5.
4.4 DataCorrelation
Theexperimentaldatawillberepresentedinemperical
equationsinthissection. TheaverageNusseltnumberforeach
cylinderofthearraywasfittedinasingleequationataspecified
S/DvalueandaspecifiedCCvalue. Intheseequations,the
averageNusseltvalues,Nut,wererepresentedasafunctionof
Rat,cylinderpositioninthearray(Yi),andcenter-to-center
spacing(CC).
Figure4.38showsthe(Yi)dimensions. Thegeneral
formofthisrelationis:
Nui =A1+A2 Exp[ A3
(
Rai (4.7)
ThevaluesofA1,A2,andA3areshowninTable4.1. Ther2
foreachcasewasalsoshowninthistable. TheNuivalues,atS/D
=0.5 ,ascalculatedfromequation4.7weresuperimposedonthe
experimentaldata,asshowninfigures4.39to4.41. 106
Side
wall
Figure4.38 ThemeasurementofYidimentionas
usedinequation4.7. Table4.1 Coefficientsofequation4.7, Nui/ltai".2 =Al+A2Exp[-A3(Yi/CC)].
CC=1.5D CC=2D CC=4D
S/D A A2 A3 r2% Al A2 A3 r2% Al A2 A3 r2%
0.081 0.38816 0.12099 1.68782 95 0.44023 0.08724 1.23577 86 0.53390 0.00448 -0.86297 40
0.155 0.42637 0.15017 1.15017 89 0.46097 0.14512 0.62651 94. 0.49841 0.10969 -0.02341 6.4
0.250 0.47994 0.12880 1.08535 88 0.48866 0.13475 0.46858 93 0.49055 0.12841 -0.05972 44
0.500 0.53707 0.07132 1.97020 83 0.57548 0.04468 0.84132 74 0.52552 0.08878 -0.11651 74
0.750 0.52015 0.08865 1.43274 83 0.86924 -0.25232 -0.06193 61 0.59267 0.02977 -0.15812 71
1.000 0.50866 0.10537 1.28668 83 0.56256 0.05466 0.83912 80 0.49579 0.12126 -0.10031 74
1.500 0.475150.12910 1.05709 94 0.36239 0.24567 0.17936 81 0.39546 0.21512 -0.09113 70
2.000 0.45226 0.14330 0.89824 96 0.36551 0.24209 0.19971 90 0.26659 0.33887 -0.07347 70
INFIN.
0.44692 0.14101 1.13765 96 0.46811 0.12704 0.51142 85 0.09139 0.50926 -0.08129 80 11.5
.5
7.5
8.5 5.5
4.5
10000 100000
R6
1E8
Figure'1.39 Theexperimental Nu;valuesandcorrelatedNuivaluesVs.Raat
S/DA.5andCC-1.51) .5
to
7
5
4
10000 100000
R
tea
Figure4.40 'Hieexperimental NuivaluesandcorrelatedNuivaluesVs.Raat
S/D=O.5andCC=21) .Cylinder3
i0 CylinderI
Cylinder2
1
Exprimental Equation4.7
O
MI
10000
Figure4.41
100000
RA
Theexperimental NuivaluesandcorrelatedNuivaluesVs.Raat
S/D=0.5andCC=4D .111
Table4.2showsthecoefficientofthecurvefitting,whichis
definedinEquation4.8,fortheaverageNusseltnumberforthe
wholearray,Nuay.
3
Nui
i=1
Nuav=7.0=B1Ra°'2 (4.8)
Table4.2 Correlationcoefficient,B1,forequation4.8,
Nuav=B1Rai".2
S/I)
CC=1.5D
B1 r2%
CC=2D
B1 r2%
CC=4D
B1
r2%
0.081 0.43243 99.5 0.47916 98.8 0.55287 98.2 0.155 0.49607 98.0 0.53926 97.1 0.60844 98.7
0.250 0.54069 99.2 0.56980 97.5 0.62368 98.8
0.500 0.5640399.7 0.59535 99.2 0.62452 99.5
0.750 0.55490 99.8 0.59425 98.9 0.62771 99.9
1.000 0.55014 99.1 0.58631 99.2 0.63009 99.9
1.500 0.53139 99.3 0.56906 99.2 0.63291 99.7
2.000 0.52108 99.6 0.56284 99.5 0.63612 99.5
INFIN.
0.50840 99.7 0.55027 99.3 0.64887 95.4 112
CHAPTER5
TWOWALLS:RESULTSANDDISCUSSION
Thischapterwillfocusontheeffectsoftheasymmetrically
placedcylindersarraybetweentwoparallelwalls. Asshownin
Chapter4,themaximumenhancementinasinglewallcondition
occursatS/D 0.5. Toinvestigatewhetherornotthereisany
possibilitytoenhancetheheattransfercoefficientintwowall
cases,thefollowingconditionswillbediscussedinthischapter.
Fortwowallcases,theleftwallwaskeptatS/D =0.5,whilethe
rightwallspacingswerevariedasfollows: (S/D)R=0.50,0.75,
1.00,1.50,2.00,2.50,and3.50forthesameheatfluxvaluesof thesinglewail(i.e.,49.338w/m2,149.014w/m2,493.38w/m2, 986.762w/rn2,and1480.143w/m2). Thesamecylindercenter-
to-centerspacingswereusedinthetwowallcasesasinthe
singlewallcases(i.e.,CC=1.5D,2D,and4D).
5.1
Theeffectsoftherightwallspacing,(S/D)R,onthe
temperaturedistributionalongthearray
Thenormalizedaccesstemperature, 0, asshownin
equation4.3,wasusedtoshowtheeffects ofthewallspacingon
thecylindersofthearray.0 versus(S/D)Rforallthecases(CC=
1.5D,2D,4D)ataspecificheatfluxvalue areshowninfigures5.1
through5.5. Fromthesefiguresthe0valuesfortheupper ts)
1.6
1.5
1.4
1.3
i.2
1.1
1
0.9 0.8
0.7
I
.74.
CC-1.50 CC-2D CC-4D
Cylinder3.
Cylinder2
x"
aa a
0 1 2 3 4
(S/D)R
Figure5.1 Theeffectofrightwallspacing onthenormalizedtemperature
atq=49.338W/m2. 1.6 1.5
1.4
1.3 1.2
1.1
1
0.9
0.8
0.7
CC-13D CC-2D CC-4D
Cylinder3--s-- 0
Cylinder2
-- x.
0 1 2
(SiD)R
3 4
Figure5.2 Theeffectofrightwallspacingonthenormalized temperature
at q=149.014W/m2. 1.6 1.5
1.4
1.3 1.2
1.1
0.9
0.8
0.7
012
(S/D)R
34
Figure5.3 Theeffectofrightwallspacingonthenormalizedtemperature
at q=
493.380W/m2. 1.6
1.5
1.4 1.3 1.2
1.1
1
0.9 0.8
0.7
0 1
CC-1.5D CC-2D CC-4D
Cylinder3---t .0
Cylinder2---- - x
2
(S/D)R
3 4
Figure5.4 Theeffectofrightwallspacingonthenormalized temperature
at q=986.762W/m2. 1.6 1.5
1.4
1.3 1.2
Li
1
0.9
0.8
0.7
V
a
.
x:9 -X- -6z .
CC-I.5D CC-2D CC-4D
Cylinder.3-- -0--
Cylinder2
0 1 2
(S/MR
3 4
Figure5.5 Theeffectofrightwallspacing onthenormalizedtemperature
at (F--- 1480.143W/m2. 118
cylinders,cylinders2and3,areshowntobegreaterthanone
andthe0valuesareshowntodecreaseasthe(S/D)Rincreases.
Also,thereductionin0values, as(S/D)Rincreased,wasfound
todecreaseasthecenter-to-centerspacing(CC)increased.
Therefore,0ismoresensitiveto(S/D)RastheCCvaluesdecrease.
5.2
Theeffectsoftherightwallspacing,(S/D)R,ontheheat
transferfromeachcylinderinthearray
TheaverageNusseltnumber,NUiRw,foreachcylinderwas
calculatedfromequation3.2asdiscussedinchapter3. Figures
5.6through5.11show theeffectsoftherightwallspacing(S/D)R
ontheNusseltnumberofeachcylinderataspecificinputheat
fluxvalue.
Figures5.6and5.7wereplottedforCC=1.5Dand Figures5.8and5.9wereplottedforCC =2D. Fromthesefigures,
theeffectsof(S/D)RonNlli,RwforCC
=1.5Daresimilartothe
effectsof(S/D)RonNlli,RwforCC
=2D.Figures5.6to5.9also
showthattheNusseltnumbersofthelowestcylinderdecreaseas
(S/D)Rincreases. Fortheuppercylinders,theNusseltnumbers
increaseas(S/D)Rincreases. Itcanbenoticedthatthelowest
cylinderismoresensitivetothewallspacing(S/D)Rthanthe
uppercylinders(cylinders2and3)andhasthehighestNuvalues
ataspecificheatflux.
ThehighestcylinderhasthelowestNuvalueat aspecific
heatfluxand(S/D)R<1.5.At(S/D)R>1.5,NU2RwandNu3,Rw
werefoundtohavealmostthesamevalues,andattimesN113,Rw i3
11
I I
.0 --0
54 --. ---,.. .4.-
.4- ............-_..i.
- _ .1-----1-
Z
.111P.` -6
45 ..
ihr ''''' orr
q(W /m2) - 49.338 493.380
Cylinder3 Cylinder2 -
CylinderI
. . &
r-1
0 i 2 3 4
(S )R
Figure5.6 Theeffectoftherightwallspacing ontheaverageNusselt
numberofeach cylinder,Nui,Rw ,at CC=1.5D .5-4
z
.4....
4-4 -4-
ep.
.41)
it.... ---
0
q
(W/m2) - 199.019
Cylinder3 Cylinder2
CylinderI --4/
/
2
(S/D)R
3
986.762
4
Figure5.7 Theeffectoftherightwallspacing ontheaverageNusselt
numberofeachcylinder,Nui,Rw ,atCC=1.5D .q(W/m2) -
Cylinder3 Cylinder2
CylinderI
Figure5.8 Theeffectoftherightwallspacing ontheaverageNusselt
numberofeachcylinder,Nui,Rw ,atCC=2D 13
11
9
7
z
5
3
1
0 1
q(W/m2)-
Cylinder3 Cylinder2
CylinderI
2
(S/D)R
3 4
Figure5.9 Theeffectoftherightwallspacing ontheaverageNusselt
numberofeachcylinder,Nui,Rw ,at CC=2D 14
12
10
04.
5 8
z
6
4
2
0 1
q(W/m2) -49.338 493.380 1480.143
Cylinder3 Cylinder2
CylinderI
Aa
2
(SID)R
3 4
Figure5.10 Theeffectoftherightwallspacing ontheaverageNusselt
numberofeachcylincler,Nui,Rw ,at CC=4D .14
12
10
'4
6 e
6
4
0 1
q(W/m2) -
Cylinder3
Cylinder2
CylinderI
2
(S/D)R
3 4
Figure5.11 Theeffectoftherightwallspacing ontheaverageNusselt numberofeachcylinder,NuiRw ,atCC=4D .125
becamehigherthanNu2,Rw. Thiscanbeexplainedasfollows. At
(S/D)R<1.5,theplumewasrestrictedtoupwardmovement,and
theuppercylindersweresurroundedbyahightemperature
plume.
Astherightwallspacing(S/D)Rincreased,theplumeat
theright sideofthearrayhadalowervelocitythantheplumeat
theleftsideofthearray. Thehighvelocityoftheplumeatthe
leftsideofthearraycreatedanunbalancedpressureatthetopof
thearrayandcausedareversedcurrentfromtheambienttothe
spacingbetweenthetwowallsabovethearray. Thiscurrent
removedmoreheatfromthetopcylinder,whichresultedinan
increaseoftheNu3Rwvalue.
AtCC=4D,theNusseltnumbersforthethreecylinders
decreaseas(S/D)Rincreases,asshowninfigures5.10and5.11.
Ataspecificheatfluxvalue,thelowestcylinderhasthehighest
Nusseltnumberinthearray,thesecondcylinderhasthenext
highestNusseltnumber,andthehighestcylinder(cylinder3)has
thelowestNusseltnumber.
Thesefindingsareunlikethesingle wallcase,whereNu3isthehighestandNuiisthelowest.
Thisisbecausetherightwallrestrictedalltheairparticles
tomoveinthedirectionofthehightemperatureraisedplume,
whichsurroundedtheuppercylinders.
Thiswillbediscussedin
detailinChapter6.
ThreedifferentNusseltnumberratios wereusedinthis
chaptertostudytheeffectsoftherightwallspacing onthe
cylindersofthearray. Theseratiosare: 126
1)
(Nui,Rw/Nui,E),theNusseltnumberofeachcylinderto
theNusseltnumberascalculatedfromequation4.1,
Nu 1,E =0.571 Rai,f0.2027,whereRai;isthemodified
Rayleighnumbervalueofthelowestcylinderwhen
thereisnowall(i.e.,freearray)atthesameq. Thisratio
isshowninthefollowingequation:
Nui,Rw Nuijtw
NuJ,E [0.571Ra 0.2027,
(5.1)
2)
(Nui,Rw/Nui3O.5),theNusseltnumberofeachcylinderto
theNusseltnumberofthesamecylinderwiththe
presenceofasinglewallatS/D=0.5.
3)
(Nui,Rw/Nui,f),theratiooftheNusseltnumberofeach
cylindertotheNusseltnumberofthesamecylinder
whenthereisnowall(i.e.,freearray).
ThedeviationofNui,RwfromtheNusseltnumbervalueof a
freecylinder,Nuis,canbenotedbytheNui,Rw/Nui,Eratio. Thisis
attributabletothefactthatthelowestcylinderinafreearray
behavesthesameasafreesinglecylinder,asshowninChapter4.
Figures5.12to5.17showtheNui,Rw/NuLE versus(S/D)R.AtCC=
1.5DandCC=2D,there wasa30%to40%enhancementinthe
lowestcylinder(cylinder1)whentherightwallspacing was
(S/D)R=0.5(i.e.,the arraywasplacedmidwaybetweenthetwo
walls).ForCC=4D,thisenhancement wasbetween40%and50%. Figure5.12 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui,Rw/Nui,E ,at
CC=1.5D .1.4
1.3
Pit
1.2
z1.1
cc
6 iz0.9
0.8 0.7
0.6
0
II
". lr" LA
e,
;
4"4. +.
1
q(w/m2)
Cylinder3 Cylinder2 Cylinder
149.014
986.762
2 3 4
(S /D)R
1
Figure5.13 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui.Rw/Nui,E ,at CC=1.5D 1.5
1.4
1.3 1.2
1.1
0.9
0.8 0.7
01
2
(S/D)R
3 4
Figure5.14 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui.Rw/NuLE ,
atCC=2D. 1.5
1.4
1.3
1.2
1.1
0.9 0.8
0.7
(iNilin2)-
Cylinder3 Cylinder2
CylinderI
0 1 2
(SiD)R
3 4
Figure5.15 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui,Rw/Nui,E ,atCC=2D. 1.5-'
1.4-
14 .
1:4.
1.2 -17. - +. N-- -----t--- ---t----L.:-.1L.11---...:4"'ir,;-:71-f=": ir-. 61.1 i .....4..-F 4- +- ÷z----.......
I I
0.9?
0.8
0.7
e. 'a
q(W/m2) - 49.338 493.380 1480.143
Cylinder3 (> Cylinder2 - -0-
Cylinder1--
I . 1 1 I It I I 1 i I . I.
o 1 2 3
(S/D)R
4
Figure5.16 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui,Rw/Nui,E ,atCC=4D. 1.5
1.4
14
51.3 1.2
cc
1.1
0.9
0.8
0.7
0
q(W/m2)-149.014
Cylinder3
Cylinder2
CylinderI
2
(S/D)R
3 4
Figure5.17 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui,Rw/Nui ,at CC=4D. 133
ForalltheCCvalues,theratio,Nui,Rw/NuLE ,decreasedasthe
(S/D)Rincreased.
Thebehaviorofthelowestcylinderratios,Nui,Rw/Nu 1,0.5 (as
showninfigures5.18to5.23)andNuiRw/Nu j(asshownin
figures5.24to5.29)isthesame asthebehaviorofN111,RwiNU1,E.
ThisisbecauseNuLErepresentsthecorrelatedfunctionofNu1,f
(whichistheexactvalue),andN1.11,0.5 isabout5%higherthan
Nu LE asshowninchapter4.
Infigures5.12to5.29,theuppercylinders(cylinders2and
3)havethesamepatternatCC=1.5DandCC=2D. WhileatCC=
4D,theuppercylindersbehavedifferently. TheNusseltnumber
ratiosshowthreestagesfortheuppercylindersatCC=1.5Dand
CC=2D.Thefirststageisbetween(S/D)R =0.5to1.0,wherethe
Nusseltnumberratioswerealmostthe sameataspecificq. The
secondstagerangeisfrom(S/D)R =1.0to2.0. Inthisstagethe
ratios(Nui,Rw/NuLE ,Nui,Rw/Nui,o.5 ,
andNuiRw/Nuu)increase
sharplyas(S/D)Rincreases. Thethirdstagestartsat(S/D)R=2.0
andtheratiosarelesssensitiveto(S/D)Rchanges.
Thesecondcylindershowsa2%to10%degradationinthe
firststageof(NuiRw/Nui,E)and(Nui,Rw/Nui3O.5),whilethethird
cylindershowsan8%to20%degradationinthis stage. This
meansthatthe(Nui,Rw/Nui,E)and(Nui,Rw/Nui3O.5)forthethird
cylindersarelowerthanthatofthesecondcylinder atCC=1.5D
andCC=2D. Thesecondstageisthetransitionstagewherethe
Nuratiosforthethirdcylinder crosstheNuratiosofthesecond 1.4 1.3 1.2
1.1
0.9
0.8
0 2
(S/D)R
3 4
Figure5.18 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui,Rw/Nuo.5
,at CC=1.5D. 1.4
i.3
if) 1. 2
5 .
c4.
z
0.9
0.8
0 2
(S/DAR
3 4Figure5.19 Theeffectofthewall,spacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui,Rw/Nui.0.5 ,at CC=1.5D. 1.4
1.
3
1.
2
0.8
0.7
0 1
q(Whu2)
-
Cylinder3
Cylinder2
CylinderI
.
2
(SA)R
3 4
Figure5.20 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui,Rw/Nuo.5 ,at CC=2D. 1.5
1.4
1.3
1.2
1.1
1
0.9
0.8
0
...... ,. D.,
.4..4: (W/m2) -
Cylinder3 Cylinder2
CylinderI
199,019
...,...
1
11NIN
986.762
...tame
1 2 3 4
(S/D)R
Figure5.21 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui,Rw/Ntio.5 ,atCC=2D.
awr
2
1.5
1.4
1.3 1.2
z 1.1
04.
0.9
0.8
0
s
q(W/m2)
-
Cylinder3
Cylinder2
CylinderI
2
(S/DAR
3 4
Figure5.22 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui,Rw/Nuo.5 ,atCC=4D. Figure5.23 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui,Rw/Nui3O.5 ,
atCC=4D. 1.4
1.3 1.2
1.1
0.9
0.8
0
II
trtc !' -0-
o
q(W/m2) - 49.338 493.380 1480.143
Cylinder3 0
Cylinder2 --a-- "O'
Cylinder 0I --6---_.__
a a
1 2
(MA
3 4
Figure5.24 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui,Rw/Nuif ,atCC=1.5D.. 1.5
1.
4
1.
3
1
.2
1.1
1
0.90.8
4:
-4:
4:
.4..........+
.. _-4
0
q(W/m2)
149.014 986.762
Cylinder3 .+. .
Cylinder2
Cylinder1
J
es
ao
2
(S/D)R 3 4
Figure5.25 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui,Rw/Nuis ,atCC=1.5D. 1.6 1.5
1.4
1.3
1.2
54 z1.i
0.9 0.8
0 1
q(W/m2)
-
Cylinder3 Cylinder2
CylinderI
2
(S/D)R
3 4
Figure5.26 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui,Rw/Nuif ,atCC=2D. 1.5
1.4
1.3 1.2
1.1
1
0.9
0.8
.
11
q
(W/m2) - 149.014
Cylinder3 Cylinder2
CylindtrI
986.762
0.1
. . a1a.
0 1 2 3 4
(MR
Figure5.27 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui,Rw/Nuis ,at CC=2D. 1.6
1.5
1.4
1.3
z1.2
1.1
1
0.9 0.8
0.7
I
q(W/n12)-
Cylinder3
Cylinder2
CylinderI
49.338 493.380 1480.143 -
0
0
.1 0
1
(S/D)R
3
0
Figure5.28 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui,Rw/Nui,f ,atCC=4D. 1.5
1.4
1.3 1.2
1.1
ci4 1
0.9
0.8
0.7
0.6
0
2
(S/D)R
3 4
Figure5.29 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui,Rw/Nui
,at CC=4D. 146
cylinderat(S/D)R 1.25. Theratiovaluesofthethirdcylinder
becomehigherthanthatofthesecondcylinderinthesecond
stage,asshowninfigures5.12to5.15and5.18to5.21. Inthe
thirdstage,thedegradationintheratios((Nui,Rw/Nui,E)and
(Nui,Rw/Nui3O.5))valueswerelessthanthoseinthefirsttwo
stages.
Ingeneral,theuppercylindersatCC=1.5Dshowahigher
degradationthanatCC=2D. Therewerenosignificant
enhancementsintheuppercylinders'Nusseltnumbersfrom
NULEandNUL0.5
Theuppercylinders'Nusseltnumberswereenhanced,
relativetoNuu ,withthepresenceofthesecondwallatCC=
1.5DandCC=2D.Thisisshowninfigures5.24to5.27. Inthese
figures,thethreestagesrelativeto(S/D)Rarealsoshown. Inthe
firststage,thesecondcylinderhasanenhancementhigherthan
thethirdcylinder. Theenhancementofthesecondcylinderin
thesecondstageincreasesas(S/D)Rincreasesfrom1.0to2.0. In
thethirdstage,theincrementof(NuiRw/Nuif)inthesecond
cylinderisslowerthaninthesecondstageanditreachesthe sameenhancementasthefirstcylinderbytheendofthisstage.
Forthehighestcylinder(cylinder3),(Nu3,Rw/Nu3,f)increases
sharplyafterthefirststageandcrossesthelinesofthefirst
cylinderbytheendofthesecondstage. Inthethirdstagethe
thirdcylinderhasahigherenhancementthanthelowest
cylinder. Theenhancementin(Nu3,Rw/Nu3,f)atCC
=1.5Dinthe
secondandthirdstages(i.e.,(S/D)R=1.0to3.5)ishigherthan 147
theenhancementatCC=2Dinthesamestages.
ForCC=4D,theNusseltnumberratios(NuiRw/Nui,E) ,
(Nui,Rw/Nui3O.5),and(NuiRw/Nui,f)wereshowninfigures5.16,
5.17,5.21,5.22,5.28and5.29. Inthesefigures,thecylinders'
enhancementshavethesamepatterninwhichthefirstcylinder
hasthehighestenhancement(between40%to55%at(S/D)R =
0.5).
Thesecondcylinderenhancementisalwayshigherthanthe
thirdcylinderenhancement. Theenhancementofthefirst
cylinderismoresensitivetothewallspacing(S/D)Rthanthe uppercylinders(cylinders2and3)anddecreasesas(S/D)R
increases.
5.3
TheeffectsofrightwallspacingontheaverageNusselt
numberofthewholearray,Nuav,Rw
ThearithmeticmeanoftheNusseltnumbersofallthe cylindersofthearraywascalculated,asshowninequation5.2,at
specific(S/D)Randspecificheatflux.
3
ENuiRw
i=1
Nilav,RW 3.0
(5.2)
Figures5.30through5.32showtheNuav,Rw versus(S/D)R
forCC=1.5D,2D,and4D,respectively.AtCC=1.5DandCC =2D,
theNuav,Rwvaluesareinsensitivetotherightwallspacing,
(S/D)R. ThisindicatesthatthetotalenhancementofNlli,Rw -total
degradationofNUiRwisaconstantvalueat aspecificheatflux q- 49.338W/m2
q-149.014W/m2
q-493.380W/m2
0q-986.762W/m2
1
(S/D)R
xq-1480.143W/m2
A
I.
3 4
Figure5.30 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheaverageNusseltnumber
ofthewholearrayatCC=l.5D. . . . . .
10 X 0X
O
X
)1(
)I( )1(
+
1
q- 49.338W/m2
q-149.014W/m2
q-493.380W/m2
q-986.762W/m2
xq-1480.193W/m2
1
ONO
WEI
2 3 4
(S/DAR
Figure5.31 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheaverageNusseltnumber
ofthewholearrayatCC=2D .13
IWO
11-
5
3
. , .
Xx
o xo X
)1(
Ni
X
X
O
)1(
1
q- 49.338Who`
q-119.014W/m2 QM.
q-493.380W/m2
0q-986.762W/m2
xq-1980.143W/m2
AAAAI
0 1 2 3 4
(MR
Figure5.32 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheaverageNusseltnumber
ofthewholearrayatCC=4D .151
value. Thereisaninsigificantdrop(approximately5%maximum)
intheaverageNusseltnumberat(S/D)Rbetween0.75and2.0, as
showninfigures5.30and5.31.
TheNUav,RwforCC=4Disshowntobedecreasingasthe
(S/D)Rincreases,figure5.32. ThisisanexpectedresultforCC=
4DsincetheNui,Rwvaluesforallcylindersdecreaseswiththe
increasingof(S/D)Rvalues, asshownintheprevioussection. In
allthecasesofCC,theNuav,Rwincreases astheheatfluxvalues
increase.
TheaverageNusseltnumberforthewholearray,Nuav,Rw,
wascomparedtothecorrelatedNusseltnumberofafreecylinder
throughthefollowingratio:
Nuav,RWIf=
Nuav,Rw
0.571Ra.2027 [y (5.3) WhereRalfisthemodifiedRayleighnumberofthelowest
cylinderforafreearray(i.e., nowall)atthesameheatfluxvalue
atwhichtheNuav,Rwwascalculatedfromequation5.2. This
ratio,Nuav,Rwif,versus(S/D)R wasplottedinfigures5.33to5.35
forCC=1.5D,2D,and4D,respectively. Thesefiguresshowthat
theNuav,Rwvaluesareenhancedbythe presenceoftherightwall
foralltheheatfluxvalues exceptthelowestvalue,q=49.338
w/m2,forCC=1.5Dand2D. Ingeneral,thefiguresofthe 1.1
i
0.8
0 1 2
(S/DAR
3
q(W/m2)
.
49.338
149.014
493.380
986.762
1480.143
.
4
Figure5.33 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui,Rw/Nui ,atCC=1.5D. 1. 2
1
.1
0.8
0 1 2
(S/D)R
3
q(W/m2)
99.338
149.014 -
493.380 -
986.762
1480.193
4
Figure5.34 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui,Rw/Nuis ,atCC=2D. i.5
1.4
1.3 1.2
01.
1.1
0.9
0 1 2
(S/D)R
3
U
q(W/m2)
49.338
149.014
493.380
986.762
1480.143
..I
4
Figure5.35 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumber ratio,
Nui,Rw/Nui,f ,at CC=4D. 155
enhancementof Nu av,RW increaseasthecenter-to-center
spacing,CC,increases. Themaximumenhancementoccurswhen
thewallsareplacedsymmetricallytothearray(i.e.,(S/D)R=0.5).
Theseenhancementswerebetween2%to8%forCC=1.5D,9%to
13%forCC=2D,and20%to44%forCC =4D.Theexactvalueof
theseenhancementsdependsontheheatfluxvalue,q. Figure
5.33showsthatthereisadegradationofabout4%maximumin
Nuav,Rwif
atthelowestheatfluxvaluefor(S/D)R>0.5.
Therewasaheattransferdegradationinthelowestheat
fluxcaseatCC=2Dand(S/D)R>2.0. Maximumdegradationin
thiscasewas3%at(S/D)R =3.5,asshowninfigure5.34. In
general,theenhancementinNUav,RwgatCC =1.5Dand2D
decreaseas(S/D)Rincreasefrom0.5to1.50. At(S/D)R>1.50,
theenhancement inNu av,RW/f valuesincrease duetothe
enhancementintheNusseltnumberofthehighestcylinder,
NU3,RW ,
inthesecondandthirdstages duetothefeedback
current.
TheenhancementinNuav,RwgatCC =1.5Dand2Dare
insensitivetotherightwallspacingat(S/D)Rgreaterthan2.0 .
ThisiscontradictorytotheenhancementofNuavRwforCC =4D,
wheretheratio,Nuav,Rwif , decreasescontinuouslyas(S/D)R
increases,asshowninfigure5.35. Also,itcanbenoticedfrom
figure5.35thattheenhancementdecreasedby10% atthelowest
qandby24%atthehighestqbetween(S/D)R=0.5and
(S/D)R=3.5 .
Theeffectsoftherightwallspacing onNu,,Rwcomparedto 156
theaverageNusseltnumberofthewholearrayforasinglewall
atS/D=0.5,NUav,0.5,wereinvestigatedthroughtheNllav,Rwto
Nu av,0.5 ,ratio. Theratio(Nuav,Rw/Nuav,0.5) versus(S/D)Ris
presentedinfigures5.36to5.38. Ingeneral,therewasno
degradationinNllav ,Rw relativetoNua0.5 Theenhancementsin
(NUav,RW/NUav,0.5)atCC=1.5Dwerebetween4%and9%at(S/D)R
=0.5andbetween2%and7%at(S/D)R=3.5. ForCC=2D,the
enhancementswereapproximately8%at(S/D)R=0.5and
approximately3%at(S/D)R=3.5atallqvalues,exceptq=
49.338w/m2,asshowninfigure5.37. Also,figures5.36and
5.37showthattheenhancementsinNuav,Rwvaluesare insensitivetotherightwallspacingsat(S/D)R>2.0 .
Figure5.38showstheenhancementsofNua,,RwatCC=4D,
relativetoNu av,0.5 Thepatternofthevaluesisthesameasthat
infigure5.35,exceptthatthevaluesinfigure5.38areshifted
10%lowerthanthoseinfigure5.35. Unlikethe(Nuav,Rw/Nuav,0.5)
atCC=1.5Dand2D,the(Nuav,Rw/Nuav,0.5)atCC=4Dismore
sensitiveto(S/D)Randitdecreasesas(S/D)Rincreases.
5.4
DataCorrelation
Thecurvefittingofthedata waspresentedtofittheNusselt
numberasafunctionofthemodifiedRayleighnumbertothe0.2
power.
Thisrelationisshowninequation5.4: i.i
1
0.9
0.8
.1 VV.V g
0
(W/m2)
49.338
149.014
493.380 986.762 0 1480.143
I
2 3 4
(S/D)R
Figure5.36 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui,Rw/Nui.o.5 ,atCC=1.5D. 1.2
1.1
0.9
0.8
0 1 2
(S/D)R
3
q(W/m2)
49.338
149.014
493.380 986.762
1480.143
4
Figure5.37 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumberratio,
Nui,Rw/Nuo.5 ,atCC=2D. 1.4 1.3 1.2
1.1
0.9
0.8
0 1 2
(S/D)R
3
q(W/m2)
49.338
149.014
493.380 986.762
1480.143
4
Figure5.38 TheeffectofthewallspacingontheNusseltnumber ratio,
Nui,Rw/Nuo.5 ,at CC.---4D. NUozw=B1Rai,Rw0.2 (5.4)
Thecorrelationcoefficient,B1,foreachcylinderatspecific(S/D)R
isshownintable5.1withr2valuesforeachcase.
Table5.1
CC S/D
Thecorrelationcoefficient,B1 ,inequation5.4
Cylinder1 Cylinder2 Cylinder3
B1 r2% B1 r2% B1 r2%
1.5D
0.50 0.764798.9 0.534299.4 0.492299.3
1.5D
0.75 0.738598.8 0.530198.9 0.488298.9
1.5D
1.00 0.719099.8 0.527698.9 0.491199.2
1.5D
1.50 0.690699.6 0.511799.4 0.532697.4
1.5D
2.00 0.671799.6 0.538696.7 0.562296.8
1.5D
2.50 0.664899.8 0.555697.7 0.566797.1
1.5D
3.50 0.654299.7 0.566798.7 0.563197.2
2.0D
0.50 0.779799.2 0.579399.4 0.530299.2
2.0D
0.75 0.757295.9 0.569199.9 0.531099.5
2.0D
1.00 0.739499.1 0.566499.5 0.535398.3
2.0D
1.50 0.699099.2 0.569399.3 0.572898.8
2.0D
2.00 0.680998.4 0.595398.0 0.590797.4
2.0D
2.50 0.669698.3 0.600797.4 0.590797.0
2.0D
3.50 0.653798.4 0.603496.8 0.585796.8
4.0D
0.50 0.843099.9 0.728197.5 0.689793.5
4.0D
0.75 0.809496.5 0.697693.4 0.672992.3
4.0D
1.00 0.775898.9 0.681897.9 0.653295.3
4.0D
1.50 0.743699.3 0.672396.8 0.653694.6
4.0D
2.00 0.710499.5 0.663297.8 0.643496.2
4.0D
2.50 0.691499.6 0.659798.7 0.640296.7
4.0D
3.50 0.676999.4 0.665598.8 0.640298.7
Figures5.39through5.41showthecalculatedNusselt
160
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4
Rs' (X101
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Ra' Ra'
Figure5.39-a TheexperimentalNUi.Rwvalues andthecorrelatedNUi.Rw valuesVs.RaatCC=1.5D .
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is (Xt.00001
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la
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valuesVs.RaatCC=L5D .
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Ot1000101
4 SO ill
IX14001101
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Cylinder2
CylinderI 13
SS SS
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IS is
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valuesVs.RaatCC=2D .as
aOD
Z7
as
le 0aZ7
I4
tt
Rs lo as
01MOON
0
I 4
Ra'
Figure5.40-b Theexperimental NUi,RwvaluesandthecorrelatedNUI,RW
valuesVs.Raat CC=2D .
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as
aloom)
11
Ia
a4$
Rs'
so
alooms
DorImolai Equation3.4
Cylinder3
oCylinder2 _____
CylinderI 4
4
1 IS
et 1000001
4
Ra'
Figure5.41-a TheexperimentalNui,Rwvaluesandthe correlatedNtli,Rw
valuesVs.Raat CC=4D .
Ra' IX1000001 14
is
is
z
4
4
Re
is is mous
04
Ra'
Figure5.41-b TheexperimentalNui,Rwvaluesandthecorrelated Nui,Rw
valuesVs.Raat CC=4D .
in
01100000)
a
Rs'
Expr Equation1.4
Cylinder3 Cylinder2
CylinderI
la
ixmoo 167
numberfromequation5.4superimposedontheexperimental
data,foralltheCCvalues.
Inthesefigures,theNusseltnumberforthelowestcylinder,
Nu 1,Rw,washigherthantheNu2,RwandNu3,Rw.TheNusselt
numbersforcylinders2and3areveryclosewhencomparedto
theNusseltnumberforcylinder1. Also,fromfigures5.39to
5.41,thedifferencebetweenNU2,RwandNU3,Rwdecreasesas
(S/D)Rincreases,withNU3,Rwtakingthelowestvalue. Athigh (S/D)Rvalues,theNU3RwbecomesgreaterorequaltotheNU2,Rw.
ThisisduetotheenhancementoftheNusseltnumberofthe
highestcylinder,NU3,Rw. Thisenhancementoccursasaresultof
thefeedbackcurrent.Themaximum errorinthiscorrelation,as
calculatedfromequation5.5 , islessthan5%for 18x104<
Ra1Rw<1.6x106whenthelowestheatfluxvalueisnotincluded
and
about12%for6.4x104<Ra1,Rw<1.6x106whenallthe heat
fluxvaluesareconsidered.
Error%= (Nuexperimental Nucorrelation
Nuexperimental x100
(5.5)
Table5.2illustratestheB1valuesandr2fortheaverage
Nusseltnumbercorrelationforthewhole array, Nuav,Rw This
relationshipisthesameasthe oneshowninequation5.4,except
thatthemodifiedRayleighnumberthatisusedinthis
relationshipisthemodifiedRayleighnumberofthelowest
cylinderinthearray,Rai,Rw . Fromequation5.5 ,itisfoundthat 168
themaximumerrorinthiscorrelationislessthan3%for 18x104<
Rai,Rw<1.6x106whenthelowestheatfluxvalueisnotincluded
and
about10%for6.4x104<Ra1,Rw<1.6x106whenallthe heat
fluxvaluesareconsidered.
Table5.2 TheCorrelationcoefficient,B1,for
0.2 Nu av,RW= B1Rai,Rw
S/D
CC=1.5D
B1 r2%
CC=2D
B1 r2%
CC=4D
B1 r2%
0.50 0.5843 98.9 0.6184 99.5 0.7474 98.1
0.75 0.5737 99.2 0.6084 98.6 0.7214 96.5
1.00 0.5680 99.7 0.6025 99.1 0.6987 98.8
1.50 0.5694 98.6 0.6067 99.5 0.6859 98.2
2.00 0.5844 98.6 0.6176 98.4 0.6694 98.7
2.50 0.5902 99.1 0.6164 98.1 0.6617 99.1
3.50 0.5898 99.1 0.6111 97.8 0.6561 99.4 169
CHAPTER6
NUMERICALANALYSISANDFLOWVISUALIZATION
Thetemperatureandvelocitydistributionsandflow
visualizationsforselectedcaseswillbepresentedinthischapter.
Also,theresultsofChapters4and5willbediscussed. Inorder
topreventrepetitiousdiscussion, onlyalimitednumberof experimentalconditionswerechosentorepresentthethreecases
(i.e.,CC=1.5D,2Dand4D). Further,selectionofalimitednumber
ofcasesallowedformoreefficientuseoftheavailableexecutable
timeforthenumericalanalysis. Thisdiscussionwillpresentthe
numericalanalysisandflowvisualizationresultsconcurrently.
Thenumericalanalysiswasusedtopresentthetemperature
fieldsandvelocityvectorsaroundthecylinders. Afinite
differencecomputerprogramforthreedimensional
hydrothermalanalysis,Tempest, wasusedtoconductthe
numericalanalysis.
Somecomputerlanguagemodificationsof
thisprogramwerenecessaryinorderto useTempestonthe
availablecomputingsystem.
TheFloatingPoint(FPS)supercomputerwasused asthe
scientificcomputerandtheIBM4381 wasusedasthefrontend
computer.
BothsystemsareavailableattheO.S.U.computer
center.
DuetotheextensiveexecutabletimeneededforTempest
toreachasteadystateconditionforthecasesofthepresent 170
study,thoseconditionswithq=(149.014)w/m2forasinglewall
withCC=1.5D,2Dand4DandfordoublewallswithCC =1.5Dand
2Dwillbepresented.
BecauseTempestacceptseithercartesianorpolar
coordinatesbutnotboth,thecylinderswererepresentedbya
seriesofsquarecells.Also,multi-gridsizeswereusedtosatisfy
thecoderequirementsandthephysicalgeometryoftheset-up.
Asampleofthegridsystemisshowninfigure6.1forCC =2D.
Theflowvisualizationwasrecordedonvideotapeand
slides.
Theslidesweretakenbya135mmPentaxwithaslide
filmof1600ASA. Themediumwasilluminatedbylasersheets
asdescribedinChapter3.
6.1
SingleWallCases
Thetemperaturedistribution,velocitydistributionandflow
visualizationforCC =1.5D,2Dand4Dareshowninfigures6.2
through6.4. Allthesecasesareatq=149.014w/m2andtheleft
wallspacing,(S/D),isequalto0.5.Fromtheoutputofthe
numericalanalysisofthese cases,themaximumtemperature
deviationfromtheexperimentaldata waslessthan5%as
calculatedfromequation6.1:
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singlewallatS/D=0.5 .175
Fromfigures6.2through6.4,itcanbeseenthatthespace
betweenthecylindersandthewallactasachimneywherethe airparticlesareatahighertemperaturethantheambient. The
hightemperaturezonecreatesalowdensityregionbetweenthe
wallandthecylindersofthearray. Thisleadstoalowpressure
inthisregion.Duetobuoyancyforces,thislowpressuredrives
theairparticleshorizontallytowardthewallthroughthe
cylinder-to-cylinderspacingandverticallythroughthelower
cylinder-wallspace. Asthecenter-to-centerspacing,CC,
increases,theraisedplumefromonecylindertothenexthigher cylinderhasmoretimetobemixedwiththeambientairparticles
whichweredirectedtowardthewall. Also,astheCCspacing
increases,theraisedplumefromthelowercylinder(s)hasfewer flowrestrictionsgiventhegeometryoftheset-upandhasmore
timetobeacceleratedbythebuoyancyforceswhileitrises. This
canbenoticedbycomparingthevelocityvectorsoffigures6.2 through6.4.
FromthenumericalresultsatCC
=4D,asshowninfigure
6.4(a),themaximumtemperaturedifferencebetweenthethree
cylindersis0.18degreesCentigrade,whereas amaximum
differenceof0.4degreesCentigradeisobtainedfromthe
experimentalresults.
Thisindicatesthateachofthethree
cylindersactslikeasinglecylinderduetothebalancebetween
theincreasedtemperatureoftherisingplume(whichreducesthe
heattransfer)andtheincreasedvelocityoftheplume(which 176
enhancestheheattransfer)asitascendsthearray. Furthermore,
theflowvisualizationoffigures6.2through6.4showsthatthe
weakregionsabovethecylinderswereshiftedtowardsthewall. Thestreamlinesoftheflowshowthattheairparticlesapproach
theuppercylindershorizontally.
Forthelowestcylinder,theair particlesapproachthecylindersinaplanerotatingtowardthe
verticalwall.
Inotherwords,ifthereisasinglewallattheleft sideofthearray,theupperandlowerstagnationpointsofeach cylinderwererotatedcounterclockwisefromtheverticalplane
(theplanewhichpassesthroughtheaxisofeachcylinder). This
rotationofthestagnationpointswasatitsmaximumatS/D=0.5
andtherotationdecreasesasthewall-arrayspacingdecreasesor
increasesfromS/D=0.5.
Theflowvisualizationshowedthatthepresenceofasingle
wallinducesmoreaircirculationfromtheambientaroundthe
highestcylinderinthearray. Thisenhancestheheattransfer
fromthehighestcylinderandthusexplainswhythehighest
cylinderbehavescloselytothemiddlecylinder(cylinder2). For
afreearray(nowallcase),theflowvisualizationshowedthatthe
streamlinesweresymmetricallyarrangedabouttheplaneofthe
array.
Also,thestagnationpointsofthecylinderslayonthe
verticalplanewhichpassesalongtheaxisofeachcylinder. The
flowwaslaminararoundthecylindersinthearrayswithsmall
cylindercenter-to-centerspacings(i.e.,CC =1.5Dand2D). Forthe highestcenter-to-centerspacing(i.e.,CC
=4D),theflowwas 177
laminararoundthefirstandsecondcylindersandunstable(orin
atransitioncondition)abovethesecondcylinder. Inthis
condition,thestreamlinesoftheflowswungfromonesideofthe
arraytotheother. Thisinstabilityoftheflowbeganabovethe
secondcylinderanditsfrequencyincreasedasitroseinthe
array.
Thisexplainswhytheuppercylinderswereatalower temperaturethanthelowestcylinder. Furthermore,whenthe
powerwasincreased,thisinstabilityoftheflowbeganeven
closertothesecondcylinder.
6.2TwoWallCases
Theflowvisualizationshowedthattheflowwaslaminarand
symmetricalabouttheverticalplanewhichpassesthroughthe
centersofthecylinders. Thisistrueonlywhenthearrayswere
placedsymmetricallybetweenthewalls(i.e.,atS/D =(S/D)R=0.5
conditions).
Inthiscondition,thestagnationpointsofallthe
cylinderslayinthesameverticalplaneandtheweakregionslay
verticallyabovethecylinders. Theweakregionsbetweenthe
cylindersforCC=1.5Dand2D wereextendedtoincludethe
wholespacesbetweenthecylinders, asshowninfigure6.5(a). Inthesespaces,theflowvisualizationshowedthatthere were
doublevortices.
Theleftvortexrotatesclockwise,whiletheright
vortexrotatescounterclockwise.
ForCC=4D,theweakregions
werepresenttoalimiteddistance(i.e.,adistancelessthanthe a)Flowvisualization,forCC=2D. b)Flowvisualization,forCC-4D.
Figure6.5 Flowvisualization forarrayssymmetricallyplaced betweentwowallsatS/D=(S/D)R=0.5 .179
cylinder-to-cylinderspacing)aboveeachcylinder,asshownin
figure6.5(b).
Asthearraytotherightwallspacing,(S/D)R , increased(i.e.,
thearraywasplacedasymmetricallybetweenthewalls),the
streamlinesoftheflowwerenolongersymmetricalonbothsides
ofthearray. Thisresultoccurredduetotheleftwalljet. This
jetwasestablishedasaresultofthehighertemperaturezone
betweenthearrayandtheleftwalltoitascomparedtotherest
oftheregion. Astherightwallspacing,(S/D)R,increased,thevelocity
vectorsshiftedfromtheverticaldirection(forsymmetricalwalls
placements)towardtheclosestwalltothearray. Fortheregion
abovethearray,theleftwalljetinducedafeedbackcurrent(ora
reversecurrent). Thiscurrentpenetrateddownwardclosetothe
farthestwall(rightwall)fromthe arrayandintroducedcoolerair
particlesbetweenthewalls. Then,thereversecurrentcirculated
upwardalongtheleftwalljet,asshowninfigure6.6andfigure
6.7 .
Thepenetrationofthereversedcurrentbecamedeeperas
thefarthestwallspacingincreased. Atlarge(S/D)R ,thereverse
currentregionextendedtoincludethehighestcylinderinthe
array. This
flowaroundthehighestcylinderenhanceditsheat
transfercapability.
ThisexplainswhytheNusseltnumberofthe
highestcylinderbecamecloserto orhigherthantheNusselt
numberofthesecondcylinderofthearrayforCC =1.5Dand2D. 00
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withtwowallsatS/D=0.5and(S/D)R=2.0 .182
Figures6.6and6.7showthatthehightemperatureplumethat
wasrisingfromthecylindersshiftedtowardtheclosestwallto
thearrayastheotherwallspacingincreased. 183
CHAPTER7
CONCLUSIONSANDRECOMMENDATIONS
7.1 Conclusions
Thisstudypresentedtheresultsoftheexperimental
investigationofheattransferfromanarrayofthreehorizontal
cylindersalignedverticallyparalleltoasinglewallorparallelto
twowalls. Threedifferentcylindercenter-to-centerspacingsfor
thearraycylinderswereexamined,CC =1.5D,2Dand4D. The
wall-arrayspacingswerevariedfrom0.081Dtoinfinityforsingle
wallcases.
Fortwowallcases,theleftwallspacingwaskeptat
S/D=0.5,whiletherightwallspacingvariedfrom(S/D)R =0.5to
3.5.
Allthecylindersweremaintainedatconstantheatflux.
ModifiedRayleighnumber,based onthediameterofthe
cylinders,rangedfrom6.2x104to1.2x106. Empiricalequations
wereproposedtopredicttheeffectsoftheexperimental
parametersontheheattransferasexpressedbytheaverage
NusseltnumberofeachcylinderortheaverageNusseltnumber
ofthewholearray.
Thisexperimentalinvestigationhasprovided new
informationconcerningnaturalconvectionheattransferfrom an
arrayofcylindersconfinedbyasingleverticalwallortwo
verticalwalls. Thenewinformationobtainedaboutthevariables 184
inthisexperimentcanbeusefulinoptimizingthedesignofheat
exchangersandinthepackagingdesignofelectricalcomponents.
Also,thequantitativeresultscanbeemployedinapplied
researchconcerningheattransfer.
7.1.1 Singlewallcases
Theexperimentshaveshownthatthelowestcylinderinthe
arraybehavesasafreesinglecylinderforallcasesinwhichS/D>
0.155.
Theheattransferfromtheuppercylindersofthearray
wasaffectedbythewall-arrayspacing(S/Dvalues)andthe
cylindercenter-to-centerspacing(CCvalues).
Thepresenceof
thewallenhancedtheheattransferfromtheuppercylindersof
thearraywithCC=1.5Dand2Drelativetothe nowallcases,
whiletherewasdegradationinthecylinders'heattransfer
capabilitywithCC=4D. AtthetwosmallCCvaluesthemaximum
enhancementforthefreearrayoccurredatS/D 0.5. Thethird
cylinderhadthemaximumenhancement,thesecondcylinderhad
thenexthighestenhancement,andthefirstcylinderhadthe
lowestenhancement.
TheNusseltnumberforeachcylindercan
bepredictedfromequation4.7with lessthan5%errorforq>
49.338w/m2andwith10%orlesserrorforq=49.338w/m2.
Thetemperatureandvelocitydistributionfromthe
numericalanalysisandtheflowvisualizationshowedthatthe
spacebetweenthearrayandthewallactslikeachimneyand 185
createsaleftwalljetflow. Further,theclosestspacingsbetween
eachcylinderandthewallactslikeaflowreinforcingstation.
Thesecondcylinderbehavedmorelikethethirdcylinder
thanthefirstcylinder(i.e.,[Nul
-Nu2]>[Nu2-nu3]). Thiswas
theresultofadditionalcoolingofthethirdcylinderdueto
increasedambientaircirculationabovethiscylinder. This
circulationwasinducedbytheleftwalljet. Thebottomandtop
stagnationpointsoneachcylinderwereshiftedfromthevertical
planeduetothepresenceofthewall.Inthepresenceofasingle leftwall,thestagnationpointswereshiftedcounterclockwise.
ThisshiftingwasatitsmaximumwhenS/D 0.5anddecreased
asS/Deitherincreasedordecreased.
7.1.2Twowallcases
Thelowestcylinderhadthehighestheattransfercoefficient.
Thisheattransfercoefficientwasatitsmaximumwhenthewalls
weresymmetricallyplacedtothearray. Astherightwall
spacing,(S/D)R,increasedtheNusseltnumberofthelowest
cylinderdecreased.
Atthelargestcenter-to-centerspacing,CC=
4D,thelowestcylinderhadthehighestenhancementcomparedto
afreesinglecylinder.
Fortheuppercylindersatsmallcenter-to-centerspacings
(CC=1.5Dand2D),theheattransfercoefficientshowed an
enhancementat(S/D)R>1.5comparedtoafreesinglecylinderor 186
thesinglewallcases. Atthelargestcenter-to-centerspacings
(CC=4D),theuppercylindersshowedenhancementintheheat
tranfercoefficientwiththepresenceoftherightwallforall
(S/D)Rvalues. Theseenhancementswerethehighestatthesmall
(S/D)Randdecreasedas(S/D)Rincreased. Whencomparedto
freearraycases(i.e.,nowall),allthecylindersinallthecases
showedanenhancementintheheattransfercoefficient.
TheaverageNusseltnumbersforthewholearraywere
moresensitivetotherightwallspacingasthecenter-to-center
valuesincreased.
Theexperimentalresultsshowedthatthe
averageNusseltnumbersforthewholearraywereenhanced relativetotheaverageNusseltnumberofthefreesinglecylinder andrelativetotheaverageNusseltnumberofthewhole array
forsinglewallcases. Theseenhancementsincreasedandwere
moresensitiveto(S/D)Rasthecylinders'center-to-center
spacingsincreased.
Atlowcenter-to-centerspacingvalues(CC= 1.5Dand2D),theenhancementofthewhole arraywasata
minimumat 1<(S/D)R<1.5.Thiscanbeexplainedbythefact
thatthedegradationinthe uppercylinderswashigherthanthe
enhancementinthelowestcylinder inthis(S/D)Rrange. Table
5.2showstheempiricalequationtocalculatethe averageNusselt
numberforthewholearray.
Theflowvisualizationandthenumericalresultsindicate
thattheflowwasintransitionabovethe arrayandareversed
currentwasestablishedbetweenthetwowalls. Thiscurrent 187
regionextendedfromthetopofthewallsdowntoenclosethe
highestcylinderinthearray.
7.2 Recommendations
Thepresentworkcouldbeextendedbyconsideringthe
followingrecommendations:
1)
Aninvestigationtoexploretheeffectsofmisalligning
oneormoreofthecylindersofthearray. This
misallignmentmightconceivablychangetheflow.
patternaroundthecylinders,whichinturnmightaffect
theheattransfercharacteristics.
2)
Usingdifferentfluidsasthetestmedium,suchaswater
oroil,wouldprovidegreaterunderstandingconcerning
theeffectsofthePrandtlnumberontheheattransfer
behaviorofthearray.
3)
Changingthediameterofthecylindersand/orthe
numberofthecylinderswouldaddtotheunderstanding
oftheeffectsofthearray-wallspacingsonheattransfer.
4)
Developingtheflowvisualizationsystemtouselaser
sheetsforthreedimentionalheattransferflow. This
couldbeaccomplishedbyusingtwolasersheets
perpendiculartoeachotherinsteadofsuperimposing onelasersheetontheother. 188
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AppendixA
DATAAQUISITIONPROGRAM 193
10'
20 ' This data aquisition program is developed to read four interface cards 30 ' by using four 012805 boards and four 01707-1 screw terminal panels. 40 PRINT 'Totale input power, 0 =
50 INPUT Q 0=GUATT
60 PRINT 'CYLINDER -TO- CYLINDER SPACIN6 INPUT CTCS
70 PRINT "Cylinder-Right wall spacing, US/0 . '; :INPUT USUR 80 PRINT "Cylinder-Left wall spacing, US/0 . '; :INPUT USOL
90 '
This file may be MER6Ed with a user program to define
100 ' routine offsets and establish the PCLAB segment.
110 '
120 XAU=3 : XA0T.6 : XSA.9 : 0.12 : XBA0.15 : XTAD=18
130 RUAD=21 : XOU =24 : X001=27 : 050 =30 : XOS=33 : X800=36 140 XI00=39 : MU00=42 : XSC0=45 : XSSC :48 : 01=51 : XSCP=54 150 0E11=57 1 00=60 : XIOU.63 : X00U:66 : X1001.69 : X0001.72 160 XSECU=75 : X6EC=78 : 058 =81 : XSBA=84 : XSOC=87 : XSAR=90
170 XSAC :93 : XSOR=96 : 0511 :99 : X516=102 : X51.105 : 060(.108
180 XR0=111 : X605.114 : XCUFC.111 : xcuro.in : XCUFI.123 : 00=126
190 00=129 : XCA0=132 : 0(00 =135 : XMLI.138 : X11I.141 : 4MC.144 200 XRIU=147 : XUTO=150 : XOTU.153 : XDLY=156 : 058=159 : RU0.162
210 X6C.165 : XCEU :168 : XREU :171 : X61.174 : XSC =1 ?7 : XINIT=180
220 X1ER11 .183 :XIXR =186
: XIXU.189 : XFOL.192 : XESC=195 : XOSC=198
230 '
240 OEF SE64110 ' get the PCLR8 segment
250 PCLSE6 : PEEK ( WIFE ) + 256PEEK ( 1114FF )260 OEF SE6=PCLSE6 ' REM address the PCLA8 segment 270 ERROR.UALUEK = 0Z80 CALL XSECU(ERROR.UALUEZ)
290 '
300 RINI : 8
310 TYPE! : 116
320 MANX = 0
330 OPTION BASE 1340 DIM TEMP(4,7)
350 '
360 CLS
370 ON TIMER(20) 60SUB 410 380 TIMER ON 390 6010 390
400 '
910 LOCATE 2,1
420 '
430 '
440 FOR HARE 1 TO 4
450 CALL XSUBORROZ)
460 FOR CHRNX = 1 TO 7
470 CJTOIRL . 0
480 TOTAL . 0194
490
FOR I . 1 TO 16 500 CALL XAU(CICHANX, GRIN:, CJADATAX)
510 CJTOTAL . CANTU + CJTOTAL
520 CALL XIMCRANZ, MINX, MAD
530 TOTAL = ROATAI + TOTAL 540 NEXT I
550 CARTA' = CINT(CJTOTAL / 16)
560 ROATAI = CINT(101fli / 16)
570 CJTEMP = MCJADATAZ .04) / 4096) - .02) 2000
580 CALL XOTU(TYPEI, CJTEIIP, CJUOLTS)
590 UOLIS = (((808181 .01) / 4096) - .02) + CJUOLTS
600 CALL XUTO(TYPEX, UOLTS, TEMPS)
610 TEMP(80ARDI,CHAND = TEMPS
620 NEXT CHM
630 NEXT MARDI
640 RUER1 = (TEMP(1,1)+TEMP(2,1)+TEMP(3,1)+TEMP(4,1))/4! 650 AUER2 = (TEMP(1,2)+TEMP(2,2)+TEMP(3,2).TEMP(1,2))/4!
660 AUER3 = (TEMP(1,3)+TE11P(2,3)+TEMP(3,3)+1EMP(4,3))/4!
670 CIS
680 PRINT 'Total input per = '; : PRINT USING 11.11;0;
690 PRINT ' Uatt
700 PRINT ' CC e:CICS
710 PRINT 'Cylinder-Right wall spacing, US/0 . "; :PRINT USIN6 11.1111":USOR 720 PRINT "Cylinder-Left wall spacing, US/0 . ' ::PRINT USING 11.1111';USOL 730 PRINT
740 PRINT ' ( TEMPERATURES IN DEGREE CENTIGRADE)
750 PRINT 'Thermocouple 1 1 2 3 4 5 6"
760 PRINT USING 'Cylinder 3 111.11 111.11 111.11 111.11 111.11 111.11';
TEMP(1,3):TE11P(2,3);TEMP(3,3);TEMP(4,3);TEMP(1,5);TEMP(2,5)
770 PRINT USING 'Cylinder 2 111.11 1#1.11 Mil 111.11 111.11 111.11';
TE11P(1,2):TEMP(2,2);TEMP(3,2);TEMP(4,2);TEMP(3,4);TEMP(4,4)
780 PRINT USING 'Cylinder 1 111.11 111.11 111.11 111.11 111.11 111.11';
TEMP(1,1);TEMP(2,1);TENP(3,1);TEMP(4,1);TEMP(1,4):TEMP(2,1)
790 '
800 PRINT
810 PRINT luerage temperature for cylinder 1 3 = ";
820 PRINT USING '111.11 C';AUER3 830 PRINT "Ruerage temperature for cylinder 1 2 = '; 840 PRINT USING '111.11 C";RUER2 850 PRINT 'Average temperature for cylinder 1 1 .860 PRINT USING "111.11 C";RUER1 870 PRINT
880 3TTEMP.1 EMP(1,6)-TEMP(1,7) 990 4:MAUR.,TEMP(1,6)+TEMP(1,7))/2!
900 PRINT "imoient temperature differance = '; : PRINT USIN6 111.51 C";STTEMP
910 PRINT 'Rmbient temperature . '; : PRINT USING "1111.111 C";RMAUR
920 TENDS.TEMP(3,5)-TEMP(3,6) 930 7EMOZ.TEMP(2,6)-1EMP(2,7) 195
940 TEND1=TEMP(I,S)-TEMP(4,6)
950 PRINT 'End cap temperature difference for cylinder 13 ';
960 PRINT USING '111.11';TEN03
970 '
980 PRINT 'End cap temperature difference for cylinder 12 = ';
990 PRINT USING '111.11';TEN02
1000 '
1010 PRINT 'End cap temperature difference for cylinder 11 = '; 1020 PRINT USING '111.11';IEN01
1030 PRINT
1040 '
1060 '
CHECK FOR STEADY STATE CONDITION:
1060 '
1070 P1.4UER1-00L1)100!/0101
1080 P2 :(AUER2-0102)100!/0012
1090 P3 =(ADER3-01.03)'100!/01.23
1100 '
1110 IF P1(.2 AND P2(.2 RHO P3(.2 RHO FLA61( >1 THEN FLR61=1 :CTIME.TIMER+600!
1120 0101=RUERI : 0102411ER : 0103=RUER3 1130 If fl061.1 RHO P1).2 OR P2).2 OR P3)1 THEN FLR61.0
1140 If FUTON RHO (CTIMD600)>TINER THEN 6010 1190
1150 PRINT ",44 1160 PRINT '---- STEADY STATE CONDITION UAS REACHED IN THE LAST TEN MINETS 1170 PRINT ' RI TIME . ';CTIME600;' SEC
1180 '
1190 RETURN
1200 STOP 1210 END 196
APPENDIXB
RADIATIONCORRECTION
Thedatareductionprocedure,showninsection3.4.2,
illustratesthattheaccuracyofthenaturalconvectionheat transfercoefficientofthecylinderswasdependentonthe
accuracyoftheradiationcorrection. Thecylindersweredesigned
tomake0 -rad<<Qconvection Thiswasaccomplishedbypolishing
thesurfacesofthealuminumcylinderstoamirror-likefinish.
Theproceduretodeterminetheradiationcorrectionsforthe
cylinderinafreesinglecylinder,anarrayofcylinderswithouta wall,anarrayofcylinderswithasinglewall,andanarrayof
cylinderswithtwowallswillbediscussedinthefollowing
sections.
B.1
Radiationcorrectionfromafreesinglecylinderandanarray
ofcylinderswithoutawall
Theradiationcorrectionforafreesinglecylinderwas
calculatedfromthefollowingequation:
Qr=eSbA(Tw4 -Tinf4) (B.1)
whereSbisStefan-Boltzmannconstantandequalto 5.6696x 10-8(w/m2.K4)and eistheemissivity=0.05. Theradiation 197
correctionformultipleelementsdependsontheviewfactors betweenthesurfacesaswellasonthesurfaceheating/cooling
condition.
Thesurfaceconditioncouldbeataconstant
temperatureorconstantheatflux. Therefore,equationB.1isno
longervalidforafreearray.
Theviewfactorbetweenthecylinderswiththesame
diameterwascalculatedasfollows:
Fc_c= [(X2-1)112 +sinl(X JX(B.2)
WhereX=1+(H/D)andHisthesurface-to-surfacedistance
betweenthecylinders,Howell[BA].Marsters[B.2]showedthat
theradiationcorrectionsforthecylindersof anarrayatknown
surfacetemperaturecanbecalculatedfromequationB.3 :
Qr=(1-KFc_c)eSbA(Tw4 Tinf.4) (B.3)
whereK=1ifthecylinderisattheedgeofthe arrayorK=2if
thecylinderisintheinteriorofthe array. Thisprocedurewas
implementedinthedatareductionprogram,AppendixC,to
calculatetheradiationcorrectionforthecylindersinthe nowall
cases. 198
B.2
Radiationcorrectionforanarraywithasinglewall
Thiscaseincludedthreeheatedcylinders(thearray)andan
adiabaticwall.
Thewallwasmadeofapoorthermalconductivity
materialanditsbacksurfacewasinsulated. Owingtothe
radiationheattransferfromthecylindersandthehigh
temperatureoftheraisedplumefromthecylindersbynatural
convection,thesurfaceofthewallwasatahighertemperature
thantheambient.
Therefore,thewallcannotbeconsideredasan
adiabaticwallforradiationheattransferconsiderations. Since
thewallhadpoorthermalconductivity,thewalltemperaturewas
notuniformandthetemperaturealongthewallwasdependent
ontheelevationfromeachcylinderofthearrayandthespacing
betweenthearrayandthewall(S/D). Thecloserspacing(S/D)
resultedinhighernon-uniformtemperaturealongthewall. To
accountforthisnon-uniformtemperaturedistribution,thewall
wastreatedasfiveseparateelements. Themiddlethree
elementshadalengthequaltothecylinders'center-to-center
spacing,CC.
Theseelementswerenumbered5,6,and7asshown infigureB.1. Hereaftertheseelementswillbereferredtoasa "wall"withaspecificnumberassignedtoeach. Thetemperature
ofeachwallwasrecordedduringtheexperiments. Wallnumbers
5,6,and7hadthehighestaveragetemperature. Wall#8hadthe
nexthighestandwall#4hadthelowesttemperature. The
surfacesofthewallswereblackandhad anemissivityequalto 25'
10.5'
TCC
4CC
cc
1
8
7
65
CC
$
FigureB.1 Thewallnumbersfortheviewfactors. 200
unity(i.e
ek=1.0fork=4,5,.6,7,8).
Tofurtherfacilitatetheanalysis,itisconvenienttoenvision
anenclosurewithblackinteriorsurfacesbyaddingsurface#9,as
showninfigureB.1.Theviewfactors,whicharedefinedasthe
fractionofenergyleavingonesurfacethatreachesanother
surface ,
SeigelandHowell[B.3],werecalculatedbyusingthree
differentapproaches. Surfaceshapeandpositionofthesurfaces determinedwhichapproachwasused. Thefirstapproach,equationB.2,determinedtheviewfactor
betweenthecylinders,Fc..c. Theviewfactorsbetweeneach
cylinderandthewalls(walls#4 -8)werecalculatedbyusingthe
crossed-stringmethod. Thismethodwasusedwhenthe
extendedstringsbetweenaspecificcylinderandawallelement
werebentaroundtheneighboringcylinder. Inotherwords,this
methodwasusedwhentheviewingofthewallbythecylinder wasobstructedbythecylinderdirectlyaboveorbelowthe
specifiedcylinder.
ThisconditionisshowninfigureB.2and
equationB.4illustrateshowtheviewfactorwascalculatedby usingthecrossed-stringmethod.
(fg+gc+cd+deh+ha) (ab+bgc+cd+de+ef)
F3_4 2alD)
(B.4)
Whenthewallcouldbeviewedbythespecifiedcylinder
withoutanyobstructionbytheothercylinder(s),theviewfactor
wascalculatedfromequationB.5. 201
FigureB.2 Crossed-StringmethodtocalculateF3-4. 202
1b1 b2
F1_4=
2il [tan-1B1tan'lB whereB1= and.B2= (B.5) 1 2 a a
ThedimensionsinthisequationareshowninfigureB.3.
EquationB.5yieldedthesameresultsasthecrossed-string
methodanditwasusedforsimplicityinthecalculations. The
reciprocalrelationsfortheviewfactorswereusedtodetermine
theviewfactorsfromWallnumbers4,5,6,7,and8tothe
cylinders. Thisrelationshipisillustratedasfollows:
A-Fi =A.Fj-j -i
Theviewfactorsfromthewallsnumbers1through8towall#9
werecalculatedasfollows:
9
Fi_9=1-EFi_i
j=1
TableB.1showsasampleoftheviewfactorsforthe array
withCC=2DatS/D =0.5. Oncetheviewfactorswere
determined,theradiosityvalues(theoutgoingradiantenergy per
unitarea),qo ,were determinedfromequationB.6,Siegeland
Howell[B.2],byconsideringthesurfacesasadiffuse-gray enclosure.
9
Z[8k. -(1-ek)Fk_j]qo=ekSb Tk4
j=i
l<k<9 (B.6) 203
Tb2
ibl
[
FigureB.3 ThedimensionsofequationB.5 .TableB.1 ViewfactorsforasinglewallcaseatCC=2DandS/D= 0.5.
14
3 4 5
1
0.00000E+00 8.13758E-02 0.00000E400 1.09888E-01 2.50000E-01
2
8.13758E-02 0.00000E+00 8.13758E-02 1.08139E-02 7.37918E-02
3
0.00000E+00 8.13758E-02 0.00000E+00 2.35292E-03 5.19180E-03
4
3.63393E-02 3.57609E-03 7.78096E-04 0.00000E400 0.00000E+00
5
3.92699E-01 1.15912E-01 13.15526E-03 0.00000E100 0.00000E+00
6
1.15912E-01 3.92699E-01 1.15912E-01 0.00000E400 0.00000E+00
7 8.15526E-03 1.15912E-01 3.92699E-01 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00
8
7.78096E-04 3.57609E-03 3.63393E-02 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00
6789
1
7.37918E-02 5.19180E-03 2.35292E-03 4.77400E-01
2
2.50000E-01 7.37918E-02 1.08139E-02 4.18037E-01
3
7.37918E-02 2.50000E-01 1.09888E-01 4.77400E-01
4
0.00000E+00 0.00000E100 0.00000E100 9.59307E-01
5 0.00000E+00 0.00000E400 0.00000E+00 4.83234E-01
6
0.00000E400 0.00000Et00 0.00000E+00 3.75477E-01
7
0.00000E400 0.00000(i00 0.00000E400 4.83234E-01
8
0.000001:400 0.00000L)00 0.00000E100 9.59307E-01 205
where Ski=1ifk=j or Ski=0ifk#j
Sincesurfaces#4to9wereblacksurfaces,theradiosityvaluesof
thesesurfaceswereknown,owingto(ek=1fork=4to9). Hence
equationB.6canbewrittenfor l<k<3 . Fromthis,three
equationswereobtainedwhichweresolvedforq0,1,q0,2,q0,3.
Then,theradiationheattransfervaluesfromthesurfaceswere
calculatedfromequationB.7.
9
Qrk=Ak(Clo,k Fk-jClo,j)
l<k<9andl<j<8 (B.7)
Acomputerprogramtocalculatetheheattransferwas
written.
Thisprogramislistedattheendofthisappendix.A
sampleoftheresultsofthisprogramisshowninTableB.2.
B.3
Radiationheattransferfortwowallcases
Eachofthesidewallswereconsideredasasingleelement.
Thiswasbasedonthefollowing:
a.
Owingtoahigherflowratebetweenthetwowallsthan
theflowrateforasinglewall,thetemperature
differencesbetweenthemeasuredtemperaturesalong
thewallsandtheambientwerelessintwowallcases
at(S/D)R=0.5thanthatforasinglewallat(S/D)=0.5.
b.
ThetemperaturegradientsalongthewallatS/D>0.5
werelessthanthetemperaturegradientatsmaller 206
Table B.2 Radiationcorrectionsforthe arrayatCC=2DandS/D=0.5.
TOTAL RADIATION
--- 0= 1 WATT 9/0= .5
1
4.84352E-02 WATT
2
5.19953E-02 WATT
3
5.34983E-02 WATT
0 SUM 123 = .1539288
Q= 3 WATT 9/0= .5
1.17373E-01 WATT
1.26267E-01 WATT
1.28733E-01 WATT
Q SUM 123 = .3723728
-- 0= 10 WATT S/0= .5
1
3.80710E-01 WATT
2
3.93905E-01 WATT
3
3.991E2E-01 WATT
0 SUM 123 = 1.173777 0= 20 WATT 9/0= .5
7.91351E-01 WATT
8.19280E-01 WATT
3
8.37882E-01 WATT
Q SUM 123 = 2.448513
0= 30 WATT S/0= .S
1
1.27777E+00 WATT
1.32216E+00 WATT
3
1.34775E00 WATT
Q SUM 123 = 3.947678 207
spacings.
c.
Thecalculationsoftheradiationheattransferfora
singlewallatS/D=0.5(byconsideringasingleside
wallelement)werecomparedtotheresultsofmultiple
wallelements. Thisshowedthattherewaslessthana
0.5%differenceintheradiationcorrectionfromthe multiplewallresults.
FigureB.4showsthenumbersofthewallsfortwowall
cases.
Wall#6wastheflowoutletsideanditstemperaturewas
consideredtobetheaverageofthetransversetemperature
readingsbetweenthetwowalls.Wall#7wastheinletflowside
anditstemperaturewasconsideredtobetheambient
temperature.
Theaveragetemperaturesforwalls#4and5were
calculatedfromtheaveragetemperatureofthewallelements
showninfigureB.1. Thetemperatureofeachelementwas
weightedbyitsareaasshowninthefollowingequation:
8
Z(AiTi
i=4
Tay=
figureB.1.
8
whereA=--SALandi
=wallnumbersin
1=4
Theviewfactorsbetweenthecylinderswerecalculatedby
usingequationB.1. Thecrossed-stringmethodwasusedto
calculatetheviewfactorsfromcylinders1,2,and3totheside
walls4and5. F1.7andF3_6weredeterminedfromequationB.5. A'
B
L010
6
p.
1
4
H
K
G
H. 7
FigureB.4 Thenumbersofthewallsfortwowallscases. 209
Theviewfactorsbetweenwall4andwall5werecalculatedas
follows:
F4_5 =.0 F4.5 +F4_5 +F4_5 +F4_5 (B.8)
through A-B through C-D through E-F through G-H
ThespacingsA-B,C-D,E-F,andG-HareshowninfigureB.4.
TheviewfactorsontherighthandsideofequationB.8were
calculatedbyusingthecrossed-stringmethod. Forwalls6and7,
theviewfactorswerecalculatedasfollows:
F6_7=F6_7 + F6_7
through L-M through N-0
(B.9)
Theviewfactorsfromcylinder2towall6and7were
determinedasfollows:
F2-6=F2-6 +F2 -6 2-6
through L-M through N-0
F2_7=F2_7
through H-I
F2_7
through J-K
By usingthereciprocalrelationandbyconsideringthefact
thatthefractionofenergyleaving onesurfaceandreachingthe
surfacesoftheenclosuremustequalunity,alltheviewfactors
weredetermined. TableB.3showstheviewfactorsforCC=2Dat
S/D=0.5and (S/D)R =2.00.
Wallnumbers4through7wereconsidered asblacksurfaces TableB.3 ViewfactorsfortwowallscaseatCC=2DwithS/D=0.5
and (S/D)R=2.0 .
VIEW FACTORS
WALL
S/D= 0.5
.... 1
(S/D)R= 2.00
--a ..a 4
1
0.00000000+00 8.13758000-02 0.00000000,00 4.43981020-01
2
8.13758000-02 0.00000000i00 8.1375800D-02 4.18020300-01
3
0.00000000+00 8.1375800D-02 0.00000000 +00 4.43981020-01
4
5.5792300D-02 5.2599806D-02 5.57923000-02 0.00000000+00
5 5.2612197D-02 5.14230690702 5.2612187D-02 7.1310886D-01
6
3.28098890-03 4.49531990-03 4.6956411D-02 4.38487610-01
7
4.6956411D-02 4.4953199D-03 3.2809880D-03 4.38487610-01
WALL .... S 6 7
1
4.18674480 -01 3.65529960-03 5.23134150-02
2
4.0921179D-01 5.0081660D-03 5.00816600-03
3
4.18674480 -01 5.23134150-02 3.65529900-03
4
7.13108860-01 6.1380281D-02 6.13882810-02
5
0.00000001)00 6.51218500-02 6.51218500-02
6
4.6515607D-01 0.00000000 i00 4.1623493D-02
7
4.6515607D-01 4.16234930-02 0.00000000+00 211
(i.e.,ek=1fork=4,5,6,and7). Therefore,theradiosityvalues
ofthesewallswereknownandequationB.6waswrittenfor1<K
<3only. Oncetheradiosity,q0,ofeachsurfacewasknown,the
radiationheattransferwascalculatedfromequationB.7fori<k<
7andl<j<7 Thesecalculationswereperformedbymodifying
thecomputerprogramforasinglewallbychangingthewall
numbers.
Theoriginalsingle-wallcomputerprogramisshownat
theendofthisappendix.TableB.4showstheoutputresultsof
themodifiedprogramforCC=2DatS/D=0.5and(S/D)R=2.00.
B.1Howell,JohnR.,"ACatalogofRadiationConfigurationFactors", McGraw-HillBookCompany,NewYork.
B.2Marsters,G.F.;"ArraysofHeatedHorizontalCylinders in
NaturalConvection";Int.J.HeatMassTransfer,vol.15,1972.
B.3Siegel,RobertandHowell,JohnR.;"ThermalRadiationHeat
Transfer";2nd
Edition,McGraw-HillBookCompany,New
York.
212
TableB.4 Radiationcorrections forthe arrayatCC=2Dandtwo
wallsatS/D=0.5and(S/D)R=2.0 .
TOTAL RADIATION
--- 0= 1 WATT S/0= 0.5 (S/O)R= 2.00
1
4.337980-02 WATT
2
5.211380-02 WATT
3 5.323930-02 WATT
4
2.458520-01 WATT
S -3.361760-01 WATT
6
6.209870-02 WATT
7 -7.633740-02 WATT
0 SUM 123 = .149382 0 SUM 4-7 . -.154563
0= 3 WATT S/0= 0.5 (S/O)R= 2.00
1
1.052450-01 WATT
1.245480-01 WATT
3
1.280790-01 WATT
4
3.440620-01 WATT
5
-7.100740-01 WATT
6
1.109930-01 WATT
7 -1.081100-01 WATT
0 SUM 123 = .357871 0 SUM 4-7 = -.363129
0= 10 WATT S/0= 0.5 (S/D)R= 2.00
1
3.214370-01 WATT
2
3.741630-01 WATT
3
3.306150-01 WATT
4
8.929230-01 WATT
S
-1.554820+00 WATT
6
-2.259600-02 WATT
7
-3.972620-01 WATT
0 SUM 123 = 1.076215 Q SUM 4-7 = -1.081759
--- 0= 20 WATT S/0= 0.5 (S /0)R= 2.00
1
6.647890-01 WATT
2
8.051140-01 WATT
3
7.987950-01 WATT
4
1.189830+00 WATT
S
-2.462100+00 WATT
6
-2.481900-01 WATT
7
-7.542420-01 WATT
0 SUM 123 = 2.268698 0 SUM 4-7 = -2.274709
--- 0= 30 WATT S/0= 0.5 (S/O)R= 2.00
1
1.387270+00 WATT
2
1.276830+00 WATT
3
1.292990+00 WATT
4
1.133670+00 WATT
5
-7.232500+00 WATT
5
-4.7021SO-01 WATT
S472.0000 wATT
:UM 122 - 3.637032 0 SUM 4-7 - -3.88.7S47 213
AppendixC
DATAREDUCTIONPROGRAM 214
10 ' Program (CALRONUP.TRA) to calculate the radiation and 20 ' Nuselt number for the three cylinders and printout the results.
30 REM
40 CORRECT THE FILE NAMES IN LINE 390, 540 RHO LINE 940 50 OEFOOL A-Z 60 aErsms I,K,I
70 DIM TU(9,9,3),TA(9,9),TR(9,9,3),OR(9,9,3),Q0(9,9,3),00(9,9,3),0(9),US(9)
80 DIM TEN0(9,9,3),PR(9,3,3),6RM(9,9,3),R111(9,9,3),NUEX(9,9,3)
90 OIM TUAU(9,9,3),(9,9,3)
100 REM 110 REM INPUTDATA A
120 REM
130 PRINT "CYLINDER LENGTH, CL=';:INPUT CL 140 PRINT "CYLINDER DIAMETER, 0=';:INPUT 0150 PRINT 'CYLINDER CENTER-TO-CENTER SPACING, tCS='; : INPUT CCS
160 REM
170 R=0/2! : P1=3.141592651 : REM R=CYLINDER RADIUS.
180 EH IHHI.INHIIH111-1HEIHt114iHHHHHHHHHHHHHI
190 REM
200 ' CALCULATE CYLINDER TO CYLINDER UIEU FACTOR, FCC, FOR NO WILL CASES:
210 REM
220 CCIAL/R : REM CEL= NORMALIZED CYLINDER LENGTH. 230 CR=CCS/R : REM CR. NORMALIZED CYLINDER CENTER TO CENTER SPACING. 240 SCR=1!/CR : SSCR=SCR/(1!-SCR"2)".5 :ASCR=ATN(SSCR) 250 CCX=((((CR"2-1!)".5 - (PI/2!))/ASCR)+1!)".5
260 CCY=CCL"2!-CCX"2!+1!
270 CCZ=CCL"2!+CCX"2!-1!
280 REM
290 SUX=1!/CCX : SSCCX=SCCX/(1!-SCW2)".5 : ASCEMIN(SSECX)
300 YOZ=CCY/CCZ : CYOZ=Y02/(1!-Y02-2)".5 : ACYOZ=(PI/2!)-ATN(CYOZ)
310 CR2=2!/CR : CCR2=CR2/(1!-CR2"2!)".5 : ACCIT=(P1/2!)-ATN(CCR2)
320 CYX2=CCY/(CCXCCZ) : CCYX2=CYX2/(1!-CYX2"2!)".5 : ACYX2=(PI/2!)-RTN(CCYX2)
330 CCA.(1!/(2!PI))(tCR"2-4!)".5 - CR+ PI- 24ACCR)
340 REM
350 CCI=1!-(1!/PI)( ACYOZ (1!/(2!CCL)) MCCY+2!CCX"2)"21-(2!CCX)^2)".5
ACM + CCYASCCX (PI/2!)CCZ) )
360 FCC=CCACCI : FCK=1!-FCC : FCK2=1!-(2!FCC)
370'-11111HHfMHOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHO1141141.IHHHHH1
380 '
Read the data from the file, RUSCC1.011T, in drive C:
390 OPEN "RUSCCII.OAT" FOR INPUT AS 11
400 INPUT 111,INO,O,L,KUS
410 '
420 FOR K0=1 TO INO
430 INPUT 111,0(1(0)
440 FOR KS=1 TO KUS
450 INPUT 11,16(KS),TA(KILKS)
460 FOR KC=1 TO 3470 INPUT 11,TU(KO,KS,KC),TUAU(KO,KS,KC),TENO(KO,KS,KC) 480 NEXT KC 215
490 NEXT KS
SOD NEXT KO
510 CLOSER
520 '530 '
Read the data from the file, ORUSCCIAT, in drive C:
540 OPEN "ORUSCCII.ORT FOR INPUT RS 11
550 INPUT 11,INO;04,KUS
560 FOR KO=1 TO INO
570 INPUT 11,0(KO) 580 FOR KS=1 TO gUS-1
590 INPUT 11,US(KS),OR(KO,K6,1),OR(KO,K6,2),CIR(KO,KS,3)
600 NEXT KS 610 NEXT KO
620 CLOSEll
630 640 '144HHHIWCHMKOHHHIMIWI
650 ' Calculate the Husselt :umber: 660 6=1270000001 : ' 6= gravity in m/hr2
670 8= PI0 1 R=cylinder surface area in sq. meter. 680 RS=(0/2!)"2PI : ' RS= Cylinder cross section area in 112 .
690 FOR K0=1 TO INO
700 FOR KS=1 TO (US 710 FOR KC=1 TO 3
720 '
730 If KSOKUS THEN 6010 760
740 IF KC=2 THEN FK=FCK2 ELSE FK=FCK
750 OR(10,(6,(C)=7.900001E-02.000000056991FPRWTU(KO,KS,(C)+273.15)"4-(INKO
,KS)4273.15)"4)
760 '
OR() = Radiation from the cylinder.
??0 OCO(K4,K5,(C)=RS.000551418.68(TENO(MKS,KC)/.007366)21
780 ' 000= Condection heat loss in Uatt.
790 4CU(KO,KS,KC)=0(K0)-0R(K0,16,KC)-0C0(1(0,6,KC) 800 OPR=OCU(KU,KS,KC)/R
810 TT=(TU(KO,KS,KC)+TR(KO,KS))/2! 820 TR(KO,KS,KC)=TT
830 TRX=TR(KOJS)+273.15
840 '
Go to the subroutine to calculate the air properties at temp.= IRK
850 GOSH 1160
860 NUEX(KO,KS,C)=OPR0/(CX(TU(KO,KS,KC)-TR(KO,KS))) 270 6R11(KOJS,KC). R0"244OPR0"4/(CK11"2)
880 PR(KO,KS,KC)=CPM/CK 890 RRM(KO,KS,KC)=601(KO,KS,KC)PR(KO,KS,KC)
900 '
910 NEXT KC 920 NEXT KS
930 NEXT KO 940 OPEN "RUSCC11.CRL" FOR OUTPUT RS 11 950 URITE 11,CCS,INO,O,L,KUS 216
960 FOR K0.1 TO INQ
970 URITE 11,0(KO)
980 rap (5.1 TO KUS
990 URITE 1145(6),TA(K0,0)
1000 FOR KC :1 TO 3
1010 URITE 11,TU(KO,KS,KC),NOEX(KO,K5,KC),R8M(KO,KS,KC),6RM(KO,KS,KC),PR(KO,KS,K
C)
1020 NEXT KC 1030 NEXT KS 1040 NEXT KO 1050 CLOSEll 1060 PRINT : PRINT . Uhat do you want to print:
1070 PRINT ' 1- detailed output. "1080 PRINT 2- End the program. "1090 PRINT Put your 0015t 1'; :INPUT PCHO
1100 If PCH0.1 6010 605U8 1440 : 6010 1060
1110 IF PCHOO1 RHO PCH002 6010 1060
1120 '
1130 END
1140 '
1150 '
1160 ROl ""114444 RIRPROP.TRA "/4".
1170 ' This subroutine calculates the air properties at different
1180
temperatures, TT .
1190 '
1200 '
1210 ' Oefine function to calculate the thermal conductivity, FNIK(U,P1):
1220 OEF fliffi(XK,P1) .((.0000063251+4".5)/(1!+(245!/XIO10"P1))(360!/.860421) 1230 ' P1.-12.0.1K ;XK= temp. in K ; FNFK(XR,P1): URTT/METER.K
1240 '1250 '
Oefine function to calculate the specific heat, FNFC(XK):
1260 OEF FN1C(2) . (.249679 .00007551791U + .0000001691941XK"2 .00000000
006461261Xr3)1.1631
1270 ' FNFC(XK)= specific heat in (U-Nr/Kg.K) for temperature 7 260 to 610 k.
1280 '
1290 ' Oefine function to calculate the viscosity, FNFM(XK):
1300 OEF DIr11(a).I45.8 .n.l.5)mxim10.4).100000001».3601
1310 ' FNFM(XK). giscosity In KgiM.hr ; XK. Temp. in K
1320 '
1330 'Oefine function to calculate the density , INFRO(XK):
1310 OEF FNFRO(XK). .46458760!AK :' FNFRO(XK).0ensity in (Kg /n3) XK.Temp.K
1350 '
1360 TK-TT273.1S : 'TT.Temperature in degree centigrade; XK. Temp. in Kelvin. 1370 P1=-12±/11 : CK=FMRCIK,P1) :' CPthermal conductivity (U /n.K)
1380 CP.FNE(TIO : ' CP.specific heat (U-hr/Kg.C) 217
1390 ?1=FNOI(TK) : ' q :viscosity (Kg/m.hr) 1400 RD.FNFRO(TK) : ' RD:density (Kg/T13)
1410 8:11ifAK : ' 8 :thermal expansion (1/K)
1420 '
1430 RETURN
1440 .44144 To print out the results in denies :11
1450 LPRINT ALL TEMPERATURE, 1U, (C) CC/0 = ';CU:
1460 LPRINT "
1470 FOR KO:1 TO INO
1480 LPRINT ..."" 0 .:0(K0):'UATI'
1490 LPRINT US/0 CYLINDER fl CYLINDER 12 CYLINDER 13 "
1500 FOR K5.1 TO KUS 1510 IF K5.415 THEN 6010 1540
1520 LPRINT USN ' 11.111 1111111.1111 1111111.1111 1111111.1111'
:i4(16):111(10.KS,1):IU(KILKS.2):TU(10,KS,3)
1530 6010 1550
1540 MINT 0S1N6 NO UAL 1111111.1111 1:11141.11111 11411111.1111
;TU(KO,K5,1):TU(10,K5,2):TU(KO,KS,3)
15E0 NEXT KS 1560 LPRINT 1570 NEXT KO
1580 LPRINT CHRS(12)
1550 LPRINT REFERENCE TEMPERATURE, TR, (C) CC/0 = ';CCS;'
1600
1610 FOR <0:1 10 INO
1620 LPRINT 4.:+4 0 .":Q(KO)CUATT'
:630 LPRINT ' USA CYLINDER 11 CYLINDER :2 CYLINDER 13-'
1640 FOR KS:1 TO 016 16E0 IF KS.(US THEN 6010 1680 1660 LPRINT USING ' 11.111 1111111.1111 1111111.1111 1111111.1111'
:4(K5):Ti(KOJS.1);TR(KO,K5,2);IR(KO,KS,3)
1670 0010 :690 1680 LPRINT USING NO UALL 1111111.1111 1111111.1111 1111111.1111'
TR(KO,KS,D;T9(10,KE,D
1690 NEXT KS
1700 !PRINT "
1710 NEXT KO 1720 LPRINT CHPS(12)
1730 LPRINT PMDIENT TEMPERATURE, TA, (C) CC/0 = ';CM"
1740 LPRINT 1750 FOR K0.1 TO INO
1760 LPPI41 ' "41'4 .":0(K0):"411
:770 LPRINT QS/0 CYLINOER 11 CYLINDER :2 CYLINDER 13
1780 FOR K5.1 TO KUS :790 y KS:KU:3 THEN 3010 1820 1800 LPRINT 0SING muallot Immull
:USJS':TP.:KCAS):78(KO,KS):1A(K0,(5'; 1510 6010 1630 218
1820 LPRINT USING NO WALL 1111111.1111 4111411.1111 4111111.1111" :IR(KO,KS);TA(KO,KS):18(KO4S)
1830 NEXT KS
1840 LPRINT "
1860 NEXT KO 1860 LPRINT CHR$(12)
1870 LPRINT ------ RADIATION HEAT LOSS, OR, (WATT) CC/0 = ';CCS:.
1880 LPRINT "
1890 FOR K0.1 TO INO
1900 !PRINT Q e:0(KO) ;'UATT'
1910 ANT ' US/0 CYLINDER 11 CYLINDER 12 CYLINDER 13 1920 FOR KS=1 TO (WS
1930 IF KS=KUS THEN 6010 1960 1940 LPRINT USING ' 44.x44 1111111.1111 1141114.1411 1141414.1411"
;U5(KS);OR(KO,KS,1);OR(KO,KS,2);OR(KO,KS,3) 1950 60T0 1970 1960 !PR1NT USING NO WALL 1114434.1111 112814.2141 141483.1111"
:OR(KO,KS,1):0R(KO,KS,2);OR(KO,KS,3)
1970 NEXT KS
1980 LPRINT "
1990 NEXT KQ 2000 LPRINT CHR$(12)
2010 MINT CONVECTION HEAT LOSS, OCO, WATT) CC/0 . ';CCS;'
1Q20 LPPIKT
2030 FOR KO=1 10 INO
:040 LPRINT 4 0 =';2(K0);"WAIT' 2050 LPRINT US/0 CYLINDER 11 CYLINDER 12 CYLINDER 13
2060 FOR KS =1 10 KUS
2070 IF KS.KUS THEN 6070 2100
2080 LPRINT USING 11.313 1111111.1111 4144141.1111 3111141.1141'
:WS(KS);OCD(KO,KS,1):00(KO,KS.2);OCD(KO,KS,3)
2090 6010 2110 2100 LPRINT USING NO WALL 411:111.1111 1111111.1111 111811.1111"
;OCO(K0.1( 1
.QCD(KO,KS,2):0CD(KO,KS,3)
2110 NEXT KS
2120 LPRINT "
2130 NEXT KO 2140 LPRINT CHR$(12) 2150 LPRINT NET CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER, ICU, (WAIT) CC/0 . ;CC
S;'
2160 LPRINT "" 2170 FOR K0=1 TO INO
2180 LPRINT 01. 0 =';NOWURIT'
:190 LPRINT US/0 CYLINDER 11 CYLINDER 12 CYLINDER 13
1:00 FIR 6.1 10 KUS
2210 IF KS=KUS THEN 6010 2240 1220 !PRINT USING 11.111 1211411 4111141.1111 111184.4111"
;US(KS::OCU(KO,K5,1) ;ICU(KO,KS.2);OCU(KUS,3)
2230 GOO 2250
2240 LPRINT USING ' NO WALL 1111113.811 344«117.1111 111388.3311"
;OCLI(K0AS,1):OCV(KO.KS,2';ICI(KO.KS,3) 219
2250 NEXT KS 2260 LPRINT 2270 NEXT KO 2280 LPRINT OHRS(12)
2290 LPRINT RAWL NUMBER, PR CC/0 = ";CCS;"
2300 LPRINT "
2310 FOR <0.1 TO INO
2320 LPRINT " Q ";Q(KO);'URIT.
2330 LPRINT US/0 CYLINDER 11 CYLINDER 12 CYLINDER 13 2340 FOR KS.1 TO KUS 2350 1r KS.KUS THEN 6010 2380
2360 LPRINT USING t1.111 1111111.1111 1111114.1111 1111111.1111'
;US(KS)0( K0,KS,1);PR(KO,KS,2);PR(KO,KS,3)
2370 6010 2390
2380 LPRINT USING HO UAL 11:7111.1111 4111141.4811 1111111.1111'
;PR(KO,KS,1);PEKO,KE,2)0(KO,KE,3)
2390 NEXT KS
2400 LPRINT "
2410 NEXT KO 2420 LPRINT CHRS(12)
2430 LPRINT flODEFIED GRRSNOF NUMBER, GRM CC/0 . ';CCS;'
2440 LPRINT
2450 FOR K0.1 TO IHO
2460 LPRINT 4"44 0 .';0(KO) ;"URIT' 2470 LPRINT US/0 CYLINDER 11 CYLINDER 12 CYLINDER 13 2480 FOR KS.1 TO KUS 2490 If KS.KUS THEN 6010 2520 2500 LPRINT USING 71.111 1111110.1111 11:101:1111 24:4411.1:11
WS(KS:6871(KO.KS,1):6RM(KO,KS,2);6R1(KO,KE,3)
2510 60T0 2E30
2E20 LPRINT USING NO URLL 1111111.1111 141:111111# 1111:111.11:1'
6811(KO.KS.1);61M(KO,KS,2):601(KO,KS,3)
2530 NEXT KS
2540 LPRINT "
2550 NEXT KO 2560 LPRINT CHR$(12)
2570 LP;INT MODEFIED RAYLEIGH NUMBER, RAM CC/0 = ";CCS;" 2580 LPRINT ""
2530 FOR K0=1 TO IMO
2600 LPRINT Q =';0(KO)CUATT"
2610 LPRINT US/0 CYLINDER 11 CYLINDER 02 CYLINDER 13 2620 FOR KE.1 TO KUS
2630 IF KS=KUS THEN 6010 2660 2640 LPRINT USING 11.111 1111111.1111 1114111.1111 1141111.1111"
;USCKS);RAM(KO,KS,1);RACK04.2);RAM(KO.K8,3)
2630 60TO 2670
2660 OW USING NO ALL 11:1311.41:4 4411404.1141 :144144.4:Ir
:RAM(KO.KE.1:,:iRM(K0.KS,2):RAM(KO.KS,3)
2670 ND! KS 220
LPRINT "
2690 NEXT KO
2700 LPRINT CHRS(12) 2710 LPRINT ' --------- CALCULATED NUSSELT NUMBER, NUEX=0.0/(A.K.OT), CC/0 =
';CCS;"
2720 LPRINT "
2730 FOR 0=1 10 IND
2740 LPRINT Q =';0(KO);"URIT'
2750 LPRINT ' US/0 CYLINDER 11 CYLINDER 12 CYLINDER 13 2760 FOR KS=1 TO KUS 2770 IF KS=KUS THEN 60T0 2800 2780 LPRINT USING ' 11.111 1111111.1111 1111114.1111 1111111.1111'
;US(KS);NDEX(KO,KS,1):NUEX(KO,KS,2);NNEX(KO,KS,3) 2790 60T0 2810 2800 LPRINT USIN6 ' NO al 1111111.1111 1111111.1111 1111111.1111"
;NUEX(KO,KS,1):NUEX(KO,KS,2);NUEX(K0,0,3)
2810 NEXT KS
2820 LPRINT "
2830 NEXT KO 2840 LPRINT CHR$(12)
289 RETURN 221
APPENDIXD UNCERTAINTYANALYSIS
Thissectionwilladdresstheuncertaintyintheexperimental
valuesoftheaverageNusseltnumberforthecylinders. The
uncertaintyinanexperimentalresult,91,where91=f(X1,X2, . .
,Xn),wasevaluatedbyusingthefollowingequation,Holman[D.1]:
211/2
891
°31
T72 c°2]
2
±
"4 83Cn (1111] (D.1)
whereX1,X2, . ,Xnaretheindependentvariablesofthe
experimentalresult91 ,and(01,(02, . ,con aretheiruncertainty
values,respectively.
TocalculatetheuncertaintyintheaverageNusseltnumber,
Nu,ofthecylinders,thedefinitionofNu ,asshowninequation
3.2,shouldbeconsidered.
QD
Nu=
AK -Tind
WhereA=IIDL and V2
Q=IV= R1
ByassumingAT=Tw -Tinf , TheaverageNusseltnumber
becomes V2
Nu f(V,R1,L ,AT,K)
(R1LIIATK)
222
(D.2)
Therfore,theuncertaintyintheaverageNusseltnumber,
c°Nu
,can becalculated fromequation(D.1)asfollows
-2
F
L
8Nu
_I L
8Nu 2 8u
°Nu
8y 8R1 8L +
1/2
[8Nu ]2 8N11 12 (D.3)
WK
SK
Thepartialderivativetermsinthisequationwereevaluated
fromequation(D.2)asshownbelow:
SNu 2V
8V R1LIIATK
8Nu V2
SRI R12LIIATK
8Nu V2
81-
R1L2IIATK
SNu V2
SOT
R1LIIAT2K
8Nu V2
81(
R1L ATK2
Substitutingthesetermsinequation(D.3),theuncertaintyinNu
is or
C°Nu
Nu
v2 2 2 1 2 1
R1LlIATk CV °)v [R1 c°R1 L(13/- +
1 -12 coKi2
L
AT .1 Lk j
2
CON/
[R11 coR1
2
÷
[7-1
1'
223
I 2 1/2
(D.4)
MT [TA [kcoK
Consideringthefollowingconditions :
V =23.0Volts ±0.01%
R1=1.0Ohm +5.00%
AT=100.0 °C +0.5%
K=0.029181 W/m.k ±0.5%
L =0.254 m +0,01%
theuncertaintiesintheseindependentvariableswere,
cov=0.023 Volt
coRi=0.05 Ohm
coA z-xT
=0.5 °C
coK=0.0001459 W/m.K
coL=0.000025 224
Substitutingfor V,R1,L, andKandtheiruncertaintyvaluesin
equation(D.4),theuncertaintypercentagewas
coNu
Nu
=5.0%
D.1
Holman,J.P.,"ExperimentalMethodsforEngineers",4th
Edition,McGraw-HillBookCompany,NewYork. |
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This is one that you could answer yourself with a bit of thought:
In terms of n n, what's the minimum number of triangles you can divide a convex polygon with n n sides into?
Note that you can do this by picking a vertex and drawing diagonals from it to each other vertex it is not already connected to (because the polygon is convex). How many such diagonals can be drawn? How many triangles are made by this process?
In drawing the minimum number of triangles, you ensure that every angle of every triangle makes up part of one of the polygon's interior angles. As such, the interior angle sum is just the
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This is one that you could answer yourself with a bit of thought:
In terms of n n, what's the minimum number of triangles you can divide a convex polygon with n n sides into?
Note that you can do this by picking a vertex and drawing diagonals from it to each other vertex it is not already connected to (because the polygon is convex). How many such diagonals can be drawn? How many triangles are made by this process?
In drawing the minimum number of triangles, you ensure that every angle of every triangle makes up part of one of the polygon's interior angles. As such, the interior angle sum is just the sum of the triangles’ angles. What is the interior angle sum of a triangle?
Given the number of triangles you made and the angle sum of a triangle, what is the interior angle sum you seek?
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To understand the sum of interior angles in a polygon, we should be aware of the following
The sum of all interior angles in a triangle is 180 180 deg
Sum of all angles around a point is 360 360 deg
The proof of the first property is fairly simple. Refer to the diagram below :
Next, let’s consider a pentagon. Let P be an interior point. Now, by connecting all the sides to this point we can form 5 tria
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To understand the sum of interior angles in a polygon, we should be aware of the following
The sum of all interior angles in a triangle is 180 180 deg
Sum of all angles around a point is 360 360 deg
The proof of the first property is fairly simple. Refer to the diagram below :
Next, let’s consider a pentagon. Let P be an interior point. Now, by connecting all the sides to this point we can form 5 triangles as shown in the figure. Sum of interior angles of the pentagon will be = sum of int. angles of all the triangles - sum of angles around the point.
i.e,S=5×180−360 S=5×180−360
This concept can be extended to the general case of n-sided polygon...
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The sum of the interior angles of a convex polygon can be calculated using the formula:
Sum of interior angles=(n−2)×180∘Sum of interior angles=(n−2)×180∘
where n n is the number of sides of the polygon.
For example:
A triangle (3 sides): (3−2)×180∘=180∘(3−2)×180∘=180∘
A quadrilateral (4 sides): (4−2)×180∘=360∘(4−2)×180∘=360∘
A pentagon (5 sides): (5−2)×180∘=540∘(5−2)×180∘=540∘
So, just plug in the number of sides to find the sum of the interior angles for any convex polygon!
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A polynomial with n sides has (n−2)∗180(n−2)∗180 .
So for triangle its 180.
For square its 360 . And so on .
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Google easily finds this site - which states that:
If a convex polygon has n sides, then its interior angle sum is given by the following equation: S = ( n −2) × 180°. (Where S is the angle-sum, and n is the number of sides).
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Sum of the interior angles of a convex polygon is given by (n-2)180° where n is the number of sides.
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The sum the measure of the interior angle of a convex polygon is given. What is the number of sides? Show your solution.
N = 2+S/180
The sum of interior angles in degrees, S, of an N-sided convex polygon can be given as:
S = 180(N-2)
By re-arranging this to make N the subject we get:
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But that could be days, weeks or months away. For now, simply take time out each day to do this practice. When you become overwhelmed, and surely you will at the beginning, change up and do something that brings you relaxation and joy. Take a bath, spend time with a good friend, watch your favourite TV show, go for a walk, do exercise. When you are sufficiently filled, go back into the dark and sit there i.e. be conscious with it. You can be sure that when the work is done, the sun will shine again, and the darkness will recede back into the depths of your being. Then the spiritual growth can begin.
Best of luck.
If you have just started your narcissistic abuse recovery journey, check out How To Kill A Narcissist. Or if you wish to immunise yourself against narcissists and move on for good, take a look at How To Bury A Narcissist.
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What is the sum of interior angles?
Let n be # of sides When nsides endpoints are joined with centre of nsided polygon there will be n triangle each with angle sum = 180° so n triangle sum =180n° this sum includes 360° around centre of polygon as central angle sum .Subtracting 360° we get sum of all n interior angles = 180n°-360°
=180(n-2)°
sum of all n interior angles =180(n-2)°
Equilateral triangle n=3 —-> 180(3–2) =180°
square n=4 —-> 180(4–2) =1802=360°
pentagon n=5 —-> 180(5–2)=1803 =540°
octagon =n=8—-> 180(8–2)=1806 =1080° and so on
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If a polygon has 6 sides, what is the sum of its interior angle?
Any polygon will have interior angles (n-2)180 where n is the number of sides.
Works for anything. Triangle? n-2 = 1 and if you multiply that by 180 you get 180.
Square? n-2 = 2 and 2 X 180 = 360.
Pentagon? 3 X 180 = 540.
For a hexagon then, n-2 = 4 and 4 X 180 =720.
Seven hundred and twenty degrees. One little equation, works for ’em all. Job done.
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Any polygon will have interior angles (n-2)180 where n is the number of sides.
Works for anything. Triangle? n-2 = 1 and if you multiply that by 180 you get 180.
Square? n-2 = 2 and 2 X 180 = 360.
Pentagon? 3 X 180 = 540.
For a hexagon then, n-2 = 4 and 4 X 180 =720.
Seven hundred and twenty degrees. One little equation, works for ’em all. Job done.
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What is the sum of the interior angles of a polygon?
n = the number of sides/vertices of the polygon.
sum = 180°(n-2)
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This answer assumes that your octagon is convex (which you confirm) and is an element of a flat plane (Euclidean, which you don't state but it seems implied).
Pick a point on the octagon (it doesn't matter which one). That point will have two line segments attached to the two adjacent points of the octagon. Now connect your point to all the other five points with five line segments. You can show that you have now created 6 triangles. They can be of any type (acute, right, obtuse, equilateral, isosceles, scalene) depending on the shape of your polygon (it doesn't have to be regular for this to w
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This answer assumes that your octagon is convex (which you confirm) and is an element of a flat plane (Euclidean, which you don't state but it seems implied).
Pick a point on the octagon (it doesn't matter which one). That point will have two line segments attached to the two adjacent points of the octagon. Now connect your point to all the other five points with five line segments. You can show that you have now created 6 triangles. They can be of any type (acute, right, obtuse, equilateral, isosceles, scalene) depending on the shape of your polygon (it doesn't have to be regular for this to work). Since the sum of all three angles of a straight, Euclidean triangle is 180°, and you have 6 of them, the total angle measures of you add them all is 6180°=1080°.
As stated above, this works for any convex, Euclidean octagon, but not only that, it will work for any convex, Euclidean polygon. The total number of triangles you can create is always the number of vertices (points) you have minus the adjacent two points. So the total angles in any polygon of n sides (or verticies) is equal to (n-2)(180°).
If you allow the plane or the lines to bend, the sums of the angles could be more or less than this amount.
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What is the sum of the interior angles of a triangle?
Do a little practical.
Start with a triangle and bend one vertex down to meet the opposite side.
Now all the equivalent vertex angles sum to a straight line angle = 180º Answer
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Start with a triangle and bend one vertex down to meet the opposite side.
Now all the equivalent vertex angles sum to a straight line angle = 180º Answer
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The magnitude of vector C will be .
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Given:
vector A+ vector B = Vector C .
The angle between Vector A and B is 120 degree.
To Find:
The magnitude of vector C.
Solution:
As given-vector A+ vector B = Vector C.
Vector C is resultant vector of vector A and vector B.
Magnitude of vector A = A , Magnitude of vector A
Magnitude of vector C =C
As given -the angle between Vector A and B is 120 degree.
Thus,the magnitude of vector C will be.
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In real estate finance, EAR stands for Effective Annual Rate. This term helps compare the annual interest rates between loans with different compounding periods. Unlike the nominal interest rate, which does not account for the frequency of compounding within a year, the EAR does. This makes the EAR a more accurate measure of the true cost of borrowing or the true return on investment.
The formula to calculate EAR from a nominal interest rate (also known as the annual percentage rate, or APR) is below:
EAR (Effective Annual Rate) = (1 + (APR / n))^n - 1
where:
APR is the annual percentage rate or nominal interest rate.
n is the number of compounding periods per year.
The EAR takes into account the effect of compound interest, which can significantly increase the amount of interest paid over the life of a loan or the return on an investment. For example, if a loan has an APR of 12% compounded monthly, its EAR would be higher than 12%, reflecting the additional interest accrued from the monthly compounding.
In real estate finance, understanding the EAR helps investors and financiers accurately compare different financial products or investment opportunities that might have varying compounding intervals (e.g., monthly, quarterly, or annually).
Frequently Asked Questions About EAR
What is the difference between EAR and APR?
APR (Annual Percentage Rate) represents the yearly interest rate without taking compounding into account, while EAR (Effective Annual Rate) includes the effect of compounding within the year, offering a true reflection of the annual interest rate.
Why is EAR higher than APR?
EAR typically exceeds APR because it incorporates the compounding effect of interest within the year. Compounding increases the total interest paid or earned over a period, making the EAR a more accurate measure of the cost or return on investment.
How can EAR be used to compare investment opportunities?
EAR provides a standardized measure of annual return, taking into account the compounding effect, making it easier to compare different investment opportunities or loan terms that might have various compounding frequencies.
Can EAR be the same as APR?
EAR and APR can be the same if interest is compounded annually (once per year), as there would be no additional compounding effects within the year to alter the interest calculation.
How does the compounding frequency affect EAR?
The more frequently interest is compounded within a year (e.g., monthly, quarterly), the higher the EAR will be compared to the APR. This is because more frequent compounding periods result in interest being calculated on previously accrued interest more often.
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A monomial is a number, a variable or a product of a number and a variable where all exponents are non-negative whole numbers. That means that
$$42, \: 5x, \: 14x^{12}, \: 2pq$$
all are examples of monomials whereas
$$4+y, \: \frac{5}{y}, \: 14^{x}, \: 2pq^{-2}$$
are not since these numbers don't fulfill all criteria.
The degree of the monomial is the sum of the exponents of all included variables. Constants have the monomial degree of 0.
If we look at our examples above we can see that
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| Monomial | Degree |
| 42 | 0 |
| 5x | 0 + 1 = 1 |
| 14x12 | 0 + 12 = 12 |
| 2pq | 0 + 1 + 1 = 2 |
A polynomial as oppose to the monomial is a sum of monomials where each monomial is called a term. The degree of the polynomial is the greatest degree of its terms. A polynomial is usually written with the term with the highest exponent of the variable first and then decreasing from left to right. The first term of a polynomial is called the leading coefficient.
$$4x^{5}+2x^{2}-14x+12$$
Polynomial just means that we've got a sum of many monomials. If we have a polynomial consisting of only two terms we could instead call it a binomial and a polynomial consisting of three terms can also be called a trinomial.
Example
What's the degree of the following polynomials?
$$x^{2}+x$$
The first monomial has a degree of 2 and the second monomial has a degree of 1. The highest degree is 2 which mean that the degree of the polynomial is 2.
$$x^{4}+x^{2}+x$$
4, 2 and 1 , the highest degree is 4 which mean that the degree of the polynomial is 4.
We can add and subtract polynomials. We just add or subtract the like terms to combine the two polynomials into one.
Example
Add the polynomials.
$$({\color{green} {4x+8}})+({\color{blue} {3x+2}})$$
We take away the parentheses and group all like terms.
$${\color{green} {4x+8}}+{\color{blue} {3x+2}}$$
$${\color{green} {4x}}+{\color{blue}{3x}}+{\color{green}{ 2}}+{\color{blue} {8}}$$
We add all like terms to get the sum of the polynomials.
$$7x+10$$
Example
Subtract the polynomials.
$$({\color{green}{ 4x+8}})-({\color{blue} {3x+2}})$$
We remove the parentheses and since we got a negative sign before the second parenthesis we need to change the signs.
$${\color{green} {4x+8}}-{\color{blue}{ 3x-2}}$$
$${\color{green} {4x}}-{\color{blue} {3x}}-{\color{green} {2}}+{\color{blue} {8}}$$
Now we subtract all like terms to find the difference between the two polynomials.
$$x+6$$
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4-07 Graphs of Other Trigonometric Functions
Summary: In this section, you will:
Graph tangent, secant, cosecant, and cotangent
Graph a damped trigonometric function
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Sandhill cranes are large birds native to North America that can be almost 4 feet high when they stand. They migrate between the southern United States and southern Canada, although they have occasionally been spotted in Great Britain and China. Pretend you are standing in your yard as a sandhill crane flies over. Trigonometric functions can be used to calculate the distance between you and the crane. This lesson is about sketching graphs of the other trigonometric functions.
Graph the Tangent and Cotangent Functions
The process for graphing the other trigonometric functions is almost the same as sketching the graph of sine or cosine like in lesson 4-06. There are two main differences: the shape of the graph and the period of tangent and cotangent.
There is no amplitude for tangent and cotangent, but there is still a vertical stretch that takes the place of amplitude.
A graph of y = tan x is given in figure 2. Notice there are asymptotes for angles where tangent is undefined, such as x=–π2 and x=π2. Key points are (–π4,–1), (0,0), and (π4,1). The shape of the tangent graph repeats every π instead of the 2π of sine and cosine, so the period of tangent is π.
A graph of y = cot x is given in figure 3. Notice there are asymptotes for angles where cotangent is undefined, such as x = 0 and x = π. Key points are (π4,1), (π2,0), and (3π4,–1). The shape of the cotangent graph repeats every π like tangent, so the period of cotangent is π.
Transformations of Tangent and Cotangent: y = a tan(bx – c) + d and y = a cot(bx – c) + d
Vertical Stretch = | a | (if a < 0, the graph is inverted.)
Period: T=πb
Phase Shift: PS=cb (if c > 0, shifts right)
Midline: y = d
How to Sketch a Tangent or Cotangent Graph
Identify the vertical stretch, period, phase shift, and midline.
Draw the midline, y = d.
Use the vertical stretch to label the inflection point heights on the y-axis.
Use the period and phase shift to find and plot the 5 key points (two asymptotes, a zero, and two inflection points).
Draw the graph
Sketch a Tangent Graph
Sketch the graph of y=tan(πx−π2).
Solution
Compare y=tan(πx−π2) to y = a tan(bx – c) + d.
a = 1
b = π
c = π2
d = 0
The midline is y = d, so y = 0. There is no vertical shift.
The vertical stretch is 1, so label the y-axis so the inflection point of the curve is 1 above the midline, 1, and the other inflection point is 1 below the midline, −1.
The period is
T=πb
T=ππ
T=1
The phase shift is
PS=cb
PS=π2π
PS=12
The middle key point for tangent is at (0, 0), but it has shifted right 12, so it is (12,0). The asymptotes are half a period on either side of the middle key point, x = 0 and x = 1. The left inflection point is halfway between the 1st asymptote and the middle key point with height of the vertical stretch below the midline, (14,−1). The other inflection point is halfway between the middle key point and right asymptote and the height of the vertical shift above the midline, (34,1).
Sketch the tangent curve through the key points and continue the shape so it repeats at either end.
Sketch a Cotangent Graph
Sketch the graph of y = 2 cot(x) + 1.
Solution
Compare y = 2 cot(x) + 1 to y = a cot(bx – c) + d.
a = 2
b = 1
c = 0
d = 1
The midline is y = d, so y = 1. There is no vertical shift.
The vertical stretch is 2, so label the y-axis so the inflection point of the curve is 2 above the midline, 3, and the other inflection point is 2 below the midline, −1.
The period is
T=πb
T=π1
T=π
The phase shift is
PS=cb
PS=01
PS=0
The left asymptote is at the origin, but shifted the phase shift, x = 0. The other asymptote is the period to the right, x = π. The middle key point for cotangent is half way between the asymptotes on the midline, (π2,0). The left inflection point is halfway between the 1st asymptote and the middle key point with height of the vertical stretch above the midline, (π2,3). The other inflection point is halfway between the middle key point and right asymptote and the height of the vertical shift below the midline, (3π2,−1).
Sketch the cotangent curve through the key points and continue the shape so it repeats at either end.
Sketch a graph of y=2tan(x−π2).
Answer
Graph of Secant and Cosecant
Secant and cosecant are reciprocals of cosine and sine respectively, so their graphs should be related. Secant is graphed in figure 6a and cosecant is in figure 7a. Notice the graphs are identical except for a phase shift of π2. Figure 6b graphs both secant and cosine on the same graph. Notice that x-intercepts on the cosine graph correspond to asymptotes on the secant graph. This is because the functions are reciprocals. The reciprocal of 0 is 10 which is undefined. Also notice, that when cosine is 1, secant is also 1. Again this is because of the reciprocal relationship; the reciprocal of 1 is 1. The same pattern exists between cosecant and sine as in figure 7b.
The period of both secant and cosecant is 2π like sine and cosine. There is no amplitude for secant and cosecant, but there is a vertical stretch that is used instead.
Transformations of Secant and Cosecant: y = a sec(bx – c) + d and y = a csc(bx – c) + d
Vertical stretch = | a | (if a < 0, the graph is inverted.)
Period: T=2πb
Phase Shift: PS=cb (if c > 0, shifts right)
Midline: y = d
How to Sketch a Secant or Cosecant Graph
Start by sketching basic shape of the reciprocal (sine or cosine) function.
Draw asymptotes at all the places the sine or cosine function crosses the midline.
Sketch the basic shape of the secant or cosecant graph.
Sketch a Graph of Secant
Sketch a graph of y=sec(πx+π2).
Solution
Compare y=sec(πx+π2) to y = a sec(bx – c) + d.
a = 1
b = π
c = −π2
d = 0
Since, the desired function is secant, start by sketching the reciprocal function, cosine. Then, sketch the basic secant graph, the asymptotes are where the cosine graph crosses the x-axis.
The midline is y = d, so y = 0 which is the x-axis.
The amplitude is 1, so label the y-axis so the maximum of the curve is 1 above the midline, 1, and the minimum is 1 below the midline, −1.
The period is
T=2πb
T=2ππ
T=2
The phase shift is
PS=cb
PS=−π2π
PS=−12
The first key points for cosine is at (0, a), but it has shifted left 12, so it is (−12,1). The fifth key point is one period to the right or at (\left(-\frac{1}{2} + 2, 1) = (\frac{3}{2}, 1). These are the maximums. The minimum is the middle key point and is halfway between the 1st and 5th key points but an amplitude below the midline, (12,−1). One zero is halfway between the 1st and 3rd key points on the midline, (0, 0). The other zero is halfway between the 3rd and 5th key points on the midline, (1, 0).
Sketch the sine curve through the key points and continue the shape so it repeats at either end.
Draw the vertical asymptotes everywhere the cosine graph crosses the midline, x-axis. The draw the secant shaped graph so that it touches the minimums and maximums of the cosine graph.
Sketch a Graph of Cosecant
Sketch a graph of y=12csc(x)−1.
Solution
Compare y=12csc(x)−1 to y = a sec(bx – c) + d.
a = ½
b = 1
c = 0
d = –1
Since, the desired function is cosecant, start by sketching the reciprocal function, sine. Then, sketch the basic cosecant graph, the asymptotes are where the sine graph crosses the x-axis.
The midline is y = d, so y = −1. Draw this line on the graph as a light dotted line.
The amplitude is ½, so label the y-axis so the maximum of the curve is ½ above the midline, −½, and the minimum is ½ below the midline, −3/2.
The period is
T=2πb
T=2π1
T=2π
The phase shift is
PS=cb
PS=01
PS=0
The first key points for sine is at (0, 0), but it has shifted down 1, so it is (0, −1). The fifth key point is one period to the right or at (2π, −1). The middle key point is halfway between the 1st and 5th key points, (π, −1). The maximum is halfway between the 1st and 3rd key points and the amplitude higher, (π2,−12). The minimum is halfway between the 3rd and 5th key points and the amplitude lower, (3π2,−32).
Sketch the sine curve through the key points and continue the shape so it repeats at either end.
Draw the vertical asymptotes everywhere the cosine graph crosses the midline, x-axis. The draw the secant shaped graph so that it touches the minimums and maximums of the cosine graph.
Sketch a graph of y=csc(π2x).
Answer
Damped Trigonometric Functions
Trigonometric functions can be modified, or damped, by multiplying it by another function. The graph of sine or cosine is then constrained between the damping function and its x-axis reflection.
Graph of a Damped Sine or Cosine Function
Identify the damping function and the trigonometric function.
Graph the damping function and its reflection over the x-axis.
Graph the sine or cosine function using the damping function as the amplitude.
Graph a Damped Cosine Function
Sketch a graph of y = x cos x.
Solution
The damping function is y = x and the trigonometric function is y = cos x. Start by graphing y = x. Then reflect the graph over the x-axis. Then graph y = cos x, but the minimums and maximums are at the y = x and y = –x lines.
Graph a Damped Sine Function
Sketch a graph of y = x2 sin x.
Solution
The damping function is y = x2. Start by graphing y = x2 and its reflection over the x-axis, y = –x2. Then graph y = sin x, but the minimums and maximums are at the y = x2 and y = –x2 curves.
Sketch a graph of y = ex sin x.
Answer
Lesson Summary
y = a tan(bx – c) + d and y = a cot(bx – c) + d
Vertical Stretch = | a | (if a < 0, the graph is inverted.)
Period: T=πb
Phase Shift: PS=cb (if c > 0, shifts right)
Midline: y = d
How to Sketch a Tangent or Cotangent Graph
Identify the vertical stretch, period, phase shift, and midline.
Draw the midline, y = d.
Use the vertical stretch to label the inflection point heights on the y-axis.
Use the period and phase shift to find and plot the 5 key points (two asymptotes, a zero, and two inflection points).
Draw the graph
y = a sec(bx – c) + d and y = a csc(bx – c) + d
Vertical stretch = | a | (if a < 0, the graph is inverted.)
Period: T=2πb
Phase Shift: PS=cb (if c > 0, shifts right)
Midline: y = d
How to Sketch a Secant or Cosecant Graph
Start by sketching basic shape of the reciprocal (sine or cosine) function.
Draw asymptotes at all the places the sine or cosine function crosses the midline.
Sketch the basic shape of the secant or cosecant graph.
Graph of a Damped Sine or Cosine Function
Identify the damping function and the trigonometric function.
Graph the damping function and its reflection over the x-axis.
Graph the sine or cosine function using the damping function as the amplitude.
Helpful videos about this lesson.
Mr. Wright Teaches the Lesson (
Graphing the Tangent Function (
Graphing Cosecant and Secant Functions (
Graphing the Cotangent Function (
Practice Exercises
Explain how the graph of cosine can be used to graph secant.
Sketch two periods of the graph of the function. Identify the stretching factor, period, and horizontal shift.
n(x) = 2 sec(πx)
p(x)=tan(π2x−π4)
r(x)=12cot(x)
t(x) = −3 csc (2πx)
f(x)=2tan(x−π8)
y = sec(4x) + 2
Write an equation for the graph.
Use a graphing calculator to graph two periods of the given function. Note: most graphing calculators do not have a cosecant button; therefore, you will need to input csc x as 1sinx.
f(x) = |sec(x)|
f(x) = cot(x)tan(x)
Graph the damped trigonometric function.
y=12xsin(x)
f(x) = |x| cos (x)
Mixed Review
(4-06) Graph two full periods of f(x) = 2 sin(πx).
(4-06) Graph two full periods of g(x)=cos(2x−12).
(4-05) Evaluate cot17π6 using reference angles.
(4-03) Evaluate all six trigonometric functions of π3 using special right triangles.
(4-02) Evaluate all six trigonometric functions of 5π4 using the unit circle.
Answers
Since y = sec x is the reciprocal function of y = cos x, plot the reciprocal of the coordinates on the graph of y = cos x to obtain the y-coordinates of y = sec x. The x-intercepts of the graph y = cos x are the vertical asymptotes for the graph of y = sec x.
; Stretching factor = 2; Period = 2; Horizontal shift = 0
; Stretching factor = 1; Period = 2; Horizontal shift = \frac{1}{2}) to the right.
; Stretching factor = 12; Period = π; Horizontal shift = 0.
; Stretching factor = 3; Period = 1; Horizontal shift = 0.
; Stretching factor = 2; Period = π; Horizontal shift = π8 to the right.
; Stretching factor = 1; Period = π2; Horizontal shift = 0.
y = cot(πx)
y=csc(12x)
y = sec(4x)
y = 2 csc(x)
−3–√
sinπ3=3√2cscπ3=23√3cosπ3=12secπ3=2tanπ3=3–√cotπ3=3√3
sin5π4=−2√2csc5π4=−2–√cos5π4=−2√2sec5π4=−2–√tan5π4=1cot5π4=1 |
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The imaginary unit, represented by the lower-case letter (or possibly , or even the Greek letter [iota]), is the basis of the imaginary number line, or imaginary continuum.
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or
: .
However, because the square root of a negative number is undefined in the real numbers, there is no way to distinguish between these two values. Fortunately, one need not decide which value "really" represents the imaginary unit, since all mathematical statements are just as valid when is replaced by .
By considering all real multiples of the imaginary unit (that is, , where is any real number), one arrives at the set of imaginary numbers.
Furthermore, the set of all sums of real and imaginary numbers constitutes the complex numbers.
See the Imaginary number and Complex number articles for more information about the "usefulness" of including such numbers in mathematics, as well as their properties.
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In acoustics, a beat is an interference between two sounds of slightly different frequencies, perceived as periodic variations in volume whose rate is the difference between the two frequencies.
For example, if on an electric guitar the two treblest strings, B and E, are plucked, the ear can hear the two notes separately, and realizes that the total sound is even pleasant. If the E string is loosened more and more, to lower its frequency down to the B, for some time one will be able continue to hear two sounds, more or less harmonic. When the two strings have the same frequency, of course one sound will be heard; but just before there will be a strange effect: one sound will be heard, but its volume will appear to change over time, regularly alternating between louder and quieter.
The reason of this phenomenon is tied to acoustics. If a graph is drawn to show the function corresponding to the total sound of two strings, it can be seen that maxima and minima are no longer constant as when a pure note is played, but change over time: when the two waves are nearly 180 degrees out of phase the maxima of each cancel the minima of the other, whereas when they are nearly in phase their maxima sum up, raising the perceived volume.
Physics of beat tones
It can be proven that the successive values of maxima and minima form a wave whose frequency equals the difference between the two starting waves. To demonstrate the simplest case, between two sine waves of equal amplitude:
a sin(2 π f 1 t)+a sin(2 π f 2 t)=2 a cos(2 π f 1−f 2 2 t)sin(2 π f 1+f 2 2 t){\displaystyle a\sin(2\pi f_{1}t)+a\sin(2\pi f_{2}t)=2a\cos \left(2\pi {\frac {f_{1}-f_{2}}{2}}t\right)\sin \left(2\pi {\frac {f_{1}+f_{2}}{2}}t\right)}
If the two starting frequencies are quite close (usually differences of the order of few hertz), the frequency of the cosine of the right side of the expression above, that is (f 1−f 2)/2 is too slow to be perceived as a pitch. Instead, it is perceived as a periodic variation of the sine in the expression above (it can be said, the cosine factor is an envelope for the sine wave), whose frequency is (f 1+f 2)/2, that is, the average of the two frequencies. Since the amplitude of that wave is |2 a cos(2 π f 1−f 2 2 t)|{\displaystyle \left|2a\cos \left(2\pi {\frac {f_{1}-f_{2}}{2}}t\right)\right|}, which in the period of (f 1−f 2)/2 reaches values 2 a and 0 twice, there will be two beats per such period. That is, the beating frequency is f 1−f 2, the difference between the two starting frequencies.
A physical interpretation is that when cos(2 π f 1−f 2 2 t){\displaystyle \cos \left(2\pi {\frac {f_{1}-f_{2}}{2}}t\right)} equals one, the two waves are in phase and they interfere constructively. When it is zero, they are out of phase and interfere destructively. Beats occour also in more complex sounds, or in sounds of different volumes, though calculating them mathematically is not so easy.
When the two waves are in unisonf = 0 and as the difference between f 1 and f 2 increases, the speed increases until beyond a certain proximity (usu. about 15 Hz) beating becomes undetectable and a roughness is heard instead, after which the two pitches are perceived as separate. Beating can also be heard between notes that are near to, but not exactly, a harmonicinterval, due to some harmonic of the first note beating with a harmonic of the second note. For example, in the case of perfect fifth, the third harmonic (i.e. second overtone) of the bass note beats with the second harmonic (first overtone) of the other note.
Musicians commonly use interference beats to objectively check tuning at the unison, perfect fifth, or other simple harmonic intervals.
Binaural beats
Binaural beats are heard when the right ear listens to a slightly different tone than the left ear. Here, the tones do not interfere physically, but are summed by the brain in the olivary nucleus. This effect is related to the brain's ability to locate sounds in three dimensions. There are also those who believe that the beats can be used to "entrain" the brain to a desired state.
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16.2 A Qualitative Description of Acid–Base Equilibriums
Learning Objectives
To understand the concept of conjugate acid–base pairs.
To know the relationship between acid or base strength and the magnitude of K a, K b, p K a, and p K b.
To understand the leveling effect.
We now turn our attention to acid–base reactions to see how the concepts of chemical equilibrium and equilibrium constants can deepen our understanding of this kind of chemical behavior. We begin with a qualitative description of acid–base equilibriums in terms of the Brønsted–Lowry model and then proceed to a quantitative description in Section 16.4 "Quantitative Aspects of Acid–Base Equilibriums".
Conjugate Acid–Base Pairs
We discussed the concept of conjugate acid–base pairs in Chapter 4 "Reactions in Aqueous Solution", using the reaction of ammonia, the base, with water, the acid, as an example. In aqueous solutions, acids and bases can be defined in terms of the transfer of a proton from an acid to a base. Thus for every acidic species in an aqueous solution, there exists a species derived from the acid by the loss of a proton. These two species that differ by only a proton constitute a conjugate acid–base pairAn acid and a base that differ by only one hydrogen ion.. For example, in the reaction of HCl with water (Equation 16.1), HCl, the parent acid, donates a proton to a water molecule, the parent base, thereby forming Cl−. Thus HCl and Cl− constitute a conjugate acid–base pair. By convention, we always write a conjugate acid–base pair as the acid followed by its conjugate base. In the reverse reaction, the Cl− ion in solution acts as a base to accept a proton from H 3 O+, forming H 2 O and HCl. Thus H 3 O+ and H 2 O constitute a second conjugate acid–base pair. In general, any acid–base reaction must contain two conjugate acid–base pairs, which in this case are HCl/Cl− and H 3 O+/H 2 O.
Note the Pattern
All acid–base reactions contain two conjugate acid–base pairs.
Similarly, in the reaction of acetic acid with water, acetic acid donates a proton to water, which acts as the base. In the reverse reaction, H 3 O+ is the acid that donates a proton to the acetate ion, which acts as the base. Once again, we have two conjugate acid–base pairs: the parent acid and its conjugate base (CH 3 CO 2 H/CH 3 CO 2−) and the parent base and its conjugate acid (H 3 O+/H 2 O).
In the reaction of ammonia with water to give ammonium ions and hydroxide ions (Equation 16.3), ammonia acts as a base by accepting a proton from a water molecule, which in this case means that water is acting as an acid. In the reverse reaction, an ammonium ion acts as an acid by donating a proton to a hydroxide ion, and the hydroxide ion acts as a base. The conjugate acid–base pairs for this reaction are NH 4+/NH 3 and H 2 O/OH−. Some common conjugate acid–base pairs are shown in Figure 16.2 "The Relative Strengths of Some Common Conjugate Acid–Base Pairs".
Figure 16.2 The Relative Strengths of Some Common Conjugate Acid–Base Pairs
The strongest acids are at the bottom left, and the strongest bases are at the top right. The conjugate base of a strong acid is a very weak base, and, conversely, the conjugate acid of a strong base is a very weak acid.
Acid–Base Equilibrium Constants: K a, K b, p K a, and p K b
The magnitude of the equilibrium constant for an ionization reaction can be used to determine the relative strengths of acids and bases. For example, the general equation for the ionization of a weak acid in water, where HA is the parent acid and A− is its conjugate base, is as follows:
Equation 16.14
HA(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌H 3 O+(aq)+A−(aq)HA(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌H 3 O+(aq)+A−(aq)
The equilibrium constant for this dissociation is as follows:
Equation 16.15
K=[H 3 O+][A−][H 2 O][HA]K=[H 3 O+][A−][H 2 O][HA]
As we noted earlier, the concentration of water is essentially constant for all reactions in aqueous solution, so [H 2 O] in Equation 16.15 can be incorporated into a new quantity, the acid ionization constant (K a)An equilibrium constant for the ionization (dissociation) of a weak acid (HA) with water, HA(aq)HA(aq) + H 2 O(l)H 2 O(l) ⇌ H 3 O(aq)H 3 O(aq) + A−(aq),A−(aq), in which the concentration of water is treated as a constant: K a K a = [H 3 O+][A−]/[HA].[H 3 O+][A−]/[HA]., also called the acid dissociation constant:
Equation 16.16
K a=K[H 2 O]=[H 3 O+][A−][HA]K a=K[H 2 O]=[H 3 O+][A−][HA]
Thus the numerical values of K and K a differ by the concentration of water (55.3 M). Again, for simplicity, H 3 O+ can be written as H+ in Equation 16.16. Keep in mind, though, that free H+ does not exist in aqueous solutions and that a proton is transferred to H 2 O in all acid ionization reactions to form H 3 O+. The larger the K a, the stronger the acid and the higher the H+ concentration at equilibrium.Like all equilibrium constants, acid–base ionization constants are actually measured in terms of the activities of H+ or OH−, thus making them unitless. The values of K a for a number of common acids are given in Table 16.2 "Values of ".
Table 16.2 Values of K a, p K a, K b, and p K b for Selected Acids (HA) and Their Conjugate Bases (A−)
| Acid | HA | K a | p K a | A− | K b | p K b |
:---: :---: :---:
| hydroiodic acid | HI | 2×10 9 | −9.3 | I− | 5.5×10−24 | 23.26 |
| sulfuric acid (1) | H 2 SO 4 | 1×10 2 | −2.0 | HSO 4− | 1×10−16 | 16.0 |
| nitric acid | HNO 3 | 2.3×10 1 | −1.37 | NO 3− | 4.3×10−16 | 15.37 |
| hydronium ion | H 3 O+ | 1.0 | 0.00 | H 2 O | 1.0×10−14 | 14.00 |
| sulfuric acid (2) | HSO 4− | 1.0×10−2 | 1.99 | SO 4 2− | 9.8×10−13 | 12.01 |
| hydrofluoric acid | HF | 6.3×10−4 | 3.20 | F− | 1.6×10−11 | 10.80 |
| nitrous acid | HNO 2 | 5.6×10−4 | 3.25 | NO 2− | 1.8×10−11 | 10.75 |
| formic acid | HCO 2 H | 1.78×10−4 | 3.750 | HCO 2− | 5.6×10−11 | 10.25 |
| benzoic acid | C 6 H 5 CO 2 H | 6.3×10−5 | 4.20 | C 6 H 5 CO 2− | 1.6×10−10 | 9.80 |
| acetic acid | CH 3 CO 2 H | 1.7×10−5 | 4.76 | CH 3 CO 2− | 5.8×10−10 | 9.24 |
| pyridinium ion | C 5 H 5 NH+ | 5.9×10−6 | 5.23 | C 5 H 5 N | 1.7×10−9 | 8.77 |
| hypochlorous acid | HOCl | 4.0×10−8 | 7.40 | OCl− | 2.5×10−7 | 6.60 |
| hydrocyanic acid | HCN | 6.2×10−10 | 9.21 | CN− | 1.6×10−5 | 4.79 |
| ammonium ion | NH 4+ | 5.6×10−10 | 9.25 | NH 3 | 1.8×10−5 | 4.75 |
| water | H 2 O | 1.0×10−14 | 14.00 | OH− | 1.00 | 0.00 |
| acetylene | C 2 H 2 | 1×10−26 | 26.0 | HC 2− | 1×10 12 | −12.0 |
| ammonia | NH 3 | 1×10−35 | 35.0 | NH 2− | 1×10 21 | −21.0 |
| The number in parentheses indicates the ionization step referred to for a polyprotic acid. |
Weak bases react with water to produce the hydroxide ion, as shown in the following general equation, where B is the parent base and BH+ is its conjugate acid:
Equation 16.17
B(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌BH+(aq)+OH−(aq)B(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌BH+(aq)+OH−(aq)
The equilibrium constant for this reaction is the base ionization constant (K b)An equilibrium constant for the reaction of a weak base (B) with water, B(aq)B(aq) + H 2 O(l)H 2 O(l) ⇌ BH+(aq)BH+(aq) + OH−(aq),OH−(aq), in which the concentration of water is treated as a constant:
K b K b
=
[BH+][OH−]/[B].[BH+][OH−]/[B].
, also called the base dissociation constant:
Equation 16.18
K b=K[H 2 O]=[BH+][OH−][B]K b=K[H 2 O]=[BH+][OH−][B]
Once again, the concentration of water is constant, so it does not appear in the equilibrium constant expression; instead, it is included in the K b. The larger the K b, the stronger the base and the higher the OH− concentration at equilibrium. The values of K b for a number of common weak bases are given in Table 16.3 "Values of ".
Table 16.3 Values of K b, p K b, K a, and p K a for Selected Weak Bases (B) and Their Conjugate Acids (BH+)
| Base | B | K b | p K b | BH+ | K a | p K a |
:---: :---: :---:
| hydroxide ion | OH− | 1.0 | 0.00 | H 2 O | 1.0×10−14 | 14.00 |
| phosphate ion | PO 4 3− | 2.1×10−2 | 1.68 | HPO 4 2− | 4.8×10−13 | 12.32 |
| dimethylamine | (CH 3)2 NH | 5.4×10−4 | 3.27 | (CH 3)2 NH 2+ | 1.9×10−11 | 10.73 |
| methylamine | CH 3 NH 2 | 4.6×10−4 | 3.34 | CH 3 NH 3+ | 2.2×10−11 | 10.66 |
| trimethylamine | (CH 3)3 N | 6.3×10−5 | 4.20 | (CH 3)3 NH+ | 1.6×10−10 | 9.80 |
| ammonia | NH 3 | 1.8×10−5 | 4.75 | NH 4+ | 5.6×10−10 | 9.25 |
| pyridine | C 5 H 5 N | 1.7×10−9 | 8.77 | C 5 H 5 NH+ | 5.9×10−6 | 5.23 |
| aniline | C 6 H 5 NH 2 | 7.4×10−10 | 9.13 | C 6 H 5 NH 3+ | 1.3×10−5 | 4.87 |
| water | H 2 O | 1.0×10−14 | 14.00 | H 3 O+ | 1.0 | 0.00 |
| As in Table 16.2 "Values of ". |
There is a simple relationship between the magnitude of K a for an acid and K b for its conjugate base. Consider, for example, the ionization of hydrocyanic acid (HCN) in water to produce an acidic solution, and the reaction of CN− with water to produce a basic solution:
Equation 16.19
HCN(aq)⇌H+(aq)+CN−(aq)HCN(aq)⇌H+(aq)+CN−(aq)
Equation 16.20
CN−(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌OH−(aq)+HCN(aq)CN−(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌OH−(aq)+HCN(aq)
The equilibrium constant expression for the ionization of HCN is as follows:
Equation 16.21
K a=[H+][CN−][HCN]K a=[H+][CN−][HCN]
The corresponding expression for the reaction of cyanide with water is as follows:
Equation 16.22
K b=[OH−][HCN][CN−]K b=[OH−][HCN][CN−]
If we add Equation 16.19 and Equation 16.20, we obtain the following (recall from Chapter 15 "Chemical Equilibrium" that the equilibrium constant for the sum of two reactions is the product of the equilibrium constants for the individual reactions):
HCN(aq)⇌H+(aq)+CN−(aq)CN−(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌OH−(aq)+HCN(aq)H 2 O(l)⇌H+(aq)+OH−(aq)K a=[H+][CN−]/[HCN]K b=[OH−][HCN]/[CN−]K=K a×K b=[H+][OH−]HCN(aq)⇌H+(aq)+CN−(aq)K a=[H+][CN−]/[HCN]CN−(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌OH−(aq)+HCN(aq)K b=[OH−][HCN]/[CN−]H 2 O(l)⇌H+(aq)+OH−(aq)K=K a×K b=[H+][OH−]
In this case, the sum of the reactions described by K a and K b is the equation for the autoionization of water, and the product of the two equilibrium constants is K w:
Equation 16.23
K a K b = K w
Thus if we know either K a for an acid or K b for its conjugate base, we can calculate the other equilibrium constant for any conjugate acid–base pair.
Just as with pH, pOH, and p K w, we can use negative logarithms to avoid exponential notation in writing acid and base ionization constants, by defining p K a as follows:
Equation 16.24
p K a = −log 10 K a
Equation 16.25
K a=10−p K a K a=10−p K a
and p K b as
Equation 16.26
p K b = −log 10 K b
Equation 16.27
K b=10−p K b K b=10−p K b
Similarly, Equation 16.23, which expresses the relationship between K a and K b, can be written in logarithmic form as follows:
Equation 16.28
p K a + p K b = p K w
At 25°C, this becomes
Equation 16.29
p K a + p K b = 14.00
The values of p K a and p K b are given for several common acids and bases in Table 16.2 "Values of " and Table 16.3 "Values of ", respectively, and a more extensive set of data is provided in Chapter 27 "Appendix C: Dissociation Constants and p" and Chapter 28 "Appendix D: Dissociation Constants and p". Because of the use of negative logarithms, smaller values of p K a correspond to larger acid ionization constants and hence stronger acids. For example, nitrous acid (HNO 2), with a p K a of 3.25, is about a 1000 times stronger acid than hydrocyanic acid (HCN), with a p K a of 9.21. Conversely, smaller values of p K b correspond to larger base ionization constants and hence stronger bases.
The relative strengths of some common acids and their conjugate bases are shown graphically in Figure 16.2 "The Relative Strengths of Some Common Conjugate Acid–Base Pairs". The conjugate acid–base pairs are listed in order (from top to bottom) of increasing acid strength, which corresponds to decreasing values of p K a. This order corresponds to decreasing strength of the conjugate base or increasing values of p K b. At the bottom left of Figure 16.2 "The Relative Strengths of Some Common Conjugate Acid–Base Pairs" are the common strong acids; at the top right are the most common strong bases. Notice the inverse relationship between the strength of the parent acid and the strength of the conjugate base. Thus the conjugate base of a strong acid is a very weak base, and the conjugate base of a very weak acid is a strong base.
Note the Pattern
The conjugate base of a strong acid is a weak base and vice versa.
We can use the relative strengths of acids and bases to predict the direction of an acid–base reaction by following a single rule: an acid–base equilibrium always favors the side with the weaker acid and base, as indicated by these arrows:
In an acid–base reaction, the proton always reacts with the stronger base.
For example, hydrochloric acid is a strong acid that ionizes essentially completely in dilute aqueous solution to produce H 3 O+ and Cl−; only negligible amounts of HCl molecules remain undissociated. Hence the ionization equilibrium lies virtually all the way to the right, as represented by a single arrow:
Equation 16.30
HCl(aq)+H 2 O(l)→H 3 O+(aq)+Cl−(aq)HCl(aq)+H 2 O(l)→H 3 O+(aq)+Cl−(aq)
In contrast, acetic acid is a weak acid, and water is a weak base. Consequently, aqueous solutions of acetic acid contain mostly acetic acid molecules in equilibrium with a small concentration of H 3 O+ and acetate ions, and the ionization equilibrium lies far to the left, as represented by these arrows:
Figure 16.3
Similarly, in the reaction of ammonia with water, the hydroxide ion is a strong base, and ammonia is a weak base, whereas the ammonium ion is a stronger acid than water. Hence this equilibrium also lies to the left:
Figure 16.4
Note the Pattern
All acid–base equilibriums favor the side with the weaker acid and base. Thus the proton is bound to the stronger base.
Example 2
Calculate K b and p K b of the butyrate ion (CH 3 CH 2 CH 2 CO 2−). The p K a of butyric acid at 25°C is 4.83. Butyric acid is responsible for the foul smell of rancid butter.
Calculate K a and p K a of the dimethylammonium ion [(CH 3)2 NH 2+]. The base ionization constant K b of dimethylamine [(CH 3)2 NH] is 5.4×10−4 at 25°C.
Given:p K a and K b
Asked for:corresponding K b and p K b, K a and p K a
Strategy:
The constants K a and K b are related as shown in Equation 16.23. The p K a and p K b for an acid and its conjugate base are related as shown in Equation 16.28 and Equation 16.29. Use the relationships p K = −log K and K = 10−p K (Equation 16.24 and Equation 16.26) to convert between K a and p K a or K b and p K b.
Solution:
We are given the p K a for butyric acid and asked to calculate the K b and the p K b for its conjugate base, the butyrate ion. Because the p K a value cited is for a temperature of 25°C, we can use Equation 16.29: p K a + p K b = p K w = 14.00. Substituting the p K a and solving for the p K b,
4.83+p K b p K b=14.00=14.00−4.83=9.17 4.83+p K b=14.00 p K b=14.00−4.83=9.17
Because p K b = −log K b, K b is 10−9.17 = 6.8×10−10.
In this case, we are given K b for a base (dimethylamine) and asked to calculate K a and p K a for its conjugate acid, the dimethylammonium ion. Because the initial quantity given is K b rather than p K b, we can use Equation 16.23: K a K b = K w. Substituting the values of K b and K w at 25°C and solving for K a,
K a(5.4×10−4)K a=1.01×10−14=1.9×10−11 K a(5.4×10−4)=1.01×10−14 K a=1.9×10−11
Because p K a = −log K a, we have p K a = −log(1.9×10−11) = 10.72. We could also have converted K b to p K b to obtain the same answer:
p K b p K a+p K b p K a K a=−log(5.4×10−4)=3.27=14.00=10.73=10−p K a=10−10.73=1.9×10−11 p K b=−log(5.4×10−4)=3.27 p K a+p K b=14.00 p K a=10.73 K a=10−p K a=10−10.73=1.9×10−11
If we are given any one of these four quantities for an acid or a base (K a, p K a, K b, or p K b), we can calculate the other three.
Exercise
Lactic acid [CH 3 CH(OH)CO 2 H] is responsible for the pungent taste and smell of sour milk; it is also thought to produce soreness in fatigued muscles. Its p K a is 3.86 at 25°C. Calculate K a for lactic acid and p K b and K b for the lactate ion.
Answer:K a = 1.4×10−4 for lactic acid; p K b = 10.14 and K b = 7.2×10−11 for the lactate ion
Solutions of Strong Acids and Bases: The Leveling Effect
You will notice in Table 16.2 "Values of " that acids like H 2 SO 4 and HNO 3 lie above the hydronium ion, meaning that they have p K a values less than zero and are stronger acids than the H 3 O+ ion.Recall from Chapter 4 "Reactions in Aqueous Solution" that the acidic proton in virtually all oxoacids is bonded to one of the oxygen atoms of the oxoanion. Thus nitric acid should properly be written as HONO 2. Unfortunately, however, the formulas of oxoacids are almost always written with hydrogen on the left and oxygen on the right, giving HNO 3 instead. In fact, all six of the common strong acids that we first encountered in Chapter 4 "Reactions in Aqueous Solution" have p K a values less than zero, which means that they have a greater tendency to lose a proton than does the H 3 O+ ion. Conversely, the conjugate bases of these strong acids are weaker bases than water. Consequently, the proton-transfer equilibriums for these strong acids lie far to the right, and adding any of the common strong acids to water results in an essentially stoichiometric reaction of the acid with water to form a solution of the H 3 O+ ion and the conjugate base of the acid.
Although K a for HI is about 10 8 greater than K a for HNO 3, the reaction of either HI or HNO 3 with water gives an essentially stoichiometric solution of H 3 O+ and I− or NO 3−. In fact, a 0.1 M aqueous solution of any strong acid actually contains 0.1 M H 3 O+, regardless of the identity of the strong acid. This phenomenon is called the leveling effectThe phenomenon that makes H 3 O+H 3 O+ the strongest acid that can exist in water. Any species that is a stronger acid than H 3 O+H 3 O+ is leveled to the strength of H 3 O+H 3 O+ in aqueous solution.: any species that is a stronger acid than the conjugate acid of water (H 3 O+) is leveled to the strength of H 3 O+ in aqueous solution because H 3 O+ is the strongest acid that can exist in equilibrium with water. Consequently, it is impossible to distinguish between the strengths of acids such as HI and HNO 3 in aqueous solution, and an alternative approach must be used to determine their relative acid strengths.
One method is to use a solvent such as anhydrous acetic acid. Because acetic acid is a stronger acid than water, it must also be a weaker base, with a lesser tendency to accept a proton than H 2 O. Measurements of the conductivity of 0.1 M solutions of both HI and HNO 3 in acetic acid show that HI is completely dissociated, but HNO 3 is only partially dissociated and behaves like a weak acid in this solvent. This result clearly tells us that HI is a stronger acid than HNO 3. The relative order of acid strengths and approximate K a and p K a values for the strong acids at the top of Table 16.2 "Values of " were determined using measurements like this and different nonaqueous solvents.
Note the Pattern
In aqueous solutions, [H 3 O+] is the strongest acid and OH− is the strongest base that can exist in equilibrium with H 2 O.
The leveling effect applies to solutions of strong bases as well: In aqueous solution, any base stronger than OH− is leveled to the strength of OH− because OH− is the strongest base that can exist in equilibrium with water. Salts such as K 2 O, NaOCH 3 (sodium methoxide), and NaNH 2 (sodamide, or sodium amide), whose anions are the conjugate bases of species that would lie below water in Table 16.3 "Values of ", are all strong bases that react essentially completely (and often violently) with water, accepting a proton to give a solution of OH− and the corresponding cation:
Equation 16.31
K 2 O(s)+H 2 O(l)→2 OH−(aq)+2 K+(aq)K 2 O(s)+H 2 O(l)→2 OH−(aq)+2 K+(aq)
Equation 16.32
NaOCH 3(s)+H 2 O(l)→OH−(aq)+Na+(aq)+CH 3 OH(aq)NaOCH 3(s)+H 2 O(l)→OH−(aq)+Na+(aq)+CH 3 OH(aq)
Equation 16.33
NaNH 2(s)+H 2 O(l)→OH−(aq)+Na+(aq)+NH 3(aq)NaNH 2(s)+H 2 O(l)→OH−(aq)+Na+(aq)+NH 3(aq)
Other examples that you may encounter are potassium hydride (KH) and organometallic compounds such as methyl lithium (CH 3 Li).
Polyprotic Acids and Bases
As you learned in Chapter 4 "Reactions in Aqueous Solution", polyprotic acids such as H 2 SO 4, H 3 PO 4, and H 2 CO 3 contain more than one ionizable proton, and the protons are lost in a stepwise manner. The fully protonated species is always the strongest acid because it is easier to remove a proton from a neutral molecule than from a negatively charged ion. Thus acid strength decreases with the loss of subsequent protons, and, correspondingly, the p K a increases. Consider H 2 SO 4, for example:
Figure 16.5
Equation 16.34
HSO 4−(aq)⇌SO 4 2−(aq)+H+(aq)p K a=1.99 HSO 4−(aq)⇌SO 4 2−(aq)+H+(aq)p K a=1.99
The equilibrium in the first reaction lies far to the right, consistent with H 2 SO 4 being a strong acid. In contrast, in the second reaction, appreciable quantities of both HSO 4− and SO 4 2− are present at equilibrium.
Note the Pattern
For a polyprotic acid, acid strength decreases and the p K a increases with the sequential loss of each proton.
The hydrogen sulfate ion (HSO 4−) is both the conjugate base of H 2 SO 4 and the conjugate acid of SO 4 2−. Just like water, HSO 4− can therefore act as either an acid or a base, depending on whether the other reactant is a stronger acid or a stronger base. Conversely, the sulfate ion (SO 4 2−) is a polyprotic base that is capable of accepting two protons in a stepwise manner:
Figure 16.6
Figure 16.7
Like any other conjugate acid–base pair, the strengths of the conjugate acids and bases are related by p K a + p K b = p K w. Consider, for example, the HSO 4−/ SO 4 2− conjugate acid–base pair. From Table 16.2 "Values of ", we see that the p K a of HSO 4− is 1.99. Hence the p K b of SO 4 2− is 14.00 − 1.99 = 12.01. Thus sulfate is a rather weak base, whereas OH− is a strong base, so the equilibrium shown in Figure 16.6 lies to the left. The HSO 4− ion is also a very weak base [p K a of H 2 SO 4 = 2.0, p K b of HSO 4− = 14 − (−2.0) = 16], which is consistent with what we expect for the conjugate base of a strong acid. Thus the equilibrium shown in Figure 16.7 also lies almost completely to the left. Once again, equilibrium favors the formation of the weaker acid–base pair.
Example 3
Predict whether the equilibrium for each reaction lies to the left or the right as written.
NH 4+(aq)+PO 4 3−(aq)⇌NH 3(aq)+HPO 4 2−(aq)NH 4+(aq)+PO 4 3−(aq)⇌NH 3(aq)+HPO 4 2−(aq)
CH 3 CH 2 CO 2 H(aq)+CN−(aq)⇌CH 3 CH 2 CO 2−(aq)+HCN(aq)CH 3 CH 2 CO 2 H(aq)+CN−(aq)⇌CH 3 CH 2 CO 2−(aq)+HCN(aq)
Given:balanced chemical equation
Asked for:equilibrium position
Strategy:
Identify the conjugate acid–base pairs in each reaction. Then refer to Table 16.2 "Values of ", Table 16.3 "Values of ", and Figure 16.2 "The Relative Strengths of Some Common Conjugate Acid–Base Pairs" to determine which is the stronger acid and base. Equilibrium always favors the formation of the weaker acid–base pair.
Solution:
The conjugate acid–base pairs are NH 4+/NH 3 and HPO 4 2−/PO 4 3−. According to Table 16.2 "Values of " and Table 16.3 "Values of ", NH 4+ is a stronger acid (p K a = 9.25) than HPO 4 2− (p K a = 12.32), and PO 4 3− is a stronger base (p K b = 1.68) than NH 3 (p K b = 4.75). The equilibrium will therefore lie to the right, favoring the formation of the weaker acid–base pair:
2. The conjugate acid–base pairs are CH 3 CH 2 CO 2 H/CH 3 CH 2 CO 2− and HCN/CN−. According to Table 16.2 "Values of ", HCN is a weak acid (p K a = 9.21) and CN− is a moderately weak base (p K b = 4.79). Propionic acid (CH 3 CH 2 CO 2 H) is not listed in Table 16.2 "Values of ", however. In a situation like this, the best approach is to look for a similar compound whose acid–base properties are listed. For example, propionic acid and acetic acid are identical except for the groups attached to the carbon atom of the carboxylic acid (−CH 2 CH 3 versus −CH 3), so we might expect the two compounds to have similar acid–base properties. In particular, we would expect the p K a of propionic acid to be similar in magnitude to the p K a of acetic acid. (In fact, the p K a of propionic acid is 4.87, compared to 4.76 for acetic acid, which makes propionic acid a slightly weaker acid than acetic acid.) Thus propionic acid should be a significantly stronger acid than HCN. Because the stronger acid forms the weaker conjugate base, we predict that cyanide will be a stronger base than propionate. The equilibrium will therefore lie to the right, favoring the formation of the weaker acid–base pair:
Exercise
Predict whether the equilibrium for each reaction lies to the left or the right as written.
H 2 O(l)+HS−(aq)⇌OH−(aq)+H 2 S(aq)H 2 O(l)+HS−(aq)⇌OH−(aq)+H 2 S(aq)
HCO 2−(aq)+HSO 4−(aq)⇌HCO 2 H(aq)+SO 4 2−(aq)HCO 2−(aq)+HSO 4−(aq)⇌HCO 2 H(aq)+SO 4 2−(aq)
Answer:
left
left
Acid–Base Properties of Solutions of Salts
We can also use the relative strengths of conjugate acid–base pairs to understand the acid–base properties of solutions of salts. In Chapter 4 "Reactions in Aqueous Solution", you learned that a neutralization reaction can be defined as the reaction of an acid and a base to produce a salt and water. That is, another cation, such as Na+, replaces the proton on the acid. An example is the reaction of CH 3 CO 2 H, a weak acid, with NaOH, a strong base:
Equation 16.35
CH 3 CO 2 H(l)acid+NaOH(s)base−→H 2 O CH 3 CO 2 Na(aq)salt+H 2 O(l)water CH 3 CO 2 H(l)acid+NaOH(s)base→H 2 O CH 3 CO 2 Na(aq)salt+H 2 O(l)water
Depending on the acid–base properties of its component ions, however, a salt can dissolve in water to produce a neutral solution, a basic solution, or an acidic solution.
When a salt such as NaCl dissolves in water, it produces Na+(aq) and Cl−(aq) ions. Using a Lewis approach, the Na+ ion can be viewed as an acid because it is an electron pair acceptor, although its low charge and relatively large radius make it a very weak acid. The Cl− ion is the conjugate base of the strong acid HCl, so it has essentially no basic character. Consequently, dissolving NaCl in water has no effect on the pH of a solution, and the solution remains neutral.
Now let's compare this behavior to the behavior of aqueous solutions of potassium cyanide and sodium acetate. Again, the cations (K+ and Na+) have essentially no acidic character, but the anions (CN− and CH 3 CO 2−) are weak bases that can react with water because they are the conjugate bases of the weak acids HCN and acetic acid, respectively.
Figure 16.8
Figure 16.9
Neither reaction proceeds very far to the right as written because the formation of the weaker acid–base pair is favored. Both HCN and acetic acid are stronger acids than water, and hydroxide is a stronger base than either acetate or cyanide, so in both cases, the equilibrium lies to the left. Nonetheless, each of these reactions generates enough hydroxide ions to produce a basic solution. For example, the pH of a 0.1 M solution of sodium acetate or potassium cyanide at 25°C is 8.8 or 11.1, respectively. From Table 16.2 "Values of " and Figure 16.2 "The Relative Strengths of Some Common Conjugate Acid–Base Pairs", we can see that CN− is a stronger base (p K b = 4.79) than acetate (p K b = 9.24), which is consistent with KCN producing a more basic solution than sodium acetate at the same concentration.
In contrast, the conjugate acid of a weak base should be a weak acid (Figure 16.2 "The Relative Strengths of Some Common Conjugate Acid–Base Pairs"). For example, ammonium chloride and pyridinium chloride are salts produced by reacting ammonia and pyridine, respectively, with HCl. As you already know, the chloride ion is such a weak base that it does not react with water. In contrast, the cations of the two salts are weak acids that react with water as follows:
Figure 16.10
Figure 16.11
Figure 16.2 "The Relative Strengths of Some Common Conjugate Acid–Base Pairs" shows that H 3 O+ is a stronger acid than either NH 4+ or C 5 H 5 NH+, and conversely, ammonia and pyridine are both stronger bases than water. The equilibrium will therefore lie far to the left in both cases, favoring the weaker acid–base pair. The H 3 O+ concentration produced by the reactions is great enough, however, to decrease the pH of the solution significantly: the pH of a 0.10 M solution of ammonium chloride or pyridinium chloride at 25°C is 5.13 or 3.12, respectively. This is consistent with the information shown in Figure 16.2 "The Relative Strengths of Some Common Conjugate Acid–Base Pairs", indicating that the pyridinium ion is more acidic than the ammonium ion.
What happens with aqueous solutions of a salt such as ammonium acetate, where both the cation and the anion can react separately with water to produce an acid and a base, respectively? According to Figure 16.10, the ammonium ion will lower the pH, while according to Figure 16.9, the acetate ion will raise the pH. This particular case is unusual, in that the cation is as strong an acid as the anion is a base (p K a ≈ p K b). Consequently, the two effects cancel, and the solution remains neutral. With salts in which the cation is a stronger acid than the anion is a base, the final solution has a pH < 7.00. Conversely, if the cation is a weaker acid than the anion is a base, the final solution has a pH > 7.00.
Solutions of simple salts of metal ions can also be acidic, even though a metal ion cannot donate a proton directly to water to produce H 3 O+. Instead, a metal ion can act as a Lewis acid and interact with water, a Lewis base, by coordinating to a lone pair of electrons on the oxygen atom to form a hydrated metal ion (part (a) in Figure 16.12 "Effect of a Metal Ion on the Acidity of Water"), as discussed in Chapter 4 "Reactions in Aqueous Solution". A water molecule coordinated to a metal ion is more acidic than a free water molecule for two reasons. First, repulsive electrostatic interactions between the positively charged metal ion and the partially positively charged hydrogen atoms of the coordinated water molecule make it easier for the coordinated water to lose a proton.
Second, the positive charge on the Al 3+ ion attracts electron density from the oxygen atoms of the water molecules, which decreases the electron density in the O–H bonds, as shown in part (b) in Figure 16.12 "Effect of a Metal Ion on the Acidity of Water". With less electron density between the O atoms and the H atoms, the O–H bonds are weaker than in a free H 2 O molecule, making it easier to lose a H+ ion.
Figure 16.12 Effect of a Metal Ion on the Acidity of Water
(a) Reaction of the metal ion Al 3+ with water to form the hydrated metal ion is an example of a Lewis acid–base reaction. (b) The positive charge on the aluminum ion attracts electron density from the oxygen atoms, which shifts electron density away from the O–H bonds. The decrease in electron density weakens the O–H bonds in the water molecules and makes it easier for them to lose a proton.
The magnitude of this effect depends on the following two factors (Figure 16.13 "The Effect of the Charge and Radius of a Metal Ion on the Acidity of a Coordinated Water Molecule"):
Thechargeon the metal ion. A divalent ion (M 2+) has approximately twice as strong an effect on the electron density in a coordinated water molecule as a monovalent ion (M+) of the same radius.
Theradiusof the metal ion. For metal ions with the same charge, the smaller the ion, the shorter the internuclear distance to the oxygen atom of the water molecule and the greater the effect of the metal on the electron density distribution in the water molecule.
Figure 16.13 The Effect of the Charge and Radius of a Metal Ion on the Acidity of a Coordinated Water Molecule
The contours show the electron density on the O atoms and the H atoms in both a free water molecule (left) and water molecules coordinated to Na+, Mg 2+, and Al 3+ ions. These contour maps demonstrate that the smallest, most highly charged metal ion (Al 3+) causes the greatest decrease in electron density of the O–H bonds of the water molecule. Due to this effect, the acidity of hydrated metal ions increases as the charge on the metal ion increases and its radius decreases.
Thus aqueous solutions of small, highly charged metal ions, such as Al 3+ and Fe 3+, are acidic:
Equation 16.36
[Al(H 2 O)6]3+(aq)⇌[Al(H 2 O)5(OH)]2+(aq)+H+(aq)[Al(H 2 O)6]3+(aq)⇌[Al(H 2 O)5(OH)]2+(aq)+H+(aq)
The [Al(H 2 O)6]3+ ion has a p K a of 5.0, making it almost as strong an acid as acetic acid. Because of the two factors described previously, the most important parameter for predicting the effect of a metal ion on the acidity of coordinated water molecules is the charge-to-radius ratio of the metal ion. A number of pairs of metal ions that lie on a diagonal line in the periodic table, such as Li+ and Mg 2+ or Ca 2+ and Y 3+, have different sizes and charges but similar charge-to-radius ratios. As a result, these pairs of metal ions have similar effects on the acidity of coordinated water molecules, and they often exhibit other significant similarities in chemistry as well.
Note the Pattern
Solutions of small, highly charged metal ions in water are acidic.
Reactions such as those discussed in this section, in which a salt reacts with water to give an acidic or basic solution, are often called hydrolysis reactionsA chemical reaction in which a salt reacts with water to yield an acidic or a basic solution.. Using a separate name for this type of reaction is unfortunate because it suggests that they are somehow different. In fact, hydrolysis reactions are just acid–base reactions in which the acid is a cation or the base is an anion; they obey the same principles and rules as all other acid–base reactions.
Note the Pattern
A hydrolysis reaction is an acid–base reaction.
Example 4
Predict whether aqueous solutions of these compounds are acidic, basic, or neutral.
KNO 3
CrBr 3·6H 2 O
Na 2 SO 4
Given:compound
Asked for:acidity or basicity of aqueous solution
Strategy:
A Assess the acid–base properties of the cation and the anion. If the cation is a weak Lewis acid, it will not affect the pH of the solution. If the cation is the conjugate acid of a weak base or a relatively highly charged metal cation, however, it will react with water to produce an acidic solution.
B If the anion is the conjugate base of a strong acid, it will not affect the pH of the solution. If, however, the anion is the conjugate base of a weak acid, the solution will be basic.
Solution:
A The K+ cation has a small positive charge (+1) and a relatively large radius (because it is in the fourth row of the periodic table), so it is a very weak Lewis acid.
B The NO 3− anion is the conjugate base of a strong acid, so it has essentially no basic character (Table 16.1 "Definitions of Acids and Bases"). Hence neither the cation nor the anion will react with water to produce H+ or OH−, and the solution will be neutral.
A The Cr 3+ ion is a relatively highly charged metal cation that should behave similarly to the Al 3+ ion and form the [Cr(H 2 O)6]3+ complex, which will behave as a weak acid:
B The Br− anion is a very weak base (it is the conjugate base of the strong acid HBr), so it does not affect the pH of the solution. Hence the solution will be acidic.
A The Na+ ion, like the K+, is a very weak acid, so it should not affect the acidity of the solution.
B In contrast, SO 4 2− is the conjugate base of HSO 4−, which is a weak acid. Hence the SO 4 2− ion will react with water as shown in Figure 16.6 to give a slightly basic solution.
Exercise
Predict whether aqueous solutions of the following are acidic, basic, or neutral.
KI
Mg(ClO 4)2
NaHS
Answer:
neutral
acidic
basic (due to the reaction of HS− with water to form H 2 S and OH−)
Summary
Two species that differ by only a proton constitute a conjugate acid–base pair. The magnitude of the equilibrium constant for an ionization reaction can be used to determine the relative strengths of acids and bases. For an aqueous solution of a weak acid, the dissociation constant is called the acid ionization constant (Ka). Similarly, the equilibrium constant for the reaction of a weak base with water is the base ionization constant (Kb). For any conjugate acid–base pair, K a K b = K w. Smaller values of p K a correspond to larger acid ionization constants and hence stronger acids. Conversely, smaller values of p K b correspond to larger base ionization constants and hence stronger bases. At 25°C, p K a + p K b = 14.00. Acid–base reactions always proceed in the direction that produces the weaker acid–base pair. No acid stronger than H 3 O+ and no base stronger than OH− can exist in aqueous solution, leading to the phenomenon known as the leveling effect. Polyprotic acids (and bases) lose (and gain) protons in a stepwise manner, with the fully protonated species being the strongest acid and the fully deprotonated species the strongest base. A salt can dissolve in water to produce a neutral, a basic, or an acidic solution, depending on whether it contains the conjugate base of a weak acid as the anion (A−), the conjugate acid of a weak base as the cation (BH+), or both. Salts that contain small, highly charged metal ions produce acidic solutions in water. The reaction of a salt with water to produce an acidic or a basic solution is called a hydrolysis reaction.
Key Takeaways
Acid–base reactions always contain two conjugate acid–base pairs.
Each acid and each base has an associated ionization constant that corresponds to its acid or base strength.
Key Equations
Acid ionization constant
Equation 16.16: K a=[H 3 O+][A−][HA]K a=[H 3 O+][A−][HA]
Base ionization constant
Equation 16.18: K b=[BH+][OH−][B]K b=[BH+][OH−][B]
Relationship betweenKa andKb of a conjugate acid–base pair
Equation 16.23: K a K b = K w
Definition of pKa
Equation 16.24: p K a = −log 10 K a
Equation 16.25: K a=1 0−p K a K a=1 0−p K a
Definition of pKb
Equation 16.26: p K a = −log 10 K a
Equation 16.27: K b=10−p K b K b=10−p K b
Relationship between pKa and pKb of a conjugate acid–base pair
Equation 16.28: p K a + p K b = p K w
Equation 16.29: p K a + p K b = 14.00 (at 25°C)
Conceptual Problems
Identify the conjugate acid–base pairs in each equilibrium.
HSO 4−(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌SO 4 2−(aq)+H 3 O+(aq)HSO 4−(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌SO 4 2−(aq)+H 3 O+(aq)
C 3 H 7 NO 2(aq)+H 3 O+(aq)⇌C 3 H 8 NO 2+(aq)+H 2 O(l)C 3 H 7 NO 2(aq)+H 3 O+(aq)⇌C 3 H 8 NO 2+(aq)+H 2 O(l)
CH 3 CO 2 H(aq)+NH 3(aq)⇌CH 3 CO 2−(aq)+NH 4+(aq)CH 3 CO 2 H(aq)+NH 3(aq)⇌CH 3 CO 2−(aq)+NH 4+(aq)
SbF 5(aq)+2 HF(aq)⇌H 2 F+(aq)+SbF 6−(aq)SbF 5(aq)+2 HF(aq)⇌H 2 F+(aq)+SbF 6−(aq)
Identify the conjugate acid–base pairs in each equilibrium.
HF(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌H 3 O+(aq)+F−(aq)HF(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌H 3 O+(aq)+F−(aq)
CH 3 CH 2 NH 2(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌CH 3 CH 2 NH 3+(aq)+OH−(aq)CH 3 CH 2 NH 2(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌CH 3 CH 2 NH 3+(aq)+OH−(aq)
C 3 H 7 NO 2(aq)+OH−(aq)⇌C 3 H 6 NO 2−(aq)+H 2 O(l)C 3 H 7 NO 2(aq)+OH−(aq)⇌C 3 H 6 NO 2−(aq)+H 2 O(l)
CH 3 CO 2 H(aq)+2 HF(aq)⇌CH 3 C(OH)2+(aq)+HF 2−(aq)CH 3 CO 2 H(aq)+2 HF(aq)⇌CH 3 C(OH)2+(aq)+HF 2−(aq)
Salts such as NaH contain the hydride ion (H−). When sodium hydride is added to water, it produces hydrogen gas in a highly vigorous reaction. Write a balanced chemical equation for this reaction and identify the conjugate acid–base pairs.
Write the expression for K a for each reaction.
HCO 3−(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌CO 3 2−(aq)+H 3 O+(aq)HCO 3−(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌CO 3 2−(aq)+H 3 O+(aq)
formic acid(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌formate(aq)+H 3 O+(aq)formic acid(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌formate(aq)+H 3 O+(aq)
H 3 PO 4(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌H 2 PO 4−(aq)+H 3 O+(aq)H 3 PO 4(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌H 2 PO 4−(aq)+H 3 O+(aq)
Write an expression for the ionization constant K b for each reaction.
OCH 3−(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌HOCH 3(aq)+OH−(aq)OCH 3−(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌HOCH 3(aq)+OH−(aq)
NH 2−(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌NH 3(aq)+OH−(aq)NH 2−(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌NH 3(aq)+OH−(aq)
S 2−(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌HS−(aq)+OH−(aq)S 2−(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌HS−(aq)+OH−(aq)
Predict whether each equilibrium lies primarily to the left or to the right.
HBr(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌H 3 O+(aq)+Br−(aq)HBr(aq)+H 2 O(l)⇌H 3 O+(aq)+Br−(aq)
NaH(soln)+NH 3(l)⇌H 2(soln)+NaNH 2(soln)NaH(soln)+NH 3(l)⇌H 2(soln)+NaNH 2(soln)
OCH 3−(aq)+NH 3(aq)⇌CH 3 OH(aq)+NH 2−(aq)OCH 3−(aq)+NH 3(aq)⇌CH 3 OH(aq)+NH 2−(aq)
NH 3(aq)+HCl(aq)⇌NH 4+(aq)+Cl−(aq)NH 3(aq)+HCl(aq)⇌NH 4+(aq)+Cl−(aq)
Species that are strong bases in water, such as CH 3−, NH 2−, and S 2−, are leveled to the strength of OH−, the conjugate base of H 2 O. Because their relative base strengths are indistinguishable in water, suggest a method for identifying which is the strongest base. How would you distinguish between the strength of the acids HIO 3, H 2 SO 4, and HClO 4?
Is it accurate to say that a 2.0 M solution of H 2 SO 4, which contains two acidic protons per molecule, is 4.0 M in H+? Explain your answer.
The alkalinity of soil is defined by the following equation: alkalinity = [HCO 3−] + 2[CO 3 2−] + [OH−] − [H+]. The source of both HCO 3− and CO 3 2− is H 2 CO 3. Explain why the basicity of soil is defined in this way.
Why are aqueous solutions of salts such as CaCl 2 neutral? Why is an aqueous solution of NaNH 2 basic?
Predict whether aqueous solutions of the following are acidic, basic, or neutral.
Li 3 N
NaH
KBr
C 2 H 5 NH 3+Cl−
When each compound is added to water, would you expect the pH of the solution to increase, decrease, or remain the same?
LiCH 3
MgCl 2
K 2 O
(CH 3)2 NH 2+Br−
Which complex ion would you expect to be more acidic—Pb(H 2 O)4 2+ or Sn(H 2 O)4 2+? Why?
Would you expect Sn(H 2 O)4 2+ or Sn(H 2 O)6 4+ to be more acidic? Why?
Is it possible to arrange the hydrides LiH, RbH, KH, CsH, and NaH in order of increasing base strength in aqueous solution? Why or why not?
Answer
HSO 4−(aq)acid 1+H 2 O(l)base 2⇌SO 4 2−(aq)base 1+H 3 O+(aq)acid 2 HSO 4−(aq)acid 1+H 2 O(l)base 2⇌SO 4 2−(aq)base 1+H 3 O+(aq)acid 2
C 3 H 7 NO 2(aq)base 2+H 3 O+(aq)acid 1⇌C 3 H 8 NO 2+(aq)acid 2+H 2 O(l)base 1 C 3 H 7 NO 2(aq)base 2+H 3 O+(aq)acid 1⇌C 3 H 8 NO 2+(aq)acid 2+H 2 O(l)base 1
HOAc(aq)acid 1+NH 3(aq)base 2⇌CH 3 CO 2−(aq)base 1+NH 4+(aq)acid 2 HOAc(aq)acid 1+NH 3(aq)base 2⇌CH 3 CO 2−(aq)base 1+NH 4+(aq)acid 2
SbF 5(aq)acid 1+2 HF(aq)base 2⇌H 2 F+(aq)acid 2+SbF 6−(aq)base 1 SbF 5(aq)acid 1+2 HF(aq)base 2⇌H 2 F+(aq)acid 2+SbF 6−(aq)base 1
Numerical Problems
Arrange these acids in order of increasing strength.
acid A: p K a = 1.52
acid B: p K a = 6.93
acid C: p K a = 3.86
Given solutions with the same initial concentration of each acid, which would have the highest percent ionization?
Arrange these bases in order of increasing strength:
base A: p K b = 13.10
base B: p K b = 8.74
base C: p K b = 11.87
Given solutions with the same initial concentration of each base, which would have the highest percent ionization?
Calculate the K a and the p K a of the conjugate acid of a base with each p K b value.
3.80
7.90
13.70
1.40
−2.50
Benzoic acid is a food preservative with a p K a of 4.20. Determine the K b and the p K b for the benzoate ion.
Determine K a and p K a of boric acid [B(OH)3], solutions of which are occasionally used as an eyewash; the p K b of its conjugate base is 4.80.
Answers
acid B < acid C < acid A (strongest)
K a = 6.3×10−11; p K a = 10.20
K a = 7.9×10−7; p K a = 6.10
K a = 0.50; p K a = 0.30
K a = 2.5×10−13; p K a = 12.60
K a = 3.2×10−17; p K a = 16.50
K a = 6.3×10−10 p K a = 9.20
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An acid and a base that differ by only one hydrogen ion.
An equilibrium constant for the ionization (dissociation) of a weak acid (HA) with water, HA(aq)HA(aq) + H 2 O(l)H 2 O(l) ⇌ H 3 O(aq)H 3 O(aq) + A−(aq),A−(aq), in which the concentration of water is treated as a constant: K a K a = [H 3 O+][A−]/[HA].[H 3 O+][A−]/[HA].
An equilibrium constant for the reaction of a weak base (B) with water, B(aq)B(aq) + H 2 O(l)H 2 O(l) ⇌ BH+(aq)BH+(aq) + OH−(aq),OH−(aq), in which the concentration of water is treated as a constant:
K b K b
=
[BH+][OH−]/[B].[BH+][OH−]/[B].
The phenomenon that makes H 3 O+H 3 O+ the strongest acid that can exist in water. Any species that is a stronger acid than H 3 O+H 3 O+ is leveled to the strength of H 3 O+H 3 O+ in aqueous solution.
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QUESTION 10
A survey regarding their favourite magazine (S) was conducted among 84 high school girl-learners. Three magazines, namely Teen Vogue (T), Drum (D) and People's Magazine (P) were used in the survey. The results are as follows:
The Venn-diagram below shows the above information.
(Image of Venn Diagram with regions T, P, D, and labeled sections a, b, c, d, e, f, 8, 10)
10.1 Determine the values of a, b, c, d, e and f.
10.2 Determine the probability that a randomly selected girl reads at least two of the three magazines.
10.3 Determine the probability that a randomly selected girl that does not read the Drum magazine.
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Concepts
Venn Diagram, Set Theory, Intersection and Union, Probability, Counting Principles
Explanation
We need to determine the values for each region in the Venn diagram, calculate the probability that a girl reads at least two magazines, and the probability she does not read Drum. Use given set intersections, totals, and Venn diagram regions to systematically solve.
Question 10.1
Step-By-Step Solution
Let's label the regions as in the diagram:
Step 1: Use Given Info and Diagram
From the problem and the diagram:
Step 2: Express Totals in Terms of Variables
Let:
Step 3: Solve for f
Teen Vogue and Drum (no mention of 'only'):
18=f+8⟹f=10
Step 4: Solve for e
Drum and People's:
17=e+8⟹e=9
Step 5: Substitute d, e, f, 8 into other equations
Teen Vogue and People's only: d=5
Centre: 8
So,
Now use total equations:
Teen Vogue: 41=a+d+f+8
41=a+5+10+8
41=a+23
⇒a=18
Drum: 40=b+f+e+8=b+10+9+8
40=b+27
⇒b=13
People's: 34=c+d+e+8=c+5+9+8
34=c+22
⇒c=12
Final Answers 10.1
| Region | Value |
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| a | 18 |
| b | 13 |
| c | 12 |
| d | 5 |
| e | 9 |
| f | 10 |
Question 10.2
Step-By-Step Solution
Find probability a girl reads at least two magazines.
Regions corresponding to at least two:
Total surveyed: 84
Sum:
At least two=d+e+f+8=5+9+10+8=32
Probability:
P=8432
Simplify:
=218
Final Answer 10.2
Probability = 218
Question 10.3
Step-By-Step Solution
Probability a girl does not read Drum.
Regions that do not include Drum:
Values:
=18+12+5+10=45
Probability:
P=8445
Simplify:
=2815
Final Answer 10.3
Probability = 2815
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Thus, we have the following two laws involving negation and quantifiers:
Quantifier Negation laws
¬∃xP(x) is equivalent to ∀x¬P(x).
¬∀xP(x) is equivalent to ∃x¬P(x).
Combining these laws with DeMorgan’s laws and other equivalences involv-
ing the logical connectives, we can often reexpress a negative statement as an
equivalent, but easier to understand, positive statement. This will turn out to be
an important skill when we begin to work with negative statements in proofs.
Example 2.2.1. Negate these statements and then reexpress the results as
equivalent positive statements.
1. A ⊆ B.
2. Everyone has a relative he doesn’t like.
Solutions
1. We already know that A ⊆ B means ∀x(x ∈ A → x ∈ B). To reexpress the
negation of this statement as an equivalent positive statement, we reason as
follows:
¬∀x(x ∈ A → x ∈ B)
is equivalent to ∃x¬(x ∈ A → x ∈ B) (quantifier negation law),
which is equivalent to ∃x¬(x /∈ A ∨ x ∈ B) (conditional law),
which is equivalent to ∃x(x ∈ A ∧ x /∈ B) (DeMorgan slaw).
Thus, A ⊆ B means the same thing as ∃x(x ∈ A ∧ x /∈ B). If you think
about this, it should make sense. To say that A is not a subset of B is the
same as saying that there’s something in A that is not in B.
2. First of all, let’s write the original statement symbolically. You should be
able to check that if we let R(x, y) stand for “x is related to y” and L(x, y)
for “x likes y,” then the original statement would be written ∀x∃y(R(x, y) ∧
¬L(x, y)). Now we negate this and try to find a simpler, equivalent positive
statement:
¬∀x∃y(R(x, y) ∧¬L(x, y))
is equivalent to ∃x¬∃y(R(x, y) ∧¬L(x, y))
(quantifier negation law),
which is equivalent to ∃x∀y¬(R(x, y) ∧¬L(x, y))
(quantifier negation law),
which is equivalent to ∃x∀y(¬R(x, y) ∨ L(x, y))
(DeMorgan’s law),
which is equivalent to ∃x∀y(R(x, y) → L(x, y))
(conditional law).
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12419 | https://www.idrologia.unimore.it/pizzileo/web-archive/af/lezione1/Darcy%20friction%20factor%20formulae.pdf | 25/2/2016 Darcy friction factor formulae Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1/8 Darcy friction factor formulae From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In fluid dynamics, the Darcy friction factor formulae are equations – based on experimental data and theory – for the Darcy friction factor. The Darcy friction factor is a dimensionless quantity used in the Darcy–Weisbach equation, for the description of friction losses in pipe flow as well as open channel flow. It is also known as the Darcy–Weisbach friction factor, resistance coefficient or simply friction factor and is four times larger than the Fanning friction factor. Contents 1 Flow regime 1.1 Laminar flow 1.2 Transition flow 1.3 Turbulent flow in smooth conduits 1.4 Turbulent flow in rough conduits 1.5 Free surface flow 2 Choosing a formula 2.1 Colebrook–White equation 2.2 Solving 2.3 Expanded forms 2.4 Free surface flow 3 Approximations of the Colebrook equation 3.1 Haaland equation 3.2 Swamee–Jain equation 3.3 Serghides's solution 3.4 Goudar–Sonnad equation 3.5 Brkić solution 3.6 Blasius correlations 3.7 Table of Approximations 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External links Flow regime Which friction factor formula may be applicable depends upon the type of flow that exists: Laminar flow Transition between laminar and turbulent flow Fully turbulent flow in smooth conduits Fully turbulent flow in rough conduits Free surface flow.
Laminar flow The Darcy friction factor for laminar flow in a circular pipe (Reynolds number less than 2320) is given by the following formula: where: is the Darcy friction factor 25/2/2016 Darcy friction factor formulae Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 2/8 is the Reynolds number.
Transition flow Transition (neither fully laminar nor fully turbulent) flow occurs in the range of Reynolds numbers between 2300 and 4000. The value of the Darcy friction factor is subject to large uncertainties in this flow regime.
Turbulent flow in smooth conduits The Blasius correlation is the simplest equation for computing the Darcy friction factor. Because the Blasius correlation has no term for pipe roughness, it is valid only to smooth pipes. However, the Blasius correlation is sometimes used in rough pipes because of its simplicity. The Blasius correlation is valid up to the Reynolds number 100000.
Turbulent flow in rough conduits The Darcy friction factor for fully turbulent flow (Reynolds number greater than 4000) in rough conduits is given by the Colebrook equation.
Free surface flow The last formula in the Colebrook equation section of this article is for free surface flow. The approximations elsewhere in this article are not applicable for this type of flow.
Choosing a formula Before choosing a formula it is worth knowing that in the paper on the Moody chart, Moody stated the accuracy is about ±5% for smooth pipes and ±10% for rough pipes. If more than one formula is applicable in the flow regime under consideration, the choice of formula may be influenced by one or more of the following: Required precision Speed of computation required Available computational technology: calculator (minimize keystrokes) spreadsheet (singlecell formula) programming/scripting language (subroutine).
Colebrook–White equation The phenomenological Colebrook–White equation (or Colebrook equation) expresses the Darcy friction factor f as a function of Reynolds number Re and pipe relative roughness ε / Dh, fitting the data of experimental studies of turbulent flow in smooth and rough pipes. The equation can be used to (iteratively) solve for the Darcy–Weisbach friction factor f.
For a conduit flowing completely full of fluid at Reynolds numbers greater than 4000, it is expressed as: or where: is the Darcy friction factor Roughness height, (m, ft) Hydraulic diameter, (m, ft) – For fluidfilled, circular conduits, = D = inside diameter Hydraulic radius, (m, ft) – For fluidfilled, circular conduits, = D/4 = (inside diameter)/4 Re is the Reynolds number Note: Some sources use a constant of 3.71 in the denominator for the roughness term in the first equation above. Solving The Colebrook equation is usually solved numerically due to its implicit nature. Recently, the Lambert W function has been employed to obtain explicit reformulation of the Colebrook equation. You can solve the Colebrook equation by iteration using the Newton–Raphson method. An example is provided in C# here. Expanded forms Additional, mathematically equivalent forms of the Colebrook equation are: 25/2/2016 Darcy friction factor formulae Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 3/8 where: 1.7384... = 2 log (2 × 3.7) = 2 log (7.4) 18.574 = 2.51 × 3.7 × 2 and or where: 1.1364... = 1.7384... − 2 log (2) = 2 log (7.4) − 2 log (2) = 2 log (3.7) 9.287 = 18.574 / 2 = 2.51 × 3.7.
The additional equivalent forms above assume that the constants 3.7 and 2.51 in the formula at the top of this section are exact. The constants are probably values which were rounded by Colebrook during his curve fitting; but they are effectively treated as exact when comparing (to several decimal places) results from explicit formulae (such as those found elsewhere in this article) to the friction factor computed via Colebrook's implicit equation.
Equations similar to the additional forms above (with the constants rounded to fewer decimal places, or perhaps shifted slightly to minimize overall rounding errors) may be found in various references. It may be helpful to note that they are essentially the same equation.
Free surface flow Another form of the ColebrookWhite equation exists for free surfaces. Such a condition may exist in a pipe that is flowing partially full of fluid. For free surface flow: Approximations of the Colebrook equation Haaland equation The Haaland equation was proposed by Norwegian Institute of Technology professor Haaland in 1984. It is used to solve directly for the Darcy–Weisbach friction factor f for a fullflowing circular pipe. It is an approximation of the implicit Colebrook–White equation, but the discrepancy from experimental data is well within the accuracy of the data. It was developed by S. E. Haaland in 1983.
The Haaland equation is defined as: where: is the Darcy friction factor is the relative roughness is the Reynolds number.
Swamee–Jain equation The Swamee–Jain equation is used to solve directly for the Darcy–Weisbach friction factor f for a fullflowing circular pipe. It is an approximation of the implicit Colebrook–White equation.
where f is a function of: Roughness height, ε (m, ft) Pipe diameter, D (m, ft) Reynolds number, Re (unitless).
Serghides's solution Serghides's solution is used to solve directly for the Darcy–Weisbach friction factor f for a fullflowing circular pipe. It is an approximation of the implicit Colebrook–White equation. It was derived using Steffensen's method. The solution involves calculating three intermediate values and then substituting those values into a final equation.
25/2/2016 Darcy friction factor formulae Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 4/8 where f is a function of: Roughness height, ε (m, ft) Pipe diameter, D (m, ft) Reynolds number, Re (unitless).
The equation was found to match the Colebrook–White equation within 0.0023% for a test set with a 70point matrix consisting of ten relative roughness values (in the range 0.00004 to 0.05) by seven Reynolds numbers (2500 to 108).
Goudar–Sonnad equation Goudar equation is the most accurate approximation to solve directly for the Darcy–Weisbach friction factor f for a fullflowing circular pipe. It is an approximation of the implicit Colebrook–White equation. Equation has the following form where f is a function of: Roughness height, ε (m, ft) Pipe diameter, D (m, ft) Reynolds number, Re (unitless).
Brkić solution Brkić shows one approximation of the Colebrook equation based on the Lambert Wfunction where Darcy friction factor f is a function of: Roughness height, ε (m, ft) Pipe diameter, D (m, ft) Reynolds number, Re (unitless).
The equation was found to match the Colebrook–White equation within 3.15%.
Blasius correlations Early approximations by Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius in terms of the Moody friction factor are given in one article of 1913: 25/2/2016 Darcy friction factor formulae Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 5/8 .
Johann Nikuradse in 1932 proposed that this corresponds to a power law correlation for the fluid velocity profile.
Mishra and Gupta in 1979 proposed a correction for curved or helically coiled tubes, taking into account the equivalent curve radius, Rc: , with, where f is a function of: Pipe diameter, D (m, ft) Curve radius, R (m, ft) Helicoidal pitch, H (m, ft) Reynolds number, Re (unitless) valid for: Retr < Re < 105 6.7 < 2Rc/D < 346.0 0 < H/D < 25.4 Table of Approximations The following table lists historical approximations where: Re, Reynolds number (unitless); λ, Darcy friction factor (dimensionless); ε, roughness of the inner surface of the pipe (dimension of length); D, inner pipe diameter; is the base10 logarithm.
Note that the Churchill equation (1977) is the only one that returns a correct value for friction factor in the laminar flow region (Reynolds number < 2300). All of the others are for transitional and turbulent flow only.
25/2/2016 Darcy friction factor formulae Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 6/8 Table of Colebrook equation approximations Equation Author Year Ref Moody 1947 where Wood 1966 Eck 1973 Jain and Swamee 1976 Churchill 1973 Jain 1976 where Churchill 1977 Chen 1979 Round 1980 Barr 1981 or Zigrang and Sylvester 1982 Haaland 1983 or 25/2/2016 Darcy friction factor formulae Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 7/8 where Serghides 1984 Manadilli 1997 Monzon, Romeo, Royo 2002 where: Goudar, Sonnad 2006 where: Vatankhah, Kouchakzadeh 2008 where Buzzelli 2008 Avci, Kargoz 2009 Evangleids, Papaevangelou, Tzimopoulos 2010 References 1. Manning, Francis S.; Thompson, Richard E. (1991). Oilfield Processing of Petroleum. Vol. 1: Natural Gas. PennWell Books. ISBN 0878143432., 420 pages. See page 293.
2. Colebrook, C. F. and White, C. M. (1937). "Experiments with Fluid Friction in Roughened Pipes". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences 161 (906): 367–381. Bibcode:1937RSPSA.161..367C. doi:10.1098/rspa.1937.0150. Often erroneously cited as the source of the ColebrookWhite equation. This is partly because Colebrook (in a footnote in his 1939 paper) acknowledges his debt to White for suggesting the mathematical method by which the smooth and rough pipe correlations could be combined.
3. Colebrook, C. F. (February 1939). "Turbulent flow in pipes, with particular reference to the transition region between smooth and rough pipe laws". Journal of the Institution of Civil Engineers (London).
4. VDI Heat Atlas second edition page 1058 (ISBN 9783540778769) 5. More, A. A. (2006). "Analytical solutions for the Colebrook and White equation and for pressure drop in ideal gas flow in pipes". Chemical Engineering Science 61 (16): 5515–5519. doi:10.1016/j.ces.2006.04.003.
6. Métodos Numéricos con C# ( 7. BS Massey Mechanics of Fluids 7th Ed ISBN 0412342804 8. P.K. Swami, A.K. Jaine, Explicit equations for pipeflow problems, J Hydraulics Div, Proc ASCE (1976), pp. 657–664 May 9. Serghides, T.K (1984). "Estimate friction factor accurately". Chemical Engineering Journal 91(5): 63–64.
10. Goudar, C.T., Sonnad, J.R. (August 2008). "Comparison of the iterative approximations of the Colebrook–White equation". Hydrocarbon Processing Fluid Flow and 25/2/2016 Darcy friction factor formulae Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 8/8 Rotating Equipment Special Report(August 2008): 79–83.
11. Brkić, Dejan (2011). "An Explicit Approximation of Colebrook’s equation for fluid flow friction factor". Petroleum Science and Technology 29 (15): 1596–1602.
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12. Trinh, On the Blasius correlation for friction factors, p. 1 ( 13. Adrian Bejan, Allan D. Kraus, Heat transfer handbook, John Wiley & Sons, 2003 14. Beograd, Dejan Brkić (March 2012). "Determining Friction Factors in Turbulent Pipe Flow". Chemical Engineering: 34–39.(subscription required) 15. Churchill, S.W. (November 7, 1977). "Frictionfactor equation spans all fluidflow regimes". Chemical Engineering: 91–92.
Further reading Colebrook, C.F. (February 1939). "Turbulent flow in pipes, with particular reference to the transition region between smooth and rough pipe laws".
Journal of the Institution of Civil Engineers (London). doi:10.1680/ijoti.1939.13150. For the section which includes the freesurface form of the equation – "Computer Applications in Hydraulic Engineering" (5th ed.). Haestad Press.
2002., p. 16.
Haaland, SE (1983). "Simple and Explicit Formulas for the Friction Factor in Turbulent Flow". Journal of Fluids Engineering (ASME) 105 (1): 89–90.
doi:10.1115/1.3240948.
Swamee, P.K.; Jain, A.K. (1976). "Explicit equations for pipeflow problems". Journal of the Hydraulics Division (ASCE) 102 (5): 657–664.
Serghides, T.K (1984). "Estimate friction factor accurately". Chemical Engineering 91 (5): 63–64. – Serghides' solution is also mentioned here (
Moody, L.F. (1944). "Friction Factors for Pipe Flow". Transactions of the ASME 66 (8): 671–684.
Brkić, Dejan (2011). "Review of explicit approximations to the Colebrook relation for flow friction". Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 77 (1): 34–48. doi:10.1016/j.petrol.2011.02.006.
Brkić, Dejan (2011). "W solutions of the CW equation for flow friction". Applied Mathematics Letters 24 (8): 1379–1383.
doi:10.1016/j.aml.2011.03.014.
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Trigonometric identities
In trigonometry, trigonometric identities are equations involving trigonometric functions that are true for all input values. Trigonometric functions have an abundance of identities, of which only the most widely used are included in this article.
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1 Pythagorean identities
2 Angle addition identities
3 Double-angle identities
3.1 Cosine double-angle identity
4 Half-angle identities
5 Product-to-sum identities
6 Sum-to-product identities
7 Other identities
7.1 Triple-angle identities
7.2 Even-odd identities
7.3 Conversion identities
7.4 Euler's identity
7.5 Miscellaneous
8 Resources
9 See also
Pythagorean identities
The Pythagorean identities state that
Using the unit circle definition of trigonometry, because the point is defined to be on the unit circle, it is a distance one away from the origin. Then by the distance formula, . To derive the other two Pythagorean identities, divide by either or and substitute the respective trigonometry in place of the ratios to obtain the desired result.
Angle addition identities
The trigonometric angle addition identities state the following identities:
There are many proofs of these identities. For the sake of brevity, we list only one here.
Euler's identity states that . We have that By looking at the real and imaginary parts, we derive the sine and cosine angle addition formulas.
To derive the tangent addition formula, we reduce the problem to use sine and cosine, divide both numerator and denominator by , and simplify. as desired.
Double-angle identities
The trigonometric double-angle identities are easily derived from the angle addition formulas by just letting . Doing so yields:
Cosine double-angle identity
Here are two equally useful forms of the cosine double-angle identity. Both are derived via the Pythagorean identity on the cosine double-angle identity given above.
In addition, the following identities are useful in integration and in deriving the half-angle identities. They are a simple rearrangement of the two above.
Half-angle identities
The trigonometric half-angle identities state the following equalities:
The plus or minus does not mean that there are two answers, but that the sign of the expression depends on the quadrant in which the angle resides.
Consider the two expressions listed in the cosine double-angle section for and , and substitute instead of . Taking the square root then yields the desired half-angle identities for sine and cosine. As for the tangent identity, divide the sine and cosine half-angle identities.
Product-to-sum identities
The product-to-sum identities are as follows:
They can be derived by expanding out and or and , then combining them to isolate each term.
Sum-to-product identities
Substituting and into the product-to-sum identities yields the sum-to-product identities.
Other identities
Here are some identities that are less significant than those above, but still useful.
Triple-angle identities
All of these expansions can be proved using trick and perform the angle addition identities. Same for and for .
Even-odd identities
The functions , , , and are odd, while and are even. In other words, the six trigonometric functions satisfy the following equalities:
These are derived by the unit circle definitions of trigonometry. Making any angle negative is the same as reflecting it across the x-axis. This keeps its x-coordinate the same, but makes its y-coordinate negative. Thus, and .
Conversion identities
The following identities are useful when converting trigonometric functions.
All of these can be proven via the angle addition identities.
Euler's identity
Euler's identity is a formula in complex analysis that connects complex exponentiation with trigonometry. It states that for any real number , where is Euler's constant and is the imaginary unit. Euler's identity is fundamental to the study of complex numbers and is widely considered among the most beautiful formulas in math.
Similar to the derivation of the product-to-sum identities, we can isolate sine and cosine by comparing and , which yields the following identities:
They can also be derived by computing and . These expressions are occasionally used to define the trigonometric functions.
Miscellaneous
These are the identities that are not substantial enough to warrant a section of their own.
Resources
Table of trigonometric identities
List of Trigonometric Identities
See also
Trigonometry
Trigonometric substitution
Proofs of trig identities
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S. Ventar writes, "I saw video that explains divisibility for 19. Multiply the last digit by 2 and add to left over digits. repeat until result two digits multiple of 19. Why does method work?"
Hi S! That's a great question. Let's do an example first, to make sure everyone understands the method. Let's take the number 65968 and do the process on it. Ready?
65968: 6596 + 2 x 8 = 6612
6612: 661 + 2 x 2 = 665
665: 66 + 2 x 5 = 76
76: 7 + 2 x 6 = 19
Since the result of this repeated process is 19, the number is divisible by 19. Note that you can stop the process anywhere you happen to know that a number is a multiple of 19. For instance, if you knew that 76 was a multiple of 19, you wouldn't have to do the last step. Similarly, if you knew that 76 wasn't a multiple of 19, you could stop there.
For completeness, let's do one that isn't a multiple of 19, and then we'll explore your questions of why this works. Let's do the number 6121.
6121: 612 + 2 x 1 = 614
614: 61 + 2 x 4 = 69
69: 6 + 2 x 9 = 24
And I know that 24 is not divisible by 19, so I conclude 6121 is not divisible by 19 either.
Before I go any further, I want to introduce you (in case you're unfamiliar) with a branch of mathematics we call "modular arithmetic." In modular arithmetic, we aren't dealing with equations; instead, we're dealing with something called "congruences." A congruence looks like this:
a≡ b mod c
It looks like an equation, except that instead of an equals sign, the symbol in the middle has three bars. We read this congruence like this:
"a is congruent to b mod c."
It's a short-hand way of saying that if you subtract b from a, you get a multiple of c.
Thus, all of the following are true:
7≡ 1 mod 3 (7 - 1 = 6, which is a multiple of 3)
10≡ 1 mod 3 (10 - 1 = 9, which is a multiple of 3)
15≡ 0 mod 5 (15 - 0 = 15, which is a multiple of 5).
There are a couple of nice rules for congruences that will help us see why this divisibility rule works.
Multiplicative Congruence Property
If a≡ b mod c, then ax≡ bx mod c.
Additive Congruence Property
If a≡ b mod c, and d≡ e mod c, then a + d≡ b + e mod c.
These should look very familiar to you; they are just like the multiplicative and additive properties for equality, except that they involve congruences (with the same modular base - note that the c stays constant throughout!).
With all of this in mind, let's explore what happens with our 19 divisibility rule. First of all, I'll start by pointing out that any integer can be written in the form 10x + y, with the y representing the last digit, and x representing the number formed by all the other digits. Here are some examples:
145: x = 14, y = 5; 145 = 10(14) + 5
32794: x = 3279, y = 4; 32794 = 10(3279) + 4
Let's suppose we have a number K which is divisible by 19. We can write K = 10x + y, for some integer x, and y representing the last digit of K. Using congruences, we can write:
Congruence 1. 10x + y ≡ 0 mod 19
Now, just because K is divisible by 19 doesn't mean that 10x is divisible by 19. Let's say that when we divide 10x by 19, we get a remainder of z. This means we can write:
Congruence 2. 10x≡ z mod 19
Subtracting the second congruence from the first gives us the following:
Congruence 3. y≡ -z mod 19
If we do our process on the number 10x + y, we obtain the following: x + 2y. (divide 10x by 10, and add twice the last digit). Remember this result, because we're going to return to it later! If we start with 10x + y, the next number in our process is x + 2y. If we can show that x + 2y is congruent to 0 mod 19 whenever 10x + y is congruent to 0 mod 19, then we'll have shown that the divisibility rule works (because each step in the process will recursively be a multiple of 19 as well).
Now it's time to invoke the Multiplicative Congruence Property on Congruences 2 and 3, using the number 2 as our multiplier:
Congruence 4. 20x≡ 2z mod 19
Congruence 5. 2y≡ -2z mod 19
Now we note that 19x has no remainder when divided by 19, because x is an integer, so 19x must be a multiple of 19. This means:
Congruence 6. 19x≡ 0 mod 19
Combining 4 and 6, using the Additive Congruence Property (technically, subtractive property, or multiplication by -1 and then addition) gives us:
Congruence 7. x≡ 2z mod 19
Now add together Congruences 5 and 7:
Congruence 8. 2y + x≡ -2z + 2z mod 19
Congruence 9. 2y + x≡ 0 mod 19.
In other words: if you start with a multiple of 19, and do the process described, you'll end up with another multiple of 19. And if you do the process on that number, you'll still have a multiple of 19. And so on, and so on. And that's why the process works.
Incidentally, I should add that as far as I know, no one actually uses this divisibility rule for anything; the more cumbersome a divisibility rule is, the less useful it is compared to doing long division. After all, if a number is divisible by 19, you probably want to know what the other factor is, so you'll end up doing long division anyway!
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12422 | https://byjus.com/maths/relation-between-am-gm-hm/ | In Maths, when we learn about sequences, we also come across the relation between AM, GM and HM. These three are average or mean of the respective series. AM stands for Arithmetic Mean, GM stands for Geometric Mean, and HM stands for Harmonic Mean. AM, GM and HM are the mean of Arithmetic Progression (AP), Geometric Progression (GP) and Harmonic Progression (HP) respectively. Before learning about the relationship between them, one should know about these three means along with their formulas.
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AM, GM, HM Formulas
Before we relate the three means in Statistics, which are Arithmetic Mean, Geometric Mean and Harmonic Mean, let us understand them better.
Arithmetic Mean
Arithmetic mean represents a number that is achieved by dividing the sum of the values of a set by the number of values in the set. If a1, a2, a3,….,an, is a number of group of values or the Arithmetic Progression, then;
AM=(a1+a2+a3+….,+an)/n
Geometric Mean
The Geometric Mean for a given number of values containing n observations is the nth root of the product of the values.
GM = n√(a1a2a3….an)
GM = (a1a2a3….an)1/n
Harmonic Mean
HM is defined as the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the given data values. It is represented as:
HM = n/[(1/a1) + (1/a2) + (1/a3) + ….+ (1/an)]
What is the Relation between AM, GM and HM?
The relationship between AM, GM and HM is given by:
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| AM x HM = GM2 |
Now let us understand how this relation is derived;
First, consider a, AM, b is an Arithmetic Progression.
Now the common difference of Arithmetic Progression will be;
AM – a = b – AM
a + b = 2 AM …………..(1)
Secondly, let a, GM, b is a Geometric Progression. Then, the common ratio of this GP is;
GM/a = b/GM
ab = GM2……………(2)
Third, is the case of harmonic progression, a, HM, b, where the reciprocals of each term will form an arithmetic progression, such as:
1/a, 1/HM, 1/b is an AP.
Now the common difference of the above AP is;
1/HM – 1/a = 1/b – 1/HM
2/HM = 1/b + 1/a
2/HM = (a + b)/ab ………….(3)
Substituting eq. 1 and eq.2 in eq. 3 we get;
2/HM = 2AM/GM2
GM2= AM x HM
Hence, this is the relation between Arithmetic, Geometric and Harmonic mean.
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12423 | https://www.biointeractive.org/sites/default/files/Icefish_BirthandDeath_Teacher.pdf | The Molecular Evolution of Gene Birth and Death Published March 2012 Revised October2013 www.BioInteractive.org Page 1 of 7 LESSON TEACHER MATERIALS The Making of the Fittest: The Birth and Death of Genes THE MOLECULAR EVOLUTION OF GENE BIRTH AND DEATH OVERVIEW This advanced lesson describes how mutation is a key element in both the birth and death of genes. Students proceed through a series of presentation slides that include background information, examples, and embedded video, and animation links. Questions challenge students to synthesize information and apply what they learn regarding how genes are gained and lost through evolutionary time. KEY CONCEPTS AND LEARNING OBJECTIVES • Mutations are changes in an organism’s DNA. They occur at random. • Whether or not a mutation has an effect on an organism’s traits depends on the type of mutation and its location. • Mutations can result in both the appearance of new genes and the loss of existing genes. • One way that a new gene can arise is when a gene is duplicated and one copy (or both copies) of the gene accumulates mutations, which change the function of the gene. • One way that a gene can be lost is when one or more mutations accumulate that destroy its function. Students will be able to • analyze gene sequences and transcribe DNA into messenger RNA (mRNA); • translate mRNA into a sequence of amino acids by using a genetic code chart; and • compare wild-type and mutated DNA sequences to determine the type of mutation present. CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS Curriculum Standards NGSS (April 2013) HS-LS1-1, HS-LS3-1, HS-LS3-2, HS-LS4-2, HS-LS4-4, HS-LS4-5 HS.LS1.A, HS.LS3.A, HS.LS3.B, HS.LS4.B, HS.LS4.C Common Core (2010) ELA-Literacy.RST.9-10.1, ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.4, ELA-Literacy.RST.9-10.7, ELA-Literacy RST.11-12.1, ELA-Literacy.RST.11-12.7, ELA-Literacy.RST.11-12.9 AP Biology (2012–13) 1.A.1, 1.A.2, 1.A.4, 2.E.1, 3.A.3, 3.C.1, 3.C.2, 4.A.1, 4.B.1, 4.C.1 IB Biology (2009) 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1, 5.4, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, C.1, C.2 KEY TERMS chromosomal alteration, deletion, duplication, evolution, gene mutation, insertion, mutation, natural selection, point mutation, pseudogene, substitution mutation, translocation TIME REQUIREMENTS This lesson was designed to be completed within two 50-minute class periods and one night of homework; alternatively, this lesson can be assigned completely as homework if computers and the Internet are available to all students. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE This lesson is appropriate for high school biology (second year, AP, and IB), advanced high school genetics elective, introductory college biology, and college-level genetics. PRIOR KNOWLEDGE Students should know the definition of “gene” and be familiar with the structure of a eukaryotic chromosome. Students should understand protein structure and the processes of meiosis, the cell cycle, transcription, translation, gene regulation, and X inactivation. Finally, they should also understand the concepts of natural selection and evolution. The Molecular Evolution of Gene Birth and Death www.BioInteractive.org Page 2 of 7 LESSON TEACHER MATERIALS The Making of the Fittest: The Birth and Death of Genes MATERIALS • student presentation slides • Internet connection for hyperlinks • genetic code chart TEACHING TIPS • Because the presentation slides for this lesson are on the BioInteractive website, you can use a number of different strategies for implementing this lesson in the classroom: • You can proceed through the slides in front of the class. If you choose this option, either pause to let students complete the student handout or complete the lesson questions as a class. • Students can work in pairs if a computer lab (or laptop cart) is available. Each student pair can proceed through the slides on its own computer, answering questions as it goes along. • Students can complete the student handout in class or as an individual take-home assignment, assuming students have access to the presentation slides, a computer, and the Internet. • You can download the presentation slide file from the BioInteractive website and save it to a collaborative space for student use. • Note that this lesson focuses on mutations that affect chromosome structure, not chromosome number (trisomy, monosomy, etc.). • If you are interested in learning more about the sickle cell mutation and its connection to malaria discussed in this lesson, watch the third short film in the short film The Making of the Fittest series: Natural Selection in Humans at • All video clips and animations are hyperlinked, but hyperlinks only work if the slides are in slide-show mode. ANSWER KEY 1. What drives the evolution of new genes? Define “mutation.” Are mutations random? Mutations drive the evolution of new genes. A mutation is a change in an organism’s genetic information, or DNA. Yes, mutations are random. 2. Which of the following has a greater potential effect on the evolution of a population: mutations in somatic (body) cells or mutations in gametes (egg and sperm)? Explain. Mutations that occur in gametes (egg and sperm) have a greater potential to affect the course of evolution because they can be passed on to the next generation. 3. What is a point mutation? A point mutation is a change in a single nucleotide of a DNA sequence. 4. When can an insertion or deletion be something other than a point mutation? This can happen when the mutation involves two or more nucleotides that are inserted into or deleted from the DNA sequence. The Molecular Evolution of Gene Birth and Death www.BioInteractive.org Page 3 of 7 LESSON TEACHER MATERIALS The Making of the Fittest: The Birth and Death of Genes 5. DNA is transcribed to messenger RNA (mRNA), which is translated into a sequence of amino acids that fold to form a protein. a. Complete the tables below by first transcribing the DNA triplets to mRNA codons and then translating them to amino acids by using a genetic code chart (see page 8 of this handout). Wild-Type DNA Sequence DNA GAC TCT GGA CAC CTC mRNA CUG AGA CCU GUG GAG Amino Acid Leu Arg Pro Val Glu Mutant DNA Sequence 1 DNA GAC TCT GGA CGC CTC mRNA CUG AGA CCU GCG GAG Amino Acid Leu Arg Pro Ala Glu Mutant DNA Sequence 2 DNA GAC ACT GGA CAC CTC mRNA CUG UGA CCU GUG GAG Amino Acid Leu (stop) b. Which mutant sequence contains a missense mutation? Explain your answer. Mutant DNA sequence 1 has a missense mutation, because only one amino acid changed. c. Which mutant sequence contains a nonsense mutation? Explain your answer. Mutant DNA sequence 2 has a nonsense mutation, because translation of the protein stopped prematurely. 6. Which type of substitution mutation has the greatest chance of leading to a nonfunctional protein? Explain your answer. A nonsense mutation has the greatest chance of producing a fully nonfunctional protein because it prematurely stops translation, thereby truncating the protein. 7. Describe the cause of sickle cell anemia. Sickle cell anemia is caused by a point (missense) mutation in the hemoglobin protein. Glutamic acid is replaced by valine, causing hemoglobin molecules to clump together and change the shape of red blood cells. 8. Rett syndrome occurs almost exclusively in girls, but there are a few male patients. The right side of slide 10 depicts the normal protein (A) and the proteins produced by three different MECP2 mutations (B, C, and D), along with the resulting phenotypes of the male Rett syndrome patients. The top illustration (A) shows the healthy protein with the most important domains highlighted in light blue and pink. The orange band in the bottom illustration (D) indicates the presence of a different amino acid in the protein sequence compared to the normal protein. a. What type of substitution mutation would result in the protein structures shown in B and C? A nonsense mutation, as both mutations produce truncated proteins b. Even though the proteins depicted in B and C are caused by the same type of mutation, patients with the mutation depicted in C have less-severe symptoms. Develop a hypothesis to explain why. Translation of the protein in B is halted sooner than that of the protein in C, resulting in a much shorter protein. The symptoms of individuals with the mutation shown in B are likely more severe because the protein is unable to perform most, if any, of its functions. Perhaps proteins translated from the gene in C, The Molecular Evolution of Gene Birth and Death www.BioInteractive.org Page 4 of 7 LESSON TEACHER MATERIALS The Making of the Fittest: The Birth and Death of Genes which are truncated later in translation, can still perform some or most of their functions due to the intact protein domains, though probably not as well as the normal protein (A). c. What type of substitution mutation causes the protein depicted in D? Point mutation d. Form a hypothesis to explain why patients with the mutation depicted in D have less-severe symptoms than patients with the other type of mutation. The sequence of amino acids in the protein shown in D differs from that of a normal protein (A) in only one amino acid position. The symptoms are probably mild in individuals with the protein shown in D because the protein has a complete sequence, including the functional domains, and can likely perform most of its functions. Individuals with the proteins shown in B and C, however, have truncated proteins that are unlikely to perform as well as the normal protein, or not at all. e. There are many more female patients with Rett syndrome than males; furthermore, female patients exhibit a much wider range of symptoms than males do. Explain both observations. (Hint: Think about what you know about the X chromosome; you may also watch the X Inactivation animation at Human males have one X chromosome, so if the MECP2 mutation occurs in a male, he will express the mutation. Females possess two X chromosomes, one of which undergoes X inactivation in each cell. If the MECP2 mutation is in only one of the X chromosomes, some cells will express the normal gene while others will express the mutant gene. As a result, females with the MECP2 mutation are more likely to survive than males; this explains why Rett syndrome is almost exclusively seen in girls. Females with Rett syndrome express a wider spectrum of symptoms than those seen in the few male patients that have been identified, due to the differential expression of the two X chromosomes. 9. The following sequence contains an insertion mutation, shown in the larger, red font. a. Use the genetic code chart to complete the table below. Mutant DNA Sequence 3 DNA GAC CTC TGG ACA CCT mRNA CUG GAG ACC UGU GGA Amino Acid Leu Glu Thr Cys Gly b. Compare this amino acid sequence to the wild-type sequence in Question 5. Explain why frameshift mutations can have such major consequences on a protein’s function. A frameshift mutation is especially detrimental because it alters the reading frame of the DNA and therefore how all of the mRNA downstream of the mutation is translated. 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Disclaimer: I am not actually a math guy. The main reason I wanted to understand barycentric coordinates is because I needed to use them in my software renderer. I've implemented them in code, but now I really want to understand what happens „under the hood“ of this math concept. So my math might be a bit naive but I try to do my best.
The definition of the barycentric coordinates is the following:
Definition. Let A be an Euclidean space, a flat, or an affine space and the points V 0,…,V n∈A. Then for any given point P∈A there are scalars k 0,…,k n such that ∃k i≠0 and
∑k i→O P=∑k i→O V i
for any O∈A. These scalaras k 0,…,k n are called the barycentric coordinates of the point P with respect to the point V 0,…,V n.
But I also have seen that the barycentric coordinates of a point P inside a triangle A B C are expressed as a tuple (α,β,γ) such as
α=A r e a△B C P A r e a△A B C,β=A r e a△A C P A r e a△A B C,γ=A r e a△A B P A r e a△A B C.
and
P=α A+β B+γ C.
So I want to prove that
Theorem. Let A be an Euclidean space, a flat, or an affine space; points A,B,C∈A form a triangle, and point P∈A. Then scalars α,β,γ such that
α=A r e a△B C P A r e a△A B C,β=A r e a△A C P A r e a△A B C,γ=A r e a△A B P A r e a△A B C
are the barycentric coordinates of the point P with respect to the △A B C.
As I see it in order to prove this theorem I need to find a general formula of the barycentric coordinates of a point and then express the areas of the triangles through their vertices (A,B,C) and if these results will be equal than the theorem will be proved.
I also think that the solution will not depend on the dimension of A but it would be easier to start with a 2D flat and then generalize the prove to a n-dimensional space.
Proof. First we need to express the triangles areas using their vertices coordinates. It is easy to do using the shoelace formula:
A r e a△A B C=1 2|d e t(A x B x C x A y B y C y 1 1 1)|=1 2(A x B y+A y C x+B x C y−B y C x−C y A x−A y B x),
A r e a△B C P=1 2|d e t(B x C x P x B y C y P y 1 1 1)|=1 2(B x C y+B y P x+C x P y−C y P x−P y B x−B y C x),
A r e a△A C P=1 2|d e t(A x C x P x A y C y P y 1 1 1)|=1 2(A x C y+A y P x+C x P y−C y P x−P y A x−A y C x),
A r e a△A B P=1 2|d e t(A x B x P x A y B y P y 1 1 1)|=1 2(A x B y+A y P x+B x P y−B y P x−P y A x−A y B x).
Then we can express the scalars α,β,γ as follows:
α=A r e a△B C P A r e a△A B C=B x C y+B y P x+C x P y−C y P x−P y B x−B y C x A x B y+A y C x+B x C y−B y C x−C y A x−A y B x,β=A r e a△A C P A r e a△A B C=A x C y+A y P x+C x P y−C y P x−P y A x−A y C x A x B y+A y C x+B x C y−B y C x−C y A x−A y B x,γ=A r e a△A B P A r e a△A B C=A x B y+A y P x+B x P y−B y P x−P y A x−A y B x A x B y+A y C x+B x C y−B y C x−C y A x−A y B x.
Then we need to find the „real“ barycentric coordinates of the point P respect to the points A,B,C. Let's call them u,v,w:
P=u A+v B+w C.
Since we are in 2D now we can rewrite this equation as a system of two linear equations:
{A x u+B x v+C x w=P x A y u+B y v+C y w=P y
And here I am stuck. I can't to solve this system using Gauss elimination neither Cramer's method or inverse matrix (because in this system the number of the variables is not equal to the number of the equations).
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1 You forgot the condition that the barycentric coordinates sum up to one. Then apply Cramers rule.daw –daw 2020-09-30 07:54:51 +00:00 Commented Sep 30, 2020 at 7:54
@daw, thank you very much! I managed to solve the problem using your hint.eanmos –eanmos 2020-09-30 10:15:00 +00:00 Commented Sep 30, 2020 at 10:15
1 @eanmos The area should be signed , other than that everything looks good Sam –Sam 2024-08-22 23:49:39 +00:00 Commented Aug 22, 2024 at 23:49
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Thanks @daw. I managed to solve the problem using his hint.
{A x u+B x v+C x w=P x A y u+B y v+C y w=P y
And here I am stuck. I can't to solve this system using Gauss elimination neither Cramer's method or inverse matrix (because in this system the number of the variables is not equal to the number of the equations).
Since v+u+w=1:
{A x(1−v−w)+B x v+C x w=P x A y(1−v−w)+B y v+C y w=P y
What leads us to a system with two equations and two variables:
{→A B x v+→A C x w=→A P x→A B y v+→A C y w=→A P y
Which can be solved using Cramer's rule:
v=det(→A P x→A C x→A P y→A C y)det(→A B x→A C x→A B y→A C y)=→A P x→A C y−→A P y→A C x→A B x→A C y−→A B y→A C x,w=det(→A B x→A P x→A B y→A P y)det(→A B x→A C x→A B y→A C y)=→A B x→A P y−→A B y→A P x→A B x→A C y−→A B y→A C x.
Then we can go from vectors to scalars:
v=(P x−A x)(C y−A y)−(P y−A y)(C x−A x)(B x−A x)(C y−A y)−(B y−A y)(C x−A x)=C y P x+P y A x+A y C x−A x C y−A y P x−C x P y A x B y+A y C x+B x C y−B y C x−C y A x−A y B x,w=(B x−A x)(P y−A y)−(B y−A y)(P x−A x)(B x−A x)(C y−A y)−(B y−A y)(C x−A x)=B x P y+B y A x+A y P x−B x A y−A x P y−B y P x A x B y+A y C x+B x C y−B y C x−C y A x−A y B x.
And then we can find u:
u=1−v−w=B x C y+B y P x+C x P y−C y P x−P y B x−B y C x A x B y+A y C x+B x C y−B y C x−C y A x−A y B x.
As we can see
u=α,v=β,w=γ.
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For geometric proof of the vector notation of barycentric coordinates P=→u+α→v+β→m=A+(C−A)α+(B−A)β Let point p be arbitrary point inside the triangle ABC.
draw a height named h0 from P to AB, and another one named h1 from C to AB.
Area of (△APB) is |h 0||A B|2=M Area of (△ABC) is |h 1||A B|2=N
Their ratios are |h 0||h 1|=M N
Now draw a line parallel to AC named k from P to AB and call the intersection point E on AB.
from AAA similarity theorem (△h0 P E) ∼ (△ h1 C A), |K||A C|=|h 0||h 1||K|=|h 0||A C||h 1||K|=M N|A C|=(C−A)α=α→v do the same steps for (B−A)β and as a vector sum A+(C−A)α+(B−A)β
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Boyle’s Law
Robert Boyle (1627-1691), an English chemist, is widely considered to be one of the founders of the modern experimental science of chemistry. He discovered that doubling the pressure of an enclosed sample of gas while keeping its temperature constant caused the volume of the gas to be reduced by half. Boyle’s law states that the volume of a given mass of gas varies inversely with the pressure when the temperature is kept constant. An inverse relationship is described in this way. As one variable increases in value, the other variable decreases.
Physically, what is happening? The gas molecules are moving and are a certain distance apart from one another. An increase in pressure pushes the molecules closer together, reducing the volume. If the pressure is decreased, the gases are free to move about in a larger volume.
Mathematically, Boyle’s law can be expressed by the equation:
The is a constant for a given sample of gas and depends only on the mass of the gas and the temperature. Table below shows pressure and volume data for a set amount of gas at a constant temperature. The third column represents the value of the constant for this data and is always equal to the pressure multiplied by the volume. As one of the variables changes, the other changes in such a way that the product of always remains the same. In this particular case, that constant is 500 atm · ml.
Pressure-Volume Data
| Pressure (atm) | Volume (mL) | |
| 0.5 | 1000 | 500 |
| 0.625 | 800 | 500 |
| 1.0 | 500 | 500 |
| 2.0 | 250 | 500 |
| 5.0 | 100 | 500 |
| 8.0 | 62.5 | 500 |
| 10.0 | 50 | 500 |
A graph of the data in the table further illustrates the inverse relationship nature of Boyle’s Law (see Figure below). Volume is plotted on the -axis, with the corresponding pressure on the -axis.
Boyle’s Law can be used to compare changing conditions for a gas. We use and to stand for the initial pressure and initial volume of a gas. After a change has been made, and stand for the final pressure and volume. The mathematical relationship of Boyle’s Law becomes:
This equation can be used to calculate any one of the four quantities if the other three are known.
Sample Problem: Boyle’s Law
A sample of oxygen gas has a volume of 425 mL when the pressure is equal to 387 kPa. The gas is allowed to expand into a 1.75 L container. Calculate the new pressure of the gas.
Step 1: List the known quantities and plan the problem.
Known
Unknown
Use Boyle’s Law to solve for the unknown pressure . It is important that the two volumes ( and ) are expressed in the same units, so has been converted to mL.
Step 2: Solve.
First, rearrange the equation algebraically to solve for .
Now substitute the known quantities into the equation and solve.
Step 3: Think about your result.
The volume has increased to slightly over 4 times its original value and so the pressure is decreased by about . The pressure is in kPa and the value has three significant figures. Note that any pressure or volume units can be used as long as they are consistent throughout the problem.
Summary
The volume of a gas is inversely proportional to the pressure of that gas in a closed system in which only temperature and pressure are changing.
Review
What does “inversely” mean in this law?
Explain Boyle’s law in terms of the kinetic-molecular theory of gases.
Does it matter what units are used?
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Overview
Boyle’s Law, proposed by Robert Boyle, states that the volume of a given mass of gas varies inversely with the pressure when the temperature is kept constant. This means that as one variable increases in value, the other variable decreases.
The physical explanation for Boyle's Law is that an increase in pressure pushes gas molecules closer together, reducing the volume. If the pressure is decreased, the gases are free to move about in a larger volume.
Mathematically, Boyle’s law can be expressed by the equation PV = k, where P is the pressure, V is the volume, and k is a constant for a given sample of gas that depends only on the mass of the gas and the temperature.
Boyle’s Law can be used to compare changing conditions for a gas. The initial pressure and volume of a gas are represented by P1 and V1, and after a change has been made, P2 and V2 stand for the final pressure and volume. The mathematical relationship of Boyle’s Law becomes P1V1 = P2V2.
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Question 1
A balloon with a volume of 5.0 L is filled with a gas at 760 torr. If the pressure is reduced to 380 torr without a change in temperature, what will be the volume of the balloon?
a100 ml
b10,000 mL
c10 ml
d1,000 ml
Pressure-Volume Data
| Pressure (atm) | Volume (mL) | |
| 0.5 | 1000 | 500 |
| 0.625 | 800 | 500 |
| 1.0 | 500 | 500 |
2.0
250
500
5.0
100
500
8.0
62.5
500
10.0
50
500
Question 2
When the pressure on a gas increases, will the volume increase or decrease?
a
decrease
b
first increases then decreases
c
neither
d
increase
The pressure of a gas decreases as the volume increases, making Boyle’s law an inverse relationship.
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1.Introduction
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Geometric Inequalities: Introduction
When not stated otherwise, lengths of the sides of a triangle (ABC) are labeled by (a=BC), (b=CA), (c=AB). The angles are denoted (\alpha=\angle A=\angle BAC), (\beta=\angle B=\angle ABC), (\gamma=\angle C=\angle ACB). The midpoints of the sides (BC), (CA), (AB) are denoted by (A_1), (B_1), (C_1), and the feet of the altitudes from (A), (B), (C) to the opposite sides by (A^{\prime}), (B^{\prime}), and (C^{\prime}). We will frequently denote the points where the internal bisectors intersect the sides of the triangle by (A^{\prime\prime}), (B^{\prime\prime}), (C^{\prime\prime}). The lengths of the medians (AA_1), (BB_1), (CC_1) are denoted by (m_a), (m_b), (m_c); the lengths of the altitudes (AA^{\prime}), (BB^{\prime}), (CC^{\prime}) by (h_a), (h_b), (h_c); and the lengths of the segments of internal bisectors by (l_a=AA^{\prime\prime}), (l_b=BB^{\prime\prime}), and (l_c=CC^{\prime\prime}). The semi-perimeter of the triangle will be denoted by (p) (i.e. (p=(a+b+c)/2)). The circumradius of the triangle will be denoted by (R) and the inradius by (r). The radii of the three circles tangent to one side and the extensions of the other two sides (called the excircles) will be denoted by (r_a), (r_b), (r_c). (S) and (S_{ABC}) will denote the area of the triangle (ABC).
Theorem 1 (Triangle inequality)
If (ABC) is a triangle then the following statements hold:
(a) If (a), (b), (c) are the lengths of the sides, then (a < b+c), (b < c+a), (c < a+b). Conversely, if (a), (b), (c) are positive real numbers each of which is smaller than the sum of the other two, then there exists a triangle whose side lengths are (a), (b), and (c).
(b) (AB < BC) if and only if (\angle ACB < \angle BAC).
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The proof is omitted.
Problem 1
Prove that for arbitrary triangle the following inequalities hold: [p < m_a+m_b+m_c < 2p.]
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Let (ABC) be the given triangle, (A_1), (B_1), (C_1) the midpoints of (BC), (CA), (AB). Let (E) be the point such that (ABEC) is a parallelogram. Then (AE) passes through (A_1) and (AE=2m_a). From the triangle (ABE) we get (AE < AB+BE=c+b) since (BE=AC=b). Therefore (2m_a < b+c). Writing down two analogous inequalities (2m_b < c+a), (2m_c < a+b) which are proved in the same way and summing them up we get (2m_a+2m_b+2m_c < 2a+2b+2c) and one half of the problem is solved. For the other half notice that from (\triangle AA_1B) we conclude (c=AB < AA_1+BA_1=m_a+\frac a2). Similarly from the triangle (AA_1C) we get (b < m_a+\frac a2) and summing the last two inequalities yields (b+c < a+2m_a). Adding this with the two analogous inequalities gives (2a+2b+2c < a+b+c+2m_a+2m_b+2m_c). This implies that (a+b+c < 2(m_a+m_b+m_c)) or equivalently (p < m_a+m_b+m_c). It is also obvious now that both inequalities are always strict.
Problem 2
Prove that for every triangle the sum of its medians is greater than (3/4) of the sum of its sides.
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Let (ABC) be the given triangle, (A_1), (B_1), (C_1) the midpoints of (BC), (CA), (AB), (G) its centroid (the intersection of its medians (AA_1), (BB_1), and (CC_1)). We know that (GA=\frac23 AA_1), (GB=\frac23 BB_1), and (GC=\frac23 CC_1). From (a=BC < BG+GC=\frac23(BB_1+CC_1)=\frac23(m_b+m_c)) and two analogous inequalities we get (a+b+c < \frac43(m_a+m_b+m_c)). Then we have (m_a+m_b+m_c > \frac34(a+b+c)).
Theorem 2 (Ptolemy)
For any four points (A), (B), (C), (D), in the plane [AC\cdot BD\leq AB\cdot CD+AD\cdot BC.] The equality holds if and only if (ABCD) is cyclic with diagonals (AC) and (BD); or if (A), (B), (C), (D) are collinear and exactly one of (B), (D) is between (A) and (C).
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Let (M) be the point in the plane such that (\triangle CMB) and (\triangle CDA) are similar and equally oriented. Then (\frac{CM}{BC}=\frac{CD}{AC}) and (\angle BCM=\angle ACD). Hence (\angle DCM=\angle ACB) which implies (\triangle DCM\sim\triangle ACB). Therefore (BM=\frac{BC\cdot AD}{AC}) and (MD=\frac{CD\cdot AB}{AC}) hence (BD\leq BM+MD=\frac{BC\cdot AD+CD\cdot AB}{AC}). This proves the inequality. If the equality holds, then (B), (M), (D) must be collinear. This in turn implies (\angle CBD=\angle CAD) hence (ABCD) is cyclic or the points (A), (B), (C), (D) are collinear. In the last case it is easy to see that the stated condition must be satisfied.
Theorem 3 (Parallelogram Inequality)
For every four points (A), (B), (C), (D) in the space we have [AB^2+BC^2+CD^2+DA^2\geq AC^2+BD^2.] The equality holds if an only if (ABCD) is a parallelogram (or degenerated parallelogram).
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Consider this problem in the coordinate system. Assume that (A(x_1,y_1,z_1)), (B(x_2,y_2,z_2)), (C(x_3,y_3,z_3)), and (D(x_4,y_4,z_4)). The required inequality will follow if we prove [(x_1-x_2)^2+(x_2-x_3)^2+(x_3-x_4)^2+(x_4-x_1)^2\geq (x_1-x_3)^2+(x_2-x_4)^2] and the analogous inequalities when (x) is replaced by (y) and (z). The last inequality is equivalent to (0\leq x_1^2+x_2^2+x_3^2+x_4^2-2x_1x_2-2x_2x_3-2x_3x_4-2x_4x_1+2x_1x_3+2x_2x_4= (x_1-x_2+x_3-x_4)^2) which is true. The equality holds if and only if (x_1+x_3=x_2+x_4), (y_1+y_3=y_2+y_4), and (z_1+z_3=z_2+z_4), i.e. if and only if (ABCD) is a parallelogram.
Problem 3
Let (ABC) be an acute-angled triangle. Using a straight-edge and compass construct a point (M) inside the triangle (ABC) for which the sum (MA+MB+MC) is minimal.
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Let (X) be any point in the interior of (\triangle ABC). Let (Q) be the point outside the triangle for which (BAQ) is equilateral. Point (Q) is the image of (B) under the rotation around (A) for the angle (60^{\circ}). Let (Y) be the image of (X) under this rotation. Then (\triangle XAY) is equilateral, and (\triangle QAY\equiv \triangle BAX). Therefore (QY=BX) and (YX=AX). Hence (AX+BX+CX=QY+YX+CX\geq QC). Now it suffices to construct a point (M) for which (MA+MB+MC=QC). This can be done because we can construct points (M) and (M^{\prime}) on (QC) for which (M^{\prime}AM) is equilateral (just construct two lines from (A) that are at an angle (60^{\circ}) to (QC)).
Remark. Point (M) obtained in the previous example is called the Toricelli point of the triangle (ABC). From the previous proof it follows that (M) is the intersection of (AQ_A), (BQ_B), and (CQ_C) where (Q_A), (Q_B), and (Q_C) are the points in the exterior of (\triangle ABC) for which (\triangle BAQ_C), (\triangle ACQ_B), and (\triangle BQ_AC) are equilateral.
Problem 4
Prove that (h_a\leq l_a\leq m_a).
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The inequality (h_a\leq l_a) is obvious because the altitude is the shortest segment connecting (A) with some point on (BC). Let us now concentrate on (l_a\leq m_a). If (AB=AC) then (l_a=m_a) and there is nothing to prove. Let us assume assume that (AC > AB). Let (M) be the point symmetric to (A) with respect to (A_1). Then (BMCA) is a parallelogram with (BM=AC). From (BM=AC > AB) we conclude that (\angle BMA < \angle BAM) and therefore (\angle A_1AC < \angle BA A_1). This implies that (AA^{\prime\prime}) belongs to the interior of the angle (\angle BAA_1). Furthermore, (\angle AA^{\prime\prime}C) is obtuse because (\angle AA^{\prime\prime}C+\angle BA^{\prime\prime}A=180^{\circ}) and (\angle AA^{\prime\prime}C=\angle A^{\prime\prime}BA+\angle BAA^{\prime\prime} =\angle A^{\prime\prime}BA+\alpha/2 > A^{\prime\prime}CA+\alpha/2=\angle BA^{\prime\prime}A). Thus (AA_1) is the longest side of (\triangle AA^{\prime\prime}A_1) hence (AA_1 > AA^{\prime\prime}) or (m_a > l_a).
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Wilden, Kahn, Siddle, and White. 1992. “Insulin Receptor Kinase Domain Autophosphorylation Regulates Receptor Enzymatic Function”. J Biol Chem 267 (23): 16660-8.
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We have studied a series of insulin receptor molecules in which the 3 tyrosine residues which undergo autophosphorylation in the kinase domain of the beta-subunit (Tyr1158, Tyr1162, and Tyr1163) were replaced individually, in pairs, or all together with phenylalanine or serine by in vitro mutagenesis. A single-Phe replacement at each of these three positions reduced insulin-stimulated autophosphorylation of solubilized receptor by 45-60% of that observed with wild-type receptor. The double-Phe replacements showed a 60-70% reduction, and substitution of all 3 tyrosine residues with Phe or Ser reduced insulin-stimulated tyrosine autophosphorylation by greater than 80%. Phosphopeptide mapping each mutant revealed that all remaining tyrosine autophosphorylation sites were phosphorylated normally following insulin stimulation, and no new sites appeared. The single-Phe mutants showed insulin-stimulated kinase activity toward a synthetic peptide substrate of 50-75% when compared with wild-type receptor kinase activity. Insulin-stimulated kinase activity was further reduced in the double-Phe mutants and barely detectable in the triple-Phe mutants. In contrast to the wild-type receptor, all of the mutant receptor kinases showed a significant reduction in activation following in vitro insulin-stimulated autophosphorylation. When studied in intact Chinese hamster ovary cells, insulin-stimulated receptor autophosphorylation and tyrosine phosphorylation of the cellular substrate pp185 in the single-Phe and double-Phe mutants was progressively lower with increased tyrosine replacement and did not exceed the basal levels in the triple-Phe mutants. However, all the mutant receptors, including the triple-Phe mutant, retained the ability to undergo insulin-stimulated Ser and Thr phosphorylation. Thus, full activation of the insulin receptor tyrosine kinase is dependent on insulin-stimulated Tris phosphorylation of the kinase domain, and the level of autophosphorylation in the kinase domain provides a mechanism for modulating insulin receptor kinase activity following insulin stimulation. By contrast, insulin stimulation of receptor phosphorylation on Ser and Thr residues by cellular serine/threonine kinases can occur despite markedly reduced tyrosine autophosphorylation.
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This video explores the major routes of amine preparation—starting from the reduction of nitro compounds under strongly and weakly acidic media, to electrolytic reduction techniques. We also cover ammonolysis of alkyl halides in depth, along with its drawbacks, and delve into the reduction of nitriles and amides with mechanistic clarity. A complete breakdown of all key methods you need to know.Created by Nitika Duggal.
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Is it possible to find the characteristic and mantissa of a natural logarithm?
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How do you find the characteristic and mantissa of a logarithm with a simple explanation?
When talking of the characteristic and the mantissa you are talking of logarithms to base 10. They are pretty much obsolete (not quite because somethings are defined on a base 10 logarithmic scale—e.g. sound level in decibels, earthquake strength on the Richter scale, acidity Ph).
Base 10 logarithms were used as an aid to multiplication, division, powers and roots. But the world has moved on and we now have calculators.
Anyway, the characteristic is the power of 10 you need to multiply or divide a number by
How do you find the characteristic and mantissa of a logarithm with a simple explanation?
When talking of the characteristic and the mantissa you are talking of logarithms to base 10. They are pretty much obsolete (not quite because somethings are defined on a base 10 logarithmic scale—e.g. sound level in decibels, earthquake strength on the Richter scale, acidity Ph).
Base 10 logarithms were used as an aid to multiplication, division, powers and roots. But the world has moved on and we now have calculators.
Anyway, the characteristic is the power of 10 you need to multiply or divide a number by to get the result between 1 and 10. For example 365.2422 has characteristic 2 because you need to divide by 100 (move the decimal point 2 places to the left). Or 0.0023 has characteristic -3 (written with a line over the 3 and often called “bar 3”) because you have to multiply by 1000 (move the decimal point 3 places to the right).
The mantissa is then looked up in tables.
To make use of logs when the characteristic is negative means you have to be able to add and subtract numbers that are partially positive and partially negative. If you truly understand how carrying and borrowing work you should be able to handle this, but traditionally students had problems with it. Anyway that’s all obsolete so it doesn’t matter.
Now you need to be able to convert something like bar 5 point 623 to a negative number. Or just use your calculator to find the log and stop worrying.
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The characteristic of a positive number is its integral part and the mantissa is its decimal part. For a negative number, we usually take the characteristic to be the integral part minus 1 and the mantissa to be 1 minus the decimal part. Thus, for 2.15 the characteristic is 2 and the mantissa is .15, but for -2.15 the characteristic is -3 and the mantissa is +.85.
However, the reason we speak of characteristics and mantissas in connection with common (base 10) logarithms is that they are important: the characteristic of the common logarithm of a number >1 is simply the number of digits of the n
The characteristic of a positive number is its integral part and the mantissa is its decimal part. For a negative number, we usually take the characteristic to be the integral part minus 1 and the mantissa to be 1 minus the decimal part. Thus, for 2.15 the characteristic is 2 and the mantissa is .15, but for -2.15 the characteristic is -3 and the mantissa is +.85.
However, the reason we speak of characteristics and mantissas in connection with common (base 10) logarithms is that they are important: the characteristic of the common logarithm of a number >1 is simply the number of digits of the number before the decimal point minus 1, and the mantissa doesn’t change when we move the decimal point. Thus, tables of common logarithms usually only give the mantissa: to find the common logarithm of, say, 32,75, you look up the mantissa of the logarithm of 3275, which is .51521 to five decimal places, and just mentally calculate the characteristic, which is 3 — so log3275 = 3.51521.
None of the above is true for natural logarithms. The number 10 and its powers play no special role in connection with them, and ln32.75 has no obvious similarity to ln3275. So we normally don’t talk about characteristics and mantissas of natural logarithms. Of course, we are free to talk about their integral part and their decimal part, but there is usually no reason to consider them separately.
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The integral part of a common logarithm is called the characteristic and the non-negative decimal part is called the mantissa.
Suppose, log 39.2 = 1.5933, then 1 is the characteristic and 5933 is the mantissa of the logarithm.
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Yes — for common (base-10) logarithms the characteristic and mantissa are well-defined; for natural logarithms (base e) you can define analogous parts but must be explicit about which decomposition you mean. Two useful interpretations:
1) Decompose ln(x) into integer part (characteristic) and fractional part (mantissa).
- Definition: For x > 0, write ln(x) = C + M where
- C = floor(ln(x)) is the integer characteristic,
- M = ln(x) − C is the mantissa (0 ≤ M < 1).
- Properties: C is an integer, M lies in [0,1). This decomposition is trivial and always possible, but differs from the histo
Yes — for common (base-10) logarithms the characteristic and mantissa are well-defined; for natural logarithms (base e) you can define analogous parts but must be explicit about which decomposition you mean. Two useful interpretations:
1) Decompose ln(x) into integer part (characteristic) and fractional part (mantissa).
- Definition: For x > 0, write ln(x) = C + M where
- C = floor(ln(x)) is the integer characteristic,
- M = ln(x) − C is the mantissa (0 ≤ M < 1).
- Properties: C is an integer, M lies in [0,1). This decomposition is trivial and always possible, but differs from the historical base-10 notion where the mantissa was used to look up values in tables independent of scale.
2) Use a base-10 style decomposition that keeps a scale-independent mantissa useful for lookup or significant-digit work.
- Goal: represent ln(x) = k·ln(10) + m where k is an integer and m is the fractional (mantissa) part with 0 ≤ m < ln(10).
- Construction:
- Let k = floor( ln(x) / ln(10) ).
- Let m = ln(x) − k·ln(10). Then 0 ≤ m < ln(10).
- If you divide m by ln(10) you get a normalized fractional part f = m/ln(10) in [0,1), and ln(x) = (k + f)·ln(10). The pair (k,f) mirrors the base-10 characteristic/mantissa notion: k is the decimal characteristic, f is the mantissa expressed in “decimal log units.”
Practical methods to compute them:
Direct numeric: compute ln(x) with a calculator or software, then take integer part and fractional part as above.
From decimal mantissa: if you have x = 10^y with y = log10(x), then ln(x) = y·ln(10). Use y = floor(y) + frac(y): characteristic = floor(y), mantissa = frac(y)·ln(10) (or keep frac(y) as the normalized mantissa).
For table/lookup workflows: compute or look up log10(x) to get the conventional characteristic and mantissa in base 10, then multiply the mantissa by ln(10) to get the natural-log mantissa in absolute units if needed.
Summary:
Yes — you can split ln(x) into integer and fractional parts in at least two sensible ways:
integer characteristic = floor(ln x) and mantissa = fractional part of ln x (units = natural-log units), or
decimal-style characteristic = floor(ln x / ln 10) with mantissa = remainder in [0, ln 10), or normalized mantissa = remainder/ln 10 in [0,1).
Choose the version that matches your use: pure mathematical decomposition (first), or compatibility with base-10 log tables and significant-digit workflows (second).
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Originally Answered: How do you find the characteristic and mantissa of a logarithm with a simple explanation?
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The characteristic is the integer part; the mantissa is the fraction part.
Suppose you wanted the logarithm of 200. That's 2×100. So log 200 = log (2×100) = log 2 + log 100 = 0.3010 + 2 =2.3010.
2 is the characteristic, which gives the order of magnitude. 0 3010 tells where the nunber is between the current order of magnitude and the next higher order.
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An example should help you understand
take the base 10 logarithm of the number 23
A calculator gives this, I rounded off some of the digits
log (23) = 1.36173
The number to the left of the decimal point ( 1 in this case) is the characteristic
.36173 is the mantissa
log (2.3) = .36173
2.3 x 10^1 = 23
Log (2.3 x 10^1 ) = .36173 + 1
Back before calculators you would either use a slide rule or log tables to solve for logs. Log tables had rows and columns ( ten columns) of mantissas to the left of the mantissa row was the equivalent decimal number (1.00x to 9.99x), with the x (0 to 9) corresponding to the c
An example should help you understand
take the base 10 logarithm of the number 23
A calculator gives this, I rounded off some of the digits
log (23) = 1.36173
The number to the left of the decimal point ( 1 in this case) is the characteristic
.36173 is the mantissa
log (2.3) = .36173
2.3 x 10^1 = 23
Log (2.3 x 10^1 ) = .36173 + 1
Back before calculators you would either use a slide rule or log tables to solve for logs. Log tables had rows and columns ( ten columns) of mantissas to the left of the mantissa row was the equivalent decimal number (1.00x to 9.99x), with the x (0 to 9) corresponding to the column
There is a trick you must use with tables to find the log of 0.23
A calculator gives the following
log (0.23) = -0.63827
But log tables don’t go below 1
Here’s the trick
0.23 = 2.3 x 10^-1
log (0.23) = log (2.3) -1
log (0.23) = .36173 -1 = -0.63826
I was taught to do it this way
log (0.23) = (2.3 x 10^9)/10^10
9.36173 - 10
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I could be wrong, but I don’t think Natural logs have characteristics and mantissas. You could convert the natural log to a common log, which does have characteristic and mantissa.
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I managed to teach a class of 15-year olds with an average IQ of no more than 100 how to find the characteristic, by ascertaining which powers of 10 the number lay between. All but one of the students could actually remember from one week to the next. Some of them are probably grandparents now, and cannot believe their children and grandchildren don’t have to learn this stuff!
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Why is the logarithm with base e called a natural logarithm?
Short answer
The short answer is that contrary to the popular belief, there is no clear reason as to why the logarithm with the base e is called the natural logarithm. (I know many people will disagree with me but bear with me.)
Brief history of the natural logarithm
The natural logarithm was discovered decades before the number e and the link between the two wasn’t recognized for more than 100 years!! This doesn’t make sense to our modern way of thinking since today we define the natural logarithm as a logarithm with the base e!
The natural logarithm was first discovered in 1647 through the work
Short answer
The short answer is that contrary to the popular belief, there is no clear reason as to why the logarithm with the base e is called the natural logarithm. (I know many people will disagree with me but bear with me.)
Brief history of the natural logarithm
The natural logarithm was discovered decades before the number e and the link between the two wasn’t recognized for more than 100 years!! This doesn’t make sense to our modern way of thinking since today we define the natural logarithm as a logarithm with the base e!
The natural logarithm was first discovered in 1647 through the work of Gregoire de Saint Vincent and his student Alfonso de Sarasa while studying the area under the square hyperbola (the shape we get from the equation y=1/x).
Saint Vincent realised that the relation between the distance and the area under the hyperbola is logarithmic, and de Sarasa wrote this relation explicitly as: area(a)=log(a). This logarithm was suitably called the hyperbolic logarithm however Saint Vincent and de Sarasa didn’t provide a way to compute it.
More than two decades later Nikolaus Mercator and Isaac Newton independently provided an infinite series to calculate the hyperbolic logarithm and Mercator called it the natural logarithm.
John Ellis Evans from Ohio state university summed up the three most common reasons it is called the natural logarithm as follows:
e is a number that arises frequently in nature
Natural logarithms have the simplest derivatives of all the systems of logarithms
In the calculation of logarithms to any base, logarithms to the base e are first calculated, then multiplied by a constant which depends on the system being calculated.
However none of these reasons were known at Mercator’s time and there must be another reason as to why he called it the natural logarithm.
In 1748, 101 years after the work of Saint Vincent and de Sarasa, Leonhard Euler calculated the base of the hyperbolic(natural) logarithm and found it to be what we call today the number e.
Here is a video I created about the history of the natural logarithm that hopefully gives more understanding on what it is:
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What is characteristic in a logarithm?
Consider 10^0 = 1. We say log 1 to the base 10 = 0.
Consider 10^1 = 10. We say log 10 to the base 10 = 1
So what about the log of numbers which lie between 1 and 10? i.e., say log 7. It should be between 0 and 1. i.e., 0.______.
Now consider 10^2= 100. Hence we say log 1 to the base 100 = 2
So what about the log of numbers which lie between 10 and 100? Say log 36.9. It should be between 1 and 2.
i.e., 1. ______
Now consider 10^3 = 1000. Hence we say log 1 to the base 1000 = 3
So what about the log of numbers which lie between 100 and 1000? Say log 592.68. It should be between 2 and 3
i.e., 2. ______
So
Consider 10^0 = 1. We say log 1 to the base 10 = 0.
Consider 10^1 = 10. We say log 10 to the base 10 = 1
So what about the log of numbers which lie between 1 and 10? i.e., say log 7. It should be between 0 and 1. i.e., 0.______.
Now consider 10^2= 100. Hence we say log 1 to the base 100 = 2
So what about the log of numbers which lie between 10 and 100? Say log 36.9. It should be between 1 and 2.
i.e., 1. ______
Now consider 10^3 = 1000. Hence we say log 1 to the base 1000 = 3
So what about the log of numbers which lie between 100 and 1000? Say log 592.68. It should be between 2 and 3
i.e., 2. ______
So we see that log 7 = 0.______, log 36.9 = 1._______, log 592.68 = 2.________.
Hence we observe numbers with single digit before decimal point have logarithm = 0.______,
numbers with two digits before decimal point have logarithm = 1.______,
numbers with three digits before decimal point have logarithm = 2.______, and so on
Each of the numbers in the logarithm value 0, 1, 2,……….before the decimal point is called as the characteristic of the logarithm of a number.
The decimal part of the logarithm, which we obtain from logarithm tables, is called the mantissa.
So, logarithm of a number consists of two parts: the integral part called the characteristic, the decimal part, the mantissa.
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Why can't Mantissa be negative in logarithms?
Pretty good question.
The following is my opinion which I tried to figure it out myself last year so if you have any objections you can notify me.
What I feel is that it's related to calculating the antilog of the number.
For this let's take an example of a number whose antilog has to be taken:
Here, there's no problem of the characteristic - ,but what about the negative mantissa -? Now, antilog actually follows all the rules of exponents. So come to think of it, you can actually calculate antilog of a negative mantissa by simply following the rule of indices:
Pretty good question.
The following is my opinion which I tried to figure it out myself last year so if you have any objections you can notify me.
What I feel is that it's related to calculating the antilog of the number.
For this let's take an example of a number whose antilog has to be taken:
Here, there's no problem of the characteristic - ,but what about the negative mantissa -? Now, antilog actually follows all the rules of exponents. So come to think of it, you can actually calculate antilog of a negative mantissa by simply following the rule of indices:
So using a log table you can find the antilog now. The problem arises from here. After calculating the antilog you need to find the number's inverse. Then take the antilog of - 2 and you finally get your number as
This process is relatively time consuming. So to calculate antilog in minimum time using the log table we convert the negative mantissa to positive mantissa by adding 1 to it and subtracting 1 from the already negative characteristic.
Using the log table this can be directly evaluated and you get the same answer.
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Can a natural logarithmic function be drawn or graph it with its complex numbers in it?
The question is not really clear enough to give you the answer you may need.
Firstly, I am not a fan of trying to show 4-dimensional graphs but I can show you a 3-dimensional graph which has complex x values but real y values!
I expect you want some theory behind this extraordinary graph?
If we play around with Euler’s idea we get:
(NOTE: r = |z| of course)
The graph of y = ln(x) where x is a POSITIVE
The question is not really clear enough to give you the answer you may need.
Firstly, I am not a fan of trying to show 4-dimensional graphs but I can show you a 3-dimensional graph which has complex x values but real y values!
I expect you want some theory behind this extraordinary graph?
If we play around with Euler’s idea we get:
(NOTE: r = |z| of course)
The graph of y = ln(x) where x is a POSITIVE real number, really
consists of countless “parallel” graphs spaced at distances of 2π to
each other.
The equations are y = ln(x) + (2n)πi
See right hand side of graph above.
The graph of y = ln(x) where x is a NEGATIVE real number, really
consists of countless parallel graphs also spaced at distances of 2π to
each other.
The equations are y = ln│x│ + (2n + 1)πi
See left hand side of graph above.
For x = +1 this means that ln(1) = 2n πi for n = any integer.
In particular, when n = 0 then we get the familiar ln(1) = 0
But ln(+1) can have countless values: 0, 2πi, 4πi, 6πi, 8πi…
For x = –1 this means that ln( – 1) =...
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What is the Mantissa Property of Logarithm?
Consider a number N > 0.
Then, let the value of log 10 N consist of two parts:
One an integral part, the other – a proper fraction.The integral part is called the Characteristic and the fractional or the decimal part is called the Mantissa.
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The dual of a norm ∥⋅∥‖⋅‖ is defined as:
∥z∥∗=sup{z T x|∥x∥≤1}‖z‖∗=sup{z T x|‖x‖≤1}
Could anybody give me an intuition of this concept? I know the definition, I am using it to solve problems, but in reality I still lack intuitive understanding of it.
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Are you familiar with operator norms? Do you know what the dual space is?littleO –littleO 2014-08-19 23:06:01 +00:00 Commented Aug 19, 2014 at 23:06
Familiar on wiki level. Didn't have a proper functional analysis course in the Uni.trembik –trembik 2014-08-19 23:30:19 +00:00 Commented Aug 19, 2014 at 23:30
These concepts are also useful in finite dimensional linear algebra, though they aren't always emphasized.littleO –littleO 2014-08-19 23:36:22 +00:00 Commented Aug 19, 2014 at 23:36
2 Here are a few examples: 1) In multivariable calculus, when giving rigorous proofs of theorems like the chain rule, the inequality ∥A x∥≤∥A∥∥x∥‖A x‖≤‖A‖‖x‖ is useful to put a limit on how large the error in an approximation can be. 2) In numerical linear algebra, the condition number ∥A∥∥A−1∥‖A‖‖A−1‖ measures how close A A is to being noninvertible. 3) The dual space can be used to give an elegant proof of the fact that A A and A T A T have the same rank. (See Lax's linear algebra book, for example.)littleO –littleO 2014-08-20 00:11:12 +00:00 Commented Aug 20, 2014 at 0:11
1 @littleO could you please elaborate more on the condition number, which measures how close A is to being noninvertible. I find this is sharp insights, which I like a lot. But it is difficult for me to build up intuition about your word. Thanks KevinKim –KevinKim 2015-04-03 18:15:40 +00:00 Commented Apr 3, 2015 at 18:15
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Here's the way I like to think about it. I'll start with the finite dimensional space R n R n because it looks like that's where you are, but I'll give an analogy for infinite dimensional spaces as well.
The quantity z T x z T x represents a linear functional on R n R n, that is a linear function which eats a vector and spits out a real number:
f z(x):R n→R such that f z(α x+β y)=α f z(x)+β f z(y)∀α,β∈R,x,y∈R n f z(x):R n→R such that f z(α x+β y)=α f z(x)+β f z(y)∀α,β∈R,x,y∈R n
Because of the Riesz Representation Theorem, we know that any linear function f:R n→R f:R n→R will take the form f=f z f=f z for some z∈R n z∈R n, i.e. f(x)=z T x f(x)=z T x.
The question is now this: given a linear function(al) f z(⋅)f z(⋅), how "big" is it? Well, to measure the size of vectors, we look at norms, so the idea is simple: how big is the number f z(x)=z T x f z(x)=z T x relative to the size (norm) of x x? This is exactly the number
z T x∥x∥z T x‖x‖
We then say that the norm of z z is the largest this quantity can possibly be:
∥z∥∗=sup x≠0 z T x∥x∥‖z‖∗=sup x≠0 z T x‖x‖
In a way, this is a kind of "stretch factor", but the stretching is measured with respect to ∥x∥‖x‖, which is the way we're measuring the size of x x. With a simple one-line proof, you can show that my way of defining ∥z∥∗‖z‖∗ is the same as yours.
This idea extends to infinite dimensional normed spaces such as L p L p as well - every normed space has a "dual" space of (continuous/bounded) linear functionals, i.e. mappings which eat vectors (which might actually be functions) and spit out numbers. Each of these functionals has an associated "size", and that size is given by the dual norm:
∥f∥∗=sup x≠0 f(x)∥x∥‖f‖∗=sup x≠0 f(x)‖x‖
To really complete the picture - and to expand on a couple of comments - it helps to also think about the dual norm as a special case of an operator norm. The idea behind a general operator norm is pretty much the same as what I described above, but for a more general linear operator A:X→Y A:X→Y where X X and Y Y are any normed linear spaces. In the case of linear functionals, X X is a vector space like R n R n or L p L p etc, and Y Y is simply the 'base field', R R (or more generally C C). The idea is that A A eats vectors and spits out other vectors, and to measure the "size" of A A we might look again at the ratio of the size of A x A x (measured with the Y Y norm) to the size of x x (measured with the X X norm):
∥A x∥Y∥x∥X‖A x‖Y‖x‖X
The largest of these values over nonzero x∈X x∈X is a good value for the size of A A, because it tells us a sort of worst-case stretch factor:
∥A∥=sup x≠0∥A x∥Y∥x∥X‖A‖=sup x≠0‖A x‖Y‖x‖X
This is very similar to the idea of a singular value - in fact, if we use the Euclidean norm ∥⋅∥2‖⋅‖2, the operator norm of a matrix is its largest singular value!
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In case of operator norm: I am a little bit confused about Y Y-X X norms in your definition. So if I want to write ∥A∥∗1‖A‖1∗ (i.e. the dual of L1 norm), how would I do it using your definition? What would be X and Y??trembik –trembik 2014-08-31 01:40:45 +00:00 Commented Aug 31, 2014 at 1:40
icurays1 used the notation A:X→Y A:X→Y to indicate that the map A A takes elements from X X and gives you an element of Y Y. So measuring x∈X x∈X will be done in the norm defined on the space X X, denoted as ∥⋅∥X‖⋅‖X, while the output A x A x will have to be measured in the norm on the output space Y Y, denoted as ∥⋅∥Y‖⋅‖Y.user1313292 –user1313292 2024-05-10 07:04:51 +00:00 Commented May 10, 2024 at 7:04
So if you want to copy the notation of icurays1, you should write ∥A∥(L 1)∗=sup∥A x∥R∥x∥L 1‖A‖(L 1)∗=sup‖A x‖R‖x‖L 1 user1313292 –user1313292 2024-05-10 07:07:37 +00:00 Commented May 10, 2024 at 7:07
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The dual space is a space of linear functionals. If we want to define a norm on the dual space, we do what we always do to measure the "size" of a linear transformation: we use an operator norm.
Alternatively, the dual norm of z z is the matrix norm of the matrix z T z T.
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2 This is essentially what I said, but in many fewer words. +1.icurays1 –icurays1 2014-08-19 23:20:34 +00:00 Commented Aug 19, 2014 at 23:20
3 @littleO The extra words provide the intuition the OP asked for.Ethan Bolker –Ethan Bolker 2014-08-20 01:24:02 +00:00 Commented Aug 20, 2014 at 1:24
2 @EthanBolker Yes, icurays1 and I submitted answers at approximately the same time, and I think his answer is better. I just wanted to state the basic idea.littleO –littleO 2014-08-20 03:17:21 +00:00 Commented Aug 20, 2014 at 3:17
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Dual norm is a particular case of the support function, specifically it is the support function of the unit ball of the original norm. When the unit ball is smooth enough ∥z∥∗‖z‖∗ is the Euclidean distance from the origin to the hyperplane with the normal vector z z (of unit Euclidean length) tangent to the ball. The equation of this hyperplane is z T x=∥z∥∗z T x=‖z‖∗.
In general, the ball can have corner points where there is no tangency, but the hyperplane is still "supporting" in the sense that it meets the boundary of the ball, but does not go inside it.
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What are streaks in coin flips?
When you toss a coin it can come up heads or tails. We talk about streaks (or runs) when we're interested in getting the same result several times in a row. Most often, we're interested in the longest streak in a given number of tosses.
In contrast to the standard coin toss problem (which you can discover with our coin flip probability calculator), where we only care about how many heads appeared in a given number of flips, in the streak problem the order of getting the results matters: in HHHTH there's a streak of 3 heads in 5 coin flips, which is different from HHTHH containing a run of 2 heads, even though in both cases we have 4 heads in total.
Computing the probability of runs in coin flips in not a trivial problem. Before we dive into the theory and discuss how to derive a formula for the probability of runs in coin toss, let's quickly explain how our coin toss streak calculator works, so that you can use it as we go through the calculations.
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To determine the probability of runs in coin flips with our coin toss streak calculator, follow these steps:
Tell us how many coin tosses there are in total.
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streaks of exactly this length;
streaks of at least this length; or
streaks of at most this length.
The results will appear underneath. If there are fewer than 30 flips, you can choose between the exact probability (in the form of a fraction) and its approximation.
Also, if you wish, we will display the plot of the probability distribution of the streak you're interested in. This feature is available for up to 100 tosses.
Play for a little while with the coin toss streak calculator to get the gist of the math challenge at hand before we get our hands dirty with some computations.
Examples of runs probability in coin flips
We'll start softly by going through an example of three coin flips. Obviously, there's eight possible results:
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The lengths of the longest streak of heads are, respectively:
3, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 0
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| Exact streak length | Probability |
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| 0 | 1/8 |
| 1 | 4/8 |
| 2 | 2/8 |
| 3 | 1/8 |
That is, in words, there's 25% chance that we'll get the streak of exactly two heads while tossing a coin three times. You can verify these results with the help of our coin toss streak calculator.
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Now it's easy to find the probability of getting streaks of at least or at most some length. It's logical that we're interested in them, because the streak of three heads contains a streak of two heads, right?
Let's repeat what we've done above and note that there is:
one result (HHH) that has at least three heads in a row
three results (HHH, HHT, THH) that have at least two heads in a row
seven results (all except TTT) that have at least one head in a row (the concept of heads in a row becomes more abstract now but bear with us)
eight results (so all of them) that have at least zero heads in a row (so any result will do).
This can be summarized as follows:
| Min streak length | Probability |
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| 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 7/8 |
| 2 | 3/8 |
| 3 | 1/8 |
As for the streaks of at most some length, we very similarly deduce that there is:
one result (TTT) that has at most zero heads in a row.
five results (TTT, HTT, THT, TTH, HTH) that have at most one heads in a row.
seven results (all except HHH) that have at most two heads in a row.
eight results (all) that have at most three heads in a row (because there's three coin tosses in total).
| Max streak length | Probability |
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| 0 | 1/8 |
| 1 | 5/8 |
| 2 | 7/8 |
| 3 | 1 |
🔎 Observe that the min length and max length tables are not mirror images one of the other!
It turns out the easiest value to derive here is the probability of a max streak length. Then, from it, we can easily obtain the remaining two. Let's go!
How to find the probability of streaks in coin toss
From this point forward, we'll use L L L to denote the length of the longest streak of heads in a string of n n n fair coin flip outcomes. Recall that each possible coin toss sequence resulting from n n n coin tosses has the same probability 1/2 n 1/2^n 1/2 n. Hence, the probability P(L≤k)P(L \leq k)P(L≤k) that the longest run of heads will consist of k k k or fewer heads is P(L≤k)=f(k,n)/2 n P(L \leq k) = f(k,n)/2^n P(L≤k)=f(k,n)/2 n. Here, f(k,n)f(k,n)f(k,n) denotes the number of results that contain streaks of heads whose length does not exceed k k k.
Our task is, therefore, to find a way to compute f(k,n)f(k,n)f(k,n). It's obvious that if k≥n k \geq n k≥n then f(k,n)=2 n f(k,n) = 2^n f(k,n)=2 n, because we cannot get a streak longer than the total number of cases. Therefore, we assume k<n k < n k<n.
Imagine you start tossing the coin. At some point, you start getting consecutive heads. As they appear, you get more and more nervous — because you don't want to observe more than k k k heads in a row (I feel you can feel that pressure growing). But, suddenly, phew, what a relief — there's tails! The game is in fact re-set: we will start counting the streak of heads from zero again.
In fact, this simple observation is the main principle on which the reasoning here is based! More precisely, what matters is how long you wait till your first T:
If you got T in the very first toss, then there's f(k,n−1)f(k,n-1)f(k,n−1) sequences having at most k k k consecutive heads in the remaining n−1 n-1 n−1 tosses.
If you started with HT, then there's f(k,n−2)f(k,n-2)f(k,n−2) sequences having at most k k k consecutive heads in the remaining n−2 n-2 n−2 tosses.
If you started with HHT, then there's f(k,n−3)f(k,n-3)f(k,n−3) sequences having at most k k k consecutive heads in the remaining n−3 n-3 n−3 tosses.
And so on. We bet you can see the rule.
The longest you can wait for your first T is until the k+1 k+1 k+1-th toss. (Otherwise you'd get more than k k k consecutive heads and it's a game over). Then there's f(k,n−k−1)f(k,n-k-1)f(k,n−k−1) sequences having at most k k k consecutive heads in the remaining n−k−1 n-k-1 n−k−1 tosses.
Since we consider strings of results that have different beginnings (T, HT, HHT, etc.), we're sure not to count anything twice. So we can safely sum what we got above to get the total number of strings that have no streaks of more than k heads:
f(k,n)=∑i=1 k+1 f(k,n−i)f(k,n) = \sum_{i=1}^{k+1} f(k,n-i) f(k,n)=i=1∑k+1f(k,n−i)
Clearly, to actually compute the values of f(k,n)f(k,n)f(k,n) using the recurrence relations given above, we need the initial conditions. That is, the values of f(k,n)f(k,n)f(k,n) for small values of n n n. In fact, we need k+1 k+1 k+1 of them: f(k,0),f(k,1),…,f(k,k)f(k,0), f(k,1), \ldots, f(k,k)f(k,0),f(k,1),…,f(k,k). And then we will be able to compute f(k,k+1)f(k,k+1)f(k,k+1) as the sum of these initial values.
So what are these initial values? Note there's fewer coin tosses than the length of head streak we consider. Oh, we've already discussed this case and it was just the powers of two: f(k,j)=2 j f(k,j) = 2^j f(k,j)=2 j. In particular, f(k,0)=1 f(k,0) = 1 f(k,0)=1 because if we don't toss, the only possible result is the empty string, and it definitely contains no consecutive heads (it does not contain anything, in fact).
Okay, so we now know how to determine the probability that the longest streak of heads does not exceed some given length. This is what we've referred to as the at-most case. How to derive the exact and at-least thing?
The at-least case calls for the complement of the at-most case. That is, the probability that the longest streak of heads is of length at least k k k reads:
P(L≥k)=1−P(L≤k−1)P(L \geq k) = 1 - P(L \leq k-1)P(L≥k)=1−P(L≤k−1)
Finally, the probability that the longest streak in n n n tosses is exactly of length k k k is simply the difference between it being of length at most k k k and at most k−1 k-1 k−1:
P(L = k)=P(L ≤ k)−P(L ≤ k − 1)P(L!=!k) = P(L!\leq!k) - P(L!\leq!k !-! 1)P(L=k)=P(L≤k)−P(L≤k−1)
🙋 If you're familiar with the language of probability theory, you can easily recognize that we've just calculated the probability mass function from the cumulative distribution function.
Consecutive heads & k-step Fibonacci sequences
Let's discuss in more detail the case of k=1 k = 1 k=1. Rewriting the formula for f(k,n)f(k,n)f(k,n) from the previous section, we obtain:
f(k,n)=f(k,n−1)+f(k,n−2)f(k,n) = f(k,n-1) + f(k,n-2)f(k,n)=f(k,n−1)+f(k,n−2)
The initial condition are f(k,0)=1 f(k,0) = 1 f(k,0)=1 and f(k,1)=2 f(k,1) = 2 f(k,1)=2. Then we get f(k,2)=3 f(k,2) = 3 f(k,2)=3, f(k,3)=5 f(k,3) = 5 f(k,3)=5, f(k,4)=8 f(k,4) = 8 f(k,4)=8. Yes, you've recognized it correctly! What we've got here is the world-famous Fibonacci sequence (even though the indices are slightly shifted)! Wow, we knew that Fibonacci numbers appear everywhere, but have you expected them here? 🤯
🔎 Go to our Fibonacci sequence calculator if you're not yet familiar with this celebrated math concept.
For larger values of k k k we obtain the so-called m-step Fibonacci sequence with m=k+1 m = k+1 m=k+1. The idea is that the next term is the sum of the m m m previous terms. So, for k=1 k=1 k=1 we've had 2-step Fibonacci sequence (just the standard Fibonacci), for k=2 k=2 k=2 we'll get 3-step Fibonacci sequence, etc. Here's a quick summary of them:
| m | Name | Several initial terms |
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| 2 | Fibonacci | 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233 |
| 3 | Tribonacci | 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 24, 44, 81, 149, 274, 504, 927 |
| 4 | Tetranacci | 1, 2, 4, 8, 15, 29, 56, 108, 208, 401, 773, 1490 |
| 5 | Pentanacci | 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 31, 61, 120, 236, 464, 912, 1793 |
| 6 | Hexanacci | 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 63, 125, 248, 492, 976, 1936 |
| 7 | Heptanacci | 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 127, 253, 504, 1004, 2000 |
| 8 | Octonacci | 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 255, 509, 1016, 2028 |
| 9 | Nonanacci | 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 511, 1021, 2040 |
| 10 | Decanacci | 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1023, 2045 |
🙋 The prefixes above (tri-, tetra-, penta-, etc) correspond to numbers in the great Greek language. You've certainly seen them already in words like tri angle, tetra hedron, penta gon, etc. They just tell us how many previous terms we need to add up to get the next term: for Tetra nacci it's four, for Octo nacci it's eight, etc.
Finding the coin toss streak probability — an example
Let's find the probability of getting a streak of at least 3 heads with 10 flips. According to what we've established above, we have
P(L≥3)=1−P(L≤2)=1−f(2,10)2 10\begin{align} P(L \geq 3) & = 1 - P(L \leq 2) \[1em] & = 1 - \frac{f(2,10)}{2^{10}} \end{align}P(L≥3)=1−P(L≤2)=1−2 10 f(2,10)
and f(2,10)f(2,10)f(2,10) is the tenth term of the Tribonacci sequence (m=k+1 m = k+1 m=k+1). Looking into the table above, we see f(2,10)=504 f(2,10) = 504 f(2,10)=504 (remember, the term numbering starts from zero). As a result, we get:
P(L≥3)=1−504 2 10≈0.5078125\begin{align} P(L \geq 3) & = 1 - \frac{504}{2^{10}} \[1.5em] & \approx 0.5078125 \end{align}P(L≥3)=1−2 10 504≈0.5078125
So you have around a fifty percent chance of getting a streak of at least three heads if you flip a coin ten times. Pretty high chance, isn't it? For at least four consecutive heads the probability falls to around 25%, for streaks of five heads or more it's still around 10%, and then for six it's a bit less than 5%.
FAQs
What is a recurrence relation?
A recurrence relation means that the n-th term of a sequence is expressed as some combination (e.g., a sum) of the previous terms of this sequence. A sufficient number of initial values must be defined for this procedure to work!
How do I find the probability of streaks in coin toss?
To find the probability of the length of the longest head run not exceeding k:
Compute 2 to the power of n, where n is the total number of coin flips you perform.
Determine the n-th term of the (k+1)-step Fibonacci sequence.
Divide the number obtained in Step 2 by that from Step 1.
What you got is exactly the probability we've been looking for!
What is the probability of no consecutive heads in 3 coin flips?
The probability that in 3 coin tosses you'll get no consecutive heads is 62.5%. The possible sequences you can obtain with 3 coin tosses are HHH, HHT, HTH, THH, HTT, THT, TTH, TTT. Of these 8 possible sequences, 5 have no consecutive heads: HTH, HTT, THT, TTH, TTT. Therefore, the probability is 5/8, which is 62.5%.
What is the probability of no consecutive heads in 10 coin flips?
The probability that no consecutive heads come up in 10 coin flips is around 14%.
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Energy and heating - AQASpecific heat capacity
Energy is transmitted by conduction, convection or radiation.The conductivity of materials can be compared by examining the time taken to transmit energy through them.
Part of Physics (Single Science)Energy
Specific heat capacity
When materials are heated, the moleculeA collection of two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds. gain kinetic energyEnergy which an object possesses by being in motion. and start moving faster. The result is that the material gets hotter.
Different materials require different amounts of energy to change temperature. The amount of energy needed depends on:
the mass of the material
the substance of the material (specific heat capacityThe amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 kg of substance by 1°C.)
the desired temperature change
It takes less energy to raise the temperature of a block of aluminium by 1°C than it does to raise the same amount of water by 1°C. The amount of energy required to change the temperature of a material depends on the specific heat capacity of the material.
Heat capacity
The specific heat capacity of water is 4,200 Joules per kilogram per degree Celsius (J/kg°C). This means that it takes 4,200 J to raise the temperature of 1 kg of water by 1°C.
Some other examples of specific heat capacities are:
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| Material | Specific heat capacity (J/kg/°C) |
| Brick | 840 |
| Copper | 385 |
| Lead | 129 |
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| Material | Brick |
| Specific heat capacity (J/kg/°C) | 840 |
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| Material | Copper |
| Specific heat capacity (J/kg/°C) | 385 |
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| Material | Lead |
| Specific heat capacity (J/kg/°C) | 129 |
Lead will warm up and cool down fastest because it doesn’t take much energy to change its temperature. Brick will take much longer to heat up and cool down. This is why bricks are sometimes used in storage heaters as they stay warm for a long time. Most heaters are filled with oil (1,800 J/kg°C) or water (4,200 J/kg°C) as these emit a lot of energy as they cool down and, therefore, stay warm for a long time.
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Calculating thermal energy changes
The amount of thermal energyA more formal term for heat energy. stored or released as the temperature of a system changes can be calculated using the equation:
change in thermal energy = mass × specific heat capacity × temperature change
This is when:
change in thermal energy (ΔEt) is measured in joules (J)
mass (m) is measured in kilograms (kg)
specific heat capacity (c) is measured in joules per kilogram per degree Celsius (J/kg°C)
temperature change (∆θ) is measured in degrees Celsius (°C)
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12436 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPJrrOH_eWg | Lecture 2 - Counting and Comparing Sets // Combinatorics Discrete Math
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Now we learn about how to compare and count sets and their subsets! This continues our exploration of sets in Discrete Math.
0:00 introduction
0:37 Set Equality
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5:32 Cardinality of sets, finite sets, infinite sets
7:39 How to count the number of subsets
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introduction once we could count 1 2 3 4 etc we started to describe numbers as say bigger smaller even or odd etc once we have a mathematical object the next step is often to describe its characteristics this usually requires the introduction of more vocabulary right now we have a new notion the notion of a set our task is to describe its properties let's begin Set Equality the most basic thing we need to know is how to tell when two sets are the same and when they're different this is as usual the notion of equality let's start with a and b being sets definition a is equal to b if and only if for all x and a x is in b and for all objects x and b x is in a here i've introduced a quantifier that you may not have seen before this upside down a symbol means for all or for every or for each depending on the context so here's the translation of this definition a is equal to b exactly when every element of a is an element of b and vice versa every element of b is an element of a example say the set a is described in set builder notation x is going to be some natural number such that x is prime and x is strictly less than five b is going to be some integer such that x is positive x is not one and x divides six so what are the primes that are less than five a is going to be the set that contains 2 and 3. and what are the integers that are positive not 1 and divide 6 without remainder these are the integers 2 and 3. every element of a is an element of b every element of b is an element of a and of course as we expect we get a is equal to b Subsets let's talk about how we compare sets much like one would compare numbers so here a and b are going to be sets we're going to define what it means to be a subset definition a is a subset of b if for all elements x and a x is in b the notation for this is going to be this symbol here or we can write it the other way if we reverse the order of the sets for example this set jam is a subset of this larger set with all of these letters and one thing that i want you to note which may not be clear because frankly it's a little confusing the empty set and the set a will be a subset of the set a no matter what a is the empty set which contains nothing is considered a subset of all other sets let's get a little bit more precise with this definition definition a is a strict or proper subset of another set b provided a is a subset of b and a is not b the notation here is similar to before except for the subset notation there's going to be a strike through the horizontal line our same example as before is an example of a proper subset you may be thinking um that there's a relationship between equality and being a subset and you're correct equality of two sets is equivalent it turns out to them being subsets of each other simultaneously so a is equal to b is equivalent to a is a subset of b and b is a subset of a and this means that a way to prove equality uh is to prove both containments as in showing that a is contained in b as a subset and b is contained in a as a subset Cardinality of sets, finite sets, infinite sets let's talk about cardinality much like numbers this is a question of how big so let a be a set definition the cardinality of a is here i'm going to introduce the notation as well so this is how we write it and i'll talk about this in a second but the cardinality of a is the number of objects in the set a here we'll note that we're using the notation for cardinality is the same as the absolute value and i've also snuck in a new symbol which is a colon followed by an equal sign and this means defined to be so a with the absolute values on either side is defined to be the number of objects in the set a and here we can be a little bit more descriptive a is said to be a finite set if the cardinality of a is less than infinity so if there's a finite number of things in the set then the set is called finite and similarly as you expect a is infinite if the cardinality of a is infinity example the cardinality of the set that includes the letters j a and m is three and this means that it is a finite set example the cardinality of the empty set that contains nothing is zero this makes it also an example of a finite set and the cardinality of the integers is infinity their infinite number of integers and this makes in an example of an infinite set How to count the number of subsets now that we have an idea of the size of sets we can start counting things with regards to sets in particular i want to count subsets let's look for a second at our set that contains three letters j a and m i want to figure out how many subsets this particular set has and i can organize this by cardinality so for example say i have cardinality over here and the subsets over here well uh this the whole set has a cardinality of three so we expect there to be maybe subsets of cardinality 0 1 2 and 3 and we can organize it this way so what are the subsets of this set of cardinality zero well there is only one it is the empty set what are the subsets of cardinality one well you can take the individual letters here they are what about of cardinality two well we can combine two letters i think these are the only ways that you can do that and then you can see the subset of cardinality three which is the whole set how many do we have one two three four five six seven eight now there must be a systematic way of doing this and um part of combinatorics and beauty combinatorics is just looking at something the right way so that we can count them more easily so the first thing i want to remind you of is that sets are defined by what's in and what's out so we are going to encode this in binary so we're starting with the set that contains these three letters j a and m and one is going to mean in and 0 is going to mean out so what does 0 comma 0 comma 0 mean well it means j is out a is out and m is out so this corresponds to the empty set since both j a and m are not in there we can also play around with other things this string 0 1 1 will correspond to j being out a being in and m being in and so this corresponds to the set a comma n and you can see that we can play this game um every single set for every single individual element of the set every single subset will either have that element in or out so we can exhaust all the possibilities by just listing all the different ways that each element can be in or out of the set in general what we're going to have is three numbers the choices for these three numbers can be either zero or one so there's two choices for each and this corresponds to all the possibilities uh there are two choices for j either in or out two choices for a either in or out and two choices for m either in or out and this is going to be eight otherwise known as two to three i'm doing this suggestively because this as you uh might recall is the cardinality of the set in question so here's our theorem along these lines that confirms and generalizes what we've just kind of heuristically figured out so let a be a set and in particular a be a set with finite cardinality a finite set then the number of subsets is equal to two raised to the power that is the cardinality of that set before we do a quick example of this um i do want Power Sets to introduce a notion of the power set this is what we're secretly exploring definition the power set of a is the set of all subsets of a the notation for this is 2 to the a which normally would not make sense because what is 2 raised to a set but this is uh we're introducing this as notation that makes sense this is representing the power set of a and what that theorem that we just talked about says is that the cardinality of the power set of a is going to be two raised to the cardinality of a so just to remind you this guy's the power set of a these two absolute values just means the cardinality and then this is the cardinality of it so this is a symbolic way to write down the theorem that we just learned all right now let's just do an example example how many subsets of the set that contains the integers 1 2 3 4 and 5 are there well now we don't have to write them down the cardinality of the power sets which is the the set of subsets is 2 to the cardinality of a which is 2 to the 5 which is 32. in the next lesson we're going to be talking about doing operations on our sets |
12437 | https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8909872/ | Virus–Host Cell Interactions - PMC
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For viruses that replicate in the cytoplasm, genome replication and viral transcription are increasingly being appreciated to take place in specialized replication organelles. For positive-strand RNA viruses, these are predominantly membranous structures. In contrast, for a growing number of negative-strand RNA viruses, viral RNA synthesis has been shown to be localized in inclusion bodies that are not delineated from their surroundings by membranes. Two reviews highlight the progress that is being made in understanding both of these types of replication organelles. Nguyen-Dingh and Herker focus on the membranous replication organelles induced by positive-strand RNA viruses, whereas Dolnik et al. discuss exciting recent progress in our understanding of negative-sense RNA virus replication structures as liquid organelles, i.e., compartments that are held together by liquid–liquid phase separation, rather than by a surrounding membrane.
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Finally, in order to complete their life cycle, viruses have to exit their host cell, and this process is often intimately interlinked with the subversion of cellular host factors. In the case of non-segmented negative-sense RNA viruses, particle production is frequently driven by a dedicated viral matrix protein. Focusing on the Ebola virus matrix protein VP40, Paparisto et al. show that the process of particle production is inhibited by the cellular protein HECT and RCC1-like containing domain 5 (HERC5) . However, interestingly, the mechanism for this does not appear to be an inhibition on the level of matrix protein function, but rather involves the depletion of mRNAs encoding for VP40. Consequently, this study emphasizes not only the role virus host–cell interactions play in supporting the virus life cycle, but also the role that antiviral factors can play in inhibiting key viral processes.
Of course, host–pathogen interactions involved in antiviral control not only occur at the level of specific antiviral cellular factors or cellular antiviral responses, but can also include a broader range of interactions with the immune system. This is highlighted in a comprehensive review by Muralidharan and Reid, in which they illuminate the complex roles of neutrophils during arbovirus infections . Using examples from a wide range of arboviruses, including Zika virus, Dengue virus, West Nile virus, and various alphaviruses, they highlight not only the beneficial roles that neutrophils can play, but also their sometimes-detrimental roles in augmenting disease pathology.
An equally complex but currently underappreciated topic is that of pathogen–host interactions in the context of coinfections involving several disease agents, and particularly co-infections of viruses and bacteria. In this context, a study by Nickol et al. demonstrates the impact of coinfection with Influenza virus and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus on the expression of bacterial virulence factors as well as on the infected host, particularly regarding its cytokine response and the integrity of the alveolar-capillary barrier. This work provides mechanistic support for the clinical observation that severe influenza infections are frequently complicated by bacterial coinfections.
Overall, this Special Issue provides examples of the crucial role that virus–host cell interactions play in the biology of a diverse range of viruses, and highlights the importance of better understanding such interactions in order to be better able to combat virus infections and the mechanisms that contribute to pathogenesis and disease.
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12439 | https://www.desy.de/user/projects/Physics/Relativity/SR/velocity.html | Relativistic Velocities
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Updated by Terence Tao 1997.
Original by Philip Gibbs 1996.
How Do You Add Velocities in Special Relativity?
Suppose an object A is moving with a velocity v relative to an object B, and B is moving with a velocity u (in the same direction) relative to an object C. What is the velocity of A relative to C?
v
u -------> A
-------> B
C w
----------------->
In non-relativistic mechanics the velocities are simply added and the answer is that A is moving with a velocity w = u+v relative to C. But in special relativity the velocities must be combined using the formula u + v
w = ---------
1 + uv/c2
If u and v are both small compared to the speed of light c, then the answer is approximately the same as the non-relativistic theory. In the limit where u is equal to c (because C is a massless particle moving to the left at the speed of light), the sum gives c. This confirms that anything going at the speed of light does so in all reference frames.
This change in the velocity addition formula is not due to making measurements without taking into account time it takes light to travel or the Doppler effect. It is what is observed after such effects have been accounted for and is an effect of special relativity which cannot be accounted for with newtonian mechanics.
The formula can also be applied to velocities in opposite directions by simply changing signs of velocity values or by rearranging the formula and solving for v. In other words, If B is moving with velocity u relative to C and A is moving with velocity w relative to C then the velocity of A relative to B is given by
w - u
v = ---------
1 - wu/c2
Notice that the only case with velocities less than or equal to c which is singular is w = u = c which gives the indeterminate zero divided by zero. In other words it is meaningless to ask the relative velocity of two photons going in the same direction.
How can that be right?
Naively the relativistic formula for adding velocities does not seem to make sense. This is due to a misunderstanding of the question which can easily be confused with the following one: Suppose the object B above is an experimenter who has set up a reference frame consisting of a marked ruler with clocks positioned at measured intervals along it. He has synchronised the clocks carefully by sending light signals along the line taking into account the time taken for the signals to travel the measured distances. He now observes the objects A and C which he sees coming towards him from opposite directions. By watching the times they pass the clocks at measured distances he can calculate the speeds they are moving towards him. Sure enough he finds that A is moving at a speed v and C is moving at speed u. What will B observe as the speed at which the two objects are coming together? It is not difficult to see that the answer must be u+v whether or not the problem is treated relativistically. In this sense velocities add according to ordinary vector addition.
But that was a different question from the one asked before. Originally we wanted to know the speed of C as measured relative to A not the speed at which B observes them moving together. This is different because the rulers and clocks set up by B do not measure distances and times correctly in the reference from of A where the clocks do not even show the same time. To go from the reference frame of A to the reference frame of B you need to apply a Lorentz transformation on co-ordinates as follows (taking the x-axis parallel to the direction of travel):
xB = γ(v)( xA - v tA )
tB = γ(v)( tA - v/c2 xA )
γ(v) = 1/sqrt(1-v2/c2)
To go from the frame of B to the frame of C you must apply a similar transformation xC = γ(u)( xB - u tB )
tC = γ(u)( tB - u/c2 xB )
These two transformations can be combined to give a transformation which simplifies to
xC = γ(w)( xA - w tA )
tC = γ(w)( tA - w/c2 xA)
u + v
w = ---------
1 + uv/c2
This gives the correct formula for combining parallel velocities in special relativity. A feature of the formula is that if you combine two velocities less than the speed of light you always get a result which is still less than the speed of light. Therefore no amount of combining velocities can take you beyond light speed. Sometimes physicists find it more convenient to talk about the rapidityr, which is defined by the relation v = c tanh(r/c)
The hyperbolic tangent function tanh maps the real line from minus infinity to plus infinity onto the interval −1 to +1. So while velocity v can only vary between -c and c, the rapidity r varies over all real values. At small speeds rapidity and velocity are approximately equal. If s is also the rapidity corresponding to velocity u then the combined rapidity t is given by simple addition
t = r + s
This follows from the identity of hyperbolic tangents tanh x + tanh y
tanh(x+y) = -------------------
1 + tanh x tanh y
Rapidity is therefore useful when dealing with combined velocities in the same direction and also for problems of linear acceleration
For example, if we combine the speed v n times, the result is
w = c tanh( n tanh-1(v/c) )
The velocity addition formula for non-parallel velocities
The previous discussion only concerned itself with the case when both velocities v and u were aligned along the x-axis; the y and z directions were ignored.
Consider now a more general case, where B is moving with velocity v = (v x,0,0) in A's reference frame, and C is moving with velocity u = (u x, u y, u z) in B's reference frame. The question is to find the velocity w = (w x, w y, w z) of C in A's reference frame. This is still not quite the most general situation, since we are assuming B to be moving in the direction of A's x-axis, but it is a decent compromise, since the most general formula is somewhat messy. In any event, one can always orient A's frame using Euclidean rotations so that B's direction of motion lies along the x-axis.
There is one additional assumption we will need to make before we can give the formula. Unlike the case of one spatial dimension, the relative orientations of B's frame of reference and A's frame of reference is now important. What B perceives as motion in the x-direction (or y-direction, or z-direction) may not agree with what A perceives as motion in the x-direction (etc.), if B is facing in a different direction from A.
We will thus make the simplifying assumption that B is oriented in the standard way with respect to A, which means that the spatial co-ordinates of their respective frames agree in all directions orthogonal to their relative motion. In other words, we are assuming that
yB = yA
zB = zA
In the technical jargon, we are requiring B's frame of reference to be obtained from A's frame by a standard Lorentz transformation (also known as a Lorentz boost).
In practice, this assumption is not a major obstacle, because if B is not initially oriented in the standard way with respect to A, it can be made to be so oriented by a purely spatial rotation of axes. However, it should be warned that if B is oriented in the standard way with respect to A, and C is oriented in the standard way with respect to B, then it is not necessarily true that C is oriented in the standard way with respect to A! This phenomenon is known as precession. It's roughly analogous to the three-dimensional fact that, if one rotates an object around one horizontal axis and then about a second horizontal axis, the net effect would be a rotation around an axis which is not purely horizontal, but which will contain some vertical components.
If B is oriented in the standard way with respect to A, the Lorentz transformations are given by
xB = γ(vx)( xA - vx tA )
yB = yA
zB = zA
tB = γ(vx)( tA - vx/c2 xA )
Since C is moving along the line (xB,yB,zB,tB) = (ux t, uy t, uz t, t) (t real),
we see, after some computation, that in A's frame of reference C is moving along the line (xA,yA,zA,tA) = (wx s, wy s, wz s, s) (s real),
where ux + vx
wx = ------------
1 + uxvx/c2
uy
wy = -------------------
(1 + uxvx/c2) γ(vx)
uz
wz = -------------------
(1 + uxvx/c2) γ(vx)
γ(vx) = 1/sqrt(1 - vx2/c2)
Thus the velocity w = (w x, w y, w z) of C with respect to A is given by the above three formulae, assuming that B is orientated in the standard way with respect to A. Note that if u y=u z=0 then this reduces to the simpler velocity addition formula given before.
References: "Essential Relativity", W. Rindler, Second Edition. Springer 1977.
Relative speeds
If an observer A measures two objects B and C to be travelling at velocities u = (u x, u y, u z) and v = (v x, v y, v z) respectively, one may ask the question of what the relative speed between B and C are, or in other words at what speed w B would measure C to be travelling at, or vice versa. In galileian relativity the relative speed would be given by
w2 = (u-v).(u-v) = (ux - vx)2 + (uy - vy)2 + (uz - vz)2.
However, in special relativity the relative speed is instead given by the formula (u-v).(u-v) - (u × v)2/c2
w2 = -------------------------
(1 - (u.v)/c2)2
where u-v = (u x - v x, u y - v y, u z - v z) is the vector difference of u and v, u.v = u x v x + u y v y + u z v z is the inner product of u and v, and u×v is the vector product for which (u×v)2 = (u.u)(v.v) - (u.v)2.
When u y = u z = v y = v z = 0, the formula reduces to the more familiar
|ux - vx|
w = -------------
1 - ux vx/c2
References
N.M.J. Woodhouse, "Special Relativity", Lecture Notes in Physics (m: 6), Springer Verlag, 1992.
J.D. Jackson, "Classical Electrodynamics", 2nd ed., 1975, ch 11.
P. Lounesto, "Clifford Algebras and Spinors", CUP, 1997. |
12440 | https://blog.csdn.net/m0_57122180/article/details/147275952 | 分段等差数列求和
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using namespace std;
int main()
{
int K;
cin >> K;
int totalcoin =0;
int day =0;
int stage=1;
while( day + stage <= K )
{
totalcoin += stagestage;
day += stage;
stage++;
}
int res= K - day ; // 剩下不足一个完整阶段的天数
totalcoin = totalcoin + res stage;
cout << totalcoin << endl;
return 0;
}
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Continuing with our story about prime numbers, today we will prove that there exists an infinite number of primes. This is called the Euclid's theorem on prime numbers. This theorem has a very simple proof but it is probably one of the most beautiful proofs ever in mathematics.
To prove that there are infinitely many prime numbers, we will show that for any sequence of prime numbers p1, p2, ..., pk, we can find another prime number that is not in this list.
What we do is we construct this number: n=p1p2…pk+1.
Now, clearly, n must have a prime divisor. But since n is not divisible by any of the prime numbers pi, the prime divisor of n must be a new prime number that is not in the above list of primes.
So, for any finite sequence of prime numbers, we can find another prime number. This proves that there must be an infinite number of primes.
This proof is so simple, yet, it is so beautiful! Let us use this technique to solve some similar problems.
Problem 1. Prove that there are infinitely many prime numbers of the form 4N+3.
We know that 2 is the only even prime number, all other primes are odd numbers. An odd prime number is either of the form 4N+1, or of the form 4N+3. To prove that there exists an infinite number of primes of the form 4N+3, we will use a similar argument as above. That is, for any sequence of prime numbers p1, p2, ..., pk of the form 4N+3, we will show that there exists another prime number of the form 4N+3 that is not in the list.
We choose n=4p1p2…pk−1.
This number n must have a prime divisor of the form 4N+3. Why it that? The reason is, because n is an odd number greater than 1, if n does not have any prime divisor of the form 4N+3 then all prime divisors of n must be of the form 4N+1. Thus, n is a product of numbers of the form 4N+1. It is easy to see that a product of numbers of the form 4N+1 is a number of the form 4N+1. Therefore, n is a number of the form 4N+1, and this is a contradiction.
We have shown that n must have a prime divisor p which is of the form 4N+3. Next, since n is not divisible by any of the prime numbers pi, we conclude that p≠pi. Let us now write down the proof.
Solution to the Problem 1. To prove that there exists infinitely many prime numbers of the form 4N+3, we show that for any sequence of prime numbers p1, p2, ..., pk of the form 4N+3, there exists another prime number which is also of the form 4N+3.
Indeed, take n=4p1p2…pk−1.
We claim that n must have a prime divisor of the form 4N+3. This is because if all prime divisors of n are of the form 4N+1 then as a product of numbers of the form 4N+1, n must also be of the form 4N+1, which is a contradiction.
So, n must have a prime divisor p which is of the form 4N+3. Since n is not divisible by any of the prime numbers pi, we must have p≠pi.
Thus, for any finite sequence of prime numbers of the form 4N+3, we can find another prime number which is also of the form 4N+3, so there must be an infinite number of primes of the form 4N+3. ■
Problem 2. Prove that there are infinitely many prime numbers of the form 4N+1.
To follow the above argument we would choose n=4p1p2…pk+1 and try to prove that n has a prime divisor of the form 4N+1. However, a closer look tells us that this is not achievable. The reason is that a product of two numbers of the form 4N+3 is a number of the form 4N+1. Therefore, n could be a product of two prime numbers of the form 4N+3 and it will make n a number of the form 4N+1, but yet, n will not have any prime divisors of the form 4N+1. We need to find another proof.
We will use n=4p21p22…p2k+1. To show that n has a prime divisor of the form 4N+1, we use the following useful fact.
Lemma. For any x, the number x2+1 has no prime divisors of the form 4N+3.
To prove this lemma, we need to use the Fermat's little theorem. You can read more about the Fermat's little theorem in this post "modulo - Part 5".
The Fermat's little theorem asserts that, for any prime number p, and for any integer a that is not divisible by p,
ap−1=1(modp).
We prove the lemma by contradiction. First, we assume that x2+1 has a prime divisor p=4N+3. Thus obtaining
x2=−1(modp).
It follows that
x4N+2=(x2)2N+1=(−1)2N+1=−1(modp).
However, by Fermat's little theorem, we have
x4N+2=1(modp).
So 1=−1(modp), or equivalently, 2=0(modp). This is a contradiction, so the lemma is proved. ■
Solution to the Problem 2. To prove that there exists infinitely many prime numbers of the form 4N+1, we show that for any sequence of prime numbers p1, p2, ..., pk of the form 4N+1, there exists another prime number of the form 4N+1 which is not in the list.
Indeed, take n=4p21p22…p2k+1.
This number n is of the form x2+1. By the lemma that we have just proved, n does not have any prime divisor of the form 4N+3. Since n is an odd number, all prime divisors of n must be of the form 4N+1. We also easily see that none of the prime numbers pi in the list is a divisor of n. Thus, we have found new prime numbers of the form 4N+1.
We have shown that for any finite sequence of prime numbers of the form 4N+1, we can find other prime numbers of the form 4N+1, therefore, there must exist an infinite number of primes of the form 4N+1. ■
Before we stop, let us just remark that the above two problems are actually two special cases of a general theorem. This is called the Dirichlet's theorem on arithmetic progressions. The Dirichlet's theorem asserts that for any two coprime numbers a and b, there exists an infinite number of primes of the form aN+b.
Let us stop here for now. See you again in the next post.
Homework.
1. Prove that there are infinitely many prime numbers of the form 6N+1.
2. Prove that there are infinitely many prime numbers of the form 6N+5.
Choose some other values of a and b, and prove that there exists an infinite number of primes of the form aN+b.
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12.8 - Extrapolation
"Extrapolation" beyond the "scope of the model" occurs when one uses an estimated regression equation to estimate a mean or to predict a new response for x values not in the range of the sample data used to determine the estimated regression equation. In general, it is dangerous to extrapolate beyond the scope of the model. The following example illustrates why this is not a good thing to do.
Researchers measured the number of colonies of grown bacteria for various concentrations of urine (ml/plate). The scope of the model — that is, the range of the x values — was 0 to 5.80 ml/plate. The researchers obtained the following estimated regression equation:
Using the estimated regression equation, the researchers predicted the number of colonies at 11.60 ml/plate to be 16.0667 + 1.61576(11.60) or 34.8 colonies. But when the researchers conducted the experiment at 11.60 ml/plate, they observed that the number of colonies decreased dramatically to about 15.1 ml/plate:
The moral of the story is that the trend in the data as summarized by the estimated regression equation does not necessarily hold outside the scope of the model. |
12443 | https://courses.grainger.illinois.edu/cs357/sp2020/assets/lectures/3-Errors-inclass.pdf | Errors Scientific Notation In scientific notation, a number can be expressed in the form ! = ± $ × 10( where $ is a coefficient in the range 1 ≤$ < 10 and + is the exponent. 1165.7 = 0.0004728 = Binary numbers ! We will soon be learning about how numbers are represented in the computer. ! Before we introduce this new concept, make sure to revise binary number representation. You will need to know how to convert form binary numbers to decimal numbers and vice-versa.
! To help you with the review, I added a PrairieLearn homework assignment, where you can get extra credit points (counting towards the “short questions”).
Error in Numerical Methods ! Every result we compute in Numerical Methods contain errors!
! We always have them… so our job? Reduce the impact of the errors ! How can we model the error?
! Absolute errors can be misleading, depending on the magnitude of the true value !.
! Example: ! Relative error is independent of magnitude!
You are tasked with measuring the height of a tree which is known to be exactly 170 ft tall. You later realized that your measurement tools are somewhat faulty, up to a relative error of 10%. What is the maximum measurement for the tree height (numbers rounded to 3 sig figs)?
A) 153 ft B) 155 ft C) 187 ft D) 189 ft You are tasked with measuring the height of a tree and you get the measurement as 170 ft tall. You later realized that your measurement tools are somewhat faulty, up to a relative error of 10%. What is the minimum height of the tree (numbers rounded to 3 sig figs) ?
A) 153 ft B) 155 ft C) 187 ft D) 189 ft Significant digits Significant figures of a number are digits that carry meaningful information. They are digits beginning to the leftmost nonzero digit and ending with the rightmost “correct” digit, including final zeros that are exact.
The number 3.14159 has _ significant digits.
The number 0.00035 has significant digits.
The number 0.000350 has significant digits.
Suppose ! is the true value and " ! the approximation. The number of significant figures tells us about how many positions of # and $ # agree.
Suppose the true value is ! = 3.141592653 And the approximation is .
! = 3.14 We say that .
! has significant figures of !
Let’s try the same for: 2) .
! = 3.14159 3) .
! = 3.1415 !
" has # significant figures of " if " −!
" has zeros in the first % decimal places counting from the leftmost nonzero (leading) digit of ", followed by a digit from 0 to 4.
1) !
" = 3.14 2) !
" = 3.14159 3) !
" = 3.1415 4) !
" = 3.1416 " = 3.141592653 !
" has # significant figures of " if " −!
" has zeros in the first % decimal places counting from the leftmost nonzero (leading) digit of ", followed by a digit from 0 to 4.
So far, we can observe that " −!
" ≤5×10+,. Note that the exact number in this example can be written in the scientific notation form " = /×100. What happens when the exponent is not zero?
We use the relative error definition instead!
GH = " −!
" " Accurate to n significant digits means that you can trust a total of n digits. Accurate digits is a measure of relative error.
! is the number of accurate significant digits Relative error: "##$# = &'()+ ,&)--./( &'()+ ≤5×10,5 In general, we will use the rule-of-thumb: 67787 = 969:;< −9:>>789 969:;< ≤?@,AB?
For example, if relative error is 10,C then D E has at most ____ significant figures of E After rounding, the resulting number has 5 accurate digits. What is the tightest estimate of the upper bound on my relative error?
A) 10% B) 10'% C) 10) D) 10') Sources of Error Main source of errors in numerical computation: ! Rounding error: occurs when digits in a decimal point (1/3 = 0.3333...) are lost (0.3333) due to a limit on the memory available for storing one numerical value. ! Truncation error: occurs when discrete values are used to approximate a mathematical expression (eg. the approximation sin $ ≈$ for small angles $) Let’s first talk about plots… • Power functions: • Exponential functions: Big-O notation Complexity: Matrix-matrix multiplication For a matrix with dimensions ! × !, the computational complexity can be represented by a power function: #$%& = ( !) We could count the total number of operations to determine the value of the constants above, but instead, we will get an estimate using a numerical experiment where we perform several matrix-matrix multiplications for vary matrix sizes, and store the time to take to perform the operation. For a matrix with dimensions ! × !, the computational complexity can be represented by a power function: #$%& = ( !) What type of plot will result in a straight line?
A) semilog-x B) semilog-y C)log-log Demo: Cost of Matrix-Matrix Multiplication Power functions are represented by straight lines in a log-log plot, where the coefficient ! is determined by the slope of the line. "#$% = ' () Demo: Cost of Matrix-Matrix Multiplication !"#$ = &(() ) Instead of predicting time using !"#$ = + () , we can use the big-O notation to write where , can be obtained from the slope of the straight line.
For a matrix-matrix multiplication, what is the value of ,? As we mentioned previously, we can also get the complexity by counting the number of operations needed to perform the computation: Big-Oh notation Let ! and " be two functions. Then ! # = % " # as # →∞ If an only if there is a positive constant M such that for all sufficiently large values of #, the absolute value of ! # is at most multiplied by the absolute value of " # . In other words, there exists a value ( and some #) such that: ! # ≤( " # ∀# ≥#) Consider the function ! " = 2"% + 27" + 1000 " →∞ Example: Accuracy: approximating sine function The sine function can be expressed as an infinite series: ! " = sin " = " −"( 6 + "+ 120 −"/ 5040 + ⋯ (we will discuss these approximations later) Suppose we approximate ! " as 3 !(") = " We can define the error as: Or we can use the Big-O notation to say: 6 = ! " −3 !(") = −"( 6 + "+ 120 −"/ 5040 + ⋯ 7 = 8 9: Big-Oh notation (continue) Let ! and " be two functions. Then ! # = % " # as # →' If an only if there exists a value ( and some ) such that: ! # ≤( " # ∀# ,ℎ./. 0 < |# −'| < ) Same example… Consider the function ! " = 2"% + 27" + 1000 " →0 Iclicker question Suppose that the truncation error of a numerical method is given by the following function: ! ℎ= 5ℎ% + 3ℎ Which of the following functions are Oh-estimates of ! ℎas ℎ→0 1) 2) 3) 4) Mark the correct answer: A) 1 and 2 B) 2 and 3 C) 2 and 4 D) 3 and 4 E) NOTA Iclicker question Suppose that the complexity of a numerical method is given by the following function: ! " = 5"% + 3" Which of the following functions are Oh-estimates of ! " as " →∞ Mark the correct answer: A) 1,2,3 B) 1,2,3,4 C) 4 D) 3 E) NOTA 1) O(5"% + 3") 2) O("%) 3) O("-) 4) O(") Select the function that best represents the decay of the error as ! increases A) "#$% B) "#% C) !#& D) !#$ Rates of convergence !""#"~ 1 &' 1) Algebraic convergence: (: Algebraic index of convergence A sequence that grows or converges algebraically is a straight line in a log-log plot.
or + ,-./0!~&' Algebraic growth: or &' Demo “Exponential, Algebraic and Geometric convergence” Rates of convergence !""#"~!%&' 2) Exponential convergence: A sequence that grows or converges exponentially is a straight line in a linear-log plot.
or ( !%&' )+!~!&' Exponential growth: or ( !&' Rates of convergence Exponential growth/convergence is much faster than algebraic growth/convergence. |
12444 | https://brickohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/ALG2.pdf | FUNCTIONS AND VOCABULARY Module Resources W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G Mathematics Series CONTENTS W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G Key Terms & Definitions Module Text/Outline 2 3 3. Function Features 11 4. Function Representations 16 5. Intervention 20 Acknowledgements & References 33 6. Summing it Up 30 1. Introduction 6 2. Concepts 8 KEY TERMS & DEFINITIONS Domain: the input, or x value; or, the set of all possible input values for a given function.
End behavior: The way a mathematical function behaves as its input values become extremely large (approaching positive infinity) or extremely small (approaching negative infinity).
Function: a mathematical object that takes inputs and returns outputs Function notation: if f is a function and x is an element of its domain, then f(x) denotes the output of f corresponding to the input x.
Integers: whole numbers (including 0) and their opposites.
Intercepts: The value for which the function is equal to zero, or graphically, where the function crosses a certain axis. Opposites: the number on the other side of 0 number line, and the same distance from 0 Periodicity: The pattern or behavior of a function that repeats itself at regular intervals as you move along the x- axis.
Range: the output, or y value; or the set of all possible output values for a given function.
Relative maxima/minima: Points at which the graph of a function “changes direction.” The highest/lowest point on a specific portion of a graphed function.
Symmetries: Specific patterns or repeated characteristics of a graphed function.
Visuals: concrete representations.
Page 2 | Functions and Vocabulary Module Resources W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G FUNCTIONS AND VOCABULARY All the module text in one handy location W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G This module is the second in a series for educators and intervention specialists to help students learn algebraic functions. Specifically, this module assists educators in explicitly instructing students the basic vocabulary and concepts of functions. Module Description Welcome to the math learning module on algebraic functions and vocabulary. The math modules are designed to support you in enhancing your algebraic content knowledge and math pedagogy. Whether you are an intervention specialist, teacher, administrator, paraprofessional, caregiver, related service provider, higher education faculty or candidate, or have another role in helping youth develop their math knowledge and skills, we want to first say THANK YOU. Your experiences bring wisdom and a perspective that is unique and valued. We know you would not be here, desiring to learn more about teaching math, if you did not care deeply about children’s success. We want to acknowledge that there could be frustrations and challenges in completing these modules. Some of you might already know the information that is being covered. Others might feel confused or identify that the new information conflicts with previous learning and typical science practices. Still, others might enjoy the content but feel pulled by other responsibilities and tasks on your never-ending to-do list. Regardless of the challenge, just know we are glad you’re here. We appreciate the time you devote to this professional learning and desire to make it worth your while. If you have any additional feedback about aspects of the professional learning modules you find helpful and enlightening or areas which may need refinement or clarification, please email our team at peakohio.ucmail.uc.edu Welcome!
Functions and Vocabulary Page 4 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G ALG1 - Functions and Vocabulary Prerequisites Critical Area of Focus, Ohio NCTM Standards Common Core Standards Linear and Exponential Relationships Understand and compare the properties of classes of functions, including exponential, polynomial, rational, logarithmic, and periodic functions; Interpret representations of functions of two variables HS Functions: Interpreting Functions Understand the concept of a function and use function notation Interpret functions that arise in applications in terms of the context Analyze functions using different representations F.IF… 1-3: Understand the concept of a function, and use function notation. 4-5: Interpret functions that arise in applications in terms of the context. 7,9: Analyze functions using different representations. By completing this module, you will be able to: Define a function and the parts of a function 1.
Understand how to visualize a function 2.
Convey mathematical information using a graph while emphasizing the different ways that functions can be presented 3.
Apply appropriate intervention techniques for students learning functions 4.
Learning Objectives Functions and Vocabulary Page 5 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G 1. Introduction This lesson introduces the reasoning behind need of teaching and learning functions as well as provides an overview of the rest of this module. Overview Introduction Page 6 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G Module Outline 1. Introduction 2. Concepts 4. Function Representations 5. Intervention 6. Summing it Up 3. Function Features 1. Introduction and Function Rationale Page 7 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G Currently, statistics for the United States’ mathematical achievement tell a story in need of rewriting: through these modules, we aim to do that! But first, let’s dispense with the sobering truth: at the time of graduation, the vast majority (76%) of 12th graders are not meeting proficiency as measured on the NAEP math assessment. A key piece of mathematical proficiency in high school (and a strong predictor of long-term career trajectory) are the concepts learned in 9th grade. For math, that is the basics of algebra. The need of teaching functions However, with the need for better student outcomes so apparent, it is essential for teachers to know both a). what information to convey and b). what interventions (combinations of instruction and assessments) are needed. This lesson will focus on the vocabulary necessary for students to understand functions and the practices that can help students best retain and understand that vocabulary.
Below, we discuss some of the fundamentals of 9th-grade algebra. The emphasis in this module is on understanding functions and related concepts. We will discuss key features of graphs and tables, such as intercepts, intervals, relative maxima and minima, symmetries, end behavior, and periodicity. Broken down by lesson: Concepts: Defines a function as a mathematical object with inputs (domain) and outputs (range).
Introduces function notation for denoting the output of a function based on its Discusses the relationship between sequences and Function Features: Provides definitions and visual representations for key features of Asks questions related to end behavior, relative maxima, minima, intercepts, and Function Representations: Emphasizes the importance of visual graphs in conveying mathematical Describes the graphing of linear, quadratic, and exponential Encourages comparing properties of functions represented in various Intervention: Discusses the importance of teaching mathematical language and Provides strategies for teaching vocabulary and fostering precise Presents case studies illustrating obstacles and advice for vocabulary 2. Concepts Inspired by the best practices outlined in the previous module, the key concepts of this module will be introduced and briefly defined.
Overview Concepts Page 8 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G Module Outline 1. Introduction 2. Concepts 4. Function Representations 5. Intervention 6. Summing it Up 3. Function Features Function Notation 2. Concepts Page 9 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G The concept of a function A function is a kind of mathematical object that takes inputs and gives you outputs. Think of it like an vending machine: you put money in, and get something out. The money is the input, and the food/drink is the output. While that alone may not sound life-changing, the idea of functions is central to all of Algebra and (essentially) all of mathematics after roughly 9th grade in the US. We call the input (money in the vending machine example) the “domain” of the function (graphed as the x) and we call the output (food/drink in the vending machine example) the “range” of the function (graphed as the y).
Function: a mathematical object that takes inputs and returns outputs Domain: the input, or x value; or, the set of all possible input values for a given function Range: the output, or y value; or the set of all possible output values for a given function When teaching about functions, educators should emphasize the significance of function notation to denote the output of a function based on its input.
Function notation allows us to write problems involving functions in an extremely concise way.
Definitions: Function notation: if f is a function and x is an element of its domain, then f(x) denotes the output of f corresponding to the input x.
Integers: whole numbers (including 0) and their opposites Opposites: the number on the other side of 0 number line, and the same distance from 0 2. Concepts Page 10 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G What are functions?
Watch this video from the What Works Clearinghouse on how to improve mathematical problem solving in grades 4 through 8 (YouTube - 11:33 starting at 1:12) Check Your Learning 1. What is the purpose of function notation in mathematics?
A. To graph the input values of a function.
B. To define sequences recursively C. To represent integers and whole numbers.
D. To evaluate functions for different inputs within their domains.
Answer: D 2. In the context of a function, what does the term "domain" refer to?
A. The set of input values for which the function is defined.
B. The set of all real numbers.
C. The set of integers.
D. The range of possible outputs.
Answer: A 3. Which of the following best describes the relationship between a function's domain and its range?
A. Each element in the domain maps to exactly one element in the range.
B. The domain is a subset of the range.
C. The range is a subset of the domain.
D. The domain and range are always the same set of values.
You have made it to the end of the second lesson. Before we move on, we have learning-check questions for you below. Feel free to take your time and flip back to review the information. Answer: A 3. Function Features This lesson introduces graphs and tables illustrating functions that model relationships between two quantities. All students should be able to interpret key features of graphs. Overview Function Features Page 11 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G Module Outline 1. Introduction 2. Concepts 4. Function Representations 5. Intervention 6. Summing it Up 3. Function Features 3. Function Features Key Features of Graphs Page 12 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G For a function that models a relationship between two quantities, all students should be able to interpret key features of graphs (and tables) in terms of the quantities, and sketch graphs showing key features given a verbal description of the relationship. Below is a table that includes key words, definitions, and a graph with a verbal description. Key features include the following: Intercepts The value for which the function is equal to zero, or graphically, where the function crosses a certain axis. The x-intercept would be the y-value at which the function crosses the x-axis. x-intercept: (6,0) or simply 6; y-intercept: (0,-3) or simply -3 Intervals Ranges where the function is increasing, decreasing, positive, or negative. A specific range or segment on the x-axis where a function’s values consistently rise/falls/positive/negative as you move from left to right.
This graph to the left is increasing on the interval from (-1,2) to (3,6) and decreasing on the intervals from (-5,6) to (-1,2) and (3,6) to infinity 3. Function Features Page 13 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G Relative maxima/minima Points at which the graph of a function “changes direction.” The highest/lowest point on a specific portion of a graphed function.
Symmetries Specific patterns or repeated characteristics of a graphed function.
Symmetry “about” the y-axis Symmetry “about” the origin 3. Function Features Page 14 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G End Behavior The way a mathematical function behaves as its input values become extremely large (approaching positive infinity) or extremely small (approaching negative infinity). When the domain (x values) gets really large or really small, what happens to the range (y value).
The end behavior as x approaches positive infinity (gets larger and larger, or, moves further right) is positive infinity (y gets larger and larger, or, moves Periodicity The pattern or behavior of a function that repeats itself at regular intervals as you move along the x-axis.
Square wave Sine wave Page 15 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G 3. Function Features Check Your Learning 1. What does the term "end behavior" refer to in the context of a mathematical function?
A. The specific ranges on the x-axis where the function consistently rises or falls.
B. The way a function changes direction at specific points on the graph.
C. How a function behaves as its input values become extremely large or small.
D. The pattern or behavior of a function that repeats itself at regular intervals.
Answer: C 2. If a graph has a relative maximum point, where is this point located?
A. The highest point of a region on the graph.
B. Where the graph crosses the y-axis.
C. The highest point on the whole graph.
D. At the x-intercept of the graph.
Answer: A 3. Which key feature of a graph represents the values for which the function is equal to zero or where the function crosses a certain axis?
A. Periodicity B. Intercept C. End behavior D. Interval Answer: B You have made it to the end of the third lesson. Before we move on, we have learning-check questions for you below. Feel free to take your time and flip back to review the information. 4. In the context of a function, what is periodicity related to?
A. The pattern or behavior of a function that repeats itself at regular intervals.
B. The points at which the graph of a function changes direction.
C. The specific ranges on the x-axis where the function consistently rises or falls.
D. The way a function behaves as its input values become extremely large or small.
Answer: A 4. Function Representations This lesson conveys the importance of using graphs to illustrate functions. These can be graphed both manually and by using computer or calculator programs. Overview Algebraic Structures Page 16 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G Module Outline 1. Introduction 2. Concepts 4. Function Representations 5. Intervention 6. Summing it Up 3. Function Features 4. Function Representations Importance of graphs in mathematics Page 17 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G One of the most important methods for conveying information in mathematics (and, frequently, in the real world) are visual graphs. If it has been a while since you have graphed a function, or if you would simply like a refresher, please follow this link.
Educators in Ohio should focus on teaching students to graph functions both manually and with technology, highlighting essential graph features. They should emphasize how these features connect to real-world scenarios and guide students in selecting appropriate function models. This includes graphing linear functions with a focus on intercepts, quadratic functions with attention to intercepts, maxima, and minima, and simple exponential functions while noting intercepts and end behavior. By providing this comprehensive graphing foundation, educators can equip students with the skills to analyze and apply various function types to various real-life scenarios in an effective manner.
Additionally, engage students by encouraging them to analyze and contrast the characteristics of different functions portrayed through diverse representations such as algebraic equations, visual graphs, numerical tables, and verbal descriptions. For a lens into how these representations are connected, check this video out: What are functions?
Watch this video to learn how functions can be represented in different ways. (YouTube -5:14) Multiple Representations of Functions 4. Function Representations Page 18 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G Why is graphing functions and having students participate in graphing so important?
By providing a context (e.g., comparing a quadratic function’s graph with the algebraic expression of another quadratic), students can practice discerning which function exhibits particular behavior (e.g., which has a greater maximum value). This approach enhances students’ proficiency in interpreting various function forms and reinforces their ability to make meaningful connections between algebraic concepts and their graphical and real-world implications.
This is also connected to the later intervention technique of presenting different methods of solving problems so that students can discern similarities and differences.
Check Your Learning You have made it to the end of the fourth lesson. Before we move on, we have learning-check questions for you below. Feel free to take your time and flip back to review the information. 1. A car travels at a rate of 65 mph. The distance, d, the car has traveled after t hours is given by the table. What is the domain of the relation?
A. c, the car itself B. t, the number of hours the car has been traveling C. d, the distance the car has traveled in miles D. the speed of the car in miles per hour Answer: B 2. What is the range of the relation?
A. s, the speed of the car in miles per hour B. t, the number of hours the car has been traveling C. d, the distance the car has traveled in miles D. c, the car itself Answer: C 4. Function Representations Page 19 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G 3. What is the correct graph for the table?
Answer: 1 4. Which of the following correctly describes a feature of this graph?
A. It intercepts the x-axis at 0 B. It displays periodicity C. It is decreasing on all intervals D. Its end behavior approaches negative infinity Answer: A 5. Intervention This lesson provides an overview of teaching mathematical vocabulary to support students. We include some examples of how to implement this practice into your classroom. Overview Intervention Page 20 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G Module Outline 1. Introduction 2. Concepts 4. Function Representations 5. Intervention 6. Summing it Up 3. Function Features 5. Intervention Vocabulary Instruction (“Mathematical Language”) Page 21 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G As was mentioned and described in the previous module, an essential practice for any math educator is to use evidence-based vocabulary instruction when introducing new terms to students.
To teach mathematical vocabulary effectively, it is recommended that educators teach in clear and concise mathematical language and support students’ use of the language to help students effectively communicate their understanding of mathematical concepts (a.k.a., explicit instruction).
Below is a video introduction to the main ideas of this practice: Routinely teach mathematical vocabulary to build students’ understanding of the mathematics they are learning Ms. Anderson, an innovative algebra teacher, had an exceptional knack for fostering mathematical comprehension in her students. She seamlessly integrated various techniques to enhance their understanding. Through her lessons, she consistently introduced and reinforced mathematical vocabulary, ensuring her students grasped the language of algebra as an integral part of their learning journey. Her classroom was adorned with a vibrant word wall, a repository of mathematical terms that she and her students curated together. To further solidify concepts, she employed graphic organizers that mapped out definitions, attributes, instances, and counterexamples, giving her students a comprehensive perspective.
Reflection Do you relate to Ms. Anderson? What are the techniques that you have previously tried that may or may not have worked? 5. Intervention Page 22 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G Below are a list of a number of different strategies that educators can (and should) use on a recurring, routine basis to ensure that students have a strong understanding of vocabulary. Use think-alouds to help students during interventions: The teaching strategy, think-alouds occur when an educator approaches a problem and describes everything he/she is doing in solving it. This is particularly useful for mathematical vocabulary as walking through a problem while consistently using correct vocabulary can help students notice how/when it is appropriate to use a word. Below is an example from a lesson on quadratic equations and vertices: quadratic equations are a kind of function that will be discussed much in later modules, but for our purposes, they look like arching lines (think: the St. Louis Arch). Use clear, concise, and correct mathematical language throughout lessons to reinforce students’ understanding of important mathematical vocabulary words.
Strategies Graphic organizers -Use graphic organizers to teach definitions, characteristics, examples, and non-examples Mathematical vocabulary repository- Create a consistent location physical repository mathematical vocabulary (e.g., a word wall, a glossary students create, etc…) Visuals - Concrete representations (visuals) help students understand concepts Hand gestures- Hand gestures/ kinesthetic movement helps students understand concepts 5. Intervention Page 23 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G 5. Intervention Page 24 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G 5. Intervention Page 25 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G Use best practices around explicit instruction: Prompt students to use mathematically precise vocabulary during the times they share out with the class/instructor: Students often require assistance in articulating their thought processes using mathematical vocabulary. To facilitate this, educators can offer students a structured framework for providing explanations. This may include sentence starters or a set of guiding questions to guide them in communicating their reasoning effectively.
Additionally, when students struggle to express their ideas using correct mathematical language, it is valuable for teachers to rephrase their explanations in precise terms.
For instance, below is an example of a dialogue with a student where a teacher provides active feedback about vocabulary, ensuring to reiterate and subtly correct when appropriate. It is essential to improve students’ mathematical vocabulary in their speaking with their classmates; it can be helpful to praise students for using more precise vocabulary choices when sharing to help students see the kind of behavior and precision that you are looking for.
Support students in using mathematically precise language during their verbal and written explanations of their problem solving.
To effectively convey mathematical concepts and facilitate student learning, it is crucial to employ precise, concise, and accurate mathematical language consistently. Whether introducing new topics, discussing homework, or responding to student questions, maintaining this clarity is essential. It may require several lessons for students to grasp new mathematical vocabulary fully, so don’t worry if the students are a little confused after a few attempts. Eventually, they will connect it to the underlying mathematical concepts. The consistent use of mathematical language serves two essential purposes: 1). it guides students on how to properly employ these terms and 2). fosters a deeper comprehension of their meaning.
When elucidating problem-solving approaches and demonstrating mathematical procedures, instructors should model the use of exact mathematical language. As seen in the preceding example concerning the vertex of a quadratic equation, this linguistic precision plays a central role in guiding students through mathematical reasoning and concepts. Repeatedly incorporating these terms during explanations and problem- solving reinforces their significance and assists students in making connections between the language and the mathematical ideas it represents. Next, we will discuss the ways that educators can support students in using similarly precise vocabulary.
5. Intervention Page 26 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G I don't understand what "opposite" means when you’re talking about positive and negative numbers For example, the opposite of 3 is -3, and the opposite of -5 is 5. It's like a mirror image of the number on the other side of zero. When you add a number and its opposite, you get zero. Can you give it a try? Well, in the context of integers (remember: that’s what we call positive and negative numbers, and their opposites), we often use the term "opposite" to describe numbers that are the same distance from zero on the number line but in different directions. So, if I add 4 and its opposite, it should be 0, right?
Exactly! If you add 4 and -4, you get 0. It's like taking a step forward and then a step backward, and you end up right where you started. This concept of opposites is really important when working with positive and negative numbers, especially in situations like adding and subtracting.
What are functions?
5. Intervention Page 27 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G Have students create term-definition-example/representation charts: Encourage students to incorporate the mathematical language they’ve learned by having relevant vocabulary posted on the classroom wall. These aids can be beneficial for both spoken and written explanations. Visual displays like those presented in lesson 3 about key function vocabulary can be extraordinarily helpful with students.
Educators can enhance their students’ grasp of mathematical language by integrating Frayer Models into their instruction. It’s essential to remind students to incorporate the mathematical vocabulary taught during lessons, not only in verbal but also in written explanations: this can be done by including prompts to do so on assessments, requiring (for full credit) the usage of some of the essential vocabulary to a given lesson/unit.
Check out the below video for different explainers. You may also want to watch this longer video that goes in detail some strategies for teaching math vocabulary for students with disabilities. Watch this video to learn some strategies for teaching math vocabulary in elementary classrooms (YouTube - 4:42) Tips for Teaching Math Vocabulary I don’t know what vocabulary to instruct my students!
-Ms. Anderson This module is a good place to start for general function vocabulary. Otherwise, using the textbooks available and perusing the glossary gives educators a good list of vocabulary words from which to choose. Educators can also consult with their colleagues to better understand precisely which vocabulary words are essential for particular lessons.
Teaching vocabulary gets in the way of the rest of my class!
-Mr. Jones 6. Solved Problems Page 28 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G Common Issues with Implementation In the midst of preparing her algebra lesson, Ms.
Anderson, an experienced algebra teacher, leaned back in her chair with a furrowed brow. She sighed and admitted to a fellow teacher, “You know, I’ve always been a bit unsure about which algebraic vocabulary I should focus on teaching my students.
There’s such a range of terms and concepts, and I want to make sure they’re well-prepared. Sometimes, I wish there was a clear-cut list of essential terms to guide me. It’s like navigating a maze without a map!” Integrate vocabulary instruction throughout normal intervention – this does not necessarily entail adding another distinct activity! This is why routinizing vocabulary instruction can be so effective.
Page 29 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G 5. Intervention Check Your Learning 1. What essential practice does the text recommend for math educators to use when introducing new terms to students?
A. Teaching mathematical vocabulary with complex language.
B. Omitting mathematical language to simplify instruction.
C. Avoiding the use of mathematical language during instruction.
D. Teaching in clear and concise mathematical language Answer: D 2. Which technique is mentioned as a way to help students acquire and use mathematical vocabulary effectively?
A. Using tables to define vocabulary terms.
B. Integrating word walls in the classroom C. Encouraging students to write long essays.
D. Avoiding graphic organizers.
Answer: B 3. Think-alouds are useful for what purpose in math instruction?
A. Demonstrating students' solving problems without vocabulary.
B. Modeling the use of mathematical vocabulary during problem-solving.
C. Avoiding mathematical vocabulary when solving problems.
D. Encouraging students to solve problems silently.
Answer: B You have made it to the end of the fifth lesson. Before we move on, we have learning-check questions for you below. Feel free to take your time and flip back to review the information. 4. How can educators support students in using mathematically precise language during their verbal and written explanations of problem-solving?
A. By not providing feedback on vocabulary use.
B. By allowing students to use informal language for clarity.
C. By praising students for using imprecise vocabulary.
D. By offering a structured framework for providing explanations.
Answer: D 7. Summing It Up This lesson summarizes the module as a whole and provides rationale to teaching and learning algebraic functions. Overview Summing It Up Page 30 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G Module Outline 1. Introduction 2. Concepts 4. Function Representations 5. Intervention 6. Summing it Up 3. Function Features Introduction and Foundations of Functions In the first part, the module introduces the concept of functions and emphasizes their importance in mathematics, particularly in Algebra. It defines a function as a mathematical object that takes inputs (domain) and produces outputs (range). The module highlights the significance of function notation in representing the relationship between inputs and outputs. It also discusses the relationship between sequences and functions.
Key Features of Functions The module then focuses on key features of functions that allow students to interpret graphs and tables. These features include intercepts, intervals, relative maxima and minima, symmetries, end behavior, and periodicity. The module provides clear definitions for these terms and offers visual representations to aid understanding.
Function Visualization The third part emphasizes the importance of visual graphs in conveying mathematical information and encourages students to graph functions manually and with technology.
Educators in Ohio are advised to teach students to graph functions while highlighting essential features. The part also emphasizes the need to connect these graph features to real-world scenarios. The practice of analyzing and contrasting functions portrayed through various representations, including algebraic equations, visual graphs, numerical tables, and verbal descriptions, is encouraged.
Vocabulary Instruction Lastly, the module delves into vocabulary instruction, suggesting strategies to effectively teach mathematical language, such as using graphic organizers, think-alouds, and supporting students in using mathematically precise language during explanations.
6. Summing It Up Summary Page 31 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G References Advocates for the Science of Math (2021). Classwide Mathematics Intervention. Chodura, S., Kuhn, J. T., & Holling, H. (2015). Interventions for children with mathematical difficulties. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 223(2),129-144.
Clarke, B., Doabler, C. T., Kosty, D., Kurtz-Nelson, E., Smolkowski, K., Fien, H., & Turtura, J. (2017). Testing the efficacy of a kindergarten mathematics intervention by small group size. AERA Open, 3(2), 1–16. Fuchs, L.S., Newman-Gonchar, R., Schumacher, R., Dougherty, B., Bucka, N., Karp, K.S., Woodward, J., Clarke, B., Jordan, N. C., Gersten, R., Jayanthi, M., Keating, B., and Morgan, S. (2021). Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics: Intervention in the Elementary Grades (WWC 2021006). Hughes, C. A., Morris, J. R., Therrien, W. J., & Benson, S. K. (2017). Explicit instruction: Historical and contemporary contexts. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 32(3), 140-148. Jitendra, A. K., Lein, A. E., Im, S.-h., Alghamdi, A. A., Hefte, S. B., & Mouanoutoua, J. (2018). Mathematical interventions for secondary students with learning disabilities and mathematics difficulties: A meta-analysis. Exceptional children, 84(2), 177-196. Kirschner, P. A.; Sweller, John, & Clark, Richard, E.(2006): Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching.
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Stevens, E. A., Rodgers, M. A., & Powell, S. R. (2018). Mathematics interventions for upper elementary and secondary students: A meta-analysis of research. Remedial and Special Education, 39(6), 327-340. Wang, J., & Riccomini, P. J. (2016). Enhancing mathematical problem solving for secondary students with or at risk of learning disabilities: A literature review. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 31(3), 169-181. VanDerHeyden, A. M., McLaughlin, T., Algina, J., & Snyder, P. (2012). Randomized evaluation of a supplemental grade-wide mathematics intervention. American Education Research Journal, 49, 1251-1284 Washington, DC: National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE), Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Retrieved from Acknowledgements Benedict Leonardi, UC SDI Center Emily Baumgartner, UC SDI Center Page 32 | Functions and Vocabulary W W W . P E A K O H I O . O R G To learn more about visit us online at www.peakohio.org Or contact: Jennifer Ottley, Ph.D., Research Director peakohio@uc.edu 614.897.0020 Systems Development & Improvement Center College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services University of Cincinnati Mathematics and Science Modules |
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How do you calculate the position vector from two points on a line?
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Position vectors tells us about the position of a specific point with the help of origin
So let's consider a 2D plane and on it lies two points. A(x,y) and O(origin)whose coordinates are (0,0) now after plotting them on graph join them and you will get a vector pointing towards A this tells us about the position of the specific point on any plane.
Now the distance b/w point O and point A will actually be the magnitude of the position vector OA and by distance formula we get the distance to be √((x-0)^2+(y-0)^2) and it's direction will be along its unit vector.
Similarly, in 3D space we use the po
Position vectors tells us about the position of a specific point with the help of origin
So let's consider a 2D plane and on it lies two points. A(x,y) and O(origin)whose coordinates are (0,0) now after plotting them on graph join them and you will get a vector pointing towards A this tells us about the position of the specific point on any plane.
Now the distance b/w point O and point A will actually be the magnitude of the position vector OA and by distance formula we get the distance to be √((x-0)^2+(y-0)^2) and it's direction will be along its unit vector.
Similarly, in 3D space we use the position vector to specify a point let's take B(x,y,z) with respect tot origin(0,0,0).For magnitude of position vector in 3D we use the distance formula √{(x-0)^2+(y-0)^2+(z-0)^2}
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When finding a vector given two points, how do I know which one is the initial and final? I thought using the larger point for the final point, and vise versa works, but this wouldn't always be the case for vectors in negative direction?
There is no rule for this. (And there isn’t a good definition for a “larger point.” You could use distance from the origin, but then there are a whole lot of points of the same size that are not the same point. If you have two points equidistant from the origin, there will be no “larger” point.)
Given two points X and Y, there are two vectors, −−→XY and −−→YX. Either one is the negative of the other. Which of these two vectors is chosen is going to depend on external considerations having to do with the application. If there are no external considerations, then make
There is no rule for this. (And there isn’t a good definition for a “larger point.” You could use distance from the origin, but then there are a whole lot of points of the same size that are not the same point. If you have two points equidistant from the origin, there will be no “larger” point.)
Given two points X and Y, there are two vectors, −−→XY and −−→YX. Either one is the negative of the other. Which of these two vectors is chosen is going to depend on external considerations having to do with the application. If there are no external considerations, then make an arbitrary choice. There is no intrinsic way to decide unless the vector space is R.
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When finding a vector given two points, how do I know which one is the initial and final? I thought using the larger point for the final point, and vise versa works, but this wouldn't always be the case for vectors in negative direction?
We can get very formal with vector spaces and all that, but, informally, here’s the rule to remember:
A vector is the difference between two points.
It’s a particular kind of vector, called a displacement vector, that’s the difference of two points in space.
→AB=B−A
→AB is the vector that takes A to B. →BA is the vector that takes B to A. They’re both perfectly good vectors, just opposite. They sum to zero. If asked for a vector between the two points, either will do. Sometimes the sign is important; you have to read the problem carefully to know.
There’s generally no particular di
We can get very formal with vector spaces and all that, but, informally, here’s the rule to remember:
A vector is the difference between two points.
It’s a particular kind of vector, called a displacement vector, that’s the difference of two points in space.
→AB=B−A
→AB is the vector that takes A to B. →BA is the vector that takes B to A. They’re both perfectly good vectors, just opposite. They sum to zero. If asked for a vector between the two points, either will do. Sometimes the sign is important; you have to read the problem carefully to know.
There’s generally no particular direction called negative, no ordering among points or vectors, unless we’re in a boring one dimensional space.
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To figure out the angle of a vector, you need to know at least one of its components on a coordinate system and its magnitude, or both components.
Components are the projections of a vector, like shadows, on each of the coordinate axes. In the following example, the vector has 2 components: one is West, and the other is North. In other words, to make a velocity that is Northwest, some of the effect is West, and some is North. Here is how you would draw components:
If you are asked for the direction of a vector, you would need to know, or be given, its components. In this example, 30 mi/h is the
To figure out the angle of a vector, you need to know at least one of its components on a coordinate system and its magnitude, or both components.
Components are the projections of a vector, like shadows, on each of the coordinate axes. In the following example, the vector has 2 components: one is West, and the other is North. In other words, to make a velocity that is Northwest, some of the effect is West, and some is North. Here is how you would draw components:
If you are asked for the direction of a vector, you would need to know, or be given, its components. In this example, 30 mi/h is the North (or “y’) component, and 60 mi/h is the West (or “x”) component. Components are names after the axis to which they are parallel because they give the “effect” of the entire vector just along that axis. The angle is the direction of the vector.
To find the angle, you use basic trigonometry. The relationships between sides and angles of a right triangle are summarized by the mnemonic SOHCAHTOA:
S stands for sin θ, C is the cos θ, and T is the tan θ
“O” is the length of the side opposite the angle
“A” is the length of the side next to (or adjacent to the angle)
“H” is the length of the hypotenuse (the side opposite the 90 angle)
To find the direction of the vector above, we can use tangent:
Now, to get the angle, we need to take the inverse tangent of both sides, which gives:
So the direction of this 100 mi/h at 63 degrees West of North, or on the x-y coordinate system, the direction is 153 degrees from the positive X axis.
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To figure out the angle of a vector, you need to know its components on a coordinate system. If you already know about vectors and components, then skip below where this sentence occurs in bold. Otherwise, the next introduction may be helpful.
A vector is basically an arrow superimposed on a coordinate system. Vectors are mathematical creatures that can represent various real quantities in science, such as velocities, accelerations, forces, momenta, and electrical and magnetic fields.
To define a vector, you first need to choose a coordinate system. That is, you need perpendicular axes that represent spatial directions. The axes must have units, which define the length, or “magnitude”, or “amount” the vector represents. The direction of a vector is specified as an angle relative to the coordinate system.
Here is a picture of 3 vectors, A, B, and C. The units are not specified on the axes, so you can’t tell what kind of vectors these are. However, you can see the directions of the vectors: C is at 0 degrees relative to the positive X axis, B is at 45 degrees relative to the positive X axis, and A is at 130 degrees from the positive X axes.
By convention, the absolute angle of a vector in 2D is measured from counterclockwise from the positive X axis. However, you can also specify directions as angles relative to specific axes. For example, you can say say the velocity of an airplane is 100 mi/h 30 degrees North of West:
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Why is vector equation of a line the position vector of terminal point of the vector that's parallel to a vector and goes through a point, instead of being the vector that's parallel to a vector and goes through a point (same argument for 2 points)?
A2A: Why is vector equation of a line the position vector of terminal point of the vector that's parallel to a vector and goes through a point, instead of being the vector that's parallel to a vector and goes through a point (same argument for 2 points)?
The vector equation of a line in n-dimensions is: ax+by+…+nz=d
a-n represent a vector normal to the desired line.
d is the distance from the origin along the normal vector to the closest point on the line (multiplied by the magnitude of the normal vector if it is not a unit vector).
The closest point to the origin is given by d(a,b,…,n)/|(a,b,…,n)
A2A: Why is vector equation of a line the position vector of terminal point of the vector that's parallel to a vector and goes through a point, instead of being the vector that's parallel to a vector and goes through a point (same argument for 2 points)?
The vector equation of a line in n-dimensions is: ax+by+…+nz=d
a-n represent a vector normal to the desired line.
d is the distance from the origin along the normal vector to the closest point on the line (multiplied by the magnitude of the normal vector if it is not a unit vector).
The closest point to the origin is given by d(a,b,…,n)/|(a,b,…,n)|.
This is not the only way to define a line, but it’s possibly the most elegant.
Alternatives include:
2 points on the line.
1 point on the line and a normal vector.
1 point on the line and a vector along the line.
Angle(s) and a distance.
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Which form you choose will depend on which is most appropriate for your context.
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The other two answers find (parameterized) vector equation that is of the form P0+tD, where D is the direction vector D=P1−P0. It's also possible to write a (parameterized) vector equation which uses P0,P1 directly.
Look at vectors of the form aP0+bP1 for various a,b. If a=1,b=0, the the resulting vector is P0 and is on the line connecting P0,P1. If a=0,b=1, the resulting vector is P1. It's not too hard to see that if a=b=1/2, the resulting vector is halfway between the two points. In fact, all vectors aP0+bP1,a+b=1 lie on the line passing through P0,P1.
So if you
The other two answers find (parameterized) vector equation that is of the form P0+tD, where D is the direction vector D=P1−P0. It's also possible to write a (parameterized) vector equation which uses P0,P1 directly.
Look at vectors of the form aP0+bP1 for various a,b. If a=1,b=0, the the resulting vector is P0 and is on the line connecting P0,P1. If a=0,b=1, the resulting vector is P1. It's not too hard to see that if a=b=1/2, the resulting vector is halfway between the two points. In fact, all vectors aP0+bP1,a+b=1 lie on the line passing through P0,P1.
So if you use a=t,b=1−t, you can get the line through the two points by tP0+(1−t)P1. The order of P0,P1 doesn't really matter, nor does the specific form of a(t),b(t), as long as a(t)+b(t)=1. So (cosh2t)P1−(sinh2t)P0 would also work fine.
The way you get the other solutions from this is:
tP0+(1−t)P1=tP0+P1−tP1=P1+tP0−tP1=P1+t(P0−P1)=P1+tD
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So for your example (4,5,0)-(-4,-5,2) = (8,10,-2)
Pick (4,5,0) as your initial point and your line is (4,5,0)+k(8,10,-2) where k is a scalar. Which vector you subtract from the other will affect the direction of line for positive/negative scalars, but they're the same line.
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Let’s just stick to 2d for this example. Same math works in higher dimensions as long as we have the concept of orthogonal.
Take two distinct, non-colocated points, call them x and y.
They are not at the same location, so I can say d = x- y, and d isn’t zero. But d is a vector itself.
x = [1, 1] y=[3,0] d = [-2, 1] so far so good. We can find an ‘orthogonal vector’ to d by finding a vector o with the property od + od = 0. This is the ‘dot product’ between o and d, and vector math says when the dot product between two vectors is 0, they are orthogonal. Set o = [ -d, d ] and we
Let’s just stick to 2d for this example. Same math works in higher dimensions as long as we have the concept of orthogonal.
Take two distinct, non-colocated points, call them x and y.
They are not at the same location, so I can say d = x- y, and d isn’t zero. But d is a vector itself.
x = [1, 1] y=[3,0] d = [-2, 1] so far so good. We can find an ‘orthogonal vector’ to d by finding a vector o with the property od + od = 0. This is the ‘dot product’ between o and d, and vector math says when the dot product between two vectors is 0, they are orthogonal. Set o = [ -d, d ] and we have this vector. o =[ -1, -2]. We can translate this vector to the mid-point of the x,y line by adding (x+y)/2 to o. The vector starting at (x+y)/2 and pointing in direction [-1,-2] is a vector orthogonal point between x and y. Same construction could also be called the ‘perpendicular bisector’ of the line segment between x and y.
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How do you find the vector equation of a line when given two points?
A line is comprised of a position and a direction, so you're going to have two vectors. The end result should be of the from P = P0 + tD. (t is the position along the line, in increments the length of D, which is usually normalized to 1)
Po (position) can be any point on the line. Might as well use one of the two you listed: P0 = [4, 5, 0].
D (direction) will be the vector going from one point to the other. Forwards or backwards doesn't matter, and it doesn't even have to be normalized:
D = [4, 5, 0] - [-4, -5, 2] = [8, 10, -2].
Your equation is then P = [4, 5, 0] + t[8, 10, -2].
Paul Graig Ellis
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How do I find a vector from two points in 3D?
A2A Eva
If you know, or can establish, the coordinates of each point in 3D, just subtract the corresponding coordinate components from each other.
For example, if one point is at x, y, z coordinates (3, -5, 21)
And the other point is at x, y, z coordinates (17, 24, -3),
…then the vector that moves from one point to the other has coordinates
((3-17), (-5-24), (21-(-3))) = (-14, -29, 24).
Or if you want the vector going in the opposite direction, it’s the reverse vector, obtained by reversing each coordinate component with a minus sign, so multiply through by -1
-1 (-14, -29, 24) = (14, 29, -24).
If yo
A2A Eva
If you know, or can establish, the coordinates of each point in 3D, just subtract the corresponding coordinate components from each other.
For example, if one point is at x, y, z coordinates (3, -5, 21)
And the other point is at x, y, z coordinates (17, 24, -3),
…then the vector that moves from one point to the other has coordinates
((3-17), (-5-24), (21-(-3))) = (-14, -29, 24).
Or if you want the vector going in the opposite direction, it’s the reverse vector, obtained by reversing each coordinate component with a minus sign, so multiply through by -1
-1 (-14, -29, 24) = (14, 29, -24).
If you don’t already know the coordinates of the two points, then you will need to set up a set of axes to generate coordinates for the points. If you can centre the axes on one of the points, then the vector you want will be from that point as (0, 0, 0) to the other point.
If you need to do that, send me the information you have to start with, and I’ll see if I can show you how to do it - but I expect that if you have the two points already identified, you probably have them as coordinates.
Hoping this helps - paul
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How can vectors be used to determine if three points lie on the same line?
YES, they can.
But the positions of the 3 points should be described in some way or another. The most natural way is based on their Cartesian coordinates in the “standard” orthonormal system(s) of coordinates: either (
O
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i
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j
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x O y
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O
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i
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j
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O
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) system. I prefer to give the answer in the case of a 3D space. Let the three points be
M_i
(
x_i
,
y_i
,
z_i
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i ≤
3 ) . (1)
Let us denote the three (free) vectors represented by directed line segment that join each pair of points among the above ones, in (1 ) , by
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YES, they can. But the positions of the 3 points should be described in some way or another. The most natural way is based on their Cartesian coordinates in the “standard” orthonormal system(s) of coordinates: either ( O ; i , j ) in the ( x O y ) plane, or ( O ; i , j , k ) in the ( O ; x , y , z ) system. I prefer to give the answer in the case of a 3D space. Let the three points be
M_i ( x_i , y_i , z_i ) , ( 1 ≤ i ≤ 3 ) . (1)
Let us denote the three (free) vectors represented by directed line segment that join each pair of points among the above ones, in (1 ) , by
m_i j = M_i`M_ j . (2)
Then it is more the obvious that if either pair of the three points in (1) , that represents the free vectors in (2) , consist of collinear vectors implies that the three points are collinear. For instance,
M_i , ( 1 ≤ i ≤ 3 ) are collinear if m_12 || m_23 or m_12 || m_13 or m_13 || m_23 . (3)
The collinearity for each of these 3 pairs of vectors can be naturally described by the proportionality of their Cartesian coordinates ; and these ones are nothing else than vectors in the real Euclidean space R^3 :
m_12 ( x_2 – x_1 , y_2 – y_1 , z_2 – z_1 ) , m_23 ( x_3 – x_1 , y_3 – y_1 , z_3 – z_1 ) , (4)
and similarly for the other two pairs of vectors of (3) . Two vectors u , v are proportional (under/with the multiplication of vectors by scalars) if there exist scalars λ , μ with λ μ ≠ 0 such that
u = λ v or v = μ u ; equivalently, if u & v are linearly dependent. (5)
It follows from (4) and (5) that the two vectors are collinear if
( x_2 – x_1 ) / ( x_3 – x_1 ) = ( y_2 – y_1 ) / ( y_3 – y_1 ) = ( z_2 – z_1 ) / ( z_3 – z_1 ) . (6)
Note 1. It is possible than one or two of the denominators that occur in (6) be = 0 ; but this doesn’t mean that we would accept the division by (to) 0 . This situation can be overcome by using 2-by-3 matrices : the three points M_i , ( 1 ≤ i ≤ 3 ) are collinear if
Rank [ x_2 – x_1 y_2 – y_1 z_2 – z_1 / x_3 – x_1 y_3 – y_1 z_3 – z_1 ] = 1 . (7)
The (possibly) interested readers of this answer, including the sender of this question, can learn what means the rank of a matrix from a textbook of LINEAR ALGEBRA. In (7) , the slash / separates the two rows of the respective matrix.
Note 2. If A , B are 2 distinct points, I use to denote the (uniquely) determined by them line as ( AB ) . The three points
M_i , ( 1 ≤ i ≤ 3 ) are collinear if ( M_1M\_2 ) ≡ ( M\_2M_3 ) (8)
or, similarly, for the other two pairs of points.
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What is the method for finding the position vector of a point using an equation for a line in two variables?
If we have 2 variables, then we can identify a position in 2 dimensions.
Assume we have two vectors A and B (s.t. A.B!=0) which span our plane.
Assume further, that our “point” to find is given by P.
Then we simply have to solve the algebraic equation P = aA + bB where a and b are scalars (i.e. drawn from the real line).
There are (at least) two ways to solve this.
Use a numerical approach, such as Excels Solver to solve the above. Quick and dirty, but maybe only a solution to machine-accuracy. Ideal for Engineers and Physicists !!
Solve the above equation for P into it’s two components , and then s
If we have 2 variables, then we can identify a position in 2 dimensions.
Assume we have two vectors A and B (s.t. A.B!=0) which span our plane.
Assume further, that our “point” to find is given by P.
Then we simply have to solve the algebraic equation P = aA + bB where a and b are scalars (i.e. drawn from the real line).
There are (at least) two ways to solve this.
Use a numerical approach, such as Excels Solver to solve the above. Quick and dirty, but maybe only a solution to machine-accuracy. Ideal for Engineers and Physicists !!
Solve the above equation for P into it’s two components , and then symbolically solve the resulting simultaneous equations
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What is a position vector?
Have you ever looked at a map? For example of your home town? When you look for a location, you may find, e.g., street of Limes - C3. That C3 is a location vector. Vectors, generally speaking can be of many kinds: elements of R^n, matrices, functions (polynomials, among others), and many more. But those in R^2 are the ones used to locate places, in two dimension problems. In physics problems, you will mostly use R^2 or R^3, if in a three dimension problem.
To understand vectors in general, I recomend you take a linear algebra course. If you want to study by yourself, a classical book on the sub
Have you ever looked at a map? For example of your home town? When you look for a location, you may find, e.g., street of Limes - C3. That C3 is a location vector. Vectors, generally speaking can be of many kinds: elements of R^n, matrices, functions (polynomials, among others), and many more. But those in R^2 are the ones used to locate places, in two dimension problems. In physics problems, you will mostly use R^2 or R^3, if in a three dimension problem.
To understand vectors in general, I recomend you take a linear algebra course. If you want to study by yourself, a classical book on the subject is Hoffman/Kunze’s.
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Seminars in Liver Disease
Wilson Disease
Pathogenesis and Clinical Considerations in Diagnosis and Treatment
Richard Rosencrantz, M.D.; Michael Schilsky, M.D.
Disclosures;)
Semin Liver Dis.2011;31(3):245-259.
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Abstract and Introduction
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Copper Homeostasis and Pathology of Copper-induced Injury
Epidemiology and Pathogenesis
Clinical Manifestations
Differential Diagnosis
Diagnosis
Therapy
Prognosis
Conclusion
References
Prognosis
The prognosis for patients with Wilson disease is excellent. If the disease is diagnosed timely and treatment adhered to, patients die with the disease and not as a result of it. Those asymptomatic at the time of their diagnosis should remain without symptoms on treatment unless a secondary illness develops or treatment is stopped. For patients with liver disease, even those with active inflammation and advanced fibrosis, treatment can stabilize disease and even reverse fibrosis with time.[49,71]
Prognostic scoring systems for WD are a useful tool to direct therapy, identify which patients can be treated medically and which have a high likelihood for death and will require liver transplant. A prognostic index calculated by Nazer et al (score range 0–12) based on serum bilirubin, serum AST, and prolongation in prothrombin time was able to predict response to chelation therapy in newly diagnosed WD patients who scored 6 or less. An improvement to the Nazer prognostic index score by Dhawan and associates based on serum bilirubin, INR, AST, white blood cell count, and albumin (score range 0–20) was able to predict favorable response to chelation therapy in newly diagnosed pediatric WD patients who scored 11 and less; and those patients who scored >11 died without transplantation. Not surprisingly, higher prognostic scores will be found in high MELD (Model for End-Stage Liver Disease) scores because both scores share 2 out of 3 parameters of the MELD score, which represents a 3-month survival curve for adults and children 12 and older.
For those with neurologic or psychiatric involvement indicating effects on the central nervous system, treatment can also stabilize disease and symptoms regress over time; however disease progression in a minority may continue despite treatment. Worsening can occur with any of the therapies usually within 4 weeks of starting therapy. Theoretically, this phenomena is attributed to chelators mobilizing large hepatic copper stores, which may lead to a transient elevation in blood and brain copper levels exacerbating further damage. Adjunctive treatment may help with symptom management during this time. Significant improvement in psychiatric symptoms, neurologic examination, and speech can occur with chelation and zinc treatment over 3 years and possibly longer.
For those who have undergone liver transplant for WD for liver disease the outcome is excellent with long-term outcomes better than transplant for other etiologies with the exception being WD ALF. Transplantation for patients with liver and neurologic disease may have less favorable outcomes with a higher incidence of perioperative complications and poorer survival. On one hand, many WD patients with neurologic signs and symptoms who do undergo liver transplant will have improvement in their disease posttransplant.[49,98] However, on the other hand, if there is severe, long-standing impairment prior to transplant, deficits are more likely to persist after transplantation.
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Table 1. Summary of Clinical Criteria to Establish a Diagnosis of Wilson Disease | Diagnosis of Wilson Disease (WD) Established |
| A. | B. | C. |
| Molecular (+) | K-F rings (+) | Cp<20 mg/dL |
| | Plus one or more of the following: | and/or |
| | | 24-hour urine copper >40 μg/24 h |
| | Cp<20 mg/dL | Plus: |
| | 24-hour urine copper >100 μg/24 h | Liver biopsy >75 μg/g dry weight† |
| | Typical WD neurologic disease | |
| | Liver biopsy >75 μg/g dry weight† | |
Note: Diagnostic testing should meet conditions listed in either column labeled A, B, or C. Diagnostic tests: (A) molecular testing; or (B) slit lamp examination, serum ceruloplasmin (CP), and 24-hour urine copper; and (C) liver biopsy for copper quantification (if needed).
24-hour urine copper >40 μg/24 h may be used if one other criteria present.
†>75 μg/g dry weight with appropriate histology and electron microscopy findings, otherwise the standard >250 μg/g dry weight is required.
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Table 2. Treatment and Follow-Up Management in Wilson Disease Patients: Common Treatment Regimens | Medical Therapy | Treatment/Symptomatic Dose | Side Effects | Monitoring | Maintenance Dose |
:--- :---
| Penicillamine | Adults: 750–1500 mg divided BID – QID (~20 mg/kg/d to maximum 2 g/d) | Fever | Free Cu 5–15 μg/dL | Adults and children: 15 mg/kg/d |
| | Children: 20 mg/kg/d divided BD-QID | Rash | Urine Cu 250–500 μg/24 h | |
| | | Lupus-like reactions | | |
| | | Bone marrow suppression | | |
| | | Nephrotic syndrome | | |
| | | Colitis (rare) | | |
| | | Note: requires supplemental pyridoxine, and dose reduction for surgery and pregnancy | | |
| Trientene | Adults: 750–1500 mg divided TID-QID | Sideroblastic anemia | Same free Cu as above | Adults and children: 15 mg/kg/d |
| | Children: 20 mg/kg/d divided TID-QID | Colitis (rare) | Urine Cu 100–500 μg/24 h | |
| Zinc salts | (Dosing is in milligrams of elemental zinc) | GI intolerance | Same as above; plus, urine zinc >1000 μg/24 h | Adults: 75–150 mg divided TID |
| | Adults: 150 mg divided TID | Nonpancreatitis elevation of amylase and lipase | | Children: 50–75 mg divided TID |
| | Children (<50 kg): 75 mg/d divided TID | | | |
BD, daily; BID, twice daily; QID, four times daily; TID, three times daily; GI, gastrointestinal.
Adapted from Schilsky ML, Tavil AS. Wilson disease. In: Schiff's Diseases of the Liver. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins; 2006:1023–1040.
Most practitioners prefer start with trientine. Zinc salt monotherapy or lower dose chelation is preferred for maintenance therapy.
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Authors and Disclosures
Authors and Disclosures
Richard Rosencrantz, M.D.1,2 and Michael Schilsky, M.D.2,3
1 Department of Pediatrics; 2 Yale New Haven Transplantation Center; 3 Division of Digestive Diseases and Section of Transplantation and Immunology, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
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Michael Schilsky, M.D., Division of Digestive Diseases and Section of Transplantation and Immunology, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, LMP 1080, New Haven, CT 06520 (e-mail: michael.schilsky@yale.edu).
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The calendar may say spring is here, but what is nature telling us?
Bright new leaves on trees and spring flowers are arriving in waves across the U.S., and the birds are right behind them with early season migrants on the move over the last few weeks.
Nationally, spring leaf out continues to spread north across the country, the USA National Phenology Network reported this week. In the eastern half of the country, spring is coming in fits and starts, arriving later than a long-term average in some areas and earlier in others, the Network said.
Specifically, the classic signs of spring have been appearing for weeks across the South and are gradually inching northward on a map the Network uses to represent the very beginning of biological activity in the spring.
Spring actually arrived a little later than usual in many locations across much of the southern half of the nation, where spring arrives first, said Theresa Crimmins, an associate professor at the University of Arizona and the network’s director. “Only little chunks of the country have had an early season,” she said, while places like Texas and North Florida have spring signals arriving a little later.
However, Crimmins expects that to change over the next couple of weeks. They’re watching the leading edge of the spring conditions moving northward into Illinois, Indiana and Pennsylvania, and she said it looks like the more northward locations are ahead of schedule.
Spring indicators in southern Nebraska, the southern half of Iowa and creeping into northern Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and southern Pennsylvania, are starting next week and it will be ahead of schedule by a week to two weeks, she said.
Leaves are budding out on red maples and silver maples, she said. In addition, sumac species have flower buds, and the lilacs are starting to wake up.
At the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, spring blooms are a welcome sight after months of recovery from Hurricane Helene. The gardens are "bursting with color," according to the estate's latest bloom report and the daffodils are "especially brilliant." They're seeing one of the earliest blooming azaleas, the Cornell Pink Rhodendron, put on "a dazzling display."
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“At this rather early stage of spring migration – numbers are close to the last 10 years' average,” said Andrew Farnsworth, a migration ecologist at Cornell University’s Cornell Lab of Ornithology. The university hosts the BirdCast Migration Dashboard.
In recent nocturnal migration metrics, Farnsworth said they’ve seen about 37 million birds move through Texas and 13-14 million move through Florida.
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J. Wehr, 1, 2 A. Niederberger, 1 L. Sanchez-Palencia, 3 and M. Lewenstein 1, 4
1
ICREA and ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fot oniques, Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia, E-08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
2
Department of Mathematics, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0089, USA
3
Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l’Institut d’Optique, CNRS and Univ. Paris-Sud, campus Polytechnique, RD 128, F-91127 Palaiseau cedex, France
4
Institut f¨ ur Theoretische Physik, Universit¨ at Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
(Dated: 30th December 2006) We propose a general mechanism of random-field-induced order (RFIO), in which long-range order is induced by a random field that breaks the continuous symmetry of the model. We particularly focus on the case of the classical ferromagnetic XY model on a 2D lattice, in a uniaxial random field. We prove rigorously that the system has spontaneous magnetization at temperature T = 0 , and we present strong evidence that this is also the case for small T > 0. We discuss generalizations of this mechanism to various classical and quantum systems. In addition, we propose possible realizations of the RFIO mechanism, using ultracold atoms in an optical lattice. Our results shed new light on controversies in existing literature, and open a way to realize RFIO with ultracold atomic systems.
PACS numbers: 05.30.Jp, 64.60.Cn, 75.10.Nr, 75.10.Jm
I. INTRODUCTION A. Disordered ultracold quantum gases
Studies of disordered systems constitute a new, rapidly de-veloping, branch of the physics of ultracold gases. In con-densed matter physics (CM), the role of quenched (i.e. in-dependent of time) disorder cannot be overestimated: it is present in nearly all CM systems, and leads to numerous phe-nomena that dramatically change both qualitative and quanti-tave behaviours of these systems. This leads, for instance, to novel thermodynamical and quantum phases 1,2 , and to strong phenomena, such as Anderson localization 3,4,5,6 . In general, disorder can hardly be controlled in CM systems. In con-trast, it has been proposed recently, that quenched disorder (or pseudo-disorder) can be introduced in a controlled way in ultracold atomic systems, using optical potentials generated by speckle radiations 7,8,9 , impurity atoms serving as random scatterers 10 , or quasi-cristalline lattices 11 . This opens fantastic possibilities to investigate the effect of disorder in controlled systems (for a review in the context of cold gases, see Ref. 12). Recently, several groups have initiated the experimental study of disorder with Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) 13,14,15 , and strongly correlated Bose gases 16 . In the center of interest of these works is one of the most fundamental issues of disor-dered systems that concerns the interplay between Anderson localization and interactions in many body Fermi or Bose sys-tems at low temperatures. In non-interacting atomic sytems, localization is feasible experimentally 17 , but even weak inter-actions can drastically change the scenario. While weak re-pulsive interactions tend to delocalize, strong ones in confined geometries lead to Wigner-Mott-like localization 18 . Both ex-periments and theory indicate that in gaseous systems with large interactions, stronger localization effects occur in the excitations of a BEC 14,19,20,21 , rather than on the BEC wave-function itself. In the limit of weak interactions, a Bose gase enters a Lifshits glass phase, in which several BECs in vari-ous localized single atom orbitals from the low energy tail of the spectrum coexist 22 (for ‘traces’ of the Lifshits glass in the meanfield theory, see Ref. 15). Finally, note that disorder in Fermi gases, or in Femi-Bose atomic mixtures, should allow one to realize various fermionic disorderded phases, such as a Fermi glass, a Mott-Wigner glass, ‘dirty’ superconductors, etc. (Ref. 12), or even quantum spin glasses 23 .
B. Large effects by small disorder
One of the most appealing effects of disorder is that even extremely small randomness can have dramatic consequences. The paradigm example in classical physics is the Ising model for which an arbitrarily small random magnetic field destroys magnetization even at temperature T=0 in two dimensions, 2D (Refs. 24,25), but not in D > 2 (Ref. 26). This result has been generalized to systems with continuous symmetry in ran-dom fields distributed in accordance with this symmetry 24,25 .For instance, the Heisenberg model in a SO (3) -symmetrically distributed field does not magnetize up to 4D. In quantum physics, the paradigm example of large ef-fects induced by small disorder is provided by the above-mentioned Anderson localization which occurs in 1D and 2D in arbitrarily small random potentials 5. In this paper, we pro-pose an even more intriguing opposite effect, where disor-der counter-intuitively favors ordering: a general mechanism of random-field-induced order (RFIO) by which certain spin models magnetize at a higher temperature in the presence of arbitrarily small disorder than in its absence, provided that the disorder breaks the continuous symmetry of the system. 2
C. Main results and plan of the paper
As is well known, as a consequence of the Mermin-Wagner-Hohenberg theorem 27 , spin or field theoretic systems with continuous symmetry in dimensions less or equal to 2D can-not exhibit long range order. The mechanism that we pro-pose here breaks the continuous symmetry, and in this sense acts against the Mermin-Wagner-Hohenberg no-go rule in 2D. In particular, we prove rigorously that the classical XY spin model on a 2D lattice in a uniaxial random field magnetizes spontaneously at T = 0 in the direction perpendicular to the magnetic field axis, and provide strong evidence that this is also the case at small positive temperatures. We discuss gen-eralizations of this mechanism to classical and quantum XY and Heisenberg models in 2D and 3D. In 3D, the considered systems do exhibit long range order at finite T > 0, but in this case the critical temperature decreases with the ‘size’ of the symmetry group: it is the largest for the Ising model (the discrete group Z2), higher for the XY model [the continu-ous group U (1) ], and the highest for the Heisenberg model [the continuous group SU (2) , or SO (3) ]. In this case we ex-pect that our mechanism will lead to an increase of the crit-ical temperature for the XY and Heisenberg models, and to an increase of the order parameter value at a fixed temperature for the disordered system in comparison to the non-disordered one. Finally, we propose three possible and experimentally feasible realizations of the RFIO phenomenon using ultracold atoms in optical lattices. The paper is organized as follows. In section II, we present the results concerning the RFIO in the classical XY model on a 2D lattice. First, we rigorously prove that the system magne-tizes in the direction perpendicular to the direction of the ran-dom magnetic field at T = 0 , and then, we present arguments that the magnetization persists in small T > 0 case, as well as the results of numerical classical Monte Carlo simulations. Section III is fully devoted to the discussion of the general-izations of the RFIO mechanism to several other classical and quantum spin systems. In section IV, we discuss several ex-perimentally feasible realizations of RFIO in ultracold atomic systems. Finally, we summarize our results in section V.
II. RFIO IN CLASSICAL XY MODEL A. The system under study
Consider a classical spin system on the 2D square lattice
Z2, in a random magnetic field, h (see Fig. 1). The spin vari-able, σi = (cos θi, sin θi), at a site i ∈ Z2 is a unit vector in the xy plane. The Hamiltonian (in units of the exchange energy J) is given by
H/J = − ∑
|i−j|=1
σi · σj − ǫ ∑
i
hi · σi. (1) Here the first term is the standard nearest-neighbor interac-tion of the XY-model, and the second term represents a small
Figure 1: (color online) XY model on a 2D square lattice in a random magnetic field. The magnetic field is oriented along the yaxis, hi=
ηiey, where ηiis a real random number. Right boundary conditions are assumed on the outer square, possibly placed at infinity (see text).
random field perturbation. The hi’s are assumed to be inde-pendent, identically distributed random, 2D vectors. For ǫ = 0 , the model has no spontaneous magnetization, m,at any positive T . This was first pointed out in Ref. 28, and later developed into a class of results known as the Mermin-Wagner-Hohenberg theorem 27 for various classical, as well as quantum two-dimensional spin systems with continuous sym-metry. In higher dimensions the system does magnetize at low temperatures. This follows from the spin wave analysis 29 , and has been given a rigorous proof in Ref. 30. The impact of a random field term on the behavior of the model was first addressed in Refs. 24,25, where it was argued that if the dis-tribution of the random variables hi is invariant under rota-tions, there is no spontaneous magnetization at any positive T
in any dimension D ≤ 4. A rigorous proof of this statement was given in Ref. 25. Both works use crucially the rotational invariance of the distribution of the random field variables. Here we consider the case where hi is directed along the y-axis: hi = ηiey, where ey is the unit vector in the y direction, and ηi is a random real number. Such a random field obviously breaks the continuous symmetry of the interaction and a ques-tion arises whether the model still has no spontaneous mag-netization in two dimensions. This question has been given contradictory answers in Refs. 31,32: while Ref. 31 predicts that a small random field in the y-direction does not change the behavior of the model, Ref. 32 argues that it leads to the presence of spontaneous magnetization, m, in the direction perpendicular to the random field axis in low (but not arbitrar-ily low) temperatures. Both works use renormalization group analysis, with Ref. 32 starting from a version of the Imry-Ma scaling argument to prove that the model magnetizes at zero temperature. The same model was subsequently studied by Feldman 33 ,using ideas similar to the argument given in the present paper. As we argue below, however, his argument contains an essen-tial gap, which is filled in the present work. We first present a complete proof that the system indeed magnetizes at T = 0 ,3and argue that the ground state magnetization is stable under inclusion of small thermal fluctuations. For this, we use a ver-sion of the Peierls contour argument 34 , eliminating first the possibility that Bloch walls or vortex configurations destroy the transition.
B. RFIO at T= 0
Let us start by a rigorous analysis of the ground state. Con-sider the system in a square Λ with the ‘right’ boundary con-ditions, σi = (1 , 0) , for the sites i on the outer boundary of Λ
(see Fig. 1). The energy of any spin configuration decreases if we replace the x components of the spins by their absolute values and leave the y components unchanged. It follows that in the ground state, x components of all the spins are nonneg-ative. As the size of the system increases, we expect the x
component of the ground state spins to decrease, since they feel less influence of the boundary conditions and the ground state value of each spin will converge. We thus obtain a well-defined infinite-volume ground state with the ‘right’ boundary conditions at infinity. We emphasize that the above convergence statement is non-trivial and requires a proof. Physically it is, however, quite natural. A similar statement has been rigorously proven for ground states of the Random Field Ising Model using Fortuin-Kasteleyn-Ginibre monotonicity techniques 25,35 .
C. Infinite volume limit
A priori this infinite-volume ground state could coincide with the ground state of the Random Field Ising Model, in which all spins have zero x component. The following argu-ment shows that this is not the case. Suppose that the spin σi
at a given site i is aligned along the y-axis, i.e. cos θi = 0 .Since the derivative of the energy function with respect to θi
vanishes at the minimum, we obtain
∑
j:|i−j|=1
sin( θi − θj ) = 0 . (2) Since cos θi = 0 , this implies ∑
j:|i−j|=1
cos θj = 0 . Because in the ‘right’ ground state all spins lie in the (closed) right half-plane x ≥ 0, all terms in the above expression are non-negative and hence have to vanish. This means that at all the nearest neighbors j of the site i, the ground state spins are di-rected along the y-axis as well. Repeating this argument, we conclude that the same holds for all spins of the infinite lat-tice, i.e. the ground state is the (unique) Random Field Ising Model ground state. This, however, leads to a contradiction, since assuming this, one can construct a field configuration, occurring with a positive probability, which forces the ground state spins to have nonzero x components. To achieve this we put strong positive ( ηi > 0) fields on the boundary of a square and strong negative fields on the boundary of a con-centric smaller square. If the fields are very weak in the area between the two boundaries, the spins will form a Bloch wall, rotating gradually from θ = π/ 2 to θ = −π/ 2. Since such a local field configuration occurs with a positive probability, the ground state cannot have zero x components everywhere, contrary to our assumption. We would like to emphasize the logical structure of the above argument, which proceeds indirectly assuming that the ground state spins (or, equivalently, at least one of them) have zero x components and reach a contradiction. The initial as-sumption is used in an essential way to argue existence of the Bloch wall interpolating between spins with y components equal to +1 and −1. It is this part of the argument that we think is missing in Ref. 33. Note, that this argument applies to strong, as well as to weak random fields, so that the ground state is never, strictly speaking, field-dominated and always exhibits magnetization in the x-direction. Moreover, the ar-gument does not depend on the dimension of the system, ap-plying in particular in one dimension. We argue below that in dimensions greater than one the effect still holds at small pos-itive temperatures, the critical temperature depending on the strength of the random field (and presumably going to zero as the strength of the field increases).
D. RFIO at low positive T
To study the system at low positive T , we need to ask what are the typical low energy excitations from the ground state. For ǫ = 0 , continuous symmetry allows Bloch walls, i.e. con-figurations in which the spins rotate gradually over a large region, for instance from left to right. The total excitation energy of a Bloch wall in 2D is of order one, and it is the pres-ence of such walls that underlies the absence of continuous symmetry breaking. However, for ǫ > 0, a Bloch wall carries additional energy, coming from the change of the direction of the y component of the spin, which is proportional to the area of the wall (which is of the order L2 for a wall of linear size L
in two dimensions), since the ground state spins are adapted to the field configuration, and hence overturning them will in-crease the energy per site. Similarly, vortex configurations, which are important low-energy excitations in the nonrandom XY model, are no longer energetically favored in the presence of a uniaxial random field. We are thus left, as possible excitations, with sharp domain walls, where the x component of the spin changes sign rapidly. To first approximation we consider excited configurations, in which spins take either their ground state values, or the reflec-tions of these values in the y-axis. As in the standard Peierls argument 34 , in the presence of the right boundary conditions, such configurations can be described in terms of contours γ
(domain walls), separating spins with positive and negative x
components. If mi is the value of the x component of the spin
σi in the ground state with the right boundary conditions, the energy of a domain wall is the sum of mimj over the bonds
(ij ) crossing the boundary of the contour. Since changing the signs of the x components of the spins does not change the magnetic field contribution to the energy, the Peierls estimate shows that the probability of such a contour is bounded above by exp( −2β ∑
(ij )
mimj ), with β = J/k B T .4We want to show that for a typical realization of the field, h,(i.e. with probability one), these probabilities are summable,
i.e. their sum over all contours containing the origin in their interior is finite. It then follows that at a still lower T , this sum is small, and the Peierls argument proves that the system magnetizes (in fact, a simple additional argument shows that summability of the contour probabilities already implies the existence of spontaneous m). To show that a series of ran-dom variables is summable with probability one, it suffices to prove the summability of the series of the expected values. We present two arguments for the last statement to hold. If the random variables mi are bounded away from zero,
i.e. mi > √c, for some c > 0, the moment generating func-tion of the random variable ∑
(ij )
mimj satisfies
E
[
exp
(
− β ∑
(ij )
mimj
)]
≤ exp[ −cβL (γ)] , (3) with L(γ) denoting the length of the contour γ. The sum of the probabilities of the contours enclosing the origin is thus bounded by ∑
γ
exp[ −cβL (γ)] . The standard Peierls-Griffiths bound proves the desired summability. The above argument does not apply if the distribu-tion of the ground state, m, contains zero in its sup-port. For unbounded distribution of the random field this may very well be the case, and then another argu-ment is needed. If we assume that the terms in the sum ∑
(ij )
mimj are independent and identically distributed, then
E[exp( −2β ∑
(ij )
mimj )] = E[exp( −2βm imj )] L(γ) =exp {L(γ) log E[exp( −2βm imj )] } and we just need to ob-serve that E[exp( −2βm imj )] → 0 as β → ∞ (since the expression under the expectation sign goes pointwise to zero and lies between 0 and 1) to conclude that
E[exp( −2β ∑
(ij )
mimj )] behaves as exp[ −g(β)L(γ)] for a positive function g(β) with g(β) → ∞ as β → ∞ . While
mimj are not, strictly speaking, independent, it is natural to assume that their dependence is weak, i.e. their correlation decays fast with the distance of the corresponding bonds (ij ).The behavior of the moment generating function of their sum is then qualitatively the same, with a renormalized rate func-tion g(β), still diverging as β → ∞ . As before, this is enough to carry out the Peierls-Griffiths estimate which implies spon-taneous magnetization in the x-direction. We remark that our assumption about the fast decay of correlations implies that the sums of mimj over subsets of Z2 satisfy a large deviation principle analogous to that for sums of independent random variables and the above argument can be restated using this fact.
E. Numerical Monte Carlo simulations
Based on the above discussion it is expected that the RFIO effect predicted here will lead to the appearance of magneti-zation, m, in the x direction of order 1 at low temperatures in systems much larger than the correlation length of typi-cal excitations. For small systems, however, the effect may be obscured by finite size effects, which, due to long-range
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power law decay of correlations, are particularly strong in the
XY model in 2D. In particular, the 2D-XY model shows fi-nite magnetization ( m) in small systems 36 , so that RFIO is expected to result in an increase of the magnetization. We have performed numerical Monte-Carlo simulations 37
for the 2D-XY classical model [Hamiltonian (1), with ǫ = 1 ]. We generate a random magnetic field, hi = ηiey in the y di-rection. The ηi’s are independent random real numbers, uni-formly distributed in [−√3∆ hy , √3∆ hy ]. Note that ∆hy is thus the standard deviation of the random field hi. Bound-ary conditions on the outer square correspond to σi = (1 , 0)
[see Fig. 1]. The calculations were performed in 2D lattices with up to 200 ×200 lattice sites for various temperatures. The results are presented in Fig. 2. At very small temperature, the system magnetizes in the ab-sence of disorder ( m approaches 1 when T tends to 0) due to the finite size of the lattice 36 . In this regime, a random field in the y direction tends to induce a small local magnetization, parallel to hi, so that the magnetization in the x direction, m,is slightly reduced. At higher temperatures ( T ≃ 0.7J/k B in Fig. 2), the magnetization is significantly smaller than 1 in the absence of disorder. This is due to non-negligible spin wave excitations. In the presence of small disorder, these excita-tions are suppressed due to the RFIO effect discussed in this paper. We indeed find that, at T = 0 .7J/k B, m increases by 1.6% in presence of the uniaxial disordered magnetic field. At larger temperatures, excitations, such as Bloch walls or vor-tices are important and no increase of the magnetization is found when applying a small random field in the y direction.
III. RFIO IN OTHER SYSTEMS
The RFIO effect predicted above may be generalized to other spin models, in particular those that have finite correla-tion length. Here we list the most spectacular generalizations:
A. 2D Heisenberg ferromagnet (HF) in random fields of various symmetries
Here the interaction has the same form as in the XY case, but spins take values on a unit sphere. As for the XY Hamil-5tonian, if the random field distribution has the same symmetry as the interaction part, i.e. if it is symmetric under rotations in three dimensions, the model has no spontaneous magnetiza-tion up to 4D (see Ref. 24,25). If the random field is uniaxial,
e.g. oriented along the z axis, the system still has a contin-uous symmetry (rotations in the xy plane), and thus cannot have spontaneous magnetization in this plane. It cannot mag-netize in the z direction either, by the results of Ref. 25. Cu-riously enough, a field distribution with an intermediate sym-metry may lead to symmetry breaking. Namely, arguments fully analogous to the previous ones imply that if the random field takes values in the yz plane with a distribution invariant under rotations, the system will magnetize in the x direction. We are thus faced with the possibility that a planar field dis-tribution breaks the symmetry, while this is broken neither by a field with a spherically symmetric distribution nor by a uni-axial one.
B. 3D XY and Heisenberg models in a random field of various symmetries
We have argued that the 2D XY model with a small uni-axial random field orders at low T . Since in the absence of the random field spontaneous magnetization occurs only at
T = 0 , this can be equivalently stated by saying that a small uniaxial random field raises the critical temperature Tc of the system. By analogy, one can expect that the (nonzero) Tc of the XY model in 3D becomes higher and comparable to that of the 3D Ising model, in the presence of a small uniaxial field. A simple meanfield estimate suggests that Tc might increase by a factor of 2. The analogous estimates for the Heisenberg model in 3D suggest an increase of Tc by a factor 3/2 (or 3) in a small uniaxial (or planar rotationally symmetric) field re-spectively. These conjectures are the subject of a forthcoming project.
C. Antiferromagnetic systems
By flipping every second spin, the classical ferromagnetic models are equivalent to antiferromagnetic ones (on bipartite lattices). This equivalence persists in the presence of a ran-dom field with a distribution symmetric with respect to the origin. Thus the above discussion of the impact of random fields on continuous symmetry breaking in classical ferromag-netic models translates case by case to the antiferromagnetic case.
D. Quantum systems
All of the effects predicted above should, in principle have quantum analogs. Quantum fluctuations might, however, de-stroy the long-range order, so each of the discussed mod-els should be carefully reconsidered in the quantum case. Some models, such as the quantum spin S = 1 /2 Heisenberg model, for instance, have been widely studied in literature 38 .The Mermin-Wagner theorem 27 implies that the model has no spontaneous magnetization at positive temperatures in 2D. For
D > 2 spin wave analysis 39,40,41 shows the existence of spon-taneous magnetization (though a rigorous mathematical proof of this fact is still lacking). In general, one does not expect major differences between the behaviors of the two models at
T 6 = 0 . It thus seems plausible that the presence of a ran-dom field in the quantum case is going to have effects simi-lar to those in the classical Heisenberg model. Similarly, one can consider the quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet (HAF) and expect phenomena analogous to the classical case, despite the fact that unlike their classical counterparts, the quantum HF and HAF systems are no longer equivalent. We expect to observe spontaneous staggered magnetization in a random uniaxial XY model, or random planar field HF. A possibility that a random field in the z-direction can enhance the anti-ferromagnetic order in the xy plane has been pointed out in Ref. 42.
IV. TOWARDS THE EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATION OF RFIO IN ULTRACOLD ATOMIC SYSTEMS
Further understanding of the phenomena described in this paper will benefit from experimental realizations and inves-tigations of the above-mentioned models. Below, we dis-cuss the possibilities to design quantum simulators for these quantum spin systems using ultracold atoms in optical lattices (OL).
A. Two-component lattice Bose gas
Consider a two-component Bose gas confined in an OL with on-site inhomogeneities. The two components corre-spond here to two internal states of the same atom. The low-T physics is captured by the Bose-Bose Hubbard model (BBH) 43 (for a review of ultracold lattice gases see Ref. 44):
HBBH = ∑
j
[ Ub
2 nj (nj − 1) + UB
2 Nj (Nj − 1) +UbB nj Nj
]
∑
j
(vj nj + Vj Nj ) (4)
− ∑
〈j,l 〉
[(
Jbb†
j
bl + JBB†
j
Bl
)
h.c.
]
− ∑
j
( Ωj
2 b†
j
Bj + h.c.
)
where bj and Bj are the annihilation operators for both types of Bosons in the lattice site j, nj = b†
j
bj and Nj = B†
j
Bj are the corresponding number operators, and 〈j, l 〉 denote a pair of adjacent sites in the OL. In Hamiltonian (4), (i) the first term describes on-site interactions, including interaction between Bosons of different types, with energies Ub, UB and UbB ; (ii) the second accounts for on-site energies; (iii) the third de-scribes quantum tunneling between adjacent sites and (iv) the 6
Figure 3: (color online) Atomic level scheme of a two-component Bose mixture in a random optical lattice used to design spin models in random magnetic fields (see text).
fourth transforms one Boson type into the other with a prob-ability amplitude |Ω|/ℏ. The last term can be implemented with an optical two-photon Raman process if the two Bosonic ‘species’ correspond to two internal states of the same atom (see also Fig. 3). Possibly, both on-site energies vj , Vj and the Raman complex amplitude Ωj can be made site-dependent using speckle laser light 13,14,15 .Consider the limit of strong repulsive interactions ( 0 <Jb, J B, |Ωj | ≪ Ub, U B, U Bb ) and a total filling factor of 1
(i.e. the total number of particles equals the number of lat-tice sites). Proceeding as in the case of Fermi-Bose mixtures, recently analyzed by two of the authors in Ref. 23, we derive an effective Hamiltonian, Heff , for the Bose-Bose mixture. In brief, we restrict the Hilbert space to a subspace E0 generated by {∏
j
|nj , N j 〉} with nj +Nj = 1 at each lattice site, and we incorporate the tunneling terms via second-order perturbation theory as in Ref. 23. We then end up with
Heff = − ∑
〈j,l 〉
(
Jj,l B†
j
Bl + h.c
)
∑
〈j,l 〉
Kj,l Nj Nl
∑
j
Vj Nj − ∑
j
( Ωj
2 Bj + h.c.
)
(5) where Bj = b†
j
Bj P, P is the projector onto E0 and Nj =
B†
j
Bj . Hamiltonian Heff contains (i) a hopping term, Jj,l , (ii) an interaction term between neighbour sites, Kj,l , (iii) inho-mogeneities, Vj , and (iv) a creation/annihilation term. Note that the total number of composites is not conserved except for a vanishing Ω. The coupling parameters in Hamiltonian (5) are 1:
Jj,l = JbJB
UbB
1
1 −
( δj,l
UbB
)2 + 1
1 −
( ∆j,l
UbB
)2
(6)
Kj,l = − 4J2
b
/U b
1 −
( δj,l
Ub
)2 + 2J2
b
/U bB
1 −
( δj,l
UbB
)2
− 4J2
B
/U B
1 −
( ∆j,l
UB
)2 + 2J2
B
/U bB
1 −
( ∆j,l
UbB
)2 (7)
Vj = Vj − vj + ∑
〈j,l 〉
4J2
b
/U b
1 −
( δj,l
Ub
)2 − J2
b
/U bB
1 − δj,l
UbB
− J2
B
/U bB
1 + ∆j,l
UbB
4J2
B
/U B
1 −
( ∆j,l
UB
)2
, (8) where δj,l = vj − vl and ∆j,l = Vj − Vl. Hamiltonian Heff
describes the dynamics of composite particles whose annihi-lation operator at site j is Bj = b†
j
Bj P. In contrast to the case of Fermi-Bose mixtures discussed in Ref. 23, where the com-posites are fermions, in the present case of Bose-Bose mix-tures, they are composite Schwinger Bosons made of one B
boson and one b hole. Since the commutation relations of Bj and B†
j
are those of Schwinger Bosons 45 , we can directly turn to the spin representation 45 by defining Sxj + iSyj = Bj and Szj =1/2 − N j , where Nj = B†
j
Bj . It is important to note that since Raman processes can convert b Bosons into B
Bosons (and conversely), ∑
j
〈N j 〉 is not fixed by the total number of Bosons of each species, i.e. the z component of
m, ∑
j
〈Szj 〉 is not constrained. For small inhomogeneities (δj,l = vj − vl, ∆j,l = Vj − Vl ≪ Ub, U b, U bB ), Hamiltonian
Heff is then equivalent to the anisotropic Heisenberg XXZ
model 45 in a random field:
Heff = −J⊥
∑
〈j,l 〉
(Sxj Sxl + Syj Syl
) − Jz
∑
〈j,l 〉
Szj Szl
− ∑
j
(hxj Sxj + hyj Syj + hzj Szj
) (9) where
J⊥ = 4JbJB
UbB
(10)
Jz = 2
( 2J2
b
Ub
2J2
B
UB
− J2
b
J2
B
UbB
)
(11)
hxj = Ω R
j
; hyj = −ΩI
j
; hzj = Vj − ζJ z /2 , (12)
1The coupling parameters are the same as calculated in Refs. 12,23 except for the third term in Eq. (7) which corresponds to a virtual state with two
Bbosons in the same lattice site—forbidden for Fermions.
7with ζ the lattice coordination number, Vj = Vj − vj +
ζ[4 J2
b
/U b +4 J2
B
/U B −(J2
b
+J2
B
)/U bB ] and Ωj = Ω R
j
+iΩI
j
. In atomic systems, all these (possibly site-dependent) terms can be controlled almost at will 23,44,46 . In particular, by employing various possible control tools one can reach the HF ( J⊥ = Jz )and XY (Jz = 0 ) cases.
B. Bose lattice gas embedded in a BEC
The quantum ferromagnetic XY model in a random field may be alternatively obtained using the same BBH model, but with strong state dependence of the optical dipole forces. One can imagine a situation in which one-component (say b) is in the strong interaction limit, so that only one b atom at a site is possible, whereas the other ( B) component is in the Bose con-densed state and provides only a coherent BEC ‘background’ for the b-atoms. Mathematically speaking, this situation is de-scribed by Eq. (4), in which ni’s can be equal to 0 or 1 only, whereas Bi’s can be replaced by a classical complex field (condensate wave function). In this limit the spin S = 1 /2
states can be associated with the presence, or absence of a b-atom in a given site. In this way, setting vj = 0 and ΩI
j
= 0 ,one obtains the quantum version of the XY model (1) with
J = Jb and a uniaxial random field in the x direction with the strength determined by ΩR
j
.
C. Two-component Fermi lattice gas
Finally, the S = 1 /2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model may be realized with a Fermi-Fermi mixture at half filling for each component. This implementation might be of spe-cial importance for future experiments with Lithium atoms. As recently calculated 47 , the critical temperature for the N´ eel state in a 3D cubic lattice is of the order of 30nK. It is well known that in a 3D cubic lattice the critical temperatures for the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg, the XY and the Ising mod-els are Tc,XY ≃ 1.5Tc,Heis , and Tc,Ising ≃ 2Tc,Heis . The estimates of these critical temperatures can be, for instance, obtained applying the Curie-Weiss mean field method to the classical models. Suppose that we put the Heisenberg anti-ferromagnet in a uniaxial (respectively, planar) random field, created using the same methods as discussed above, i.e. we break the SU (2) symmetry and put the system into the uni-versality class of XY (respectively, Ising) models. Mean field estimates suggest then that we should expect the increase of the critical temperature by factor 1.5 (respectively, 2), that is up to ≃ 45 (respectively, 90)nK. Even if these estimates are too optimistic, and the effect is two, three times smaller, one should stress, that even an increase by, say 10nK, is of great experimental relevance and could be decisive for achieving of antiferromagnetic state. We would like to stress that similar proposals, as the three discussed above, have been formulated before 48 , but none of them treat simultaneously essential aspects for the present schemes: i) disordered fields, but not bonds; ii) arbitrary di-rections of the fields; iii) possibility of exploring Ising, XY
or Heisenberg symmetries; iv) realizing the coherent source of atoms; and v) avoiding constraints on the magnetization along the z axis. It is also worth commenting on what are the most impor-tant experimental challenges that have to be addressed in or-der to achieve RFIO. Evidently, for the proposals involving the strong interaction limit of two-component Bose, or Fermi systems, the main issue is the temperature which has to be of order of tens of nano-Kelvins. Such temperatures are start-ing to be achievable nowadays (for a carefull discussion in the context of Fermi-Bose mixtures see Ref. 49), and there exist several proposals for supplementary cooling of lattice gases, using laser (photons) or couplings to ultracold BEC (phonon cooling) that can help (for reviews see Ref. 44,46.
V. SUMMARY
In this paper, we have proposed a general mechanism of random-field-induced order (RFIO), occurring in systems with continuous symmetry, placed in a random field that breaks, or reduces this symmetry. We have presented rigor-ous results for the case of the 2D-classical ferromagnetic XY
model in a random uniaxial field, and proved that the system has spontaneous magnetization at temperature T = 0 . We have presented also a rather strong evidence that this is also the case for small T > 0. Several generalizations of this mechanism to various classical and quantum systems were discussed. We have presented also detailed proposals to re-alize RFIO in experiments using two-component Bose lattice gases, one-component Bose lattice gases embedded in BECs, or two-component Fermi lattice gases. Our results shed light on controversies in existing literature, and open the way to realize RFIO with ultracold atoms in an optical lattice. It is worth mentioning two further realizations of RFIO studied by us recently. RFIO occurs in a two-component trapped Bose gas at T = 0 , when the gas is condensed and the two components are coupled by Raman transition of ran-dom strength, but fixed phase. Although such a system be-longs to the universality class of the (trapped, i.e. located in an inhomogenous field) XY model, it exhibits the RFIO ef-fect in a much stronger manner than the XY model discussed in the present paper. We have found this observation important enough to devote a separate detailed paper to it 50 . Similarly, we have studied numerically RFIO in 1D for quantum XY
and Heisenberg chains 51 . In such systems, even at T = 0 ,magnetization vanishes, but amazingly enough the RFIO ef-fect seems to work at the level of the magnetic susceptibilities. Adding a random field confined to a certain axis (respectively, plane), increases siginificantly the magnetic suceptibility in the perpedicular directions (respectively, direction).
Acknowledgments
We thank I. Bloch, T. Roscilde, and C. Salomon for very en-lightening discussions. We acknowledge the support of DFG, 8ESF Programme QUDEDIS, Spanish MEC Grant FIS2005-04627, Acciones Integradas and Consolider QOIT, EU IP SCALA, the D´ el´ egation G´ en´ erale de l’Armement, the Min-ist` ere de la Recherche, the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, the European Union, and INTAS. LCFIO is a member of the Institut Francilien de Recherche sur les Atomes Froids (IFRAF).
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CONTENTS
Composite, PrimePalindromic Sophie Germaine Primes (1 & 2)### Prime 30103
Fermat & Mersenne NumbersMinimum Difference Prime SquaresPrime Queen Problem
Ulam's Prime Spiral### Primes Adjacent to 6n### A Reversible Sequence
Prime 5882353Primes Plus Even Number8 Consecutive Primes
Prime RectanglesA Prime Staircase### Prime 1129
Fermat Product Plus 2### Perfect Numbers from PrimesPrimeval Primes
A Prime Circle### Prime # 57### Butterfly Primes
Composite, Prime
NOTE: pattern alternates between composite and prime(until x=10).Too bad !
A. H. Beiler,Recreations in the Theory of Numbers p. 8 5
Palindromic Sophie Germaine Primes (1)
191&383
39493939493 &78987878987
If P is greater than 2 and is a prime, than if 2P+1 is also prime, P is known as a Sophie Germaine prime. There are many such primes but only 71 pairs with three to eleven digits if both primes are palindromic. Above are the lowest and the highest such pairs.
If Q (2P+1) is itself a Sophie Germaine prime there are a total of 19 such triplets where each prime is palindromic. They range in size from 23 digits long to 39 digits long The smallest such triplet follows:
19091918181818181919091, 38183836363636363838183, 76367672727272727676367
Harvey Dubner,JRM 26:1, 1994, pp38-41t
Palindromic Sophie Germaine Primes (2)
If we let A=1, B=2, C=3, etc than
P+A+L+I+N+D+R+O+M+E+S + A+R+E + F+U+N = 191
Also
15551 (the smallest palindromic prime producing another in this way) when written in words
F+I+F+T+E+E+N + T+H+O+U+S+A+N+D +
F+I+V+E + H+U+N+D+R+E+D + F+I+F+T+Y + O+N+E = 383
This courtesy of G. L. Honaker, Jr. (See Prime Queen Problem below)
Prime 30103
30103 is the only known multi-digit palindromic prime found by averaging the divisors of a composite number.
30103 = (1 + 5 + 173 + 865 + 29929 + 149645)/6
30103 = (1 + 2 + 3 + 6 + 173 + 346 + 519 + 1038 + 29929 + 59858 + 89787 + 179574)/12
30103 = average of divisors of 149645
30103 = average of divisors of 179574
It was found by Jud McCranie and G. L. Honaker, Jr. in July/98.
See Carlos Rivera’s Prime Puzzles & Problems
Fermat & Mersenne Numbers
Fermat numbers , when expressed in binary, have all zeros with a one at each end. Mersenne numbers have all ones.
Both the decimal and binary numbers are palindromes (read the same backwards as forewards).
Minimum Difference Prime Squares
These two squares each contain the 25 primes that are less then 100.
AddThe maximum sum of any row, column or diagonal is 213
The minimum sum is 211
The difference (which is the minimum possible) is 2
Multiply
The maximum product of any line, column or diagonal is 19013871
The minimum product is 18489527
The difference which is also the minimum possible .is 524344
JRM vol. 26: 4, 1994 ,p.308,309 Prob. 2094 proposed by R. M. Kurchan, solution by M. Reed
### Prime Queen Problem
Proposed by G. L. Honaker, Jr. on Nov. 15, 1998. 372445439224762 445382346614021 253643603206348 65926356441219 273057421344912 587542952131815 312895633161150 855325310511417Find the greatest number of prime squares that a queen can attack if placed on an n by n knight's tour solution. For the purpose of this problem, when considering if the queen is attacking a particular square, assume the intervening squares are vacant. The knight's tour is a numbered tour of a knight over a otherwise empty board visiting each square once only. The possible tour solutions are in the trillions. 31419241 20921318 15425823 102161712 51611227
By early December, 1998, Mike Keith had found these two solutions.. The order-8 has all of the 18 prime numbers less then 64 under attack by the queen placed on number 35. The order-5 square is also perfect because the queen is attacking all 9 of the primes when placed on the number 25.
In fact, Mr. Keith found perfect solutions also for order-6 and order-7 squares. It is impossible to have a knight tour solution for orders 2, 3 , or 4 and Mr. Keith conjectures that it is impossible to have a perfect solution for boards of order-9 or greater.
Can you find any other perfect solutions to this problem?
Addendum:
On April 1, 2004, I received an email from Jacques Tramu. He enclosed a solution he had found for the perfect order 9 square of this type. All 22 primes in the number range of 1 to 81 are attacked by the queen.
He shows the solution at
A few days later I also received a notice of this solution from G. L. Honaker, Jr., the originator of this problem.13761520117425229 161912752621106724 77141728735623869 188178436027685766 7944292557259707 30518061423366558 4548415215471635 50314639623343764 47404932533863345
Addendum2:
April 12, 2004. 5 minutes after uploading the previous addendum, I checked my email. Another update from G.L.
Jacques has just published a perfect order 10! See it at his link shown above.
See Mike Keith's information on this problem at
Ulam's Prime Spiral
272213214215216217218219220221222223224225226227
271212161162163164165166167168169170171172173228
270211160117118119120121122123124125126127174229
269210159116818283848586878889128175230
268209158115805354555657585990129176231
267208157114795233343536376091130177232
266207156113785132212223386192131178233
265206155112775031201724396293132179234
264205154111764930191825406394133180235
263204153110754829282726416495134181236
262203152109744746454443426596135182237
261202151108737271706968676697136183238
2602011501071061051041031021011009998137184239
259200149148147146145144143142141140139138185240
258199198197196195194193192191190189188187186241
257256255254253252251250249248247246245244243242
Probably everyone has heard the story about how Stanislaw M. Ulam discovered this pattern while sitting in a scientific meeting listening to what he described as a "long and boring paper." My first experience with his prime spiral was in the mid 70’s when I programmed it on my Apple II computer using Euler’s formula x 2 + x + 41.The graphics screen had a resolution of 40 x 40, and I can remember the thrill I received as I watched the screen slowly (but in those days I thought it was fast) fill up with a solid diagonal of 40 primes from one corner to the other.
A good explanation of this pattern is in M. Gardner, Sixth Book of Mathematical Games, Scribner’s, 1971
The triangle plot and the linear plot both show the primes in neat columns. The linear plot with six numbers per line illustrates how all primes are 6 n - 1 or 6 n + 1 (except for 2 and 3).
The Ellerstein Spiral
Dr. Stuart Ellerstein expanded on this theme in a paper that appeared as The Pronic Renaisance II, in The Journal of Recreational Mathematics, Vol. 30:4, 1999-2000, pp. 246-250. A short introductory article appeared in JRM 29:3, pp. 188-189
The following image is from that paper. Note particularly that the even squares, and the odd squares - 1 appear in the right diagonal of this array.
Note: A pronic number is one with the form x(x+1). It is also twice a triangular number.
Click for larger view
Dr. Ellerstein pointed out that Ulam's spiral also has the diagonal of squares with the other diagonal consisting of pronics (as does his).
Here I show Ulam's spiral starting at 0. But instead of showing the primes, I show the diagonal of squares and the diagonal of pronics.
Pronics are the product of two adjacent numbers.7271 70 69 68 67 66 65 64 99
73 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 63 98
74 43 20 19 18 17 16 35 62 97
75 44 21 06 05 04 15 34 61 96
76 45 22 07 00 03 14 33 60 95
77 46 23 08 01 02 13 32 29 94
78 47 24 09 10 11 12 31 58 93
79 48 25 26 27 28 29 30 57 92
80 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 91
81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90
A prime spiral arranged as a circle is thoroughly discussed and illustrated at Rom Sacks
Primes Adjacent to 6 n
Is there at least 1 prime adjacent to each multiple of 6?
Addendum Nov. 5, 2002
Dr. Ellerstein (see above section) advised me that the answer to the above question is NO!
The first exception is for n = 20
The 3 adjacent numbers are 119, 120, and 121 (119 = 7 x 17 and also 12 2 - 5 2, 120 = 6 n, and 121 = 11 2
A Reversible Sequence
1193, 1201, 1213, 1217,1223,1229,1231, 1237, 1249, 1259
A sequence of ten consecutive primes. Each one of these primes is still a prime when the order or the digits is reversed.
This sequence was discovered by Carlos Rivera, and is registered by him in Sloane’s Integer Sequences as A040104.
Prime 5882353
5882353 = 588 2 + 2353 2
This is the only prime number I know with this property. Are there other primes like this?
See examples of composite numbers with this or similar properties at my Narcissistic Numbers page.
Primes + Even Number
Does this pattern continue producing primes forever?
Addendum Nov. 19, 2002
No. See Ulam's Spirol (above). Aguydude pointed this out to me.
8 Consecutive Primes
8 consecutive primes 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37
the difference between 2 4 2 4 6 2 6
These eight consecutive primes have the form k, k + 2, k + 6, k + 8, k + 12, k + 18, k + 20, k + 26.
The next such series starts with the prime 15,760,091 and there are 6 more such series below 1,000,000,000
Martin Gardner, The Last Recreations, p204
Prime Rectangles
This pattern has 8 rows of 11 consecutive primes summing to a prime number.
Each row stars with the second prime in the row above it.
To save space, all primes (except the totals) are of the following form: 352XXXX
This pattern was found by Carlos Rivera and appeared on Prime Puzzles & Problems in Aug./98.
Since then, Jud McCranie has found many more of these patterns. See his pattern with 9 rows of 97 primes each at
Carlos Rivera’s WWW site .
A Prime Staircase
To save space, all primes (except the totals) are of the following form: 12606XXXX
There are three more lines to this pattern. The first and last primes in the last line are 126064739 and 126065033. The sum of this line is 2143103093.
This pattern was found by Carlos Rivera and appeared on his Prime Puzzles & Problems in Aug./98.
Prime 1129
Primes 1009 and 1201 have the same property.
The smaller prime numbers 241,409, 601, and 769 almost have this property.
In each case the only n for which there is no solution is n = 7.
Charles Ashbacher , JRM 24:3, 1992, pp202
Carlos Rivera (see his Prime Puzzles & Problems)sent me on Aug. 8/98, the solution below for n equals the first ten even numbers.
Two days later he e-mailed me the first example he had found where n is restricted to the first ten odd numbers.
Fermat Product Plus 2
Every Fermat number is the product of all previous
Fermat numbers plus 2.
Perfect Numbers from Primes
This is spelled out by Euclid in his Proposition 36 of Book IX of the Elements.
December, 2005: V.V. Raman reports "that every perfect number is 1 (mod 9)?"
See an excellent paper on Perfect numbers at
Primeval Primes
In each case, the number in the left column is the lowest number that includes this many primes.
The underlined numbers are Primeval Primes.
See more on Primeval Primes at Mike Keith’s page at http:users.//aol.com/s6sj7gt/primeval.htm
A Prime Circle
I received this diagram via email from a C. Robin in May of 2003.
Now, in March, 2005 I have finally got around to posting it!
Notice that along each radial, the numbers are separated by 24. Pattern by C. Robin
Click on the image to enlarge it.
Prime # 57
(57) = 2 4 and 57 57 - 2 4 is prime
57 x 2 25 - 1 is prime
57 + (100 x 2 n ) are primes for n = -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5
I modestly refer to this as "Heinz's number".
See more curios at
Butterfly Primes
Reginald Brooks has recently completed an extensive work on what he refers to as Butterfly Primes.
I was made aware of this by several emails from him, the most recent being March 2, 2006.
His site contains much information and many attractive multicolored tables.
This is a prime example of what I (and others) have often claimed, that
"mathematics is a study of the patterns of numbers!"
Reginald's papers (including other number pattern topics) may be viewed at
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Hello everyone. In this tutorial, we are going to provide a solution to this interesting absolute value inequality. We asked to solve the absolute value of 2x + 1 / x + 1 greater than 3. First of all, let us find the critical points. The first critical point you should consider is when the denominator is zero because we don't want that situation. And the only value of x that can make the bottom to be zero is when x is -1. So we can see that x cannot be -1. This is one of the critical points we should consider. Right? Then next we are going to take the input here and set it to be equal to 3 and also -3. Let's do that. Let me start with positive3. We're going to consider 2x + 1 / x + 1 to be pos3. Let's solve by cross multiplication. We're going to take the whole of this and multiply by this. That will give us um 3x + 3, right? Equal to you know you can rationalize this. This 1 will not change it. So we have just 2x + 1. 2x + 1. Let us collect the like terms. If you take this one to the left, it becomes negative. So we already have 3x - 2x that will give us 2x. No sorry just x right. Then you can take this one to the other side which is going to transform it to -1 - 3 is -2. So we have x = -2. Now remember we're going to set the same impute 2x + 1 / x + 1 to be -3. Why do we choose -3 and positive3? You know irrespective of the sign whether negative or positive the absolute value will always transform it to positive. So we are considering either -3 or positive3. So let's solve. Um we have 2x + 1 = -3 x -3. Let's collect the like terms. If you take this one to the left, it becomes positive 2x + 3x is 5x equal to you take one there, it becomes -1. -3, -1 is -4. You divide both sides by 5, you have x = -4 / 5. So this is another critical point or you can write it as x =0.8. All right. on number line. This is my number line. Let's start with the smallest or the biggest. The biggest is 0.8, right? Because we have three numbers here.0.8, -1, and -2. So, if we have 0.8 right here, we could have one down here. and -2 here. If you move to the left, we have negative infinity. We have positive infinity to the other side. I'm not going to test for these three numbers because I know they will not satisfy the inequality. But had it been the inequality is greater or equal to, I know that the critical points will satisfy. So instead, I'm going to test for some numbers in between the critical points. So if I should come here in between here I could have -1.5 right this is a value I'm going to test and if you move to the left hand side of -2 we could have -3 in between -1 and0.8 eat we could have0.9 and to the right hand side let's choose zero okay so I'm going to test for these three numbers 1 2 3 four there are four numbers so where is my inequality this is my inequality let us start with -3 here what happen if um x is -3 we have -3 2 which is going to give us uh -6. Then you add one. The numerator will be what? -5. Then you divide by what? Um -3 + 1 is -2.2. Right? But remember we still have absolute value. This will be equal to positive 2.5. And 2.5 is not greater than three. So this will not satisfy. So what does this implies? It implies that fromative infinity down to -2 no value will satisfy. Then we are going to test for value in between -2 to -1 which we choose as -1.5. We have 2 1.5 right which is going to give us -3 and -3 + 1 that will give us -2. So we have -2 / by the same thing we have -1.5 uh + one right + one that will give us0.5 remember we have absolute value even without absolute value the negatives will cancel. So what is 2 / 0.5? 2 /.5 that will give us four. And you can see indeed 4 is greater than three. Therefore it implies that every value between -2 down to -1 will satisfy. You see that? Then let us check for this one.0.9. If x is0.9 we take0.9 we multiply by two right whatever we obtain we add one so the top will be0.8 8ide by0.9 + 1 that is uh 0.1. So let's divide. Remember we have absolute value here that is equal to 8 and 8 is indeed greater than three which implies that all points here will satisfy between -1 down to0.8. Then to the right hand side of uh what do we call is0.8 we have zero. So let's test for zero. So if x is zero the whole of this will be zero. This will be zero. We have 1 / 1 which is one and one in absolute value is one. One is not greater than three. And hence to the right hand side no value will satisfy. So let me show you two different ways to write the solution to this problem. Um you can see that x belongs to the set of values from where from -2 down to what -1 because the end points will not satisfy union from where from -1 down to0.8. This is one way to write it. Or you could say that x belongs to the set of values from -2 down to0.8 straight. 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July 27, 2020
tags: Alexander Razborov, approximation, Boolean functions, circuits, complexity, exposition problems, lower bounds, monotone, Stasys Jukna
And Razborov’s brilliant proof method
Stasys Jukna is the author of the bookExtremal Combinatorics With Applications in Computer Science.
Today we talk about Jukna’s book on extremal combinatorics.
The structure of his book is great. The material is useful and well presented. Rather than add more general comments about his book, we thought we might highlight one tiny part—the part on monotone circuit lower bounds. Here goes. All below is based directly on his discussion. Any errors or misguided comments are ours.
Monotone Boolean Functions
Fix an input size and consider some property of subsets of . Let exactly when has the property. We can think of as a Boolean function. You believe that this property is hard to compute—how do you go about proving that?
In general we have no tools, but if the property is monotone, then there are some powerful methods. Recall monotone means that if then any set so that still has the property. For example, could be that includes at least half of the elements of . It cannot be that has an even number of elements. Another example is when is given in disjunctive normal form (DNF),
where each term is a conjunction of variables. Each can be regarded as a subset of . Then if and only if for some . Every monotone function also has a conjunctive normal form (CNF)
where each clause is a disjunction of variables. Then if and only if for all The problem is that the numbers of terms and of clauses involved may be huge. The clauses may have different sizes. Given a CNF of maximum clause size , we write for the conjunction of clauses of size exactly and for the rest. We similarly write and for DNFs .
The lower bound methods are on the size of a monotone circuit for . That is the circuit can only use gates and , but no other types of gates, especially not gates. Of course, if has no small monotone circuits, then it has no small DNF or CNF formulas either.
The neat fact on which the lower-bound technique builds is that if does have small monotone circuits, then we can “wrap” it between a CNF and a DNF in various customizable ways:
Theorem 1 (informal) For every with small monotone circuits and we can find a CNF of maximum clause size and a DNF of maximum term size such that
Moreover, and are small.
We have said “wrap” not “sandwich” because although is the “upper slice,” the part of with smaller terms—but there could be many of them—wraps around to be under the corresponding part of . This fact will enable us to throw away the smaller clauses and terms. How small is “small”? We will say later. We are trying to solve problems of exposition by keeping a high-level view at the start.
Exposition Problems
Tim Gowers has written an article about the lower method for monotone functions. The method is due to Alexander Razborov in his seminal 1985 paper and extended by Noga Alon and Ravi Boppana in their paper right afterward, and by Benjamin Rossman in his 2009 paper, to name a few.
Gowers says right away that the original papers on this method are clear and well written. But he believes that there is need for more exposition. The method is so important that it must be made easy for all to understand. He says his article is an attempt to solve an open exposition problem. The notion of an exposition problem is due to Timothy Chow who wrote:
All mathematicians are familiar with the concept of an open research problem. I propose the less familiar concept of an open exposition problem.
Chow raised this issue with respect to the forcing method in set theory due to Paul Cohen. A modest suggestion: Read Chow on forcing, a great exposition; read Gowers on the monotone lower bound method, another great one. Both are much better than anything we can do. But we will put our own spin on the lower bound method. And hope to add to the quest to solve the exposition problem.
The Method—High Level
Suppose that is a monotone boolean circuit that has inputs and computes at the last gate. The method is called the approximation method because the idea is that it builds two other boolean functions and : for all in :
This follows a tradition in math that we often replace a complex function, , with simpler upper and lower bounds. Standard stuff.
Usually the point is that the approximators are not only easier to understand but also simpler in some objective sense. For example, Christophe Chesneau and Yogesh Bagul give a nice short compendium of approximating formulas involving trigonometric functions by formulas without them, including that for all ,
with . If you have to reason about the behavior of , it is nice to have these upper and lower bounds. Note that the upper bound kind-of wraps around because it is the same kind of function as the lower bound.
What gives the monotone method a special twist is that and are not necessarily simple in the sense of being small. Rather, they make simple errors—ones that can be corrected with small effort. The correction process yields and Isolating what is small, however, requires us to trade an “AND” of two inequalities for an “OR” of two economical ones. We know that at least one of the latter inequalities must be true. We arrange that either one gives us the kind of lower bound we seek.
Some More Detail
Here is how the trade happens. From Theorem 1 we have:
where: and are small, and while and might be big, we have . The trick is to ask:
Is empty—that is, is it the trivial function?
If yes, then it goes away on the left-hand side. We get:
Since is small, this is something we want. We got a small lower bound on that holds for all arguments .
If no, then it has a nontrivial clause corresponding to a set of size at most . This is where the wraparound comes in. We have:
since we chose at least one clause. Substituting on the right-hand side thus gives us:
Now is small, since it is just one clause, and is small. We got a small upper bound rather than lower bound, but the fact that it has a restricted form and holds for all cases we can input to will give us a lower bound on .
Finally we are ready to state the theorem, which quantifies “small.” To follow Jukna, we now need to replace “” by “” and “” by “.” But the essence is the same.
Theorem 2 If has a monotone Boolean circuit of size , then for any such that , we can build a conjunction of at most clauses of size exactly , a disjunction of at most terms of size exactly , and a set of size at most such that either or .
Rather than re-prove this, we will continue the discussion with a concrete example. An exposition trick is: give examples before the general case and then abstract. Our example will involve graphs —so the variables have the form , where means there is an edge between vertex and vertex , otherwise. Putting as the number of vertices, the number of possible edges is . We think of as a set of edges, so .
Checking for Triangles
Let hold precisely when has a triangle. This is clearly a monotone property. Our goal is to use the lower and upper bounds to prove that the monotone complexity of is almost of order . A side note is that the general complexity is much less via matrix products.
The first beauty of using the method is that you get to choose the parameters and with a goal in mind. The and must be in . The value of will be a lower bound on the size of any monotone boolean circuit for . The parameters are bounds on the clause and term size of the DNF and the CNF. You can select them any way you wish. But of course choose them wisely.
In this case we know that is a right choice. We will say what is later but we will have . Once you pick them, the CNF and DNF (and small set , a set of edges in this case) are chosen for you. You have no control over the sets that make up the terms of and the sets that correspond to the clauses of . Well you do know something about them. Here is what you do know about how many sets there are and how big the sets are:
For , each is of size .
For , each is of size .
The goal in either case is to force to be large. We’ve numbered the right-hand case first.
Case . Here we want to consider graphs that do have a triangle—and nothing else. Because includes at most edges, hence touches at most vertices, and , we can focus on triangles among the untouched vertices. There are such triangles, hence graphs to consider.
Since these graphs have no edges in but make , there must be some such that . Since has size , this means has two edges of the triangle. Now the point is:
For each , there is at most one triangle that can be two edges of.
Hence there must be at least as many terms as possible triangles. This means:
Because , we finally get , where the tilde means to ignore factors of .
Case . Here we want to consider graphs such that but is chock full of as many edges as one can have without creating a triangle. Such include complete bipartite graphs. There are such graph inputs, as can be realized from how any binary string except and encodes such a graph—and only its bit-complement encodes the same labeled graph.
In order to keep we need for all such , so we need (at least) one clause to fail on . This means that all vertices touched by the edges in must be in the same partition. The more vertices touched, the fewer strings have all s (or all s) in the corresponding positions, which means the fewer graphs “covered” by that clause. We want to know how many clauses we need to cover all these graphs, hence we try to minimize the number of vertices touched by each clause. That number is at least . The number of graphs we cover is at most (the excludes the empty graph). Thus the number of clauses we need satisfies
By taking we can make in this case. We can actually get bigger functions with bigger , but this balances against case 1 where was the best we could do, so that is our lower bound.
Open Problems
Does this help in understanding the approximation method? Can you work out the concretely optimum choice of in the triangle example?
Would you prefer not changing and in the statement of Theorem 2? Then we would have worded the triangle example with “” rather than “.” The former is a little more suggestive of the idea of having two edges of a triangle. Doing so, however, could make notation in the proof of Theorem 2 somewhat messier. Another possibility was keeping Jukna’s usage throughout, so that the earlier version 1 of the theorem would say with and being small. We try to solve “exposition problems” in every post but feel a dilemma here. Comments might help us on a followup post.
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Serge permalink July 27, 2020 9:51 am
The most famous open exposition problem is probably to explain the proof of the four-color theorem to a human being.
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2. Jon Awbreypermalink July 27, 2020 3:32 pm
Re: OEPs vs. ORPs, I expressed the question once this way —
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Communication is so much harder
Than mere invention or discovery.
Will they have in mind what I have in mind?
Will I find the signs? Will I have the time?
There is so much shadow there must be light!
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3. Stefan Grosserpermalink July 28, 2020 3:16 pm
Jukna’s book is one of my favorites. I read through most of it in an independent study during my undergrad. Perhaps my only criticism of the book was that the significance of the circuit applications, like this one, flew over me without further explanation by my advisor, David Barrington.
Next you must do a post on Jukna’s other book, Boolean Function Complexity!
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4. Shankar Subramanian permalink July 30, 2020 6:15 am
Thanks for introducing this. Great subject
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5. David J. Littleboy permalink July 31, 2020 6:02 am
What are the textbooks that you use and/or would recommend to get students up to the point of reading this book? (I did an MS in Comp. Sci. in ’84, but have been doing mostly other things since.)
A short list (2, at most 3) would be appreciated…
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6. E.L. Wisty permalink September 2, 2020 7:19 am
Reblogged this on Pink Iguana.
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A root of a function (often a polynomial) whose range is the real, the complex numbers or any abstract field is a value in the domain of the function such that .
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1 Finding roots
1.1 General techniques
1.2 Rational roots
1.3 Real roots
1.4 Complex roots
1.5 In algebraic form
Finding roots
Let with all and , a general degree- polynomial. The degree of is , so has at most complex roots. In fact, the sum of the multiplicities of all distinct complex roots is exactly ; that is, counting any double roots twice, triple roots three times, and so on, there are in fact exactly complex roots of .
General techniques
Multiplying or dividing all of the coefficients of a polynomial by a nonzero constant does not change its roots. Thus, there will always be a monic polynomial with degree having the same roots as , given by
Once a root of is found, the Factor Theorem gives that is a factor of . Therefore, can be divided out of using synthetic division, and the roots of the resulting quotient will be the remaining roots of . Once another root is found, the process can be repeated. Dividing through by is most practical when the root and all the coefficients of are rational.
Rational roots
The three simplest values to test are and .
is a root of if and only if the constant term is .
is a root of if and only if the sum of the coefficients is .
is a root of if and only if the alternating sum of the coefficients is .
If all of the coefficients of are integers, then the Rational Root Theorem applies; namely, if is a root of , with and relatively prime, then is a (positive or negative) divisor of and is a divisor of .
If all of the are rational, but not necessarily integers, then multiplying through by the least common multiple of the denominators yields a polynomial with the same roots as and integer coefficients. The Rational Root Theorem can then be applied to the new polynomial to search for rational roots of .
In some cases the search may be simplified by substituting , where is a nonconstant linear polynomial with rational coefficients. If is a rational root of , then is a rational root of . Conversely, if is a rational root of , then the inverse of at must be a rational root of .
Real roots
Evaluating at chosen values can point to the location of roots. If and have opposite signs, then the Intermediate Value Theorem states that has at least one root in .
For single roots and other roots of odd multiplicity (triple roots, quintuple roots, etc.), will always change sign on opposite sides of the root, but for roots of even multiplicity (such as double roots), the sign of will be the same on either side of the root, so the Intermediate Value Theorem will not detect even-multiplicity roots.
Descartes Rule of Signs yields information on the number of positive real roots and negative real roots of . Writing the coefficients of in descending order of degree and excluding any that equal , the number of positive real roots of is equal to the number of sign changes between adjacent coefficients, minus some even nonnegative integer. The number of negative real roots of is equal to the number of such sign changes after reversing the sign of every odd-degree coefficient, again minus some even nonnegative integer. Here roots are counted according to multiplicity, so double roots are counted twice, triple roots three times, and so on.
More broadly, counting roots according to their multiplicity as before the number of real roots always has the same parity as the degree . Specifically, if is odd then must have at least one real root.
Rolle's Theorem guarantees that if has two roots and , then its derivative has at least one root in the interval . In particular, if has no roots in an interval , then has at most one root in .
Newton's method generates arbitrarily close approximations of the value of a real root of a polynomial. Use of Newton's method generally requires an educated guess for the location of the root based on the above criteria. We let the guess equal and compute the approximations recursively:
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Complex roots of polynomials with real coefficients always exist in conjugate pairs. That is, if , , and all coefficients of are real and is a root of then is also a root of . In particular, must both have an even number of distinct nonreal roots and an even sum of the multiplicities of all distinct nonreal roots.
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hello everyone welcome to wrasses math I'm your host Shani and today we are talking about set complements so in this video you're going to need to know what a universal set is as well which is just a set that contains all elements under consideration so to start off for our example let's say that our universal set this is all elements that are under consideration is the set containing the integers 1 through 10 so that's one two three four five six seven eight nine and ten and then let's say that a is the set containing one two and three so then what is the set complement of a well a is a subset of Universal set right so when we're talking about a universal set every set is a subset of the universal set because these are the only numbers that we're considering so the complement of a is simply the set that contains all elements that are not in a in this case all elements is the universal set so all it is is the universal set minus a so one is taken away from the universal set two is taken away from the universal set and three is taken away from the universal set leaving us with just four five six seven eight nine and ten is the complement of a and then the complement of the complement of a would just be one two and three because again you would take away all these elements from the universal set and that would leave you with a one two and three the complement of the empty set would just be the universal set so that would be the set containing 1 through 10 and the complement of the universal set which all right our complement of the universal set is the empty set the complement of a set is simply the set that contains so let me just using so we can talk about this the complement of any generic set will say B since I already used a the complement of any set a is simply the set that contains all elements not in B so again it would just be you Universal set - B which is every element in the universe that isn't in B is what the finds are set complement so I hope that's helped you can check out my video on universal set in the description if you need any more clarifications or you have a question or I'd like a specific video done on the channel be sure to let me know in the comments I'll see you next time and be sure to subscribe for the swankiest math videos on the internet [Music] that's life |
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The Mole
Dalton’s theory that each chemical compound has a particular combination of atoms and that the ratios of the numbers of atoms of the elements present are usually small whole numbers. It also describes the law of multiple proportions, which states that the ratios of the masses of elements that form a series of compounds are small whole numbers. The problem for Dalton and other early chemists was to discover the quantitative relationship between the number of atoms in a chemical substance and its mass. Because the masses of individual atoms are so minuscule (on the order of 10−23 g/atom), chemists do not measure the mass of individual atoms or molecules. In the laboratory, for example, the masses of compounds and elements used by chemists typically range from milligrams to grams, while in industry, chemicals are bought and sold in kilograms and tons. To analyze the transformations that occur between individual atoms or molecules in a chemical reaction, it is therefore essential for chemists to know how many atoms or molecules are contained in a measurable quantity in the laboratory—a given mass of sample. The unit that provides this link is the mole (mol), from the Latin moles, meaning “pile” or “heap.”
Many familiar items are sold in numerical quantities with distinct names. For example, cans of soda come in a six-pack, eggs are sold by the dozen (12), and pencils often come in a gross (12 dozen, or 144). Sheets of printer paper are packaged in reams of 500, a seemingly large number. Atoms are so small, however, that even 500 atoms are too small to see or measure by most common techniques. Any readily measurable mass of an element or compound contains an extraordinarily large number of atoms, molecules, or ions, so an extremely large numerical unit is needed to count them. The mole is used for this purpose.
A mole is defined as the amount of a substance that contains the number of carbon atoms in exactly 12 g of isotopically pure carbon-12. According to the most recent experimental measurements, this mass of carbon-12 contains 6.022142 × 10 23 atoms, but for most purposes 6.022 × 10 23 provides an adequate number of significant figures. Just as 1 mole of atoms contains 6.022 × 10 23 atoms, 1 mole of eggs contains 6.022 × 10 23 eggs. This number is called Avogadro’s number, after the 19th-century Italian scientist who first proposed a relationship between the volumes of gases and the numbers of particles they contain.
It is not obvious why eggs come in dozens rather than 10s or 14s, or why a ream of paper contains 500 sheets rather than 400 or 600. The definition of a mole—that is, the decision to base it on 12 g of carbon-12—is also arbitrary. The important point is that 1 mole of carbon—or of anything else, whether atoms, compact discs, or houses—always has the same number of objects: 6.022 × 10 23.
One mole always has the same number of objects: 6.022 × 1023.
To appreciate the magnitude of Avogadro’s number, consider a mole of pennies. Stacked vertically, a mole of pennies would be 4.5 × 10 17 mi high, or almost six times the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy. If a mole of pennies were distributed equally among the entire population on Earth, each person would have more than one trillion dollars. The mole is so large that it is useful only for measuring very small objects, such as atoms.
The concept of the mole allows scientists to count a specific number of individual atoms and molecules by weighing measurable quantities of elements and compounds. To obtain 1 mol of carbon-12 atoms, one weighs out 12 g of isotopically pure carbon-12. Because each element has a different atomic mass, however, a mole of each element has a different mass, even though it contains the same number of atoms (6.022 × 10 23). This is analogous to the fact that a dozen extra large eggs weighs more than a dozen small eggs, or that the total weight of 50 adult humans is greater than the total weight of 50 children. Because of the way the mole is defined, for every element the number of grams in a mole is the same as the number of atomic mass units in the atomic mass of the element. For example, the mass of 1 mol of magnesium (atomic mass = 24.305 amu) is 24.305 g. Because the atomic mass of magnesium (24.305 amu) is slightly more than twice that of a carbon-12 atom (12 amu), the mass of 1 mol of magnesium atoms (24.305 g) is slightly more than twice that of 1 mol of carbon-12 (12 g). Similarly, the mass of 1 mol of helium (atomic mass = 4.002602 amu) is 4.002602 g, which is about one-third that of 1 mol of carbon-12. Using the concept of the mole, Dalton’s theory can be restated: 1 mol of a compound is formed by combining elements in amounts whose mole ratios are small whole numbers. For example, 1 mol of water (H 2 O) has 2 mol of hydrogen atoms and 1 mol of oxygen atoms.
Molar Mass
The molar mass of a substance is defined as the mass in grams of 1 mole of that substance. One mole of isotopically pure carbon-12 has a mass of 12 g. For an element, the molar mass is the mass of 1 mol of atoms of that element; for a covalent molecular compound, it is the mass of 1 mol of molecules of that compound; for an ionic compound, it is the mass of 1 mol of formula units. That is, the molar mass of a substance is the mass (in grams per mole) of 6.022 × 10 23 atoms, molecules, or formula units of that substance. In each case, the number of grams in 1 mol is the same as the number of atomic mass units that describe the atomic mass, the molecular mass, or the formula mass, respectively.
The molar mass of any substance is its atomic mass, molecular mass, or formula mass in grams per mole.
The periodic table lists the atomic mass of carbon as 12.011 amu; the average molar mass of carbon—the mass of 6.022 × 10 23 carbon atoms—is therefore 12.011 g/mol:
| Substance (formula) | Atomic, Molecular, or Formula Mass (amu) | Molar Mass (g/mol) |
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| carbon (C) | 12.011 (atomic mass) | 12.011 |
| ethanol (C 2 H 5 OH) | 46.069 (molecular mass) | 46.069 |
| calcium phosphate [Ca 3(PO 4)2] | 310.177 (formula mass) | 310.177 |
The molar mass of naturally-occurring carbon is different from that of carbon-12, and is not an integer because carbon occurs as a mixture of carbon-12, carbon-13, and carbon-14. One mole of carbon still has 6.022 × 10 23 carbon atoms, but 98.89% of those atoms are carbon-12, 1.11% are carbon-13, and a trace (about 1 atom in 1012) are carbon-14. Similarly, the molar mass of uranium is 238.03 g/mol, and the molar mass of iodine is 126.90 g/mol. When dealing with elements such as iodine and sulfur, which occur as a diatomic molecule (I 2) and a polyatomic molecule (S 8), respectively, molar mass usually refers to the mass of 1 mol of atoms of the element—in this case I and S, not to the mass of 1 mol of molecules of the element (I 2 and S 8).
The molar mass of ethanol is the mass of ethanol (C 2 H 5 OH) that contains 6.022 × 10 23 ethanol molecules. The molecular mass of ethanol is 46.069 amu, that is, the mass of 1 molecule of ethanol. But, we are interested in the molar mass of ethanol, the number of grams per mole of ethanol. Because 1 mol of ethanol contains 2 mol of carbon atoms (2 × 12.011 g), 6 mol of hydrogen atoms (6 × 1.0079 g), and 1 mol of oxygen atoms (1 × 15.9994 g), its molar mass is 46.069 g/mol.
Similarly, the formula mass of calcium phosphate [Ca 3(PO 4)2] is 310.177 amu, so its molar mass is 310.177 g/mol. This is the mass of calcium phosphate that contains 6.022 × 10 23 formula units.
Exercise 2.8.1
Which has a greater number of particles?Which of the following has a greater mass?
A) 2.5 moles of He
B) 2.5 moles of Ar
Answer
Both have the same number of particles because there are 2.5 moles of each. That is similar to saying 2.5 dozen of donuts is the same number of items as the 2.5 dozen of cars. However, 2.5 moles of cars is going to have a larger mass than 2.5 dozen of trucks. By the same token, 2.5 moles of Ar is going to have more mass than 2.5 moles of He, even if they have the same number of particles.
Practice
Calculate the molar mass of the following.
Aluminum Sulfate
Benzene (C 6 H 6)
Acetylene (C 2 H 2)
Water
Hydrogen Peroxide
Sodium Bicarbonate
Ammonium Nitrate
Potassium Perchlorate
Silver Chloride
Acetic Acid
Answers
Aluminum Sulfate (Al 2(SO 4)3) = 342.17g/mol
Benzene (C 6 H 6) = 78.12g/mol
Acetylene (C 2 H 2) = 26.04g/mol
Water (H 2 O) = 18.02g/mol
Hydrogen Peroxide (H 2 O 2) = 34.02g/mol
Sodium Bicarbonate (NaHCO 3) = 84.02g/mol
Ammonium Nitrate (NH 4 NO 3) = 80.08g/mol
Potassium Perchlorate (ClKO 4) = 138.54g/mol
Silver Chloride (AgCl) = 143.32g/mol
Acetic Acid (CH 3 COOH) = 60.06g/mol
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Bob Belford (UALR) and November Palmer (UALR)
Ronia Kattoum (UA of Little Rock)
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An Isentropic Process for an Ideal Gas Given: • constant specific heats over a wide range of temperature • ds = 0 • du = cvdT ≡cv = ∂u ∂T V • dh = cpdT ≡cp = ∂h ∂T P 1 Gibb’s equation can be written as T ds = du + P dv = cvdT + P dv = 0 (1) where ds = 0 because we have assumed an isentropic process.
The definition of enthalpy is h = u + P v Taking the derivative yields dh = du + P dv ≡T ds +vdP dh = T ds + vdP ⇒ T ds = 0 = dh −vdP cpdT −vdP = 0 (2) Equating Eqs. (1) and (2) through the dT term gives dP P = −cp cv dv v (3) Integrating (3) from its initial state to a final state P1vk 1 = P2vk 2 = constant = P vk where k = cp cv The product of P · vk remains constant for an ideal gas when: • specific heats are constant 2 • the gas undergoes an isentropic process →reversible + adiabatic Combining this result with the ideal gas equation of state T2 T1 = v1 v2 k−1 = P2 P1 (k−1)/k The isentropic process is a special case of a more general process known as a polytropic process where →P vn = constant and n is any number.
Special Cases n = 1 P v = RT = constant ⇒isothermal process n = 0 P v0 = constant = P ⇒isobaric process (constant pressure) n = k P vk = constant ⇒isentropic process (k = cp/cv) n = ∞ P v∞= constant ⇒isochoric process (constant volume) Relative Pressure and Relative Specific Volume • typically we assume specific heat to be constant with respect to temperature • but when temperature swings are significant, this assumption can lead to inaccuracies, i.e.
T (K) cp (kJ/kg · K) % difference 300 1.0057 1000 1.1417 13.5 2500 1.688 67.8 • the relative pressure and relative volume tables (C&B Table A-17), provide an accurate way of including the temperature effects on specific heat for ideal gases during isentropic processes • note: the specific heat ratio term given by k = cp/cv will also be influenced by temperature 3 • Procedure: – given T1, P1 and P2 for an isentropic process – determine Pr1 at T1 from Table A-17 – calculate Pr2, where P2 P1 s=const = Pr2 Pr1 – read T2 from Table A-17 for the calculated value of Pr2 • use a similar procedure if volume is known instead of pressure, where v2 v1 s=const = vr2 vr1 In Summary For an ideal gas with constant cp and cv P v = RT u2 −u1 = cv(T2 −T1) h2 −h1 = cp(T2 −T1) There are 3 forms of a change in entropy as a function of T & v, T & P , and P & v.
s2 −s1 = cv ln T2 T1 + R ln v2 v1 = cp ln T2 T1 −R ln P2 P1 = cp ln v2 v1 + cv ln P2 P1 R = cp −cv 4 A General Formulation Steady State, Steady Flow in a Flow Channel of Arbitrary Cross-section with Work and Heat Transfer d ˙ E = ˙ Efinal −˙ Einitial = ˙ Ex+dx −˙ Ex where ˙ E = ˙ m(e + P v) = ˙ m(u + (v∗)2 2 + gz + P v) From the 1st law rate of energy storage = rate of work + rate of heat transfer + net rate of energy leaving the system dECV dt = d ˙ W −d ˙ Q −d ˙ E (1) 5 where dECV dt = 0 for steady state.
Equation (1) becomes 0 = d ˙ W −d ˙ Q −˙ m d u + P v + (v∗)2 2 + gz (2) From the 2nd law rate of entropy storage = rate of entropy inflow − rate of entropy outflow + rate of entropy production dSCV dt = [ ˙ ms]x −[ ˙ ms]x+dx − d ˙ Q TT ER + ˙ PS where dSCV dt = 0 for steady state.
0 = −˙ mds − d ˙ Q TT ER + ˙ PS or d ˙ Q = TT ER ˙ PS −TT ER ˙ mds (3) Combining (2) and (3) through d ˙ Q TT ER ˙ PS −TT ER ˙ mds = d ˙ W −˙ m d u + P v + (v∗)2 2 + gz (4) Equation (4) can be used for any SS-SF process.
6 Special Cases Reversible, SS-SF Process Reversible implies ⇒˙ PS = 0 • frictionless process • heat transfer is allowed but must be across ∆T →0 • which means TT ER ≈TCV = T Equation 4 becomes d ˙ W ˙ m = −T ds + du + d(P v) =du + P dv =T ds +vdP +d (v∗)2 2 + d(gz) (5) Therefore d ˙ W ˙ m = vdP + d (v∗)2 2 + d(gz) (6) Integrating Eq. (6) between the inlet and the outlet ˙ W ˙ m = out in vdP + (v∗)2 2 out in ∆KE + gz out in ∆P E (7) but ∆KE and ∆P E are usually negligible.
If ∆KE + ∆P E = 0 ˙ W ˙ m = out in vdP (8) Equation can be used for a reversible, SS-SF flow in a liquid or a gas.
7 If we keep in mind ρliq >> ρgas ⇒ vliq << vgas i.e. water @ 25 ◦C ρ = 997 kg/m3 and air @ 25 ◦C ρ = 1.18 kg/m3 Therefore ˙ W ˙ m liq << ˙ W ˙ m gas For example: the work required to operate a pump is much less that that required to operate a compressor.
Incompressible Substance This is a special case of Eq. (8) where v = constant = vin −vout.
From Equation (8) ˙ W ˙ m = vin(Pout −Pin) (9) The work term represents the minimum work required to pump a liquid from Pin to Pout with negligible ∆KE and ∆P E.
Incompressible Substance and d ˙ W = 0 From Eq. (6) vdP + d (v∗)2 2 + d(gz) = 0 (10) Therefore d P ρ + d (v∗)2 2 + d(gz) = 0 8 d P ρ + (v∗)2 2 + gz = 0 (11) Integrating gives P ρ + (v∗)2 2 + gz = constant (12) Equation (12) is Bernoulli’s equation for frictionless flow with constant density. The constant is Bernoulli’s constant, which remains constant along a streamline for steady, frictionless, incom-pressible flow.
Isothermal Ideal Gas, Compression/Expansion This is a special case of Eq. (8) for an ideal gas where P v = RT P v = constant = (P v)in = (P v)out ˙ W ˙ m = out in vdP = out in (P v)in dP P Therefore ˙ W ˙ m = Pinvin ln Pout Pin (13) Isentropic Ideal Gas, Compression/Expansion Isentropic implies a reversible and adiabatic process where s = constant. With an ideal gas, P vk = constant and (P vk)in = (P vk)out.
Equation (8) becomes ˙ W ˙ m = out in vdP = out in (P vk)in P 1/k dP 9 ˙ W ˙ m = k k −1 (P v)in Pout Pin (k−1)/k −1 = cp(Tout −Tin) (14) The right side of Eq. (14) is based on the fact that ∆KE + ∆P E = 0 and dh = du + dP v and du = 0. Which leads to h = vdP .
Note: for the same inlet state and pressure ratio ⇒ ˙ W ˙ m rev.,isothermal < ˙ W ˙ m rev.,adiabatic 10 |
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EULAR recommendations for the management of ANCA-associated vasculitis: 2022 update
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Hellmich1,
Beatriz Sanchez-Alamo2,
Jan H Schirmer3,
Berti4,5,
Daniel Blockmans6,
C Cid7,
Julia U Holle8,
Nicole Hollinger1,
Omer Karadag9,
Andreas Kronbichler10,11,
Mark A Little12,
Raashid A Luqmani13,
Alfred Mahr14,
A Merkel15,
J Mohammad11,16,
Monti17,18,
B Mukhtyar19,
Jacek Musial20,
Fiona Price-Kuehne11,
Mårten Segelmark21,
K Onno Teng22,
Terrier23,
Tomasson24,25,
Vaglio26,
Vassilopoulos27,
Peter Verhoeven28,
Jayne11
1 Klinik für Innere Medizin, Rheumatologie und Immunologie, Medius Kliniken, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der Universität Tübingen, Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany
2 Nephrology Department, Hospital Universitario del Sureste, Arganda del Rey, Spain
3 Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology and Cluster of Excellence Precision Medicine in Chronic Inflammation, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
4 CIBIO, Universita degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy
5 Rheumatology, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy
6 Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
7 Department of Autoimmune Diseases, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
8 Rheumazentrum Schleswig-Holstein Mitte, Neumuenster, Germany
9 Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Vasculitis Research Center, Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Anakra, Turkey
10 Department of Internal Medicine IV, Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
11 Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
12 Trinity Health Kidney Centre, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
13 Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Science (NDORMs), University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
14 Klinik für Rheumatologie, Kantonspital St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
15 Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
16 Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University & Department of Rheumatology, Skåne Hospital, Lund, Sweden
17 Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
18 Division of Rheumatology, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
19 Vasculitis Service, Rheumatology Department, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust, Norwich, UK
20 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
21 Division of Nephrology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Skane University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
22 Centre of Expertise for Lupus-, Vasculitis-, and Complement-Mediated Systemic Autoimmune Diseases (LuVaCs), Department of Internal Medicine, Section Nephrology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
23 National Referral Center for Rare Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Université Paris Descartes, Hôpital Cochin, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP), Paris, France
24 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
25 Department of Rheumatology and Centre for Rheumatology Research, University Hospital Reykjavik, Reykjavik, Iceland
26 Nephrology Unit, Meyer Children’s Hospital, and Department of Biomedical, Experimental and Clinical Science, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
27 2nd Department of Medicine and Laboratory, Clinical Immunology-Rheumatology Unit, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, Athens, Greece
28 Dutch Patient Vasculitis Organization, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Correspondence to Prof Dr Bernhard Hellmich, Klinik für Innere Medizin, Rheumatologie und Immunologie, Medius Kliniken, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der Universität Tübingen, Kirchheim unter Teck 73230, Germany; b.hellmich@medius-kliniken.de
Abstract
Background Since the publication of the EULAR recommendations for the management of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) in 2016, several randomised clinical trials have been published that have the potential to change clinical care and support the need for an update.
Methods Using EULAR standardised operating procedures, the EULAR task force undertook a systematic literature review and sought opinion from 20 experts from 16 countries. We modified existing recommendations and created new recommendations.
Results Four overarching principles and 17 recommendations were formulated. We recommend biopsies and ANCA testing to assist in establishing a diagnosis of AAV. For remission induction in life-threatening or organ-threatening AAV, we recommend a combination of high-dose glucocorticoids (GCs) in combination with either rituximab or cyclophosphamide. We recommend tapering of the GC dose to a target of 5 mg prednisolone equivalent/day within 4–5 months. Avacopan may be considered as part of a strategy to reduce exposure to GC in granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) or microscopic polyangiitis (MPA). Plasma exchange may be considered in patients with rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis. For remission maintenance of GPA/MPA, we recommend rituximab. In patients with relapsing or refractory eosinophilic GPA, we recommend the use of mepolizumab. Azathioprine and methotrexate are alternatives to biologics for remission maintenance in AAV.
Conclusions In the light of recent advancements, these recommendations provide updated guidance on AAV management. As substantial data gaps still exist, informed decision-making between physicians and patients remains of key relevance.
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Background
The antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitides (AAV) include granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) and eosinophilic GPA (EGPA).1–3 AAV represent a subgroup within the spectrum of primary systemic vasculitis defined by the Chapel Hill consensus conference nomenclature.4
In 2009, the EULAR developed its first recommendations for managing small and medium vessel vasculitis.5 An update focusing on AAV was published in 2016.6 These recommendations provided guidance to clinicians and researchers and have been widely cited. Recent landmark studies on the role of plasma exchange (PLEX), standardisation of glucocorticoid (GC) dosing, use of rituximab (RTX) for maintenance therapy, C5a receptor (C5aR)-targeted and anti-interleukin 5 (IL-5) therapy in EGPA make this an opportune time to update the 2016 guidelines.
These recommendations address the diagnosis and treatment of adult patients with AAV and are intended to give advice to clinicians, other health professionals, pharmaceutical companies and regulatory organisations.
Methods
The recommendations were drafted according to the 2014 update of the EULAR standardised operating procedures for the development of EULAR-endorsed recommendations7 and the updated version of the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research & Evaluation recommendations,8 where applicable (see online supplemental file 1 for a full description of methods). The task force consisted of 20 clinical experts including rheumatologists (MCC, BH, JH, OK, RAL, AJM, CBM, JM, PM, GT, DV), internists (AM, DB, BT) and nephrologists (AK, MAL, MS, YKOT, AV, DJ), from 15 European countries and the USA (PM), 2 methodologists (RAL; GT), convenor (BH) and co-convenor (DJ), 2 delegates of the EULAR young rheumatologists’ network EMEUNET (AB, SM), 2 fellows (BS-A, JHS), 1 health professional (NH) and 2 patient representatives (PV, FP-K).
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Based on results of a Delphi survey among the task force, we defined 14 key research questions addressing the management of AAV. For the update domains, the systematic literature review (SLR) was restricted to literature published from first of February 2015 (the date of the last set of recommendations) onwards. For new domains and drugs not included in the last update, the search was unrestricted. The following databases were used: PubMed, EMBASE and Cochrane Library. Each article was assigned a level of evidence according to the standards of the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (2009) and was systematically assessed for bias.7 The methods and results of the SLR are published separately.9 10
During a face-to-face meeting, task force members independently voted on each recommendation. Agreement on each recommendation and on the overarching principles on a scale of 0–10 (10 meaning full agreement) was given anonymously after the meeting by electronic mail. A research agenda was formulated based on controversial issues and evidence gaps. The final manuscript was approved by the EULAR Executive Committee.
Results
General aspects
Definitions of disease activity states in AAV differed across clinical trials. For the purpose of these recommendations, we propose consensus definitions for disease activity states in AAV (table 1), which are based on the concept of activity states developed for the EULAR recommendations for conducting clinical trials in AAV11 that have been validated for use in clinical trials.12 American College of Rheumatology (ACR)/EULAR criteria for treatment response in AAV are now in development, which are expected to replace these definitions in the future.
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EULAR consensus definitions for disease activity states in AAV
Patients with AAV have previously been subdivided into those with ‘severe’ and ‘non-severe’ disease, or ‘generalised’ versus ‘non-generalised’, and some guidelines have adopted this categorisation.13–16 However, the terms ‘severe/non-severe’, ‘limited’ or ‘early-systemic’ are variably defined and misleading in clinical practice. Patients who appear to have less severe disease and may receive less intense treatment yet are at risk of developing organ-threatening or life-threatening manifestations.17 18 In most recent randomised controlled clinical trials (RCTs), this concept has been discarded and patients with different stages of disease severity were assigned the same intensity of induction treatment.19–21 As patients with ‘non-severe’ AAV are at risk of being undertreated, this task force decided not to change the categorisation of the 2016 recommendations that distinguishes patients with and without organ-threatening or life-threatening disease (table 2), instead of adapting the terminology of ‘severe’ and ‘non-severe’ AAV.
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Examples of organ/life-threatening and not organ/life-threatening manifestations in patients with AAV
Overarching principles
In line with other recent EULAR recommendations,22–24 general principles deemed fundamental for the management are now added to the AAV recommendations (table 3). These principles were consensus based and did not result directly from the SLR. Statements 1, 13, 14 and 15 of the 2016 update addressed topics based on low-quality evidence specific to AAV. Therefore, these statements have been moved into overarching principles B, C and D, while the content remains mostly unchanged.
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EULAR recommendations for the management of AAV—2022 update
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Glucocorticoid dosing (mg/day, prednisolone equivalent) with rituximab or cyclophosphamide-based regimens for remission induction in GPA or MPA according to the PEXIVAS Study93
A. Patients with AAV should be offered best care which must be based on shared decision-making between the patient and the physician considering efficacy, safety and costs.
This highlights the importance of shared decision-making between patients and physicians. Adherence to effective therapies is crucial to prevent permanent organ damage related to uncontrolled inflammation in AAV. Therefore, the committee considers efficacy, safety and tolerability as important factors in the decision-making process. This includes other factors such as kidney or liver function, fertility and pregnancy, lifestyle/smoking habits or concomitant interacting medications. Costs of treatment also need to be considered as access to expensive medication may be restricted in some countries.
B. Patients should have access to education focusing on the impact of AAV and its prognosis, key warning symptoms and treatment (including treatment-related complications).
Patients with AAV should be given a clear explanation of the nature of their disease, the treatment options, side effects of treatment, and their short-term and long-term prognosis. This statement is unchanged from the 2016 update (formerly statement no. 14) and has been moved to an overarching principle. Structured education programmes in patients with AAV increase knowledge in areas such as treatment and side effects.25 26 Patients should be informed on how to reach a vasculitis patient organisation.
C. Patients with AAV should be periodically screened for treatment-related adverse effects and comorbidities. We recommend prophylaxis and lifestyle advice to reduce treatment-related complications and other comorbidities.
Statements 11, 13 and 15 of the 2016 update have been transferred to principle C. As the use of cyclophosphamide (CYC) is associated with an increased risk of bladder cancer,27 all patients treated with CYC should have periodical urinalysis for the duration of their follow-up. In the presence of haematuria confirmed on urine microscopy that is not due to glomerulonephritis, a urology opinion must be sought. In common with other chronic inflammatory diseases, increased cardiovascular risk for patients with AAV is not explained by traditional risk factors alone and the risk of cardiovascular events is related to the burden of AAV disease activity.28 29 Additionally, as a result of damage due to AAV and its treatment, the frequency of cardiovascular risk factors such as diabetes and hypertension is increased.30 Therefore, both adequate control of vascular inflammation, and screening for and treatment of traditional cardiovascular risk factors, are important.31 Screening for and management of other treatment-related and disease-related comorbidities, such as osteoporosis or chronic kidney disease, should also be conducted. While the available evidence is insufficient to recommend an AAV-specific evaluation of comorbidities, several EULAR and other recommendations31–35 provide general guidance.
D. AAV are rare, heterogeneous, and potentially life-threatening and organ-threatening diseases and thus require multidisciplinary management by centres with, or with ready access to, specific vasculitis expertise.
This is based on statement 1 of the 2016 recommendations. Since AAV are rare, expertise in their management is more likely to be available in specialised centres. Accurate diagnosis, assessment of disease severity and differentiation between active vasculitis, infection and other complications or comorbidities can be challenging and often require rapid and low-threshold access to multidisciplinary diagnostic evaluation and treatment. In view of the limited number of formally approved therapies, access to treatment with novel drugs within clinical trials can be important, particularly in patients with relapsing or refractory AAV. Appropriately trained nurses and other healthcare providers experienced in AAV can support patients and provide education. These and other services can be bundled in dedicated vasculitis centres, such as the vasculitis centres within the European Reference Network for rare immune disorders (www.ern-rita-org). Better outcomes of patients with centre-based management compared with earlier cohorts have been reported from single-centre cohorts,36–38 but high-quality evidence on this topic is still lacking.
Recommendations
1. A positive biopsy is strongly supportive of a diagnosis of vasculitis and we recommend biopsies to assist in establishing a new diagnosis and for further evaluation for patients suspected of having relapsing vasculitis.
This recommendation (former statement no. 2), and additional guidance related to the role of biopsies outlined in the 2016 update,6 have not been revised, as the key evidence supporting this recommendation is unchanged. In addition to supporting a clinical diagnosis, biopsies (particularly from the kidney) can be helpful for distinguishing active disease from damage as the cause of clinical decline. A clinicopathological renal risk score gives prognostic information for end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) but histopathological subtypes are insufficient to guide treatment decisions.39–44 Repeat kidney biopsy may differentiate recurrent or refractory disease activity from damage or alternative diagnoses.45
This task force acknowledges that it may not be feasible to obtain a biopsy in every patient with suspected AAV, and initiation of treatment should not be delayed while awaiting histological information.46 Barriers to biopsies may include difficulty accessing tissue (eg, retro-orbital mass in GPA), unjustified risk of procedure (eg, patients who are on anticoagulant therapy) and anticipated low yield (eg, the diagnostic sensitivities of upper airway and transbronchial biopsies are only 30% and 12%, respectively).47 48 In patients with pulmonary lesions that cannot be clearly attributed to active AAV, thoracoscopic or open lung biopsies can be considered.49–51 When obtaining or interpreting a biopsy is challenging, surrogate markers can support a clinical diagnosis of AAV that is based on a typical clinical presentation and positive proteinase 3 (PR3)-ANCA or myeloperoxidase (MPO)-ANCA serology.52 Such surrogate parameters can be either clinical (such as mononeuritis multiplex confirmed by electrophysiological studies), laboratory data (such as red blood cell casts in the urine suggestive of glomerulonephritis) or findings on imaging.52
No studies have investigated the diagnostic accuracy of imaging compared with a definite clinical diagnosis or a positive biopsy in AAV.10 Therefore, no evidence-based recommendations on the use of imaging for the diagnosis of AAV can be made. However, imaging is recommended as an integral part of the diagnostic evaluation to detect organ involvement and to identify potential biopsy sites. CT of the chest is more sensitive than conventional radiographs and helps to distinguish disease manifestations of AAV from infection and other comorbidities,53–56 and to detect interstitial lung disease in patients with MPA.54 55 MRI can detect central nervous system lesions, pachymeningitis, retro-orbital lesions, or subglottic inflammation in GPA or cardiac disease in EGPA.57–60 F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography with CT allows detection of occult sites of disease activity, concomitant malignancy and chronic infection.61–63 Endoscopy contributes to the management of certain organ-specific manifestations, such as subglottic or bronchial stenosis, or vasculitis of the gastrointestinal tract.64–66 Bronchoalveolar lavage contributes to the evaluation of pulmonary infiltrations, particularly alveolar haemorrhage or eosinophilic alveolitis, and microbiological analysis of the lower respiratory tract.
2. In patients with signs and/or symptoms raising suspicion of a diagnosis of AAV, we recommend testing for both PR3-ANCA and MPO-ANCA using a high-quality antigen-specific assay as the primary method of testing.
This recommendation was added due to the increasing relevance of ANCA for the diagnosis and classification of AAV and new data on the methodology of ANCA testing. ANCA is detectable in most patients with newly diagnosed GPA and MPA and contributes to the diagnosis. Although ANCA is a sensitive and specific tool to support a diagnosis of AAV, the diagnosis should not be made on ANCA serology alone, as ANCA can be found in other inflammatory diseases and infections, or may be drug induced.67 68 Antigen-specific immunoassays have better diagnostic accuracy than indirect immunofluorescence (IIF).69 The 2017 international consensus statement on testing of ANCA in GPA and MPA recommended high-quality immunoassays for PR3 and MPO-ANCA as the preferred screening method for diagnosis.67 If the immunoassay is negative, but the clinical suspicion for AAV is still high, a second test (either another immunoassays and/or IIF) is advised. A negative ANCA does not exclude a diagnosis of AAV, as a small proportion of patients with disease limited to the respiratory tract, or with renal-limited vasculitis, are ANCA negative.70 The 2017 international consensus statement contains detailed advice regarding other aspects of ANCA testing in GPA and MPA, such as indications for testing, the role of antibody levels and laboratory methodology. Additional testing for antibodies against glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) is advisable in the context of pulmonary-renal syndrome, as patients with anti-GBM/AAV overlap have a lower renal survival71 72 and may benefit from routine use of PLEX.
With a prevalence of 30% at diagnosis, ANCA is less frequent in patients with EGPA, in whom MPO-ANCA is the predominant serotype.73 74 EGPA with PR3-ANCA shares clinical features with GPA.75 A genome-wide association study reported that ANCA-positive and ANCA-negative EGPA are genetically different syndromes.73 Glomerulonephritis and neuropathy occur more frequently in ANCA-positive EGPA, while pulmonary infiltrates and cardiomyopathy are more frequent in ANCA-negative patients.73 The international consensus statement on testing of ANCA in EGPA stated that the presence of MPO-ANCA is neither sensitive nor specific enough to identify whether a patient should be subclassified as having ‘vasculitic’ or ‘eosinophilic’ EGPA.76 Furthermore, no differences in response to treatment between ANCA-positive and ANCA-negative patients were seen in two recent RCTs examining the use of RTX or mepolizumab in EGPA.77 78
ANCA serology is also relevant for the subclassification of AAV. In a large multicentre cohort study, PR3-ANCA was detected in 84%–85% of patients with GPA and 2%–27% of patients with MPA, while MPO-ANCA was found in 16% of patients with GPA and 75%–97% with MPA.79 Patients with PR3-ANCA and MPO-ANCA have distinct genetic backgrounds and differ in the frequency of some clinical manifestations, relapse rates and other clinical outcomes.79 80 The 2012 Chapel Hill consensus conference recommended adding the prefix to the name to indicate ANCA reactivity (ie, MPO-ANCA, PR3-ANCA or ANCA-negative), while the presence of PR3 or MPO-ANCA is weighted highly in the 2022 ACR/EULAR classification criteria for GPA, MPA and EGPA.1–3 Therefore, ANCA serotype is emerging as a key clinical classification criterion.
3. For induction of remission in patients with new-onset or relapsing GPA or MPA with organ-threatening or life-threatening disease, we recommend treatment with a combination of GCs and either RTX or CYC. RTX is preferred in relapsing disease.
The two major changes of this recommendation wording are the recommendation for a preferential use of RTX in relapsing GPA or MPA and the exclusion of EGPA, for which separate recommendations have been created.
Recent trials of induction therapy with CYC-based or RTX-based regimens in GPA and MPA included both new-onset and relapsing patients.19 81 In the largest trial comparing RTX and CYC for remission induction, remission rates at 6 and 12 months in relapsing patients were higher for RTX. This superiority of RTX over CYC did not extend to month 18,81 82 probably because there was no maintenance treatment in the RTX arm, whereas patients in the CYC arm were switched to receive azathioprine (AZA) for 12–15 months. Therefore, we favour treatment with RTX in relapsing patients (figure 1). The recently published data from the induction part of the RITAZAREM Study have shown that RTX can effectively restore remission in patients with relapsing AAV.20 There are limited data on use of CYC in patients relapsing after induction with RTX and the risk of malignancy increases when repeated courses of CYC are given.27
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The 2022 EULAR algorithm for treatment of granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) or microscopic polyangiitis (MPA). Dashed lines indicate supplementary action to consider. GC doses are provided as prednisolone equivalent. 1 See table 2 for examples of organ/life-threatening and not organ/life-threatening manifestations. 2 See table 4 and recommendation no. 5 for details and consider lower starting dose of 0.5 mg/kg/day in individual patients without organ-threatening or life-threatening manifestations. 3 As part of a strategy to substantially reduce exposure to GCs (see recommendation no. 6 for details). 4 Prefer RTX over CYC in relapsing disease and patients (m/f) with childbearing potential or previous exposure to CYC at an individual cumulative dosage considered to be associated with an increased risk of complications. 5 In selected patients with serum creatinine >300 µmol/L due to active glomerulonephritis, plasma exchange may be considered taken into account individual risk for end-stage kidney disease and patient preferences. 6 Stop avacopan after duration of treatment of 6–12 months; there are no data on use of avacopan beyond 1 year, so longer-term use cannot be recommended. AZA, azathioprine; CYC, cyclophosphamide; GC, glucocorticoid; MMF, mycophenolate mofetil; MTX, methotrexate; RPGN, rapid progressive glomerulonephritis; RTX, rituximab.
In new-onset GPA or MPA, RTX was non-inferior to CYC for induction of remission in two high-quality RCTs.81 83 Additional RCTs comparing both of these agents for induction of remission in new-onset GPA or MPA have not been published since the last update, nor have new data been released showing differences in long-term outcomes between them. There has been an increasing preference for RTX over CYC, mostly because of concerns about long-term safety of CYC.84 As CYC reduces ovarian reserve and increases the risk of premature ovarian failure and male infertility,85 86 RTX is preferable in patients who wish to preserve their reproductive potential. CYC has been associated with development of bladder cancer, bone marrow failure, myelodysplastic syndrome and other malignancies.27 87–90 The use of RTX is lowering CYC exposure and reducing the risk of malignancy in patients with AAV.91
A recent meta-analysis that included retrospective studies found that efficacy and safety outcomes do not differ between the RTX protocol used in the RAVE trial (375 mg/m 2 per week for 4 weeks), which is approved for induction of remission in GPA and MPA in the European Union and the two-dose protocol (1 g in weeks 0 and 2) approved for rheumatoid arthritis.92 Recent retrospective studies found similar efficacy of RTX and RTX biosimilars in patients with AAV.93–95 Until recently, experience with RTX without concomitant CYC in patients with severe kidney failure has been limited to data from retrospective studies.96 The recent PEXIVAS Study included patients with severe renal disease and/or diffuse alveolar haemorrhage (DAH) treated with RTX and outcomes appear not to differ compared with CYC, but the study was not sufficiently powered to demonstrate non-inferiority of RTX over CYC in this subgroup.97 Although pharmacokinetics and mode of action of RTX do not suggest inferior efficacy in patients with renal failure or DAH, some task force members prefer CYC over RTX in this setting. No RCTs have assessed the benefit of RTX/CYC combination over RTX. However, the RTX/CYC combination has been shown to be CYC reducing in RITUXVAS,83 and retrospective studies98–101 have indicated the possibility of GC minimisation and improved responses that require investigation in an RCT (NCT03942887).
The MYCYC trial showed that mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) was non-inferior to CYC for remission induction in new-onset MPA or GPA.21 There was no safety benefit of MMF demonstrated and the study subjects in the MMF group who were PR3-ANCA positive had a much higher relapse rate.21 Thus, use of MMF for remission induction should be limited to situations where RTX and CYC are not tolerated or are contraindicated.
4. For induction of remission of non-organ-threatening or non-life-threatening GPA or MPA, treatment with a combination of GCs and RTX is recommended. Methotrexate (MTX) or MMF can be considered as alternatives to RTX.
In contrast to the 2016 update, this recommendation now includes RTX. Although, there are no RCTs comparing the use of RTX with other agents in patients with non-organ-threatening AAV, the RAVE trial and recent trials using RTX for induction therapy included such patients. Efficacy and safety outcomes were not inferior compared with those who had more severe disease at baseline.19–21 81
With respect to MTX and MMF, this statement refers to new-onset disease only. The MYCYC Study also included patients without organ-threatening manifestations.21 Another RCT comparing CYC and MMF in AAV found numerically lower disease-free survival rates in the MMF group at 2 and 4 years, respectively.102 Two smaller RCTs, primarily focusing on MPA, concluded equivalence of CYC and MMF for remission induction and safety.103 104 Given the probable lower long-term efficacy in patients with PR3-ANCA-positive AAV, the lack of superiority in safety and the lack of formal approval for use in AAV, there is insufficient evidence to support the routine use of MMF as a treatment of first choice for new-onset GPA or MPA over RTX or CYC. MMF can be considered as an alternative to RTX-based regimens, particularly in patients with intolerance or contraindications to RTX.
The NORAM trial comparing oral CYC versus oral MTX in new-onset GPA found no difference in remission rates and safety at 6 months.105 106 However, around 50% of patients in the MTX arm had either not attained remission or experienced a relapse by month 12 despite continued MTX and high GC exposure (starting dose 1 mg/kg, slow taper to 15 mg per day by month 3), had a shorter time to first relapse and developed additional relapse in the absence of maintenance therapy after month 12. Both NORAM and MYCYC employed GC regimens with higher doses than are currently recommended (see recommendation no. 5), which increased the chance of demonstrating non-inferiority. In contrast, recent data from the induction phase of the RITAZAREM trial showed that 66 of 69 patients with GPA or MPA without organ-threatening manifestation who were treated with RTX were in remission at month 4 despite the use of a lower-dose GC regimen with a starting dose of 30 mg prednisolone per day.20 In summary, the use of RTX over MTX or MMF should be considered in patients with GPA and MPA even without organ-threatening manifestations as RTX-based induction and remission regimens are associated with higher rates of sustained remission and lower GC exposure (see statement no. 5).
CYC is associated with long-term complications and should not be used as a first-line option in non-organ-threatening disease. It may be considered for remission induction in non-organ-threatening disease when the alternatives RTX, MTX and MMF cannot be used or are ineffective.
5. As part of regimens for induction of remission in GPA or MPA, we recommend treatment with oral GCs at a starting dose of 50–75 mg prednisolone equivalent/day, depending on body weight. We recommend stepwise reduction in GCs according totable 4and achieving a dose of 5 mg prednisolone equivalent per day by 4–5 months.
Long-term follow-up of 535 patients with MPA or GPA and a broad spectrum of severity stages revealed an increased mortality ratio of 2.6 (95% CI 2.2 to 3.1) compared with an age-matched and sex-matched general population. The main causes of death within the first year were infection (48%) and active vasculitis (19%).107 High-dose GC contributes to the risk of infections,108–110 and patients are concerned about adverse effects of GC,111 thus reducing GC exposure in AAV without compromising control of vasculitis is a priority.
The PEXIVAS trial compared two GC taper regimens in 704 patients with GPA and MPA and active organ-threatening or life-threatening disease.97 The reduced-dose prednisone regimen (table 4) resulted in a 40% reduction in oral GC exposure in the first 6 months (figure 2); it was not inferior for the primary efficacy endpoint but led to a reduction of serious infections during the first year. We recommend tapering GC according to the PEXIVAS reduced GC regimen.112
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Protocol target glucocorticoid (GC) doses in AAV induction trials81 106 113 221–226 (black line), illustrating how these compare with the reduced GC group from the PEXIVAS trial (red line). The line and error bars represent the mean and 95% CIs across a range of weights, genders and ages. AAV, antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis.
The RITAZAREM trial of 190 patients with GPA/MPA at relapse permitted physician selection of either 0.5 mg/kg/day or 1.0 mg/kg/day starting dose of GC in conjunction with RTX.20 Although the GC dosing regimens were non-randomised, when patients were stratified for ‘major’ or ‘minor’ relapse, no differences in efficacy were seen for either severity subgroup between the two doses.20 A recent randomised, open-label multicentre trial in patients with predominantly MPA excluding severe kidney disease and/or alveolar haemorrhage compared a reduced GC starting dose (0.5 mg/kg) with a standard starting dose (1 mg/kg) for induction of remission in combination with RTX. At 6 months, remission rates were similar in both groups, but serious adverse events and infections occurred less frequently with the reduced dose. It is premature to give a general recommendation to use lower GC starting doses of 0.5 mg/kg for remission induction in all patients with active AAV. However, these data encourage further research of lower GC starting doses in cohorts with a broader spectrum of risk factors for unfavourable disease outcomes. For now, lower GC starting doses of 0.5 mg/kg/day may be considered on an individual basis in selected patients without life-threatening or organ-threatening disease.
Administration of intravenous methylprednisolone (MP) pulses in doses of 1000–3000 mg has been used in induction protocols including the RAVE, MEPEX and PEXIVAS trials81 97 113 and is common practice in many institutions, without an evidence base. No head-to-head trials have studied the role of MP pulses in AAV, the best available evidence being derived from indirect comparison across different trials. Observational studies have reported no efficacy benefit but increased rates of infections with the use of higher initial doses of GC, including MP pulses.108 109 114 115 Taken together, there is no compelling evidence to support the routine use of MP pulse therapy in addition to oral GC induction therapy, and there is a need for further research on this topic. In view of this limitation, and based on the evidence from PEXIVAS trial, MP pulse therapy should be limited to treatment of severe organ-threatening manifestations, particularly either active renal involvement with a documented estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) of <50 mL/min/1.73/m 2, or DAH.
6. Avacopan, in combination with RTX or CYC, may be considered for induction of remission in GPA or MPA as part of a strategy to substantially reduce exposure to GCs.
This is a new recommendation based on results of the ADVOCATE RCT in 331 patients with newly diagnosed or relapsing MPA or GPA that compared the use of the oral C5aR inhibitor avacopan (30 mg two times per day) with a GC regimen tapering from 1 mg/kg/day to 0 by 21 weeks (a GC withdrawal time similar to the RAVE trial81) as part of a standard induction protocol (RTX or CYC).19 The primary endpoint (remission at week 26) was reached at similar rates with avacopan (72.3%) and GCs (70.1%). Patients with active glomerulonephritis at baseline had greater recovery of kidney function compared with patients treated with GCs. The cumulative GC dose in the avacopan group over 1 year was 2.3 g lower than in the prednisone group, and GC-induced toxic effects measured by the Glucocorticoid Toxicity Index at week 26 were lower in the avacopan compared with the prednisone group. The incidence of adverse events, severe adverse events and infections was not different between groups. There are no data on use of avacopan beyond 1 year, so longer-term use cannot be recommended. We recommend consideration of avacopan in those subgroups that are likely to have enhanced benefit compared with GC therapy, that is, patients at risk of development or worsening of GC-related adverse effects and complications or patients with active glomerulonephritis and rapidly deteriorating kidney function who had better recovery of kidney function with avacopan.19
In ADVOCATE, remission sustained until week 52 (the second primary endpoint) was reached at a higher rate in the avacopan (65.7%) compared with the GC treatment groups (54.9%). Thus, avacopan appears to have efficacy for maintenance of remission. Future studies are needed to evaluate the role of avacopan for this purpose beyond 1 year, for patients presenting with a GFR <15 mL/min/1.73 m 2, and for those with refractory disease, and whether avacopan can be stopped when RTX is given for maintenance of remission.
7. PLEX may be considered as part of therapy to induce remission in GPA or MPA for those with a serum creatinine >300 µmol/L due to active glomerulonephritis. Routine use of PLEX to treat alveolar haemorrhage in GPA and MPA is not recommended.
Compared with the 2016 update, the strength of recommendation supporting the use of PLEX for patients with active glomerulonephritis has been reduced (‘may be considered’ compared with ‘we recommend’). While the cut-off point serum creatinine qualifying for PLEX has been lowered from 500 to 300 µmol/L (3.41–5.68 mg/dL), the routine use of PLEX to treat alveolar haemorrhage in GPA and MPA is not routinely recommended.
The 2016 statement was based on the results of the MEPEX trial113 that included only patients with severe glomerulonephritis defined by a serum creatinine >500 µmol/L. In view of a meta-analysis,116 which suggested that the evidence supporting PLEX was not robust, but there may be benefit in less severe presentations, the PEXIVAS trial was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of PLEX as an adjunct to standard induction therapy in patients with newly diagnosed or relapsing MPA or GPA, with positive PR3 or MPO-ANCA who had active kidney involvement with an eGFR <50 mL/min/1.73 m 2 or DAH.97 After a median follow-up of 2.9 years, no difference for the primary composite endpoint of death of any cause or ESKD was found between patients randomised to PLEX (28%) compared with those randomised to no PLEX (31%).
A meta-analysis of nine RCTs97 113 117–124 confirmed that PLEX had no effect on all-cause mortality.125 Outcome data for ESKD were reported in 999 patients of which 597 came from PEXIVAS, and a meta-analysis revealed that PLEX reduced the risk of ESKD at 12 months (relative risk 0.62 (95% CI 0.39 to 0.98)). As baseline serum creatinine predicts ESKD risk, subgroups based on baseline creatinine with low risk (≤200 µmol/L), low to moderate risk (>200–300 µmol/L), moderate to high risk (>300–500 µmol/L) and high risk (>500 µmol/L) were analysed. While little absolute risk reduction of ESKD was observed following use of PLEX in the low-risk and low moderate-risk groups, a 4.6% absolute reduction of ESKD at 12 months was estimated for the moderate high-risk group and 16.0% for the high-risk group.125 126 This translates into a number of patients to treat with PLEX of 21.7 for the moderate to high-risk group and 6.25 for the high-risk group to prevent one case of ESKD at 12 months. The impact of PLEX on ESKD risk diminished over a 3-year follow-up (relative risk 0.79 (95% CI 0.58 to 1.08)). PLEX increased the risk of serious infections at 12 months by 8.5% in the moderate high-risk group, and 13.5% in the high-risk group or patients, and no effect on quality of life was found.125 Thus, treating 14 patients with PLEX will result in one serious infection. Two retrospective studies involving 251 and 188 patients with AAV and severe kidney disease, respectively, found no efficacy of PLEX on death or ESKD.127 128
Thus, PLEX may reduce the risk of ESKD 12 months but may increase the risk of severe infection. This benefit declines over longer follow-up, suggesting that PLEX might prolong the time to dialysis. Balancing the reported benefit in a subgroup of patients at high risk of ESKD against the risk of severe infection, the cost and risks of the procedure, PLEX may be considered as an adjunctive treatment of GPA and MPA for selected cases with a serum creatinine >300 µmol/L, after discussion of the risks and benefits with the patient.
The SLR and recent meta-analysis revealed no evidence for a clinically relevant benefit of PLEX in patients with AAV and DAH.125 A small open-label study reported survival in 19 of 20 patients with DAH of whom 9 had severe DAH,129 while an observational study of 73 patients with DAH of which 34 required mechanical ventilation did not find a benefit of PLEX on mortality or other outcomes.130 In PEXIVAS, DAH was present in 191 patients and was associated with hypoxia in 61. No significant effect of PLEX on the combined endpoint of death from any cause or development of ESKD was found in these patients even after adjustment for the severity of DAH, but this substudy was underpowered for this endpoint, and further analysis of the impact of PLEX on DAH mortality is ongoing. As isolated DAH is rare in AAV, the driver for PLEX in those with DAH is usually the degree of associated renal impairment, and there is insufficient evidence to make a recommendation for or against PLEX in isolated DAH.
PLEX is recommended for those patients with AAV also positive for anti-GBM antibodies.131 Although high-quality evidence for this small subgroup is lacking, most clinicians follow management recommendations for both anti-GBM disease and AAV in their initial treatment of these dual-positive patients.132 There is low level of evidence derived from a prospective randomised trial that included 62 patients with either EGPA or polyarteritis nodosa for a lack of short-term and long-term efficacy of PLEX on remission and mortality in patients with EGPA.133 134
8. For patients with GPA or MPA with disease refractory to therapy to induce remission, we recommend a thorough reassessment of disease status and comorbidities and consider options for use of additional or different treatment. These patients should be managed in close conjunction with, or referred to, a centre with expertise in vasculitis.
Given new options, it is too narrow to limit the recommendation for refractory disease to switching from CYC to RTX or vice versa, as stated in 2016. Time to a treatment response varies individually in the early treatment phase (weeks 0–4). Raising the GC dose for some time can be reasonable strategy, particularly if only minor symptoms persist. The combination of RTX and CYC is used in patients with refractory organ-threatening or life-threatening disease by many centres, but data on this approach in true refractory AAV are lacking. Adding intravenous immunoglobulins can be an option for persistent disease manifestations, particularly in patients with increased risk of infection.135 No controlled studies on the management of refractory GPA or MPA have been published since the last update. Refractory disease is rare, and management should include review of the diagnosis and careful assessment of disease activity. Refractory AAV needs to be distinguished from infections, other comorbidities and alternative diagnoses. Therefore, patients with suspected refractory severe AAV should be managed at centres of expertise.
9. For maintenance of remission of GPA and MPA, after induction of remission with either RTX or CYC, we recommend treatment with RTX. AZA or MTX may be considered as alternatives.
This recommendation was changed towards favouring RTX in view of consistent results from two high-quality RCTs confirming a higher efficacy of RTX compared with AZA136 137 and other recent prospective trials on the use of RTX for maintenance of remission.138 139
In the MAINRITSAN trial, patients who attained remission after induction therapy with GC and CYC, repeat-dose RTX (500 mg two times at 6 months then 500 mg every 6 months three times) over 2 years was associated with a lower relapse rate than treatment with AZA, with comparable safety.136 Long-term data of this trial showed that the rate of sustained remission remained superior over 60 months with repeat-dose RTX, with better overall survival.140 First results (abstract) of another multicentre RCT (RITAZAREM) now confirm the higher efficacy of RTX (1 g every 4 months five times) compared with AZA for patients receiving RTX induction therapy for relapsing disease.137 Results of MAINRITSAN and RITAZAREM complemented each other with similar findings despite methodological differences (ie, type of induction therapy, duration and dose of AZA, inclusion of relapsing patients, RTX dose and dosing interval).9 RTX is considered cost-effective by preventing costs associated with the occurrence of relapses, particularly since RTX biosimilars have become available.141 In an RCT, ‘tailored’ RTX maintenance treatment based on biomarkers (rise of ANCA concentration, switch from negative to positive ANCA or repopulation of CD19+ lymphocytes) was associated with a higher but not statistically different relapse rate (17.3%) compared with the approved fixed regimen (9.9%).139 As the anticipated and observed relapse rates differed substantially, the trial was considered underpowered to exclude inferiority of the biomarker-triggered regimen. In view of these uncertainties, this task force favours the use of the 500 mg every 6 months RTX maintenance regimen. The higher dose of 1 g or shorter dosing interval of 4 months or both may be considered for patients who relapse on the 500 mg every 6 months regimen.
RTX impairs humoral responses to vaccination142–144 and there is increasing information concerning the risks of secondary immunodeficiency in patients with GPA/MPA receiving RTX.145 146 Patients should be counselled about the risk of hypogammaglobulinaemia (see also recommendation no. 14) and further research is required into the safety, duration and dosing of repeated RTX in this disease.
Evidence regarding the use of conventional immunosuppressive agents has not changed substantially since the last update. AZA and MTX are similarly effective maintenance agents in AAV147 and can be used if RTX is contraindicated (eg, previous allergic reaction to RTX) or appears inappropriate (eg, urgent need for vaccination, severe hypogammaglobulinaemia). Doses lower than those recommended for AZA and MTX (online supplemental table 1) have been associated with higher relapse rates.136 147 148 MTX can be continued in patients in whom it was used to induce remission. MMF was associated with a higher relapse rate compared with AZA in the only phase III RCT149 and can be considered in patients with intolerance or contraindications to RTX, AZA or MTX. In patients with GPA, leflunomide can be considered in patients with intolerance to all the above-mentioned drugs.150 Results of two recent meta-analyses revealed that trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole (T/S) does not reduce relapse risk in patients with GPA.151 152 The addition of belimumab to an AZA-based maintenance regimen did not improve relapse-free survival in an RCT, which was stopped early due to slow recruitment and had a low relapse rate in the placebo group, making a positive result with belimumab unlikely to be detected.153
Since there is little evidence to guide low-dose GC therapy during remission in AAV,154 duration and dosage need to be individualised on a shared decision basis, taking into account the patient’s individual disease course, risk for or presence of GC-related comorbidities and patient preferences. There is lower-quality evidence that GC withdrawal increases relapse risk,154 but high-quality prospective studies on the role of GC are yet lacking. Regular screening for GC-related comorbidities during continued low-dose GC therapy is recommended according to EULAR recommendations for monitoring adverse events of low-dose GC therapy.34
10. We recommend that therapy to maintain remission for GPA and MPA be continued for 24–48 months following induction of remission of new-onset disease. Longer duration of therapy should be considered in relapsing patients or those with an increased risk of relapse, but should be balanced against patient preferences and risks of continuing immunosuppression.
For the 2016 update, this statement was based on low-quality evidence derived from observational studies or long-term follow-up of RCTs.105 155 156 Since then, three trials138 157 158 have directly compared the duration of maintenance regimens and this recommendation has therefore been changed accordingly. In the REMAIN Study, 117 patients received AZA for a total of 24 months after induction therapy with CYC. Patients were then randomised to withdrawal of AZA/GC or continued dosing for an additional 24 months. Those treated for 4 years had fewer relapses (22%) than those treated for 2 years (63%).157 Four patients in the withdrawal group developed ESKD versus none in the group treated for another 2 years (p=0.012). A meta-analysis of REMAIN and the smaller AZA-ANCA trial concluded that prolonged administration of AZA reduced the risk of relapse.152 Results of the open-label randomised MAINRITSAN-3 trial showed that more patients remain relapse free after an additional 18 months of RTX maintenance therapy than after treatment for only 18 months.138 Prolonged therapy with RTX was not associated with an excess of serious adverse events or infections.
The clinical disease type (GPA vs MPA), ANCA serotype (PR3-ANCA vs MPO-ANCA) and ANCA status (positive vs negative) have all been associated with the risk of relapse. In several studies, a higher risk of relapse was observed in patients with GPA than in patients with MPA.159–161 Regardless of the clinical phenotype, patients with positive PR3-ANCA at diagnosis are at higher risk of relapse than those who are MPO-ANCA positive.80 140 156 162 163 Persistent ANCA positivity despite clinical remission,164–166 or seroconversion from negative to positive ANCA,164 is also each associated with an increased risk of relapse. B cell repopulation within 12 months of RTX164 and persistent haematuria167 have been identified as risk factors for relapse in individual studies. The intensity of induction therapy also impacts the risk of relapse. Lower cumulative CYC doses or induction therapy with MTX or MMF instead of CYC have been associated with an increased risk of relapse.21 105 156 168
There is low-level to moderate-level evidence that patients with renal-limited vasculitis and patients positive for MPO-ANCA have a lower relapse risk compared with PR3-ANCA-positive patients and patients with respiratory tract involvement.169 170 In a series of 228 patients with ESKD, the proportion of patients with AAV in remission off immunosuppression had increased time spent on dialysis and patients were far less likely to relapse from their vasculitis than to display serious infectious or cardiovascular events.171 Therefore, the benefit of relapse prevention should be weighed against the risk of complications resulting from immunosuppressive therapy in patients with renal-limited MPO-ANCA-associated vasculitis and some task force members do not routinely use maintenance therapy in these patients. Patients with drug-induced AAV rarely relapse and do not require routine immunosuppressive therapy after remission is achieved and the implicated drug is discontinued.172
In summary, there is no consistent high-quality evidence available to guide decisions about the duration of maintenance therapy based on biomarkers such as ANCA or other factors alone (see also recommendation no. 14).9 While there is now consistent evidence from two RCTs that extending maintenance therapy for longer than 24 months reduces relapse risk, we recommend considering individual risk factors for relapse and damage as well as patient preferences for decisions about the length of maintenance treatment.
11. For induction of remission in new-onset or relapsing EGPA with organ-threatening or life-threatening manifestations, we recommend treatment with a combination of high-dose GCs and CYC. A combination of high-dose GCs and RTX may be considered as an alternative.
Since the last update of these recommendations, results of three RCTs enrolling only or mainly patients with EGPA have been reported,77 78 173 which allowed the development of separate recommendations for EGPA for this update (figure 3).
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The 2022 EULAR algorithm for treatment of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA). 1 See table 2 for examples of organ/life-threatening and not organ/life-threatening manifestations. 2 See table 4 for an example of GC dosing (note: validated in MPA and GPA only). 3 Consider use of RTX over CYC in patients (m/f) with childbearing potential or previous exposure to CYC at an individual cumulative dosage considered to be associated with an increased risk of complications. 4 Individualised duration of maintenance treatment. 5 In patients with relapsing or refractory EGPA without organ-threatening manifestations at the time of relapse, MEPO is preferred for maintenance of remission, and AZA, MTX or RTX can be used as alternatives if MEPO is not tolerated or ineffective. AZA, azathioprine; CYC, cyclophosphamide; GC, glucocorticoid; GPA, granulomatosis with polyangiitis; MEPO, mepolizumab; MPA, microscopic polyangiitis; MTX, methotrexate; RTX, rituximab.
The Five Factor Score (FFS) is used for prognostic assessment of EGPA.174 Particularly, cardiac involvement has been associated with increased mortality in EGPA.36 175 176 However, under optimised management in centres of expertise, the prognosis of cardiac involvement appears to be better than previously reported. This may reflect more frequent diagnosis of milder forms of cardiac disease through use of cardiac MRI and greater awareness among physicians regarding cardiac disease in EGPA.177 In a recent series from the French Vasculitis Study Group of 70 patients with EGPA with cardiac manifestations treated with high-dose GC, mostly along with CYC, no patient died as a consequence of cardiac involvement during a 10-year observation period.178 With the aim of preventing permanent organ damage due to EGPA, patients with severe involvement of the kidneys, central and peripheral nervous system, or gastrointestinal tract are also considered to be candidates for treatment with CYC (table 2).179 In a randomised, open-label trial in patients with EGPA and poor prognosis (FFS ≥1), 12 compared with 6 pulsed doses of CYC were associated with a lower rate of minor relapses but did not improve response rate or reduce severe relapses.180 Therefore, we recommend treatment be switched to a less intensive remission maintenance therapy after six pulses of CYC if remission is achieved, and the GC dose is reduced by then to approximately 7.5 mg per day (see online supplemental table 2 for protocols).
An RCT examining the use of RTX in EGPA (REOVAS) included 105 patients with new-onset or relapsing EGPA of whom 42 had life-threatening or organ-threatening disease (FFS ≥1) (abstract).77 Patients with FFS ≥1 received high-dose GCs plus either 2×1 g RTX (days 1 and 15) or nine pulses of CYC over 13 weeks. The primary endpoint of on-treatment remission was reached at similar frequencies at days 180 and 360 in both groups, but the limited number of patients, the superiority design and the lack of fully published results do not allow for strong conclusions regarding non-inferiority. Adverse events, cumulative prednisone doses and quality of life were not different between groups. Results were similar in both newly diagnosed and relapsing disease. In contrast to earlier observational studies,181 182 the response to RTX was not higher in MPO-ANCA-positive patients compared with ANCA-negative patients, consistent with consensus recommendations on ANCA testing that treatment decisions in EGPA should not be influenced solely by ANCA status.76 Keeping in mind that the results of the REOVAS trial have not been fully published yet, the data reported so far are deemed sufficiently strong to consider RTX as an alternative to CYC, particularly in patients in which exposure to CYC needs to be avoided, and are consistent with earlier observational reports (see recommendation no. 3).
In contrast to GPA and MPA, no studies have compared different GC tapering strategies in the treatment of EGPA. In the absence of data to support an evidence-based recommendation on GC tapering in EGPA, recommendations made for GPA and MPA (statement no. 4) can be used as an orientation. However, asthma and ear, nose and throat (ENT) exacerbation increase the GC requirement in patients with EGPA, leading to prolonged tapering.183 Therefore, interdisciplinary management involving pulmonologists and/or otorhinolaryngologists aimed at optimising treatment (including topical agents) of asthma, polyposis and sinusitis is recommended.
12. For induction of remission in new-onset or relapsing EGPA without organ-threatening or life-threatening manifestations, we recommend treatment with GCs.
Patients with EGPA without adverse prognostic factors (FFS=0) treated with GC only achieve remission >90% of the time, but relapses are common once GCs are tapered.174 184 Therefore, clinicians frequently combine GCs with other immunosuppressants or biologics. However, the SLR revealed that evidence supporting GC-sparing therapy in newly diagnosed patients with EGPA without organ-threatening or life-threatening manifestations is low.10 A prospective placebo-controlled study showed that therapy with AZA for 1 year in addition to GC had no effect on the risk of relapse, cumulative GC requirement, or the rate of asthma and sinusitis exacerbation compared with GC monotherapy in EGPA without poor prognostic factors (FFS=0).173 Recent long-term study data also showed that, within 5 years, 48% of all patients experienced vasculitis relapses, and prior therapy with AZA did not reduce this risk.184 The REOVAS trial included 63 new-onset or relapsing patients with EGPA with an FFS of 0 who were randomised to receive high-dose GCs together with either 2×1 g RTX (days 1 and 15) or placebo. Efficacy and safety outcomes after 180 and 360 days were not different between RTX and placebo group. Because the trial was not designed as a non-inferiority trial and since it has been reported only in abstract format so far, the data preclude from making strong conclusions but provide no support for use of RTX for remission induction in this subgroup of patients. No RCTs are available on the use of MTX, MMF or leflunomide in EGPA. Small observational studies on the use of MTX or MMF did not include control groups and carry a high risk of bias.185 186 As the evidence to support immunosuppression beyond GCs in new-onset EGPA without risk factors for worse outcome is low,10 decisions on the use of GC-sparing therapy in this subset of patients may be made on an individual basis considering risk factors of GC-related morbidity.
13. For induction of remission in patients with relapsing or refractory EGPA without active organ-threatening or life-threatening disease, we recommend the use of mepolizumab.
The IL-5 inhibitor mepolizumab was evaluated in a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled phase III study (MIRRA) that included 136 patients with relapsing or refractory EGPA with disease duration of at least 6 months.78 The study protocol allowed the inclusion of patients without vasculitic manifestations, while patients with active life-threatening or organ-threatening manifestations were excluded. After treatment with prednisolone at a stable dose ≥7.5 mg per day prior to baseline, 54% of patients in the mepolizumab arm and 71% of patients in the control arm had active disease at randomisation with a Birmingham Vasculitis Activity Score (BVAS) >0. Patients were randomised 1:1 to continuation of standard therapy (including other conventional immunosuppressive agents in more than 50% of patients in each arm) or standard therapy plus mepolizumab at a dose of 300 mg subcutaneously every 4 weeks. Both co-primary endpoints (the number of weeks in remission on a prednisolone dose reduced to 4 mg and the proportion of patients in remission at weeks 36 and 48) were met in favour of mepolizumab.78 A post-hoc analysis showed that treatment with mepolizumab was associated with additional clinically relevant endpoints, such as remission and GC reduction of >50%, in over half of the patients treated with mepolizumab.187 Based on its association with clinically meaningful improvement of disease control and reduction of GC demand, and good safety profile compared with conventional immunosuppressants, this task force recommends the use of mepolizumab with relapsing or refractory, non-organ-threatening or life-threatening EGPA. Mepolizumab has recently been approved for this indication in many European countries. Data from studies using mepolizumab for treatment of life-threatening or organ-threatening or new-onset EGPA are currently lacking.10
Other IL-5 or IL-5 receptor inhibitors (reslizumab, benralizumab) showed efficacy in small open-label pilot studies in EGPA,188 189 but data from RCTs using these agents are not yet available. In a retrospective multicentre series, anti-IgE-targeted therapy with omalizumab appeared to be less effective than mepolizumab.190 As discussed above, data showing improved outcomes with other biological or conventional drugs for non-severe relapsing or refractory EGPA are lacking. In patients for whom mepolizumab is not effective or not tolerated, AZA, MTX, MMF or RTX can be considered on an individual basis.184–186 190–192
A true refractory course of EGPA with life-threatening and organ-threatening manifestations is rare if patients are treated with high-dose GC and a CYC-based or RTX-based induction regimen.77 180 Data guiding treatment decisions in this small subgroup of patients are scarce, and true refractory severe EGPA needs to be carefully distinguished from infections and comorbidities. Therefore, patients with suspected refractory severe EGPA should be managed at centres of expertise.
14. For maintenance of remission of relapsing EGPA after induction of remission for non-organ-threatening or life-threatening manifestations at the time of relapse, we recommend treatment with mepolizumab. For maintenance of remission of EGPA after induction of remission for organ-threatening or life-threatening disease, treatment with MTX, AZA, mepolizumab or RTX should be considered.
In view of the relapsing nature of EGPA requiring long-term use of GCs in most patients, other agents for maintenance of remission are commonly prescribed in an attempt to be GC sparing. In an RCT (MIRRA, see recommendation no. 13 for details) that enrolled patients with EGPA who had relapsing or refractory disease, rates of severe and non-severe relapses were significantly lower and the median GC dose throughout the study was lower in the mepolizumab group compared with the control group.78 Adverse events occurred at similar rates in the mepolizumab group and the placebo group, while serious adverse events were somewhat more common in the placebo group (18% vs 26%). In view of its efficacy and good safety profile, the use of mepolizumab after induction of remission for non-organ-threatening or life-threatening manifestations at the time of relapse is recommended. In an RCT that enrolled 51 patients with EGPA and no organ-threatening or life-threatening manifestations, AZA for 1 year in addition to GC had no effect on the risk of relapse, cumulative GC requirement, or the rate of asthma and sinusitis exacerbation compared with GC monotherapy.173 There is little evidence to recommend routine use of other immunomodulatory agents for maintenance of remission in EGPA without organ-threatening or life-threatening manifestations.10
The SLR identified only one prospective study addressing remission maintenance strategies in patients with EGPA who attained remission after treatment for life-threatening or organ-threatening disease.10 A single-centre prospective randomised trial compared oral CYC with MTX for 1 year after remission induction with CYC in different subtypes of AAV.193 In the subgroup of 30 patients with EGPA who had either an FFS >1 or peripheral neuropathy, no difference in relapse rates between the two treatment arms was observed. Although no excess in adverse events was found in this study, we do not recommend CYC for remission maintenance in view of its toxicity. However, this study provides a rationale for use of MTX for maintenance of remission in EGPA, although the small sample size of patients with EGPA precludes a strong recommendation. As observational studies reported favourable outcomes on the use of AZA, mepolizumab and RTX for maintenance of remission,36 190 these agents can also be considered for remission maintenance in EGPA after induction of remission for organ-threatening or life-threatening manifestations. In view of its efficacy in eosinophilic asthma, mepolizumab should also be considered for patients with EGPA with residual GC-dependent asthma who achieved remission of major organ involvement.
15. In the management of patients with AAV, we recommend that structured clinical assessment, rather than ANCA and/or CD19+ B cell testing alone, should inform decisions on changes in treatment.
This recommendation (former statement no. 10) has been amended to include CD19+ B cell testing but is otherwise unchanged as data from recent RCTs have confirmed earlier studies on this topic. Although ANCA status is associated with relapse,165 194–196 prospective trials on maintenance of remission showed conflicting results in ANCA status or CD19+ B cell counts to predict future relapses at a level deemed insufficient to guide treatment decisions for individual patients.138 139 Administration of RTX for maintenance of remission based on changes of ANCA status and/or B cell counts was associated with a non-significantly higher rate of relapses compared with regular treatment at a 6-month interval, while adverse events occurred at a similar rate.139 Regarding the role of ANCA measurements for monitoring in AAV, we also refer readers to the recent international consensus statements on ANCA testing.67 76 Further prospective studies are clearly necessary to identify predictive markers of relapse.
As AAV involves multiple organs and relapses are frequent, a structured clinical assessment during follow-up at regular intervals is recommended. The BVAS197 has been used in different variants in the majority of RCTs in AAV and can be helpful in clinical practice to document response to treatment in a systematic fashion. Damage resulting from AAV or its treatment needs to be distinguished from active disease to avoid unnecessarily escalating treatment. The Vasculitis Damage Index198 is a validated instrument to record damage in AAV and provides definitions that help distinguish damage from active disease.
16. In patients with AAV receiving RTX, we recommend measurement of serum immunoglobulin concentrations prior to each course of RTX to detect secondary immunodeficiency.
The SLR revealed no data published since the last update that suggested a change of this recommendation,10 but wording has been rephrased to highlight the purpose of immunoglobulin measurement. Results of the MAINRITSAN-3 Study have shown that long-term treatment of patients with GPA or MPA with RTX over 36 months was associated with the development of hypogammaglobulinaemia (IgG <5 g/L) in 21% of patients, confirming earlier reports on decreased IgG levels following treatment with RTX or CYC in AAV.199 200 For further details on risk factors for secondary immunodeficiency after RTX, monitoring, indications, dosage and discontinuation of immunoglobulin replacement therapy, we refer readers to evidence-based consensus recommendations.201
17. For patients with AAV receiving RTX, CYC and/or high doses of GCs, we recommend the use of T/S as prophylaxis against Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) and other infections.
This is a new recommendation based on results of an observational study in 192 patients with AAV treated with RTX, showing that the prophylactic use of T/S was associated with a lower frequency of severe infections (HR 0.30, 95% CI 0.13 to 0.69).202 In an earlier RCT investigating the role of T/S in therapeutic dosage (960 mg two times per day for 2 years), a reduction in respiratory tract infections and a trend towards fewer non-respiratory tract infections compared with placebo had been observed.203 Thus, available evidence suggests that T/S not only reduces the risk of PJP, but is also associated with a reduction of the overall risk of infection. T/S also reduced the 1-year incidence of PJP and related mortality in a cohort of 1092 patients with various rheumatic diseases treated with ≥30 prednisolone mg/day for ≥4 weeks.204 For patients treated with ≥15–<30 mg/day of prednisone for ≥4 weeks, the risk of PJP and benefit of T/S are lower, but in a subgroup of patients with lymphopenia at baseline and those receiving GC pulse treatment, the number needed to treat to prevent one PJP was lower than the number needed to harm by serious adverse events.205 As infections are the leading cause of death within the first year of induction therapy in patients with AAV,206 infection prophylaxis with T/S (800/160 mg on alternate days or 400/80 mg daily) is recommended for all patients with AAV receiving CYC or RTX and patients where treatment with GCs at a dose of ≥30 mg/day for 4 weeks or longer is envisioned, irrespective of other concomitant immunosuppressants. Although there have been concerns about synergistic toxicities to T/S given at therapeutic doses and MTX, recent studies found no evidence for an interaction between MTX and T/S at prophylactic doses,207 but data on the safety of this combination in patients with rheumatic diseases are lacking. While there are insufficient data to guide the total duration of prophylaxis with T/S, it seems reasonable to continue this drug for the estimated duration of the biological effect of CYC and RTX of around 3 and 6 months after the last dose or B cell reconstitution, respectively. For patients treated with GCs in combination with immunosuppressants other than CYC or RTX, T/S may be stopped once GC doses have been tapered to 15 mg/day, but that strong consideration should be given to continuing it until lower doses are achieved if other risk factors such as pulmonary disease or hypogammaglobulinaemia are present.208 Patients who develop adverse reactions often tolerate re-introduction of T/S if the dose is gradually increased according to published regimens.209 210 Alternatives for patients who cannot tolerate T/S are dapsone,211 atovaquone212 213 or aerosolised pentamidine.214
Vaccinations are an integral part of infection prophylaxis in patients with autoimmune diseases receiving immunosuppressive therapy. Since the approach to vaccination in patients with AAV does not differ from other rheumatic diseases treated with a similar intensity of immunosuppression, we refer to the 2019 EULAR recommendations for vaccination in adult patients with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases and local guidelines.215
Discussion
Since the publication of the 2016 EULAR recommendations on the management of AAV, several high-quality RCTs have expanded our knowledge about these complex diseases and allowed updates of previous recommendations. We have made substantial alterations, including the introduction of overarching principles and new recommendations on ANCA testing, therapy with GC, use of agents with novel modes of action (C5aR inhibition, IL-5 blockade) and prophylaxis against infections. While most of the original recommendations addressed AAV in general, new data allowed us to devise separate recommendations for GPA/MPA and EGPA for some management principles.
Given the complexity and variability of multiorgan involvement in AAV, we emphasise that these recommendations are not intended to propose a ‘one-size-fits-all’ strategy. Comorbidities, the individual patient’s history, toxicities, local availability and costs of medication, and patient preferences should all be considered in the process of informed decision-making. High-quality evidence of management of AAV in pregnancy is lacking and we refer readers to EULAR recommendations for the management of family planning, assisted reproduction, pregnancy, and menopause in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and other rheumatic diseases.216 217 In addition, many of the organ manifestations such as severe kidney disease, MPO-ANCA-associated interstitial lung disease, bronchial/subglottic stenosis, orbital mass, severe ENT manifestations, cardiac involvement in EGPA and central nervous system disease or vasculitic neuropathy may require specific pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions. Recognition and supportive management of organ damage is another important aspect. However, the level of evidence guiding management of these organ manifestations or organ damage in AAV is mostly low. Thus, it was beyond the scope and format of these EULAR recommendations to specifically address these important areas of management.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on patients with AAV and influences their management.218 In the light of changing virus variants, availability of vaccinations and antiviral treatments, conditions affecting the management of patients with AAV in the pandemic change rapidly. Therefore, specific recommendations for management of patients with AAV in the pandemic are beyond the scope of this project, since these would be outdated at the time these recommendations are published. Instead, we refer to the most recent national guidelines and EULAR points to consider on the use of immunomodulatory therapies and vaccinations in COVID-19.219 220
Given the relative rarity of AAV and the limitations of the published studies, particularly in terms of outcome assessment and long-term follow-up, important questions remain unanswered. We have listed key issues in a research agenda (box 1) and encourage investigators to use them as a basis for conducting future high-quality research in the field of AAV.
Box 1
Research agenda
A. Diagnosis and classification
Develop data-driven diagnostic criteria for AAV.
Develop data-driven definitions for disease activity states (remission, response, relapse) and standardisation of outcome measures, including patient-reported outcomes, for use in trials in AAV.
Develop data-driven definitions of disease subtypes of importance.
Identify reliable biomarkers and risk factors for relapsing disease and damage.
Identify reliable biomarkers including imaging and biopsies to assess subclinical disease activity and monitor treatment response.
B. Treatment
Evaluate benefits and harms of higher-dose GC therapy (eg, intravenous MP) compared with standard starting dosing (1 mg/kg/day) for patients with different subtypes, severity stages and risk factors for adverse outcomes.
Evaluate benefits and harms of reduced starting doses of GC (eg, 0.5 mg/day) compared with standard starting doses (1 mg/kg/day) in patients with different ANCA subtypes, severity stages and risk factors for adverse outcomes.
Investigate optimal duration of therapy with GC.
Study benefit of the combination of RTX and CYC versus RTX only.
Investigate the safety and optimum schedule of repeat-dose RTX maintenance therapy.
Investigate the effect of immunomodulators with novel modes of action (eg, JAK inhibitors).
Study long-term outcomes after induction therapy with avacopan and its efficacy for maintenance therapy, in combination with and/or compared with standard therapy.
Further study the potential of C5a blockade to fully replace GCs for induction of remission and for extended use.
Study efficacy and safety of IL-5 inhibitors in newly diagnosed patients with EGPA and patients with organ-threatening manifestations compared with other types of induction therapy (CYC, RTX).
Study maintenance therapies for EGPA.
Study the optimal duration and dosage of T/S or other agents for prophylaxis against infection.
Management of AAV during conception and pregnancy and potential impact on fertility.
C. Long-term outcome and biomarkers
Identify biomarkers to predict drug toxicity.
Identify predictors for good response, remission or relapse.
Define and validate use of patient-reported outcomes for management of AAV in clinical practice.
Study the impact of long-term GC therapy on GC-related adverse effects and comorbidities.
AAV, ANCA-associated vasculitis; ANCA, antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody; CYC, cyclophosphamide; EGPA, eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis; GC, glucocorticoid; IL-5, interleukin 5; MP, methylprednisolone; RTX, rituximab; T/S, trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole.
In conclusion, we substantially revised the recommendations for the management of AAV. Despite progress over the past 10 years, we acknowledge that some recommendations had to be made based on low-quality evidence. Nevertheless, the level of agreement for each recommendation was consistently high among the task force members. We encourage clinicians to implement these recommendations into their clinical practice to effectively manage AAV and to improve the patients’ quality of care.
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Acknowledgments
The authors wish to thank the librarian Oliver Weiner (Medical Department of the Kiel University Library, Kiel, Germany) for advice and assistance during the SLR. DJ was supported by the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre.
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Contributors The task force consisted of 20 clinical experts including rheumatologists (MCC, BH, JH, OK, RAL, AM, CBM, JM, PM, GT, DV), internists (AJM, DB, BT) and nephrologists (AK, MAL, MS, YKOT, AV, DJ), from 15 European countries and the USA (PM), 2 methodologists (RAL, GT), convenor (BH) and co-convenor (DJ), 2 delegates of the EULAR young rheumatologists’ network EMEUNET (AB, SM), 2 fellows (BS-A, JHS), 1 health professional (NH) and 2 patient representatives (PV, FP-K). All task force members were involved in preparing the project outline. BH drafted the first version of the manuscript. DJ, the methodologist and other steering committee members revised the manuscript before it was sent to the task force. All task force members made edits and comments and approved the final version.
Funding Funding was provided by the EULAR.
Competing interests AB received honoraria for consulting from GSK. AJM received speaker fees and/or consultancies from Amgen, Lilly, Vifor, Roche and GSK. AJM received speaker fees and/or consultancies from Amgen, Celgene, Chugai, Novartis, Roche and Vifor. AK received speaker fees and/or consultancies from Catalyst Biosciences, Walden Bioscience, Delta4, Otsuka, UriSalt and Vifor. BH received speaker fees and/or consultancies from AbbVie, Amgen, AstraZeneca, BMS, Boehringer, Chugai, GSK, InflaRx, Janssen, MSD, Pfizer, Novartis, Phadia, Roche and Vifor. BT received consulting fees from AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Vifor and Pharma. DB received consultancies from Roche. DJ received speaker fees and/or consultancies from Amgen, AstraZeneca, BMS, Boehringer, Chemocentryx, Chugai, GSK, Novartis, Roche, Takeda and Vifor. DV received speaker fees and/or consultancies and/or grants from AbbVie, Genesis-Pharma, Janssen, Lilly, MSD, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche and UCB. The work is supported by the Greek Rheumatology Society and Professional Association of Rheumatologists (ERE-EPERE) and the Special Account for Research Grants (SARG), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. JHS received research grants from the John Grube Foundation and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (German Society for Rheumatology). MAL received unrestricted research funding and consultancy fees from Vifor with Chemocentryx. MCC received consulting fees from GSK, Vifor, AbbVie and Janssen, and a research grant from Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals. MS has received consultancy fees from Hansa Biopharma, Vifor, AstraZeneca, Toleranzia and Chemocentryx. PM reports receiving funds for the following activities in the past 2 years: consulting: AbbVie, AstraZeneca, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chemocentryx, CSL Behring, Dynacure, EMDSerono, Forbius, Genentech/Roche, Genzyme/Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline, Immagene, InflaRx, Janssen, Kiniksa, Kyverna, Magenta, MiroBio, Mitsubishi, Neutrolis, Novartis, NS Pharma, Pfizer, Regeneron, Sparrow, Takeda and Talaris; research support: AbbVie, AstraZeneca, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chemocentryx, Eicos, Electra, Forbius, Genentech/Roche, Genzyme/Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline, InflaRx, Sanofi and Takeda; stock options: Kyverna. OK reports receiving speaking fees and/or consultancies from Amgen, AbbVie, Lilly, UCB-Pharma, Novartis, Celltrion; and research support from AbbVie, Viela-Bio, Roche and Novartis. RAL received speaker fees and/or consultancies and/or grants from AbbVie, BMS/Celgene, Chemocentryx, Chugai, GSK, InflaRx, Pfizer Global, Roche and Vifor. The LUMC received on behalf of YKOT an unrestricted research grant from CSL Vifor, GlaxoSmithKline, Aurinia Pharmaceuticals. The LUMC received consulting fees from Aurinia Pharmaceuticals, Novartis, GSK, KezarBio, Vifor Pharma and Otsuka Pharmaceuticals on consultancies delivered by YKOT. The work of YKOT is supported by the Dutch Kidney Foundation (17OKG04) and by the Arthritis Research and Collaboration Hub (ARCH) foundation. ARCH is funded by Dutch Arthritis Foundation (ReumaNederland). AV, BS-A, CBM, FP-K, GT, JH, JM, NH, PV and SM reported no conflicts of interest.
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12461 | https://www.pharmacy.ohio.gov/Documents/Compliance/Naloxone/Pharmacist/Patient%20Counseling%20Brochure.pdf | Overdose Recognition and Response Guide A GUIDE FOR PATIENTS AND CAREGIVERS State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy Steven W. Schierholt Executive Director Overdose Risk Factors & Prevention Opioids include both illicit fentanyl and heroin as well as prescription medications used to treat pain such as morphine, codeine, methadone, oxycodone (Oxycontin, Percodan, Percocet), hydrocodone (Vicodin, Lortab, Norco), fentanyl (Duragesic, Fentora), hydromorphone (Dilaudid, Exalgo), and buprenorphine (Subutex, Suboxone). The following are some common risk factors for opioid overdose as well as some prevention strategies: Mixing Drugs Many overdoses occur when people mix heroin or prescription opioids with alcohol and/or benzodiazepines. Alcohol and benzodiazepines (Xanax, Klonopin, Ativan and Valium) are particularly dangerous because, like opioids, these substances impact an individual’s ability to breathe. Avoid mixing opioids with other drugs or alcohol. If prescribed an opioid and a benzodiazepine by a prescriber , take only as directed.
Tolerance Tolerance is your body’s ability to process a drug. Tolerance changes over time so that you may need more of a drug to feel its effects. Tolerance can decrease rapidly when someone has taken a break from using an opioid. When someone loses tolerance and then takes an opioid again, they are at-risk for an overdose, even if they take an amount that caused them no problem in the past. If you are using opioids after a period of abstinence, start at a lower dose.
Physical Health Your physical health impacts your body’s ability to manage opioids. Since opioids can impair your ability to breathe, if you have asthma or other breathing problems you are at higher risk for an overdose. Individuals with liver (hepatitis), kidney problems, and those who are HIV-positive are also at an increased risk of an overdose. Previous Overdose A person who has experienced a nonfatal overdose in the past has an increased risk of a fatal overdose in the future. To prevent a fatal overdose, teach your family and friends how to recognize and respond to an overdose.
How do I know if someone is overdosing? If someone takes more opioids than their body can handle, they can pass out, stop breathing, and die. An opioid overdose can take minutes or even hours to occur. A person who is experiencing an overdose may have the following symptoms: • Slow breathing (less than 1 breath every 5 seconds) or no breathing.
• Vomiting.
• Face is pale and clammy.
• Blue lips, fingernails, or toenails.
• Slow, erratic, or no pulse.
• Snoring or gurgling noises while asleep or nodding out.
• No response when you yell the person’s name or rub the middle of their chest with your knuckles.
An overdose is a MEDICAL EMERGENCY! Call 9-1-1 immediately www.pharmacy.ohio.gov How to give naloxone: What is naloxone?
Naloxone (Narcan) is a prescription medication that can reverse an overdose that is caused by an opioid drug. When administered during an overdose, naloxone blocks the effects of opioids on the brain and restores breathing. It can be given as an injection into a muscle or as a nasal spray. Naloxone has no potential for abuse. If it is given to a person who is not experiencing an opioid overdose, it is harmless. If naloxone is administered to a person who is experiencing an opioid overdose, it will produce withdrawal symptoms. Naloxone does not reverse overdoses that are caused by non-opioid drugs.
IMPORTANT: Naloxone should be stored at room temperature and away from light. Naloxone can freeze at low temperatures. If this happens, the medication may not work as intended.
1. Try to wake the person up by yelling their name and rubbing the middle of their chest with your knuckles (sternum rub).
2. Call 9-1-1. Indicate the person has stopped breathing or is struggling to breathe. 3. Make sure nothing is in the person's mouth that could be blocking their breathing. If breathing has stopped or is very slow, begin rescue breathing. 4. Give Rescue Breathing Step 1: Tilt their head back, lift chin, pinch nose shut.
Step 2: Give 1 slow breath every 5 seconds. Blow enough air into their lungs to make their chest rise. 5. Use naloxone and continue rescue breathing at one breath every 5 seconds.
6. If the person begins to breathe on their own, put them on their side so they do not choke on their vomit. Continue to monitor their breathing and perform rescue breathing if respirations are below 10 breaths a minute. If vomiting occurs, manually clear their mouth and nose. 7. If the person does not respond by waking up, to voice or touch, or start breathing normally within 2-3 minutes, another dose of naloxone should be given. 8. Stay with the person until EMS arrives.
NARCAN™ (4MG) and Kloxxado™ (8MG) Nasal Spray 1. Peel back the tab to open the nasal spray.
2. Hold the device with your thumb on the bottom of the plunger and your first and middle fingers on either side of the nozzle. Do not apply any pressure until you are ready to give the dose.
3. Tilt the person’s head back and provide support under the neck with your hand. Gently insert the tip of the nozzle into one nostril until your fingers on either side of the nozzle are against the bottom of the person’s nose.
4. Press the plunger firmly to give the dose of the medication. Remove the device from the nostril after giving the dose. 5. If the person is unresponsive after 2 to 3 minutes, give an additional dose in the other nostril. For a copy of the manufacturer's instructions visit: www.pharmacy.ohio.gov/NARnasal (NARCAN) www.pharmacy.ohio.gov/KLOnasal (Kloxxado) Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services Treatment Referral Line (8am-6pm M-F) 1-877-275-6364 RecoveryOhio - How to Get Help www.pharmacy.ohio.gov/GetHelp Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration Treatment Locator ZIMHI™ (Naloxone HCI) Injection 1. Press needle into outer thigh after twisting off needle cap.
2. Push the plunger until it clicks and hold for 2 seconds before removing the needle. The correct dose has been given if the plunger has been pushed all the way down and blocks part of the solution window. It is normal for most of the medicine to remain in the syringe after the dose has been injected.
3. Pull the safety guard down using one hand with fingers behind the needle. Do this right after you give the injection.
4. Place the used syringe into the blue case and close it. If the person is unresponsive after 2 to 3 minutes, give an additional dose using a new device.
For a copy of the manufacturer's instructions visit: www.pharmacy.ohio.gov/ZIMinject Please be advised that there are other naloxone formulations available. Ohio law requires patients to be trained on the formulation of naloxone being dispensed. Pharmacists must provide supplemental training materials if dispensing a formulation of naloxone not listed in this brochure.
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Infection can spread up the urinary tract to the kidneys, or uncommonly the kidneys may become infected through bacteria in the bloodstream.
Chills, fever, back pain, nausea, and vomiting can occur.
Urine and sometimes blood tests and imaging tests are done if doctors suspect pyelonephritis.
Antibiotics are given to treat the infection.
(See also
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Causes of Kidney Infection
Pyelonephritis is more common among women than men.
Escherichia coli
, a type of bacteria normally in the large intestine, causes about 90% of cases of pyelonephritis among people who are not hospitalized or living in a nursing home. Infections usually ascend from the genital area through the urethra to the bladder, up the ureters, into the kidneys. In a person with a healthy urinary tract, an infection is usually prevented from moving up the ureters into the kidneys by the flow of urine washing organisms out and by closure of the ureters at their entrance to the bladder. However, any
physical blockage (obstruction)
to the flow of urine, such as a structural abnormality,
kidney stone
, or an
enlarged prostate gland
, or the
backflow (reflux) of urine from the bladder into the ureters
increases the likelihood of pyelonephritis.
The risk of pyelonephritis is increased during pregnancy. During pregnancy, the enlarging uterus puts pressure on the ureters, which partially obstructs the normal downward flow of urine. Pregnancy also increases the risk of reflux of urine up the ureters by causing the ureters to dilate and reducing the muscle contractions that propel urine down the ureters into the bladder.
In about 5% of cases, infections are carried to the kidneys from another part of the body through the bloodstream. For instance, a
staphylococcal skin infection
can spread to the kidneys through the bloodstream.
The risk and severity of pyelonephritis are increased in people with
diabetes
or a
weakened immune system
(which reduces the body's ability to fight infection). Pyelonephritis is usually caused by bacteria. Rarely, it is caused by tuberculosis (a rare bacterial cause of pyelonephritis), fungal infections, and viruses.
Some people develop long-standing infection (chronic pyelonephritis). Almost all of them have significant underlying abnormalities, such as a
urinary tract obstruction,
large
kidney stones
that persist, or more commonly,
reflux of urine from the bladder into the ureters
(which occurs mostly in young children). Chronic pyelonephritis can cause bacteria to be released into the bloodstream, sometimes resulting in infections in the opposite kidney or elsewhere in the body. Rarely, chronic pyelonephritis can eventually severely damage the kidneys.
Symptoms of Kidney Infection
Symptoms of pyelonephritis often begin suddenly with chills, fever, pain in the lower part of the back on either side, nausea, and vomiting.
About one third of people with pyelonephritis also have
symptoms of cystitis
(bladder infection), including frequent, painful urination. One or both kidneys may be enlarged and painful, and doctors may find tenderness in the small of the back on the affected side. Sometimes the muscles of the abdomen are tightly contracted. Irritation from the infection or the passing of a kidney stone (if one is present) can cause spasms of the ureters. If the ureters go into spasms, people may experience episodes of intense pain (renal colic). In children, symptoms of a
kidney infection
often are slight and more difficult to recognize. In older adults, pyelonephritis may not cause any symptoms that seem to indicate a problem in the urinary tract. Instead, older adults may have a decrease in mental function (delirium or confusion), fever, or an infection of the bloodstream (
sepsis
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In chronic pyelonephritis, the pain may be vague, and fever may come and go or not occur at all.
Diagnosis of Kidney Infection
Urinalysis
Urine culture
Sometimes imaging tests
The typical symptoms of pyelonephritis lead doctors to do 2 common laboratory tests to determine whether the kidneys are infected (see also
Urinalysis and Urine Culture
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Examination of a urine specimen under a microscope to count the number of red and white blood cells and bacteria
Urine culture, in which bacteria from a urine sample are grown in a laboratory to identify the numbers and types of bacteria
Blood tests may be done to check for elevated white blood cell levels (suggesting infection), bacteria in the blood, or kidney damage.
Imaging tests
are done in
People who have intense back pain (typical of renal colic)
People who do not respond to antibiotic treatment within 72 hours
People whose symptoms return shortly after antibiotic treatment is finished
People who have long-standing or recurring pyelonephritis
People whose blood test results indicate kidney damage
Men (because they so rarely develop pyelonephritis)
Ultrasonography or helical (spiral) computed tomography (CT) studies done in these situations may reveal
kidney stones,
structural abnormalities, or other causes of urinary obstruction.
Lab Test
Urinalysis
Lab Test
Bacteria Culture Test
Treatment of Kidney Infection
Antibiotics
Occasionally surgery (to correct abnormality of urinary tract)
Antibiotics are started as soon as the doctor suspects pyelonephritis and samples have been taken for laboratory tests. The choice of antibiotic or its dosage may be modified based on the laboratory test results (including culture results), how sick the person is, whether the bacteria common in the community are susceptible to common antibiotics (and which antibiotics), and whether the infection started in the hospital, where bacteria tend to be more resistant to antibiotics. Other factors that can alter the choice or dosage of antibiotic include whether the person's immune system is impaired and whether the person has a urinary tract abnormality (such as an
obstruction
).
Outpatient treatment with antibiotics given by mouth is usually successful if the person has
No nausea or vomiting
No signs of dehydration
No other disorders that weaken the immune system, such as certain cancers, diabetes mellitus, or AIDS
No signs of very severe infection, such as low blood pressure or confusion
Pain that is controlled with pain medications taken by mouth
Otherwise, the person is usually treated initially in the hospital. If hospitalization is needed and the person needs antibiotics, the antibiotics are given intravenously for 1 or 2 days, then they can usually be given by mouth.
Antibiotic treatment of pyelonephritis is given for 5 to 14 days so that infection will not recur. However, antibiotic therapy may continue for up to 6 weeks for men in whom the infection is due to
prostatitis
, which is more difficult to eradicate. A final urine sample is usually taken shortly after the antibiotic treatment is finished to make sure the infection has been eradicated.
Surgery is necessary only occasionally if tests show that something is chronically blocking the urinary tract, such as a structural abnormality or a particularly large stone. Removal of the infected kidney may be necessary for people with chronic pyelonephritis who are about to undergo
kidney transplantation
. Spread of infection to the transplanted kidney is particularly risky because the person takes immunosuppressant medications, which prevent rejection of the transplanted kidney but also weaken the body's ability to fight infection.
Prognosis for Kidney Infection
Most people recover fully. Delayed recovery and the chance of complications are more likely if the person needs hospitalization, the infecting organism is resistant to commonly used antibiotics, or the person has a disorder that weakens the immune system (such as certain cancers, diabetes mellitus, or AIDS) or a kidney stone.
Prevention of Kidney Infection
People who have frequent episodes of pyelonephritis or whose infection returns after antibiotic treatment is finished may be advised to take a small dose of antibiotic on a long-term basis to prevent recurrent infection. The ideal duration of such therapy is unknown. If the infection returns after stopping this antibiotic, preventive therapy may be continued indefinitely. If a woman of childbearing age is taking an antibiotic, she should avoid pregnancy or talk to her doctor about whether to use an antibiotic that is safe during pregnancy in case she becomes pregnant.
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AM-GM Inequality
In algebra, the AM-GM Inequality, also known formally as the Inequality of Arithmetic and Geometric Means or informally as AM-GM, is an inequality that states that any list of nonnegative reals' arithmetic mean is greater than or equal to its geometric mean. Furthermore, the two means are equal if and only if every number in the list is the same.
In symbols, the inequality states that for any real numbers , with equality if and only if .
The AM-GM Inequality is among the most famous inequalities in algebra and has cemented itself as ubiquitous across almost all competitions. Applications exist at introductory, intermediate, and olympiad level problems, with AM-GM being particularly crucial in proof-based contests.
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1 Proofs
2 Generalizations
2.1 Weighted AM-GM Inequality
2.2 Mean Inequality Chain
2.3 Power Mean Inequality
3 Problems
3.1 Introductory
3.2 Intermediate
3.3 Olympiad
4 See Also
Proofs
Main article: Proofs of AM-GM
All known proofs of AM-GM use induction or other, more advanced inequalities. Furthermore, they are all more complex than their usage in introductory and most intermediate competitions. AM-GM's most elementary proof utilizes Cauchy Induction, a variant of induction where one proves a result for , uses induction to extend this to all powers of , and then shows that assuming the result for implies it holds for .
Generalizations
The AM-GM Inequality has been generalized into several other inequalities. In addition to those listed, the Minkowski Inequality and Muirhead's Inequality are also generalizations of AM-GM.
Weighted AM-GM Inequality
The Weighted AM-GM Inequality relates the weighted arithmetic and geometric means. It states that for any list of weights such that , with equality if and only if . When , the weighted form is reduced to the AM-GM Inequality. Several proofs of the Weighted AM-GM Inequality can be found in the proofs of AM-GM article.
Mean Inequality Chain
Main article: Mean Inequality Chain
The Mean Inequality Chain, also called the RMS-AM-GM-HM Inequality, relates the root mean square, arithmetic mean, geometric mean, and harmonic mean of a list of nonnegative reals. In particular, it states that with equality if and only if . As with AM-GM, there also exists a weighted version of the Mean Inequality Chain.
Power Mean Inequality
Main article: Power Mean Inequality
The Power Mean Inequality relates all the different power means of a list of nonnegative reals. The power mean is defined as follows: The Power Mean inequality then states that if , then , with equality holding if and only if Plugging into this inequality reduces it to AM-GM, and gives the Mean Inequality Chain. As with AM-GM, there also exists a weighted version of the Power Mean Inequality.
Problems
Introductory
For nonnegative real numbers , demonstrate that if then . (Solution)
Find the maximum of for all positive . (Solution)
Intermediate
Find the minimum value of for .
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Olympiad
Let , , and be positive real numbers. Prove that
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Proofs of AM-GM
Mean Inequality Chain
Power Mean Inequality
Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality
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Can’t Intubate, Can’t Oxygenate/Ventilate (CICO) scenarios are rare but critical airway emergencies which can quickly progress to severe hypoxia and death if not managed effectively by the healthcare team. There are many different approaches to the difficult or failed airway, all ultimately culminating in a last-line attempt at an emergency surgical airway (ESA)/front of neck access (FONA)/surgical cricothyroidotomy, or a needle cricothyroidotomy.
Incidence of ~1:10,000 anaesthetics
Call for help early
Prepare for ESA/needle cricothyroidotomy, fibre-optic intubation (FOI), or blind nasal intubation
Use emergency O 2 flush if there is access to ventilator circuit, or high-flow oxygen through face mask
Note – Ultrasound can be used to assist with placement of surgical airway and quick assessment of successful intubation.
RECOGNISING A CICO SCENARIO
ANZCA in their Airway Management resources refer to a model devised by Dr Nick Chrimes called the ‘Vortex Approach’ for recognising and responding to a CICO scenario.
The Vortex Approach:
Note: The Vortex Approach advocates for a single phonetic pronunciation of ‘CICO’ as Ky-Koh to avoid misunderstanding.
Aimed at all members of the team involved in potential difficult airways (critical care doctors, nurses, surgeons, paramedics, etc.).
Applies to any clinical context which involves airway management.
Preparing (or ‘Priming’) for a CICO scenario and eventual CICO Rescue during any airway management should be done simultaneously throughout attempts at Lifelines.
As any airway difficulty progresses, CICO Status should be escalated. CICO Status should be escalated after an unsuccessful best effort at any lifeline, or earlier if anticipated possible difficult airway or deteriorating clinical picture.
Dropping oxygen saturation or prolonged time attempting to establish an airway should immediately trigger simultaneous preparation for CICO Rescue.
CICO Status – a way of recognising the potential need for CICO Rescue early. Chrimes N et al
RESPONDING TO A CICO SCENARIO
3 upper airway ‘Lifelines’ (ETT, LMA/SGA, Face Mask) followed by progression to CICO Rescue (also referred to as surgical airway).
There should be a ‘best attempt’ at each upper airway Lifeline (in any order), after which if still unsuccessful, progression to surgical airway should immediately follow
There should be no more than 3 attempts at each Lifeline, and something should be changed between each attempt to improve the chance of success
5 changes that can be made for each Lifeline:
Manipulations
Adjuncts
Face mask: Guedel airway/Oropharyngeal airway (OPA), Nasopharyngeal airway (NPA)
ETT: Fibre-optic intubation (FOI), Shikani optical stylet, video laryngoscopy, different laryngoscope blades
Size/Type
Suction/Increased flow
Muscle tone
After each ‘best attempt’ at an upper airway Lifeline, declare this out loud so that all members of the team are aware.
Once a best attempt has been made at all 3 Lifelines, proceed immediately to CICO Rescue (surgical airway).
Note:SpO2 is not a factor in the decision to proceed to CICO Rescue, as although SpO 2 may demonstrate adequate oxygenation, it cannot evaluate safe apnoea time or physiological oxygen reserve which is likely fast depleting. Oxygen saturations are an important consideration, however, in making the context-specific decision as to when a ‘best effort’ at a Lifeline has been made. For example, if SpO 2 is critically low, the airway team may make the decision to only have one ‘best attempt’ at each lifeline before moving to the next Lifeline or to CICO Rescue.
The ‘Vortex Approach’ diagram demonstrating the ‘Green Zone’ (adequate alveolar oxygen delivery) at the outer edge of the vortex after supraglottic ‘Lifelines’ are successful at restoring ventilation, as well as in the centre after successful surgical or cannula infraglottic airway placement. Chrimes N et al
References and Links
CCCAirway Series
Emergencies: Can’t Intubate, Can’t Intubate, Can’t Oxygenate (CICO), Laryngospasm, Surgical Cricothyroidotomy
Conditions: Airway Obstruction, Airway in C-Spine Injury, Airway mgmt in major trauma, Airway in Maxillofacial Trauma, Airway in Neck Trauma, Angioedema, Coroner’s Clot, Intubation of the GI Bleeder, Intubation in GIH, Intubation, hypotension and shock, Peri-intubation life threats, Stridor, Post-Extubation Stridor, Tracheo-esophageal fistula, Trismus and Restricted Mouth Opening
Pre-Intubation: Airway Assessment, Apnoeic Oxygenation, Pre-oxygenation
Paediatric:Paediatric Airway, Paeds Anaesthetic Equipment, Upper airway obstruction in a child
Airway adjuncts: Intubating LMA, Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA)
Intubation Aids: Bougie, Stylet, Airway Exchange Catheter
Intubation Pharmacology: Paralytics for intubation of the critically ill, Pre-treatment for RSI
Laryngoscopy: Bimanual laryngoscopy, Direct Laryngoscopy, Suction Assisted Laryngoscopy Airway Decontamination (SALAD), Three Axis Alignment vs Two Curve Theory, Video Laryngoscopy, Video Laryngoscopy vs. Direct
Intubation:Adverse effects of endotracheal intubation, Awake Intubation, Blind Digital Intubation, Cricoid Pressure, Delayed sequence intubation (DSI), Nasal intubation, Pre-hospital RSI, Rapid Sequence Intubation (RSI), RSI and PALM
Post-intubation: ETT Cuff Leak, Hypoxia, Post-intubation Care, Unplanned Extubation
Tracheostomy:Anatomy, Assessment of swallow, Bleeding trache, Complications, Insertion, Insertion timing, Literature summary, Perc. Trache, Perc. vs surgical trache, Respiratory distress in a trache patient, Trache Adv. and Disadv., Trache summary
Misc:Airway literature summaries, Bronchoscopic Anatomy, Cuff Leak Test, Difficult airway algorithms, Phases of Swallowing
Journal articles
Heard AM, Green RJ, Eakins P. The formulation and introduction of a ‘can’t intubate, can’t ventilate’ algorithm into clinical practice. Anaesthesia. 2009;64:(6)601-8. [pubmed] [full text]
FOAM and web resources
Keith Greenland on ‘Emergency Surgical Airway: Facts and Fiction’(video lecture)
ANZCA CPD Handbook, Appendix 12. Available from:
Chrimes N. The Vortex approach to airway management [Internet].
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Critical Care Trainee and Surgical Research Assistant, BMed (UNE/UoN). Clinical Associate Lecturer with the University of Sydney School of Medicine. Born and raised in Sydney but contemplating an escape to the country. Passion for simulation-based teaching, peri-operative research, and FOAMed. Enjoys trail running, gardening (edible stuff), and cooking (with edible stuff from garden).
Chris Nickson
Chris is an Intensivist and ECMO specialist at The Alfred ICU, where he is Deputy Director (Education). He is a Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University, the Lead for theClinician Educator Incubatorprogramme, and a CICM First Part Examiner.
He is an internationally recognised Clinician Educator with a passion for helping clinicians learn and for improving the clinical performance of individuals and collectives. He was one of the founders of theFOAMmovement(Free Open-Access Medical education)has been recognised for his contributions to education with awards from ANZICS, ANZAHPE, and ACEM.
His one great achievement is being the father of three amazing children.
On Bluesky, he is @precordialthump.bsky.social and on the site that Elon has screwed up, he is @precordialthump.
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Lung cancer typically doesn't cause symptoms early on. Symptoms of lung cancer usually happen when the disease is advanced.
Signs and symptoms of lung cancer that happen in and around the lungs may include:
A new cough that doesn't go away.
Chest pain.
Coughing up blood, even a small amount.
Hoarseness.
Shortness of breath.
Wheezing.
Signs and symptoms that happen when lung cancer spreads to other parts of the body may include:
Bone pain.
Headache.
Losing weight without trying.
Loss of appetite.
Swelling in the face or neck.
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Causes
Lung cancer happens when cells in the lungs develop changes in their DNA. A cell's DNA holds the instructions that tell a cell what to do. In healthy cells, the DNA gives instructions to grow and multiply at a set rate. The instructions tell the cells to die at a set time. In cancer cells, the DNA changes give different instructions. The changes tell the cancer cells to make many more cells quickly. Cancer cells can keep living when healthy cells would die. This causes too many cells.
The cancer cells might form a mass called a tumor. The tumor can grow to invade and destroy healthy body tissue. In time, cancer cells can break away and spread to other parts of the body. When cancer spreads, it's called metastatic cancer.
Smoking causes most lung cancers. It can cause lung cancer in both people who smoke and in people exposed to secondhand smoke. But lung cancer also happens in people who never smoked or been exposed to secondhand smoke. In these people, there may be no clear cause of lung cancer.
How smoking causes lung cancer
Researchers believe smoking causes lung cancer by damaging the cells that line the lungs. Cigarette smoke is full of cancer-causing substances, called carcinogens. When you inhale cigarette smoke, the carcinogens cause changes in the lung tissue almost immediately.
At first your body may be able to repair this damage. But with each repeated exposure, healthy cells that line your lungs become more damaged. Over time, the damage causes cells to change and eventually cancer may develop.
Types of lung cancer
Lung cancer is divided into two major types based on the appearance of the cells under a microscope. Your healthcare professional makes treatment decisions based on which major type of lung cancer you have.
The two general types of lung cancer include:
Small cell lung cancer. Small cell lung cancer usually only happens in people who have smoked heavily for years. Small cell lung cancer is less common than non-small cell lung cancer.
Non-small cell lung cancer. Non-small cell lung cancer is a category that includes several types of lung cancers. Non-small cell lung cancers include squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma and large cell carcinoma.
Risk factors
A number of factors may increase the risk of lung cancer. Some risk factors can be controlled, for instance, by quitting smoking. Other factors can't be controlled, such as your family history.
Risk factors for lung cancer include:
Smoking
Your risk of lung cancer increases with the number of cigarettes you smoke each day. Your risk also increases with the number of years you have smoked. Quitting at any age can significantly lower your risk of developing lung cancer.
Exposure to secondhand smoke
Even if you don't smoke, your risk of lung cancer increases if you're around people who are smoking. Breathing the smoke in the air from other people who are smoking is called secondhand smoke.
Previous radiation therapy
If you've had radiation therapy to the chest for another type of cancer, you may have an increased risk of developing lung cancer.
Exposure to radon gas
Radon is produced by the natural breakdown of uranium in soil, rock and water. Radon eventually becomes part of the air you breathe. Unsafe levels of radon can build up in any building, including homes.
Exposure to cancer-causing substances
Workplace exposure to cancer-causing substances, called carcinogens, can increase your risk of developing lung cancer. The risk may be higher if you smoke. Carcinogens linked to lung cancer risk include asbestos, arsenic, chromium and nickel.
Family history of lung cancer
People with a parent, sibling or child with lung cancer have an increased risk of the disease.
Complications
Lung cancer can cause complications, such as:
Shortness of breath
People with lung cancer can experience shortness of breath if cancer grows to block the major airways. Lung cancer also can cause fluid to collect around the lungs and heart. The fluid makes it harder for the affected lung to expand fully when you inhale.
Coughing up blood
Lung cancer can cause bleeding in the airway. This can cause you to cough up blood. Sometimes bleeding can become severe. Treatments are available to control bleeding.
Pain
Advanced lung cancer that spreads can cause pain. It may spread to the lining of a lung or to another area of the body, such as a bone. Tell your healthcare professional if you experience pain. Many treatments are available to control pain.
Fluid in the chest
Lung cancer can cause fluid to accumulate in the chest, called pleural effusion. The fluid collects in the space that surrounds the affected lung in the chest cavity, called the pleural space.
Pleural effusion can cause shortness of breath. Treatments are available to drain the fluid from your chest. Treatments can reduce the risk that pleural effusion will happen again.
Cancer that spreads to other parts of the body
Lung cancer often spreads to other parts of the body. Lung cancer may spread to the brain and the bones.
Cancer that spreads can cause pain, nausea, headaches or other symptoms depending on what organ is affected. Once lung cancer has spread beyond the lungs, it's generally not curable. Treatments are available to decrease symptoms and to help you live longer.
Prevention
There's no sure way to prevent lung cancer, but you can reduce your risk if you:
Don't smoke
If you've never smoked, don't start. Talk to your children about not smoking so that they can understand how to avoid this major risk factor for lung cancer. Begin conversations about the dangers of smoking with your children early so that they know how to react to peer pressure.
Stop smoking
Stop smoking now. Quitting reduces your risk of lung cancer, even if you've smoked for years. Talk to your healthcare team about strategies and aids that can help you quit. Options include nicotine replacement products, medicines and support groups.
Avoid secondhand smoke
If you live or work with a person who smokes, urge them to quit. At the very least, ask them to smoke outside. Avoid areas where people smoke, such as bars. Seek out smoke-free options.
Test your home for radon
Have the radon levels in your home checked, especially if you live in an area where radon is known to be a problem. High radon levels can be fixed to make your home safer. Radon test kits are often sold at hardware stores and can be purchased online. For more information on radon testing, contact your local department of public health.
Avoid carcinogens at work
Take precautions to protect yourself from exposure to toxic chemicals at work. Follow your employer's precautions. For instance, if you're given a face mask for protection, always wear it. Ask your healthcare professional what more you can do to protect yourself at work. Your risk of lung damage from workplace carcinogens increases if you smoke.
Eat a diet full of fruits and vegetables
Choose a healthy diet with a variety of fruits and vegetables. Food sources of vitamins and nutrients are best. Avoid taking large doses of vitamins in pill form, as they may be harmful. For instance, researchers hoping to reduce the risk of lung cancer in people who smoked heavily gave them beta carotene supplements. Results showed the supplements increased the risk of cancer in people who smoke.
Exercise most days of the week
If you don't exercise regularly, start out slowly. Try to exercise most days of the week.
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12468 | https://pleclair.ua.edu/ph106/Homework/HW6_SOLN.pdf | UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA Department of Physics and Astronomy PH 106-4 / LeClair Fall 2008 Problem Set 6: Solutions 1. Serway 29.55 Protons having a kinetic energy of 5.00 MeV are moving in the positive x direction and enter a magnetic field ⃗ B = 0.0500 ˆ k T directed out of the plane of the page and extending from x = 0 to x=1.00 m, as shown below. (a) Calculate the y component of the protons’ momentum as they leave the magnetic field. (b) Find the angle α between the initial velocity vector after the beam emerges from the field. Note that 1 eV=1.60 × 10−19 J.
Bout Figure 1: Problem 1 First of all, we know that once the proton enters the region of magnetic field it will follow a circular path of radius r, and once it leaves the region it will once again move in a straight line path, tangential to the circular path in the field region. We will need to use some geometry to relate α to the given distance x and the radius of the circular path r. Then we will determine the radius of the circular path in terms of the known kinetic energy, and we will be good to go . . . Refer to the figure below: α β 90-α r r d Figure 2: Problem 1 Solution The path of the protons in the region of magnetic field is circular, and described by a radius r. The protons will move through the region of magnetic field across its lateral distance d, and this will define an angle α, carving out an arc of a circle of radius r. We can define a right triangle by the center of the circle defining the path in the magnetic field region, the point at which the protons enter the field, and the point at which they leave. The angle at which the protons leave the field with respect to the horizontal is then β =α based on the geometry of the figure above. Once we know r, given d, we can find α by noting sin α=d/r.
The radius of the circular path of the protons can be found by noting that the centripetal force (keeping them in a circular path) must be provided by the magnetic force. Note that a proton has charge e and mass mp, and let the proton’s velocity be v. Also recall that magnetic forces do no work, so the protons’ velocity will not change in magnitude after passing through the region of magnetic field. Since the motion of the particle is always at a right angle with respect to the field, we can just deal in magnitudes.
Fcentr = mpv2 r = FB = evB sin θBv = evB = ⇒ r = mpv eB = p eB Here p is the magnitude of the protons’ momentum. Now we have the radius of the path in terms of the field, the charge on a proton, and the protons’ momentum. We are given the protons’ kinetic energy K, which is related to its momentum by K =p2/2mp. Thus, r = p eB = p 2mpK eB ≈6.46 m Remember that 1 eV=1.6 × 10−19 J to make the units come out properly. Given the radius r, we can now find the angle α: sin α = d r = ⇒ α = sin−1 d r ≈8.9◦ Now, since the magnetic force does no work, the protons’ momentum does not change in magni-tude, so the initial and final momentum are the same. The vertical (y) component of the protons’ momentum can thus be easily found: py =p sin α py = p sin α = p 2mpK sin α ≈8.0 × 10−21 kg · m/s 2. Serway 29.67 Consider an electron orbiting a proton and maintained in a fixed circular path of radius R =5.29 × 10−11 m by the Coulomb force. Treating the orbiting charge as a current loop, calculate the resulting torque when the system is in a magnetic field of 0.400 T directed perpendicular to the magnetic moment of the electron.
First, need to know the current that corresponds to one orbiting electron. From the current I, magnetic field B, and the orbital radius R we can find the torque. An electron in a circular orbit of radius R has a period of T = 2πR/v, where v it he electron’s velocity. If a single electron charge −e orbits once every T seconds, then the current is by definition I = ∆q ∆t = −e T = −ev 2πR We can find the velocity from the condition for circular motion. The only force present (that we know of) is the electric force, which must then provide the centripetal force on the electron. The electric force is just that of two point charges e and −e separated by a distance R.
Fcentr −FE = mev2 r −−kee2 R2 = 0 = ⇒ v = s kee2 meR We can now substitute this in our expression for current above: I = −ev 2πR = −e 2πR s kee2 meR = −e2 2π r ke meR3 Finally, since the magnetic field is perpendicular to the electron’s magnetic moment, the magnitude of the torque is given by τ = IAB where A is the area of the “current loop" formed by the orbiting electron, A=πR2. Thus, τ = IAB = −e2 2π r ke meR3 πR2B = −1 2e2B r keR me ≈3.7 × 10−24 N · m The negative sign reminds us that current is the direction that positive charge flows, and thus the direction of the torque is given by the right hand rule consistent with the current, which is opposite the direction that the electron orbits.
3. Ohanian 29.5 A wire lying along the x axis carries a current of 30 A in the +x direction. A proton at ⃗ r = 2.5 ˆ y has instantaneous velocity ⃗ v = 2.0 ˆ x −3.0 ˆ y + 4.0ˆ z, where ⃗ r is in meters and ⃗ v in meters per second. What is the instantaneous magnetic force on this proton?
If the current flows along the ˆ x direction, and the proton is directly above the wire in the ˆ y direction, then the magnetic field must be pointing along the ˆ z direction at the proton’s position. Thus, the magnetic field at the proton’s position⃗ r is given by ⃗ B = µoI 2πr ˆ z ≡Bz ˆ z Finding the magnetic force is now just a matter of calculating the cross product ⃗ v×⃗ B and multiplying by the proton’s charge e. First, the cross product: ⃗ v × ⃗ B = det ˆ x ˆ y ˆ z vx vy vz Bx By Bz = det ˆ x ˆ y ˆ z 2 m/s −3 m/s 4 m/s 0 0 Bz = −3Bz ˆ x −2Bz ˆ y m/s Thus, the magnetic force is ⃗ FB = q⃗ v × ⃗ B = −3eBz ˆ x −2eBz ˆ y m/s ≈ −3.84 × 10−25 (3 ˆ x + 2 ˆ y) N If you note that 1 T = 1 kg/s2 · A, you should be able to make the units come out properly. For completion, the magnitude of the force is then |⃗ FB| = −3.84 × 10−25 p 32 + 22 ≈1.38 × 10−24 N 4. Ohanian 29.19 The electric field of a long, straight line of charge with λ coulombs per meter is E = 2keλ r where r is the distance from the wire. Suppose we move this line of charge parallel to itself at speed v. (a) The moving line of charge constitutes an electric current. What is the magnitude of this current?
(b) What is the magnitude of the magnetic field produced by this current? (c) Show that the magnitude of the magnetic field is proportional to the magnitude of the electric field, and find the constant of proportionality.
The current can be found by thinking about how much charge passes through a given region of space per unit time. If we were standing next to the wire, in a time ∆t, the length of wire that passes by us would be v∆t. The corresponding charge is then ∆q=λv∆t, and thus the current is I = ∆q ∆t = λv∆t ∆t = λv From the current, we can easily find the magnetic field a distance r from the wire.
B = µoI 2πr = µoλv 2πr If the wire were sitting still (or we were traveling parallel to it at the same velocity v), it would produce the electric field given above. Rearranging the given expression, we can relate λ and E, λ = Er/2ke.
Substituting this in our expression for the magnetic field, B = µoλv 2πr = µoErv 4πker = µoϵovE For the last step, we noted that ϵo =1/4πke.
5. Purcell 7.14 A metal crossbar of mass m slides without friction on two long parallel rails a distance b apart. A resistor R is connected across the rails at one end; compared with R, the resistance of the bar and rails is negligible. There is a uniform field ⃗ B perpendicular to the plane of the figure. At time t=0, the crossbar is given a velocity vo toward the right. What happens then? (a) Does the rod ever stop moving? If so, when? (b) How far does it go? (c) How about conservation of energy? Hint: first find the acceleration, and make use of an instantaneous balance of power.
X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X Bin X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X vo b R Figure 3: Problem 5 The moving rod forms a closed loop with the rails, and once the rod starts moving, the area of this loop increases with time. With a constant magnetic field, this means that the magnetic flux is increas-ing with time, and therefore there must be an induced voltage. Let the position of the rod be x, with the ˆ x direction being to the right, and the ˆ y direction upward. This means the magnetic field points in the −ˆ z direction, giving in a magnitude −B. At time t=0, we will say the rod has velocity vo and position xo. For any time t, we will just call the velocity v and position x, since we don’t know what they are yet.
The induced voltage can be found from the magnetic flux through the loop, which is itself is easily found, since the magnetic field is constant and everywhere perpendicular to the plane of the loop. We only need the area of the loop. If the width of the loop is b, and the position of the rod is x, the area is just bx, and that is enough to find the flux: ΦB = loop ⃗ B · d⃗ A = B loop d⃗ A = −BA = −Bxb The induced voltage is found from the time variation of the flux via Faraday’s law. The induced voltage - which is now applied to the resistor - will lead to a counterclockwise current in the loop, since it wants to stop the increase in flux by creating a magnetic field opposing the external magnetic field.
∆V = −dΦB dt = Bbdx dt = Bbv = IR The presence of a current in the conducting rod will lead to a magnetic force. Since the field is into the page (−ˆ z direction), and the current is flowing up through through the rod (ˆ y direction), the force must be in the ˆ y direction.
⃗ FB = I⃗ L × ⃗ B = IbB ˆ y × (−ˆ z) = −IbB ˆ x = −B2b2v R = ma Recall that the direction of ⃗ L is the same as the direction of the current. Since the magnetic force is the only force acting on the rod (in the absence of friction), it must also give the acceleration of the rod, as indicted in the last step. Incidentally, we could have gotten here much more quickly with a little intuition. If we recognize that there must be a current flowing in the resistor due to the induced voltage caused by the motion of the rod, then we know there is power dissipated in the resistor. This power must be the same as that supplied to the rod. The mechanical power is ⃗ F · ⃗ v, and the electrical power is I2R. Conservation of energy requires that these two powers be equal, which along with the motional voltage leads directly to the equation above.
Anyway: now we have a small equation relating v and its rate of change, dv/dt=a. We can solve it by separation of variables, which is totally cool since none of our quantities are zero. Dividing by zero is not cool.
−B2b2v R = mdv dt mR B2b2 dv v = −dt Now we’ve got something we can integrate. Our starting condition is velocity vo at time t = = 0, going until some later time t where the velocity is v.
v vo mR B2b2 dv v = t 0 −dt mR B2b2 ln v v vo = −t t 0 mR B2b2 ln v vo = −t = ⇒ v = voe−t/τ with τ = mR B2b2 The velocity is an exponentially decreasing function of time, which means it never stops moving - the velocity approaches, but does not reach, zero. The rod will also approach a final target displacement in spite of this fact, which we can find readily by integrating the velocity.
∆x = ∞ o v dt = ∞ o voe−t/τ = vo −τe−t/τ ∞ o = voτ = mRvo B2b2 Once again, if you note that 1 T = 1 kg/s2 · A and 1 V · 1 A = 1 W, you should be able to make the units come out correctly.
Finally, we can calculate the total electrical energy expended. The electrical power dissipated in the resistor is P = dU/dt = I2R, so the tiny bit of potential energy dU expended in a time dt is dU = I2R dt. We can integrate over all times to find the total potential energy.
U = ∞ 0 I2R dt = ∞ 0 Bbv R 2 R dt = B2b2 R ∞ 0 v2 dt = B2b2v2 o R ∞ 0 e−2t/τ dt = B2b2v2 o R −τ 2e−2t/τ ∞ 0 = B2b2v2 o R mR 2B2b2 = 1 2mv2 0 As we would expect from conservation of energy, all of the initial kinetic energy of the conducting bar ends up dissipated in the resistor.
6. Serway 29.66 A uniform magnetic field of magnitude 0.150 T is directed along the positive x axis. A positron (a positively-charged electron) moving at 5.00 × 106 m/s enters the field along a direction that makes an angle of 85◦with the x axis. The motion of the particle is expected to be a helix in this case.
Calculate the pitch p and radius r of the trajectory.
65. A cyclotron is sometimes used for carbon dating, as described in Chapter 44. Carbon-14 and carbon-12 ions are obtained from a sample of the material to be dated, and accelerated in the cyclotron. If the cyclotron has a magnetic field of magnitude 2.40 T, what is the difference in cyclotron frequencies for the two ions?
66. A uniform magnetic field of magnitude 0.150 T is directed along the positive x axis. A positron moving at 5.00 !
106 m/s enters the field along a direction that makes an angle of 85.0° with the x axis (Fig. P29.66). The motion of the particle is expected to be a helix, as described in Section 29.4. Calculate (a) the pitch p and (b) the radius r of the trajectory.
70.
Table P29.70 shows measurements and corresponding magnetic field for measure magnetic fields. (a) Plot these da relationship between the two variables. (b ments were taken with a current of 0.200 is made from a material having a charge-1.00 ! 1026/m3, what is the thickness of t v r x y z 85° B p Figure P29.66 × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × × θ θ x ' Figure P29.69 A + Bloo flow Electrodes B – S Artery N Figure P29.71 Consider an electron orbiting a proton and maintained in a fixed circular path of radius R " 5.29 ! 10#11 m by the Coulomb force. Treating the orbiting charge as a current loop, calculate the resulting torque when the system is in a magnetic field of 0.400 T directed perpendicular to the magnetic moment of the electron.
68. A singly charged ion completes five revolutions in a uni-form magnetic field of magnitude 5.00 ! 10#2 T in 1.50 ms. Calculate the mass of the ion in kilograms.
69. A proton moving in the plane of the page has a kinetic energy of 6.00 MeV. A magnetic field of magnitude B " 1.00 T is directed into the page. The proton enters the magnetic field with its velocity vector at an angle $ " 45.0° to the linear boundary of the field as shown in Figure P29.69. (a) Find x, the distance from the point of entry to where the proton will leave the field.
(b) Determine $%, the angle between the boundary and the proton’s velocity vector as it leaves the field.
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Lesch-nyhan syndrome
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is a condition that causes neurological problems that resemble cerebral palsy and characteristic behavioral issues. It almost always occurs in boys and is due to a build up of uric acid in the body. Uric acid is a waste product of normal chemical processes of the body and is found in blood and urine.
Neurological differences in Lesch-Nyhan syndrome are usually noticeable before 12 months of age. These include uncontrollable movements in the arms and legs (dystonia), repetitive movements (chorea), and low muscle tone or soft muscles (hypotonia). Later there is increased muscle tone and muscle rigidity (spasticity). These neurological differences may resemble cerebral palsy. Many affected boys are delayed in reaching, or fail to reach, developmental milestones such as sitting and crawling. Most will not learn to walk.
People with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome often try to injure themselves through biting, banging of their heads, arms, and legs, and scratching. The biting behaviors are severe and often lead to loss of tissue.
The extra uric acid sometimes forms crystals in the kidneys causing kidney stones. These can also lead to other problems in the urinary tract and kidneys if not treated. Crystals formed from the uric acid may also be found in the joints. This can cause stiffness and swelling in the joints (gouty arthritis).
The best person to diagnose Lesch-Nyhan syndrome and discuss the symptoms is a medical geneticist (a specialist in inherited/genetic conditions) or pediatric neurologist (a specialist in conditions of the nervous system for children). Medical geneticists and pediatric neurologist in an area can be found by talking to doctors about who they would recommend or using the “Find Genetic Services” function at the American College of Medical Genetics.
There are other names for Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LNS). They include the following:
Hypoxanthine-Guanine Phosphoribosyltransferase Deficiency
HGPRT Deficiency
HPRT Deficiency
Lesch-Nyhan Disease
To learn if there is another name for Lesch-Nyhan syndrome a doctor might use, ask them if they are using another term for Lesch-Nyhan syndrome or look on a reliable website such Genetics Home Reference.
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome occurs in about 1 in 380,000 people. It occurs almost exclusively in boys.
The best person to diagnose Lesch-Nyhan syndrome and discuss the symptoms is a medical geneticist (a specialist in inherited/genetic conditions) or pediatric neurologist (a specialist in conditions of the nervous system for children). Medical geneticists and pediatric neurologist in an area can be found by talking to doctors about who they would recommend or using the “Find Genetic Services” function at the American College of Medical Genetics.
The usual abbreviation for Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is LNS.
To learn if there is another name or abbreviation for Lesch Nyhan syndrome a doctor might use, ask them if they are using another term for Lesch Nyhan syndrome or look on a reliable website such Genetics Home Reference.
Frequently Asked Questions About Lesch-nyhan syndrome
Will a child with Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome be able to walk?
Boys with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome have significant problems controlling their muscles. For this reason, almost all children with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome never learn to walk.
The best person to discuss the symptoms of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is a specialist in medical genetics (a specialist in inherited/genetic conditions) or pediatric neurology (a specialist in conditions of the nervous system for children). Medical geneticists and pediatric neurologiest in an area can be found by talking to doctors about who they would recommend or using the “Find Genetic Services” function at the American College of Medical Genetics.
Who else in my family should I test for Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
Genetic testing can be offered for other family members if a HPRT1 gene change is identified in an affected person. Testing can be offered to other people depending on who is diagnosed first and the carrier status of the mother. A few examples are the following:
What urinary differences can be seen in Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
Urinary differences that can be seen in Lesch-Nyhan syndrome occur because of the build up on uric acid in the body. The extra uric acid can form into crystals and stones. These crystals may be seen as "orange-colored sand" deposits in the diapers. A stone may become caught in the kidneys and cause blood in the urine (hematuria). The stones can lead to urinary tract infections, bladder stones-if it travels to the bladder, and can cause more serious kidney problems if not treated. Management includes drinking plenty of fluids (staying hydrated) and treatment with the medication allopurinol. With proper management, the complications can be greatly reduced.
A pediatric urologist (a doctor specializing in problems with the kidneys and urinary tract) can help manage these complications. To find a pediatric urologist, ask your doctor for a recommendation.
What type of testing is available if a female is suspected to be a carrier of Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
If a female has the possibility to be a carrier of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, testing is available.
HPRT (hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase) enzyme analysis is not widely used to see if a female is a carrier of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome because there is a chance for false positives and false negatives. However, testing can be done to measure the frequency of HPRT-deficient white blood cells in their growth medium.
Genetic testing is also available to see if a female is a carrier of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. For genetic testing, the HPRT1 gene is analyzed usually using a blood sample. It is most useful to perform carrier testing when the specific change or gene mutation in the HPRT1 gene is known in the family. This is usually found by first performing genetic testing on the person who has Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.
To learn more about testing for Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, speak with a geneticist or genetic counselor. You can find a genetics clinic near you by searching the American College of Medical Genetics. To find a genetic counselor search on the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
What symptoms would a female with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome have?
It is extremely rare for females to be diagnosed with Lesch Nyhan syndrome or Lesch Nyhan variant. Most females with a mutation in HPRT1, the gene associated with Lesch Nyhan, are carriers of the disease and do not have any symptoms; but there have been reports, less than 10 currently, of females with the condition. Of the cases that have been reported, most of the females were diagnosed with the most severe end of the syndrome, Lesch Nyhan syndrome. Most of the girls presented with developmental delay and later were found to have hyperuricemia, intellectual disability, severe dystonia, and self-injurious behavior, which are symptoms typical of a male with the condition. There is one report of a female who presented with acute renal failure at 2 months of age, and was later diagnosed with Lesch Nyhan syndrome. There is also one report of a female with the hyperuricemic (HRH) variant, in which patients have hyperuricemia without any neurological or behavioral abnormalities, who presented with gout.
In all of these cases, it was discovered that there was non-random X-inactivation in each of the females. Typically, females each have 2 X chromosomes, though one X chromosome in every cell is inactivated or "turned off". In most females, the X that is inactivated is random, and occurs very early in development. This was found to be the case in all females with Lesch Nyhan syndrome; the X with the HPRT1 mutation was the X that was active.
What percentage of males with Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome are found to have a HPRT1 gene mutation?
Greater than 90-95% of males with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome are found to have a change (mutation) in the HPRT1 gene located on the X chromosome. A person can still have Lesch-Nyhan syndrome even if a gene change is not found on genetic testing.
To learn more about the genetics of Lesch Nyhan syndrome, speak with a geneticist or genetic counselor. You can find a genetics clinic near you by searching the American College of Medical Genetics. To find a genetic counselor search on the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
What neurological differences can be seen in Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
Neurological differences that can be seen in Lesch-Nyhan syndrome are usually noticeable before 12 months of age. These include uncontrollable movements in the arms and legs (dystonia), repetitive movements (chorea) such as raising and lowering of the shoulders, and/or facial grimacing, and low muscle tone or soft muscles (hypotonia). Later there is increased muscle tone and muscle rigidity (spasticity). These neurological differences may resemble cerebral palsy.
Developmental delays are also evident within the first year of life with many affected boys delayed in reaching, or failing to reach, developmental milestones such as sitting and crawling. Most will not learn to walk.
The best person to diagnose Lesch-Nyhan syndrome and discuss the symptoms is a specialist in medical genetics (a specialist in inherited/genetic conditions) or pediatric neurology (a specialist in conditions of the nervous system for children). Medical geneticists and pediatric neurologiest in an area can be found by talking to doctors about who they would recommend or using the “Find Genetic Services” function at the American College of Medical Genetics.
What is the usual abbreviation for Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
The usual abbreviation for Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is LNS.
To learn if there is another name or abbreviation for Lesch Nyhan syndrome a doctor might use, ask them if they are using another term for Lesch Nyhan syndrome or look on a reliable website such Genetics Home Reference.
What is Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is a condition that causes neurological problems that resemble cerebral palsy and characteristic behavioral issues. It almost always occurs in boys and is due to a build up of uric acid in the body. Uric acid is a waste product of normal chemical processes of the body and is found in blood and urine.
Neurological differences in Lesch-Nyhan syndrome are usually noticeable before 12 months of age. These include uncontrollable movements in the arms and legs (dystonia), repetitive movements (chorea), and low muscle tone or soft muscles (hypotonia). Later there is increased muscle tone and muscle rigidity (spasticity). These neurological differences may resemble cerebral palsy. Many affected boys are delayed in reaching, or fail to reach, developmental milestones such as sitting and crawling. Most will not learn to walk.
People with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome often try to injure themselves through biting, banging of their heads, arms, and legs, and scratching. The biting behaviors are severe and often lead to loss of tissue.
The extra uric acid sometimes forms crystals in the kidneys causing kidney stones. These can also lead to other problems in the urinary tract and kidneys if not treated. Crystals formed from the uric acid may also be found in the joints. This can cause stiffness and swelling in the joints (gouty arthritis).
The best person to diagnose Lesch-Nyhan syndrome and discuss the symptoms is a medical geneticist (a specialist in inherited/genetic conditions) or pediatric neurologist (a specialist in conditions of the nervous system for children). Medical geneticists and pediatric neurologist in an area can be found by talking to doctors about who they would recommend or using the “Find Genetic Services” function at the American College of Medical Genetics.
What gene change or mutation causes Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
Harmful changes (mutations) in the HPRT1 gene are known to cause Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome. The HPRT1 gene is named after the protein that it gives the instructions to make, the enzyme “hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase" or HPRT for short. The gene is located on the X chromosome (one of the sex chromosomes; the other sex chromosome is the Y chromosome). The exact location of the HPRT1 gene is chromosome Xq26.1.
To learn more about the genetics of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, speak with a geneticist or genetic counselor. You can find a genetics clinic near you by searching the American College of Medical Genetics. To find a genetic counselor search on the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
What does it mean to have inherited a “variant” in the gene for Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
When a person inherits a “variant” in the HPRT1 gene for Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, it means they have a change in the gene, but it is currently not known if this change actually causes Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. These are often called variants of uncertain significance (VUS). Sometimes the interpretation of variants change as more people are tested and more data is received by the laboratory. Your genetics doctor can also help to decide whether or not they think the variant of uncertain significance is significant for you or not.
To learn more about the genetics of Lesch Nyhan syndrome, speak with a geneticist or genetic counselor. You can find a genetics clinic near you by searching the American College of Medical Genetics. To find a genetic counselor search on the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
What does genotype-phenotype correlation mean, and is there genotype-phenotype correlation in Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
Genotype refers to the specific change in a gene. Phenotype is the outward traits that are observed. Genotype-phenotype correlation means that a specific change in the gene causes specific traits or medical concerns. HPRT1 gene mutations that completely disrupt HPRT (hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase) enzyme function, meaning that very little or no ezyme is made, are associated with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. HPRT1 gene mutations that do not completely disrupt HPRT enzyme function and allow the enzyme to function at higher levels cause HPRT-related hyperuricemia and HPRT-related gout.
HPRT-related hyperuricemia may cause pain and swelling in joints (gout), crystals in the urine (this can be seen on urine test), and kidney stones. Sometimes renal disease may occur. Males affected with this condition usually show symptoms in childhood. Female carriers may develop features of this condition later in life. People with this condition do not have the neurological or behavioral problems of those with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.
HPRT-related gout (also known as Kelley-Seegmiller syndrome) explains less than 2% of adult males with gout.
It will be important to ask your geneticist and genetic counselor if there are any reports of genotype-phenotype correlation if a HPRT1 gene mutation is found. You can find a genetics clinic near you by searching the American College of Medical Genetics. To find a genetic counselor search on the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
What behavioral differences can be seen in Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
The most significant behavioral differences that can be seen in Lesch-Nyhan syndrome are the self-injuring behaviors. A child may repeatedly bite their lips, cheeks, fingers, and hands. These behaviors may lead to loss of tissue. They may also hit their head, arms, and legs against hard objects. Some children may scratch their face repeatedly. However, they can still feel pain. It is often necessary to restrain boys with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome when these behaviors appear, or they may cause serious injuries. In many cases, being restrained is comforting to the boys because they know that they will not hurt themselves. This is sometimes treated by removing teeth and behavioral therapy. Some medications have also shown benefit in some people.
These behaviors often begin between the ages of 2-3, but may occur in the first year of life, or may begin much later.
Other behavior may include aggressiveness, spitting, foul language, and vomiting.
The best person to diagnose Lesch-Nyhan syndrome and discuss the symptoms is a specialist in medical genetics (a specialist in inherited/genetic conditions) or pediatric neurology (a specialist in conditions of the nervous system for children). Medical geneticists and pediatric neurologiest in an area can be found by talking to doctors about who they would recommend or using the “Find Genetic Services” function at the American College of Medical Genetics.
What are the main symptoms of Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is a condition that causes neurological problems that resemble cerebral palsy and characteristic behavioral issues. It almost always occurs in boys and is due to a build up of uric acid in the body. Uric acid is a waste product of normal chemical processes of the body and is found in blood and urine.
Symptoms of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome may be seen as early as six months of age. Early signs of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome include orange-colored deposits (“orange sand”) in the diapers of infants. These are crystals formed from the extra uric acid. Sometimes kidney stones develop and can cause blood in the urine (hematuria) and increase the chance of urinary tract infections. If untreated, the kidney stones can lead to very serious kidney problems. The excess uric acid is treated with a medication called allopurinol. Crystals formed from the uric acid may also be found in the joints. This can cause pain and swelling in the joints (gout). However, this does not usually occur until the teenage or adult years and can be treated with the same medication.
Neurological differences in Lesch-Nyhan syndrome are usually noticeable before 12 months of age. These include uncontrollable movements in the arms and legs (dystonia), repetitive movements (chorea) such as raising and lowering of the shoulders, and/or facial grimacing, and low muscle tone or soft muscles (hypotonia). The low muscle tone may make it difficult for them to hold up their head in infancy. Later there is increased muscle tone and muscle rigidity (spasticity). These neurological differences may resemble cerebral palsy.
Developmental delays are also evident within the first year of life. Many affected boys are delayed in reaching, or fail to reach, developmental milestones such as sitting and crawling. Most will not learn to walk. Intelligence is usually moderately affected although it is difficult to assess because many boys cannot speak well, have difficulty with movement, and behavior problems
The most significant behavioral differences that can be seen in about 85% of boys with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome are the self-injuring behaviors. A child may repeatedly bite their lips, cheeks, fingers, and hands. These behaviors may lead to loss of tissue. They may also hit their head, arms, and legs against hard objects. Some children may scratch their face repeatedly. However, they still feel pain. It is often necessary to restrain boys with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome when these behaviors appear, or they may cause serious injuries. In many cases, being restrained is comforting to the boys because they know that they will not hurt themselves. These behaviors often begin between the ages of 2-3, but may occur in the first year of life, or may begin much later. Other behaviors may include aggressiveness, spitting, foul language, and vomiting.
Other health concerns that can be seen in Lesch-Nyhan syndrome include trouble swallowing and feeding difficulties due to recurrent vomiting. This is sometimes severe enough to impair nutrition and growth and they may be underweight for their age. If it is severe, a feeding tube may have to be inserted into the stomach. Another issue is anemia with very large red cells in the blood (megaloblastic anemia). Fortunately, this does not usually cause problems or require treatment. Some experience severe muscle spasms, scoliosis, hip dislocations, and fixation of joints in a flexed position (contractures). Not all people with Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome have these features.
With proper management, boys with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome can live into their teens and twenties.
The best person to discuss the symptoms of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is a medical geneticist (a specialist in inherited/genetic conditions) or pediatric neurologist (a specialist in conditions of the nervous system for children). Pediatric urologist (kidney and urinary tract specialists) should also be consulted. Medical geneticists and pediatric neurologist in an area can be found by talking to doctors about who they would recommend or to find a genetics clinic use the “Find Genetic Services” function at the American College of Medical Genetics.
What are the first steps after an initial diagnosis of Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
When a boy has been diagnosed with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome the following evaluations are recommended to establish a treatment and management plan:
What are some early signs of Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
Early signs of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome include orange-colored deposits (“orange sand”) in the diapers of infants, uncontrollable movements, low muscle tone (hypotonia), and developmental delay. The orange-colored deposits are due to high levels of uric acid in the urine. Uncontrollable movements can be seen before the age of 12 months, in addition to delayed developmental milestones such as sitting or crawling. Another early sign in the first few years may include self-injuring behaviors (biting themselves, scratching themselves, hitting their head, arms, and legs against objects).
The best person to diagnose Lesch-Nyhan syndrome and discuss the symptoms is a specialist in medical genetics (a specialist in inherited/genetic conditions) or pediatric neurology (a specialist in conditions of the nervous system for children). Medical geneticists and pediatric neurologiest in an area can be found by talking to doctors about who they would recommend or using the “Find Genetic Services” function at the American College of Medical Genetics.
What are other health concerns seen in Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
Other health concerns that can be seen in Lesch-Nyhan syndrome include trouble swallowing and feeding difficulties due to recurrent vomiting. This is sometimes severe enough to impair nutrition and growth and they may be underweight for their age. If it is severe, a feeding tube may have to be inserted into the stomach. Another issue is anemia with very large red cells in the blood (megaloblastic anemia). Fortunately, this does not usually cause problems or require treatment. Some experience severe muscle spasms, scoliosis, hip dislocations, and fixation of joints in a flexed position (contractures). Not all people with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome have these features.
The best person to discuss the symptoms of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is a medical geneticist (a specialist in inherited/genetic conditions) or pediatric neurologist (a specialist in conditions of the nervous system for children). Medical geneticists and pediatric neurologist in an area can be found by talking to doctors about who they would recommend or using the “Find Genetic Services” function at the American College of Medical Genetics.
Should people with Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome see any medical specialists?
People with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome have symptoms that affect many different systems of the body. They should seek advice and medical care from a team of specialists that may include:
Is there treatment for Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
The treatment for Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is individualized and is focused on the following three areas:
Is there one or two characteristic "odd" or "unusual" symptoms or clinical features of Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
There is a "hallmark" feature of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. In about 85% of affected males, self-injury/self-mutilation occurs. This behavior usually begins between 2-3 years of age, but can also occur earlier or later. A child may repeatedly bite their lips, cheeks, fingers, and hands. These behaviors may lead to loss of tissue. They may also hit their head, arms, and legs against hard objects. Some children may scratch their face repeatedly. It is often necessary to restrain boys with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome when these biting behaviors appear, or they may cause serious injuries. In many cases, being restrained is comforting to the boys because they know that they will not hurt themselves.
The best person to discuss the symptoms of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is a specialist in medical genetics (a specialist in inherited/genetic conditions) or pediatric neurology (a specialist in conditions of the nervous system for children). Medical geneticists and pediatric neurologist in an area can be found by talking to doctors about who they would recommend or using the "Find Genetic Services" function at the American College of Medical Genetics.
Is there newborn testing for Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
Each state has a newborn screen which includes a group of genetic conditions. Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is not included in any newborn screens in the United States. If there is a family history of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome or if Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is suspected in a child, genetic testing can be performed using cord blood or another blood sample.
A geneticist or genetic counselor can help explain information about testing for Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. You can find a genetics clinic near you by searching the American College of Medical Genetics. To find a genetic counselor search on the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
Is there more than one test for Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
Testing for Lesch-Nyhan syndrome includes both HPRT (hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase) enzyme activity test and genetic testing. Sometimes an initial screen to check the uric acid levels in the blood or urine is performed. If there is uric acid overproduction (hyperuricemia), this is a feature of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome and increases the likelihood that Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is a possibility. This test is not diagnostic (it can’t give a yes or no answer about if a person has LNS) and further testing will likely be needed.
For enzyme testing, the HPRT enzyme activity assessed. If this enzyme activity is less than 1.5% of the normal levels in cells from any tissue (blood, skin cells), a male receives a diagnosis of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.
As of January 11, 2016, there is only one gene, HPRT1, currently known to be associated with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. Genetic testing involves analyzing this gene for changes. There are two main types of analyses; these are called sequencing and deletion/duplication. You can imagine the HPRT1 gene as a long sentence that provides instruction to the body. Sequencing looks for spelling errors in this sentence. Deletion/duplication involves looking for extra or missing words in this sentence. Spelling errors and extra/missing words can cause the sentence to no longer make sense and therefore no longer provide the proper instruction for the body, causing Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. Some labs in the United States offer both sequencing and deletion/duplication of the HPRT1 gene. Some labs in the United States just offer sequencing or deletion/duplication of the HPRT1 gene. Some labs look only for the specific spelling error when a HPRT1 gene mutation is known in the family.
A geneticist or genetic counselor can help a person get tested and interpret the results. You can find a genetics clinic near you by searching the American College of Medical Genetics. To find a genetic counselor search on the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
Is there a cure for Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
There is no cure for Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome. Treatment is limited to management and surveillance of medical concerns in the following areas:
1. Overproduction of uric acid. One can control the increased production of uric acid by taking allopurinol. Allopurinol slows down the production of uric acid. It is also important to drink lots of fluids to stay hydrated; this helps the uric acid be better eliminated in the urine. This helps prevent kidney and bladder stones from forming. If stones do form, they can usually be broken up or removed. Certain medications called uricosuric drugs, like probenecid, should also be avoided.
2. Neurological concerns. For spasticity, medications such as baclofen and benzodiazepines can be taken. Having a comfortable wheelchair is also important.
3. Behavior concerns. Medication may be taken for behavioral concerns but there is no current effective intervention. Promising medications include gabapentin, carbamazepine, diazepam, others. Physical restraint is often needed. Sharp and dangerous objects should not be in arm’s reach. Some people get their teeth removed if they can’t control biting themselves. Behavioral therapy is also important.
Treatment should be discussed with a team of specialists which may include a medical geneticist, pediatric neurologist or pediatric nephrologist (kidney specialist), in addition to a specialist in behavioral therapy. These specialists can be found by talking to doctors about who they would recommend. A genetics clinic can be located using the “Find Genetic Services” function at the American College of Medical Genetics.
Is the life expectancy for males with Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome reduced?
The life expectancy for males with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is reduced. With proper management, most males survive into their teens or 20’s.
Is the anything to avoid if a male is affected with Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
If a male is affected with Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome, he should avoid Probenecid and other uricosuric drugs because they may cause the kidneys to fail to produce urine because of the formation of uric acid crystals. One should also avoid dehydration.
A pediatric urologist (a doctor specializing in problems with the kidneys and urinary tract) can help manage these complications. To find a pediatric urologist, ask your doctor for a recommendation.
If two males with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome have the same HPRT1 gene mutation will they have the same features?
Most males with the same HPRT1 gene mutation causing Lesch-Nyhan syndrome have similar medical concerns and clinical features, but there have been a few exceptions seen before.
To learn more about the genetics of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, speak with a geneticist or genetic counselor. You can find a genetics clinic near you by searching the American College of Medical Genetics. To find a genetic counselor search on the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
If there is a family history of Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome but a HPRT1 gene mutation cannot be identified, is testing during the pregnancy still available?
If a HPRT1 gene mutation cannot be identified in the family, testing for Lesch-Nyhan syndrome during the pregnancy is still available. The first step is to determine if the baby is male or female. Chorionic villus sampling (CVS) and amniocentesis are both available. CVS involves removing a small sample of the placenta and sending it to a laboratory for genetic testing. CVS can be performed around 10-12 weeks of gestation. Amniocentesis involves taking a sample of amniotic fluid and sending it to the laboratory for genetic testing. This testing can be performed starting at 15 weeks of gestation. Each test has a small risk for miscarriage. If the baby is male, further testing can be performed on the cells. If a HPRT1 gene mutation is not known in the family, a test to check the levels of the HPRT enzyme can be performed. If one is interested in this prenatal diagnostic testing, they can speak with a reproductive genetic counselor in their area. Genetic counselors can be found using the website for the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
To learn more about testing for Lesch Nyhan syndrome, speak with a geneticist or genetic counselor. You can find a genetics clinic near you by searching the American College of Medical Genetics. To find a genetic counselor search on the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
If someone has Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome, what should their primary care provider know about managing the disease?
If someone has Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, their primary care provider should know the management and surveillance guidelines. A complete blood count will be needed to evaluate for megaloblastic anemia. Supportive services (speech therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy) need to be started early on. The primary care provider should look for early signs of self-injury and monitor uric acid levels. They should also look for signs of kidney stones. Continued follow up with a neurologist, developmental specialist, and nephrologist/urologist will be needed.
The best person to discuss the symptoms of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is a medical geneticist (a specialist in inherited/genetic conditions) or pediatric neurologist (a specialist in conditions of the nervous system for children). Pediatric urologist (kidney and urinary tract specialists) should also be consulted. Medical geneticists and pediatric neurologist in an area can be found by talking to doctors about who they would recommend or to find a genetics clinic use the “Find Genetic Services” function at the American College of Medical Genetics. To find a genetic counselor search on the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
If a woman is a carrier of Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome and has a known HPRT1 gene mutation, what is the chance that her children will be affected?
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LNS) is inherited in an X-linked recessive pattern. The “X” chromosome is a sex chromosome. The “Y” chromosome is the other sex chromosome. Males usually have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome. Females usually have two X chromosomes. The HPRT1 gene for Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome is located on the X chromosome. When a female has a change (mutation) in one of her two HPRT1 genes, she is called a carrier for LNS.
If a woman is a carrier of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LNS), there is 50% chance that each male child will have LNS, and a 50% chance of a male child NOT having LNS. For a female child of a carrier, there is a 50% chance that she will be a carrier of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.
Overall, in each pregnancy there is a 25% chance to have a boy with LNS, 25% chance to have a boy who does not have LNS, 25% chance to have a girl who is a carrier, 25% chance to have a girl who is not a carrier.
To learn more about the genetics of Lesch Nyhan syndrome, speak with a geneticist or genetic counselor. You can find a genetics clinic near you by searching the American College of Medical Genetics. To find a genetic counselor search on the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
If a mother is a carrier of Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome, is there testing that can be performed during the pregnancy to see if her baby is affected?
If a mother is a carrier of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome and the gene change in the family is known, testing can be performed during the pregnancy. The first step is to see if the baby is male or female, then the specific gene can be looked at for the change that is in the family. If the gene change is not known, enzyme testing may be possible.
Chorionic villus sampling (CVS) and amniocentesis two options for prenatal screening for Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. CVS involves removing a small sample of the placenta and sending it to a laboratory for genetic testing. CVS can be performed around 10-12 weeks of gestation. Amniocentesis involves taking a sample of amniotic fluid and sending it to the laboratory for genetic testing. This testing can be performed starting at 15 weeks of gestation. Each of these procedures has a small risk for miscarriage. If the baby is found to be male, further testing can be performed on the cells. If the mother knows what specific HPRT1 gene mutation she is a carrier of, this HPRT1 gene mutation can be looked for specifically. If a HPRT1 gene mutation is not known in the family, a HPRT enzyme test to check the levels can be performed.
Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, where an embryo that is being used for in vitro fertilization is tested for gender and/or the genetic change, could also be performed when there is a known mutation in the family.
If one is interested in this prenatal testing, they can speak with a reproductive genetic counselor in their area. Genetic counselors can be found using the website for the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
To learn more about testing for Lesch Nyhan syndrome, speak with a geneticist or genetic counselor. You can find a genetics clinic near you by searching the American College of Medical Genetics. To find a genetic counselor search on the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
If a mother has a child with a HPRT1 gene mutation, but she is not found to be a carrier of the same HPRT1 gene mutation, should she and her partner even consider genetic testing in future pregnancies?
It is a personal decision whether or not to pursue genetic testing during a pregnancy. Even if a mother is not found to be a carrier of the same HPRT1 gene mutation previously found in her child, there is still the small possibility of germline mosaicism. Germline mosaicism is where only some of the egg cells have the HPRT1 gene mutation; this is unable to be detected through a blood draw which is usually how mothers are tested to see if they are carriers. The recurrence risk for future pregnancies is low, likely less than 1%, but prenatal genetic testing can still be pursued if parents desire. If parents are interested, they can speak with a prenatal/reproductive genetic counselor. Genetic counselors can be found using the website for the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
If a male is affected with Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome, what is the chance that his children will be affected?
Most males with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome cannot have children. If a male is affected with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, his ability to have children will depend on the severity of his condition.
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is inherited in an X-linked recessive pattern. The “X” chromosome is a sex chromosome. The “Y” chromosome is the other sex chromosome. Males usually have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome. Females usually have two X chromosomes. The HPRT1 gene for Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome is located on the X chromosome.
If a male is mildly affected and decides to have children, there is a 0% chance that his male children will be affected (because males pass on their Y sex chromosome to their male children), and a 100% chance that his female children will be carriers (because males pass on their X chromosome to their female children).
To learn more about the genetics of Lesch Nyhan syndrome, speak with a geneticist or genetic counselor. You can find a genetics clinic near you by searching the American College of Medical Genetics. To find a genetic counselor search on the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
If a male child is found to have a HPRT1 gene mutation for Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome, is his mother then always found to be a carrier?
A change in the HPRT1 gene causing Lesch-Nyhan syndrome can be inherited from a "carrier" mother or it can occur for the first time in the child (de novo mutation). When a boy has a HPRT1 gene mutation, it is predicted that about 2/3 (66%) of the time the mother will be a carrier, and 1/3 (33%) of the time the HPRT1 gene mutation happens for the first time in the child and is not inherited from the mother (de novo). Some studies show that there may be a higher chance than 2/3 (66%) for the mother to be carrier in Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.
To learn more about the genetics of Lesch Nyhan syndrome, speak with a geneticist or genetic counselor. You can find a genetics clinic near you by searching the American College of Medical Genetics. To find a genetic counselor search on the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
If a male child has a HPRT1 gene mutation, what percentage of the time is this inherited from his mother?
A change in the HPRT1 gene causing Lesch-Nyhan syndrome can be inherited from a "carrier" mother or it can occur for the first time in the child (de novo mutation). When a boy has a HPRT1 gene mutation, it is predicted that about 2/3 (66%) of the time the mother will be a carrier, and 1/3 (33%) of the time the HPRT1 gene mutation happens for the first time in the child and is not inherited from the mother (de novo). Some studies show that there may be a higher chance than 2/3 (66%) for the mother to be carrier in Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.
To learn more about the genetics of Lesch Nyhan syndrome, speak with a geneticist or genetic counselor. You can find a genetics clinic near you by searching the American College of Medical Genetics. To find a genetic counselor search on the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
How many laboratories in the United States perform genetic testing for Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
As of January 11, 2016, there are over ten different laboratories in the United States that perform testing for Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome. Two laboratories offer HPRT (hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase) enzyme activity test. Over ten labs offer genetic testing which involves HPRT1 gene analysis.
Testing is typically ordered by a geneticist and genetic counselor. Two great websites that list the different labs are the following:
How is Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome inherited?
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is inherited in an X-linked recessive pattern. The “X” chromosome is a sex chromosome. The “Y” chromosome is the other sex chromosome. Males usually have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome. Females usually have two X chromosomes. The HPRT1 gene for Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome is located on the X chromosome. Because males only have one X chromosome, and therefore one HPRT1 gene, if this gene has a change (mutation) causing the gene to not work correctly, the male is affected with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. Because females have two X chromosomes, if one of their HPRT1 genes has a change (mutation) and the other does not have a change, they are known as “carriers.” Most female carriers have no symptoms of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. There have been a few very rare reports of females who have severe symptoms of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.
A change in the HPRT1 gene can be inherited from a "carrier" mother or it can occur for the first time in the child (de novo mutation). When a male child has a HPRT1 gene mutation, it is predicted that about 2/3 (66%) of the time the mother is found to be a carrier and 1/3 (33%) of the time the HPRT1 gene mutation happens brand new in the child and is not inherited from the mother (de novo). There is some suspicion for a higher chance than 2/3 (66%) for the mother to be carrier in Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.
The chance of having another child with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome will depend on whether the mother is a carrier or not. If the mother is not a carrier, the chance of having another child with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is small although not impossible due to the chance that more than one of her eggs may contain the gene change (germline mosaicism).
If a female is a carrier of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LNS), there is 50% chance that each male child will have Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, and a 50% chance of a male child NOT having Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. For a female child of a carrier there is a 50% chance that she will be a carrier of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. Overall, in each pregnancy there is a 25% chance to have a boy with LNS, 25% chance to have a boy who does not have LNS, 25% chance to have a girl who is a carrier, 25% chance to have a girl who is not a carrier.
Genetic testing of the HPRT1 gene is available.
To learn more about the genetics of Lesch Nyhan syndrome, speak with a geneticist or genetic counselor. You can find a genetics clinic near you by searching the American College of Medical Genetics. To find a genetic counselor search on the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
How does having a mutation in a copy of the HPRT1 gene cause Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is caused when there is a change in the HPRT1 gene on the X chromosome. The protein produced from the HPRT1 gene is an enzyme called hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT). This protein helps the cells in our body recycle something called purines. Purines are building blocks of DNA and RNA (these carry our genetic information) and these need to be recycled in order to produce DNA. Purines are found in many foods such as meats and legumes. When there is a mutation in the HPRT1 gene, the HPRT enzyme either does not work properly, works at very low levels, or does not work at all. Because of this, a waste product of purine breakdown called uric acid builds up in the body. This buildup of uric acid can cause “gouty” arthritis, kidney stones, and bladder stones. Researchers are currently not sure how this causes the neurological and behavior features of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.
To learn more about the genetics of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, speak with a geneticist or genetic counselor. You can find a genetics clinic near you by searching the American College of Medical Genetics. To find a genetic counselor search on the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
How does a male get tested to see if he is affected with Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
If a male is suspected to be affected with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LNS), enzyme testing and genetic testing are both available. Sometimes an initial screen to check the uric acid levels in the blood or urine is performed. If there is uric acid overproduction (hyperuricemia), this is a feature of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome and increases the likelihood that Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is a possibility. This test is not diagnostic (it can’t give a yes or no answer about if a person has LNS) and further testing will likely be needed.
For enzyme testing, the HPRT (hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase) enzyme activity is looked at. If this enzyme activity is less than 1.5% of the normal levels in cells from any tissue (blood, skin cells), a male receives a diagnosis of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.
For genetic testing, the HPRT1 gene is analyzed to see if there are any changes (mutations) in the gene. This testing is usually done on a blood sample. There are two main types of analyses; these are called sequencing and deletion/duplication. You can imagine the HPRT1 gene as a long sentence that provides instruction to the body. Sequencing looks for spelling errors in this sentence. Deletion/duplication involves looking for extra or missing words in this sentence. Spelling errors and extra/missing words can cause the sentence to no longer make sense and therefore no longer provide the proper instruction for the body, causing Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. Some labs in the United States offer both sequencing and deletion/duplication of the HPRT1 gene. Some labs in the United States just offer either sequencing or deletion/duplication of the HPRT1 gene. Some labs also look for the particular spelling error identified when an HPRT1 gene mutation is known in the family.
Enzyme analysis and genetic testing for Lesch-Nyhan syndrome are typically ordered by a geneticist and genetic counselor after seeing them for an appointment. A clinic appointment typically involves a complete review of the patient’s medical history, a three generation family history that documents health problems and genetic conditions, a detailed physical examination, discussion of recommended testing, and consent for genetic testing if the patient/guardian is interested. Sometimes this happens in one clinic visit, and sometimes this happens over the span of a few clinic visits. Each clinic is different. In terms of insurance, sometimes the clinic checks with your insurance, and sometimes it is your responsibility to call your insurance. As stated earlier, each clinic operates differently. If enzyme analysis or genetic testing are pursued, a blood sample and signed paperwork is sent to a laboratory that performs the testing. Results are then sent back to the geneticist and genetic counselor who contact the patient/guardian with results.
To learn more about testing for Lesch Nyhan syndrome, speak with a geneticist or genetic counselor. You can find a genetics clinic near you by searching the American College of Medical Genetics. To find a genetic counselor search on the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
How do I get tested for Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
If a male is suspected to be affected with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LNS), both enzyme testing and genetic testing are available. Sometimes and initial screen to check the uric acid levels in the blood or urine. If there is uric acid overproduction (hyperuricemia), this is a feature of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome and increases the likelihood that Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is a possibility. This test is not diagnostic (it can’t give a yes or no answer about if a person has LNS) and further testing will likely be needed.
For enzyme testing, the HPRT (hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase) enzyme activity assessed. If this enzyme activity is less than 1.5% of the normal levels in cells from any tissue (blood, skin cells), a male receives a diagnosis of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.
For genetic testing, the HPRT1 gene is analyzed to see if there are any changes (mutations) in the gene. This testing is usually done on a blood sample. There are two main types of analyses; these are called sequencing and deletion/duplication. You can imagine the HPRT1 gene as a long sentence that provides instruction to the body. Sequencing looks for spelling errors in this sentence. Deletion/duplication involves looking for extra or missing words in this sentence. Spelling errors and extra/missing words can cause the sentence to no longer make sense and therefore no longer provide the proper instruction for the body, causing Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. Some labs in the United States offer both sequencing and deletion/duplication of the HPRT1 gene. Some labs in the United States offer either sequencing or deletion/duplication of the HPRT1 gene. Some labs also look for the particular spelling error identified when an HPRT1 gene mutation is known in the family.
Enzyme analysis and genetic testing for Lesch-Nyhan syndrome are typically ordered by a geneticist and genetic counselor after seeing them for an appointment. A clinic appointment typically involves a complete review of the patient’s medical history, a three generation family history that documents health problems and genetic conditions, a detailed physical examination, discussion of recommended testing, and consent for genetic testing if the patient/guardian is interested. Sometimes this happens in one clinic visit, and sometimes this happens over the span of a few clinic visits. Each clinic is different. In terms of insurance, sometimes the clinic checks with your insurance, and sometimes it is your responsibility to call your insurance. As stated earlier, each clinic operates differently. If enzyme analysis or genetic testing are pursued, a blood sample and signed paperwork is sent to a laboratory that performs the testing. Results are then sent back to the geneticist and genetic counselor who contact the patient/guardian to explain the results.
You can find a genetics clinic near you by searching the American College of Medical Genetics. To find a genetic counselor search on the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
How do I find clinical research on Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
Clinical research for Lesch-Nyhan syndrome can be found on the following sites:
How common is Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome occurs in about 1 in 380,000 people. It occurs almost exclusively in boys.
The best person to diagnose Lesch-Nyhan syndrome and discuss the symptoms is a medical geneticist (a specialist in inherited/genetic conditions) or pediatric neurologist (a specialist in conditions of the nervous system for children). Medical geneticists and pediatric neurologist in an area can be found by talking to doctors about who they would recommend or using the “Find Genetic Services” function at the American College of Medical Genetics.
For children with Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome, when do self-injuring behaviors usually start?
Most children with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome develop self-injurious behavior around 2-3 years of age. Some children develop these behaviors during the first year of life, and some children don’t display these behaviors until they are much older.
The best person to diagnose Lesch-Nyhan syndrome and discuss the symptoms is a specialist in medical genetics (a specialist in inherited/genetic conditions) or pediatric neurology (a specialist in conditions of the nervous system for children). Medical geneticists and pediatric neurologist in an area can be found by talking to doctors about who they would recommend or using the “Find Genetic Services” function at the American College of Medical Genetics.
Does it matter if you test blood vs. saliva vs. biopsy for Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
HPRT (hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase) enzyme activity test can be done using either a blood sample or skin cells (fibroblasts) from a skin biopsy.
Genetic testing for Lesch-Nyhan syndrome typically involves using a blood sample. Some laboratories accept saliva samples; it is best to call the lab to see if they accept a saliva sample beforehand or speak with your geneticist or genetic counselor.
To learn more about testing for Lesch Nyhan syndrome, speak with a geneticist or genetic counselor. You can find a genetics clinic near you by searching the American College of Medical Genetics. To find a genetic counselor search on the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
Do all people with a HPRT1 gene mutation have Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is caused when there is a change in the HPRT1 gene on the X chromosome. The protein produced from the HPRT1 gene is an enzyme called hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT). Some changes (mutations) in the HPRT1 gene, cause the HPRT enzyme to not work properly, work at very low levels, or not work at all. Typically all people with a “severe” HPRT1 gene mutation have Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.
Sometimes there are mutations in HPRT1 that allow more of the enzyme to be made and work better, although still not to normal levels. These mutations can cause HPRT-related hyperuricemia and HPRT-related gout. Both of these conditions are caused by partial HPRT enzyme deficiency. The specific HPRT1 gene mutations are less severe and people have lower than normal levels of the needed protein (HPRT enzyme), but not as low as people with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.
HPRT-related hyperuricemia may cause pain and swelling in joints (gout), crystals in the urine (this can be seen on urine test), and kidney stones. Sometimes kidney disease may occur. Males affected with this condition usually show symptoms in childhood. People with this do not show the neurological or behavioral issues seen in Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.
HPRT-related gout (also known as Kelley-Seegmiller syndrome) explains less than 2% of adult males with gout.
To learn more about the genetics of Lesch Nyhan syndrome, speak with a geneticist or genetic counselor. You can find a genetics clinic near you by searching the American College of Medical Genetics. To find a genetic counselor search on the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
Can I make sure my baby won’t be affected with Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome before I become pregnant?
Yes. There is an available technology called preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). This is available if a HPRT1 gene mutation is known in the family. If some embryos are made in the laboratory using mother’s egg cells and father’s sperm cells (in vitro fertilization-IVF), genetic testing can be performed to see if the HPRT1 gene mutation is present. The female embryos or male embryos that don’t have the HPRT1 gene mutation can then be implanted in the mother. If one is interested in pursuing this, they can speak with a genetic counselor who specializes in preimplantation genetic diagnosis and/or assisted reproductive technology. Genetic counselors can be found using the website for the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
Can female carriers of Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome be severely affected like males?
Female carriers of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome generally do not have symptoms. However, they may have increased uric acid in their urine that can lead to symptoms of gout and/or kidney stones when they are older.
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LNS) almost always occurs in boys. It is inherited in an X-linked recessive manner. The HPRT1 gene is located on the X chromosome. Because boys only have one X chromosome (the other is the Y chromosome), if their HPRT1 gene has a change and is not working correctly, they have (LNS). Because females usually have two X chromosomes, and therefore two copies of the HPRT1 gene, if one copy has a change and is not working correctly, their other copy can usually compensate and make enough of the gene product for there to not be symptoms.
As of January 11, 2016, there have been less than ten females reported to be actually affected with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. These females all had something called “skewed inactivation of the X-chromosome.” A female has two X chromosomes in every cell. One X chromosome (and therefore one HPRT1 gene) is randomly inactivated in every cell. In these affected females, one of their X chromosomes in every cell has a HPRT1 gene mutation. In skewed inactivation of the X-chromosome, more cells have the “normal” X chromosomes inactivated, and more cells have the X chromosomes with the HPRT1 gene mutation activated. Because these females have more X chromosomes with the HPRT1 gene mutation that are active, they are actually affected with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. Again, this is very rare.
To learn more about the genetics of Lesch Nyhan syndrome, speak with a geneticist or genetic counselor. You can find a genetics clinic near you by searching the American College of Medical Genetics. To find a genetic counselor search on the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
Are there published guidelines for management and surveillance for Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
To establish the extent of disease and needs in an individual diagnosed with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, the following evaluations are recommended:
Are there other names for Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
There are other names for Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LNS). They include the following:
Are there other conditions besides Lesch-Nyhan syndrome that are caused by a HPRT1 gene mutation?
There are other conditions besides Lesch-Nyhan syndrome caused by HPRT1 gene mutations. These include HPRT-related hyperuricemia and HPRT-related gout. Both of these conditions are caused by partial HPRT ((hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase) enzyme deficiency. The specific HPRT1 gene mutations cause people to have lower than normal levels of the needed protein (HPRT enzyme), but not as low as people with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.
HPRT-related hyperuricemia may cause pain and swelling in joints (gout), crystals in the urine (this can be seen on urine test), and kidney stones. Sometimes renal (kidney) disease may occur. Males affected with this condition usually show symptoms in childhood. Female carriers may develop features of this condition later in life. People with this do not show the neurological or behavioral issues seen in Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.
HPRT-related gout (also known as Kelley-Seegmiller syndrome) explains less than 2% of adult males with gout.
To learn more about the genetics of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome and these variants, speak with a geneticist or genetic counselor. You can find a genetics clinic near you by searching the American College of Medical Genetics. To find a genetic counselor search on the National Society of Genetic Counselors under "Find a Counselor".
Are there good support groups for Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
There are support groups for Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. Some are specific for the condition, and some are for features of the condition. They are the following:
Are any other genetic conditions similar to Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?
There are other genetic conditions that are similar to Lesch-Nyhan syndrome due to their similarities with self-injurious behavior and developmental delay. Conditions in which self-injurious behavior is also seen include nonspecific intellectual disability, autism, Rett syndrome, Cornelia de Lange syndrome, Tourette syndrome, familial dysautonomia, and several psychiatric conditions. However, of these, only individuals with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, Cornelia de Lange syndrome, and familial dysautonomia regularly display loss of tissue as a result of the behavior. These conditions are described in more detail below. Specific finger and lip biting is characteristic of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.
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The circle given by y=2x+1 are graphed. (x-1)^2+(y-1)^2=1 and the line given by We want to find their intersection points.
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The intersection points are $$(0,1)$$(0,1) and $$(\frac{2}{5}, \frac{9}{5})$$(5 2,5 9)
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Substitute $$y=2x+1$$y=2 x+1 into $$(x-1)^{2}+(y-1)^{2}=1$$(x−1)2+(y−1)2=1
Replace $$y$$y with $$2x+1$$2 x+1 to get $$(x-1)^{2}+(2x+1-1)^{2}=1$$(x−1)2+(2 x+1−1)2=1
Simplify to get $$5x^{2}-2x=0$$5 x 2−2 x=0
Factor out $$x$$x to get $$x(5x-2)=0$$x(5 x−2)=0
Solve for $$x$$x to find $$x=0$$x=0 and $$x=\frac{2}{5}$$x=5 2
Substitute $$x=0$$x=0 into $$y=2x+1$$y=2 x+1 to get $$y=1$$y=1
Substitute $$x=\frac{2}{5}$$x=5 2 into $$y=2x+1$$y=2 x+1 to get $$y=\frac{9}{5}$$y=5 9
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12472 | https://drops.dagstuhl.de/storage/00lipics/lipics-vol121-disc2018/LIPIcs.DISC.2018.27/LIPIcs.DISC.2018.27.pdf | Fast Multidimensional Asymptotic and Approximate Consensus Matthias Függer CNRS, LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, and Inria, France mfuegger@lsv.fr Thomas Nowak Université Paris-Sud, France thomas.nowak@lri.fr Abstract We study the problems of asymptotic and approximate consensus in which agents have to get their values arbitrarily close to each others’ inside the convex hull of initial values, either without or with an explicit decision by the agents.
In particular, we are concerned with the case of multidimensional data, i.e., the agents’ values are d-dimensional vectors. We introduce two new algorithms for dynamic networks, subsuming classical failure models like asynchronous message passing systems with Byzantine agents.
The algorithms are the first to have a contraction rate and time complexity independent of the dimension d. In particular, we improve the time complexity from the previously fastest approximate consensus algorithm in asynchronous message passing systems with Byzantine faults by Mendes et al. [Distrib. Comput. 28] from Ω d log d∆ ε to O log ∆ ε , where ∆is the initial and ε is the terminal diameter of the set of vectors of correct agents.
2012 ACM Subject Classification Theory of computation →Distributed algorithms Keywords and phrases asymptotic consensus, approximate consensus, multidimensional data, dynamic networks, Byzantine processes Digital Object Identifier 10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2018.27 Funding This research was partially supported by the CNRS project PEPS DEMO and the Institut Farman.
1 Introduction The problem of one-dimensional asymptotic consensus requires a system of agents, starting from potentially different initial real values, to repeatedly set their local output variables such that all outputs converge to a common value within the convex hull of the inputs. This problem has been studied in distributed control theory both from a theoretical perspective [10, 19, 5, 2] and in the context of robot gathering on a line and clock synchronization [20, 16].
Extensions of the problem to multidimensional values naturally arise in the context of robot gathering on a plane or three-dimensional space , as subroutines in formation forming , and distributed optimization , among others.
The related problem of approximate consensus, also called approximate agreement, re-quires the agents to eventually decide, i.e., to only set their output variables once. Additionally all output variables must be within a predefined ε > 0 distance of each other and lie within the convex hull of the inputs. There is a large body of work on approximate consensus in distributed computing devoted to solvability and optimality of time complexity [13, 14] and applications in clock synchronization; see e.g. [24, 23].
© Matthias Függer and Thomas Nowak; licensed under Creative Commons License CC-BY 32nd International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2018).
Editors: Ulrich Schmid and Josef Widder; Article No. 27; pp. 27:1–27:16 Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Dagstuhl Publishing, Germany 27:2 Fast Multidimensional Asymptotic and Approximate Consensus Both problems were studied under different assumptions on the underlying communication between agents and their computational strength, including fully connected asynchronous message passing with Byzantine agents [24, 13] and communication in rounds by message passing in dynamic communication networks [19, 10]. In [6, 7] Charron-Bost et al. analyzed solvability of asymptotic consensus and approximate consensus in dynamic networks with round-wise message passing defined by network models: a network model is a set of directed communication graphs, each of which specifies successful reception of broadcast messages; see Section 2.1 for a formal definition. Solving asymptotic consensus in such a model requires to fulfill the specification of asymptotic consensus in any sequence of communication graphs from the model. Charron-Bost et al. showed that in these highly dynamic networks, asymptotic consensus and approximate consensus are solvable in a network model if and only if each of its graphs contains a spanning rooted tree. An interesting class of network models are those that contain only non-split communication graphs, i.e., communication graphs where each pair of nodes has a common incoming neighbor. Several classical fault-models were shown to be instances of non-split models , among them asynchronous message passing systems with omissions.
Recently the multidimensional version of approximate consensus received attention.
Mendes et al. were the first to present algorithms that solve approximate consensus in Byzantine message passing systems for d-dimensional real vectors. Their algorithms, Mendes–Herlihy and Vaidya–Garg, are based on the repeated construction of so called safe areas of received vectors to constraint influence of values sent by Byzantine agents, followed by an update step, ensuring that the new output values are in the safe area. They showed that the diameter of output values contracts by at least 1/2 in each dimension every d rounds in the Mendes–Herlihy algorithm, and the diameter of the output values contracts by at least 1 −1/n every round in the Vaidya–Garg algorithm, where n is the number of agents.
The latter bound assumes f = 0 Byzantine failures and slightly worsens for f > 0. In terms of contraction rates as introduced in (see Section 2.3 for a definition) of the respective non-terminating algorithms for asymptotic consensus, they thus obtain upper bounds of d p 1/2 and 1−1/n. Note that the Mendes–Herlihy algorithm has a contraction rate depending only on d but requires an a priori common coordinate system, and the algorithm’s outcome depends on the choice of this coordinate system. By contrast the Vaidya–Garg algorithm is coordinate-free, i.e., its outcome is invariant under coordinate transformations such as translation and rotation, but it has a contraction rate depending on n.
Charron-Bost et al. analyzed convergence of the Centroid algorithm where agents repeatedly update their position to the centroid of the convex hull of received vectors. The algorithm is coordinate-free and has a contraction rate of d/(d + 1), independent of n.
Local time complexity of determining the centroid was shown to be #P-complete while polynomial in n for fixed d.
The contraction rate of the Centroid algorithm is always smaller or equal to that of the Mendes–Herlihy algorithm, though both contraction rates converge to 1 at the same speed with the dimension d going to infinity. More precisely, lim d→∞ 1 − d q 1 2 1 − d d+1 = log 2 , which implies 1 − d q 1 2 = Θ 1 − d d+1 .
M. Függer and T. Nowak 27:3 Table 1 Comparison of local time complexity and contraction rates in non-split network models.
Entries marked with an are new results in this paper.
MidExtremes ApproachExtreme Centroid MH VG contraction rate p 7 8 p 31 32 d d+1 d p 1 2 1 −1 n local TIME O(n2d) O(nd) #P-hard O(nd) O(nd) coordinate-free yes yes yes no yes 1.1 Contribution In this work we present two new algorithms that are coordinate-free: the MidExtremes and the ApproachExtreme algorithm, and study their behavior in dynamic networks. Both algorithms are coordinate-free, operate in rounds, and are shown to solve asymptotic agreement in non-split network models. Terminating variants of them are shown to solve approximate agreement in non-split network models.
As a main result we prove that their contraction rate is independent of network size n and dimension d of the initial values. For MidExtremes we obtain an upper bound on the contraction rate of p 7/8 and for ApproachExtreme of p 31/32.
Due to the fact that classical failure models like asynchronous message passing with Byzantine agents possess corresponding network models, our results directly yield improved algorithms for the latter failure models: In particular, we improve the time complexity from the previously fastest approximate consensus algorithm in asynchronous message passing systems with Byzantine faults, the Mendes–Herlihy algorithm, from Ω d log d∆ ε to O log ∆ ε , where ∆is the initial and ε is the terminal diameter of the set of vectors of correct agents.
Note that our algorithms share the benefit of being coordinate-free with the Vaidya–Garg algorithm presented in the same work.
Table 1 summarizes our results and the algorithms discussed above for asymptotic and approximate consensus. The table compares the new algorithms MidExtremes and ApproachExtreme to the Centroid, Mendes–Herlihy (MH), and Vaidya–Garg (VG) algorithms with respect to their local time complexity per agent and round and an upper bound on their contraction rate in non-split network models. A lower bound of 1/2 on the contraction rate is due to Függer et al. .
The Mendes–Herlihy algorithm has a smaller contraction rate than the MidExtremes algorithm whenever d ⩽10; the Centroid algorithm whenever d ⩽14. The Centroid algorithm is hence the currently fastest known algorithm for dimensions 3 ⩽d ⩽14. For dimensions d = 1 and d = 2, the componentwise MidPoint algorithm has an optimal contraction rate of 1/2 . Note that the MidExtremes algorithm is equivalent to the componentwise MidPoint algorithm for dimension d = 1. For d ⩾15, the MidExtremes algorithm is the currently fastest known algorithm.
We finally note that all our results hold for the class of inner product spaces and are not restricted to the finite-dimensional Euclidean spaces Rd, in contrast to previous work.
For example, this includes the set of square-integrable functions on a real interval. However, finite value representation and means to calculate the norm have to be guaranteed. Further, local TIME becomes n2, respectively, n norm calculations.
DISC 2018 27:4 Fast Multidimensional Asymptotic and Approximate Consensus 2 Model and Problem We fix some vector space V with an inner product ⟨·, ·⟩: V × V →R and the norm ∥x∥= p ⟨x, x⟩. The prototypical finite-dimensional example is V = Rd with the usual inner product and the Euclidean norm.
The diameter of set A ⊆V is denoted by diam(A) = sup x,y∈A ∥x −y∥. For an n-tuple x = (x1, . . . , xn) ∈V n of vectors in V , we write diam(x) by slight abuse of notation to denote diam {x1, . . . , xn} .
2.1 Dynamic Network Model We consider a distributed system of n agents that communicate in rounds via message passing, like in the Heard-Of model . In each round, each agent i, broadcasts a message based on its local state, receives some messages, and then updates its local state based on the received messages and its local state. Rounds are communication closed: agents only receive messages sent in the same round.
In each round t ⩾0, messages are delivered according to the directed communication graph Gt for round t: the message broadcast by i in round t is received by j if and only if the directed edge (i, j) is in Gt. Agents always receive their own messages, i.e., (i, i) ∈Gt.
A communication pattern is an infinite sequence G1, G2, . . . of communication graphs. A (deterministic) algorithm specifies, for each agent i, the local state space of i, the set of initial states of i, the sending function for which message to broadcast, and the state transition function. For asymptotic consensus, each agent i’s local state necessarily contains a variable yi ∈V , which initially holds i’s input value and is then used as its output variable. We require that there is an initial state with initial value v for all vectors v ∈V . A configuration is an n-tuple of local states. It is called initial if all local states are initial. The execution of an algorithm from initial configuration C0 induced by communication pattern G1, G2, . . . is the unique sequence C0, G1, C1, G2, C2, . . . alternating between configurations and communication graphs where Ct is the configuration obtained by delivering messages in round t according to communication graph Gt, and applying the sending and local transition functions to the local states in Ct−1 according to the algorithm. For a fixed execution and a local variable z of the algorithm, we denote by zi(t) its value at i at the end of round t, i.e., in configuration Ct. In particular, yi(t) is the value of yi in Ct. We write y(t) = y1(t), . . . , yn(t) for the collection of the yi(t).
A specific class of algorithms for asymptotic consensus are the so-called convex combination, or averaging, algorithm, which only ever update the value of yi inside the convex hull of yj it received from other agents j in the current round. Many algorithms in the literature belong to this class, as do ours.
Following , we study the behavior of algorithms for communication patterns from a network model, i.e., a non-empty set of communication patterns: a communication pattern is from network model N if all its communication graphs are in N. We will later on show that such an analysis also allows to prove new performance bounds for more classical fault-models like asynchronous message passing systems with Byzantine agents.
An interesting class of network models are so called non-split models, i.e., those that contain only non-split communication graphs: a communication graph is non-split if every pair of nodes has a common in-neighbor. Charron-Bost et al. showed that asymptotic and approximate consensus is solvable efficiently in these network models in the case of one dimensional values. They further showed that: (i) In the weakest (i.e., largest) network model in which asymptotic and approximate consensus are solvable, the network model of M. Függer and T. Nowak 27:5 all communication graphs that contain a rooted spanning tree, one can simulate non-split communication graphs. (ii) Classical failure models like link failures as considered in and asynchronous message passing systems with crash failures have non-split interpretations.
Indeed we will make use of such a reduction from non-split network models to asynchronous message passing systems with Byzantine failures in Section 3.2.
2.2 Problem Formulation An algorithm solves the asymptotic consensus problem in a network model N if the following holds for every execution with a communication pattern from N: Convergence. For every agent i, the sequence yi(t) t⩾0 converges.
Agreement. If yi(t) and yj(t) converge, then they have a common limit.
Validity. If yi(t) converges, then its limit is in the convex hull of the initial values y1(0), . . . , yn(0).
For the deciding version, the approximate consensus problem (see, e.g., ), we augment the local state of i with a variable di initialized to ⊥. Agent i is allowed to set di to some value v ̸= ⊥only once, in which case we say that i decides v. In addition to the initial values yi(0), agents initially receive the error tolerance ε and an upper bound ∆on the maximum distance of initial values. An algorithm solves approximate consensus in N if for all ε > 0 and all ∆, each execution with a communication pattern in N with initial diameter at most ∆satisfies: Termination. Each agent eventually decides.
ε-Agreement. If agents i and j decide di and dj, respectively, then ∥di −dj∥⩽ε.
Validity. If agent i decides di, then di is in the convex hull of initial values y1(0), . . . , yn(0).
2.3 Performance Metrics A direct natural performance metric to assess the speed of convergence of agent outputs y along an execution is the round-by-round convergence rate c(t) = diam y(t) diam y(t −1) for a given round t ⩾1 in the respective execution. The round-by-round convergence rate is the supremum over all executions and rounds. While a uniform upper bound of β < 1 on the round-by-round convergence rate establishes convergence of the outputs, this measure fails in establishing convergence and comparing speeds of convergence for several algorithms considered in literature that set their output values every k > 1 rounds, or that do not converge during an initial phase.
The convergence rate, defined by lim sup t→∞ t q diam y(t) , allows a comparison in this case by measuring eventual amortized convergence speed. For example, an algorithm that eventually contracts by a factor β < 1 every k ⩾1 rounds has a convergence rate of k √β.
As a performance measure for general asymptotic consensus algorithms, where agents do not necessarily set their outputs y to within the convex hull of previously received vales, considered the contraction rate, measuring contraction of reachable output limits rather DISC 2018 27:6 Fast Multidimensional Asymptotic and Approximate Consensus than output values: Following , the valency of a configuration C, denoted by Y ∗(C), is defined as the set of limits of the values yi in executions that include configuration C. If the execution is clear from the context, we abbreviate Y ∗(t) = Y ∗(Ct). The contraction rate of an execution is then defined as lim sup t→∞ t q diam Y ∗(t) .
The contraction rate of an algorithm in a network model is the supremum of the contraction rates of its executions. For convex combination algorithms, the contraction rate is always upper-bounded by its convergence rate, that is, lim sup t→∞ t q diam Y ∗(t) ⩽lim sup t→∞ t q diam y(t) , since the set of reachable limits Y ∗(t) at round t is contained in the set of output values {y1(t), . . . , yn(t)} at round t for these algorithms.
Clearly, an algorithm that guarantees a round-by-round convergence rate of c(t) ⩽β also guarantees a convergence rate of at most β. Since both of our algorithms are convex combination algorithms, all our upper bounds on the round-by-round convergence rates are also upper bounds for the contraction rates.
The convergence time of a given execution measures the time from which on all values are guaranteed to be in an ε of each other. Formally, it is the function defined as T(ε) = min t ⩾0 | ∀τ ⩾t: diam y(τ) ⩽ε .
In an execution that satisfies c(t) ⩽β for all t ⩾1, we have the bound T(ε) ⩽ l log1/β ∆ ε m on the convergence time, where ∆= diam y(0) is the diameter of the set of initial values.
3 Algorithms In this section, we introduce two new algorithms for solving asymptotic and approximate consensus in arbitrary inner product spaces with constant contraction rates. We present our algorithms and prove their correctness and bounds on their performance in non-split networks models. While we believe that this framework is the one in which our arguments are clearest, our results can be extended to a number of other models whose underlying communication graphs turn out to be, in fact, non-split. The following is a selection of these models: Rooted network models: This is the largest class of network models in which asymptotic and approximate consensus are solvable . A network model is rooted if all its com-munication graphs include a directed rooted spanning tree, though not necessarily the same in all graphs. Although not every such communication graph is non-split, Charron-Bost et al. showed that the cumulative communication graph over n −1 rounds in a rooted network model is always non-split. In such network models, one can use amortized versions of the algorithms, which operate in macro-rounds of n −1 rounds each. If an algorithm has a contraction rate β in non-split network models, then its amortized version has contraction rate n−1 √β in rooted network models. The amortized versions of our algorithms thus have contraction rates independent of the dimension of the data.
Omission faults: In the omission fault model studied by Santoro and Widmayer , the adversary can delete up to t messages from a fully connected communication graph each round. If t ⩽n −1, then all communication graphs are non-split. If t ⩽2n −3, then all communication graphs are rooted . Our algorithms are hence applicable in both these cases and have contraction rates independent of the dimension.
M. Függer and T. Nowak 27:7 Algorithm 1 Asymptotic consensus algorithm MidExtremes for agent i.
Initialization: 1: yi is the initial value in V In round t ⩾1 do: 2: broadcast yi 3: Rcvi ←set of received values 4: (a, b) ←arg max (a,b)∈Rcv2 i ∥a −b∥ 5: yi ←a + b 2 Asynchronous message passing with crash faults: Building asynchronous rounds atop of asynchronous message passing by waiting for n −f messages in each round, the resulting communication graphs are non-split as long as the number f of possible crashes is strictly smaller than n/2. We hence get a constant contraction rate using our algorithms also in this model. For f ⩾n/2, a partition argument shows that neither asymptotic nor approximate consensus are solvable.
Asynchronous message passing with Byzantine faults: Mendes et al. showed that approximate consensus is solvable in asynchronous message passing systems with f Byzan-tine faults if and only if n > (d+2)f where d is the dimension of the data. The algorithms they presented construct a round structure whose communication graphs turn out to be non-split. Since the construction is not straightforward, we postpone the discussion of our algorithms in this model to Section 3.2.
3.1 Non-split Network Models We now present our two new algorithms, MidExtremes and ApproachExtreme. Both operate in the following simple round structure: broadcast the current value yi and then update it to a new value depending on the set Rcvi of values yj received from agents j in the current round. Both of them only need to calculate distances between values and form the midpoint between two values. In particular, we do not need to make any assumption on the dimension of the space of possible values for implementing the algorithms. We only need a distance and an affine structure, for calculating the midpoint. Our correctness proofs, however, rely on the fact that the distance function is a norm induced by an inner product.
Note that, although we present algorithms for asymptotic consensus, combined with our upper bounds on the convergence time, one can easily deduce versions for approximate consensus by having the agents decide after the upper bound. Our upper bounds only depend on the precision parameter ε and (an upper bound on) the initial diameter ∆. While upper bounds on the initial diameter cannot be deduced during execution in general non-split network models, it can be done in specific models, like asynchronous message passing with Byzantine faults . Otherwise, we need to assume an a priori known bound on the initial diameter to solve approximate consensus.
The algorithm MidExtremes, which is shown in Algorithm 1, updates its value yi to the midpoint of a pair of extremal points of Rcvi that realizes its diameter. In the worst case, it thus has to compare the distances of Θ(n2) pairs of values. For the specific case of Euclidean spaces V = Rd stored in a component-wise representation, this amounts to O(n2d) local scalar operations for each agent in each round.
It turns out that we can show a round-by-round convergence rate of the MidExtremes algorithm independent of the dimension or the number of agents, namely p 7/8. For the DISC 2018 27:8 Fast Multidimensional Asymptotic and Approximate Consensus Algorithm 2 Asymptotic consensus algorithm ApproachExtreme for agent i.
Initialization: 1: yi is the initial value in V In round t ⩾1 do: 2: broadcast yi 3: Rcvi ←set of received values 4: b ←arg max b∈Rcvi ∥yi −b∥ 5: yi ←yi + b 2 specific case of values from the real line V = R, it reduces to the MidPoint algorithm , whose contraction rate of 1/2 is known to be optimal .
▶Theorem 1. In any non-split network model with values from any inner product space, the MidExtremes algorithm guarantees a round-by-round convergence rate of c(t) ⩽ p 7/8 for all rounds t ⩾1. Its convergence time is at most T(ε) = l log√ 8/7 ∆ ε m where ∆is the diameter of the set of initial values.
In the particular case of values from the real line, it guarantees a round-by-round conver-gence rate of c(t) ⩽1/2 and a convergence time of T(ε) = log2 ∆ ε .
The second algorithm we present is called ApproachExtreme and shown in Algorithm 2.
It updates its value yi to the midpoint of the current value of yi and the value in Rcvi that is the farthest from it. While having the benefit of only having to compare O(n) distances, and hence doing O(nd) local scalar operations for each agent in each round in the case of V = Rd with component-wise representation, the ApproachExtreme algorithm also only has to measure distances from its current value to other agents’ values; never the distance of two other agents’ values. This can be helpful for agents embedded into the vector space V that can measure the distance from itself to another agent, but not necessarily the distance between two other agents.
The ApproachExtreme algorithm admits an upper bound of p 31/32 on its round-by-round convergence rate, which is worse than the p 7/8 of the MidExtremes algorithm. For the case of the real line V = R, we can show a round-by-round convergence rate of 3/4, however.
▶Theorem 2. In any non-split network model with values from any inner product space, the ApproachExtreme algorithm guarantees a round-by-round convergence rate of c(t) ⩽ q 31 32 for all rounds t ⩾1. Its convergence time is at most T(ε) = l log√ 32/31 ∆ ε m where ∆is the diameter of the set of initial values.
In the particular case of values from the real line, it guarantees a round-by-round conver-gence rate of c(t) ⩽3/4 and a convergence time of T(ε) = l log4/3 ∆ ε m .
3.2 Asynchronous Byzantine Message Passing We now show how to adapt algorithm MidExtremes to the case of asynchronous message passing systems with at most f Byzantine agents. The algorithm proceeds in the same asynchronous round structure and safe area calculation used by Mendes et al. whenever approximate consensus is solvable, i.e., when n > (d + 2)f. Plugging in the MidExtremes M. Függer and T. Nowak 27:9 algorithm, we achieve a round-by-round convergence rate and round complexity independent of the dimension d.
More specifically, our algorithm has a round complexity of O log ∆ ε , which leads to a message complexity of O n2 log ∆ ε where ∆is the maximum Euclidean distance of initial vectors of correct agents. In contrast, the Mendes–Herlihy algorithm has a worst-case round complexity of Ω d log d∆ ε and a worst-case message complexity of Ω n2d log d∆ ε . We are thus able to get rid of all terms depending on the dimension d.
After an initial round estimating the initial diameter of the system, the Mendes–Herlihy algorithm has each agent i repeat the following steps in each coordinate k ∈{1, 2, . . . , d} for Θ log d∆ ε rounds: 1. Collect a multiset Vi of agents’ vectors such that every intersection Vi ∩Vj has at least n −f elements via reliable broadcast and the witness technique .
2. Calculate the safe area Si as the intersection of the convex hulls of all sub-multisets of Vi of size |Vi| −f. The safe area is guaranteed to be a subset of the convex hull of vectors of correct agents. Helly’s theorem can be used to show that every intersection Si ∩Sj of safe areas is nonempty.
3. Update the vector yi to be in the safe area Si and have its kth coordinate equal to the midpoint of the set of kth coordinates in Si.
The fact that safe areas have nonempty pairwise intersections guarantees that the diameter in the kth coordinate δk(t) = max i,j correct y(k) i (t) −y(k) j (t) at the end of round t fulfills δk(t) ⩽δk(t −1)/2 if round t considers coordinate k. The choice of the number of rounds for each coordinate guarantees that we have δk(t) ⩽ε/ √ d after the last round for coordinate k. This in turn makes sure that the Euclidean diameter of the set of vectors of correct agents after all of the Θ d log d∆ ε rounds is at most ε.
The article of Mendes et al. describes a second algorithm, the Vaidya–Garg algorithm, which replaces steps 2 and 3 by updating yi to the non-weighted average of arbitrarily chosen points in the safe areas of all sub-multisets of Vi of size n −f. Another difference to the Mendes–Herlihy algorithm is that it repeats the steps not several times for every dimension, but for Θ nf+1 log d∆ ε rounds in total. The Vaidya–Garg algorithm comes with the advantage of not having to do the calculations to find a midpoint for the kth coordinate while remaining inside the safe area, but also comes with the cost of a convergence rate and a round complexity that depends on the number of agents.
The algorithm we propose has the same structure as the Mendes–Herlihy algorithm, with the following differences: (i) like the Vaidya–Garg algorithm it is missing the loop over all coordinates one-by-one, and (ii) we replace step 3 by updating vector yi to the midpoint of two points that realize the Euclidean diameter of the safe area Si. According to our results in Section 4.1, the Euclidean diameter δ(t) = max i,j correct yi(t) −yj(t) of the set of vectors of correct agents at the end of round t satisfies δ(t) ⩽ r 7 8δ(t −1) .
This means that we have δ(T) ⩽ε after T(ε) = log√ 8/7 ∆ ε rounds.
DISC 2018 27:10 Fast Multidimensional Asymptotic and Approximate Consensus a b m a′ b′ m′ d′ Figure 1 Tetrahedron formed by extreme points a and b of agent i and extreme points a′ and b′ of agent j. The distance between the new agent positions m and m′ is d′.
4 Performance Bounds We next show upper bounds on the round-by-round convergence rate for algorithms MidEx-tremes (Theorem 1) and ApproachExtreme (Theorem 2) in non-split network models.
4.1 Bounds for MidExtremes For dimension 1, MidExtremes is equivalent to the MidPoint Algorithm. We hence already know that c(t) ⩽1 2 from , proving the case of the real line in Theorem 1.
For the case of higher dimensions we will show that c(t) ⩽ q 7 8 holds.
The proof idea is as follows: For a round t ⩾1, we consider two agents i, j whose distance realizes diam(y(t)). By the algorithm we know that both agents set their yi(t) and yj(t) according to yi(t) = m = (a + b)/2 and yj(t) = m′ = (a′ + b′)/2, where a, b are the extreme points received by agents i in round t and a′, b′ are the extreme points received by agents j in the same round. All four points must lie within a common subspace of dimension 3, and form the vertices of a tetrahedron as depicted in Figure 1.
Further, any three points among a, b, a′, b′ must lie within a 2 dimensional subspace, forming a triangle. Lemma 3 states the distance from the midpoint of two of its vertices to the opposite vertex, say c, and an upper bound in case the two edges incident to c are upper bounded in length.
▶Lemma 3. Let γ ⩾0 and a, b, c ∈V . Setting m = (a + b)/2, we have ∥m −c∥2 = 1 2∥a −c∥2 + 1 2∥b −c∥2 −1 4∥a −b∥2 .
In particular, if ∥a −c∥⩽γ and ∥b −c∥⩽γ, then ∥m −c∥2 ⩽γ2 −1 4∥a −b∥2 .
Proof. We begin by calculating ∥a −c∥2 = (a −m) + (m −c) 2 = ∥a −m∥2 + ∥m −c∥2 + 2⟨a −m, m −c⟩ (1) and ∥b −c∥2 = (b −m) + (m −c) 2 = ∥b −m∥2 + ∥m −c∥2 + 2⟨b −m, m −c⟩.
(2) M. Függer and T. Nowak 27:11 Adding (1) and (2), while noting ∥a −m∥2 = ∥b −m∥2 = 1 4∥a −b∥2 and a −m = (a −b)/2 = −(b −m), gives ∥a −c∥2 + ∥b −c∥2 = 1 2∥a −b∥2 + 2∥m −c∥2 .
Rearranging the terms in the last equation concludes the proof.
◀ We are now in the position to prove Lemma 4 that is central for Theorem 1. The lemma provides an upper bound on the distance d′ between m and m′ for the tetrahedron in Figure 1 given that all its sides are upper bounded by some γ ⩾0 and the sum of the lengths of edge a, b and a′, b′, i.e., ∥a −b∥+ ∥a′ −b′∥, is lower bounded by γ. At the heart of the proof of Lemma 4 is an application of Lemma 3 for the three hatched triangles in Figure 1.
▶Lemma 4. Let a, b, a′, b′ ∈V and γ ⩾0 such that diam {a, b, a′, b′} ⩽γ ⩽∥a −b∥+ ∥a′ −b′∥.
(3) Then, setting m = (a + b)/2 and m′ = (a′ + b′)/2, we have ∥m −m′∥⩽ r 7 8γ .
Proof. Applying Lemma 3 with the points a, b, a′ yields ∥m −a′∥2 ⩽γ2 −1 4∥a −b∥2 .
(4) Another invocation with the points a, b, b′ gives ∥m −b′∥2 ⩽γ2 −1 4∥a −b∥2 .
(5) Now, again using Lemma 3 with the points a′, b′, m and the bounds of (4) and (5), we get ∥m −m′∥2 ⩽γ2 −1 4 ∥a −b∥2 + ∥a′ −b′∥2 .
Using the second inequality in (3) then shows ∥m −m′∥2 ⩽γ2 −1 4 ∥a −b∥2 + γ −∥a −b∥ 2 .
(6) Setting ξ = ∥a −b∥, we get ∥m −m′∥2 ⩽max 0⩽ξ⩽γ γ2 −1 4 ξ2 + (γ −ξ)2 .
Differentiating the function f(ξ) = γ2 −1 4 ξ2 +(γ −ξ)2 reveals that its maximum is attained for −(2ξ −γ) = 0, i.e., ξ = γ/2, which gives ∥m −m′∥2 ⩽γ2 −γ2 8 = 7 8γ2 .
Taking the square root now concludes the proof.
◀ DISC 2018 27:12 Fast Multidimensional Asymptotic and Approximate Consensus We can now prove Theorem 1. For the proof we consider the tetrahedron with vertices a, b, a′, b′ as discussed before; see Figure 1. Recalling that the vertices a, b are vectors received by an agent i and a′, b′ vectors received by an agent j in the same round, we may infer from the non-split property that all communication graphs must fulfill that both i and j must have received a common vector from an agent. Together with the algorithm’s rule of picking a, b and a′, b′ as extreme points, we obtain the constraints required by Lemma 4. Invoking this lemma we finally obtain an upper bound on the distance d′ between m and m′, and by this an upper bound on the round-by-round convergence rate of the MidExtremes algorithm.
Proof of Theorem 1. Let i and j be two agents. Let a, b ∈Rcvi(t) such that yi(t) = (a+b)/2 and a′, b′ ∈Rcvj(t) such that yj(t) = (a′ + b′)/2. Define γij = diam {a, b, a′, b′} . Since a, b, a′, b′ are the vectors of some agents in round t −1, we have γij ⩽diam y(t −1) .
Further, from the non-split property, there is an agent k whose vector c = yk(t −1) has been received by both i and j, i.e., c ∈Rcvi(t)∩Rcvj(t). By the choice of the extreme points a, b by agent i, we must have ∥a −c∥⩽∥a −b∥; otherwise a, b would not realize the diameter of Rcvi(t). Analogously, by the choice of the extreme points a′, b′ by agent j, it must hold that ∥a′ −c∥⩽∥a′ −b′∥.
From the triangular inequality, we then obtain ∥a −a′∥⩽∥a −c∥+ ∥c −a′∥⩽∥a −b∥+ ∥a′ −b′∥.
Analogous arguments for the other pairs of points in {a, b, a′, b′} yield diam {a, b, a′, b′} = γij ⩽∥a −b∥+ ∥a′ −b′∥.
We can hence apply Lemma 4 to obtain ∥yi(t) −yj(t)∥⩽ r 7 8γij ⩽ r 7 8 diam y(t −1) .
Taking the maximum over all pairs of agents i and j now shows diam y(t) ⩽ p 7/8 · diam y(t −1) , which concludes the proof.
◀ 4.2 Bounds for ApproachExtreme We start by showing the one-dimensional case of Theorem 2, i.e., V = R, in Section 4.2.1.
Section 4.2.2 then covers the multidimensional case.
4.2.1 One-dimensional Case For the proof we use the notion of ϱ-safety as introduced by Charron-Bost et al. . A convex combination algorithm is ϱ-safe if ϱMi(t) + (1 −ϱ)mi(t) ⩽yi(t) ⩽(1 −ϱ)Mi(t) + ϱmi(t) (7) where Mi(t) = max Rcvi(t) and mi(t) = min Rcvi(t) .
It was shown [7, Theorem 4] that any ϱ-safe convex combination algorithm guarantees a round-by-round convergence rate of c(t) ⩽1 −ϱ in any non-split network model. In the sequel, we will show that ApproachExtreme is 1 4-safe when applied in V = R.
M. Függer and T. Nowak 27:13 Proof of Theorem 2, one-dimensional case. Let i be an agent and t ⩾1 a round in some execution of ApproachExtreme in V = R. We distinguish the two cases yi(t) ⩽yi(t −1) and yi(t) > yi(t −1).
In the first case, we have b ⩽yi(t −1) for the vector b that agent i calculates in code line 4 in round t. But then necessarily b = yi(t) since this is the most distant point to yi(t−1) in Rcvi(t) to the left of yi(t−1). Also, yi(t−1) ⩾ Mi(t)+mi(t) /2 since otherwise Mi(t) would be farther from yi(t −1) than mi(t). But this means that yi(t) = yi(t −1) + mi(t) 2 ⩾1 4Mi(t) + 1 4mi(t) + 1 2mi(t) = 1 4Mi(t) + 3 4mi(t) , which shows the first inequality of ϱ-safety (7) with ϱ = 1 4. The second inequality of (7) follows from yi(t −1) ⩽Mi(t) since yi(t) = yi(t −1) + mi(t) 2 ⩽1 2Mi(t) + 1 2mi(t) ⩽3 4Mi(t) + 1 4mi(t) .
In the second case, (7) is proved analogously to the first case.
◀ 4.2.2 Multidimensional Case For the proof of Theorem 2 with higher dimensional values, we consider two agents i, j whose distance realizes diam(y(t)). From the ApproachExtreme yi(t) = m = (a + yi(t −1))/2 and yj(t) = m′ = (a′ + yj(t −1))/2 where a and a′ maximize the distance to yi(t −1) and yj(t −1), respectively, among the received values.
To show an upper bound on the distance d′ between the new agent positions m and m′ in the multidimensional case, we need the following variant of Lemma 4 in which we relax the upper bound on γ by a factor of two, but thereby weaken the bound on d′.
Analogous to the proof of Theorem 1, the proof is by applying Lemma 5 to the three hatched triangles in Figure 1.
▶Lemma 5. Let a, b, a′, b′ ∈V and γ ⩾0 such that diam {a, b, a′, b′} ⩽γ ⩽2∥a −b∥+ 2∥a′ −b′∥.
Then, setting m = (a + b)/2 and m′ = (a′ + b′)/2, we have ∥m −m′∥⩽ r 31 32γ .
Proof. The proof of the lemma is essentially the same as that of Lemma 4, with the following differences: Equation (6) is replaced by ∥m −m′∥2 ⩽γ2 −1 4 ∥a −b∥2 + γ 2 −∥a −b∥ 2 , which changes the function f to f(ξ) = γ2 −1 4 ξ2 + ( γ 2 −ξ)2 . The maximum of this function f is achieved for ξ = γ/4, which means that ∥m −m′∥2 ⩽f(γ/4) = γ2 −γ2 32 = 31 32γ2 .
◀ We are now in the position to prove Theorem 2.
DISC 2018 27:14 Fast Multidimensional Asymptotic and Approximate Consensus Proof of Theorem 2, multidimensional case. Let i and j be two agents. Let a = yi(t −1) and a′ = yj(t −1). Further, let b ∈Rcvi(t) such that yi(t) = (a + b)/2 and b′ ∈Rcvj(t) such that yj(t) = (a′ + b′)/2. Define γij = diam {a, b, a′, b′} . Since a, b, a′, b′ are the vectors of some agents in round t −1, we have γij ⩽diam y(t −1) .
From the non-split property, there is an agent k whose vector c = yk(t −1) has been received by both i and j, i.e., c ∈Rcvi(t) ∩Rcvj(t). By the choice of the extreme point b by agent i, we must have ∥a −c∥⩽∥a −b∥; otherwise b would not maximize the distance to a. Analogously, by the choice of the extreme points b′ by agent j, it must hold that ∥a′ −c∥⩽∥a′ −b′∥. Note, however, that the roles of a and b are not symmetric and that, contrary to the proof of Theorem 1, we can have ∥b −c∥> ∥a −b∥or ∥b′ −c∥> ∥a′ −b′∥.
From the triangular inequality and the two established inequalities, we then obtain ∥a −a′∥⩽∥a −c∥+ ∥a′ −c∥⩽∥a −b∥+ ∥a′ −b′∥, ∥a −b′∥⩽∥a −c∥+ ∥c −a′∥+ ∥a′ −b′∥⩽∥a −b∥+ 2∥a′ −b′∥, and ∥b −b′∥⩽∥b −a∥+ ∥a −c∥+ ∥c −a′∥+ ∥a′ −b′∥⩽2∥a −b∥+ 2∥a′ −b′∥.
Analogously, ∥a′ −b∥⩽2∥a −b∥+ ∥a′ −b′∥. Together this implies diam {a, b, a′, b′} = γij ⩽2∥a −b∥+ 2∥a′ −b′∥.
We can hence apply Lemma 5 to obtain ∥yi(t) −yj(t)∥⩽ r 31 32γij ⩽ r 31 32 diam y(t −1) .
Taking the maximum over all pairs of agents i and j now shows diam y(t) ⩽ p 31/32 · diam y(t −1) , which concludes the proof.
◀ 5 Conclusion We presented two new algorithms for asymptotic and approximate consensus with values in arbitrary inner product spaces. This includes not only the Euclidean spaces Rd, but also spaces of infinite dimension. Our algorithms are the first to have constant contraction rates, independent of the dimension and the number of agents.
We have presented our algorithms in the framework of non-split network models and have then shown how to apply them in several other distributed computing models. In particular, we improved the round complexity of the algorithms by Mendes et al. for asynchronous message passing with Byzantine faults from Ω d log d∆ ε to O log ∆ ε , eliminating all terms that depend on the dimension d.
The exact value of the optimal contraction rate for asymptotic and approximate consensus is known to be 1/2 in dimensions one and two [15, 8], but the question is still open for higher dimensions. Our results are a step towards the solution of the problem as they show the optimum in all dimensions to lie between 1/2 and p 7/8 ≈0.9354 . . .
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Incentre of triangle by vector method . this is mathematics video related to vector algebra giving you all details to find incentre of triangle. Also giving formula to find incenter of triangle and along with basic calculations and all steps and details to find incenter of triangle by using vector method..
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introduction in today's video we are going to learn how to find out in center of triangle by using Vector methods we have here the triangle ABC and vertex a Vertex B and vertex b c are given coordinates of vertex a coordinates of vertex B and coordinates of verx here are given and we need to find out in center of the triangle how to find that let us see now definition of incenter of triangle we know that the in center of triangle is the point where the three angle bis sectors intersect these are the three angle bis sectors they intersect at a point that point is called in center of the Solved example to find incenter of triangle by using vector algebra method triangle here is the question using Vector method find in center of the triangle whose vertices are a B and C are given so first of all we draw the diagram here triangle a 3 0 0 vertex B 0 4 0 and vertex c 3 4 0 after that we find position Vector of point a so that is Vector a equal to 3 I + 0 J + 0 K after that we find position Vector of point B that is 0 4 0 so Vector b equal to 0 I + 4 J + 0 K after that we find position Vector of Point C that is 3 4 0 Vector C equals to 3 I + 4 J + 0 K after that we'll find out Vector a vector a equal to B minus a vector B minus Vector a and Vector B C equals to Vector C minus Vector B and and Vector c a equal to Vector a minus Vector C this is equals [Music] to so Vector a equals to - 3 I + 4 G and Vector BC = to 3 I and Vector C A equals to - 4 J after that we'll find out magnitude of vector AB magnitude of vector BC and magnitude of vector CA so magnitude of vector AB is given by -3 s + 4² under root of - 3 S + 4² and magnitude of vector BC that is 3 under root of 3² and magnitude of vector C A is given by under root of minus 4² how this formula how we calculated this we calculated by this by using magnitude of vector formula what is that formula I will just revise for you suppose we have Vector AAL to A1 I A2 J + A3 k then magnitude of vector AB is equals to under root of A1 s + A2 s + A3 squ by using this formula we can find out magnitude of any Vector now let us come back to the problem so magnitude of vector AB is nothing but under root of 3² + 4² = under < TK of 9 + 16 = under otk of 25 = + 5 after that the magnitude of BC is nothing but under root of 3² = to 3 and magnitude of c a that is under root of - 4² that is equals to 4 thus the magnitude of a b equals to 5 magnitude of BC = to 3 and magnitude of c a = to 4 but magnitude of ab nothing but length of vector AB that is the length of ab is nothing but given by magnitude of ab similarly length BC is given by magnitude of vector BC similarly length AC is nothing but given by magnitude of vector AC now let us denote magnitude of BC = to X magnitude of AC = to Y and magnitude of ab equals to J now what is observation opposite to a there is a x opposite to B There is y and opposite to C there is a j this is the [Music] observation let H = to in center of [Music] triangle and position Vector of in Center is given by Vector H is equal to a a position Vector of a multiplied by what is opposite to a that is X Plus position Vector of B what is opposite to B that is y after that plus position Vector of C what is opposite to C that is z divided by x + y + z this is formula for in center of the triangle now putting the values of x y z and Vector a vector B and Vector C so what is Vector a that is position Vector of point a 3 I multiplied by X that is 3 plus Vector B that is 4 J multiplied by Y what is y y is the 4 plus Vector C that is 3 I + 4 J by J J is nothing but 5 upon x + y + z that is 3 + 4 + 5 so Vector H = to 9 I + 16 G + 15 I + 20 J / by 12 so Vector H equals to taking 12 common if common not possible then keep as it is if possible then take it so 2 I + 3 J + 0 K upon 12 12 12 get cancelled therefore Vector H = to 2 I + 3 J + 0 K and coordinates of in center of triangle H = to 2A 3A 0 this is required solution so to find the in center of the triangle the important step to find the position Vector of the point a point B and point C and after that finding the vector AB BC CA then find the magnitudes then decide XY Z and apply the formula for in Center equal to x a + y b + z c upon x + y + z by using this formula we can easily find out in center of the triangle in Vector form so how did you find this video let me know write down your comment in the comment box and do not forget to subscribe the channel and share this with your friends meet you again with another topic till then wish you good luck all the best |
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Students will evaluate inclusion solutions from a variety of perspectives and develop empathy for othrs. Materials: Chart paper and markers Circle map templates for “To Include” and “To exclude” Paper and writing utensils for the students. Exit Card handout for each student Procedure/Implementation: 1. The teacher will model drawing a circle map which has been divided into quadrants on the board. Students will do likewise on their own sheets of paper. 2. In the center of the map the teacher will write “To Include” and students will do the same. 3. In the top right-hand quadrant, the teacher will write “DEFINITION: to take someone in as part of a group or let them participate in something.’ Students will copy the definition into the upper right quadrant on their maps. The teacher will make sure students understand the definition. 4. The teacher will then write “EXAMPLE inviting someone to sit with you at lunch” in the lower right-hand quadrant. Students will do likewise. The teacher will elicit other examples from students of people including others. 5. In the lower left-hand quadrant , the teacher will ask students to use the word “included” in a sentence that begins “__ included __ when__.” The teacher will model using the sentence frame: “Luisa included Ana when she offered her a seat on the bus.” Students will think of other examples to write on their circle maps. 6. In the upper left-hand corner students will draw a picture of what they wrote about in their sentence. (See completed sample below) Sample: 7. The teacher and students will repeat the process doing a circle map for “To exclude.” See model template below: Luisa included Ana when she offered her a seat on the bus. DEFINITION to take someone in as part of a group or let them participate in something EXAMPLE inviting someone to sit with you at lunch PICTURE TO GO WITH SENTENCE BELOW SENTENCE TO GO WITH PICTURE ABOVE ____ included __ when ____ TO INCLUDE TO EXCLUDE DEFINITION to keep someone from being part of a group or from letting them participate in something EXAMPLE not letting someone sit with you at lunch PICTURE TO GO WITH SENTENCE BELOW SENTENCE TO GO WITH PICTURE ABOVE ____ excluded __ when __ 8. The teacher will conduct a discussion on inclusion and exclusion using the Discussion Questions below. 9. The teacher should point out that sometimes people get excluded on purpose. But sometimes, people get excluded because other people don’t realize that what they’re doing is excluding someone. The teacher should give the example of having a class activity to make gifts for Mothers’ Day. Perhaps there are students who don’t have mothers or who live with other relatives or guardians or have two dads. These students and their families might feel excluded because the teacher and the rest of the class didn’t think about this. 10. The teacher should draw a large circle map with the words “EXCLUSION IN OUR CLASS OR SCHOOL” in the center circle. She/he should ask students to think about activities in the class or school that might cause some students or their families to feel left out or excluded. The teacher should chart the answers on the circle map. 11. The teacher and class will select three of the examples of exclusion to focus on. 12. For each example the teacher will use the following procedure: The teacher will write the exclusionary activity on the board and underneath it list possible solutions brainstormed by the class. Each solution should then be examined for how different people might feel about it. For example, if the problem is students not having money for a class activity, the solution of collecting money and giving it to the student should be examined from a variety of perspectives. How might the student feel? Might he/she be embarrassed or feel ashamed? How might his family feel? The class should try to come up with solutions that will work without embarrassing someone or calling attention to certain individuals in a way to make them feel singled out or different. For example, one possible solution might be to not have activities that cost money. Another might be that the school covers all costs of activities for everyone. 13. The teacher should create a list of ways the class suggests that students and families can be included in classroom and school activities. Perhaps the suggestions can be shared with the administration of the school as well. 14. The teacher should end by asking students to fill out the Exit Card handout with their name, one thing they learned and one thing they will personally do to include others in the classroom or at school. The teacher can compile a list of the things they can do to be inclusionary and share it with the class or post it as a reminder of different ways to include others. Discussion Questions: 1. In pairs, the teacher should have students share about a time they were excluded. What happened? How did they feel? The teacher should ask a few volunteers to share with the whole class after the pair share. 2. How do we feel when we’re included? 3. What are some reasons people are left out of things? Are there ever good reasons? [NOTE: Students should not be dissuaded form identifying times when someone’s behavior may cause him or her to be excluded for things like not playing fairly, shoving, etc. This should be differentiated from being excluded because of things over which one has no control or meanness or bullying.] Additional Resources: ☒ Supplied: Circle map templates for “To Include” and “To exclude” Exit Card handout for each student ☐ Recommended: Related Lessons: (if part of a unit) Exit Card for ______ (Your first and last name) Write down one thing you learned today and why it was important or interesting to you. Write down one thing you will personally do to include others in the classroom or at school. |
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What is the condition for $\angle A$ being acute and obtuse when equation of the three line of the side is given?
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If equation of the triangle $ABC$'s sides are $$AB \equiv a_1x+b_1y+c_1=0 \ AC \equiv a_2x+b_2y+c_2=0 \ BC \equiv px+qy+r=0$$ Then what is the condition for the $\angle A$ being obtuse and acute respectively? This problem is from coordinate geometry. I hope you guys will help me solve it. Thanks to whoever attempts to answer it.
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Consider the quantity $[(a_1)(q)-(b_1)(p) ] \times [(p)(b_2)-(q)(a_2)] \times (aa_1+bb_1)$. If this expression is greater than zero, then the angle $A$ is obtuse. If it is less than zero then the angle $A$ is acute. I found this in my textbook.
So, I tried to prove this formula, but I didn't know how to approach it. There is an another formula in my book, where in order to find out if a triangle's internal angle is obtuse or acute, you need to know the coordinate of $3$ vertices of the triangle. I proved that using vectors.
So, to solve this particular question that I asked,I found out the intersection point of the 3 sides of this triangle in order to get the vertices. But when I plugged in, it was too big an equation to go through. So, I used Wolfram Mathematica to expand it, but it was too big after all and nowhere close to the given answer in my textbook. My mind tells me, maybe it should be done using determinants. But how?
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$\begingroup$ Great. It has been applied in a few instances on the site before. Read this answer and this question. The second question says that you only need to calculate the slopes of the lines, and you can instantly check if the triangle is obtuse or acute angled. You need to know the slope formulas to finish off. $\endgroup$
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So the idea of the proof of that question, is the following fact :
If $\angle P,\angle Q , \angle R$ are the angles of a triangle, then it is an acute angled triangle if $\cos P\cos Q \cos R > 0$. Alternately, it is an obtuse angled triangle if $\cos P \cos Q \cos R < 0$.
What is the proof? First remember, that the cosine of a (non-reflex i.e. less than $180$ degrees) angle is positive exactly when the angle is acute, and is negative exactly when the angle is obtuse. For example, $\cos 60 > 0$ but $\cos 138 < 0$.
Now, every triangle always contains two acute angled triangles. So , in the product of the cosines, two of the cosines are always positive i.e. $>0$. So all that matters is the third cosine.
In an acute angled triangle, all three angles are acute. So all the cosines are positive, and their product is positive.
In an obtuse angled triangle, one of the angles is obtuse. So the product is negative.
Which is exactly what we need to prove.
Now, the question is : how can I get the cosines? The answer is simple : vectors!
$\newcommand{\u}{\vec{u}}$ $\newcommand{\v}{\vec{v}}$ So if I have two vectors $\vec{u},\vec{v}$ then the angle between $u$ and $v$, call it $\theta$ is given by $\cos \theta = \frac{\u \cdot \v}{\|u\| \times \|v\|}$. So, to find the angle between two lines, all I need to know is, what vector a line represents, and then take the dot product. But I also know that $\|u\| \times \|v\|$ is always positive. So I just need the sign of $\u \cdot \v$ to see if the whole expression is positive or negative.
Let's say I have a line, like $ax+by + c = 0$. What vector goes "along" this line? There are actually two unit vectors, and they are opposite each other in sign (obviously, there are two ways to go , you can either go up or go down a line). But can we at least find that vector? Let's take an example : take $x+y = 0$. Then for every unit of $x$ that we move up, we move down $y$ by one unit to remain on the line. In other words, the slope is $-1$ so the direction vector is $\hat{i}-\hat{j}$ (every time I go up $\hat{i}$ by $1$, I come down one in $\hat{j}$) , converted to a unit vector (which is actually not required for us to do.)
Now, what we are going to do, is because we are talking about the vectors in a certain order, we have to take the lines in a certain order.
It is quite easy to see the general situation : if $ax+by +c =0$, then the direction vector is found like this : if I increase $x$ by $1$, then I need to decrease $y$ by exactly the slope of that line, to remain on the line (that is exactly what the slope means). If we write $ax+by+c = 0$ as $y = \frac{-b}{a} x - \frac ca$, then we see that the vector in the direction of $ax+by+c = 0$ is $\hat{i} - \frac{b}{a}\hat{j}$.
Now, we can actually do the job very easily. For example, what is $\cos A$? It is the angle between $AB$ and $AC$. $AB$ is given by $a_1x+b_1y+c_1=0$ so the vector is $\vec{AB} = \hat{i} - \frac{b_1}{a_1} \hat{j}$. Similarly , the vector for $BC$ is $\hat{i} - \frac{b_2}{a_2}j$. Their dot product is $(1 + \frac{b_1b_2}{a_1a_2})$ (note : this $+$ sign is important).
For the other two, we need to be CAREFUL. Why? Let's take angle $B$. Then the angle between $AB$ and $BC$ is formed at $B$. But the vectors need to move in the right direction : if you are measuring the angle at $B$, either we go from $A$ to $B$ to $C$ or from $C$ to $B$ to $A$. So we must take the negative of one of the direction vectors that we get, so that the correct angle come. Let's take $\mathit{BA}$ (not $AB$) and $BC$. Then for $BA$ we should have $\hat{i} - \frac{b_1}{a_1}\hat{j}$, take the negative and get $-\hat{i} + \frac{b_1}{a_1} \hat{j}$. For the other we still have $BC$, which is $\hat{i} - \frac{q}{p}\hat{j}$. The dot product is $-1 + \frac{b_1q}{a_1p}$, which is equal to $-(1 - \frac{b_1q}{a_1p})$.
Similarly the last one, which is $\cos C$, is equal to $-(1 - \frac{b_2q}{a_2p})$.
So, the product is : $$ (1 + \frac{b_1q}{a_1p}) \times -(1 - \frac{b_1b_2}{a_1a_2}) \times -(1 - \frac{b_2q}{a_2p}) $$
Once we take the common denominator and cancel the two minuses out , we get : $$ \frac{(a_1p + b_1q)(a_1a_2 - b_1b_2)(a_2p-b_2q)}{a_1^2a_2^2p^2} $$
which has the same sign as $(a_1p + b_1q)(a_1a_2 - b_1b_2)(a_2p-b_2q)$, so find the sign of this and you know if the triangle is obtuse or acute, although you don't know which particular angle was obtuse or acute.
This will tell you exactly when angle $A$ is obtuse, and matches with your formula ( I believe that $a$ is $a_2$ and $b$ is $b_2$ in the post, I forgot to correct them during edits).
Now, what if you know the three vertices of the triangle? Call them as $A = (a_1,b_1),B = (a_2,b_2)$ and $C = (a_3,b_3)$.
Here's what we can use here :
Let $a,b,c$ be the measure of three sides of a triangle, and let $A$ be the angle which is opposite side $a$. Then , $A$ is obtuse if and only if $a^2 > b^2+c^2$, and $A$ is acute if and only if $a^2 < b^2+c^2$.
So what we need is to find the distance $AB, AC$ and $BC$, which are easily found from the distance formulas. So $BC$ is the side opposite angle $A$. Just check if $BC^2 > AB^2+AC^2$ or not. If yes, then $A$ is obtuse. Otherwise, it is acute.
In terms of formulas, this becomes : $$ (a_3 - a_2)^2 + (b_3 - b_2)^2 - (a_3-a_1)^2 - (b_3 - b_1)^2- (a_2 - a_1)^2 - (b_2 - b_1)^2 $$
if this is positive then $A$ is obtuse. If it is negative then $A$ is acute.
So I'm not actually sure where determinants come in here. I struggled for some time, and then realized that this method was easier!
I hope this addresses you queries, though you can feel free to ask further queries if you wish.
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Ratio and proportion find applications in solving many daily life problems for example while we are comparing altitudes, weights, length, and time or if we are negotiating with company transactions, also while adding elements in cooking, and much more. Ratios refer to the quantitative relation between two numbers or amounts or quantities. It shows the number of times one value contains the other value or is contained within the other value. Proportion simply implies that one ratio is equal to the other. We are going to learn the key concepts of ratio and proportion along with the various types of questions, types of proportion, tips and tricks with formulas, etc. We have also added a few solved examples, which candidates will find beneficial in their exam preparation.
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Ratios are used for comparing two quantities of an identical style whereas when two or more such ratios are identical, they are declared to be in proportion.
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Ratios are used when we are required to express one number as a fraction of another. If we have two quantities, say x and y, then the ratio of x to y is calculated as x/y and is written as x:y. The first term of the ratio is called antecedent and the second term is called the consequent.
Compound ratio is the ratio obtained if two or more ratios are given and the antecedent of one is multiplied by the antecedent of others and consequences are multiplied by the consequences of others. Compounded ratio of the ratios (a : b), (c : d), (e : f) will be (ace : bdf)
Proportion is an equation that specifies that the two given ratios are identical to one another. We can say that the proportion states the equivalency of the two fractions or the ratios i.e. Equivalent Ratios. Proportions are represented by the symbol (::) or equal to (=).
That is the proportion is signified by double colons. For example, ratio 6 : 8 is the same as ratio 3 : 4. This can be written as 6 : 8 :: 3 : 4.
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Thus, a : b :: c : d ⇔ (b × c) = (a × d)
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A ratio is a way to compare two things of the same kind, like comparing the number of boys to girls in a class or the amount of sugar to water in a juice recipe.
We use division to find a ratio. For example, if there are 2 apples and 5 oranges, we say the ratio is 2 to 5. This means for every 2 apples, there are 5 oranges.
We can write a ratio in three ways:
2 to 5
2:5 (using the colon symbol)
2/5 (like a fraction)
But remember! You can only compare things using a ratio when they are in the same unit. For example, you can compare 5 meters to 10 meters, but not 5 meters to 10 liters.
Ratios are very useful in real life – in recipes, shopping discounts, sharing things equally, and even in sports scores!
So, a ratio tells us how many times one quantity is compared to another. It helps us understand relationships between two amounts easily and clearly.
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Types of Proportion
The proportion can be categorized into the following types:
Direct Proportion
Inverse Proportion
Continued Proportion
Direct Proportion:In proportion, if two sets of given numerals are rising or falling in the same ratio, then the ratios are considered to be directly proportional to each other. That is we can say that direct proportion illustrates the relationship between two portions wherein the gains in one there is a growth in the other quantity too. Likewise, if one quantity drops, the other also decreases.
Therefore, if “X” and “Y” are two quantities, then the direction proportion is composed as
x∝y.
Inverse Proportion:The inverse proportion as the name outlines are in contrast to the direct one; where the relationship between two quantities is defined such that growth in one leads to a decline in the other quantity. Likewise, if there is a drop in one portion, there is an expansion in the other portion.
Accordingly, the inverse proportion of two quantities, say “p” and “q” is represented by
p∝(1q).
Continued Proportion: If we assume two ratios to be p: q and r: s and we are interested in determining the continued proportion for the given ratio. Then we transform the means to a single term/digit. That is we will find the LCM of means.
For the provided ratio, the LCM of q & r will be qr.
The next step is to multiply the first ratio by r and the second ratio by q as shown:
First ratio- rp:rq
Second ratio- rq:qs
Thus, the continued proportion can be documented in the form of (rp : qr : qs[/ latex]
Difference Between Ratio and Proportion
The difference between ratio and proportion is given in the table below:
RatioProportion
Ratios are applied to compare the size of two items with an identical unit.Proportions are applied to represent the link between the two ratios.
A ratio is a form of expression.Proportion depicts a form of an equation.
Ratios are represented with a colon (:) or slash (/).Proportions are represented with a double colon (::) or equal to the symbol (=).
Example: x : y ⇒ x/y Example: p : q :: r : s → p/q = r/s
Ratio and Proportion Summary
What is a Ratio?
A ratio is a way to compare two or more quantities of the same kind.
Example: If you have 2 apples and 3 oranges, you can write their ratio as 2:3. This means for every 2 apples, there are 3 oranges.
What is Proportion?
A proportion shows that two ratios are equal.
You can write it in two ways:
a : b = c : d
a : b :: c : d
This means the comparison between a and b is the same as the comparison between c and d.
Important Rules about Ratio and Proportion
If you multiply or divide both parts of a ratio by the same number, the ratio stays the same.
Example: 2:3 is the same as 4:6 because both numbers are multiplied by 2.
Continued Proportion
For three numbers to be in continued proportion:
The first is to the second, as the second is to the third.
Example: 2:4:8
→ 2:4 = 1:2 and 4:8 = 1:2, so they are in continued proportion.
For four numbers to be in continued proportion:
The first is to the second, as the third is to the fourth.
Example: 3:6 and 9:18 → both equal 1:2, so they are in proportion.
Important Properties of Proportion
When two ratios are equal, we say they are in proportion. Let’s say:
If a : b = c : d, then the following tricks (properties) can help solve problems faster:
1. Addendo
If a : b = c : d,
then (a + c) : (b + d)
You can add both parts of the ratios on top and bottom.
2. Subtrahendo
If a : b = c : d,
then (a – c) : (b – d)
You can subtract both parts of the ratios from top and bottom.
3. Dividendo
If a : b = c : d,
then (a – b) : b = (c – d) : d
Subtract top from bottom, then compare with the bottom.
4. Componendo
If a : b = c : d,
then (a + b) : b = (c + d) : d
Add top and bottom, then compare with the bottom.
5. Alternendo
If a : b = c : d,
then a : c = b : d
You can swap across the ratio.
6. Invertendo
If a : b = c : d,
then b : a = d : c
You can flip both sides of the ratio.
7. Componendo and Dividendo
If a : b = c : d,
then (a + b) : (a – b) = (c + d) : (c – d)
Add and subtract the terms, then compare.
Important Notes on Ratio and Proportion
We can compare two things only when they have the same type of units (like kg with kg, meters with meters, etc.).
Two ratios are in proportion when they are equal.
For example, 2:4 and 3:6 are in proportion because both are equal when simplified.
To check if two ratios are equal, you can use the cross multiplication method.
Example: For 2:3 and 4:6, multiply 2 × 6 and 3 × 4. If both are the same, the ratios are in proportion.
If you multiply or divide both parts of a ratio by the same number, the value of the ratio does not change.
Example: 3:5 is the same as 6:10 (both multiplied by 2).
When three numbers are in continued proportion, it means the first is to the second as the second is to the third.
Example: a:b = b:c
For four numbers in continued proportion, the first is to the second as the third is to the fourth.
Example: a:b = c:d
Ratio and Proportion Tricks
Ratio and Proportion Examples
Example 1: If A : B = 2 : 3 and B : C = 5 : 7 then what is the ratio A : B : C ?
Solution: A : B = 2 : 3 B : C = 5 : 7
Multiply by 3/5 so as to make the ratio term of B Common, B : C = 5 × 3/5 : 7 × 3/5
⇒ B : C = 3 : 21/5
A : B : C = 2 : 3 : 21/5
=2 × 5 : 3 × 5 : 21/5 × 5
Hence, A : B : C = 10 : 15 : 21
Example 2: What is the equivalent compound ratio of 17 : 23 ∷ 115 : 153 ∷ 18 : 25
Solution: We know, compound ratio of the ratios (a : b), (c : d), (e : f) will be (ace : bdf) Thus, the compound ratio of (17 : 23), (115 : 153), (18 : 25) = (17 × 115 × 18) / (23 × 153 × 25) = 2 : 5
Example 3: If 3 : 27 ∷ 5 : ?
Solution: If 3 : 27 ∷ 5 : ?
3/27 = 5/?
? = 5 × 27/3
? = 45
Example 4: Find the mean proportional between 14 & 15?
Solution: Mean proportional = √(ab)
⇒ √(14 × 15)
⇒ 14.5
So, the mean proportional of 14 and 15 = 14.5
Example 5: Mean proportion of 4 and 36 is a and third proportional of 18 and a is b. Find the fourth proportion of b, 12, 14.
Solution: Given,
Mean proportional of 4 and 36 = a
⇒ a2 = 4 × 36
⇒ a = 12
Third proportional of 18 and 12 = b
⇒ 122 = 18 × b
⇒ b = 8
Fourth proportional of 8, 12 and 14
⇒ 8/12 = 14/?
⇒ ? = 21
Example 6: A bag has coins of Rs. 1, 50 Paise and 25 Paise in ratio of 5 : 9 : 4. What is the worth of the bag if the total number of coins in the bags is 72?
Solution: ⇒ Number of Rs. 1 Coins = 5/18 × 72 = 20
⇒ Number of 50 Paise coins = 9/18 × 72 = 36
⇒ Number of 25 Paise coins = 4/18 × 72 = 16
⇒ Total worth of the bag = (20 × 1) + (0.5 × 36) + (0.25 × 16) = 20 + 18 + 4 = Rs. 42
Example 7: If 18 : 13.5 : : 16 : x and (x + y) : y : : 18 : 10, then what is the value of y?
Solution: 18 : 13.5 : : 16 : x x = (16 × 13.5)/18 x = 12
Now,
(x + y) : y : : 18 : 10
(12 + y) : y : : 9 : 5 5(12 + y) = 9y
60 + 5y = 9y
4y = 60
y = 15
Example 8: There are a certain number of Rs.10, Rs.20 and Rs.50 notes available in a box. The ratio of the number of notes of Rs.10, Rs.20 and Rs.50 is 3 ∶ 4 ∶ 6. The total amount available in a box is Rs.2460. The amount of Rs.10 and Rs.50 in a box is –
Solution: Let the number of notes of Rs.10, Rs.20 and Rs.50 be 3a, 4a and 6a respectively. Given,
⇒ 10 × 3a + 20 × 4a + 50 × 6a = 2460
⇒ 410a = 2460
⇒ a = 6
Number of notes of Rs.10 = 3 × 6 = 18
Number of Notes of Rs.20 = 4 × 6 = 24 Number of notes of Rs.50 = 6 × 6 = 36
Required amount = 10 × 18 + 50 × 36 = Rs.1980
Example 9: Mr. Raj divides Rs. 1573 such that 4 times the 1st share, thrice the 2nd share and twice the third share amount to the same. Then the value of the 2nd share is:
Solution: Given: Total amount = Rs. 1573
Calculation: Let the share of A, B and C is 4A : 3B : 2C. A : B : C = 1/4 : 1/3 : 1/2 = 3 : 4 : 6
The value of the 2nd share = (4/13) × 1573 = Rs. 484
Example 10: Wayne wants to use Nitrogen, Potassium, and Phosphorus in his field as fertilizers. When any of them is mixed in the field, their quantity reduces by 1 kg every day due to chemical reactions. He mixed Nitrogen, Potassium, and Phosphorus on 7th November, 9th November, and 15th November, respectively. He spent equal amounts on buying each of the three. What should be the ratio of prices of Nitrogen, Potassium, and Phosphorus, so that there is an equal quantity of each of them in the field on 16th November, and that quantity is 11 kg?
Solution: Given: Quantities of Nitrogen, Potassium and Phosphorus in the field on 16th November are 11 kg.
Concept used: If equal amounts are spent on buying the components, the ratio of their prices will be inverse of ratios of their quantities.
Calculation: Nitrogen was mixed on 7th November.
Quantity of Nitrogen when it was mixed = 11 + (16 – 7) = 20 kg
Potassium was mixed on 9th November.
Quantity of Potassium when it was mixed = 11 + (16 – 9) = 18 kg
Phosphorus was mixed on 15th November.
Quantity of Phosphorus when it was mixed = 11 + (16 – 15) = 12 kg
Expenditure = quantity bought × Price per unit
⇒ Ratio of their prices = (1/20):(1/18):(1/12) = 9:10:15
∴ The required ratio is 9 ∶ 10 ∶ 15.
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Ratio and Proportion FAQs
What is ratio and proportion in real life?
Ratio and proportion are found in real-life instances such as comparing altitudes, weights, length, time or if we are negotiating with company transactions, also while adding elements in cooking, and much more.
What is the importance of ratio and proportion?
Ratios and proportions are a kind of foundation for the learner in understanding multiple topics in mathematics and science. For example to understand the slope, rate of change, rate of speed and many such concepts.
What are the types of proportion?
The proportion can be categorized into the following types: Direct Proportion Inverse Proportion Continued Proportion
What is the Difference Between Ratio and Proportion?
The major difference Between the Ratio and proportion is that; ratio represents a comparison between two quantities; however, proportion depicts the equivalency of two ratios.
What is the Formula for Ratio and Proportion?
For any two given quantities say x and y, the formula for the ratio is:x: y ⇒ x/y.For the proportion, formula consider two ratios, p:q and r:s. Then, p:q:: r:s⟶p/q=r/s
What is the formula for proportion?
If a:b = c:d, then a × d = b × c.
How do we know if two ratios are in proportion?
Multiply the outer numbers and the inner numbers. If both are equal, then the ratios are in proportion. Example: In 2:3 and 4:6 → (2×6 = 12) and (3×4 = 12), so they are in proportion.
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A percent of a number can be found by multiplying the percent by the number. Percents can be used to find: Simple interest Tax Markups Discounts Gratuities Commissions Fees Percent increase and decrease Percent error Example:An amusement park ride can hold 16 passengers in 2 cars. If 5 cars can be on the track at one time, how many passengers can be on the track at one time? Enter The sales tax is 7.5% of $55.60. First, multiply 7.5% by $55.60 to find the sales tax. 7.5% × $55.60=0.075 × $55.60 =$4.17 Then, add the sales tax to the cost of the clothes. $55.60 + $4.17 = $59.77 So, Summer spent $59.77 with tax included. Example: First, find the decrease in the number of employees. 125 - 105 = 20 Then, find the percent decrease by dividing the decrease by the original number of employees. 20 ÷ 125=0.16 =16% So, the number of employees at the company decreased by 16%. Percent error is used to show how far an experimental value is from an actual or expected value. 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Contents
1 History
2 Composition
2.1 Lipids
2.2 Phospholipids forming lipid vesicles
2.3 Carbohydrates
2.4 Proteins
3 Function
4 Prokaryotes
5 Structures
5.1 Fluid mosaic model
5.2 Lipid bilayer
5.3 Membrane polarity
5.4 Membrane structures
5.5 Cytoskeleton
5.6 Intracellular membranes
5.7 Variations
6 Permeability
7 See also
8 Notes and references
9 External links
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Biological membrane that separates the interior of a cell from its outside environment
The cell membrane (also known as the plasma membrane or cytoplasmic membrane, and historically referred to as the plasmalemma) is a biological membrane that separates and protects the interior of a cell from the outside environment (the extracellular space). The cell membrane is a lipid bilayer, usually consisting of phospholipids and glycolipids; eukaryotes and some prokaryotes typically have sterols (such as cholesterol in animals) interspersed between them as well, maintaining appropriate membrane fluidity at various temperatures. The membrane also contains membrane proteins, including integral proteins that span the membrane and serve as membrane transporters, and peripheral proteins that attach to the surface of the cell membrane, acting as enzymes to facilitate interaction with the cell's environment. Glycolipids embedded in the outer lipid layer serve a similar purpose.
The cell membrane controls the movement of substances in and out of a cell, being selectively permeable to ions and organic molecules. In addition, cell membranes are involved in a variety of cellular processes such as cell adhesion, ion conductivity, and cell signalling and serve as the attachment surface for several extracellular structures, including the cell wall and the carbohydrate layer called the glycocalyx, as well as the intracellular network of protein fibers called the cytoskeleton. In the field of synthetic biology, cell membranes can be artificially reassembled.
History
Main article: History of cell membrane theory
Robert Hooke's discovery of cells in 1665 led to the proposal of the cell theory. Initially it was believed that all cells contained a hard cell wall since only plant cells could be observed at the time. Microscopists focused on the cell wall for well over 150 years until advances in microscopy were made. In the early 19th century, cells were recognized as being separate entities, unconnected, and bound by individual cell walls after it was found that plant cells could be separated. This theory extended to include animal cells to suggest a universal mechanism for cell protection and development.
By the second half of the 19th century, microscopy was still not advanced enough to make a distinction between cell membranes and cell walls. However, some microscopists correctly identified at this time that while invisible, it could be inferred that cell membranes existed in animal cells due to intracellular movement of components internally but not externally and that membranes were not the equivalent of a plant cell wall. It was also inferred that cell membranes were not vital components to all cells. Many refuted the existence of a cell membrane still towards the end of the 19th century. In 1890, a revision to the cell theory stated that cell membranes existed, but were merely secondary structures. It was not until later studies with osmosis and permeability that cell membranes gained more recognition. In 1895, Ernest Overton proposed that cell membranes were made of lipids.
The lipid bilayer hypothesis, proposed in 1925 by Gorter and Grendel, created speculation in the description of the cell membrane bilayer structure based on crystallographic studies and soap bubble observations. In an attempt to accept or reject the hypothesis, researchers measured membrane thickness. These researchers extracted the lipid from human red blood cells and measured the amount of surface area the lipid would cover when spread over the surface of the water. Since mature mammalian red blood cells lack both nuclei and cytoplasmic organelles, the plasma membrane is the only lipid-containing structure in the cell. Consequently, all of the lipids extracted from the cells can be assumed to have resided in the cells' plasma membranes. The ratio of the surface area of water covered by the extracted lipid to the surface area calculated for the red blood cells from which the lipid was 2:1(approx) and they concluded that the plasma membrane contains a lipid bilayer.
In 1925 it was determined by Fricke that the thickness of erythrocyte and yeast cell membranes ranged between 3.3 and 4 nm, a thickness compatible with a lipid monolayer. The choice of the dielectric constant used in these studies was called into question but future tests could not disprove the results of the initial experiment. Independently, the leptoscope was invented in order to measure very thin membranes by comparing the intensity of light reflected from a sample to the intensity of a membrane standard of known thickness. The instrument could resolve thicknesses that depended on pH measurements and the presence of membrane proteins that ranged from 8.6 to 23.2 nm, with the lower measurements supporting the lipid bilayer hypothesis. Later in the 1930s, the membrane structure model developed in general agreement to be the paucimolecular model of Davson and Danielli (1935). This model was based on studies of surface tension between oils and echinoderm eggs. Since the surface tension values appeared to be much lower than would be expected for an oil–water interface, it was assumed that some substance was responsible for lowering the interfacial tensions in the surface of cells. It was suggested that a lipid bilayer was in between two thin protein layers. The paucimolecular model immediately became popular and it dominated cell membrane studies for the following 30 years, until it became rivaled by the fluid mosaic model of Singer and Nicolson (1972).
Despite the numerous models of the cell membrane proposed prior to the fluid mosaic model, it remains the primary archetype for the cell membrane long after its inception in the 1970s. Although the fluid mosaic model has been modernized to detail contemporary discoveries, the basics have remained constant: the membrane is a lipid bilayer composed of hydrophilic exterior heads and a hydrophobic interior where proteins can interact with hydrophilic heads through polar interactions, but proteins that span the bilayer fully or partially have hydrophobic amino acids that interact with the non-polar lipid interior. The fluid mosaic model not only provided an accurate representation of membrane mechanics, it enhanced the study of hydrophobic forces, which would later develop into an essential descriptive limitation to describe biological macromolecules.
For many centuries, the scientists cited disagreed with the significance of the structure they were seeing as the cell membrane. For almost two centuries, the membranes were seen but mostly disregarded as an important structure with cellular function. It was not until the 20th century that the significance of the cell membrane as it was acknowledged. Finally, two scientists Gorter and Grendel (1925) made the discovery that the membrane is "lipid-based". From this, they furthered the idea that this structure would have to be in a formation that mimicked layers. Once studied further, it was found by comparing the sum of the cell surfaces and the surfaces of the lipids, a 2:1 ratio was estimated; thus, providing the first basis of the bilayer structure known today. This discovery initiated many new studies that arose globally within various fields of scientific studies, confirming that the structure and functions of the cell membrane are widely accepted.
The structure has been variously referred to by different writers as the ectoplast (de Vries, 1885), Plasmahaut (plasma skin, Pfeffer, 1877, 1891), Hautschicht (skin layer, Pfeffer, 1886; used with a different meaning by Hofmeister, 1867), plasmatic membrane (Pfeffer, 1900), plasma membrane, cytoplasmic membrane, cell envelope and cell membrane. Some authors who did not believe that there was a functional permeable boundary at the surface of the cell preferred to use the term plasmalemma (coined by Mast, 1924) for the external region of the cell.
Composition
Cell membranes contain a variety of biological molecules, notably lipids and proteins. Composition is not set, but constantly changing for fluidity and changes in the environment, even fluctuating during different stages of cell development. Specifically, the amount of cholesterol in human primary neuron cell membrane changes, and this change in composition affects fluidity throughout development stages.
Material is incorporated into the membrane, or deleted from it, by a variety of mechanisms:
Fusion of intracellular vesicles with the membrane (exocytosis) not only excretes the contents of the vesicle but also incorporates the vesicle membrane's components into the cell membrane. The membrane may form blebs around extracellular material that pinch off to become vesicles (endocytosis).
If a membrane is continuous with a tubular structure made of membrane material, then material from the tube can be drawn into the membrane continuously.
Although the concentration of membrane components in the aqueous phase is low (stable membrane components have low solubility in water), there is an exchange of molecules between the lipid and aqueous phases.
Lipids
The cell membrane consists of three classes of amphipathic lipids: phospholipids, glycolipids, and sterols. The amount of each depends upon the type of cell, but in the majority of cases phospholipids are the most abundant, often contributing for over 50% of all lipids in plasma membranes. Glycolipids only account for a minute amount of about 2% and sterols make up the rest. In red blood cell studies, 30% of the plasma membrane is lipid. However, for the majority of eukaryotic cells, the composition of plasma membranes is about half lipids and half proteins by weight.
The fatty chains in phospholipids and glycolipids usually contain an even number of carbon atoms, typically between 16 and 20. The 16- and 18-carbon fatty acids are the most common. Fatty acids may be saturated or unsaturated, with the configuration of the double bonds nearly always "cis". The length and the degree of unsaturation of fatty acid chains have a profound effect on membrane fluidity as unsaturated lipids create a kink, preventing the fatty acids from packing together as tightly, thus decreasing the melting temperature (increasing the fluidity) of the membrane. The ability of some organisms to regulate the fluidity of their cell membranes by altering lipid composition is called homeoviscous adaptation.
The entire membrane is held together via non-covalent interaction of hydrophobic tails, however the structure is quite fluid and not fixed rigidly in place. Under physiological conditions phospholipid molecules in the cell membrane are in the liquid crystalline state. It means the lipid molecules are free to diffuse and exhibit rapid lateral diffusion along the layer in which they are present. However, the exchange of phospholipid molecules between intracellular and extracellular leaflets of the bilayer is a very slow process. Lipid rafts and caveolae are examples of cholesterol-enriched microdomains in the cell membrane. Also, a fraction of the lipid in direct contact with integral membrane proteins, which is tightly bound to the protein surface is called annular lipid shell; it behaves as a part of protein complex.
Cholesterol is normally found dispersed in varying degrees throughout cell membranes, in the irregular spaces between the hydrophobic tails of the membrane lipids, where it confers a stiffening and strengthening effect on the membrane. Additionally, the amount of cholesterol in biological membranes varies between organisms, cell types, and even in individual cells. Cholesterol, a major component of plasma membranes, regulates the fluidity of the overall membrane, meaning that cholesterol controls the amount of movement of the various cell membrane components based on its concentrations. In high temperatures, cholesterol inhibits the movement of phospholipid fatty acid chains, causing a reduced permeability to small molecules and reduced membrane fluidity. The opposite is true for the role of cholesterol in cooler temperatures. Cholesterol production, and thus concentration, is up-regulated (increased) in response to cold temperature. At cold temperatures, cholesterol interferes with fatty acid chain interactions. Acting as antifreeze, cholesterol maintains the fluidity of the membrane. Cholesterol is more abundant in cold-weather animals than warm-weather animals. In plants, which lack cholesterol, related compounds called sterols perform the same function as cholesterol.
Phospholipids forming lipid vesicles
Lipid vesicles or liposomes are approximately spherical pockets that are enclosed by a lipid bilayer. These structures are used in laboratories to study the effects of chemicals in cells by delivering these chemicals directly to the cell, as well as getting more insight into cell membrane permeability. Lipid vesicles and liposomes are formed by first suspending a lipid in an aqueous solution then agitating the mixture through sonication, resulting in a vesicle. Measuring the rate of efflux from the inside of the vesicle to the ambient solution allows researchers to better understand membrane permeability.[citation needed] Vesicles can be formed with molecules and ions inside the vesicle by forming the vesicle with the desired molecule or ion present in the solution. Proteins can also be embedded into the membrane through solubilizing the desired proteins in the presence of detergents and attaching them to the phospholipids in which the liposome is formed.[citation needed] These provide researchers with a tool to examine various membrane protein functions.
Carbohydrates
Plasma membranes also contain carbohydrates, predominantly glycoproteins, but with some glycolipids (cerebrosides and gangliosides). Carbohydrates are important in the role of cell-cell recognition in eukaryotes; they are located on the surface of the cell where they recognize host cells and share information. Viruses that bind to cells using these receptors cause an infection. For the most part, no glycosylation occurs on membranes within the cell; rather generally glycosylation occurs on the extracellular surface of the plasma membrane. The glycocalyx is an important feature in all cells, especially epithelia with microvilli. Recent data suggest the glycocalyx participates in cell adhesion, lymphocyte homing, and many others. The penultimate sugar is galactose and the terminal sugar is sialic acid, as the sugar backbone is modified in the Golgi apparatus. Sialic acid carries a negative charge, providing an external barrier to charged particles.
Proteins
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| Type | Description | Examples |
| Integral proteinsor transmembrane proteins | Span the membrane and have a hydrophilic cytosolic domain, which interacts with internal molecules, a hydrophobic membrane-spanning domain that anchors it within the cell membrane, and a hydrophilic extracellular domain that interacts with external molecules. The hydrophobic domain consists of one, multiple, or a combination of α-helices and β sheet protein motifs. | Ion channels, proton pumps, G protein-coupled receptor |
| Lipid anchored proteins | Covalently bound to single or multiple lipid molecules; hydrophobically insert into the cell membrane and anchor the protein. The protein itself is not in contact with the membrane. | G proteins |
| Peripheral proteins | Attached to integral membrane proteins, or associated with peripheral regions of the lipid bilayer. These proteins tend to have only temporary interactions with biological membranes, and once reacted, the molecule dissociates to carry on its work in the cytoplasm. | Some enzymes, some hormones |
The cell membrane has large content of proteins, typically around 50% of membrane volume These proteins are important for the cell because they are responsible for various biological activities. Approximately a third of the genes in yeast code specifically for them, and this number is even higher in multicellular organisms. Membrane proteins consist of three main types: integral proteins, peripheral proteins, and lipid-anchored proteins.
As shown in the adjacent table, integral proteins are amphipathic transmembrane proteins. Examples of integral proteins include ion channels, proton pumps, and g-protein coupled receptors. Ion channels allow inorganic ions such as sodium, potassium, calcium, or chlorine to diffuse down their electrochemical gradient across the lipid bilayer through hydrophilic pores across the membrane. The electrical behavior of cells (i.e. nerve cells) is controlled by ion channels. Proton pumps are protein pumps that are embedded in the lipid bilayer that allow protons to travel through the membrane by transferring from one amino acid side chain to another. Processes such as electron transport and generating ATP use proton pumps. A G-protein coupled receptor is a single polypeptide chain that crosses the lipid bilayer seven times responding to signal molecules (i.e. hormones and neurotransmitters). G-protein coupled receptors are used in processes such as cell to cell signaling, the regulation of the production of cAMP, and the regulation of ion channels.
The cell membrane, being exposed to the outside environment, is an important site of cell–cell communication. As such, a large variety of protein receptors and identification proteins, such as antigens, are present on the surface of the membrane. Functions of membrane proteins can also include cell–cell contact, surface recognition, cytoskeleton contact, signaling, enzymatic activity, or transporting substances across the membrane.
Most membrane proteins must be inserted in some way into the membrane. For this to occur, an N-terminus "signal sequence" of amino acids directs proteins to the endoplasmic reticulum, which inserts the proteins into a lipid bilayer. Once inserted, the proteins are then transported to their final destination in vesicles, where the vesicle fuses with the target membrane.
Function
The cell membrane surrounds the cytoplasm of living cells, physically separating the intracellular components from the extracellular environment. The cell membrane also plays a role in anchoring the cytoskeleton to provide shape to the cell, and in attaching to the extracellular matrix and other cells to hold them together to form tissues. Fungi, bacteria, most archaea, and plants also have a cell wall, which provides a mechanical support to the cell and precludes the passage of larger molecules.
The cell membrane is selectively permeable and able to regulate what enters and exits the cell, thus facilitating the transport of materials needed for survival. The movement of substances across the membrane can be achieved by either passive transport, occurring without the input of cellular energy, or by active transport, requiring the cell to expend energy in transporting it. The membrane also maintains the cell potential. The cell membrane thus works as a selective filter that allows only certain things to come inside or go outside the cell. The cell employs a number of transport mechanisms that involve biological membranes:
Passive osmosis and diffusion: Some substances (small molecules, ions) such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and oxygen (O2), can move across the plasma membrane by diffusion, which is a passive transport process. Because the membrane acts as a barrier for certain molecules and ions, they can occur in different concentrations on the two sides of the membrane. Diffusion occurs when small molecules and ions move freely from high concentration to low concentration in order to equilibrate the membrane. It is considered a passive transport process because it does not require energy and is propelled by the concentration gradient created by each side of the membrane. Such a concentration gradient across a semipermeable membrane sets up an osmotic flow for the water. Osmosis, in biological systems involves a solvent, moving through a semipermeable membrane similarly to passive diffusion as the solvent still moves with the concentration gradient and requires no energy. While water is the most common solvent in cell, it can also be other liquids as well as supercritical liquids and gases.
Transmembrane protein channels and transporters: Transmembrane proteins extend through the lipid bilayer of the membranes; they function on both sides of the membrane to transport molecules across it. Nutrients, such as sugars or amino acids, must enter the cell, and certain products of metabolism must leave the cell. Such molecules can diffuse passively through protein channels such as aquaporins in facilitated diffusion or are pumped across the membrane by transmembrane transporters. Protein channel proteins, also called permeases, are usually quite specific, and they only recognize and transport a limited variety of chemical substances, often limited to a single substance. Another example of a transmembrane protein is a cell-surface receptor, which allow cell signaling molecules to communicate between cells.
Endocytosis: Endocytosis is the process in which cells absorb molecules by engulfing them. The plasma membrane creates a small deformation inward, called an invagination, in which the substance to be transported is captured. This invagination is caused by proteins on the outside on the cell membrane, acting as receptors and clustering into depressions that eventually promote accumulation of more proteins and lipids on the cytosolic side of the membrane. The deformation then pinches off from the membrane on the inside of the cell, creating a vesicle containing the captured substance. Endocytosis is a pathway for internalizing solid particles ("cell eating" or phagocytosis), small molecules and ions ("cell drinking" or pinocytosis), and macromolecules. Endocytosis requires energy and is thus a form of active transport.
Exocytosis: Just as material can be brought into the cell by invagination and formation of a vesicle, the membrane of a vesicle can be fused with the plasma membrane, extruding its contents to the surrounding medium. This is the process of exocytosis. Exocytosis occurs in various cells to remove undigested residues of substances brought in by endocytosis, to secrete substances such as hormones and enzymes, and to transport a substance completely across a cellular barrier. In the process of exocytosis, the undigested waste-containing food vacuole or the secretory vesicle budded from Golgi apparatus, is first moved by cytoskeleton from the interior of the cell to the surface. The vesicle membrane comes in contact with the plasma membrane. The lipid molecules of the two bilayers rearrange themselves and the two membranes are, thus, fused. A passage is formed in the fused membrane and the vesicles discharges its contents outside the cell.
Prokaryotes
Prokaryotes are divided into two different groups: Archaea and Bacteria, with bacteria dividing further into gram-positive and gram-negative. Gram-negative bacteria have both a plasma membrane and an outer membrane separated by periplasm; however, other prokaryotes have only a plasma membrane. These two membranes differ in many aspects. The outer membrane of the gram-negative bacteria differs from other prokaryotes due to lipopolysaccharides forming the exterior of the bilayer, and lipoproteins and phospholipids forming the interior. The outer membrane typically has a porous quality due to membrane proteins such as porins, which are pore-forming proteins. The inner plasma membrane is also generally symmetric, whereas the outer membrane is asymmetric because of proteins such as the aforementioned.[clarification needed]
Also, for the prokaryotic membranes, there are multiple things that can affect the fluidity. One of the major factors that can affect the fluidity is fatty acid composition. For example, when Staphylococcus aureus was grown at 37 °C for 24 h, the membrane exhibited a more fluid state instead of a gel-like state. This supports the concept that in higher temperatures, the membrane is more fluid than in colder temperatures. When the membrane is becoming more fluid and needs to become more stabilized, it will make longer fatty acid chains or saturated fatty acid chains in order to help stabilize the membrane.
Bacteria are also surrounded by a cell wall composed of peptidoglycan (amino acids and sugars). Some eukaryotic cells also have cell walls, but none that are made of peptidoglycan. The outer membrane of gram negative bacteria is rich in lipopolysaccharides, which are combined poly- or oligosaccharide and saccharolipid that stimulate the cell's natural immunity. The outer membrane can bleb out into periplasmic protrusions under stress conditions or upon virulence requirements while encountering a host target cell, and thus such blebs may work as virulence organelles. Bacterial cells provide numerous examples of the diverse ways in which prokaryotic cell membranes are adapted with structures that suit the organism's niche. For example, proteins on the surface of certain bacterial cells aid in their gliding motion. Many gram-negative bacteria have cell membranes which contain ATP-driven protein exporting systems.
Structures
Fluid mosaic model
According to the fluid mosaic model of S. J. Singer and G. L. Nicolson (1972), which replaced the earlier model of Davson and Danielli, biological membranes can be considered as a two-dimensional liquid in which lipid and protein molecules diffuse more or less easily. Although the lipid bilayers that form the basis of the membranes do indeed form two-dimensional liquids by themselves, the plasma membrane also contains a large quantity of proteins, which provide more structure. Examples of such structures are protein-protein complexes, pickets and fences formed by the actin-based cytoskeleton, and potentially lipid rafts.
Lipid bilayer
Lipid bilayers form through the process of self-assembly. The cell membrane consists primarily of a thin layer of amphipathic phospholipids that spontaneously arrange so that the hydrophobic "tail" regions are isolated from the surrounding water while the hydrophilic "head" regions interact with the intracellular (cytosolic) and extracellular faces of the resulting bilayer. This forms a continuous, spherical lipid bilayer. Hydrophobic interactions (also known as the hydrophobic effect) are the major driving forces in the formation of lipid bilayers. An increase in interactions between hydrophobic molecules (causing clustering of hydrophobic regions) allows water molecules to bond more freely with each other, increasing the entropy of the system. This complex interaction can include noncovalent interactions such as van der Waals, electrostatic and hydrogen bonds.
Lipid bilayers are generally impermeable to ions and polar molecules. The arrangement of hydrophilic heads and hydrophobic tails of the lipid bilayer prevent polar solutes (ex. amino acids, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, proteins, and ions) from diffusing across the membrane, but generally allows for the passive diffusion of hydrophobic molecules. This affords the cell the ability to control the movement of these substances via transmembrane protein complexes such as pores, channels and gates. Flippases and scramblases concentrate phosphatidyl serine, which carries a negative charge, on the inner membrane. Along with NANA, this creates an extra barrier to charged moieties moving through the membrane.
Membranes serve diverse functions in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells. One important role is to regulate the movement of materials into and out of cells. The phospholipid bilayer structure (fluid mosaic model) with specific membrane proteins accounts for the selective permeability of the membrane and passive and active transport mechanisms. In addition, membranes in prokaryotes and in the mitochondria and chloroplasts of eukaryotes facilitate the synthesis of ATP through chemiosmosis.
Membrane polarity
See also: Epithelial polarity
The apical membrane or luminal membrane of a polarized cell is the surface of the plasma membrane that faces inward to the lumen. This is particularly evident in epithelial and endothelial cells, but also describes other polarized cells, such as neurons. The basolateral membrane or basolateral cell membrane of a polarized cell is the surface of the plasma membrane that forms its basal and lateral surfaces. It faces outwards, towards the interstitium, and away from the lumen. Basolateral membrane is a compound phrase referring to the terms "basal (base) membrane" and "lateral (side) membrane", which, especially in epithelial cells, are identical in composition and activity. Proteins (such as ion channels and pumps) are free to move from the basal to the lateral surface of the cell or vice versa in accordance with the fluid mosaic model. Tight junctions join epithelial cells near their apical surface to prevent the migration of proteins from the basolateral membrane to the apical membrane. The basal and lateral surfaces thus remain roughly equivalent[clarification needed] to one another, yet distinct from the apical surface.
Membrane structures
Cell membrane can form different types of "supramembrane" structures such as caveolae, postsynaptic density, podosomes, invadopodia, focal adhesion, and different types of cell junctions. These structures are usually responsible for cell adhesion, communication, endocytosis and exocytosis. They can be visualized by electron microscopy or fluorescence microscopy. They are composed of specific proteins, such as integrins and cadherins.
Cytoskeleton
The cytoskeleton is found underlying the cell membrane in the cytoplasm and provides a scaffolding for membrane proteins to anchor to, as well as forming organelles that extend from the cell. Indeed, cytoskeletal elements interact extensively and intimately with the cell membrane. Anchoring proteins restricts them to a particular cell surface — for example, the apical surface of epithelial cells that line the vertebrate gut — and limits how far they may diffuse within the bilayer. The cytoskeleton is able to form appendage-like organelles, such as cilia, which are microtubule-based extensions covered by the cell membrane, and filopodia, which are actin-based extensions. These extensions are ensheathed in membrane and project from the surface of the cell in order to sense the external environment and/or make contact with the substrate or other cells. The apical surfaces of epithelial cells are dense with actin-based finger-like projections known as microvilli, which increase cell surface area and thereby increase the absorption rate of nutrients. Localized decoupling of the cytoskeleton and cell membrane results in formation of a bleb.
Intracellular membranes
The content of the cell, inside the cell membrane, is composed of numerous membrane-bound organelles, which contribute to the overall function of the cell. The origin, structure, and function of each organelle leads to a large variation in the cell composition due to the individual uniqueness associated with each organelle.
Mitochondria and chloroplasts are considered to have evolved from bacteria, known as the endosymbiotic theory. This theory arose from the idea that Paracoccus and Rhodopseudomonas, types of bacteria, share similar functions to mitochondria and blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) share similar functions to chloroplasts. Endosymbiotic theory proposes that through the course of evolution, a eukaryotic cell engulfed these two types of bacteria, leading to the formation of mitochondria and chloroplasts inside eukaryotic cells. This engulfment lead to the double-membranes systems of these organelles in which the outer membrane originated from the host's plasma membrane and the inner membrane was the endosymbiont's plasma membrane. Considering that mitochondria and chloroplasts both contain their own DNA is further support that both of these organelles evolved from engulfed bacteria that thrived inside a eukaryotic cell.
In eukaryotic cells, the nuclear membrane separates the contents of the nucleus from the cytoplasm of the cell. The nuclear membrane is formed by an inner and outer membrane, providing the strict regulation of materials in to and out of the nucleus. Materials move between the cytosol and the nucleus through nuclear pores in the nuclear membrane. If a cell's nucleus is more active in transcription, its membrane will have more pores. The protein composition of the nucleus can vary greatly from the cytosol as many proteins are unable to cross through pores via diffusion. Within the nuclear membrane, the inner and outer membranes vary in protein composition, and only the outer membrane is continuous with the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane. Like the ER, the outer membrane also possesses ribosomes responsible for producing and transporting proteins into the space between the two membranes. The nuclear membrane disassembles during the early stages of mitosis and reassembles in later stages of mitosis.
The ER, which is part of the endomembrane system, which makes up a very large portion of the cell's total membrane content. The ER is an enclosed network of tubules and sacs, and its main functions include protein synthesis, and lipid metabolism. There are 2 types of ER, smooth and rough. The rough ER has ribosomes attached to it used for protein synthesis, while the smooth ER is used more for the processing of toxins and calcium regulation in the cell.
The Golgi apparatus has two interconnected round Golgi cisternae. Compartments of the apparatus forms multiple tubular-reticular networks responsible for organization, stack connection and cargo transport that display a continuous grape-like stringed vesicles ranging from 50 to 60 nm. The apparatus consists of three main compartments, a flat disc-shaped cisterna with tubular-reticular networks and vesicles.
Variations
The cell membrane has different lipid and protein compositions in distinct types of cells and may have therefore specific names for certain cell types.
Sarcolemma in muscle cells: Sarcolemma is the name given to the cell membrane of muscle cells. Although the sarcolemma is similar to other cell membranes, it has other functions that set it apart. For instance, the sarcolemma transmits synaptic signals, helps generate action potentials, and is very involved in muscle contraction. Unlike other cell membranes, the sarcolemma makes up small channels called T-tubules that pass through the entirety of muscle cells. It has also been found that the average sarcolemma is 10 nm thick as opposed to the 4 nm thickness of a general cell membrane.
Oolemma is the cell membrane of an oocyte: The oolemma of an oocyte, (immature egg cell) is not consistent with a lipid bilayer as the bilayer is not present and does not consist of lipids. Rather, the structure has an inner layer, the fertilization envelope, and the exterior is made up of the zona pellucida (vitelline membrane in non-mammals), which is made up of glycoproteins; however, channels and proteins are still present for their functions in the membrane.
Axolemma: The specialized plasma membrane on the axons of nerve cells that is responsible for the generation of the action potential. It consists of a granular, densely packed lipid bilayer that works closely with the cytoskeleton components spectrin and actin. These cytoskeleton components are able to bind to and interact with transmembrane proteins in the axolemma.
Permeability
See also: Intestinal permeability
The permeability of a membrane is the rate of passive diffusion of molecules through the membrane. These molecules are known as permeant molecules. Permeability depends mainly on the electric charge and polarity of the molecule and to a lesser extent the molar mass of the molecule. Due to the cell membrane's hydrophobic nature, small electrically neutral molecules pass through the membrane more easily than charged, large ones. The inability of charged molecules to pass through the cell membrane results in pH partition of substances throughout the fluid compartments of the body[citation needed].
See also
Annular lipid shell
Artificial cell
Bacterial cell structure
Bangstad syndrome
Cell cortex
Cell damage, including damage to cell membrane
Cell theory
Cytoneme
Elasticity of cell membranes
Gram-positive bacteria
Membrane models
Membrane nanotubule
History of cell membrane theory
Lipid raft
Trogocytosis
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12481 | https://indico.ictp.it/event/a12174/session/30/contribution/20/material/0/0.pdf | Introduction to X ray diffraction Gaston Garbarino European Synchrotron Radiation Facility Grenoble, France Outline • Introduction • History • How Diffraction Works – Demonstration – Analyzing Diffraction Patterns • Neutron diffraction?
• Summary and Conclusions Introduction Electron microscope X-rays Neutrons Synchrotron light Particle colliders To see the invisible House Cell Molecule/Atom Nucleus/quark Radio waves IR Visible light UV Soft X-rays Gamma rays Hard X-rays Electromagnetic waves Introduction to X-ray diffraction • X-rays are used to probe the atomic scale • Why are x-rays used?
λ ~ Å • How do the x-rays probe the crystal structure?
X-rays interact with the electrons surrounding the molecule and “reflect”. The way they are reflected will be prescribed by the orientation of the electronic distribution (Electron Density) Motivation: • X-ray diffraction is a non-destructive analytical technique for identification and quantitative determination of the various crystalline forms, known as ‘phases’.
• Identification is achieved by comparing the X-ray diffraction pattern • Bridge the gaps between physics, chemistry, biology…..
Introduction to X-ray diffraction • Bridge the gaps between physics, chemistry, biology…..
X-ray diffraction is important for: • Solid-state physics • Biology - Biophysics • Medical physics • Chemistry and Biochemistry • Geophysics • ……..
X-ray Diffractometer History of X-ray diffraction 1895 X-rays discovered by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen The first X-ray Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered 1895 the X-rays. 1901 he was honoured by the Noble prize for physics. In 1995 the German Post edited a stamp, dedicated to W.C. Röntgen.
History of X-ray Diffraction 1895 X-rays discovered by Roentgen 1914 First diffraction pattern of a crystal made by Knipping and von Laue 1915 Theory to determine crystal structure from diffraction pattern developed by Bragg.
The first X-ray developed by Bragg.
1953 DNA structure solved by Watson and Crick Now Diffraction improved by computer technology; methods used to determine atomic structures and in medical applications Laue’s Experiment in 1914 Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction History of X-ray Diffraction Laue’s Experiment in 1914 Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction History of X-ray Diffraction X-Ray generation: Synchrotron radiation linac and booster undulator beamline storage ring bending magnet beamline Synchrotron SOLEIL Synchrotron SOLEIL Synchrotron SOLEIL Synchrotron SOLEIL Interaction between X-ray and Matter Fluorescence Photoemission Transmission Electron Transmission Elastic scattering / Diffraction Inelastic scattering Sample Incoming beam What is X What is X-ray diffraction?
ray diffraction?
XRD able to determine : • Which phases are present?
• At what concentration levels?
• What are the amorphous content of the sample?
How does XRD Works???
How does XRD Works???
• Every crystalline substance produce its own XRD pattern, which because it is dependent on the internal structure, is characteristic of structure, is characteristic of that substance.
•The XRD pattern is often spoken as the “FINGERPRINT FINGERPRINT” of a mineral or a crystalline substance, because it differs from pattern of every other mineral or crystalline substances.
Some formulas and definitions Some formulas and definitions •A crystal lattice is a regular three-dimension distribution (cubic, tetragonal, etc.) of atoms in space. These are arrange so that they form a series of parallel planes Crystal lattice series of parallel planes separated from one another by a distance d, which varies according to the nature of the material. For any crystal planes exist in a number of different orientations- each with its own specific d-spacing nl l l l=2dsin(Q Q Q Q) How Diffraction Works: Bragg’s Law Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q X-rays of rays of wavelength wavelength λ λ λ λ λ λ λ λ l • Similar principle to multiple slit experiments • Constructive and destructive interference patterns depend on lattice spacing (d) and wavelength of radiation (λ) • By varying wavelength and observing diffraction patterns, information about lattice spacing is obtained d Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q l d θ θ θ θ Ray 1 Ray 2 θ Deviation = 2θ How Diffraction Works: Bragg’s Law The path difference between ray 1 and ray 2 = 2d Sinθ For constructive interference dSinθ θ θ θ + dSinθ θ θ θ = nλ λ λ λ nλ λ λ λ = 2d Sinθ θ θ θ How Diffraction Works: Bragg’s Law How Diffraction Works: Bragg’s Law How Diffraction Works: Bragg’s Law Tube Detector How Diffraction Works: Bragg’s Law d θ θ Ray 1 Ray 2 θ Deviation = 2θ Tube measurement circle θ θ θ θ θ θ θ θ 2 Detector Sample Bragg’s equation is a negative law If Bragg’s eq. is NOT satisfied →NO reflection can occur If Bragg’s eq. is satisfied →reflection MAY occur Diffraction = Reinforced Coherent Scattering How Diffraction Works: Bragg’s Law Diffraction Occurs throughout the bulk Takes place only at Bragg angles Small fraction of intensity is diffracted x 3 Bravais Lattice x 2 x 1 Objects whose symmetries are the point-group symmetries of Bravais lattices x 2 x 4 x 1 x 1 Bravais lattices belonging to the seven crystal systems Crystal systems Axes system cubic a = b = c , α α α α = β β β β = γ γ γ γ = 90° Tetragonal a = b ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ c , α α α α = β β β β = γ γ γ γ = 90° Hexagonal a = b ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ c , α α α α = β β β β = 90°, γ γ γ γ = 120° Rhomboedric α α α α β β β β γ γ γ γ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ Bravais Lattice Rhomboedric a = b = c , α α α α = β β β β = γ γ γ γ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ 90° Orthorhombic a ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ b ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ c , α α α α = β β β β = γ γ γ γ = 90° Monoclinic a ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ b ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ c , α α α α = γ γ γ γ = 90° , β β β β ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ 90° Triclinic a ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ b ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ c , α α α α ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ γ γ γ γ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ β β β β° Reflection Planes (Miller indices) d1 →(0 1 0) d2 →(1 -1 0) d3 →(2 -1 0) ….
Allow to “name” different plane where the Bragg law is satisfied →diffraction peaks Relationship between d-value and the Lattice Constants λ λ λ λ=2dsinθ θ θ θ Bragg´s law • The wavelength is known • Theta is the half value of the peak position • d will be calculated 1/d2= (h2 + k2)/a2 + l2/c2 Equation for the determination of the d-value of a tetragonal elementary cell •h,k and l are the Miller indices of the peaks •a and c are lattice parameter of the elementary cell •if a and c are known it is possible to calculate the peak position •if the peak position is known it is possible to calculate the lattice parameter Laue’s Experiment in 1914 Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction How does it work?
Powder X-ray Diffraction Tube Powder Film How does it work?
Powder Therefore any XRD machine will consist of three basic component. • Monochromatic X-ray source (λ λ λ λ) • Sample Basic component of XRD machine • Sample • Data collector By varying the angle θ, the Bragg’s Law conditions are satisfied by different d-spacing in polycrystalline materials.
Plotting the angular positions and intensities of the resultant diffraction peaks produces a pattern which is characterised of the sample Diffraction angle (2θ) → Intensity → 90 180 0 Crystal Monoatomic gas Schematic of difference between the diffraction patterns of various phases Sample Basic component of XRD machine 90 180 0 Diffraction angle (2θ) → Intensity → Liquid / Amorphous solid 90 180 0 Diffraction angle (2θ) → Intensity → Monoatomic gas Basic component of XRD machine Therefore any XRD machine will consist of three basic component. • Monochromatic X-ray source (λ λ λ λ) • Sample • Sample • Data collector: 1D 2D such as film, strip chart or magnetic medium/storage, CCD camera, image plate 10 20 30 40 2θ X-ray Powder Diffraction Intensity (a. u.) 10 20 30 40 2θ Intensity (a. u.) Peak relative Peak shapes Particle size and defects X-ray Powder Diffraction 10 20 30 40 2θ Atomic distribution in the unit cell Peak relative intensities Unit cell Symmetry and size Peak positions a c b Background Diffuse scattering, sample holder, matrix, amorphous phases, etc...
Which Information does a powder pattern offer?
• peak position dimension of the elementary cell • peak intensity content of the elementary cell • peak broadening strain/crystallite size • scaling factor quantitative phase amount • scaling factor quantitative phase amount • diffuse background false order • modulated background close order Powder Pattern and Structure 1.
The d-spacings of lattice planes depend on the size of the elementary cell and determine the position of the peaks.
2.
The intensity of each peak is caused by the crystallographic structure, the position of the atoms within the elementary cell and their thermal vibration.
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The line width and shape of the peaks may be derived from conditions of measuring and properties - like particle size - of the sample material.
Intensity of the Scattered electrons Atom Scattering by a crystal A Atomic scattering factor (f) Powder Pattern and Structure 2. The intensity of each peak Atom Unit cell (uc) B Atomic scattering factor (f) Structure factor (F) 2.1 Scattering by an Atom Scattering by an atom ∝[Atomic number, (path difference suffered by scattering from each e−, λ)] Scattering by an atom ∝[Z, (θ, λ)] Angle of scattering leads to path differences In the forward direction all scattered waves are in phase 30 λ θ) ( Sin Powder Pattern and Structure electron an by scattered wave of Amplitude atom an by scattered wave of Amplitude Factor Scattering Atomic f = = f → λ θ) ( Sin (Å−1) → 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 10 20 Schematic Coherent scattering Incoherent (Compton) scattering Z ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ Sin(θ) / λ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ Powder Pattern and Structure 2.1 Scattering by an Atom If atom B is different from atom A →the amplitudes must be weighed by the respective atomic scattering factors (f) The resultant amplitude of all the waves scattered by all the atoms in the UC gives the scattering factor for the unit cell The unit cell scattering factor is called the Structure Factor (F) Scattering by an unit cell = f(position of the atoms, atomic scattering factors) 2.2 Scattering by the Unit cell (uc) Powder Pattern and Structure Scattering by an unit cell = f(position of the atoms, atomic scattering factors) electron an by scattered wave of Amplitude uc in atoms all by scattered wave of Amplitude Factor Structure F = = 2 F I ∝ [2 ( )] 1 1 j j j j n n i i h x k y l z hkl n j j j j F f e f e ϕ π ′ ′ ′ + + = = = = ∑ ∑ For n atoms in the UC n ni e ) 1 (− = π θ θ e e i i + − Structure factor calculations A Atom at (0,0,0) and equivalent positions π π ni ni e e − = Simple Cubic 1 ) ( − = π i n odd e 1 ) ( + = π i n even e Powder Pattern and Structure 2.2 Scattering by the Unit cell (uc) ) ( 2 θ θ θ Cos e e i i = + − [2 ( )] j j j j i i h x k y l z j j F f e f e ϕ π ′ ′ ′ + + = = [2 ( 0 0 0)] 0 i h k l F f e f e f π ⋅+ ⋅+ ⋅ = = = 2 2 f F = ⇒F is independent of the scattering plane (h k l) B Atom at (0,0,0) & (½, ½, 0) and equivalent positions [2 ( )] j j j j i i h x k y l z j j F f e f e ϕ π ′ ′ ′ + + = = 1 1 [2 ( 0)] [2 ( 0 0 0)] 2 2 [ 2 ( )] 0 ( ) 2 [1 ] i h k l i h k l h k i i h k F f e f e f e f e f e π π π π ⋅+ ⋅ + ⋅ ⋅+ ⋅+ ⋅ + + = + = + = + C- centred Orthorhombic Powder Pattern and Structure [ 2 ( )] 0 ( ) 2 [1 ] i i h k f e f e f e π π + = + = + ⇒F is independent of the ‘l’ index Real ] 1 [ ) ( k h i e f F + + = π f F 2 = 0 = F 2 2 4 f F = 0 2 = F e.g. (001), (110), (112); (021), (022), (023) e.g. (100), (101), (102); (031), (032), (033) ⇒Presence of additional atoms/ions/molecules in the UC can alter the intensities of some of the reflections Powder Pattern and Structure Bravais Lattice Reflections which may be present Reflections necessarily absent Simple all None Body centred (h + k + l) even (h + k + l) odd Face centred h, k and l unmixed h, k and l mixed End centred h and k unmixed C centred h and k mixed C centred Selection / Extinction Rules C centred C centred Bravais Lattice Allowed Reflections SC All BCC (h + k + l) even FCC h, k and l unmixed DC h, k and l are all odd Or all are even & (h + k + l) divisible by 4 Peak relative Peak shapes Particle size and defects X-ray Powder Diffraction 10 20 30 40 2θ Atomic distribution in the unit cell Peak relative intensities Unit cell Symmetry and size Peak positions a c b Background Diffuse scattering, sample holder, matrix, amorphous phases, etc...
Crystallite size and Strain Bragg’s equation assumes: Crystal is perfect and infinite Incident beam is perfectly parallel and monochromatic Actual experimental conditions are different from these leading various kinds of deviations from Bragg’s condition Peaks are not ‘δ’ curves →Peaks are broadened Powder Pattern and Structure Peaks are not ‘δ’ curves →Peaks are broadened There are also deviations from the assumptions involved in the generating powder patterns Crystals may not be randomly oriented (textured sample) →Peak intensities are altered In a powder sample if the crystallite size < 0.5 µm there are insufficient number of planes to build up a sharp diffraction pattern ⇒peaks are broadened Effect of crystallite size on XRD patterns Single crystal Powder Pattern and Structure Few crystals in the selected region “Spotty” pattern Powder Pattern and Structure Effect of crystallite size on XRD patterns Broadened Rings Ring pattern Ring pattern Spotty pattern Instrumental Crystallite size XRD Line Broadening • Unresolved α1 , α2 peaks • Non-monochromaticity of the source (finite width of α peak) • Imperfect focusing • In the vicinity of θB the −ve of Bragg’s equation not being satisfied Bi Bc Powder Pattern and Structure Strain Stacking fault Other defects • ‘Residual Strain’ arising from dislocations, coherent precipitates etc. leading to broadening In principle every defect contributes to some broadening Bs ...
) ( + + + + = SF s c i B B B B FWHM B Powder Pattern and Structure ...
) ( + + + + = SF s c i B B B B FWHM B Crystallite size Size > 10 µm Spotty ring (no. of grains in the irradiated portion insufficient to produce a ring) Size ∈(10, 0.5) µ Smooth continuous ring pattern Size ∈(0.5, 0.1) µ Rings are broadened Size < 0.1 µ No ring pattern Powder Pattern and Structure (irradiated volume too small to produce a diffraction ring pattern & diffraction occurs only at low angles) Spotty ring Rings Broadened Rings Diffuse Subtracting Instrumental Broadening Instrumental broadening has to be subtracted to get the broadening effects due to the sample 1 Mix specimen with known coarse-grained (~ 10µm), well annealed (strain free) →does not give any broadening due to strain or crystallite size (the only broadening is instrumental). A brittle material which can be Powder Pattern and Structure broadening is instrumental). A brittle material which can be ground into powder form without leading to much stored strain is good.
If the pattern of the test sample (standard) is recorded separately then the experimental conditions should be identical (it is preferable that one or more peaks of the standard lies close to the specimen’s peaks) 2 Use the same material as the standard as the specimen to be X-rayed but with large grain size and well annealed Powder Pattern and Structure Scherrer’s formula ( ) c B k B LCos λ θ = λ → Wavelength L → Average crystallite size k → 0.94 [k ∈(0.89, 1.39)] ~ 1 (the accuracy of the method is only 10%) For Gaussian line profiles and cubic crystals 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 0 30 60 90 t 1 /C o s (t) Powder Pattern and Structure Particle size ∼1200Å Particle size ∼150Å Strain broadening ( ) s B B Tan η θ = Powder Pattern and Structure η → Strain in the material Smaller angle peaks should be used to separate Bs and Bc Separating crystallite size broadening and strain broadening s c r B B B + = ) (θ λ Cos L k Bc = ) (θ ηTan Bs = ) ( ) ( θ η θ λ Tan Cos L k Br + = λ k Plot of [Br Cosθ] vs [Sinθ] Powder Pattern and Structure ) ( ) ( θ η λ θ Sin L k Cos Br + = Preferred Orientation (texture) • Preferred orientation of crystallites can create a systematic variation in diffraction peak intensities – can qualitatively analyze using a 1D diffraction pattern – a pole figure maps the intensity of a single peak as a function of tilt and rotation of the sample • this can be used to quantify the texture Powder Pattern and Structure (111) (311) (200) (220) (222) (400) 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Two-Theta (deg) x10 3 2.0 4.0 6.0 8.0 10.0 Intensity(Counts) 00-004-0784> Gold - Au In-situ XRD can yield quantitative analysis to study reaction pathways, rate constants, activation energy, and phase stability Al NaCl Na3AlH6 NaAlH4 Not always X rays is the best tool, neutron are also very useful • Resolution of X rays instruments is generally better • Cheaper to produce X rays than neutrons • Neutron cross section varies much less than with Z than X-rays, it is pseudo-random (Atomic scattering factor f) Extremely usefull to “see” light elements and determine thermal parameters Not always X rays is the best tool, neutron are also very useful • Resolution of X rays instruments is generally better • Cheaper to produce X rays than neutrons • Neutron cross section varies much less than with Z than X-rays, it is pseudo-random • Neutron scatters from the nucleus (X ray from e- cloud surrounds nucleus) so scattering is aprox constant with increasing 2θ. X-rays, it is pseudo-random • Resolution of X rays instruments is generally better • Cheaper to produce X rays than neutrons • Neutron cross section varies much less than with Z than X-rays, it is pseudo-random Not always X rays is the best tool, neutron are also very useful • Neutron scatters from the nucleus (X ray from e- cloud surrounds nucleus) so scattering is aprox constant with increasing 2θ.
• The neutron is a particle with a spin of one-half. It is the interaction of this spin with the spin state of the nucleus of an atom that determines the scattering property of a neutron with that atom. So we can use this property to analyze magnetic structure.
References Elements of X-Ray Diffraction B.D. Cullity & S.R. Stock, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River (2001) X-Ray Diffraction: A Practical Approach C. Suryanarayana & M. Grant Norton, Plenum Press, New York (1998) Structure determination from powder diffraction data W.David, K.Shanklnad, L.B.McCusker, Ch.Caerlocher, Oxford Univ. Press. (2002) For comments, suggestions, support request etc... For comments, suggestions, support request etc... contacts: Dr Gaston Garbarino e-mail: gaston.garbarino@esrf.fr address: European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) 6 Rue Jules Horowitz, 38043, Grenoble, France Powder Pattern and Structure If the blue planes are scattering in phase then on C- centering the red planes will scatter out of phase (with the blue planes- as they bisect them) and hence the (210) reflection will become extinct This analysis is consistent with the extinction rules: (h + k) odd is absent Powder Pattern and Structure In case of the (310) planes no new translationally equivalent planes are added on lattice centering ⇒this reflection cannot go missing.
This analysis is consistent with the extinction rules: (h + k) even is present C Atom at (0,0,0) & (½, ½, ½) and equivalent positions [2 ( )] j j j j i i h x k y l z j j F f e f e ϕ π ′ ′ ′ + + = = 1 1 1 [2 ( )] [2 ( 0 0 0)] 2 2 2 [ 2 ( )] 0 ( ) 2 [1 ] i h k l i h k l h k l i i h k l F f e f e f e f e f e π π π π ⋅+ ⋅ + ⋅ ⋅+ ⋅+ ⋅ + + + + = + = + = + Body centred Orthorhombic Powder Pattern and Structure [ 2 ( )] 0 ( ) 2 [1 ] i i h k l f e f e f e π π + + = + = + Real ] 1 [ ) ( l k h i e f F + + + = π f F 2 = 0 = F 2 2 4 f F = 0 2 = F e.g. (110), (200), (211); (220), (022), (310) e.g. (100), (001), (111); (210), (032), (133) D Atom at (0,0,0) & (½, ½, 0) and equivalent positions [2 ( )] j j j j i i h x k y l z j j F f e f e ϕ π ′ ′ ′ + + = = ] 1 [ ) ( ) ( ) ( )] 2 ( 2 [ )] 2 ( 2 [ )] 2 ( 2 [ )] 0 ( 2 [ h l i l k i k h i h l i l k i k h i i e e e f e e e e f F + + + + + + + + + = + + + = π π π π π π π Face Centred Cubic Real (½, ½, 0), (½, 0, ½), (0, ½, ½) Powder Pattern and Structure ] 1 [ ) ( ) ( ) ( h l i l k i k h i e e e f + + + + + + = π π π Real f F 4 = 0 = F 2 2 16 f F = 0 2 = F (h, k, l) unmixed (h, k, l) mixed e.g. (111), (200), (220), (333), (420) e.g. (100), (211); (210), (032), (033) ] 1 [ ) ( ) ( ) ( h l i l k i k h i e e e f F + + + + + + = π π π Two odd and one even (e.g. 112); two even and one odd (e.g. 122) E Na+ at (0,0,0) + Face Centering Translations →(½, ½, 0), (½, 0, ½), (0, ½, ½) Cl−at (½, 0, 0) + FCT →(0, ½, 0), (0, 0, ½), (½, ½, ½) + + + + + + + = + + + + + − + )] 2 ( 2 [ )] 2 ( 2 [ )] 2 ( 2 [ )] 2 ( 2 [ )] 2 ( 2 [ )] 2 ( 2 [ )] 2 ( 2 [ )] 0 ( 2 [ l k h i l i k i h i Cl h l i l k i k h i i Na e e e e f e e e e f F π π π π π π π π ] 1 [ ) ( ) ( ) ( h l i l k i k h i e e e f F + + + + + + + = π π π NaCl: Face Centred Cubic ] [ ] 1 [ ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( l k h i l i k i h i Cl h l i l k i k h i Na e e e e f e e e f F + + + + + + + + + + + + = − + π π π π π π π ] 1 [ ] 1 [ ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( + + + + + + + = − − − − − − + + + + + − + k h i h l i l k i l k h i Cl h l i l k i k h i Na e e e e f e e e f F π π π π π π π ] 1 ][ [ ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( h l i l k i k h i l k h i Cl Na e e e e f f F + + + + + + + + + = − + π π π π ] 1 ][ [ ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( h l i l k i k h i l k h i Cl Na e e e e f f F + + + + + + + + + = − + π π π π Zero for mixed indices Mixed indices CASE h k l A o o e B o e e ] 2 ][ 1 [ − − = Term Term F Mixed indices Powder Pattern and Structure B o e e 0 ] 1 1 1 1 [ ] 1 [ 2 : A CASE ) ( ) ( ) ( = − − + = + + + = − o i o i e i e e e Term π π π 0 ] 1 1 1 1 [ ] 1 [ 2 : B CASE ) ( ) ( ) ( = − + − = + + + = − o i e i o i e e e Term π π π 0 = F 0 2 = F (h, k, l) mixed e.g. (100), (211); (210), (032), (033) Anode Mo Cu (kV) 20,0 Wavelength λ (Å) Kα1 : 0,70926 Kα2 : 0,71354 Kβ1 : 0,63225 Filter Kα1 : 1,5405 Zr 0,08mm Ni Cu Co Fe 9,0 7,7 7,1 Kα1 : 1,5405 Kα2 : 1,54434 Kβ1 : 1,39217 Kα1 : 1,78890 Kα2 : 1,79279 Kβ1 : 1,62073 Kα1 : 1,93597 Kα2 : 1,93991 Kβ1 : 1,75654 Mn 0,011mm Fe 0,012mm Ni 0,015mm History (5): P. P. Ewald P. P. Ewald 1916 published a simple and more elegant theory of X-ray diffraction by introducing the reciprocal lattice concept. Compare Bragg’s law (left), modified Bragg’s law (middle) and Ewald’s law (right).
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2.10: Right Triangle Trigonometry
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2.9: Trigonometric Functions
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Learning Objectives
Use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the missing lengths of the sides of a right triangle.
Find the missing lengths and angles of a right triangle.
Solve applied problems using right-triangle trigonometry.
Introduction
Suppose you have to build a ramp and don’t know how long it needs to be. You know certain angle measurements and side lengths, but you need to find the missing pieces of information.
There are six trigonometric functions, or ratios, that you can use to compute what you don’t know. You will now learn how to use these six functions to solve right-triangle application problems.
Using the Pythagorean Theorem in Trigonometry Problems
There are several ways to determine the missing information in a right triangle. One of these ways is the Pythagorean Theorem, which states that .
Suppose you have a right triangle in which a and b are the lengths of the legs, and c is the length of the hypotenuse, as shown below.
If you know the length of any two sides, then you can use the Pythagorean Theorem ( ) to find the length of the third side. Once you know all the side lengths, you can compute all of the trigonometric functions.
Example
Problem: Find the values of side .
Answer
Use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the length of the hypotenuse.
Solving Right Triangles
Determining all of the side lengths and angle measures of a right triangle is known as solving a right triangle. Let’s look at how to do this when you’re given one side length and one acute angle measure. Once you learn how to solve a right triangle, you’ll be able to solve many real world applications, such as the ramp problem at the beginning of this lesson, and the only tools you’ll need are the definitions of the trigonometric functions, the Pythagorean Theorem, and a calculator.
Example
Problem: You need to build a ramp with the following dimensions. Solve the right triangle shown below. Use the approximations and , and give the lengths to the nearest tenth.
Answer
Remember that the acute angles in a right triangle are complementary, which means their sum is . Since , it follows that .
You can use the definition of sine to find . Substitute the measure of the angle on the left side of the equation and use the triangle to set up the ratio on the right. Solving the equation and rounding to the nearest tenth gives you .
In a similar way, you can use the definition of tangent and the measure of the angle to find . Solving the equation and rounding to the nearest tenth gives you .
The ramp needs to be 11.7 feet long.
In the problem above, you were given the values of the trigonometric functions. In the next problem, you’ll need to use the trigonometric function keys on your calculator to find those values.
Example
Problem: Solve the right triangle shown below. Give the lengths to the nearest tenth.
Answer
The acute angles are complementary, which means their sum is . Since , it follows that .
You can use the definition of sine to find . Use your calculator to find the value of and the triangle to set up the ratio on the right. Solving the equation and rounding to the nearest tenth gives you .
To find , you can either use another trigonometric function (such as cosine) or you can use the Pythagorean Theorem. Solving the equation and rounding to the nearest tenth gives you .
We now know all three sides and all three angles. Their values are shown in the drawing.
Sometimes you may be given enough information about a right triangle to solve the triangle, but that information may not include the measures of the acute angles. In this situation, you will need to use the inverse trigonometric function keys on your calculator to solve the triangle.
Example
Problem: Solve the right triangle shown below, given that . Find the exact side lengths and approximate the angles to the nearest degree.
Answer
You are not given an angle measure, but you can use the definition of tangent to find the value of .
Use the ratio you are given on the left side and the information from the triangle on the right side. Cross-multiply and solve for .
Use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the value of .
We can use the triangle to find a value of the tangent and the inverse tangent key on your calculator to find the angle that yields that value. Rounding to the nearest degree, is approximately , . Subtract , from to get .
We now know all three sides and all three angles. Their values are shown in the drawing.
Try It
What is the value of to the nearest hundredth?
4.57
1.97
0.90
0.22
Answer
: 1. 4.57. Incorrect. You probably set up the ratio incorrectly, equating and . A correct way to set up the equation is . The correct answer is 1.97.
2. 1.97. Correct. One way to set up a correct equation is to use the definition of cosine. This will give you . The solution to this equation is: . This rounds to 1.97.
3. 0.90. Incorrect. You probably set up the correct equation, , and solved it correctly. However, your calculator was not set to degrees. The correct answer is 1.97.
4. 0.22. Incorrect. You may have correctly set up your equation as , but then incorrectly solved it as . The correct answer is 1.97.
Using Trigonometry in Real-World Problems
There are situations in the real world, such as building a ramp for a loading dock, in which you have a right triangle with certain information about the sides and angles, and you wish to find unknown measures of sides or angles. This is where understanding trigonometry can help you.
Example
Problem: Ben and Emma are out flying a kite. Emma can see that the kite string she is holding is making a angle with the ground. The kite is directly above Ben, who is standing 50 feet away. To the nearest foot, how many feet of string has Emma let out?
Answer
We want to find the length of string let out. It is the hypotenuse of the right triangle shown.
Since the 50-foot distance measures the adjacent side to the angle, you can use the cosine function to find .
Solve the equation for . Use a calculator to find a numerical value. The answer rounds to 146.
Emma has let out approximately 146 feet of string.
In the example above, you were given one side and an acute angle. In the next one, you’re given two sides and asked to find an angle. Finding an angle will usually involve using an inverse trigonometric function. The Greek letter theta, , is commonly used to represent an unknown angle. In this example, represents the angle of elevation.
Example
Problem: A wheelchair ramp is placed over a set of stairs so that one end is 2 feet off the ground. The other end is at a point that is a horizontal distance of 28 feet away, as shown in the diagram. What is the angle of elevation to the nearest tenth of a degree?
Answer
The angle of elevation is labeled in the diagram. The lengths given are the sides opposite and adjacent to this angle, so you can use the tangent function to find .
You want to find the measure of an angle that gives you a certain tangent value. This means that you need to find the inverse tangent. Remember that you have to use the keys 2ND and TAN on your calculator. Look at the hundredths place to round to the nearest tenth.
The angle of elevation is approximately .
Sometimes the right triangle can be part of a bigger picture.
Try It
A guy wire is attached to a telephone pole 3 feet below the top of the pole, as shown below. The guy wire is anchored 14 feet from the telephone pole and makes a angle with the ground. How high up the pole is the guy wire attached? Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a foot.
Answer
: 1. . Incorrect. You may have been confused as to which ratio corresponds to which trigonometric function. You need to solve the equation , where represents the vertical distance from the base of the telephone pole up to where the guy wire is attached. The correct answer is .
2. . Correct. Let represent the vertical distance from the base of the telephone pole up to where the guy wire is attached. Then . Solving this equation for gives you .
3. . Incorrect. It looks like you set up and solved the correct equation to find the unknown length. However, you misread the problem. When you added the 3 you found the height of the entire pole. The correct answer is .
4. . Incorrect. It looks like you set up and solved an equation to find the length of the wire (the hypotenuse of the triangle). You need to solve the equation , where represents the vertical distance from the base of the telephone pole up to where the guy wire is attached. The correct answer is .
Summary
There are many ways to find the missing side lengths or angle measures in a right triangle. Solving a right triangle can be accomplished by using the definitions of the trigonometric functions and the Pythagorean Theorem. This process is called solving a right triangle. Being able to solve a right triangle is useful in solving a variety of real-world problems such as the construction of a wheelchair ramp.
2.9: Trigonometric Functions
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👉 Learn all about graphing natural logarithmic functions. A logarithmic function is a function with logarithms in them. A natural logarithmic function (ln function) is a logarithmic function to the base of e. The graph of the parent function of a logarithmic function usually takes its domain from the positive x-axis.
To graph a logarithmic function, it is usually useful to first graph the parent function (without transformations). This can be done by choosing 2-3 points from the function and plotting them on the x-y coordinate axis to see the nature of the parent function's graph. After graphing the parent function, we then apply the given transformations to obtain the required graph.
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all right ladies and gentlemen so in this case what we have is uh we have g ofx equals Ln ofx all right so the main important thing is when we're looking at this and we're talking about logarithms talked about y equals log = B to the x that was our parent graph right and then we say well where did Ln come from why did we get the Ln well let's just talk about this real quick we talked about Ln of X we said this was the inverse of our exponential function where we had um the x intercept at 1 comma 0 and it looks something like that right okay now now what we're going to be looking at is well Ln well what did Ln represent well if you guys remember the way that we came across Ln was we said log Ln is when we have base e so instead of writing it log base e we write it Ln base e of X but L LNS always have a base e of X so we just write it as Ln of X we don't write the e we don't have to we already know that the natural logarithm has a base e so when you're looking at this problem if you want to write it in to help you out write in an e okay there's nothing wrong with that it's just it's like saying you know just how we said you know X is the same thing as 1 time x we don't need to write 1 time x we can just write X we know that one is being multiplied by x correct so um the same thing with the base e now if I look at this I need to detm all right what are my Transformations remember that table that we did we said all the different Transformations I'm multiplying by netive 1 inside the function this outside the function that's inside the function Outside Inside Outside Inside Outside Inside Outside Inside So when it's inside the function does everybody remember what we transformation we have it's what it's a reflection about the what though Y axis X Y axis y AIS y AIS y AIS y AIS it's the Y AIS inside the function is the y- axis outside the function is the xais so therefore I'll just write reflect the Y AIS now I need to graph it okay yes what do you um what is it when you're doing the uh well XY axis would be something like this you reflector over the Y then you reflector over the X okay um so and then obviously the the x equals y AIS is the inverse which is the exponential um so now we need to reflect this so that well we need to look know what the graph looks like first yes well this if I did that it's it's reflection of the x- axis and reflection of the y- axis okay all right so let's graph this now I always said to graph everything you can always use a table of values it's like a game show so to do a table of values though I understand that logarithms sometimes gets a little confusing right so what I like to sometimes do is let's use let's convert this instead of G of X let's just do y I think that might be a little bit simpler for you now let's convert this to exponential form e to the Y um equals X all right so what I'm trying to what I'm trying to do here is like say all right well so we have e to the yal X so you can plug in some numbers well we like zero right zero is always a good one so I could say zero right and then um if I plugged in zero in for X well what does e have to be I'm sorry you can't write if you have zero for X what can zero be for it to be can you raise each can you raise any number to a power for it to equal zero I was getting ahead of myself I don't want to show talk to you guys about this yet but no sorry I'll go back to that point let's put a y in for the zero though all right if we put a zero in for the y e to the 0o is equal to what one but now we have this as a negative one right so we have 0 comma 1 then we can just do um uh another let's just pick another point for y what would you guys like to pick any number you can pick any number one okay do e to the one so therefore e to the one equals negx so now we need to determine what e is right so again we have to go back to our calculator and it's 2.71 something like that right so you just say e to the first power is 2.71 I'm just going to simplify to 2 .72 equal x so therefore divide by1 divide by1 so when xals or when y equal 1 e equal - 2.72 so when I'm graphing this I'm going to want to at least show two points so I can kind of determine what I'm doing um so therefore you can just say well I guess I wasn't uh wasn't being as clear with you guys without the reflection all right well you guys can just pull this out so you have -1 comma 0 and then you have - 2.72 and positive 1 right so therefore you can see this graph is going to look something like that now I didn't really show this actually the way I wanted to um what I wanted to show you guys is we know the graph looks like this right if you do Ln of the graph just do Ln of X forget about the reflection if you guys just did Ln of X your table would have been 1 comma 0 and uh 2.7 comma one right I I should have showed that to you guys first if you guys just graph Ln of X just graph Ln of X right if you do your table the table for Ln of X is just the same of that except it's positive 1 Z 2.7 uh 2 comma one right if you just plug those in no am I losing you you do want easier to do like whole num for yeah but the problem is e is an irrational number that's where we come to the problem by using your whole numbers you can work with zero but besides that it becomes a little bit difficult on graphing that be fine is five is finding whole numbers because e is an irrational number so you're not going to get another whole number as long as we put it like in the right direction is well I'm saying is you're still estimating this this is at - 1 comma 0 and this is at 2.72 comma one and there's my two points and then you can look at this and and since I reflected it my ASM toope has not changed so therefore my ASM toope is at x = 0 all right I forgot to show the parent graph first I hope I I can still go back over it with another problem but I want to show you usually guys what we like to do is graph the parent graph without the reflection which is this and then just reflect it over the Y okay I'll do another example for you yes I took I just I changed G of X into y just because it's easier to look at it this way then from here to here I converted it to exponential form because remember exponential form and logarithmic form are the same thing it's just really a different form I wrote it in this form because it's easier for me to do table values when it's in exponential form for me to see it and then what I did is instead of choosing values for X I chose values for y right um and I just chose easy values zero and one yes how do you find the domain and range okay so let's look at this graph right we can see that the domain is going to be all the X values that are negative there's no positive X values so the domain is going to be from negative Infinity to zero however the range is going to be all values so it's be Infinity to Infinity where the ASM toope is going to be xal 0 okay yes don't know because the graph approaches down to zero okay it goes down and it keeps on going down up to zero okay um I wanted to explain that |
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E.E 204 (Hydrostatic Problem) 1- An inclined circular gate with water on one side is shown in figure below. Determine the
total resultant force acting on the gate and the location of the center of pressure .
Ans. (FR= 14.9 KN, YR= 2.26 m) 2- Gate AB in figure below is 1 m long and 0.9 m wide. Calculate force F on the gate and
the position X of its center of pressure.
Ans. (0.515 m from point A) 3- Find the hydrostatic force per unit width on rectangular panel AB in figure below and determine its line of action.
Ans.(FR= 28.9 KN, 1.06 m from point B)
4- Water in tank is pressurized to 85 cmHg. Determine the hydrostatic force per meter
width on panel AB.
Ans. (FR = 502 KN) 5- In fig. below, gate AB is 4 ft. wide and opens to let fresh water out when the ocean tide is falling. The hinge at A is 3 ft. above the fresh-water surface. At what ocean depth h will the gate open? Neglect the gate’s weight.
Ans. ( h = 3.6 m )
6- Compute the air pressure required to keep the gate in figure closed. The gate is circular plate
diameter 0.8 m and weight 2 KN.
Ans. (Pair = 43 KPa)
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ComplianceFinanceUpdatedFebruary 03, 2022
Depreciation methods are constrained by legal requirements
You must deduct the cost of a capital asset used in your business using depreciation methods and schedules dictated by the IRS. Most assets acquired after 1986 must be depreciated using MACRS, but other methods may be allowed.
Theoretically, the cost of an asset should be deducted over the number of years that the asset will be used, according to the actual drop in value that the asset will suffer each year. At the end of each year, you could subtract all depreciation claimed to date from the cost of the asset, to arrive at the asset's "book value," which would be equal to its market value. At the end of the asset's useful life for the business, any value remaining would represent the salvage value for which the asset could be sold or scrapped.
Since computing the actual drop in value of each business asset would be difficult and time-consuming (if, indeed, it was possible at all), accountants use a variety of conventions to approximate and standardize the depreciation process. Most of the methods currently used involve "front-loading" the amount deducted in the first years of the properties life, rather than in equal amounts over the life of the asset.
For example, the straight-line method assumes that the asset depreciates by an equal percentage of its original value for each year that it's used. In contrast, the declining balance method assumes that the asset depreciates more in the earlier years.
The following table compares the depreciation amounts that would be available under these two methods, for a $1,000 asset that's expected to be used for five years and then sold for $100 in scrap.
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| | Straight-Line Method | Declining-Balance Method |
| Year | Annual Depreciation | Year-End Book Value | Annual Depreciation | Year-End Book Value |
| 1 | $900 x 20%=$180 | $1,000-$180=$820 | $1,000 x 40%=$400 | $1,000-$400=$600 |
| 2 | $900 x 20%=$180 | $820-$180=$640 | $600 x 40%=$240 | $600-$240=$360 |
| 3 | $900 x 20%=$180 | $640-$180=$460 | $360 x 40%=$144 | $360-144=$216 |
| 4 | $900 x 20%=$180 | $460-$180=$280 | $216 x 40%=$86.40 | $216-$86.40=$129.60 |
| 5 | $900 x 20%=$180 | $280-$180=$100 | $129.60 x 40%=$51.84 | $129.60-$51.84=$77.76 |
As you can see, the straight-line method provides the same deduction amount every year, while the declining-balance method provides much larger deductions in the first years and much smaller deductions in the last two years. In one regard, this is a plus for the business owner because the upfront costs of the asset are recouped more quickly.
However, the downside of this system is that if the equipment is expected to be sold for a higher value at some point in the middle of its life, the declining balance method can result in a greater taxable gain that year because the book value of the asset will be relatively lower.
Warning
Make sure you claim your depreciation. Most people realize that if they claim more depreciation than they're entitled to, they may suffer penalties in a tax audit.
What many people don't know is that depreciation is not optional.
If you don't claim all the depreciation deductions that you're entitled to, you will be treated as having claimed them when it comes time to compute your taxable gain or loss on the sale or disposal of the asset. This means you'll have more gain to report, but you will have lost out on the deductions from your income over the years.
You must use a permissible method
The depreciation method that you use for any particular asset is fixed at the time you first place that asset into service. Whatever rules or tables are in effect for that year must be followed as long as you own the property. Since Congress has changed the depreciation rules many times over the years, you may have to use a number of different depreciation methods if you've owned business property for a long time.
In some cases, the IRS gives you a choice between two or more different methods, but you must choose one of them. You can't create your own system. For example, you can't choose to depreciate your computer over three years, when the IRS mandates a five-year period, even though you may know your particular computer will be obsolete and replaced within three years.
Changing your depreciation method
If you make a mistake and claim the wrong depreciation amount, you generally can file an amended tax return (Form 1040X) for the year at issue and correct your deduction. However, if you make the same mistake for two or more consecutive tax years and the mistake is not a simple math error (for example, you realize that you've been using the wrong table), you've effectively chosen an accounting method, and you cannot correct the mistake by filing an amended return. Instead, you must file IRS Form 3115, Application for Change in Accounting Method, requesting permission to change accounting methods.
When does depreciation begin?
Your depreciation deductions for an asset begin in the tax year in which you "place it in service." However, the amount you can claim in the first year depends upon the type of property and what percentage of property was placed into service in the last quarter of the year. Depreciation ends when the property is fully depreciated or you dispose of it, whichever happens first.
Depreciation begins when asset is placed in service
Just buying a depreciable asset doesn't automatically entitle you to claim depreciation on it. In order to claim a depreciation deduction for the property in a given year, you must put it to productive use in the business before the end of the tax year.
For any depreciation using the MACRS system (and this is nearly all depreciation,) the amount of depreciation you can claim in the first year depends upon:
the date on which you place the property in service,
the type of property, and
the total amount of property that you placed in service during the year.
If you sell or dispose of the property within the year you got it, you can't claim a depreciation deduction at all. Note that, if you elect to expense the cost of the asset or if you claim bonus depreciation on it, when you place the property in service doesn't matter as much. As long as you begin using the property before the end of the year, you get the entire deduction.
Nonresidential real estate uses mid-month convention
Nonresidential real estate (a classification that includes home offices and residential rental property) must be depreciated using a mid-month convention. That is, your property is treated as being placed in service in the middle of the month in which you actually placed it in service. You will get a deduction for half of that month, plus the rest of the months for the remainder of the year. This principle, known as the mid-month convention, is factored into the depreciation tables use for this type of property.
Most property uses half-year convention
For most depreciable property other than real estate, a half-year convention must be used. This means that no matter what month of the year you begin using the property, you must treat it as if you began its use in the middle of the year. So, you will generally get one-half of the first year's depreciation, regardless of when you placed the property in service. Again, this principle is factored into the depreciation tables used for most depreciable property.
Late year purchases may trigger mid-quarter convention
However, there's an important exception to the half-year convention described above. If Uncle Sam were going to give you a half year's tax break for a purchase made any time in the year, what would keep you from routinely purchasing all your business assets and placing them in use in the final days of December? Presumably, that would allow you to get a deduction for a half year's worth of depreciation, while avoiding any actual cash outlay until late in the year. Good deal? You bet! Unfortunately, the IRS is well aware of this strategy, and has imposed the rules to prevent you from doing that.
The mid-quarter convention rules, apply if you place more than 40 percent of your total new, depreciable (MACRS) property for the year into service in the last quarter. If you do, you will have to use these rules for all assets placed in service during the year.
Under the mid-quarter rules, assets are considered to be placed in service at the midpoint of the quarter in which they were actually placed in service. So, for the first year, depending on the quarter in which you placed the asset in service, you would get the following portions of a full year's depreciation:
Mid-quarter Percentages
First Quarter: 87.5%
Second Quarter: 62.5%
Third Quarter: 37.5%
Fourth Quarter: 12.5%
Don't worry about having to work with these percentages to calculate your deduction; they are factored into the depreciation charts the IRS provides for mid-quarter property.
To avoid the mid-quarter rules, don't be too aggressive about placing a lot of property in service late in the year. However, there may be times when using the mid-quarter convention can work to your advantage. If you place a large, expensive asset in service in the first quarter, you may be able to claim more depreciation by placing slightly more than 40 percent of new assets in service in the last quarter.
Example
If you placed five-year assets with a total value of $10,000 in service at various points during the year, but no more than $4,000 in assets were placed in service in the fourth quarter, you'd ordinarily be able to claim a total of $1,000 ($10,000 x .20 (i.e. 20 percent of 5 years) x .50 (i.e. 50 percent due to the half-year convention) in the first year under the half-year convention and using the straight line depreciation method.
With a slight change in the time assets are placed in service, the outcome changes under the mid-quarter convention. If $5,999 in assets were placed in service in the first quarter and $4,001 in the fourth quarter, over 40 percent of the assets would be placed in service in the fourth quarter. The first year depreciation deduction would be as follows:
Item 1: $5,999 x .20 x .875 = $1,049.83
Item 2: $4,001 x .20 x .125 = $ 100.03
Total first year depreciation: $1,149.86
How long are assets depreciated?
Depreciation ends when you dispose of an asset or you reach the end of the asset's recovery period. Regardless of the depreciation method that you use, you must stop claiming depreciation when the cumulative depreciation you've claimed over the years is equal to your original cost or other basis in the property, or when you stop using the asset in your business.
Warning
One of the more common mistakes business owners make is to continue depreciating property beyond the end of its recovery period.
This is not permitted, except in the case of luxury cars where the dollar limits prevented you from claiming the full depreciation amounts within six years after the car's purchase.
Depreciation in the year of disposal.
If you sold, scrapped, or otherwise disposed of an asset during the year, you can claim a depreciation deduction for the year of disposal, based on the depreciation convention you used.
If you were using the usual MACRS method, which includes a half-year convention, you're treated as owning the asset for half of the final year. If you were using the mid-month or mid-quarter convention, you're treated as owning the asset until mid-way through the month or quarter in which you stopped using it.
MACRS required for most property
For most business property placed in service after 1986, you must depreciate the asset using a method called the Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery Method (MACRS).
Think ahead
Depreciation kicks in with regard to the basis in the property after the expensing election and/or "bonus depreciation" is claimed in the first year the property is placed in service. So, if you claimed the 100 percent bonus depreciation that was available in 2011, you will not have any depreciation to deduct in future years. The same result occurred if you elected to expense the entire cost of the item.
Although the prospect of writing off the entire cost of an asset in the first year is enticing, it is wise to consider two long-term factors:
Will your business income increase, making depreciation deductions desirable in the future?
Are you going to be able to take the tax hit if you have to sell the item and recapture all of that front-loaded depreciation?
Your tax adviser can help you run through various scenarios, as can some tax preparation programs.
MACRS assigns each type of business asset a "class" and specifies the time period over which you can write off assets in each class. The most commonly used items are classified as shown in the chart that follows.
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| Class of Property | Items Included |
| 3-year property | Tractor units; racehorses over two years old placed in service after 2013; racehorses of any age place in service after 2008 but before 2014; horses over 12 years old when placed in service; any assets used in hog breeding. |
| 5-year property | Automobiles; taxis; buses; trucks; computers and peripheral equipment; office machinery (faxes, copiers, calculators etc.); any property used in research and experimentation. Also includes breeding and dairy cattle, goats and sheep. |
| 7-year property | Office furniture and fixtures; grain storage assets; and any property that has not been designated as belonging to another class. |
| 10-year property | Single-purpose agricultural or horticultural structures, and trees or vines bearing fruit or nuts; assets used in printing. |
| 15-year property | Depreciable improvements to land such as shrubbery, fences, roads, and bridges. |
| 20-year property | Vessels, barges, tugs, similar water transportation equipment; farm buildings that are not agricultural or horticultural structures. |
| 27.5-year property | Residential rental property. |
| 39-year property | Nonresidential real estate, including home offices. (Note: the value of land may not be depreciated.) |
Not all assets are eligible for MACRS
Some assets are not eligible for MACRS depreciation. Intangible assets such as patents, trademarks, and business goodwill are not depreciated. Instead, this type of asset generally must be amortized (written off in equal amounts) over a 15-year period, beginning in the month of acquisition. Off-the-shelf computer software must be amortized over 36 months.
Depreciation tables are used to determine deduction
Once you know the asset's classification and the tax basis of the asset, you can use tables provided by the IRS to determine the percentage of the item's tax basis that can be deducted each year. MACRS provides for a slightly larger write-off in the earlier years of the cost recovery period. The full set of depreciation tables showing the MACRS percentages are available in the IRS's free Publication 946, How to Depreciate Property, available on the Internet at
As an example, the following chart shows the depreciation amounts under MACRS for office furniture (7 year property) purchased in for $10,000. The amounts in the third column are taken from the MACRS half-year convention table, which is the one most commonly used. Notice that the asset's tax basis does not change over the years; only the percentage used as a multiplier changes each year.
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| Year | Basis | Percentage | Deduction |
| 2012 | $10,000 | 14.29% | $1,429 |
| 2013 | $10,000 | 24.49% | $2,449 |
| 2014 | $10,000 | 17.49% | $1,749 |
| 2015 | $10,000 | 12.49% | $1,249 |
| 2016 | $10,000 | 8.93% | $893 |
| 2017 | $10,000 | 8.92% | $892 |
| 2018 | $10,000 | 8.93% | $893 |
| 2019 | $10,000 | 4.46% | $446 |
If you do not use the asset 100 percent for business, then each year you must multiply the asset's total tax basis by the business percentage for that year, and then multiply the result by the fraction found in the table.
Example
If, you use the office furniture from the previous example only 50 percent for your business, you would multiply the $10,000 tax basis by .50, and then multiply the result by .2449 to get your final depreciation figure.
Some special variations of MACRS, as well as other depreciation methods, are available (or even mandatory) in certain situations.
Assets of similar types may be grouped into general asset accounts.
Variations on MACRS are available, for those who desire slower depreciation. They are mandatory for farm property and for 15- and 20-year property.
Straight-line depreciation is also available, and is mandatory for some alternative minimum tax purposes
Older methods of depreciation are used for pre-1987 property.
Asset groups simplify recordkeeping
To simplify depreciation recordkeeping and reporting, you can combine similar assets into groups, provided you follow the IRS's rules. You can create a "general asset account" if you place more than one asset of the same type into service during the year, and the assets are
in the same class, with the same recovery period, and
use the same depreciation method.
used 100 percent for using in the first year you place them in service.
For example, if you purchase five computers to use in your business in Year A, you can create a general asset account for them. However, if you purchase four computers and a desk, you cannot include the desk in the asset group with the computers because the recovery periods are different.
If you place assets into a general asset group, you will treat all the assets in the group as a single asset for depreciation purposes.
Warning
Although the general asset account can simplify your recordkeeping, it can also cause problems if you sell one, but not all, of the assets in the group before the end of the recovery period.
In that case you might have to recognize the full amount of the sales price as ordinary income (not the sales price minus the tax basis of the item, as in the usual case). You would continue to depreciate the entire group of assets for the remainder of the class life, including the asset you've already sold.
Be sure to check with your tax adviser if you think you want to use a general asset account.
Real estate and other assets use MACRS variations
The normal MACRS depreciation tables are the most commonly used and generally the most favorable to taxpayers, because they provide for the largest possible deductions in the earliest years. However, you do have the option of using slower depreciation methods.
150-percent declining balance. While normal MACRS uses a 200 percent declining balance method for 3-, 5-, 7- and 10- year property, there is also a 150 percent declining balance method that is available as an option for most business owners, and that must be used for all farm property, and for all non-farm property in the 15- and 20-year property classes.
Most often the 150 percent declining balance method is used for the same recovery periods as normal MACRS, but you do have the option of using the longer ADS recovery periods as described below.
Normal MACRS uses a straight-line method for real estate, which is property in the 27.5- or 39-year class. However, you can also choose to use straight-line depreciation for any other property, if you wish.
Warning
Generally, if you exercise your option to use any of the variations of MACRS you must use it for all assets of the same class that you placed in service during the year. Once you make the election you cannot change it.
For more information on using any of these alternative MACRS methods, and for the tables showing the applicable depreciation percentages, see the IRS's free Publication 946, How to Depreciate Property.
Alternative depreciation system may be required
The Alternative Depreciation System (ADS) straight-line method must be used in certain situations, rather than the standard MACRS method. In addition, assets acquired and put in service before 1987 must continue to be depreciated using the Accelerated Cost Recovery System (ACRS).
The ADS straight-line method must be used in certain situations when normal MACRS is not available; for example, if you've used the standard mileage rate method of deducting vehicle expenses and want to switch to the actual cost method in a later year. ADS must also be used if your business use of listed property drops to 50 percent or less for a year.
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In this paper we describe a constructive method which yields two monotone sequences that converge uniformly to extremal solutions to the periodic boundary value problem u″(t)=f(t,u,u′(t)),t∈[0,2 π],u(0)=u(2 π),u′(0)=u′(2 π)in the presence of an upper solution β and a lower solution α with β⩽α.
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Periodic boundary value problem
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1. Introduction and main result
In this paper, we study a second-order periodic boundary value problem by means of a monotone iterative technique. In order to stress its particularity, we consider the periodic boundary value problem of the form(1.1)u″(t)=f(t,u,u′(t)),t∈[0,2 π],u(0)=u(2 π),u′(0)=u′(2 π),where f(t,u,v) is a Caratheodory function.
A function f:[0,2 π]×R 2→R is said to be a Caratheodory function if it possesses the following three properties
(i)For all (u,v)∈R 2, the function t→f(t,u,v) is measurable on [0,2 π].
(ii)For almost all t∈[0,2 π], the function (u,v)→f(t,u,v) is continuous on R 2.
(iii)For any given N>0, there exists g N(t), a Lebesgue integrable function defined on [0,2 π] such that
|f(t,u,v)|⩽g N(t)for a.e.t∈[0,2 π],whenever |u|,|v|⩽N.
To develop a monotone method, we need the concepts of upper and lower solutions. We say that β∈W 2,1[0,2π] is an upper solution to problem (1.1), if it satisfies(1.2)β″(t)⩽f(t,β(t),β′(t)),t∈[0,2 π],β(0)=β(2 π),β′(0)⩽β′(2 π).Similarly, a function α∈W 2,1[0,2π] is said to be a lower solution to (1.1), if it satisfies(1.3)α″(t)⩾f(t,α(t),α′(t)),t∈[0,2 π],α(0)=α(2 π),α′(0)⩾α′(2 π).We call a function u∈W 2,1[0,2π] a solution to problem (1.1), if it is an upper and a lower solution to (1.1).
Under the classical assumption that α(t)⩽β(t), a number of authors have studied the existence of the methods of lower and upper solutions or the monotone iterative technique (see , , , , , , , , , , ). Only a few have dealt with the case where α(t),β(t) satisfy the opposite ordering condition β(t)⩽α(t) (see , , , , , , ). Recently, Wang investigated a special case of (1.1) (where f(t,u,v)=−kv+F(t,u) and F(t,u) is increasing with respect to u) in the presence of a lower solution α(t) and an upper solution β(t) with β(t)⩽α(t). Moreover, Rachunkova recently proved that problem (1.1) has at least one solution u(t) under the case β(t)⩽α(t). However, the proof of the result in is not constructive and is not able to guarantee that u(t) satisfies β(t)⩽u(t)⩽α(t).
To develop a monotone method, we also need the following hypotheses:
(H1) For any given β,α∈C[0,2 π] with β(t)⩽α(t) on [0,2π], there exist 0<A⩽B such that(1.4)A(v 2−v 1)⩽f(t,u,v 2)−f(t,u,v 1)⩽B(v 2−v 1)or(1.4′)−B(v 2−v 1)⩽f(t,u,v 2)−f(t,u,v 1)⩽−A(v 2−v 1)for a.e. t∈[0,2π] whenever β(t)⩽u⩽α(t),v 1,v 2∈R, and v 1⩽v 2.
(H2) Inequality f(t,u 2,v)−f(t,u 1,v)⩾−A 2 4(u 2−u 1)holds for a.e. t∈[0,2π], whenever β(t)⩽u 1⩽u 2⩽α(t),v∈R.
The purpose of this paper is to give the existence result of solution of (1.1) under the assumption that there exist a lower solution α(t) and an upper solution β(t) of (1.1) with β(t)⩽α(t). We develop the monotone iterative method to approximate the extremal solution of (1.1) and prove that the solution u(t) of (1.1) satisfies β(t)⩽u(t)⩽α(t). Our result extends and complements those in , .
The main result of this paper is stated as follows.
Theorem 1
Suppose that there exists a lower solution α(t) and an upper solution β(t) of (1.1) such that β(t)⩽α(t) on [0,2π], and f(t,u,v) is a Caratheodory function satisfying hypotheses (H1) and (H2). Then there exist two sequences {β j} and {α j}, nondecreasing and nonincreasing, respectively, with β 0=β and α 0=α, which converge uniformly and monotonically to the extremal solution to problem (1.1) in the segment[β,α]≔{u∈C[0,2 π]:β(t)⩽u(t)⩽α(t)on[0,2 π]}.
Section 2 is devoted to a maximum–minimum principle, which is the key to developing the monotone iterative technique. The proof of Theorem 1 is given in Section 3. An example for the forced Duffing equation is given in Section 4.
2. Maximum–minimum principle
To prove the validity of the monotone iterative technique, we use the following maximum–minimum principle.
Lemma 2
Let y∈W 1,1[0,2π], and it satisfies y′(t)+My(t)+L|y(t)|⩾0 for a.e.t∈[0,2 π],y(0)⩾y(2 π),where |M|>L⩾0. Then My(t)⩾0 on [0,2π], i.e., when M>0 the minimum of y(t) is nonnegative; when M<0 the maximum of y(t) is nonpositive.
Proof
Let M>0. Suppose to the contrary that y(t)<0 for some t∈[0,2π]. It is enough to consider the following three cases.
Case (i): y(t)<0 on [0,2π]. In this case, we have y′(t)⩾(L−M)y(t)>0 for a.e.t∈[0,2 π]and hence, y(0)<y(2π), which contradicts the fact that y(0)⩾y(2π).
Case (ii): y(2π)⩾0 and y(t)<0 for some t∈[0,2π]. Since y(0)⩾y(2π⩾0, there exists an interval (a,b),0⩽a<b⩽2 π, such that y(t)<0 in (a,b) and y(a)=y(b)=0. Therefore, we have y′(t)⩾(L−M)y(t)>0 for a.e.t∈[a,b]and hence, y(a)<y(b), which is a contradiction.
Case (iii): y(2π)<0 and y(t)⩾0 for some t<2π. In this case, there exists a point a∈[0,2π) such that y(t)<0 in (a,2π] and y(a)=0. As a result, we have y′(t)⩾(L−M)y(t)>0 for a.e.t∈(a,2 π]and hence, y(a)<y(2π)<0, which is also a contradiction. This proves that y(t)⩾0 on [0,2π] when M>0.
In the same way, we can prove that y(t)⩽0 on [0,2π] when M<0. The proof of the lemma is complete.□
Lemma 2 is an improvement and extension of Lemma 1.2.2 of .
3. Proof of Theorem 1
Throughout this section, we assume that β(t) and α(t) are upper and lower solutions to problem (1.1), respectively, β(t)⩽α(t) on [0,2π], and f(t,u,v) is a Caratheodory function satisfying hypotheses (H1) and (H2).
We will only consider the case that (1.4′) holds, since the other case that (1.4) holds can be treated in a similar way.
For each given η∈[β,α], we consider a periodic boundary value problem of the form(3.1)u″(t)+A+B 2 u′(t)+AB 4 u(t)=g t,η(t),u′(t)+A 2 u(t)−A 2 η(t)+AB 4 η(t),t∈[0,2 π],u(0)=u(2 π),u′(0)=u′(2 π),where(3.2)g(t,u,v)=f(t,u,v)+A+B 2 v.
Let u(t) be a solution to (3.1) and v(t)≔u′(t)+(A/2)u(t). Then we get(3.3)v′(t)+B 2 v(t)=g t,η(t),v(t)−A 2 η(t)+AB 4 η(t),t∈[0,2 π],v(0)=v(2 π).
It is easy to see that the above problem is equivalent to the integral equation(3.4)v(t)=∫0 2 π G B(t,s)g(s,η(s),v(s)−A 2 η(s))+AB 4 η(s)d s,where G B(t,s)≔exp{(B/2)(2 π+s−t)}exp{B π}−1,0⩽s⩽t⩽2 π,exp{(B/2)(s−t)}exp{B π}−1,0⩽t⩽s⩽2 π.
Let v(t) be a solution to problem (3.4). Then(3.5)u(t)≔∫0 2 π G A(t,s)v(s)d s,t∈[0,2 π],is certainly a solution to problem (3.1).
Concerning problem (3.1), we can prove the following statement.
Lemma 3
For each fixed η∈[β,α], problem (3.1) has a unique solution u∈W 2,1[0,2π].
Proof
Define the mapping T:C[0,2π]→C[0,2π] by(Tv)(t)≔∫0 2 π G B(t,s)g s,η(s),v(s)−A 2 η(s)+AB 4 η(s)d s.For v∈C[0,2π], its norm is defined by||v||≔sup{|v(t)|:0⩽t⩽2 π}.By virtue of (H1) and (3.2), we have, for any v 1,v 2∈C0,2π|g(t,η,v 2)−g(t,η,v 1)|⩽B−A 2|v 2−v 1|.Hence, we have|(Tv 1)(t)−(Tv 2)(t)|⩽∫0 2 π G B(t,s)g s,η(s),v 1(s)−A 2 η(s)−g s,η(s),v 2(s)−A 2 η(s)d s⩽B−A 2||v 1−v 2||∫0 2 π|G B(t,s)|d s=B−A B||v 1−v 2||for all t∈[0,2 π],i.e.,||Tv 1−Tv 2||⩽B−A B||v 1−v 2||,which shows that T is a contraction mapping. The Banach contraction principle tells us that T has a unique fixed point in C[0,2π]. Let v(t) be the unique fixed point. Then it satisfies the integral equation (3.4). Put(3.7)u(t)≔∫0 2 π G A(t,s)v(s)d s,t∈[0,2 π].It is easy to show that the function u(t) defined by (3.7) is a unique solution to (3.1). The lemma is proved.□
We now define a mapping Φ:[β,α]→W 2,1[0,2π] by setting (Φη)≔u(t), where u(t) is the unique solution to problem (3.1) with given η∈[β,α]. It then follows by Lemma 3 that the mapping Φ is well defined.
Concerning the mapping Φ, the following statement holds.
Lemma 4
The mapping Φ has the following properties:
(i)β(t)⩽(Φβ)(t),(Φα)(t)⩽α(t)on[0,2 π];
(ii)Φ is monotone increasing mapping on the segment[β,α],namely,(Φη 1)(t)⩽(Φη 2)(t)on[0,2 π]when η 1,η 2∈[β,α]and η 1(t)⩽η 2(t)on[0,2 π].
Proof
We now prove assertion (i). Set β 1(t)≔(Φβ)(t),x(t)≔β 1(t)−β(t),y(t)≔x′(t)+A 2 x(t).As follows from (3.6), we have x″(t)+A+B 2 x′(t)+AB 4 x(t)⩾g t,β(t),β 1′(t)+A 2 β 1(t)−A 2 β(t)−g(t,β(t),β′(t))⩾−B−A 2 x′(t)+A 2 x(t),x(0)=x(2 π),x′(0)⩾x′(2 π),i.e.,y′(t)+B 2 y(t)+B−A 2|y(t)|⩾0 for a.e.t∈[0,2 π],y(0)⩾y(2 π).(Here we have used (1.2).) Applying Lemma 2, we conclude that y(t)⩾0 on [0,2π]. Thus, we have x′(t)+A 2 x(t)⩾0 on[0,2 π],x(0)⩾x(2 π).Again applying Lemma 2, we get x(t)⩾0 on [0,2π], namely, (Φβ)(t)⩾β(t) on [0,2π]. A similar argument shows that α(t)⩾(Φα)(t) on [0,2π]. This proves assertion (i).
Next, we prove assertion (ii). Let,u j(t)=(Φη j)(t),j=1,2,x(t)≔u 2(t)−u 1(t),y(t)≔x′(t)+A 2 x(t),where η 1,η 2∈[β,α] and η 1(t)⩽η 2(t) on [0,2π]. As follows from (3.6) and (H2), we have x″(t)+A+B 2 x′(t)+AB 4 x(t)=g t,η 2(t),u′2(t)+A 2 u 2(t)−A 2 η 2(t)−g t,η 1(t),u′1(t)+A 2 u 1(t)−A 2 η 1(t)+AB 4(η 2(t)−η 1(t))⩾−A 2 4(η 2(t)−η 1(t))+AB 4(η 2(t)−η 1(t))−B−A 2 x′(t)+A 2 x(t)−A 2(η 2(t)−η 1(t))⩾AB 4−A 2 4(η 2−η 1)−A 2 B−A 2(η 2−η 1)−B−A 2 x′(t)+A 2 x(t)⩾−B−A 2 x′(t)+A 2 x(t)for a.e.t∈[0,2 π],that is y′(t)+B 2 y(t)+B−A 2|y(t)|⩾0 for a.e.t∈[0,2 π],y(0)=y(2 π).Applying Lemma 2 again as before, we get x(t)⩾0 on [0,2π]. This shows that (Φη 2)(t)⩾(Φη 1)(t) on [0,2π] when η 1,η 2∈[β,α] and η 2(t)⩾η 1(t) on [0,2π]. Assertion (ii) is thus proved.□
Let us define sequences {β j} and {α j} such that β j+1(t)≔(Φβ j)(t)and α j+1(t)≔(Φα j)(t)with β 0=β, α 0=α. From Lemma 4, we conclude that {β j} is nondecreasing and {α j} nonincreasing.
From (3.1), we know that β n+1″(t)+A+B 2 β n+1′(t)+AB 4 β n+1(t)=g t,β n(t),β n+1′(t)+A 2 β n+1(t)−A 2 β n(t)+AB 4 β n(t),t∈[0,2 π],(3.8)β n+1(0)=β n+1(2 π),β n+1′(0)=β n+1′(2 π).
Let v n(t):=β n′(t)+(A/2)β n(t). Then we get(3.9)v n+1(t)=∫0 2 π G B(t,s)g s,β n(s),v n+1(s)−A 2 β n(s)+AB 4 β n(s)d s.By (3.6), we have(3.10)|v n+1(t)|⩽∫0 2 π G B(t,s)g s,β n(s),v n+1(s)−A 2 β n(s)−g s,β n(s),−A 2 β n(s)+g s,β n(s),−A 2 β n(s)+AB 4 β n(s)d s⩽B−A 2||v n+1||∫0 2 π|G B(t,s)|d s+C 1=B−A B||v n+1||+C 1 for all t∈[0,2 π].Here we have used the facts that f is a Caratheodory function and|β n(t)|⩽max{|α 0(t)+|β 0(t)|:t∈[0,2 π]}.So, we get(3.11)||v n+1||⩽C 2.It shows that(3.12)|β n+1′(t)|⩽C 3.In a similar way, we have(3.13)|α n+1′(t)|⩽C 4.
It then follows by a standard argument (see, e.g., ) that lim j→∞β j(t)≔β∗(t)and lim j→∞α j(t)≔α∗(t)uniformly and monotonically on [0,2π]. From the integral representations , , we concluded that β∗(t) and α∗(t) are both solutions to problem (3.1), and hence to problem (1.1).
Furthermore, if u∈[β,α] is a solution to the problem (1.1), then, by induction, β j(t)⩽u(t)⩽α j(t) on [0,2π], j=0,1,2,…, and hence, u∈[β∗,α∗]. This shows that β∗(t) and α∗(t) are, respectively, minimal and maximal solutions to problem (1.1) in the segment [β,α].
The proof of Theorem 1 is complete.□
4. An example
In this section, we consider the periodic boundary value problem for the forced Duffing equation(4.1)u″(t)+ku′(t)=F(t,u),t∈[0,2 π],u(0)=u(2 π),u′(0)=u′(2 π),where F(t,u) is a Caratheodory function, k>0 or k<0.
We say that β∈W 2,1[0,2π] is an upper solution to problem (4.1), if it satisfies(4.2)β″(t)+kβ′(t)⩽F(t,β(t)),t∈[0,2 π],β(0)=β(2 π),β′(0)⩽β′(2 π).Similarly, a function α∈W 2,1[0,2π] is said to be a lower solution to (4.1), if it satisfies(4.3)α″(t)+kα′(t)⩾F(t,α(t)),t∈[0,2 π],α(0)=α(2 π),α′(0)⩾α′(2 π).To develop a monotone method, we also need the following hypothesis:
(H): For any given β, α∈C[0,2π] with β(t)⩽α(t) on [0,2π], inequality F(t,u 2)−F(t,u 1)⩾−k 2 4(u 2−u 1)holds for a.e. t∈[0,2π], whenever β(t)⩽u 1⩽u 2⩽α(t).
Let A=B=k, then (H1) and (H2) hold. Hence the conclusions of Theorem 1 hold.
Our results generalize and improve the results obtained in .
Acknowledgements
The authors thank the referee for correcting some spelling mistakes.
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12487 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKrlchCio_k | Calculating Initial Speed of Projectile Given Starting Height, Horizontal Distance, and Launch Angle
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A trebuchet similar to those used in the Punkin' Chunkin' contest is looked at, and from estimates of the height it was launched from, the angle it was released at, and the horizontal distance it travels before striking the ground, the initial launch speed is calculated. This involves setting up two equations and two unknowns and using substitution to solve for the answer.
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this problem is going to look at the solution for the initial velocity of a giant catapult throwing a pumpkin a distance of 750 m in the air So there's a few things that are given to us in this problem First we're estimating that the pumpkin is thrown at an initial angle of 35° with the horizontal We're also assuming that this pumpkin is being released from a height of 10 m above the ground And finally we have that the pumpkin travels 750 m in the air before it reaches the ground This problem is going to involve breaking the initial velocity into components then going through and setting up an equation for the vertical motion and the horizontal motion But both of these are going to have unknowns in them So we're going to have two equations with two unknowns that we're going to go through and use to solve for that initial speed The first step is to break the initial velocity into x and y components in terms of the given angle We can do this using s and cosine So we get that the x component of the initial velocity is the unknown speed v 0 the cosine of 35° We get that the y component of the velocity is v 0 the s of 35° And we can find these numbers on a calculator The cosine of 35° is 819 The sign of 35° is 0.574 Then the next step in this problem because we're looking at two-dimensional motion is to set up the columns for our horizontal motion and our vertical motion Listing all of the kinematic quantities So we have in the horizontal direction it's starting at a horizontal position of 0 m and it's ending at a horizontal position of 750 m The initial x component of the velocity is what we found 4.819 819 the unknown speed v 0 The horizontal acceleration is 0 m/s squared In the vertical direction we have that the starting height is 10 m and that the ending height when it's at the ground is going to be 0 m We have that the y component of the initial velocity is 0.574 the unknown speed v 0 And we have that the y component of the acceleration is 9.8 m/s squared So we can see that in this we don't have enough information to use our kinematic equations to solve directly for V 0 because we don't know the time We're going to have to go through and set up two equations with two unknowns And we're going to get those two equations from our horizontal and our vertical motion So first I'm going to set up the equations for the vertical motion looking at the vertical position as a function of time And so looking at the vertical motion looking at the height as a function of time we have that the final height y equals the starting height y 0 plus the y component of the initial velocity v 0 y time plus 12 the y component of the acceleration time^ squar And so now we're going to go through and we're going to plug in those quantities from our vertical column So we have that 0 = 10 +.574 v 0 t + 12 9.8 t ^2 Next I'm going to do the same thing for the horizontal motion And so for the horizontal motion we have that the position as a function of time equals the starting position x0 plus the horizontal component of the velocity times the time And again the third term the 1/2 a^2 term is zero because the horizontal acceleration is always zero as long as there's no air resistance So plugging in the values that we had from our horizontal column we have 750 m equals the starting position 0 plus 819 v 0 t And so now what we're going to be doing is we're going to be using these two equations and we're going to be using substitution to be able to solve We're going to take the horizontal motion We're going to use substitution to solve for t by itself and we're going to substitute it into the other equation for the vertical motion to eliminate t out of the equation So using the horizontal motion equation we had 750 equal.819 v 0 t So solving for t by itself we divide both sides by 819 v 0 and we get that t equals 750 /819 v 0 To simplify this a little bit I'm going to take 750 and divide by 0819 just to turn that into a single number 750 divided by819 is 915.75 And so we have that t= 915.75 / v 0 Again v 0 here is not the x or the y component That that's our total speed of the object And now we're going to take that quantity and substitute it in for t into our vertical equation And the next thing that we can do is we can simplify this a little bit In our second term we have a v 0ero in the numerator and a v 0ero in the denominator So we can divide that out and that's going to turn into just a number Also we're going to take that final term where we have t ^ squ and we're going to make sure that we square the numerator and square the denominator Again squaring a fraction requires you to square both the numerator and the denominator So again the simplification of that middle term.574 915.75 is 525.64 And then in the final term a half 9.8 that's4.9 and then 915.75^ squar that's the numerator squared equals 838,598 and then in the denominator we have v 0 squared From this step we're just going to be going through and simplifying and solving for v 0 So in the first step 10 + 525.64 is 535.64 64 And then in the second term -4.9 838,598 is -4,19,130.5 Then we still have the V 0 squared in the denominator So in the next step I take the term that has the V 0 squar over to the left hand side of the equal sign Taking it to the left hand side makes it positive So I have 4,19,130.5 / v 0^2 equ= 535.64 I'm looking for v 0 So I need to get the v 0 squar out of the denominator So the next step is going to be to multiply both sides by v 0^ 2 on the left hand side of the equal sign V 0 2 / v 0 2 divides out And so now we're left with 4,19,130.5 equals 535.64 V 0 2 And so finally to solve for V 0 we're going to divide both sides by 535.64 and we'll take a square root So first dividing by 535.64 we have 4,19,130.5 divided by 535.64 64 Again I rearrange this because we're solving for V 0 I put that on the left hand side of the equal sign And so dividing that we get 7,671.44 And so finally to solve for V 0 we take the square root of both sides and we get 87.59 m/s So this means that to throw the pumpkin 750 meters from a height of 10 meters in the air at a 35 degree angle you must throw it at 87.59 m/s Again this is going to be a fairly large velocity because 750 m that's 7 and a half football fields in the air But again this is a good problem to go through because it involves setting up two equations with two unknowns and using them to solve for the initial speed of the object |
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The Derivative: Limit Approach
The following definition generalizes the example from the previous section (concerning instantaneous velocity) to a general function :
For a general function , the derivative represents the instantaneous rate of change of at , i.e. the rate at which changes at the “instant” . For the limit part of the definition only the intuitive idea of how to take a limit—as in the previous section—is needed for now. Notice that the above definition makes the derivative itself a function of the variable . The function can be evaluated at specific values of , or you can write its general formula .
The (instantaneous) velocity of an object as the derivative of the object’s position as a function of time is only one physical application of derivatives. There are many other examples:
The limit definition can be used for finding the derivatives of simple functions.
Example : derivconst
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Solution
Find the derivative of the function .
Solution: By definition, for all , so:
[\begin{aligned} f'(x) ~&=~ \lim_{\Delta x \to 0} ~\frac{f(x+\Delta x) ~-~ f(x)} {\Delta x}\
[6pt] &=~ \lim_{\Delta x \to 0} ~\frac{1 ~-~ 1}{\Delta x}\
[6pt] &=~ \lim_{\Delta x \to 0} ~\frac{0}{\Delta x}\
[6pt] &=~ \lim_{\Delta x \to 0} ~0\
Notice in the above example that replacing by was unnecessary when taking the limit, since the ratio simplified to 0 before taking the limit, and the limit of 0 is 0 regardless of what approaches. In fact, the answer—namely, for all —should have been obvious without any calculations: the function is a constant function, so its value (1) never changes , and thus its rate of change is always 0. Hence, its derivative is 0 everywhere. Replacing the constant 1 by any constant yields the following important result:
The above discussion shows that the calculation in Example
Example : derivconst
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was unnecessary. Consider another example where no calculation is required to find the derivative: the function . The graph of this function is just the line in the -plane, and the rate of change of a line is a constant, called its slope. The line has a slope of 1, so the derivative of is for all . The formal calculation of the derivative, though unnecessary, verifies this:
Recall that a function whose graph is a line is called a linear function. For a general linear function , where is the slope of the line and is its -intercept, the same argument as above for yields the following result:
The function from Example
Example : derivconst
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is the special case where and ; its graph is a horizontal line, so its slope (and hence its derivative) is 0 for all . Likewise, the function represents a line of slope , so its derivative is 2 for all . Figure [fig:derivlines] shows these and other linear functions .
Linear functions have a constant derivative—the constant being the slope of the line. The converse turns out to be true: a function with a constant derivative must be a linear function.11 What types of functions do not have constant derivatives? The previous section discussed such a function: the parabola , whose derivative is clearly not a constant function. In general, functions that represent curves (i.e. not straight lines) do not change at a constant rate—that is precisely what makes them curved. So such functions do not have a constant derivative.
Find the derivative of the function . Also, find the instantaneous rate of change of at .
Solution: For all , the derivative is:
[\begin{aligned} f'(x) ~&=~ \lim_{\Delta x \to 0} ~\frac{f(x+\Delta x) ~-~ f(x)} {\Delta x}\
[6pt] &=~ \lim_{\Delta x \to 0} ~\frac{~\dfrac{1}{x + \Delta x} ~-~ \dfrac{1}{x}~} {\Delta x} ~\rightarrow~ \frac{0}{0}\quad\text{, so simplify the ratio before plugging in ,}\
[6pt] &=~ \lim_{\Delta x \to 0} ~\frac{~\dfrac{x ~-~ (x + \Delta x)} {(x + \Delta x)x}~}{\Delta x} \quad\text{(after getting a common denominator)}\
[6pt] &=~ \lim_{\Delta x \to 0} ~\frac{-\cancel{\Delta x}}{\cancel{\Delta x}(x + \Delta x)x}\
[6pt] &=~ \lim_{\Delta x \to 0} ~\frac{-1}{(x + \Delta x)x} ~=~ \frac{-1}{(x+0)x}\
Misplaced &6pt] f'(x) ~&=~ -\frac{1}{x^2} \end{aligned} \nonumber
The instantaneous rate of change of at is just the derivative evaluated at , that is, .
Notice that the instantaneous rate of change in the above example is a negative number. This should make sense, since the function is changing in the negative direction at ; that is, is decreasing in value at . This is plain to see from the graph of shown on the right. In fact, for all the function is decreasing as grows.12 This is reflected in the derivative being negative for all . In general, a negative derivative means that the function is decreasing, while a positive derivative means that it is increasing. The problem with using the limit definition to find the derivative of a curved function is that the calculations require more work, as the above example shows. As the functions become more complicated those calculations can become difficult or even impossible. And though limits have not yet been defined formally, for now the intuitively obvious idea of limits suffices, namely:
Below are some simple rules for limits, which will be proved later:
The above rules say that the limit of sums, differences, constant multiples, products, and quotients is the sum, difference, constant multiple, product, and quotient, respectively, of the limits. This seems intuitively obvious.
These rules can be used for finding other expressions for the derivative. The quantity represents a small number—positive or negative—that approaches 0, but it is common in mathematics texts to use the letter instead:13
Another formulation is to set in formula ([eqn:hderivative]), which yields
so that
since approaches 0 if and only if approaches . Another formulation replaces by :
and thus
since approaches 0 if and only if approaches . The above formulations did not use the Limit Rules, but the following result does:
Since by formulas ([eqn:hderivative]) and ([eqn:neghderivative]), then Limit Rule (c) shows that
Now use the idea that for all , , and to write:
[\begin{aligned} \lim_{h \to 0} ~\frac{f(x+h) ~-~ f(x-h)}{2h} ~&=~ \lim_{h \to 0} ~\frac{\left(f(x+h) ~-~ f(x)\right) ~+~ \left(f(x) ~-~ f(x-h)\right)}{2h}\
[6pt] &=~ \lim_{h \to 0} ~\frac{f(x+h) ~-~ f(x)}{2h} ~+~ \lim_{h \to 0} ~\frac{f(x) ~-~ f(x-h)}{2h} \quad\text{(by Limit Rule (a))}\
[6pt] &=~ \frac{1}{2} \cdot f'(x) ~+~ \frac{1}{2} \cdot f'(x)\
Misplaced &6pt] &=~ f'(x)\end{aligned} \nonumber
As an example of using these different formulations, recall that a function is even if for all in the domain of , and is odd if for all in its domain. For example, , , and are even functions; , , and are odd functions. The following result is often useful:
To prove the first statement—the second is an exercise—suppose that is an even function and that exists for all in its domain. Then
[\begin{aligned} {3} f'(-x) ~&=~ \lim_{h \to 0} ~\frac{f(-x + h) ~-~ f(-x)}{h} \qquad&&\text{by formula () with replaced by }\
[6pt] &=~ \lim_{h \to 0} ~\frac{f(-(x - h)) ~-~ f(-x)}{h} &&{}\
[6pt] &=~ \lim_{h \to 0} ~\frac{f(x - h) ~-~ f(x)}{h} &&\text{since is even}\
[6pt] &=~ \lim_{h \to 0} ~\frac{-\left(f(x) ~-~ f(x-h)\right)}{h} &&{}\
[6pt] &=~ -\lim_{h \to 0} ~\frac{f(x) ~-~ f(x-h)}{h} &&\text{by Limit Rule (c), so}\
Misplaced &6pt] f'(-x) ~&=~ -f'(x) &&\text{by formula (\ref{eqn:neghderivative}),}\end{aligned} \nonumber
which shows that is an odd function.
Derivatives do not always exist, as the following example shows.
Example : absnondiff
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Let . Show that does not exist.
Solution: Recall that the absolute value function is defined as
The graph consists of two lines meeting at the origin. For the graph is the line , which has slope 1. For the graph is the line , which has slope -1. These lines agree in value ( ) at , but their slopes do not agree in value at . Therefore the derivative of does not exist at , since the derivative of a curve is just its slope. A more “formal” proof (which amounts to the same argument) is outlined in the exercises.
If the derivative exists then is differentiable at . A differentiable function is one that is differentiable at every point in its domain. For example, is a differentiable function, but is not differentiable at . The act of calculating a derivative is called differentiation. For example, differentiating the function yields .
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Note: For all exercises, you can use anything discussed so far (including previous exercises).
For Exercises 1-11, find the derivative of the given function for all (unless indicated otherwise).
4
3
, for all
, for all
, for all
[exer:sqrtderiv] , for all (Hint: Rationalize the numerator in the definition of the derivative.)
3
, for all
In Exercise [exer:sqrtderiv] the point was excluded when calculating , even though is in the domain of . Can you explain why was excluded?
Show that for all functions such that exists, .
True or false: If and are differentiable functions on an interval and for all in , then for all in . If true, prove it; if false, give a counterexample. Would your answer change if the restriction of to were removed and all real were used instead?
Show that the derivative of an odd function is an even function.
For Exercises [exer:altderivfirst]-[exer:altderivlast], assuming that exists, prove the given formula.
2
[exer:altderivfirst]
2
( )
2
[exer:altderivlast]
Show that is not differentiable at , using formula ([eqn:hderivative]) for the derivative. Here you will have to use a part of the definition which has not been used yet: as approaches 0, can be either positive or negative. Consider those two cases in showing that the limit is not defined at .
Suppose that for all and , and exists. Show that exists for all .
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12490 | https://tigerweb.towson.edu/ladon/orgrxs/reagent/redox.htm | Organic Redox Reactions
Organic Redox Reactions
OXIDATION STATE
To determine the oxidation state of simple inorganic compounds, you assume that the oxidation state of all but one of the elements in the compound is known and determine the remaining element by difference, since the sum of all oxidation number must be zero. For example, in KMnO 4, potassium is always +1, each oxygen is -2 (for a total oxidation number of -8) and thus the manganese must be +7. A similar approach is taken in organic compounds, but a carbon is nearly always the unknown. Carbon atoms can have any oxidation state from -4 (e.g. CH 4) to +4 (e.g. CCl 4). If there is more than one carbon in the molecule, each needs to be calculated, but there are now several more unknown oxidation states than there are knowns to use in their determination. An useful solution to the problem can be generated by accepting two important facts:
1. an absolute value for the oxidation state cannot be determined.
2. only the changes in oxidation state during a reaction are important, so the absolute value isn't needed.
The approach described here calculates oxidation state in a consistent manner which always gives the correct oxidation state change for a reaction, and parallels the method used for KMnO 4 above.
1. Elements other than carbon are assigned their normal oxidation state: H: +1; O: -2; halogens: -1; and as a consequence OH: -1. There are easily recognized situations where these elements are known to have other oxidation states: hydrides such as LiAlH 4 (H: -1), peroxides such as H 2 O 2 (O: -1), or the elements (Cl 2, H 2, O 2: 0).
2. Once the particular carbon of interest is chosen (the one that is changed during the reaction), all other carbons are assigned an oxidation state of 0 (even if you know otherwise)! The oxidation state of the carbon of interest is then calculated by the method used for an inorganic element like Mn in KMnO 4 above.
Examples:
In the reaction below, in which a ketone is converted to an alcohol, the only change in oxidation state occurs at the carbon with the oxygen; the method is outlined and shows that the carbon's oxidation state is reduced from +2 to 0, equivalent to addition of 2 electrons. + Li+ + Al+3
Acetone carbon oxidation states:
| Carbon number | Attached atoms | Sum of oxn nos of attached atoms | C oxidation state |
--- --- |
| 1 | 3H, 1C | 3(+1) + 1(0) = +3 | -3 |
| 2 | 2C, 1O | 2(0) + 1(-2) = -2 | +2 |
| 3 | 3H, 1C | 3(+1) + 1(0) = +3 | -3 |
2-Propanol carbon oxidation states
| Carbon number | Attached atoms | Sum of oxn nos of attached atoms | C oxidation state |
--- --- |
| 1 | 3H, 1C | 3(+1) + 1(0) = +3 | -3 |
| 2 | 2C, 1H, 1OH | 2(0) + 1(+1) + 1(-1) = 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 3H, 1C | 3(+1) + 1(0) = +3 | -3 |
The same procedure can be used to determine the oxidation state of nitrogen in organic and inorganic compounds which varies from -3 (NH 3) to +5 (HNO 3); it occurs in all its oxidation states in organic compounds and it too can participate in redox reactions.
BALANCING EQUATIONS
To use these computations to determine the relative amounts of reagents needed to perform a chemical reaction, use these oxidation state changes as you did for inorganic reactions; the electrons donated by the reducing agent must be equal to the electrons gained by the oxidizing agent. For example, LiAlH 4, has a normal Li: +1, Al: +3, and abnormal H: -1, and reacts as follows (the products are shown after neutralization and isolation by water): LiAlH 4 + + H 2 O + LiOH + Al(OH)3
The Li: +1, Al: +3, O: -2 and the CH 3's are unchanged by this reaction. Changed are C-2 and H. The half reactions, balanced, are:
LiAlH 4 4H+ + 8e- + Li+ + Al+3 + 2e- + 2 H+We have determined that each LiAlH 4 can reduce 4 acetone molecules. To write a balanced equation, multiply the second equation by 4 and add the two equations. 4 + LiAlH 4 + 4 H+ 4 + Li+ + Al+3 The H+ added to this reaction is an artifact of the procedure we used to balance the equation. We could have arbitrarily added 4 OH- to both sides of the equation to generate one like that above. In fact, the reaction does not occur under acid or aqueous conditions. Reduction of the ketone can only be accomplished under absolutely anhydrous and acid-free conditions. If any water or acid is present, LiAlH 4 reacts with the acid or water to produce H 2. For this reaction, the acid and/or water is added after the LiAlH 4 and acetone have completely reacted. Remember that "balancing equations" is a kind of arithmetic that attempts to regenerate observed redox reactions using the numerical concept of oxidation state: just because we can balance a redox equation does not mean that it occurs. It is essential that the reagents and products be determined experimentally before checking the relative number of moles expected by "balancing the equation". In cases like this where the reaction is non-aqueous, it is more realistic not to insert any of the components of water on the left-hand-side, since they will not be in the reaction. The actual reaction, without neutralization, is: 4 + LiAlH 4 4 + Li+ + Al+3 For practice, convince yourself that conversion of an alkyl halide to a Grignard reagent reduces the carbon by 2 electrons, and balance the equation for oxidation of an alcohol to a ketone by chromic acid. Keep this method in mind for biochemical redox reactions - it works just as well.
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This procedure described above can also be used to show that oxidation/reduction has not occurred, even when the oxygen content of a molecule changes. For example, addition of water to an alkene: CH 2=CH 2 + H 2 O CH 3-CH 2 OH Oxidation states: for ethene: -2 , -2 ; for ethanol: -3 -1
In this case, the computation indicates a reshuffling of electrons within the molecule, making the two carbons different, but no overall oxidation. This should not be surprising, since water is not easy to oxidize or reduce (sodium metal can reduce it partially to H 2).
Click here to transfer to a list and some properties of some typical oxidizing and reducing agents.
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Understanding how to convert between different types of scale is crucial in geography, as it allows you to accurately interpret and use maps, measure distances and areas, and understand the real-world dimensions represented. This document provides a detailed explanation of the key scale conversion techniques.
In this article, we will look into the Conversion of Scale in detail.
Conversion of Scale| Class 11 Geography Practical Work
Converting Between Scale Types
Graphic Scale to Verbal Scale
Let's say we have a map that has a graphic scale showing "1 cm = 10 km".
To convert this graphic scale to a verbal scale statement, we simply need to write out the relationship in words:
"One centimeter on the map represents 10 kilometers on the ground."
So the verbal scale statement corresponding to the 1 cm = 10 km graphic scale is:
"1 cm on the map = 10 km on the ground"
The key things to understand here are:
The graphic scale shows the direct relationship between a distance on the map (1 cm) and the actual distance on the ground (10 km)
To convert this to a verbal scale, we just need to write out this relationship in words.
Verbal Scale to Representative Fraction
Now let's look at converting from a verbal scale to a representative fraction (also called a numerical scale).
Suppose the verbal scale on a map says "1 inch = 10 miles".
To convert this to a representative fraction, we need to express the relationship as a ratio.
The representative fraction will be:1:633,600
Here's how we calculate this:
1 inch on the map represents 10 miles on the ground
This means 1 inch on the map represents 633,600 inches on the ground (since there are 63,360 inches in 10 miles)
So the representative fraction is 1 unit on the map to 633,600 of those same units on the ground.
The key things to understand are:
The verbal scale gives the direct relationship between a unit on the map and a distance on the ground
To convert to a representative fraction, we express this as a ratio.
Representative Fraction to Actual Distance
Finally, let's look at how to use the representative fraction to calculate actual distances.
The formula is:
Actual distance = Map distance x Representative Fraction
For example, if the representative fraction is 1:50,000 and you measure a distance of 5 cm on the map, you can calculate the actual distance on the ground as:
Actual distance = 5 cm x (1/50,000) = 250 meters
The key things to understand are:
The representative fraction is a ratio that shows the relationship between map distance and ground distance
To calculate the actual ground distance, you multiply the map distance by the representative fraction
Now, let's go through the factors that can affect scale conversion in more detail, explaining them in easy English.
Factors Affecting Scale Conversion
1. Map Enlargement or Reduction
When a map is made bigger or smaller, the scale of the map changes.
For example, if a map is doubled in size, the scale changes from 1:50,000 to 1:25,000.
This means that the same distance on the map now represents half the actual distance on the ground.
So when the map size changes, you have to recalculate the scale to know the true ground distances.
2. Changes in Units
Map scales can be expressed in different units, like kilometers, miles, or meters.
If you need to convert between these units, you have to adjust the scale.
For example, if a map has a scale of 1 inch = 10 miles, and you need to know the distance in kilometers, you have to convert the scale to something like 1 inch = 16 km.
Doing these unit conversions is important to get the right actual distances.
3. Distortion from Map Projections
Maps are flat representations of the curved surface of the Earth.
Different map projections can cause distortion, where shapes and sizes get stretched or shrunk.
This means the scale will not be exactly the same across the entire map.
You have to account for this distortion when converting scales and measuring distances, especially on smaller-scale maps.
Practical Applications of Scale Conversion
1. Measuring Distances on Maps
Knowing how to convert between map scale types allows you to accurately measure distances on a map.
You can use a graphic scale, verbal scale, or representative fraction to figure out the real-world distance.
2. Calculating Area from Map Scales
The map scale also allows you to calculate the actual area represented on the map.
You can use the representative fraction to convert map distances into real-world areas.
3. Interpreting and Comparing Map Scales
Understanding scale conversion helps you interpret and compare the scales of different maps.
You can convert between scale types to better understand and compare the level of detail and coverage.
Conclusion - Class 11 Geography Conversion of Scale
Mastering scale conversion is an essential skill for geographic analysis and interpretation. By being able to flexibly move between graphic, verbal, and representative fraction scales, you can extract valuable real-world information from maps and spatial data.
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Writing (1+s 2)−1/2=s−1(1+s−2)−1/2(1+s 2)−1/2=s−1(1+s−2)−1/2, expanding in a binomial series for s>0 s>0 and assuming that it is permissible to take the inverse transform term by term, show that the function
Y(s)=c(1+s 2)−1/2 Y(s)=c(1+s 2)−1/2
has the inverse Laplace transform
y(t)=c∑n=0∞(−1)n t 2 n 2 2 n(n!)2.y(t)=c∑n=0∞(−1)n t 2 n 2 2 n(n!)2.
Firstly, I don't see how the rewriting is helpful. The series expansion for (1+s 2)−1/2(1+s 2)−1/2 around s=0 s=0 is given by 1+(−1/2)s 2+(−1/2)(−1/2−1)s 4 2!+...=∑∞k=0(−1)k(2 k)!2 2 k(k!)2 s 2 k 1+(−1/2)s 2+(−1/2)(−1/2−1)s 4 2!+...=∑k=0∞(−1)k(2 k)!2 2 k(k!)2 s 2 k
This is getting pretty close to the desired result. All I need to determine is L−1{s 2 k}L−1{s 2 k}. How can I do this without turning to Mellin's formula?
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1 Your series for (1+s 2)−1/2(1+s 2)−1/2 is only convergent over |s|<1|s|<1. It is way easier to compute the Laplace transform of J 0(t)J 0(t), since L(t 2 n)=(2 n)!s 2 n+1 L(t 2 n)=(2 n)!s 2 n+1.Jack D'Aurizio –Jack D'Aurizio 2018-01-02 18:31:52 +00:00 Commented Jan 2, 2018 at 18:31
@JackD'Aurizio So how can I find a binomial series that is convergent for |s|>1|s|>1? I guess that's where the rewriting comes into play...Lozansky –Lozansky 2018-01-02 19:09:40 +00:00 Commented Jan 2, 2018 at 19:09
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Observe that you expanded (1+s 2)−1/2(1+s 2)−1/2 instead of s−1(1+s−2)−1/2.s−1(1+s−2)−1/2. In particular,
s−1(1+s−2)−1/2=s−1(1−1 2 s−2+⋯).s−1(1+s−2)−1/2=s−1(1−1 2 s−2+⋯).
Now use
L(t n)=n!s−(n+1)L(t n)=n!s−(n+1)
to compute the Laplace transform of c(1+s 2)−1/2 c(1+s 2)−1/2.
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Complex fraction limits can be evaluated using many different techniques such as recognizing a pattern, simple substitution or, using algebraic simplifications.
Example:
A) lim x →-3 ( x² - 9)/ ( x + 3)
= lim x → -3 ( x -3) (x +3) / (x +3)
= lim x → -3 ( x - 3)
Now put x = -3 we get:
=( -3 -3)
= -6
B) lim x → -3 ( x/x+2 - 3/5) / x-3
= lim x→-3 ( x / x+2 - 3/5)/ )x -3) . 5(x+2)/5(x+2)
= lim x→-3 5x-3(x+2)/ 5(x+2)(x-3)
= lim x→ -3 2x -6/ 5(x+2)(x-3)
= lim x→-3 2(x-3)/ 5(x+2)(x-3)
= lim x→-3 2/5(x+2)
Now putting the value of x as -3 we get:
= 2/25
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To solve limits involving complex fractions, simplify the fraction by finding common denominators and canceling where possible. Once simplified, substitute the value of the limit to find the result. If initially, substitution leads to an indeterminate form, continue simplifying until a direct evaluation can be performed.
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To solve limits involving complex fractions, you can use algebraic simplifications, substitutions, and recognizing patterns. Here’s a step-by-step method to evaluate such limits:
Identify the limit: Ensure that the limit you are trying to solve has a complex fraction. A complex fraction is a fraction where the numerator, denominator, or both contain fractions themselves.
Simplify the fraction: Begin by simplifying the complex fraction. This may involve finding a common denominator or multiplying to eliminate the inner fractions.
Substitution and simplification: If direct substitution leads to an indeterminate form, simplify the expression further. Factor terms if necessary to cancel out common terms in the numerator and denominator.
Evaluate the limit: Once you have simplified the expression, substitute the limit value into the simplified expression to find the result.
Example A:
Evaluate the limit lim x→−3x+3 x 2−9.
First, notice that the numerator can be factored: x 2−9=(x−3)(x+3).
Rewrite the expression: lim x→−3x+3(x−3)(x+3).
Cancel out the common term x+3 (note this is valid except at x=−3).
Now the limit becomes: lim x→−3(x−3).
Substitute x=−3: −3−3=−6.
So, lim x→−3x+3 x 2−9=−6.
Example B:
Evaluate the limit lim x→−3x−3 x+2 x−5 3.
To combine the two fractions in the numerator, find a common denominator: x+2 x−5 3=5(x+2)5 x−3(x+2)=5(x+2)5 x−3 x−6=5(x+2)2 x−6.
The limit now is: lim x→−3x−3 5(x+2)2 x−6=lim x→−35(x+2)(x−3)2(x−3).
Cancel out the x−3: lim x→−35(x+2)2.
Substitute x=−3: 5(−3+2)2=−5 2=−5 2.
Thus, the limit is −5 2.
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Examples include evaluating limits like lim x→−3x+3 x 2−9 and lim x→−3x−3 x+2 x−5 3 using factoring and cancellation techniques.
The steps described reflect standard methods for evaluating limits in calculus, particularly for complex fractions, as taught in high school mathematics courses.
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Solving complex fraction limits is done by multiplying the numerators and denominators, then simplifying. It helps to understand the units and how they cancel out. Always simplify the algebra and check that your answer is reasonable.
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Solving Complex Fraction Limits
To solve complex fraction limits, a systematic approach is essential. First, intuitively understand the operation you are performing with fractions. For multiplication of fractions, you simply multiply the numerators and multiply the denominators, simplifying by common factors when necessary. If you think of fractions in terms of their units, the units of the numerator in one fraction cancel the units of the denominator in another. This helps prepare you to perform the mathematical operations correctly.
For example, if we multiply ⅖ of the fraction 15, we follow the straight rules, leading us to a result of 30 over 120. However, simplified by the common factors, we ultimately get an answer of 1. The steps in this process involve multiplying across both numerators and denominators and then simplifying the fraction as much as possible.
When dealing with complex fractions, especially in limits, always remember to review your work and ensure that the answer is reasonable. This involves intuition and, sometimes, estimating what seems to be a reasonable range for the answer prior to calculating. In addition, significant figures must be considered based on the operation performed.
Finally, always eliminate terms wherever possible to simplify the algebra. This could mean factoring and canceling common terms or using algebraic identities to simplify the expression before finding the limit.
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The title is a bit deceiving, because what I really mean is the parallel transport that corresponds to the LeviCivita connection.
This is in the vein of many other questions on mathoverflow:
What is the Levi-Civita connection trying to describe?
What is torsion in differential geometry intuitively?
Rolling without slipping interpretation of torsion
But the focus is different.
Let me summarize my understanding given answers in the questions above:
(Very Rough) Summary of Answers in Previous Questions
There exists an interpretation in terms of $G$-structures, as in the chosen answer (by Chris Schommer-Pries) to What is torsion in differential geometry intuitively?.
There exists an interpretation as having some universal property, as described in the top answer (by Robert Bryant) to What is the Levi-Civita connection trying to describe?.
There exists a deceiving but appealing interpretation by parallelograms whose sides don't really lie in the same space, as in the answer by Gabe K to What is the Levi-Civita connection trying to describe?. (Gabe K did a heroic effort to make sense of the nonsensical diagram, and I thank him dearly.)
There exists an interpretation regarding rolling the shape on a surface (Rolling without slipping interpretation of torsion).
But ultimately, none of that is something that I can intuitively sell to an undergraduate, and by undergraduate I really mean my heart. In the bottom of my heart, I need a better explanation, one that starts with desirable properties, and then proceeds through existence and uniqueness.
Outline of the Type of Intuition I Desire
I want to start with some desirable behaviors, which I allow to be external (i.e, to reference a given embedding of the Riemannian manifold into $\mathbb{R}^n$), and then say that the only notion of parallel transport that satisfies these conditions must be the LeviCivita connection. (Any reasonable notion of parallel transport will respect the metric, so I'm really thinking of the torsion-free condition.)
A base case of a desirable condition is that for the Riemannian manifold $\mathbb{R}^n$, parallel transport is the trivial thing. (If one identifies the tangent bundle with $\mathbb{R}^n\times\mathbb{R}^n$ then for any path $\gamma$ the parallel transport of the tangent vector $(\gamma(0),v)$ at $\gamma(0)$ to $\gamma(1)$ via $\gamma$ is the tangent vector $(\gamma(1),v)$ at $\gamma(1)$.)
Next, we would like some way to generalize to a general Riemannian manifold. Let $(M,g)$ be a Riemannian manifold, and let $p\in M$ be a point. Then by the implicit function theorem we can have a chart $f:V\rightarrow U\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ where $0\in V\subset \mathbb{R}^n$, and $p\in U\subset M$, such that $f(0)=p$ and such that $f$ is the identity on the first $n$ coordinates.
My next thought is to look at the most intuitive case of torsion-freeness, which is the case of commuting fields $X$ and $Y$. By change of coordinates, we can assume WLOG that on $V$ the vector fields $X$ and $Y$ are defined via the constant functions $X(v)=e_1$ and $Y(v)=e_2$. One can then express $X$ on $Y$ on $M$ via the derivative of $f$.
But I'm missing multiple components to proceed.
So let me ask this in terms of several more explicit questions.
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If a connection satisfies that $\nabla_XY=\nabla_YX$ for any commuting set of vector fields $X$ and $Y$, then is it torsion-free? (In other words, if you're torsion-free on commuting vector fields, are you torsion-free for all vector fields?)
What intuitive desirable condition (that is allowed to use a given embedding of $M$ into some $\mathbb{R}^d$), combined with, or perhaps generalizing the desired behavior of parallel transport on Euclidean space, would uniquely determine it as satisfying $\nabla_XY=\nabla_YX$ for commuting vector fields? (Perhaps something about geodesics? Or volumes? I don't really know what's the missing component here.)
I feel like Ben McKay's answer to What is the Levi-Civita connection trying to describe? is coming close to what I want, but I did not get to the bottom of it. It appeared at first that he was saying that the LeviCivita parallel transport is simply parallel transporting in the ambient space, and then projecting to the tangent plane. But in retrospect, my interpretation is clearly wrong. (Imagine for example an upward pointing vector on the equator of a sphere, being parallel transported to the top. If you parallel transport in $\mathbb{R}^3$ you'll get a vector pointing up, which projected to the tangent space will be the $0$ vector.)
A little more vaguely, in case you have an entirely different notion in mind, how would you explain parallel transport to the undergraduate in your heart?
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$\begingroup$ As you carry a vector $v(t)$ with you along a path $x(t)$, as you travel along a surface, make sure that its derivative $\dot{v}(t)$ is always normal. From the perspective of someone living on the surface, it looks constant, because that person can't measure normal vectors. $\endgroup$
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$\begingroup$ Vladimir Arnold''s book "Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics" describes Levi-Civita parallel transport first along geodesics on a surface, then along curves on a surface, and then along curves in a higher-dimensional space. It may be of interest. $\endgroup$
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$\begingroup$ For any connection, you can define $\nabla^2 f(X,Y) = \nabla_X \nabla_Y f - \nabla_{\nabla_X Y} f$. You can check that this definition ensures $\nabla^2 f$ is tensorial: given any smooth function $\phi$, you have $\nabla^2 f(X,\phi Y) = \phi \nabla^2 f(X,Y)$ etc. This is the Hessian tensor corresponding to a function $f$. In general there is no reason that $\nabla^2 f(X,Y) = \nabla^2 f(Y,X)$. But if you subtract, you find the difference $$\nabla^2 f(X,Y) - \nabla^2 f(Y,X) = [X,Y]f - \nabla_{\nabla_X Y - \nabla_Y X} f$$ which vanishes for all $f$ and all $X,Y$ iff torsion vanishes. $\endgroup$
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$\begingroup$ To the undergraduate in my heart: Walking around while looking downward at a map held horizontally in your palm is NOT parallel transport. Walking around while looking downward at a GPS device held horizontally in your palm IS parallel transport. Either way, though, you're going to bump into something if you don't look up. $\endgroup$
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This may not reallly be an answer that you like, but I think that, maybe you misunderstood what Ben McKay was trying to describe. Here is a more explicit, extrinsic description that may help:
Suppose that $M^m\subset\mathbb{E}^n$ is an isometrically embedded submanifold of Euclidean $n$-space. Let $\gamma:(a,b)\to M^m$ be a smooth curve in $M$ and let $v:(a,b)\to\mathbb{E}^n$ be a curve of vectors along $\gamma$, i.e., $v(t)$ lies in the tangent space $T_{\gamma(t)}M$ for all $t\in (a,b)$. Say that $v$ is parallel (along $\gamma$) if $v':(a,b)\to\mathbb{E}^n$ is normal to $TM$ along $\gamma$, i.e., $v'(t)\perp T_{\gamma(t)}M$ for all $t\in(a,b)$. In other words, the velocity of $v$ is always perpendicular to the tangent vectors to $M$ at the point of tangency.
Then the (easily proved) proposition is that this notion of a tangent vector field along a curve being parallel along $\gamma$ does not depend on the choice of the isometric embedding, i.e., it is intrinsic to the metric induced on $M$ by its embedding. More generally, if $v:(a,b)\to\mathbb{E}^n$ is tangent along $\gamma$, then letting $D_\gamma v(t)$ be the orthogonal projection of $v'(t)$ onto $T_{\gamma(t)}M$ yields another curve $D_\gamma v:(a,b)\to\mathbb{E}^n$ that is tangent along $\gamma$, and this operation (actually a derivation) on tangent fields along $\gamma$ depends only on the induced metric on $M$. Since it is independent of the choice of isometric embedding, it is the 'covariant part' of the ambient derivative, i.e., the 'covariant derivative'.
For example, it follows from the definition that if $v$ is a parallel tangent vector field along $\gamma$, then the length of $v$ is constant. Then the existence and uniqueness of 'parallel transport' follow by elementary ODE arguments. The Leibnitz rule for the 'covariant derivative' and other properties are easily derived from the definition as well.
Once you know that $\nabla_{\gamma'}v$ for a curve of tangent vectors depends only on the metric, it's natural to want to find a formula for it that uses only on the metric and not the (superfluous) isometric embedding. That is what leads to the usual characterizations.
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$\begingroup$ I'm having some difficulty understanding. Let's take a trivial example: $M=\mathbb{R}^2$ and the embedding is the identity. Let $\gamma(t)=(t,0)$, and let $v$ be given by the (Levi-Civita) parallel transport of the vector $(1,0)\in T_0\mathbb{R}^2$ along $\gamma$. Then $v(t)=(t+1,0)$? But I'm confused: $v'(t)=(1,0)$ which is clearly not normal to any tangent space at any point of $M$. Where am I going wrong here? $\endgroup$
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$\begingroup$ Oh, I think I understand: you don't mean $v(t)=(t+1,0)$. You're actually defining $v$ as take the vector at the tangent space, and translate it so that it starts at the origin. So in my case $v(t)=(1,0)$, and $v'(t)=(0,0)$ which is of course normal to the tangent space. Got it! $\endgroup$
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$\begingroup$ Look at Dirac, General Theory of Relativity, pp. 10-12. Dirac iis less rigorous than Robert, but tells the same story. Dirac immediately derives the Christoffel symbols from this description in a few lines. $\endgroup$
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$\begingroup$ Do you know if this account roughly corresponds to the historical way the Levi-Civita connection was discovered? $\endgroup$
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$\begingroup$ @MichaelBächtold: I have never read the historical documents. My understanding is that in 1917 Levi-Civita did something along the lines I have described above for hypersurfaces in Euclidean space, which was then generaized by Weyl. In 1918, Jan Schouten, working independently, found the fully intrinsic description of the parallelism associated to a metric. Possibly because of the war, Schouten was unaware of Levi-Civita's work, and there followed a priority dispute, which Levi-Civita won. You can see this account in the Wikipedia article on Jan Arnoldus Schouten. $\endgroup$
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I agree with Ben McKay and Robert Bryant that the best way to introduce parallel transport to students, or to provide some motivation and intuition for it, is via an extrinsic approach, i.e., by the example of a tangent vector field to a surface whose derivative along a curve is orthogonal to the surface. Then I explicitly compute for them the parallel transport along a meridian of a sphere in an elementary way which I attach below.
After I do this computation I tell the students that this explains the precession of the swing plane of a pendulum, as observed by the French Physicist Leon Foucault in $1851$ (which predates Levi-Civita; see the historical note below), and how they can use the answer to figure out the latitude of their location on Earth. There is a nice Wikipedia page on Foucault's Pendulum which I also tell the students to check out.
Finally, I will tell them that the computation can be carried out much more quickly via the well-known trick of constructing a cone which is tangent to the sphere along the meridian and unrolling the cone into the plane. Since the cone and the sphere are tangent along the curve, a tangent vector field along the curve is parallel with respect to one surface if it is parallel with respect to the other one. Furthermore since, as Robert mentioned, parallel transport is intrinsic, it is not effected by unrolling (or isometric immersion) of the cone into the plane, where parallel transport is trivial, and the total rotation of the vector field with respect to the meridian can be computed immediately (it will be equal to the total angle of the cone at its apex).
Here is the explicit computation for the parallel transport of a vector along a meridian of the unit sphere $\mathbf{S}^2$. This is an excerpt from my lecture notes. Let $$X(\theta,\phi):=\big(\cos(\theta)\sin(\phi), \sin(\theta)\sin(\phi), \cos(\phi)\big)$$ be the standard parametrization for $\mathbf{S}^2-{(0,0,\pm 1)}$. Suppose that we want to parallel transport a given unit vector $V_0\in T_{X(\theta_0,\phi_0)}\mathbf{S}^2$ along the meridian $X(\theta,\phi_0)$. So we need to find a mapping $V\colon[0,2\pi]\to\mathbf{R}^3$ such that $V(0)=V_0$, $V(\theta)\in T_{X(\theta,\phi_0)}\mathbf{S}^2$, and $V'(\theta)\perp T_{X(\theta,\phi_0)}\mathbf{S}^2$. The latter condition is equivalent to the requirement that $$ V'(\theta)=\lambda(\theta) X(\theta,\phi_0), \quad() $$ for some scalar function $\lambda$, since the normal to $\mathbf{S}^2$ at the point $X(\theta,\phi)$ is just $X(\theta,\phi)$ itself. To solve this equation let $$ E_1(\theta):=\frac{\partial X/\partial\theta(\theta,\phi_0)}{\|\partial X/\partial\theta(\theta,\phi_0)\|}=\big(-\sin(\theta),\cos(\theta),0\big), $$ and $$ E_2(\theta):=\frac{\partial X/\partial\phi(\theta,\phi_0)}{\|\partial X/\partial\phi(\theta,\phi_0)\|}=\big(\cos(\theta)\cos(\phi_0),\sin(\theta)\cos(\phi_0),-\sin(\phi_0)\big). $$ Note that ${E_1(\theta),E_2(\theta)}$ forms a basis for $T_{X(\theta_0,\phi_0)}\mathbf{S}^2$. Thus equation $(\ast)$ above is equivalent to $$ \langle V'(\theta), E_1(\theta)\rangle =0\quad\text{and}\quad \langle V'(\theta), E_2(\theta)\rangle =0. \quad (\ast\ast) $$ It remains to solve this system of differential equations. Since $V(\theta)\perp V'(\theta)$, $V(\theta)$ has unit length. So we may write $$ V(\theta)=\cos(\alpha(\theta))E_1(\theta)+\sin(\alpha(\theta))E_2(\theta), $$ for some angle function $\alpha$. Differentiation yields that $$ V'=E_1'\cos(\alpha)-\sin(\alpha)\alpha'E_1+\sin(\alpha)E_2'+\cos(\alpha)\alpha' E_2. $$ Furthermore, it is easy to compute that $$ E_1'=-\cos(\phi_0) E_2-\sin(\phi_0)E_3\quad\text{and}\quad E_2' =\cos(\phi_0) E_1, $$ where $E_3(\theta):=X(\theta,\phi_0)$. Thus we obtain: $$ V'=\sin(\alpha)(\cos(\phi_0)-\alpha')E_1+\cos(\alpha)(\alpha'-\cos(\phi_0))E_2 +(some\; terms) E_3. $$ So for ($\ast\ast$) to be satisfied, we must have $\alpha'=\cos(\phi_0)$ or $$ \alpha(\theta)=\cos(\phi_0)\theta+\alpha(0), $$ which in turn determines $V$. Note in particular that the total rotation of $V$ with respect to the meridian $X(\theta,\phi_0)$ is given by $$ \alpha(2\pi)-\alpha(0)=\int_0^{2\pi}\alpha'd\theta=2\pi\cos(\phi_0). $$ Thus $$ \phi_0=\cos^{-1}\left(\frac{\alpha(2\pi)-\alpha(0)}{2\pi}\right). $$ The last equation gives the relation between the total precession of the swing plane of a pendulum during a $24$ hour period, and the longitude of the location of that pendulum on Earth, as observed by Foucault.
Historical Note: The precession of pendulum was mentioned by the Dutch geometer Jan Arnoldus Schouten in a letter to Levi-Civita in 1918, where he wrote "a remarkable physical application is the Foucault pendulum". This paper appears to give a nice account of the historical development of parallel transport through the correspondence between Schouten and Levi-Civita.
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I prefer to introduce the Levi-Civita connection before the concept of parallel transport. On the surface, parallel transport seems like it should be more intuitive and easier to visualize geometrically. On the other hand, as you yourself indicate, it's not so obvious.
Although I have a preference for introducing manifolds abstractly and not as a submanifold of Euclidean space, I prefer to introduce Riemannian geometry starting with the induced geometry of a hypersurface in Euclidean space. The Levi-Civita connection arises naturally when you study the directional derivative of a vector field. It arises from two important observations: First, the directional derivative splits into tangential and normal components. Second, the normal component depends only on the (second fundamental form) surface and not on the curve or the derivative of the vector field. So it is natural to define the directional derivative of the vector field as only the tangential component.
Now you study this directional derivative. It has (at least) two nice properties: 1) As Willie mentioned, if you define the Hessian of a function using it, the Hessian is symmetric. 2) It is compatible with the metric and torsion-free. More importantly, it is the unique connection satisfying these two properties. This means that any property of the connection is a property of the metric.
This now makes the concept of the Levi-Civita connection for an abstract Riemannian manifold a compelling one. Parallel transport is now a natural development from that.
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I like the bike wheel interpretation introduced by Mark Levi (A bicycle wheel proof of the GaussBonnet theorem Exposition. Math. 12.2 (1994), 145164).
It takes no time in class and helps to build right intuition.
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If intuition is what you want then I think the essence of the matter is best expressed using locally flat coordinates at each point as follows. At any point $p$ in a Riemannian (or pseudo-Riemannian, for those of us who use this in the context of general relativity) manifold, one can always choose "locally flat coordinates" (lfc) such that the metric components gave vanishing first partial derivatives at $p$. The (Levi-Civita) covariant derivative of a vector (or tensor) at $p$ is simply the partial derivative with respect to any lfc. A vector is parallel transported along a curve if at each point in lfc its components have vanishing derivative with respect to the curve parameter. This is of course not a practical definition, since the lfc are different at each point. For practicality, one can use the connection components in any coordinate system. Note however that if the curve is a geodesic, then there exist coordinates that cover a neighborhood of the curve and are locally flat at every point on the curve. In that case, parallel transport just keeps all the components of the vector constant in such a coordinate system. An example is transport around the equator of the 2-sphere using standard spherical polar coordinates.
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Table of Contents
What is Similarity?
What are similar Shapes?
Working with similar shapes
Rules of Similarity
Similar Polygons
Similar Triangles
Difference Between Similarity and Congruency?
Similarity as a Size Transformation
Scaled Drawing
Types of Similarity Transformation
Similarity in Polygons
Application of Similarity?
Conclusion
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Similarity/Alike is a genre studied in mathematics that is very well known. It is frequently depicted as a problem in figures. In similarity problems, there are proof and calculation problems. Therefore, it is essential that young learners understand the conditions under which figures are similar. Furthermore, they should be able to figure out the side lengths of similar figures. In this case, proportional expressions are used.
What is Similarity?
When two or more figures or objects appear to be the same or equal when it comes to their shape, it is known as similarity (being alike). Similarity is an enlargement or reduction of objects. For example, a picture can be enlarged or reduced in two ways. One way is to stretch/shrink it in proportion, and the other is to stretch/shrink it horizontally or vertically. An enlargement/ reduction by proportion means that if we want to increase/decrease the length by a certain percentage, we must also increase/decrease the width by the same percentage.
Similar figures always superimpose each other when magnified or demagnified. To be more precise, one can be obtained from the other through uniform scaling (enlarging or reducing), possibly with additional translation, rotation, and reflection. As a result, either image can be resized, repositioned, and reflected, so that it coincides perfectly with the other image. Objects that are similar are congruent with each other when a uniform scaling has been applied. For example, all circles are similar to one another, all squares are similar to one another, and all equilateral triangles are similar to one another. Similarly, ellipses are not all alike, rectangles are not all alike, and isosceles triangles are not all alike.
All geometric figures that have the same shape but different sizes are known as similar figures. In general, any two line segments will always be similar, but they do not need to be congruent. If their lengths are equal, they are congruent.
Mathematically, two figures are similar if their corresponding angles are congruent (congruent angles have the same measure) and the ratios of the lengths of their corresponding sides are equal. We call this common ratio a scale factor. The symbol ∼ is used to indicate similarity.
What are similar Shapes?
Euclidean geometry defines similar objects as those that have the same shape, or as those whose mirror image is similar. To put it more precisely, using uniform scaling (enlarging or reducing) and possibly rotation, translation, and reflection, one can be obtained from the other. This means that either object can be scaled, positioned, and mirrored, so as to intersect exactly with the other. Similar objects are congruent when the results of a uniform scaling are the same.
If one shape is an enlargement of another, then mathematically they are similar
Equivalent angles in the two shapes will be equal
The equivalent lengths in the two shapes will be in the same ratio and linked by a scale factor (which you will normally have to calculate).
Working with similar shapes
Determine equivalent known lengths
Establish a direction (getting bigger or smaller?)
Find scale factor = Second Length ÷ First Length
(Check that SF < 1 is getting smaller and SF > 1 is getting bigger )
The scale factor is used to find the length
Example
In the figure below, pentagon ABCDE ∼ pentagon VWXYZ
Two-dimensional figures are similar if the second can be obtained from the first through rotations, reflections, translations, and dilations.
In the given figure above,
The hexagon A 1 B 1 C 1 D 1 E 1 F 1 is horizontally flipped to get A 2 B 2 C 2 D 2 E 2 F 2
Then the hexagon A 2 B 2 C 2 D 2 E 2 F 2 is translated to get A 3 B 3 C 3 D 3 E 3 F 3
Finally, the Hexagon A 3 B 3 C 3 D 3 E 3 F 3 is dilated by a scale factor of ½ to get A 4 B 4 C 4 D 4 E 4 F 4
Here note that A 1 B 1 C 1 D 1 E 1 F 1∼A 2 B 2 C 2 D 2 E 2 F 2 ∼ A 3 B 3 C 3 D 3 E 3 F 3 ∼ A 4 B 4 C 4 D 4 E 4 F 4
That is, all four hexagons are similar. In fact, based on the figure the first three are congruent.
Rules of Similarity
When two linear figures are similar, it means:
All the corresponding angle pairs are equal.
All the corresponding sides are proportional.
Similar Polygons
In mathematics, two polygons having the same number of sides are called similar. This occurs if:
The corresponding angles are equal, and
The lengths of their corresponding sides are proportional
If two polygons ABCDE and PQRST are similar, they can be written as ABCDE∼PQRST, where the symbol stands for ‘is similar to.’
From the above definition, it follows that:
The angle at A = The angle at P
The angle at B = The angle at Q,
The angle at C = The angle at R,
The angle at D = The angle at S,
The angle at E = The angle at T.
Therefore we can conclude, AB/PQ = BC/QR = CD/RS = DE/ST = EA/TP
When it comes to polygons with more than three sides, the two conditions given in the definition are not independent of each other, i.e., any one of the two conditions without the other is not sufficient for polygons with more than three sides to be similar. In other words, the two polygons need not be similar if the angles of the corresponding sides of both polygons are the same but their lengths are not proportional. The same argument applies if the corresponding angles of two polygons do not match up but their sides are proportional.
We can say a triangle is a special type of polygon. If either of the two conditions given above holds, then the other holds automatically in triangles.
Similar Triangles
Listed here are some of the properties of similar triangles
Both have the same shape, but sizes may differ
Each pair of corresponding angles are equal
The ratio between the corresponding sides is the same
Using triangle rules is essential when we do not know all angles and sides of two triangles.
There are a few ways to prove similarity. The methods are similar to those used to prove congruence–they prove all corresponding angles are congruent and all corresponding sides are proportional without needing to know the measurements of all six parts of each triangle.
AA similarity criterion
A triangle is similar if its angles are equal to those of another. According to the AA criterion for triangle similarity, two triangles are similar if their angles are identical. Equiangular triangles, therefore, have similar angles.
In theory, this criterion should be named AAA (Angle-Angle-Angle) criterion, but we call it AA since two angles must be equal for the third pair to also be equal due to the angle sum property of triangles.
Here is an example in which ΔKLM and ΔXYZ are equiangular, i.e.,
∠K = ∠X
∠L = ∠Y
∠M = ∠Z
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These triangles are said to be similar based on the AA criterion.
SSS similarity criterion
The SSS similarity criterion states that two triangles are similar if their three sides are proportional to each other.
In other words, the triangles in such pairs will be identical (each corresponding pair of angles is the same).
Here’s an example, where two triangles are proportional to one another (ΔKLM and ΔXYZ):
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KL = XY, LM = YZ and KM = XZ.
Therefore, ∆KLM ≅ ∆XYZ.
SAS similarity criterion
The SAS similarity criterion states that if two sides of one triangle are proportional to two sides of another, and if the included angles are equal, then the two triangles are similar.
There is a strong emphasis on the word included. Then the two triangles may not be similar if the equal angle is a non-included angle.
Consider the following figure:
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Here in ∆KLM and ∆XYZ,
KL = XY, LM = YZ and ∠L = ∠Y
Therefore, ∆KLM ≅ ∆XYZ.
RHS similarity criterion
The two triangles are similar if the ratio of the hypotenuse and one side of a right-angled triangle is equal to the ratio of the hypotenuse and one side of another right-angled triangle.
In the figure, ∠L = ∠Y = 90°, KM = XZ and KL = XY.
Therefore, ∆KLM ≅ ∆XYZ
In Euclidean geometry, there are several elementary results concerning similar triangles:
Any two equilateral triangles are similar.
Two triangles are similar to each other (transitivity of similarity of triangles) and both are similar to a third triangle.
In similar triangles, the corresponding altitudes have the same ratio as the corresponding sides.
Two right triangles are similar if their hypotenuse and one other side have the same ratio of lengths. In this case, there are several equivalent conditions such as the right triangles having an acute angle of the same measure, or having the lengths of the sides being in the same proportion.
Examples of similarity/alike
Q1:Consider the following figure:
Find the value of∠E.
Solution
Make sure that the longest side matches the longest side and the shortest side matches the shortest side and compare all three ratios.
Each of the two triangles has three sides that are proportional:
DE/AB = 4.2/6 = 0.7
DF/AC = 2.8/4 = 0.7
EF/BC = 3.5/5 = 0.7
DE/AB = DF/AC = EF/BC
Thus, by SAS similarity criterion, ΔABC∼ΔDEF. This means that they are also equiangular.
Note carefully that the equal angles will be:
∠A = ∠D = 55.770
∠C = ∠F = 82.820
∠B = ∠E
Finally, ∠E = ∠B = 1800 − (55.770 + 82.820) ⇒ ∠E = 41.410
∠E = ∠B = 180 − (55.770 + 82.820)
⇒∠E = 41.410
Hence AD = 8cm
Q2:Consider two similar triangles, ΔABC and ΔDEF. AP and DQ are medians in the two triangles respectively. Show that AP/BC=DQ/EF
Solution
Since the two triangles are similar, they are equiangular.
This means that, ∠B=∠E
Also, AB/DE = BC/EF ⇒ AB/DE = (BC/2) / (EF/2) = BP/EQ
Hence, by the SAS similarity criterion,
ΔABP∼ΔDEQ
Thus, the sides of these two triangles will be respectively proportional, and so:
AB/DE = AP/DQ ⇒ AP/DQ = BC/EF ⇒ AP/BC = DQ/EF
Q3: In the ΔABC length of the sides is given as AP = 5 cm, PB = 10 cm and BC = 20 cm. Also PQ||BC. Find PQ.
Solution
In ΔABC and ΔAPQ, ∠PAQ is common and ∠APQ = ∠ABC (corresponding angles)
⇒ ΔABC ~ ΔAPQ (AA criterion for similar triangles)
⇒AP/AB=PQ/BC
⇒ 5/15 = PQ/20
⇒ PQ = 20/3 cm
Q4:Check if the two triangles are similar.
Solution
In triangle PQR, by angle sum property;
∠P + ∠Q + ∠R = 180°
60° + 70° + ∠R = 180°
130° + ∠R = 180°
Subtract both sides by 130°.
∠ R= 50°
Again in triangle XYZ, by angle sum property;
∠X + ∠Y + ∠Z = 180°
∠60° + ∠Y + ∠50°= 180°
∠ 110° + ∠Y = 180 °
Subtract both sides by 110°
∠ Y = 70°
Since,∠Q = ∠ Y = 70° and ∠Z = ∠ R= 50°
Therefore, by the Angle-Angle (AA) rule,
ΔPQR~ΔXYZ
Difference Between Similarity and Congruency?
A pair of identical figures are congruent if they have the same size and shape. They are similar if they have the same shape, but not the same size.
A congruent figure is equal in all aspects, which means that its perimeter, its length, and its area are all equal.
The key difference is all congruent figures are similar but similar figures are not congruent.
Similar Triangles and Congruent Triangles
In the table below, we share a few comparisons between similar triangles and congruent triangles
Similar TrianglesCongruent Triangles
They are the same shape but different in size They are the same in shape and size
The symbol used is ‘~’The symbol used in this case ‘≅’
The ratio of all the corresponding sides is the same.The ratio of corresponding sides is equal to a constant value
Similarity as a Size Transformation
As already mentioned earlier, if two figures have the same shape but differ in size, they are said to be similar. A rigid motion combined with rescaling is known as a similarity transformation. Another way of looking at it is that a similarity transformation can change the location and size while preserving the shape.
Scaled Drawing
A scaled drawing of an object has the same shape as the object, but its size is different.
The drawing scale is determined by the ratio between the length of the drawing and the actual thing.
There are two ways to write a scale: a size ratio or a number-to-length ratio.
Imagine the following scales: 1:400 and 11 centimeters: 4 meters
A scale equals the ratio of matching lengths, and the matching angles are equal.
Types of Similarity Transformation
There are four main types of similarity transformations. These are outlined below.
Reflection – Mirror images can be created by flipping shapes across an imaginary line.
Rotation – To rotate or turn shapes, an axis is used.
Translation – Sliding shapes across the plane
Dilation – Increasing or decreasing the dimensions of an object or shape to make it larger or smaller
Reflection
In geometry, a flip represents a reflection. Mirror images of shapes are known as reflections. A line of reflection represents an image reflecting itself. When a figure is described as a mirror image of another figure, then each point in the first figure is equidistant from the corresponding point in the second figure. Reflected images should have the same size and shape as the original, but should be facing the opposite way.
Rotation
In order to determine whether the triangles are identical, we must arrange them in the same orientation. To accomplish this, one shape needs to be rotated to match the other. Rotation is the term for such a transformation.
Translation
By seeing a polygon and its translation, you might think the same polygon is being shown twice. We translate shapes by sliding them on the plane they exist in without changing their orientation (we do not rotate them).
Dilation or Resize
A dilation is a transformation that is used to resize an object. A dilation makes items appear larger or smaller. This transformation produces the same image as the original. However, there is a size difference in the shape. Dilation can be used to expand or reduce the original shape. The term “scale factor” defines this transformation.
Similarity in Polygons
The concept of similarity is applicable to polygons with more than three sides. A pair of similar polygons are equivalent if the corresponding sides are taken in the same sequence (even if the sequence is counterclockwise for one polygon and clockwise for another). Nevertheless, the proportionality of corresponding sides alone does not prove similarity for polygons beyond triangles (otherwise, all rhombic polygons would be similar). In the same way, the equality of all angles in sequence does not guarantee similarity (otherwise, all rectangles would be the same). In order for polygons to be similar, their corresponding sides and diagonals must be proportional.
Application of Similarity?
Here are a few examples of how similarity can be applied.
The concept of similarity is widely used in architecture.
Problems are solved by using height and distance.
Using triangles to solve mathematical problems.
Conclusion
To conclude here are a few observations. Separate out the common formula from particular instances of a shape. All circles are similar, but a bigger circle is better than a small one.
Analogies help us remember. Similarity goes beyond geometry – it’s about identifying classes of items that have the same internal properties.
The real definition of similarity is much more nuanced: they can be said to be similar if formulas based on their distance are always the same (e.g. to be uniformly scaled or dilated).
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