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Image Dimensions Contents Describing the fields of the Canvas Properties Dialog
The user access the image dimensions in the Canvas Properties Dialog.
The Other tab
Here some properties can simply be locked (such that they can't be changed) and linked (so that changes in one entry simultaneously change other entries as well).
The Image tab
Obviously here the image dimensions can be set. There seem to be basically three groups of fields to edit:
The on-screen size(?) The fields Widthand Heighttell synfigstudio how many pixels the image shall cover at a zoom level of 100%. The physical size The physical width and height should tell how big the image is on some physical media. That could be when printing out images on paper, or maybe even on transparencies or film. Not all file formats can save this on exporting/rendering images. The mysterious Image Area Given as two points (upper-left and lower-right corner) which also define the image span (Pythagoras: Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://api.formulasearchengine.com/v1/":): {\displaystyle \scriptstyle\text{span}=\sqrt{\Delta x^2 + \Delta y^2}}). The unit seems to be not pixels but units, which are at 60 pixels each. If the ratio of the image size and image area dimensions are off, for example circles will appear as an ellipse (see image). These settings seem to influence how large one Image Sizepixel is being rendered. This might be useful when one has to deal with non-square output pixels. Effects of the Image Area
Somehow the image area setting seems to be saved when copy&pasting between image, see also bug #2116947.
Possible intended effects of out-of-ratio image areas
As mentioned above, different ratios might be needed when then output needs to be specified in pixels, but those pixels are not squares. That might happen for several kinds of media, such as videos encoded in some PAL formats or for dvds. For further reading, look at Wikipedia.
Still, it is probably consensus that the image, as shown on screen while editing should look as closely as possible like when viewed by the final audience. So, while specifying a different output resolution at
rendering time may well be wanted, synfigstudio should (for the majority of monitors) show square pixels, i.e. circles should stay circles. Feature wishlist to simplify working across documents See also
Explanation by dooglus on the synfig-dev mailing list.
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2017-04-19 08:09
Flavour anomalies after the $R_{K^*}$ measurement / D'Amico, Guido (CERN) ; Nardecchia, Marco (CERN) ; Panci, Paolo (CERN) ; Sannino, Francesco (CERN ; Southern Denmark U., CP3-Origins ; U. Southern Denmark, Odense, DIAS) ; Strumia, Alessandro (CERN ; Pisa U. ; INFN, Pisa) ; Torre, Riccardo (EPFL, Lausanne, LPTP) ; Urbano, Alfredo (CERN) The LHCb measurement of the $\mu/e$ ratio $R_{K^*}$ indicates a deficit with respect to the Standard Model prediction, supporting earlier hints of lepton universality violation observed in the $R_K$ ratio. We show that the $R_K$ and $R_{K^*}$ ratios alone constrain the chiralities of the states contributing to these anomalies, and we find deviations from the Standard Model at the $4\sigma$ level. [...] arXiv:1704.05438; CP3-ORIGINS-2017-014; CERN-TH-2017-086; IFUP-TH/2017; CP3-Origins-2017-014.- 2017-09-04 - 31 p. - Published in : JHEP 09 (2017) 010 Article from SCOAP3: PDF; Fulltext: PDF; Preprint: PDF; Registre complet - Registres semblants 2017-04-15 08:30
Multi-loop calculations: numerical methods and applications / Borowka, S. (CERN) ; Heinrich, G. (Munich, Max Planck Inst.) ; Jahn, S. (Munich, Max Planck Inst.) ; Jones, S.P. (Munich, Max Planck Inst.) ; Kerner, M. (Munich, Max Planck Inst.) ; Schlenk, J. (Durham U., IPPP) We briefly review numerical methods for calculations beyond one loop and then describe new developments within the method of sector decomposition in more detail. We also discuss applications to two-loop integrals involving several mass scales.. CERN-TH-2017-051; IPPP-17-28; MPP-2017-62; arXiv:1704.03832.- 2017-11-09 - 10 p. - Published in : J. Phys. : Conf. Ser. 920 (2017) 012003 Fulltext from Publisher: PDF; Preprint: PDF; In : 4th Computational Particle Physics Workshop, Tsukuba, Japan, 8 - 11 Oct 2016, pp.012003 Registre complet - Registres semblants 2017-04-15 08:30
Anomaly-Free Dark Matter Models are not so Simple / Ellis, John (King's Coll. London ; CERN) ; Fairbairn, Malcolm (King's Coll. London) ; Tunney, Patrick (King's Coll. London) We explore the anomaly-cancellation constraints on simplified dark matter (DM) models with an extra U(1)$^\prime$ gauge boson $Z'$. We show that, if the Standard Model (SM) fermions are supplemented by a single DM fermion $\chi$ that is a singlet of the SM gauge group, and the SM quarks have non-zero U(1)$^\prime$ charges, the SM leptons must also have non-zero U(1)$^\prime$ charges, in which case LHC searches impose strong constraints on the $Z'$ mass. [...] KCL-PH-TH-2017-21; CERN-TH-2017-084; arXiv:1704.03850.- 2017-08-16 - 19 p. - Published in : JHEP 08 (2017) 053 Article from SCOAP3: PDF; Preprint: PDF; Registre complet - Registres semblants 2017-04-13 08:29
Single top polarisation as a window to new physics / Aguilar-Saavedra, J.A. (Granada U., Theor. Phys. Astrophys.) ; Degrande, C. (CERN) ; Khatibi, S. (IPM, Tehran) We discuss the effect of heavy new physics, parameterised in terms of four-fermion operators, in the polarisation of single top (anti-)quarks in the $t$-channel process at the LHC. It is found that for operators involving a right-handed top quark field the relative effect on the longitudinal polarisation is twice larger than the relative effect on the total cross section. [...] CERN-TH-2017-013; arXiv:1701.05900.- 2017-06-10 - 5 p. - Published in : Phys. Lett. B 769 (2017) 498-502 Article from SCOAP3: PDF; Elsevier Open Access article: PDF; Preprint: PDF; Registre complet - Registres semblants 2017-04-12 07:18
Colorful Twisted Top Partners and Partnerium at the LHC / Kats, Yevgeny (CERN ; Ben Gurion U. of Negev ; Weizmann Inst.) ; McCullough, Matthew (CERN) ; Perez, Gilad (Weizmann Inst.) ; Soreq, Yotam (MIT, Cambridge, CTP) ; Thaler, Jesse (MIT, Cambridge, CTP) In scenarios that stabilize the electroweak scale, the top quark is typically accompanied by partner particles. In this work, we demonstrate how extended stabilizing symmetries can yield scalar or fermionic top partners that transform as ordinary color triplets but carry exotic electric charges. [...] MIT-CTP-4897; CERN-TH-2017-073; arXiv:1704.03393.- 2017-06-23 - 34 p. - Published in : JHEP 06 (2017) 126 Article from SCOAP3: PDF; Preprint: PDF; Registre complet - Registres semblants 2017-04-11 08:06
Where is Particle Physics Going? / Ellis, John (King's Coll. London ; CERN) The answer to the question in the title is: in search of new physics beyond the Standard Model, for which there are many motivations, including the likely instability of the electroweak vacuum, dark matter, the origin of matter, the masses of neutrinos, the naturalness of the hierarchy of mass scales, cosmological inflation and the search for quantum gravity. So far, however, there are no clear indications about the theoretical solutions to these problems, nor the experimental strategies to resolve them [...] KCL-PH-TH-2017-18; CERN-TH-2017-080; arXiv:1704.02821.- 2017-12-08 - 21 p. - Published in : Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 32 (2017) 1746001 Preprint: PDF; In : HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study : High Energy Physics, Hong Kong, China, 9 - 26 Jan 2017 Registre complet - Registres semblants 2017-04-08 07:18 Registre complet - Registres semblants 2017-04-05 07:33
Radiative symmetry breaking from interacting UV fixed points / Abel, Steven (Durham U., IPPP ; CERN) ; Sannino, Francesco (CERN ; U. Southern Denmark, CP3-Origins ; U. Southern Denmark, Odense, DIAS) It is shown that the addition of positive mass-squared terms to asymptotically safe gauge-Yukawa theories with perturbative UV fixed points leads to calculable radiative symmetry breaking in the IR. This phenomenon, and the multiplicative running of the operators that lies behind it, is akin to the radiative symmetry breaking that occurs in the Supersymmetric Standard Model.. CERN-TH-2017-066; CP3-ORIGINS-2017-011; IPPP-2017-23; arXiv:1704.00700.- 2017-09-28 - 14 p. - Published in : Phys. Rev. D 96 (2017) 056028 Fulltext: PDF; Preprint: PDF; Registre complet - Registres semblants 2017-03-31 07:54 Registre complet - Registres semblants 2017-03-31 07:54
Continuum limit and universality of the Columbia plot / de Forcrand, Philippe (ETH, Zurich (main) ; CERN) ; D'Elia, Massimo (INFN, Pisa ; Pisa U.) Results on the thermal transition of QCD with 3 degenerate flavors, in the lower-left corner of the Columbia plot, are puzzling. The transition is expected to be first-order for massless quarks, and to remain so for a range of quark masses until it turns second-order at a critical quark mass. [...] arXiv:1702.00330; CERN-TH-2017-022.- SISSA, 2017-01-30 - 7 p. - Published in : PoS LATTICE2016 (2017) 081 Fulltext: PDF; Preprint: PDF; In : 34th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Southampton, UK, 24 - 30 Jul 2016, pp.081 Registre complet - Registres semblants
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In the case that $V$ and $W$ are finite-dimensional, here is a "non-intrinsic" way to see this isomorphism. If $V$ is finite-dimensional, then every $\operatorname{End}(V)$-module is semisimple, and moreover every simple $\operatorname{End}(V)$-module is isomorphic to $V$:
Choose a basis $\{e_i\}$ for $V$ and define $P_i(e_j)=\delta_{ij}e_i$, so $P_1,\ldots,P_n\in\operatorname{End}(V)$ with $P_iP_j=\delta_{ij}P_i$ and $\sum_iP_i=1$. Each of the left modules $\operatorname{End}(V)\cdot P_i$ is then simple and isomorphic to $V$, via the map $A\cdot P_i\mapsto Ae_i$. This is easier to see if you think of this choice of basis as giving an isomorphism between $\operatorname{End}(V)$ and the ring of $n\times n$ matrices over your field, in which case $\operatorname{End}(V)\cdot P_i$ is the submodule of matrices whose only nonzero column is the $i$th one.
Let $M$ be a simple $\operatorname{End}(V)$-module and let $x\in M\setminus\{0\}$. Since $\sum_iP_i=1$, there must be some $i$ for which $P_ix\neq 0$, hence $M=\operatorname{End}(V)\cdot P_ix$. The map of modules $\operatorname{End}(V)\cdot P_i\to M$ sending $aP_i$ to $aP_ix$ is then an isomorphism, by Schur's lemma.
Combining this with semisimplicity, if $W$ is finite-dimensional then it is isomorphic as an $\operatorname{End}(V)$-module to some direct sum $V^{\oplus n}$.
If we unravel the chain of isomorphisms $\operatorname{Hom}_{\operatorname{End}(V)}(V,V^{\oplus n})\otimes V\cong \operatorname{Hom}_{\operatorname{End}(V)}(V,V)^{\oplus n}\otimes V\cong (\operatorname{Hom}_{\operatorname{End}(V)}(V,V)\otimes V)^{\oplus n}\cong (\mathbb{C}\otimes V)^{\oplus n}\cong V^{\oplus n}$, we see that it is the same as the evaluation map you define.
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Is there a way to make all three lines of math in the code below take up the same amount of length by use of font expansion? I know too little about
microtype to even see if it could offer a solution. I don't care too much about the exact math environment that'll be used in the end (
gather is not too bad a solution if I can't get expansion working).
Bonus if the solution works with
lualatex, and especially the
\usefonttheme{professionalfonts} of
beamer.
Alas, changing variable and function names is not an option (basically, only the square braces may change if that can help).
Alternatively, one could try to tweak the spacings manually, but except by trial and error using
\hspaces, would there be an intelligent way of doing that (say, aligning the absolute values on top of each other, and the total length of each line being the same?)
\documentclass{article}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{amsfonts}\begin{document} \begin{align*} \lim_{y\to\infty}\sup_{x\in\mathbb{R}} \left\vert y^{5/2-\varepsilon}\left[\vphantom{A^2}u(x,y)-u_{\mathrm{as}}(x,y)\right]\right\vert & = 0 \\ \lim_{y\to\infty}\sup_{x\in\mathbb{R}} \left\vert y^{5/2-\varepsilon}\left[\vphantom{A^2}v(x,y)-v_{\mathrm{as}}(x,y)\right]\right\vert & = 0 \\ \lim_{y\to\infty}\sup_{x\in\mathbb{R}} \left\vert y^{9/2-\varepsilon}\left[\vphantom{A^2}\omega(x,y)-\omega_{\mathrm{as}}(x,y)\right]\right\vert & = 0 \end{align*}\end{document}
Present output:
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Hmm;
\textbackslash (mentioned by others) isn't in my reference book (Kopka and Daly).
At any rate, math mode provides
\sim,
\backslash, and
\setminus (the latter two appear to look the same and differ only by spacing in math mode).
My LaTeX book – which, as you would expect, features the \ extensively – seems to use the
verbatim environment. For example, this code:
\begin{verbatim}
\addtocounter{footnote}{-1}\footnotetext{Small insects}
\stepcounter{footnote}\footnoteext{Large mammals}
\end{verbatim}
Produces this text in the book:
\addtocounter{footnote}{-1}\footnotetext{Small insects}
\stepcounter{footnote}\footnoteext{Large mammals}
The
\verb command is similar, but the argument must be on one line only. The first character after the b is the delimiter; for example:
\verb=\emph{stuff}=
will produce
\emph{stuff}
So you could presumably get your backslash by typing:
\verb=\=
You can also add a
* – i.e.
\verb* or
\begin{verbatim*} – to make whitespace visible.
It is interesting to speculate how you would get an example of a
verbatim environment into a document..(using
\verb to do the last line, I guess)
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So I was thinking about my high variance strategies post and I realised that there was a case I hadn’t considered which is kinda important.
Which is that often you’re not very interested in how good your best solution is, only that it’s at least this good for some “this good” bar. e.g. you don’t care how cured cancer is as long as it’s pretty cured, you don’t care how many votes you got as long as it’s enough to win the election, etc.
So for these circumstances, maximizing the expected value is just not very interesting. What you want to do is maximize \(P(R \geq t)\) for some threshold \(t\). The strategies for this look quite different.
Firstly: If you can ensure that \(\mu > t\) the optimal strategy is basically do that and then make the variance as low as you can.
For the case where you can’t do that the region of which is better, variance or mean, becomes more complicated.
Let \(F\) be the cumulative distribution function of your standardised distribution (this can be normal but it doesn’t matter for this). Then \(P(R \geq t) = (1 – F(\frac{t – \mu}{\sigma}))^n\). This is what we want to maximize.
But really what we’re interested in for this question is whether mean or variance are more useful. So we’ll only look at local maximization. Because this probability is monotonically decreasing in \(g(\mu, \sigma) = \frac{t – \mu}{\sigma}\) we can just minimize that.
\(\frac{\partial}{\partial \mu} g = -\frac{1}{\sigma}\)
\(\frac{\partial}{\partial \sigma} g = -\frac{t – \mu}{\sigma^2}\)
So what we’re interested in is the region where increasing \(\sigma\) will decrease \(g\) faster than increasing \(\mu\) will. i.e. we want the region where
\(- \frac{t – \mu}{\sigma^2} < -\frac{1}{\sigma}\)
or equivalently
\(t – \mu > \sigma\)
i.e. \(t > \mu + \sigma\)
That’s a surprisingly neat result. So basically the conclusion is that if you’re pretty close to achieving your bound (within one standard deviation of it) then you’re better off increasing the mean to get closer to that bound. If on the other hand you’re really far away you’re much better off raising the variance hoping that
someone gets lucky.
Interestingly unlike maximizing the expected value this doesn’t depend at all on the number of people. More people increases your chance of someone getting lucky and achieving the goal, but it doesn’t change how you maximize that chance.
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Inflation is a rapid stretching which result in cosmic smoothness and uniformity on large scales; as such, inflation is a key component of almost all fundamental cosmological scenarios. Not only does inflation explain the overall uniformity of the universe, but quantum fluctuations during inflation plant the seeds that grow into galaxies and clusters of galaxies that exist today.
The potential for the inflationary potential early in the universe is a de Sitter form. The FLRW equations are$$
\Big(\frac{\dot a}{a}\Big)^2~=~\frac{8\pi G\Lambda}{3}~-~\frac{k}{a^2},
$$where we assume $k~=~0$ for the generally flat space we appear to observe. The early inflationary universe was driven by a scalar field which generated this vacuum energy where $V(\phi)~=~-a\times\phi$, $a$ a constant. This set the early cosmological constant for the de Sitter expansion with a vacuum energy about 13 orders of magnitude smaller than the Planck energy. The universe had more vacuum energy density than quark-gluon field density in a hadron.
The Lagrangian for a scalar field is $L~=~(1/2)\partial^a\phi\partial_a\phi~–~V(\phi)$ and in QFT we work with the Lagrangian density ${\cal L}~=~L/vol$ so the action $S~=~\int d^3xdt{\cal L}(\phi, \partial\phi)$. We run this into the Euler-Lagrange equation $\partial_a(\partial{\cal L}/\partial(\partial_a\phi))~-~\partial{\cal L}/\partial\phi~=~0$, and keep in mind $vol~\sim~x^3$. This gives a dynamical equation$$
\partial^2\phi ~-~ (3/vol^{4/3})\partial_a\phi~–~ \frac{\partial V(\phi)}{\partial\phi}~=~ 0.
$$If we assume the inflaton field is more or less constant on the space for a given time on the Hubble frame this DE may be simplified to$$
{\ddot\phi}~–~(3/vol^{4/3}){\dot\phi}~–~\frac{\partial V(\phi)}{\partial\phi}~=~0
$$That middle term is interesting for it is a sort of friction. It indicates the inflaton field, the thing which drives the inflationary expansion, is running down or becoming diffused in the space. The potential function here is complicated and not entirely known, but it is approximately constant, or some small decrease with the value of $\phi$. What then happens, which is not entirely understood, is that the field experiences a phase transition, the potential becomes $V(\phi)~\sim~\phi^2$ with a minimum about 110 orders of magnitude smaller than it was in the unbroken phase. The phase transition has a latent heat of fusion that is released and this is the reheating. If the vacuum is a false vacuum then the $V(\phi)~\sim~\phi^4$
This means the accelerated expansion of the universe should be driven by either of these field and the a force which drives the field:$$
F~=~-\frac{\partial V}{\partial\phi}
$$which is larger for the steep potential, or the quartic. During this period a quantum fluctuation in the field is typically $\delta\phi~=~\pm\sqrt{V(\phi)}$. For the inflationary period the variation in the field due to the force is $\delta\phi_F~=~F/V$ $~sim~\phi^{-1}$ and the quantum fluctuation in the scalar field $\delta\phi_q~=~\pm const\sqrt{\phi}$ The quantum fluctuations can become larger than that classical variation in the field when$$
\delta\phi_F~=~\delta\phi_q~\rightarrow~\phi~\simeq~a^{1/3}
$$For the reheating potential $V(\phi)~=~b\phi^n $, $n~=~2,~4$ the condition for the fluctuation equal the classical field variation is$$
\phi~\simeq~(n^2/a)^{1/{(n+2}}
$$For $n~=~4$ the field may vary far less for the quantum fluctuation to equal the classical variation. If this happens for $n~=~4$ we would expect the universe to tunnel into a lower energy vacuum.
We now turn to some data H. V. Peiris and R. Easther, JCAP 0807, 024 (2008) arXiv:0805.2154 astro-ph. This figure illustrates joint 68% (inner) and 95% (outer) bounds on two variables which characterize the primordial perturbations, derived from a combination of WMAP and SuperNova Legacy Survey data. The predictions for our two inflationary models are superimposed. The numbers refer to the logarithm of the size of universe during the inflationary era. Cosmological perturbations are generated when this quantity is around $60$, so $\phi^4$ inflation is not consistent with the data.
So we are probably out of the danger zone for having one of Coleman-Luccia’s vacuum transitions which destroys everything.This post imported from StackExchange Physics at 2014-05-14 19:48 (UCT), posted by SE-user Lawrence B. Crowell
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Text: Bayesian Data Analysis 3E by Gelman, section 3.6
Let $y | \mu, \Sigma \sim \text{MVN}(\mu, \Sigma),$ where
$\mu$ is a column vector of length $d$ $\Sigma$ is a $d \times d$ symmetric, positive definite, variance matrix both unknown
The conjugate prior for $(\mu, \Sigma)$ is the normal-inverse-Wishart distribution, where $$\begin{align} \Sigma &\sim \text{Inv-Wishart}_{\nu_0} \left( \Lambda_0^{-1} \right) \\ \mu | \Sigma &\sim \text{MVN} \left( \mu_0, \Sigma /\kappa_0 \right) \end{align},$$ which gives the conjugate prior density to be $$p(\mu, \Sigma) \propto |\Sigma|^{- \left( \frac{\nu_0 + d}{2} + 1\right)} \exp \left( -\frac12 \text{tr} \left( \Lambda_0 \Sigma^{-1} \right) - \frac{\kappa_0}{2} (\mu - \mu_0)^T \Sigma^{-1}(\mu - \mu_0) \right)$$
In another case where $\Sigma$ follows the inverse-Wishart with $d-1$ degrees of freedom (the other parameter is not specified, but I assuming is it $\Lambda_0^{-1}$), the author suggests using the multivariate Jeffreys noninformative prior for $(\mu, \Sigma)$, i.e. $$p(\mu, \Sigma) \propto |\Sigma|^{- \frac{d+1}{2}}.$$
The author says that this is the limit of the conjugate prior density as $\kappa_0 \rightarrow 0$, $\nu_0 \rightarrow -1$, and $|\Lambda_0| \rightarrow 0$. The first limit seems to zero out the second term in the exponential above. The second limit seems to give $|\Sigma|^{{- \frac{d+1}{2}}}$. The third limit seems like it should lead to zeroing out the first term in the exponential, but I cannot see how.
I was hoping someone had some insight on how $|\Lambda_0| \rightarrow 0$ helps give the Jeffreys prior.
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Special Functions of Mathematics
Special mathematical functions related to the beta and gamma functions.
Keywords math Usage
beta(a, b)lbeta(a, b)gamma(x)lgamma(x)psigamma(x, deriv = 0)digamma(x)trigamma(x)choose(n, k)lchoose(n, k)factorial(x)lfactorial(x)
Arguments a, b non-negative numeric vectors. x, n numeric vectors. k, deriv integer vectors. Details
The functions
beta and
lbeta return the beta function and the natural logarithm of the beta function, $$B(a,b) = \frac{\Gamma(a)\Gamma(b)}{\Gamma(a+b)}.$$ The formal definition is $$B(a, b) = \int_0^1 t^{a-1} (1-t)^{b-1} dt$$ (Abramowitz and Stegun section 6.2.1, page 258). Note that it is only defined in R for non-negative
a and
b, and is infinite if either is zero.
The functions
gamma and
lgamma return the gamma function $\Gamma(x)$ and the natural logarithm of
the absolute value of the gamma function. The gamma function is defined by (Abramowitz and Stegun section 6.1.1, page 255) $$\Gamma(x) = \int_0^\infty t^{x-1} e^{-t} dt$$ for all real
x except zero and negative integers (when
NaN is returned). There will be a warning on possible loss of precision for values which are too close (within about $1e-8$)) to a negative integer less than -10.
factorial(x) ($x!$ for non-negative integer
x) is defined to be
gamma(x+1) and
lfactorial to be
lgamma(x+1).
The functions
digamma and
trigamma return the first and second derivatives of the logarithm of the gamma function.
psigamma(x, deriv) (
deriv >= 0) computes the
deriv-th derivative of $\psi(x)$. $$\code{digamma(x)} = \psi(x) = \frac{d}{dx}\ln\Gamma(x) = \frac{\Gamma'(x)}{\Gamma(x)}$$ $\psi$ and its derivatives, the
psigamma() functions, are often called the polygamma functions, e.g.\ifelse{latex}{\out{~}}{ } in Abramowitz and Stegun (section 6.4.1, page 260); and higher derivatives (
deriv = 2:4) have occasionally been called tetragamma, pentagamma, and hexagamma.
The functions
choose and
lchoose return binomial coefficients and the logarithms of their absolute values. Note that
choose(n, k) is defined for all real numbers $n$ and integer $k$. For $k \ge 1$ it is defined as $n(n-1)\dots(n-k+1) / k!$, as $1$ for $k = 0$ and as $0$ for negative $k$. Non-integer values of
k are rounded to an integer, with a warning.
choose(*, k) uses direct arithmetic (instead of
[l]gamma calls) for small
k, for speed and accuracy reasons. Note the function
combn (package utils) for enumeration of all possible combinations.
Source
gamma,
lgamma,
beta and
lbeta are based on C translations of Fortran subroutines by W. Fullerton of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (now available as part of SLATEC).
digamma,
trigamma and
psigamma are based on Amos, D. E. (1983). A portable Fortran subroutine for derivatives of the psi function, Algorithm 610,
ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software 9(4), 494--502. References
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988)
The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole. (For
gamma and
lgamma.)
Abramowitz, M. and Stegun, I. A. (1972)
Handbook of Mathematical Functions. New York: Dover. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abramowitz_and_Stegun provides links to the full text which is in public domain. Chapter 6: Gamma and Related Functions. See Also
For the incomplete gamma function see
pgamma.
Aliases Special beta lbeta gamma lgamma psigamma digamma trigamma choose lchoose factorial lfactorial Examples
library(base)
require(graphics)choose(5, 2)for (n in 0:10) print(choose(n, k = 0:n))factorial(100)lfactorial(10000)## gamma has 1st order poles at 0, -1, -2, ...## this will generate loss of precision warnings, so turn offop <- options("warn")options(warn = -1)x <- sort(c(seq(-3, 4, length.out = 201), outer(0:-3, (-1:1)*1e-6, "+")))plot(x, gamma(x), ylim = c(-20,20), col = "red", type = "l", lwd = 2, main = expression(Gamma(x)))abline(h = 0, v = -3:0, lty = 3, col = "midnightblue")options(op)x <- seq(0.1, 4, length.out = 201); dx <- diff(x)[1]par(mfrow = c(2, 3))for (ch in c("", "l","di","tri","tetra","penta")) { is.deriv <- nchar(ch) >= 2 nm <- paste0(ch, "gamma") if (is.deriv) { dy <- diff(y) / dx # finite difference der <- which(ch == c("di","tri","tetra","penta")) - 1 nm2 <- paste0("psigamma(*, deriv = ", der,")") nm <- if(der >= 2) nm2 else paste(nm, nm2, sep = " ==\n") y <- psigamma(x, deriv = der) } else { y <- get(nm)(x) } plot(x, y, type = "l", main = nm, col = "red") abline(h = 0, col = "lightgray") if (is.deriv) lines(x[-1], dy, col = "blue", lty = 2)}par(mfrow = c(1, 1))## "Extended" Pascal triangle:fN <- function(n) formatC(n, width=2)for (n in -4:10) { cat(fN(n),":", fN(choose(n, k = -2:max(3, n+2)))) cat("\n")}## R code version of choose() [simplistic; warning for k < 0]:mychoose <- function(r, k) ifelse(k <= 0, (k == 0), sapply(k, function(k) prod(r:(r-k+1))) / factorial(k))k <- -1:6cbind(k = k, choose(1/2, k), mychoose(1/2, k))## Binomial theorem for n = 1/2 ;## sqrt(1+x) = (1+x)^(1/2) = sum_{k=0}^Inf choose(1/2, k) * x^k :k <- 0:10 # 10 is sufficient for ~ 9 digit precision:sqrt(1.25)sum(choose(1/2, k)* .25^k)
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Overview
The ideas we have developed for linear momentum and impulse apply to rotational motion as well. But first, we will need to develop the rotational analogs of the various variable and constructs we have been using. Force, momentum, velocity, impulse all have rotational analogs. The concept that impulse equals change in linear momentum has its analog in rotational motion as does the principle of conservation of momentum.
In the last model, we focused both on the properties of forces and the momentum transfers governing the connection of force to motion. We found that forces can be rather tricky to deal with, and we, hopefully, began to appreciate the usefulness of being very precise about technical terminology as it relates to force and motion and to the usefulness of representations such as momentum charts and force diagrams.
Now we extend the formalism to enable us to analyze and make sense of the motion of extended objects that can rotate as well as translate. We also introduce the last conserved quantity that we will work with,
angular momentum (which could also be called rotational momentum). We will introduce a couple of additional concepts: as well as to ways to describe rotational motion. We will then be in a position to answer detailed questions and make specific predictions about the magnitudes of individual forces and the changes in motion caused by the applied forces in a wide variety of situations. torque and rotational inertia
Angular momentum is analogous to momentum (translational or linear momentum) even though they are quite different physical quantities. For instance, we found in the last model that the momentum of an object is conserved if there is no net external force acting on it. In this model we will find that the rotational analogue of force is called
torque and that the angular momentum of an object is conserved if there is no net external torque acting on it (even if there is a net force). Similarly, a transfer of angular momentum is called . Remember from Part 1 that work is the integral of the applied force over the distance the system moves. In this model we broaden our idea of work a little by including the energy transferred if a torque is applied over the angle that the system rotates. angular impulse
However, translational or linear momentum (usually just called momentum) and angular momentum are clearly very different physical quantities and you will have to work hard and be careful at keeping them separate in your thinking. The difference is obvious when you see a physical situation but, when discussing abstract ideas without a physical picture in mind, it is easy to confuse the two quantities. For instance, a ball may be spinning (i.e. have angular momentum) and flying through the air in a straight line (i.e. have momentum). Or, it may be spinning at any speed (have any angular momentum) and not be flying through the air. Or, it may be flying through the air but not spinning at all. So, you see that the amount of angular momentum the ball has is completely independent of its momentum. The moral of this little story is the same as with all physics problems: try to keep a concrete physical picture in your head as you learn new abstract ideas.
The Center of Mass Idea
You may have realized by now that modeling objects as point particles is a rather drastic oversimplification, but often very useful.
When does the extended geometry of a non-point object become important? Focusing on just one point of an object can describe perfectly adequately the translational motion of that object, but it does not tell us anything about the object’s rotation. Whether an object rotates or not, depends on where forces are applied to the object. We will not derive or prove the general result, described in the following paragraphs, that we use to handle this situation: combined translation and rotation of rigid objects. We will simply state it.
It turns out that we can consider all of the forces acting on the object as if they acted at one point, the
center of mass, as far as translation is concerned. That is, if we are concerned only about an object’s translation, it doesn’t matter where the forces act on the object. We can consider them all to act at a single point! This is truly a great simplification. We have been using this result throughout this course without making a “big deal” about it. The special point where we consider the forces to act is called the center of mass. It is the same as the center of gravity (where you can support the object and it won’t rotate) as long as the gravitational force is uniform. Near the surface of the Earth, for all objects of ordinary size, the gravitational force can certainly be considered uniform, so for all problems we consider, the center of mass and center of gravity are the same point.
Now, what about
rotations? To take into account the effect of applied forces on the rotation of an object, we have to know where the forces are applied. We use a new construct, the torque, \(\tau\) , which takes into account the magnitude and direction of the applied force as well as its distance from the point or axis about which the object rotates. If objects are constrained to rotate about a particular axis, such as a wheel mounted to an axle, the torques are typically computed about that axis. If there is no constraint, torques should be computed about the center of mass, the point about which the object will rotate.
In order to properly discuss the rotational analog of momentum, we need to develop a consistent way to describe rotational motion. We find an analogous set of rotational motion variables to translational motion variables. We will introduce these motional variables by looking at both the circular motion of a point object and the rotational motion of an extended object (an extended object has size, so it is not a point object). By dividing up the general motion of a rigid object into translation plus rotation, we can separately discuss the momentum (actually the translational momentum) and the angular momentum.
The Detailed Description of Rotational Motion—Rotational Kinematics
We begin by developing some useful relationships to describe the motion of a point object. Rather than using rectangular coordinates to describe the position P of a particle moving in a circle, we find it convenient to use
, \(r\) and \(\Theta\) . The coordinate r is the distance of the point from an axis of rotation (the origin \(\vartheta\) ); \(\Theta\) is the polar coordinates angular displacementfrom an arbitrarily chosen axis that defines zero. As in the figure 7.4.1, \(\Theta\) is frequently measured from the positive x axis, but it could be measured from any reference line.
Figure 7.4.1
When \(\Theta\) changes by an amount \(\Delta \Theta\) , the particle moves an amount \(\Delta s\) along the circumference of the circle defined by the radius \(r\). The arc length, \(\Delta s\) is simply the product of \(r\) and \(\Delta \Theta\) (Figure 7.4.2) :
\[\Delta s = r \Delta \Theta \tag{7.4.1} \]
Figure 7.4.2
The instantaneous velocity of the
is always tangential to the curve at that point. If we differentiate the displacement with respect to time to get the tangential velocity of this object, we get an expression that depends only on the time derivative of \(\Theta\) : point P
\[\frac{ds}{dt} = v_{tangential} = r\frac{ d\Theta}{dt} . \tag{7.4.2} \]
The time rate of change of the angular position, \(\Theta\) , is called the \(angular~ velocity\) or \(rotational ~velocity\) and is usually represented by the Greek letter \(\Omega\) \( ("omega")\).
\[\Omega = \frac{d\Theta}{ dt} .\tag{7.4.3}\]
The rotational velocity and tangential velocity are related by:
\[v_{tangential}= r\Omega \tag{7.4.4}\] .
The Units of \(\Theta\) and \(\Omega\) .
The units of \(\Theta\) and \(\Omega\) are respectively an angle unit and an angle unit divided by time. We can use any units we want and that are useful for a particular application for \(\Theta\) and \(\Omega\) . Typical units are degrees, degrees/second; revolutions, revolutions/second or rpm or revolutions/hour, etc. The "natural" units, are, however, radians and radians per second.
\(v\) We must use radians and radians per second when we use the relations connecting \( \Omega \), to etc. Note that a “radian” is a rather “funny” kind of unit. For instance, radians multiplied by meters is just meters, not radian·meters. It is a useful word to put into sentences to tell us we are talking about angular motion (and to make phrases “sound right”), but it does not behave like a “real” unit such as meter or second.
Note that so far we have been discussing a point object constrained to move in a circle. We can also describe the kinematics of \(any\) extended object (e.g. a baseball bat) that is rotating about a fixed origin (where we grip it) by \(\Theta\) and \(\Omega\) , as long as we define the polar coordinates about the fixed axis of rotation. Actually, we can use this same approach for objects that are rotating as well as moving translationally, if we define the polar coordinates about the “center of mass.”
The Directions of \(\Theta\) and \(\Omega\) .
Just as the translational variables position, \(r\), and velocity, \(v\), have both direction and magnitude, so do the angular variables \(\Theta\) and \(\Omega\) . It is useful to treat these variables as vectors, \(\Theta\) and \(\Omega\) . What direction do these variables point? The only unique direction in space associated with a rotation is along the axis of rotation. So, if the axis of rotation gives the direction, we need only specify which way along the axis corresponds to a particular direction of rotation. By convention, the direction is specified by the “right-hand-rule.” If you curl the fingers of your right hand in the direction of positive \(\Theta\) or the direction rotation is occurring, your thumb points in the direction (along the axis of rotation) of \(\Theta\) or \(\Omega\) . We will see several more examples of the right-hand-rule (RHR).
When forces act on extended objects, they not only cause the object to change its
translational motion, but can also cause it to change its rotational motion. That is, these forces can cause an angular acceleration as well as a translational acceleration. It turns out that it is not just the magnitude and direction of the force that is important in causing angular accelerations, but also where the force is applied on an extended object. is the construct that incorporates both the vector force as well as where it is applied to an object. Torque
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It is well known (Fricke ?) that $ E_4^{1/4}$ and $ E_6^{1/6}$ can be represented as Gauss hypergeometric functions of $ 1728/j$ and $ 1728/(1728-j)$ respectively. The same result is true in levels $ 2$ , $ 3$ , and $ 4$ for instance, in which case $ E_4$ , $ E_6$ , and $ j$ must be replaced by analogous modular functions. The standard way of proving this is to show that both sides are solutions of the same linear differential equation of order $ 2$ with suitable additional conditions to ensure uniqueness. But this seems to involve in each case some ad hoc and not completely trivial computations. Is there a simple, more elegant manner to prove these results in a unified way without too much computation ?
Twin primes, like (29, 31) and (137, 139) are interesting to study. I have been exploring the parallels of the Gaussian and Eisenstein integers with the rational integers. For instance, they have primes and composites in common. But are there “twin primes”? There may not be a direct analogy, since the relationships > and < are ambiguous in the Gaussian and Eisenstein integers – unless you are talking about the norm.
Let $ G$ be a connected, reductive group over $ \mathbb Q$ , with parabolic subgroup $ P = MN$ . Let $ \pi$ be a cuspidal automorphic representation of $ M(\mathbb A)$ . For a smooth, right $ K$ -finite function $ \phi$ in the induced space $ \operatorname{Ind}_{P(\mathbb A)}^{G(\mathbb A)} \pi$ (realized in a suitable way as a function $ \phi: G(\mathbb Q) \backslash G(\mathbb A )\rightarrow \mathbb C$ ), we can associate the Eisenstein series
$ $ E(g,\phi) = \sum\limits_{\delta \in P(\mathbb Q) \backslash G(\mathbb Q)} \phi(\delta g)$ $ Assuming $ \pi$ is chosen so that this series converges absolutely, one can define the constant term of the Eisenstein series along a parabolic subgroup $ P’$ with unipotent radical $ N’$ :
$ $ E_{P’}(g,\phi) = \int\limits_{N'(\mathbb Q) \backslash N'(\mathbb A)}E(n’g,\phi)dn’ \tag{0}$ $
I see the constant term defined in this way without reference to Fourier analysis. Is it possible to always realize this object as the constant term of an honest Fourier expansion on some product of copies of $ \mathbb A/\mathbb Q$ ?
This can be done when $ G = \operatorname{GL}_2$ and $ P = P’$ the usual Borel. The unipotent radical identifies with the additive group $ \mathbb G_a$ , and for fixed $ g \in G(\mathbb A)$ the function $ \mathbb A/\mathbb Q \rightarrow \mathbb C, n \mapsto \phi(ng)$ has an absolutely convergent Fourier expansion
$ $ E(ng,\phi) = \sum\limits_{\alpha \in \mathbb Q} \int\limits_{\mathbb A/\mathbb Q} E(n’ng,\phi) \psi(-\alpha n’)dn’ \tag{1}$ $ where $ \psi$ is a fixed nontrivial additive character of $ \mathbb A/\mathbb Q$ . The constant term is
$ $ \int\limits_{\mathbb A/\mathbb Q} E(n’ng,\phi) dn’$ $ Setting $ n = 1$ in (1) gives us a series expansion for $ E(g,\phi)$ and (0) is the constant term of this series.
My reference is Daniel Bump’s book,
Automorphic Forms and Representations, Chapter 3.7. Let $ k$ be a number field, $ G = \operatorname{GL}_2$ , $ B$ and $ T$ the usual Borel subgroup and maximal torus of $ G$ . For $ \chi$ an unramified character of $ T(\mathbb A)/T(k)$ , let $ V$ be the space of “smooth” functions $ f: G(\mathbb A) \rightarrow \mathbb C$ satisfying $ f(bg) = \chi(b) \delta_B(b)^{\frac{1}{2}}f(g)$ which are right $ K$ -finite. For $ f \in V$ and $ g \in G(\mathbb A)$ , define the Eisenstein series
$ $ E(g,f) = \sum\limits_{\gamma \in B(k) \backslash G(k)} f(\gamma g)$ $
For suitable $ \chi$ , the series converges absolutely for all $ g \in G(\mathbb A)$ . Now $ E(g,f)$ has a “Fourier expansion,” which as explained by Bump is gotten as follows: the function $ $ \Phi: \mathbb A/k \rightarrow \mathbb C$ $ $ $ \Phi(x) = E( \begin{pmatrix} 1 & x \ & 1 \end{pmatrix}g,f)$ $ is continuous, hence is in $ L^2(\mathbb A/k)$ , and therefore has a “Fourier expansion” over the characters of $ \mathbb A/k$ . If $ \psi$ is a fixed character of $ \mathbb A/k$ , then $ \psi_{\alpha}: x \mapsto \psi(\alpha a)$ comprise the rest of them, for $ \alpha \in k$ . Then
$ $ \Phi(x) = \sum\limits_{a \in k} c_{\alpha}(g,f) \psi_{\alpha}(x) \tag{1}$ $
$ $ c_{\alpha}(g,f) = \int\limits_{\mathbb A/k} E( \begin{pmatrix} 1 & y \ & 1 \end{pmatrix} g,f) \psi(-\alpha y) dy$ $
According to Bump, we may simply set $ x = 0$ , giving us the Fourier expansion for the Eisenstein series
$ $ E(g,f) = \sum\limits_{\alpha \in k} c_{\alpha}(g,f)$ $
My question: Why is this last step valid? The right hand side of equation (1) converges to $ \Phi(x)$ in the $ L^2$ -norm. As far as I know, this is not an equation of pointwise convergence. In general, the Fourier series of a continuous function need not converge pointwise to that function everywhere (in the classical case $ \mathbb R/\mathbb Z$ , the Fourier series of a continuous function converges pointwise to that function almost everywhere).
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You might find this short note helpful ($\LaTeX$ code available [1] if the binary link breaks). I am reproducing the relevant part below:
Theorem. (Folklore) Learning an unknown distribution over a known domain of size $n$, up to total variation $\varepsilon\in(0,1]$, and with error probability $\delta\in(0,1]$, has sample complexity $O\!\left(\frac{n+\log(1/\delta)}{\varepsilon^2}\right)$. (Moreover, this can be done efficiently.)
Proof. Consider the empirical distribution $\tilde{p}$ obtained by drawing $m$ independent samples $s_1,\dots,s_m$ from the underlying distribution $p\in\Delta([n])$:\begin{equation}\label{def:empirical}\tilde{p}(i) = \frac{1}{m} \sum_{j=1}^m \mathbb{1}_{\{s_j=i\}}, \qquad i\in [n]\end{equation}
First, we bound the
expected total variation distance between $\tilde{p}$ and $p$, by using $\ell_2$ distance as a proxy:$$ \mathbb{E}{ d_{\rm TV}(p,\tilde{p}) } =\frac{1}{2}\mathbb{E}{ \lVert{p-\tilde{p}}\rVert_1} =\frac{1}{2}\sum_{i=1}^n\mathbb{E}{ \lvert{p(i)-\tilde{p}(i)}\rvert } \leq\frac{1}{2}\sum_{i=1}^n\sqrt{\mathbb{E}{ (p(i)-\tilde{p}(i))^2} }$$the last inequality by Jensen. But since, for every $i\in[n]$, $m\tilde{p}(i)$ follows a $\operatorname{Bin}({m},{p(i)})$ distribution, we have$\mathbb{E}{ (p(i)-\tilde{p}(i))^2} = \frac{1}{m^2}\operatorname{Var}[m\tilde{p}(i)] = \frac{1}{m}p(i)(1-p(i))$, from which$$ \mathbb{E}{ d_{\rm TV}(p,\tilde{p}) } \leq\frac{1}{2\sqrt{m}}\sum_{i=1}^n\sqrt{p(i)} \leq \frac{1}{2}\sqrt{\frac{n}{m}}$$the last inequality this time by Cauchy—Schwarz. Therefore, for $m\geq \frac{n}{\varepsilon^2}$ we have $\mathbb{E}{ d_{\rm TV}(p,\tilde{p}) }\leq \frac{\varepsilon}{2}$.
Next, to convert this expected result to a
high probability guarantee, we apply McDiarmid's inequality to the random variable $f(s_1,\dots,s_m) \stackrel{\rm def}{=} d_{\rm TV}(p,\tilde{p})$, noting that changing any single sample cannot change its value by more than $c\stackrel{\rm def}{=} 1/m$:$$ \mathbb{P}\left\{ \lvert{f(s_1,\dots,s_m) - \mathbb{E}{f(s_1,\dots,s_m)}\rvert} \geq \frac{\varepsilon}{2} \right\} \leq 2e^{-\frac{2\left(\frac{\varepsilon}{2}\right)^2}{mc^2}} = 2e^{-\frac{1}{2}m\varepsilon^2}$$and therefore as long as $m\geq \frac{2}{\varepsilon^2}\ln\frac{2}{\delta}$, we have $\lvert{f(s_1,\dots,s_m) - \mathbb{E}{f(s_1,\dots,s_m)}\rvert} \leq \frac{\varepsilon}{2}$ with probability at least $1-\delta$. $\square$
There is a second proof, somewhat more fun, given in that short note (credit to John Wright for pointing it out, and emphasizing it's the "fun" one). Here it is:
Proof. Again, we will analyze the behavior of the empirical distribution $\tilde{p}$ over $m$ i.i.d. samples from the unknown $p$. Recalling the definition of total variation distance, note that $d_{\rm TV}({p,\tilde{p}}) > \varepsilon$ literally means there exists a subset $S\subseteq [n]$ such that $\tilde{p}(S) > p(S) + \varepsilon$. There are $2^n$ such subsets, so we can do a union bound.
Fix any $S\subseteq[n]$. We have$$\tilde{p}(S) = \tilde{p}(i) = \frac{1}{m} \sum_{i\in S} \sum_{j=1}^m \mathbb{1}_{\{s_j=i\}}$$and so, letting $X_j \stackrel{\rm def}{=} \sum_{i\in S}\mathbb{1}_{\{s_j=i\}}$ for $j\in [m]$, we have$\tilde{p}(S) = \frac{1}{m}\sum_{j=1}^m X_j$ where the $X_j$'s are i.i.d. Bernoulli random variable with parameter $p(S)$. Then, by a Chernoff bound (actually, Hoeffding):$$ \mathbb{P}\left\{ \tilde{p}(S) > p(S) + \varepsilon \right\} = \mathbb{P}\left\{ \frac{1}{m}\sum_{j=1}^m X_j > \mathbb{E}\left[\frac{1}{m}\sum_{j=1}^m X_j\right] + \varepsilon \right\} \leq e^{-2\varepsilon^2 m}$$and therefore $\mathbb{P}\left\{ \tilde{p}(S) > p(S) + \varepsilon \right\} \leq \frac{\delta}{2^n}$ for any $m\geq \frac{n\ln 2+\log(1/\delta)}{2\varepsilon^2}$. A union bound over these $2^n$ possible sets $S$ concludes the proof:$$ \mathbb{P}\left\{ \exists S\subseteq [n] \text{ s.t. }\tilde{p}(S) > p(S) + \varepsilon \right\} \leq 2^n\cdot \frac{\delta}{2^n} = \delta$$and we are done. $\square$
Note: a lower bound of $\Omega(\frac{n}{\varepsilon^2})$ (also folklore) is easy to derive from Assouad's lemma, by considering the family of distributions over $[n]$ where each pair of consecutive elements $(2i,2i+1)$ has either probabilities $(\frac{1+c\varepsilon}{n},\frac{1-c\varepsilon}{n})$ or $(\frac{1-c\varepsilon}{n},\frac{1+c\varepsilon}{n})$ for some suitable constant $c>0$. (Intuitively and a bit misleadingly: any learning algorithm has to "figure out" at least $\Omega(n)$ of these independent choices, but each of them requires $\Omega(1/\varepsilon^2)$ samples.)
[1] Public GitHub: https://github.com/ccanonne/probabilitydistributiontoolbox (includes the source for the note on Assouad's lemma as well).
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I would like to find the poles and residues of $$ f(z) = \frac {1}{z^2 \sin(\pi (z + \alpha))} $$ Where $0<\alpha<1$.
I found the first pole, which is a double pole at $z=0$, and then also there are poles at $z=n-\alpha$.
To find the residues I used the Laurent expansion, so for the residue of $z_0 = n - \alpha$
$$ f(z) = \frac {a_{-1}}{z-z_0} + a_0 + a_1(z-z_0) + ... $$
I multiplied $f(z)$ by $z-z_0$ and then took the limit as $ z \rightarrow z_0$
I don't understand how to then find $a_{-1}$, because I'm not sure what to do after this point: $$ \displaystyle \lim_{z\rightarrow z_0} \left[\frac{z-(n-\alpha)}{(n-\alpha)^2 \sin(\pi(z+\alpha))}\right]=a_{-1} $$
I'd appreciate guidance through the method of finding $a_{-1}$ and also what method to use for the $z^2$ pole.
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There are 3 actions of the Galilean group on the free particle: On the configuration space, on the phase space and on the quantum state space (wave functions). The Galilean Lie algebra is faithfully realized on the configuration space by means of vector fields, but its lifted action on Poisson algebra of functions on the phase apace and on the wave functions (by means of differential operators) is the central extension of the Galilean algebra, known as the Bargmann algebra in which the commutator of boosts and momenta is proportional to the mass. The reasoning is given in the following arguments
1) The action on the configuration space: $Q = \{x^1, x^2, x^3, t\}$:
Here the translations and the boost operators act as vector fields and their commutator is zero:
Translation: $x^i \rightarrow x^i+c^i$, generating vector $P_i = \frac{\partial}{\partial x^i}$
Boost: $x^i \rightarrow x^i+v^i t$, generating vector $G_i = t \frac{\partial}{\partial x^i}$
This is a faithful action of the Galilean group: $[P_i, G_j] = 0$.
2) The lifted Galilean action to the phase space $Q = \{x^1, x^2, x^3, p_1, p_2, p_3\}$
The meaning of lifting the action is to actually write the Lagrangian and finding the Noether charges of the above symmetry: The charges as functions on the phase space will generate the centrally extended version of the group. An application of the Noether theorem, we obtain the following expressions of the Noether charges:
Translation: $P_i = p_i$
Boost: $ G_i = P_i t - m x^i$.
The canonical Poisson brackets at $t=0$ (because the phase space is the space of initial data): $\{P_i, G_j\} = m \delta_{ij}$
The reason that the lifted action is a central extension lies in the fact that that the Poisson algebra of a manifold itself is a central extension of the space of Hamiltonian vector fields,
$$ 0\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\overset{i}{\rightarrow} C^{\infty}(M)\overset{X}{\rightarrow} \mathrm{Ham}(M)\rightarrow 0$$
Where the map $X$ generates a Hamiltonian vector field from a givenHamiltonian:
$$X_H = \omega^{ij}\partial_{j}H$$
($\omega$ is the symplectic form. The exact sequence simply indicates that the Hamiltonian vector fields of constant functions are all zero).
Thus if the Lie algebra admits a nontrivial central extension, this extension may materialize in the Poisson brackets (the result of aPoisson bracket may be a constant function).
3) The reason that the action is also extended is that in quantum mechanics the wave functions are sections of a line bundle over the configuration manifold. A line bundle itself is a $\mathbb{C}$ bundle over the manifold:
$$ 0\rightarrow \mathbb{C}\overset{i}{\rightarrow} \mathcal{L}\overset{\pi}{\rightarrow} M\rightarrow 0$$
thus one would expect an extension in the lifted group action. Line bundles can acquire a nontrivial phases upon a given transformation. In the case of the boosts, the Schrödinger equation is not invariant under boosts unless the wave function transformation is of the form:
$$ \psi(x) \rightarrow \psi'(x) = e^{\frac{im}{\hbar}(vx+\frac{1}{2}v^2t)}\psi(x+vt)$$
The infinitesimal boost generators:
$$\hat{G}_i = im x_i + \hbar t \frac{\partial}{\partial x_i}$$
Thus at $t=0$, we get: $[\hat{G}_i, \hat{P}_j] = -im \hbar\delta_{ij}$
Thus in summary, the Galilean group action on the free particle's configuration space is not extended, while the action on the phase space Poisson algebra and quantum line bundle is nontrivially central extended.
The classification of group actions on line bundles and central extensions may beperformed by means of Lie group and Lie algebra cohomology. A good referenceon this subject is the book by Azcárraga, and Izquierdo. This book contains a detailed treatment of the Galilean algebra cohomology. Also, there are two readable articles by van Holten: (first, second).
Group actions on line bundles (i.e. quantum mechanics) is classified by the first Lie group cohomology group, while central extensions are classified by the second Lie algebra cohomology group. The problem of finding central extensions to Lie algebras can be reduced to a manageable algebraic construction. One can form a BRST operator:
$$ Q = c^i T_i + f_{ij}^k c^i c^j b_k$$
Where $b$ abd $c$ are anticommuting conjugate variables: $\{b_i, c_j \} = \delta_{ij}$. $T_i$ are the Lie algebra generators.
It is not hard to verify that $Q^2 = 0$
If we can find a constant solution to the equation $Q \Phi = 0$ with $\Phi = \phi_{i j} c^i c^j$
which takes the following form in components, we have
$$ f_{[ij|}^k \phi_{k|l]} = 0$$
(The brackets in the indices mean that the indices $i, j, l$ are anti-symmetrized. Then the following central extension closes:
$$ [\hat{T}_i, \hat{T}_j] = i f_{ij}^{k} \hat{T}_k + \phi_{ij}\mathbf{1}$$
The second Lie algebra cohomology group of the Poincaré group is vanishing, thus it does not have a nontrivial central extension. A hint for that can be found from the fact that the relativistic free particle action is invariant under Poincaré transformations. (However, this is not a full proof because it is for a specific realization). A general theorem in Lie algebra cohomology asserts that semisimple Lie algebras have a vanishing second cohomology group. Semidirect products of vector spaces and semisimple Lie algebras have also vanishing second cohomology provided that there are no invariant two forms on the vector space. This is the case of the Poincaré group. Of course, one can prove the special case of the Poincaré group by the BRST method described above.This post imported from StackExchange Physics at 2014-03-24 09:17 (UCT), posted by SE-user David Bar Moshe
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A prime $p$ of the form $p = 2q+1$ for another prime $q$ allows a number of shortcuts in calculating a generator for the multiplicative group of $\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}.$ That multiplicative group has order $2q,$ so all of its elements have order $1,2,q$ or $2q$.
If we exclude $1$ and $-1$, every other element has order $q$ or $2q$. If we are unlucky enough to choose an element $x$ which has multiplicative order $q$, then $\{x^{i} : 1 \leq i \leq q-1 \}$ contains all the elements of order $q$, so if we avoid these and $\pm 1,$ we will find a generator.
If (or perhaps when) you know about quadratic residues, when $p$ has this form and $q >2$, we see that $p \equiv 3 \pmod{4}$, so, as has been noted in other answers and comments, as long as we avoid quadratic residues (and $\pm 1$) we will find a generator: an odd prime $r \equiv 1 \pmod{4}$ is a quadratic residue (mod $p$) if and only if $p$ is a quadratic residue (mod $r$), and an odd prime $r \equiv 3 \pmod{4}$ is a quadratic residue (mod $p$) if and only if $p$ is a quadratic non-residue (mod $r$).
Furthermore, $2$ is a quadratic residue (mod $p$) if and only if $q \equiv 3$ (mod $4$) when $p$ has this form. In your case, this means that $2$ is a quadratic residue (as others have already noticed), so computing the powers of $2$ (mod $23$) will give you all quadratic residues (mod $23$), that is, all elements of order $11$.
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This problem is $NP$-complete. Reduce from
Exact Cover by $3$- Sets ( X3C).
Given an
X3C instance, its ground set is $\mathcal{U}=\{e_1,e_2,\cdots,e_n\}$. Its collecion of $3$-subsets is $\mathcal{C}=\{s_1,s_2,\cdots,s_m\}$.
For each element in the ground set and each subset in the collection,
we create a new vertex (which will be referred to by the same name,
henceforth).
For each pair of element $e_i$ and subset $s_j$ such that $e_i\in s_j$, connect the two
vertices.
For $s_j$'s vertices:
Connect all pair of $s_j$'s vertices to make these a clique.
Then, create a new vertex $s$ and connect it to all $s_j$'s vertices.
For $e_i$'s vertices: For each pair of elements $e_{i_1}, e_{i_2}$ that share no
common subset, we create a new vertex $e_{i_1i_2}$ and connect it to both of
$e_{i_1}$ and $e_{i_2}$.
Then, create a new vertex $e$ and connect it to all $e_{i_ai_b}$'s vertices.
Connect $s$ and $e$ by an edge. Create a new vertex $t$ and connect it
to both of $s$ and $e$.
Call the newly constructed graph $G$. Set $k=\frac n3+1$.
Clearly, we only need to decrease the distance from $t$ to each of $e_i$'s vertex.
If in the planted clique, we do not choose $t$, then for each $e_i$, we need to connect it to either $s$ or $e$. Because $s$ and $e$ are all the neighbors of $t$. That is going to exceed the bound of $\frac n3+1$ on the cardinality of the clique.
So, $t$ must be included in the planted clique. Denote by $x$, $y$ and $z$ (
in this order) the number of vertices included in the planted clique among the $s_j$'s vertices, $e_i$'s vertices and $e_{i_ai_b}$'s vertices ( resp.)
We can see that each one in $x$ vertices of $s_j$'s vertices will decrease the distance from $t$ to $3$ $e_i$'s vertices.
Similarly, each one in $y$ vertices of $e_i$'s vertices will decrease the distance from $t$ to $1$ $e_i$'s vertices.
And, each one in $z$ vertices of $e_{i_ai_b}$'s vertices will decrease the distance from $t$ to $2$ $e_i$'s vertices.
So, we must have $3x+y+2z\geq n$. But also, $x+y+z=\frac n3$.
We deduce that $x=\frac n3$ and $y=z=0$
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A while back I was messing around with representations of finite fields and found this problem above while doing so. I'll explain below how I came to this point but my question is:
Question:How would one show $$F_{\frac{p^2+1}{2}}\equiv p-1 \pmod{p}$$ when $p\equiv \pm 2 \pmod{5}$ and $p\equiv 3 \pmod{4}$?
Here $F_n$ represents the $n$th Fibonacci number and $p$ is a prime.
Motivation: It's a theorem of Gauss that when $p\equiv \pm 2 \pmod{5}$ then the equation $f(x)=x^2-x-1$ has no root in the field $\mathbb{F}_p$. To remedy this, we give a matrix $M$ with characteristic polynomial $f(x)$ and define a representation of $\mathbb{F}_{p^2}\cong \mathbb{F}_p[x]/(f(x))$ into the matrix ring $M_2(\mathbb{F}_p)$ by taking $M$ to be a root of $f$ (everything else the natural choice). A suitable matrix is:
$$M=\begin{pmatrix}1& 1\\ 1& 0 \end{pmatrix}$$
and observe, also by a known result,
$$M^n=\begin{pmatrix} 1 & 1 \\ 1 & 0 \end{pmatrix}^n=\begin{pmatrix} F_{n+1} & F_n \\ F_n & F_{n-1} \end{pmatrix} \pmod{p}$$
Here is where I obtained the above question (with many calculations to verify this for at least all primes less than 1,000 satisfying the given conditions).
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Let an elliptic curve $ E(a,b )$ $$E(a,b ) = \{(x,y)\,|\,y^2=x^3+ax + b\}$$Where the points of the line $xm + n$:$$P =(x_1, y_1),\, Q =(x_2, y_2),\, R =(x_3, y_3) \in E(a, b)$$
How can you calculate the product between them? $$Q\cdot P =\, ?$$
Let an elliptic curve $ E(a,b )$ $$E(a,b ) = \{(x,y)\,|\,y^2=x^3+ax + b\}$$Where the points of the line $xm + n$:$$P =(x_1, y_1),\, Q =(x_2, y_2),\, R =(x_3, y_3) \in E(a, b)$$
Say we have the line $(x_0+ct,y_0+dt)$ which intersects the curve in 3 points : at $t=-1,t=1$ and $t= ?$
Finding $?$ means solving the 3rd root of the cubic polynomial $$P(t) = (y_0+td)^2- (x_0+tc)^3-a(x_0+tc)-b$$ And obtain the factorization $$P(t) = -c^3 (t+1) (t-1)(t-?)$$ Therefore $$? = \frac{P(0)}{c^3}=\frac{y_0^2-x_0^3-ax_0-b}{c^3}$$ From which we obtain the group law $$(x_0-c,y_0-d)+(x_0+c,y_0+d) = (x_0+\frac{y_0^2-x_0^3-ax_0-b}{c^2}, -y_0-d\frac{y_0^2-x_0^3-ax_0-b}{c^3})$$
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i have this question : in an example of the compact embedding, the autor gives a demonstration of : the sobolev space $W^{1,1}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ is not compactly embedded in $L^1(\mathbb{R}^n)$
So let $F\in D(\mathbb{R}^n)$(=the space of smooth functions with a compact support in $\mathbb{R}^n)$ ., not identically equal to zero and $\{x_n\}$ a sequence such that lim $x_n=+\infty$ when $n\rightarrow \infty$. so $F_n(x)=F(x-x_n)$ is bounded in $W^{1,1}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ and it converge a.e. to 0.
so if it converge strongly in $L^1$ we will have :$||F_n||_{L^1}=||F||_{L^1}=0$, an this is a contradiction .
my question is : where is the contradiction and how to prove that the embedding is compact in "this case or in normed (Banach) spaces (general case)"?
thank you very much.
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I already asked a (stupid) question about this problem here thinking I wouldn't have problems to continue it but I was pretty wrong. I'm finding several more problems trying to solve it. I'll try to summarize what I've done so you don't get bored. The problem is:
Let X be a random absolutely continuous variable with probability density function $$f_{\lambda\mu}(x) = \sqrt{\frac{\lambda}{2\pi x^3}}\exp{\left\{-\frac{\lambda}{2\mu^2x}(x-\mu)^2\right\}} \quad x>0$$ with $\mu,\lambda>0$. Find the MLE ($T_1$) of $\mu$ and ($T_2$) of $1/\lambda$ for a sample of size $n$. Study their minimal sufficiency. Provided T_2 is complete and $\lambda n T_2\to \chi^2_{n-1}$ find the UMVUE of $1/\lambda$.
Likelihood function: $$ f_{\lambda\mu}(x_1,\ldots,x_n) = \left( \frac{\lambda}{2\pi}\right)^{n/2}\prod x_i^{-3/2}\exp{\left\{ -\frac{\lambda}{2\mu^2}\sum\frac{(x_i-\mu)^2}{x_i} \right\}}\quad x_1,\ldots,x_n >0 $$
I've started finding the MLE of $\mu$ and $1/\lambda$, which are:
$$ T_1(x_1,\ldots,x_n) = \hat\mu = \frac{1}{n} \sum_{i=1}^n x_i = \bar x $$ and $$ T_2(x_1,\ldots,x_n) = \frac{1}{\hat \lambda} = \frac{1}{n\hat\mu^2} \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{(x_i-\hat\mu)^2}{x_i} $$ According to Fisher-Neyman's factorization theorem, $\hat\mu$ is not sufficient because I cannot factorize the likelihood function acordingly, thus it is not minimal sufficient.
The first part:
I've tried to check that $\hat\lambda$ is minimal sufficient saying that the expression
$$ \frac{f_\lambda (x_1,\ldots,x_n)}{f_\lambda (x_1',\ldots,x_n')} = \frac{\prod x_i^{-3/2}}{\prod x_i'^{-3/2}}\exp\left\{ \frac{\lambda}{2\mu^2}\left[ \sum\frac{(x_i'-\mu)^2}{x_i'} - \sum \frac{(x_i-\mu)^2}{x_i}\right] \right\} $$will not be in terms of $\lambda$ if, and only if,$$\sum\frac{(x_i'-\mu)^2}{x_i'} = \sum \frac{(x_i-\mu)^2}{x_i}$$So $\sum \frac{(x_i-\mu)^2}{x_i}$ is a minimal sufficient estimator of $1/\lambda$, but $T_2$ is not.
Is this correct? The second part:
After this I'm supossed to find the UMVUE of $1/\lambda$, supposing $T_2$ as complete and knowing that $\lambda n T_2\to \chi^2_{n-1}$(this is starting to not making sense because if it is not minimal it can't be complete, but we can
suppose it) It seems like I have to use Lehmann-Scheffé Theorem proving that $\lambda n T_2$ is unbiased and after that calculate $\operatorname{E}[T_2\mid n\lambda T_2]$. But I don't know how to prove that $\lambda n T_2$ is unbiased. My attempt is:
$$\operatorname{E}[\lambda n T_2] = \int_0^\infty \lambda n T_2 \cdot f_{n-1}(x) dx = \frac{\lambda}{\mu^2 2^{(x-1)/2}\Gamma((n-1)/2)}\int_0^\infty \sum \frac{(x_i-\mu)^2}{x_i} x^{n-1}e^{-x/2} dx$$
Edit 1: As whuber said, this notation doesn't make sense. I was trying to use the definition of expectation:
$$ E[g(x)]=\int_\infty^\infty g(x)f(x)dx $$
Edit 2:I've been trying to continue. But I get a solution without using the premise that $T_2$ is complete, so I'm still not sure about my solution. I do this:
We know that $\lambda n T_2\to\chi^2_{n-1}$, so $\operatorname{E}[\lambda n T_2] = n-1$, then
$$\operatorname{E}[\frac{n}{n-1}T_2] = \frac{1}{\lambda}$$
thus
$$S(x_1,\ldots,x_n) = \frac{n}{n-1}T_2 = \frac{1}{n-1}\sum\frac{(x_i-\mu)^2}{x_1}$$
is unbiased for $1/\lambda$ and it is a function of the sufficient statistic T_2. Then $S(x_1,\ldots,x_n)$ is the UMVUE for $1/\lambda$
Oviously I need some help with this. If it is considered two questions and I should split it just let me know and I'll edit this post.
Thanks!
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Projection¶ class
Projection(
spin=None, atoms=None, l_quantum_numbers=None, m_quantum_numbers=None)¶
Initialize the class by defining the orbitals to include in the projection.
Parameters: spin(None |
Spin.Up|
Spin.Down|
Spin.Sum|
Spin.X|
Spin.Y|
Spin.Z) – Spin components to include in the projection.
Default:
Spin.Sum
atoms(None | list of
PeriodicTableElement| list of str | list of int |
All) – Atoms to include in the projection, defined either by element type, by tag, or by the index of individual atoms.
Default:
All
l_quantum_numbers(None | list of int |
All) – Shells for the selected atoms to include in the projection.
Default:
All
m_quantum_numbers(None | list of int |
All) – Orbitals for the selected shells to include in the projection.
Default:
All
atoms()¶
Returns: The atoms included in the projection. Return type: list of
PeriodicTableElement| list of str | list of int |
All
lQuantumNumbers()¶
Returns: The l-quantum numbers included in the projection. Return type: list of int |
All
label()¶
Get the label for this projection.
Returns: The label used for this projection. Return type: str
mQuantumNumbers()¶
Returns: The m-quantum numbers included in the projection. Return type: list of int |
All
setLabel(
label)¶
Set the label for this projection.
Parameters: label( str) – The new label.
spin()¶
Returns: The spin components included in the projection. Return type:
Spin.Up|
Spin.Down|
Spin.Sum|
Spin.X|
Spin.Y|
Spin.Z
Usage Example¶
The user can declare projection instances and also combine different projections by using the algebraic operations sum, product and difference. The sum will perform the union between the orbital sets, the product the intersection and the difference the disjuntive union. For example
# Define a projection on all orbitalsp1 = Projection()# Define a projection on s, p orbitals of Oxygenp2 = Projection(atoms=[Oxygen], l_quantum_number=[0, 1])# Define a projection on Spin Upp3 = Projection(spin=Spin.Up)# Define a projection on all orbitals except s and p orbitals of Oxygenp4 = p1 - p2# We can define a projection on s and p orbital of Oxygen for Spin Up# in two equivalent ways.p5 = p1 * p3# orp5 = Projection(atoms=[Oxygen], l_quantum_number=[0, 1], spin=Spin.Up)
Note
Projections on the x, y, z Pauli spin matrices with
Spin.X,
Spin.Y,
Spin.Z work differently from other projections; instead of defining a projection subspace based on sets of orbitals, they are operators returning the observable corresponding to spin along each of the three coordinate axes in Euclidean space.
As such, algebraic combinations of projections are undefined when projecting on the Pauli spin matrices. This means that the algebraic combination of two projections is not allowed if either of the two is projecting on one of the Pauli matrices for a particular set of orbitals and the other isn’t projecting on the same Pauli matrix for the same set of orbitals.
For example, the following combinations
are allowed:
Projection(spin=Spin.X, atoms=[Silicon]) + Projection(spin=Spin.Y, atoms=[Oxygen])Projection(spin=Spin.X, atoms=[Silicon]) + Projection(spin=Spin.Z, atoms=[Oxygen])Projection(spin=Spin.X, atoms=[Silicon]) + Projection(spin=Spin.Up, atoms=[Oxygen])Projection(spin=Spin.X, atoms=[Silicon]) + Projection(spin=Spin.Down, atoms=[Oxygen])Projection(spin=Spin.X, atoms=[Silicon]) + Projection(spin=Spin.Sum, atoms=[Oxygen])Projection(spin=Spin.Up, atoms=[Silicon]) + Projection(spin=Spin.Down, atoms=[Silicon])
These combinations, however,
are not allowed:
Projection(spin=Spin.X, atoms=[Silicon]) + Projection(spin=Spin.Y, atoms=[Silicon])Projection(spin=Spin.X, atoms=[Silicon]) + Projection(spin=Spin.Z, atoms=[Silicon])Projection(spin=Spin.X, atoms=[Silicon]) + Projection(spin=Spin.Up, atoms=[Silicon])Projection(spin=Spin.X, atoms=[Silicon]) + Projection(spin=Spin.Down, atoms=[Silicon])Projection(spin=Spin.X, atoms=[Silicon]) + Projection(spin=Spin.Sum, atoms=[Silicon])
(same for the
+ and
* operators).
Abbreviations¶
ATK supports a number of keyword which automatically generate a list of projections onto commonly used sets of orbitals. The available keywords are
ProjectOnUpDownSpin Projections on spin up and spin down ProjectOnXYZSpin Projections on the x, y, z Pauli spin matrices ProjectOnSites Projections on each available atomic site ProjectOnTags Projections on each available tag for atomic sites present in the configuration ProjectOnElements Projections on each available element ProjectOnShellsByElement Projections on each available shell per each available element ProjectOnOrbitalsByElement Projections on each available orbital per each available element
For example, for bulk Gallium Arsenide the keyword
ProjectOnElements is equivalent to
projections = [Projection(atoms=[Gallium]), Projection(atoms=[Arsenic])]
Notes¶
The Projection instances do not contain the list of projection orbitals immediately after declaration. The available information is translated to a set of orbital indexes for a specific configuration only inside analysis objects. The orbital indexes are then used to construct a projection operator, according to the procedure illustrated below.
Definition of the Projection operator¶
The definition of a projection operator is trivial in an orthogonal basis, where we can define
\[{\hat{\bf P}_M} = \sum_{m \in M} |m \rangle \langle m|\]
This operator is idempotent and hermitian, and the identity operator can be easily expressed as the sum of a projection onto a subspace and the projection onto the complementary subspace:
\[{\hat{\bf I}} = {\hat{\bf P}_M} + {\hat{\bf P}_\bar{M}}\]
For a non-orthogonal basis this definition is not valid anymore and we have to formulate the projection taking into account the overlap between basis functions. In this case it is not possible in general to define a projection operator which is both hermitian and idempotent, and several different definitions are possible. A detailed treatment of this issue and the derivation of some of the formulas used here can be found in [SP14].
For a non-orthogonal basis the identity operator is written as
\[{\hat{\bf I}} = \sum_{i, j} |i \rangle S^{-1}_{ij} \langle j|\]
where \(S^{-1}\) is the inverse of the overlap matrix, defined as usual by the inner products between basis functions \(S_{ij}=\langle i|j \rangle\). We may then write the projection on a subspace \(M\) as
\[{\hat{\bf P}_M} = \sum_{m \in M, i} |m \rangle S^{-1}_{mi} \langle i|\]
This projection fulfills the condition \({\hat{\bf I}} = {\hat{\bf P}_M} + {\hat{\bf P}_\bar{M}}\). However this operator is not hermitian and we may as well use its adjoint
\[{\hat{\bf P}_M^{\dagger}} = \sum_{m \in M, i} |i \rangle S^{-1}_{mi} \langle m|\]
Also this operator fulfills the condition \({\hat{\bf I}} = {\hat{\bf P}_M ^{\dagger}} + {\hat{\bf P}_\bar{M} ^{\dagger}}\). The identity operator can be decomposed in additional different ways and the choice of the projection is not unique [SP14]. The advantage of those two definitions is that the projection subspace and its complement are orthogonal. This implies that the sum of the weights associated to a projection and its complement is one by construction. We can as well choose to use a linear combination of the projection operator and its adjoint and define a new projector as \(\frac{1}{2}\left( \hat{\bf P}_M ^{\dagger} + \hat{\bf P}_M \right)\). The matrix representation of such linear combination is given by
\[P _{M} = \frac{1}{2} \left( \tilde{P}_{M}S + S\tilde{P}_{M} \right)\]
\(\tilde{P}_{M}\) is a diagonal matrix such that \(P_{m}=1\) if \(m \in M\) and \(P_{m}=0\) otherwise. This is the matrix representation of the projection implemented in QuantumATK. The same expression can also be derived from the taylor expansion to the first order in \(S\) of the projection operator in the orthogonal representation, after an inverse Löwdin transform [PPGF16].
[PPGF16] G. Penazzi, A. Pecchia, V. Gupta, and T. Frauenheim. A self energy model of dephasing in molecular junctions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120(30):16383–16392, 2016. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b04185.
[SP14] (1, 2) M. Soriano and J. J. Palacios. Theory of projections with nonorthogonal basis sets: Partitioning techniques and effective hamiltonians. Phys. Rev. B, 90:075128, Aug 2014. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.90.075128.
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Suppose there is a person standing in a Merry go Round, which is rotating at a constant angular velocity $\vec \omega$. He experiences, of course, a centripetal acceleration $\vec a_{cen}$ and has some tangental velocity $\vec v_{tan}$.
This person now starts to walk in a circular path against the direction of rotation with a velocity $\vec v$ with respect to the Merry go Round. From an inertial frame of reference outside the Merry go Round, an observer should notice a Coriolis acceleration pointing radially outwards, given by $\vec a_{coriolis}=2 (\vec \omega \times \vec v)$.
If $2|\vec v|=|\vec v_{tan}|$ then the Coriolis acceleration would be equal and opposite to the centripetal acceleration and the observer in the inertial frame of reference would see this person standing still.
If $2|\vec v|>|\vec v_{tan}|$ then the Coriolis acceleration is greater than the centripel acceleration and the person would move in a spiral with an increasing radius against the direction of rotation of the Merry go Round, as seen from the inertial frame of reference.
Is this reasoning correct?
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Suppose I have the following Lagrangian density:
$$ \mathcal L = -\frac{1}{2} \sum_{i = 1}^N \left [ \partial_\mu \phi_i\partial^\mu \phi^i +m^2 \phi_i^2\right ] + \frac{g}{2N}\sum_{i=1}^N \sum_{j=1}^N \phi_i^2 \phi_j^2 $$
where the $\phi$'s are real scalar fields. Then we can see that, as $N \to +\infty$, the coupling constant $\frac{g}{N} \to 0$ and we just get a bunch of free scalar fields. However, I'm having trouble with the Feynman diagrams.
Consider the one-loop correction to the propagator of the field $\phi_i$. There's one diagram, which is:
It has one interaction vertex, so it goes as $g/N$. However, there are $N$ such diagrams, since there are $N$ possible fields $\phi_k$ for the loop. So it seems it all cancels out and you would get that the one-loop correction doesn't depend on $N$. But this is false because when $N\to+\infty$ the theory becomes non-interacting and there should be no corrections to the propagator.
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Ozer, O., Khammash, A. (2017). On the real quadratic fields with certain continued fraction expansions and fundamental units. International Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Applications, 8(1), 197-208. doi: 10.22075/ijnaa.2017.1610.1420
Ozen Ozer; Ahmed Khammash. "On the real quadratic fields with certain continued fraction expansions and fundamental units". International Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Applications, 8, 1, 2017, 197-208. doi: 10.22075/ijnaa.2017.1610.1420
Ozer, O., Khammash, A. (2017). 'On the real quadratic fields with certain continued fraction expansions and fundamental units', International Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Applications, 8(1), pp. 197-208. doi: 10.22075/ijnaa.2017.1610.1420
Ozer, O., Khammash, A. On the real quadratic fields with certain continued fraction expansions and fundamental units. International Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Applications, 2017; 8(1): 197-208. doi: 10.22075/ijnaa.2017.1610.1420
On the real quadratic fields with certain continued fraction expansions and fundamental units
1Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Arts, Ki rklareli University, 39000-Ki rklareli, Turkey
2Department of Mathematics, Al-Qura University, Makkah,21955, Saudi Arabia
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the real quadratic number fields $Q(\sqrt{d})$ which contain the specific form of the continued fractions expansions of integral basis element where $d\equiv 2,3( mod 4)$ is a square free positive integer. Besides, the present paper deals with determining the fundamental unit $$\epsilon _{d}=\left(t_d+u_d\sqrt{d}\right)\ 2\left.\right > 1$$ and $n_d$ and $m_d$ Yokoi's $d$-invariants by reference to continued fraction expansion of integral basis element where $\ell \left({d}\right)$ is a period length. Moreover, we mention class number for such fields. Also, we give some numerical results concluded in the tables.
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How do I calculate the infinite sum of this series?
$$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}n^2q^n = -\frac{q(q+1)}{(q-1)^3}\ \text{when}\ |q| < 1.$$
How does wolfram alpha get this result?
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$$ \sum_{n=1}^\infty n^2q^n=q\sum_{n=1}^\infty n^2q^{n-1}=q\cdot\frac{\text d}{\text dq}\left(\sum_{n=1}^\infty nq^n\right) $$ It is well-known that $\frac{1}{(1-x)^2}=\sum_{n=1}^\infty nx^{n-1}$ (given $|x|<1$), so we have \begin{align} \sum_{n=1}^\infty n^2q^n&=q\cdot\frac{\text d}{\text dq}\left(\frac q{(1-q)^2}\right)\\ &=q\cdot\frac{(1-q)^2+2q(1-q)}{(1-q)^4}\\ &=\frac{q(1+q)}{(1-q)^3} \end{align}
A related problem. Recalling the series
$$ \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} q^k = \frac{q}{1-q} $$
Now, apply the operator $(qD)^2 = (qD)(qD) $ where $D= \frac{d}{dq} $ to both sides of the above equation.
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Modeling Metallic Objects in Wave Electromagnetics Problems
Metals are materials that are highly conductive and reflect an incident electromagnetic wave — light, microwaves, and radio waves — very well. When using the RF Module or the Wave Optics Module to simulate electromagnetics problems in the frequency domain, there are several options for modeling metallic objects. Here, we will look at the Impedance and Transition boundary conditions as well as the Perfect Electric Conductor boundary condition, offering guidance on when to use each one.
What Is a Metal?
When approaching the question of what a metal is, we can do so from the point of view of the governing Maxwell’s equations that are solved for electromagnetic wave problems. Consider the frequency-domain form of Maxwell’s equations:
The above equation is solved in the
Electromagnetic Waves, Frequency Domain interface available in the RF Module and the Wave Optics Module. This equation solves for the electric field, \mathbf{E}, at the operating (angular) frequency \omega = 2 \pi f. The other inputs are the material properties: \mu_r is the relative permeability, \epsilon_r is the relative permittivity, and \sigma is the electrical conductivity.
For the purposes of this discussion, we will say that a metal is any material that is both lossy and has a relatively small skin depth. A
lossy material is any material that has a complex-valued permittivity or permeability or a non-zero conductivity. That is, a lossy material introduces an imaginary-valued term into the governing equation. This will lead to electric currents within the material, and the skin depth is a measure of the distance into the material over which this current flows.
At any non-zero operating frequency, inductive effects will drive any current flowing in a lossy material towards the boundary. The skin depth is the distance into the material within which approximately 63% of the current flows. It is given by:
where both \mu_r and \epsilon_r can be complex-valued.
At very high frequencies, approaching the optical regime, we are near the material plasma resonance and do in fact represent metals via a complex-valued permittivity. But when modeling metals below these frequencies, we can say that the permittivity is unity, the permeability is real-valued, and the electrical conductivity is very high. So the above equation reduces to:
Before you even begin your modeling in COMSOL Multiphysics, you should compute or have some rough estimate of the skin depth of all of the materials you are modeling. The skin depth, along with your knowledge of the dimensions of the part, will determine if it is possible to use the Impedance boundary condition or the Transition boundary condition.
The Impedance Boundary Condition
Now that we have the skin depth, we will want to compare this to the
characteristic size, L_c, of the object we are simulating. There are different ways of defining L_c. Depending on the situation, the characteristic size can be defined as the ratio of volume to surface area or as the thickness of the thinnest part of the object being simulated.
Let’s consider an object in which L_c \gg \delta. That is, the object is much larger than the skin depth. Although there are currents flowing inside of the object, the skin effect drives these currents to the surface. So, from a modeling point of view, we can treat the currents as flowing
on the surface. In this situation, it is appropriate to use the Impedance boundary condition, which treats any material “behind” the boundary as being infinitely large. From the point of view of the electromagnetic wave, this is true, since L_c \gg \delta means that the wave does not penetrate through the object. The Impedance boundary condition is appropriate if the skin depth is much smaller than the object.
With the Impedance boundary condition (IBC), we are able to avoid modeling Maxwell’s equations in the interior of any of the model’s metal domains by assuming that the currents flow entirely on the surface. Thus, we can avoid meshing the interior of these domains and save significant computational effort. Additionally, the IBC computes losses due to the finite conductivity. For an example of the appropriate usage of the IBC and a comparison with analytic results, please see the Computing Q-Factors and Resonant Frequencies of Cavity Resonators tutorial.
The IBC becomes increasingly accurate as L_c / \delta \rightarrow \infty; however, it is accurate even when L_c / \delta \gt > 10 for smooth objects like spheres. Sharp-edged objects such as wedges will have some inaccuracy at the corners, but this is a local effect and also an inherent issue whenever a sharp corner is introduced into the model, as discussed in this previous blog post.
Now, what if we are dealing with an object that has one dimension that is much smaller than the others, perhaps a thin film of material like aluminum foil? In that case, the skin depth in one direction may actually be comparable to the thickness, so the electromagnetic fields will partially penetrate through the material. Here, the IBC is not appropriate. We will instead want to use the Transition boundary condition.
The Transition Boundary Condition
The Transition boundary condition (TBC) is appropriate for a layer of conductive material with a thickness relatively smaller than the characteristic size, and curvature, of the objects being modeled. The TBC can be used even if the thickness is many times greater than the skin depth.
The TBC takes the material properties as well as the thickness of the film as inputs, computing an impedance through the thickness of the film as well as a tangential impedance. These are used to relate the current flowing on the surface of either side of the film. That is, the TBC will lead to a drop in the transmitted electric field.
From a computational point of view, the number of degrees of freedom on the boundary is doubled to compute the electric field on either surface of the TBC, as shown below. Additionally, the total losses through the thickness of the film are computed. For an example of using this boundary condition, see the Beam Splitter tutorial, which models a thin layer of silver via a complex-valued permittivity.
The Transition boundary condition computes a surface current on either side of the boundary. Adding Surface Roughness
So far, with both the TBC and the IBC, we have assumed that the surfaces are perfect. A planar boundary is assumed to be geometrically perfect. Curved boundaries will be resolved to within the accuracy of the finite element mesh used, the geometric discretization error, as discussed here.
Rough surfaces impede current flow compared to smooth surfaces.
All real surfaces, however, have some roughness, which may be significant. Imperfections in the surface prevent the current from flowing purely tangentially and effectively reduce the conductivity of the surface (illustrated in the figure above). With COMSOL Multiphysics version 5.1, this effect can be accounted for with the
Surface Roughness feature that can be added to the IBC and TBC conditions.
For the IBC, the input is the Root Mean Square (RMS) roughness of the surface height. For the TBC, the input is instead given in terms of the RMS of the thickness variation of the film. The magnitude of this roughness should be greater than the skin depth, but much smaller than the characteristic size of the part. The effective conductivity of the surface is decreased as the roughness increases, as described in “Accurate Models for Microstrip Computer-Aided Design” by E. Hammerstad and O. Jensen. There is a second roughness model available, known as the
Snowball model, which uses the relationships described in The Foundation of Signal Integrity by P. G. Huray. The Perfect Electric Conductor Boundary Condition
It is also worth looking at the idealized situation — the Perfect Electric Conductor (PEC) boundary condition. For many applications in the radio and microwave regime, the losses at metallic boundaries are quite small relative to the other losses within the system. In microwave circuits, for example, the losses in the dielectric substrate typically far exceed the losses at any metallization.
The PEC boundary condition is a surface without loss; it will reflect 100% of any incident wave. This boundary condition is good enough for many modeling purposes and can be used early in your model-building process. It is also sometimes interesting to see how well your device would perform without any material losses.
Additionally, the PEC boundary condition can be used as a symmetry condition to simplify your modeling. Depending on your foreknowledge of the fields, you can use the PEC boundary condition, as well as its complement — the Perfect Magnetic Conductor (PMC) boundary condition — to enforce symmetry of the electric fields. The Computing the Radar Cross Section of a Perfectly Conducting Sphere tutorial illustrates the use of the PEC and PMC boundary conditions as symmetry conditions.
Lastly, COMSOL Multiphysics also includes Surface Current, Magnetic Field, and Electric Field boundary conditions. These conditions are provided primarily for mathematical completeness, since the currents and fields at a surface are almost never known ahead of time.
Summary
In this blog post, we have highlighted how the Impedance, Transition, and Perfect Electric Conductor boundary conditions can be used for modeling metallic surfaces, helping to identify situations in which each should be used. But, what if you cannot use any of these boundary conditions? What if the characteristic size of the parts you are simulating are similar to the skin depth? In that case, you cannot use a boundary condition. You will have to model the metal domain explicitly, just as you would for any other material. This will be the next topic we focus on in this series, so stay tuned.
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2017-04-19 08:09
Flavour anomalies after the $R_{K^*}$ measurement / D'Amico, Guido (CERN) ; Nardecchia, Marco (CERN) ; Panci, Paolo (CERN) ; Sannino, Francesco (CERN ; Southern Denmark U., CP3-Origins ; U. Southern Denmark, Odense, DIAS) ; Strumia, Alessandro (CERN ; Pisa U. ; INFN, Pisa) ; Torre, Riccardo (EPFL, Lausanne, LPTP) ; Urbano, Alfredo (CERN) The LHCb measurement of the $\mu/e$ ratio $R_{K^*}$ indicates a deficit with respect to the Standard Model prediction, supporting earlier hints of lepton universality violation observed in the $R_K$ ratio. We show that the $R_K$ and $R_{K^*}$ ratios alone constrain the chiralities of the states contributing to these anomalies, and we find deviations from the Standard Model at the $4\sigma$ level. [...] arXiv:1704.05438; CP3-ORIGINS-2017-014; CERN-TH-2017-086; IFUP-TH/2017; CP3-Origins-2017-014.- 2017-09-04 - 31 p. - Published in : JHEP 09 (2017) 010 Article from SCOAP3: PDF; Fulltext: PDF; Preprint: PDF; Detailed record - Similar records 2017-04-15 08:30
Multi-loop calculations: numerical methods and applications / Borowka, S. (CERN) ; Heinrich, G. (Munich, Max Planck Inst.) ; Jahn, S. (Munich, Max Planck Inst.) ; Jones, S.P. (Munich, Max Planck Inst.) ; Kerner, M. (Munich, Max Planck Inst.) ; Schlenk, J. (Durham U., IPPP) We briefly review numerical methods for calculations beyond one loop and then describe new developments within the method of sector decomposition in more detail. We also discuss applications to two-loop integrals involving several mass scales.. CERN-TH-2017-051; IPPP-17-28; MPP-2017-62; arXiv:1704.03832.- 2017-11-09 - 10 p. - Published in : J. Phys. : Conf. Ser. 920 (2017) 012003 Fulltext from Publisher: PDF; Preprint: PDF; In : 4th Computational Particle Physics Workshop, Tsukuba, Japan, 8 - 11 Oct 2016, pp.012003 Detailed record - Similar records 2017-04-15 08:30
Anomaly-Free Dark Matter Models are not so Simple / Ellis, John (King's Coll. London ; CERN) ; Fairbairn, Malcolm (King's Coll. London) ; Tunney, Patrick (King's Coll. London) We explore the anomaly-cancellation constraints on simplified dark matter (DM) models with an extra U(1)$^\prime$ gauge boson $Z'$. We show that, if the Standard Model (SM) fermions are supplemented by a single DM fermion $\chi$ that is a singlet of the SM gauge group, and the SM quarks have non-zero U(1)$^\prime$ charges, the SM leptons must also have non-zero U(1)$^\prime$ charges, in which case LHC searches impose strong constraints on the $Z'$ mass. [...] KCL-PH-TH-2017-21; CERN-TH-2017-084; arXiv:1704.03850.- 2017-08-16 - 19 p. - Published in : JHEP 08 (2017) 053 Article from SCOAP3: PDF; Preprint: PDF; Detailed record - Similar records 2017-04-13 08:29
Single top polarisation as a window to new physics / Aguilar-Saavedra, J.A. (Granada U., Theor. Phys. Astrophys.) ; Degrande, C. (CERN) ; Khatibi, S. (IPM, Tehran) We discuss the effect of heavy new physics, parameterised in terms of four-fermion operators, in the polarisation of single top (anti-)quarks in the $t$-channel process at the LHC. It is found that for operators involving a right-handed top quark field the relative effect on the longitudinal polarisation is twice larger than the relative effect on the total cross section. [...] CERN-TH-2017-013; arXiv:1701.05900.- 2017-06-10 - 5 p. - Published in : Phys. Lett. B 769 (2017) 498-502 Article from SCOAP3: PDF; Elsevier Open Access article: PDF; Preprint: PDF; Detailed record - Similar records 2017-04-12 07:18
Colorful Twisted Top Partners and Partnerium at the LHC / Kats, Yevgeny (CERN ; Ben Gurion U. of Negev ; Weizmann Inst.) ; McCullough, Matthew (CERN) ; Perez, Gilad (Weizmann Inst.) ; Soreq, Yotam (MIT, Cambridge, CTP) ; Thaler, Jesse (MIT, Cambridge, CTP) In scenarios that stabilize the electroweak scale, the top quark is typically accompanied by partner particles. In this work, we demonstrate how extended stabilizing symmetries can yield scalar or fermionic top partners that transform as ordinary color triplets but carry exotic electric charges. [...] MIT-CTP-4897; CERN-TH-2017-073; arXiv:1704.03393.- 2017-06-23 - 34 p. - Published in : JHEP 06 (2017) 126 Article from SCOAP3: PDF; Preprint: PDF; Detailed record - Similar records 2017-04-11 08:06
Where is Particle Physics Going? / Ellis, John (King's Coll. London ; CERN) The answer to the question in the title is: in search of new physics beyond the Standard Model, for which there are many motivations, including the likely instability of the electroweak vacuum, dark matter, the origin of matter, the masses of neutrinos, the naturalness of the hierarchy of mass scales, cosmological inflation and the search for quantum gravity. So far, however, there are no clear indications about the theoretical solutions to these problems, nor the experimental strategies to resolve them [...] KCL-PH-TH-2017-18; CERN-TH-2017-080; arXiv:1704.02821.- 2017-12-08 - 21 p. - Published in : Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 32 (2017) 1746001 Preprint: PDF; In : HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study : High Energy Physics, Hong Kong, China, 9 - 26 Jan 2017 Detailed record - Similar records 2017-04-08 07:18 Detailed record - Similar records 2017-04-05 07:33
Radiative symmetry breaking from interacting UV fixed points / Abel, Steven (Durham U., IPPP ; CERN) ; Sannino, Francesco (CERN ; U. Southern Denmark, CP3-Origins ; U. Southern Denmark, Odense, DIAS) It is shown that the addition of positive mass-squared terms to asymptotically safe gauge-Yukawa theories with perturbative UV fixed points leads to calculable radiative symmetry breaking in the IR. This phenomenon, and the multiplicative running of the operators that lies behind it, is akin to the radiative symmetry breaking that occurs in the Supersymmetric Standard Model.. CERN-TH-2017-066; CP3-ORIGINS-2017-011; IPPP-2017-23; arXiv:1704.00700.- 2017-09-28 - 14 p. - Published in : Phys. Rev. D 96 (2017) 056028 Fulltext: PDF; Preprint: PDF; Detailed record - Similar records 2017-03-31 07:54 Detailed record - Similar records 2017-03-31 07:54
Continuum limit and universality of the Columbia plot / de Forcrand, Philippe (ETH, Zurich (main) ; CERN) ; D'Elia, Massimo (INFN, Pisa ; Pisa U.) Results on the thermal transition of QCD with 3 degenerate flavors, in the lower-left corner of the Columbia plot, are puzzling. The transition is expected to be first-order for massless quarks, and to remain so for a range of quark masses until it turns second-order at a critical quark mass. [...] arXiv:1702.00330; CERN-TH-2017-022.- SISSA, 2017-01-30 - 7 p. - Published in : PoS LATTICE2016 (2017) 081 Fulltext: PDF; Preprint: PDF; In : 34th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Southampton, UK, 24 - 30 Jul 2016, pp.081 Detailed record - Similar records
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I am interested in finding pressure of neutron star! So. Please could any tell me how to choose central density for the inner and outer core of neutron Star. What numeric value should me in both core. Also what should be the polytropic index gamma for outer core.
The central density of a neutron star is unknown, but probably lies in the region of $\sim 10^{18}$ kg/m$^3$, depending on the details of the composition, the equation of state and of course the mass of the neutron star.
As an order of magnitude estimate, at these densities, the pressure approaches the maximum for a relativistically degenerate ideal fermion gas of $P \simeq \rho c^2/3 = 3\times10^{34}$ Pa.
By "outer core" I assume you mean the neutron fluid region. Here the density could reach somewhere between $3\times 10^{17}$ and $\sim 10^{18}$ kg/m$^3$ before something may (or may not) cause a phase change (hyperons, quark matter etc.). The pressure at the upper end of this range would approach that which I gave above. A more formal calculation could calculate the equilibrium composition of an n,p,e gas and then use the appropriate formula for an ideal Fermi gas to estimate the total pressure. Such a calculation, at a range of densities, also gives you an estimate of the adiabatic index. I find that the pressure of an ideal n,p,e gas is $7\times 10^{32}$ Pa at $3\times 10^{17}$ kg/m$^3$ (completely dominanted by non-relativistic neutrons), rising to $5\times 10^{33}$ Pa at $10^{18}$ kg/m$^3$. The adiabatic index $\gamma$, (where I define $\gamma$ in terms of $P \propto \rho^{\gamma}$), is approximately 1.6 over this range.
You have to realise though that this is an
unrealistic equation of state at these densities. As the neutrons get closer together ($\leq 10^{-15}$ m) they must interact and this hardens the equation of state such that $\gamma \geq 2$, otherwise neutron stars of mass up to $2M_{\odot}$ couldn't exist! Indeed, one definition of the "inner core" might be where this hardening happens.
A recent paper by Hebeler et al. (2013) includes the following plot (in cgs units) which reviews the many possible equations of state in the density range I have discussed above. For reasons discussed in that paper, the authors favour the AP3 or AP4 equations of state which give higher pressures tan the simple n,p,e approximation. The slope of these graphs gives the the value of $\gamma \simeq 3.3$ for AP3 and AP4 for $\rho > 5 \times 10^{17}$ kg/m$^3$.
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I'm interested in using the horseshoe prior (or the related hierarchical-shrinkage family of priors) for regression coefficients of a traditional multilevel regression (e.g., random slopes/intercepts). Horseshoe priors are similar to lasso and other regularization techniques, but have been found to have better performance in many situations. A regression coefficient $\beta_i$, where $i \in \{1,D\}$ predictors, has a horseshoe prior if its standard deviation is the product of a local $(\lambda_i)$ and global $(\tau)$ scaling parameter. $$\beta_{i} \sim Normal(0,\lambda_{i}) \\\lambda_{i} \sim Cauchy^{+}(0,\tau) \\\tau \sim Cauchy^{+}(0,1)$$
I am uncertain as to the best way to expand this to a random intercept framework. For example, group $j$'s $i$th coefficient is often normally distributed around a group-level mean $(\gamma_i)$ with a group level standard deviation $(\sigma_i)$.
$$\beta_{i,j} \sim Normal(\gamma_{i},\sigma_{i}) \\\gamma_{i} \sim Normal(0,\psi) \\\sigma_{i}\sim Cauchy^{+}(0,c) $$
This tends to shrink estimates of $\beta_{i,j}$ towards $\gamma_i$ based on the average dispersion around the coefficient mean. However, if only a small number of groups are substantially different from the mean, I'm concerned that the predictive or explanatory ability of the model may decrease. If I wanted to add a horseshoe prior to these coefficients, would it be appropriate to give each group's coefficient it's own independent $\lambda$?
$$\beta_{i,j} \sim Normal(\gamma_i,\lambda_{i,j}) \\\gamma_{i} \sim Normal(0,\lambda_{i,0}) \\\lambda_{i,j} \sim Cauchy^{+}(0,\tau) \\\tau \sim Cauchy^{+}(0,1)$$
Would it be better for the $\lambda_{i,j}$'s to have an extra level of hierarchy that controls for dispersion around $\gamma_i$?
$$\beta_{i,j} \sim Normal(\gamma_i,\lambda_{i,j}) \\\gamma_{i} \sim Normal(0,\lambda_{i,0}) \\\lambda_{i,j} \sim Cauchy^{+}(0,\phi_i) \\\lambda_{i,0} \sim Cauchy^{+}(0,\tau) \\\phi_{i} \sim Cauchy^{+}(0,\tau) \\\tau \sim Cauchy^{+}(0,1)$$
I've played around with modeling some of these options in Stan, but I would appreciate thoughts or advice on whether or not these formulations make statistical sense.
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I am trying to prove:
$$\lim _{ x \rightarrow 1 }{ \frac { x^{ 2 }-1 }{ x-1 } } = 2$$
So I began to work on proving it using epsilon-delta:
$$\left| \frac { x^{ 2 }-1 }{ x-1 } -2 \right| <\epsilon \\ -\epsilon <\frac { x^{ 2 }-1 }{ x-1 } -2<\epsilon \\ -\epsilon +2<\frac { x^{ 2 }-1 }{ x-1 } <\epsilon +2$$
And then I'm stuck. I tried reducing the with a conjugate, but that gets me nowhere.
How can I continue with this so as to reach something of this form?
$$|x - 1| <f(\epsilon)$$
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Let $a,b$ be the major and minor axes of the ellipse.
Let $x_0,y_0$ be the coordinates of the center on the ellipse.
Let $x_1,y_1$ be the coordinates of the one point on the ellipse.
First, we write the equation of the ellipse, those major axis is parallel to the $x$ axis of the coordinate system (which is at this point completely arbitrary).
$$\frac{(x-x_0)^2}{a^2}+\frac{(y-y_0)^2}{b^2}=1$$
Now we need the ellipse to go through the point $x_1,y_1$. This requires first that the distance between this point and the center is somewhere between $a$ and $b$:
$$b \leq \sqrt{(x_1-x_0)^2+(y_1-y_0)^2} \leq a$$
If it's indeed true, we need to find the four corresponding points on the ellipse on the same distance from the center.
$$d=\sqrt{(x_1-x_0)^2+(y_1-y_0)^2}$$
One of them is a green point on the picture below:
We need to find the green point. Let's call it $x_2,y_2$. Then we have two equations in two variables:
$$\frac{(x_2-x_0)^2}{a^2}+\frac{(y_2-y_0)^2}{b^2}=1$$
$$(x_2-x_0)^2+(y_2-y_0)^2=(x_1-x_0)^2+(y_1-y_0)^2$$
After you solve this simple system of equations and find $x_2,y_2$, there is one last step left: you need to rotate your ellipse.
First, find the angle between lines going from the center of the ellipse to $x_1,y_1$ and to $x_2,y_2$. You can do it by using vector dot product:
$$\cos \theta=\frac{(x_1-x_0)(x_2-x_0)+(y_1-y_0)(y_2-y_0)}{\sqrt{(x_1-x_0)^2+(y_1-y_0)^2}\sqrt{(x_2-x_0)^2+(y_2-y_0)^2}}$$
The rotated coordinates can be then found from the following system of equations:
$$x=X \cos \theta-Y \sin \theta \\ y=X \sin \theta+ Y \cos \theta$$
Note, that I inverted the problem - as if the ellipse is already rotated counter-clockwise, and we want to rotate it back. Meaning, we just substitute these formulas in the original equation:
$$\frac{(X \cos \theta-Y \sin \theta-x_0)^2}{a^2}+\frac{(X \sin \theta+ Y \cos \theta-y_0)^2}{b^2}=1$$
And here is the equation for your ellipse. You still need to find $x_2,y_2$ and $\cos \theta$ - I leave it to you.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation_matrix for more about rotation.
Note, that there is four possible green points you can choose, so there is four different equations you might need to check, not two.
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A very partial answer :
$$\left(\frac{\partial T}{\partial t}\right)^2 - \frac{1}{t^2}\left(\frac{\partial T}{\partial r}\right)^2 = 1 \qquad\qquad [1]$$
Change of function : $\qquad \cosh\left(f(r,t)\right) =\frac{\partial T}{\partial t} \qquad\implies\qquad t\:\sinh\left(f(r,t) \right)=\frac{\partial T}{\partial r}$
$$\frac{\partial^2 T}{\partial r \partial t }=\sinh\left(f\right)\frac{\partial f}{\partial r}=t\:\cosh\left(f\right)\frac{\partial f}{\partial t}+\sinh\left(f\right)$$$$\sinh\left(f\right)\frac{\partial f}{\partial r}-t\:\cosh\left(f\right)\frac{\partial f}{\partial t}=\sinh\left(f\right)\qquad\qquad [2]$$Solving with the method of characteristics. The set of differential equations is :$$\frac{dr}{\sinh\left(f\right)}=-\frac{dt}{t\cosh\left(f\right)}=\frac{df}{\sinh\left(f\right)}$$From $\frac{dr}{\sinh\left(f\right)}=\frac{df}{\sinh\left(f\right)}$ a first equation of characteristic curve is : $\quad \frac{f(r,t)}{r}=c_1$
From $ -\frac{dt}{t\cosh\left(f\right)}=\frac{df}{\sinh\left(f\right)}$ a second equation of characteristic curve is : $t\:\sinh\left(f(r,t)\right)=c_2$
The general solution of the PDE $[2]$ , expressed on implicit form, is :$$\Phi\left(\frac{f}{r} \: ,\: t\:\sinh\left(f\right)\right)=0$$where $\phi$ is any differentiable function of two variables.
Unfortunately, in the general case, this implicit equation cannot be solved for $f$ in order to express $f(r,t)$ on explicit form.
Supposing that we chose some particular function $\Phi$ which could be solved for $f$, this particular functions $f(r,t)$ would be convenient.Then $T(r,t)$ could be obtained by integration :$$T(r,t)=\int \cosh\left(f(r,t)\right)dt \:\:=\:\: t\:\int \sinh\left(f(r,t)\right)dr $$
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Status of the NA62 liquid krypton electromagnetic calorimeter Level 0 trigger processor / Bonaiuto, V (IAS, Rome ; Rome U.,Tor Vergata) ; Federici, L (IAS, Rome ; Rome U.,Tor Vergata) ; Fucci, A (INFN, Rome2) ; Paoluzzi, G (INFN, Rome2) ; Salamon, A (INFN, Rome2) ; Salina, G (INFN, Rome2) ; Santovetti, E (Rome U.,Tor Vergata) ; Sargeni, F (IAS, Rome ; Rome U.,Tor Vergata) ; Venditti, S (CERN) The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS aims to measure the Branching Ratio of the very rare kaon decay K(+)→π(+)νbar nu collecting O(100) events with a 10% background in two years of data taking. To reject the K(+)→π(+)π(0) background the NA48 liquid krypton calorimeter will be used in the 1-10 mrad angular region. [...] 2013 - Published in : JINST 8 (2013) C02054 IOP Open Access article: PDF; In : Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics, Oxford, UK, 17 - 21 Sep 2012, pp.C02054 Detailed record - Similar records 2013-02-06 09:29 Detailed record - Similar records 2012-08-29 10:54 Detailed record - Similar records 2012-06-14 14:55 Detailed record - Similar records 2012-05-31 17:38
The NA62 Liquid Krypton calorimeter readout module / Ceccucci, A (CERN) ; Fantechi, R (CERN ; INFN, Pisa) ; Farthouat, P (CERN) ; Lamanna, G (CERN) ; Ryjov, V (CERN) The NA62 experiment [1] at CERN SPS (Super Proton Synchrotron) accelerator will be focused on precision tests of the Standard Model via studies of ultra-rare decays of charged kaons. The high resolution Liquid Krypton (LKr) calorimeter of the former NA48 experiment [2], together with other detectors, will provide a photon-veto with hermetic coverage from zero out to large angles from the decay region. [...] 2011 - Published in : JINST 6 (2011) C12017 IOP Open Access article: PDF; In : Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics, Vienna, Austria, 26 - 30 Sep 2011, pp.C12017 Detailed record - Similar records 2012-01-25 12:13
A silicon pixel readout ASIC with 100-ps time resolution for the NA62 experiment / Dellacasa, G (INFN, Turin) ; Garbolino, S (INFN, Turin ; Turin U.) ; Marchetto, F (INFN, Turin) ; Martoiu, S (INFN, Turin) ; Mazza, G (INFN, Turin) ; Rivetti, A (INFN, Turin) ; Wheadon, R (INFN, Turin) 2011 - Published in : JINST 6 (2011) C01087 In : Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics 2010, Aachen, Germany, 20 - 24 Sep 2010, pp.C01087 Detailed record - Similar records 2011-11-28 16:10
The NA62 LAV front-end electronics / Antonelli, A. (Frascati) ; Corradi, G. (Frascati) ; Moulson, M. (Frascati) ; Paglia, C. (Frascati) ; Raggi, M. (Frascati) ; Spadaro, T. (Frascati) ; Tagnani, D. (Frascati) ; Ambrosino, F. (Naples U.) ; Di Filippo, D. (Naples U.) ; Massarotti, P. (Naples U.) et al. The branching ratio for the decay $K^+ \to \pi^+\nu\bar{\nu}$ is sensitive to new physics; the NA62 experiment will measure it to within about 10%. To reject the dominant background from channels with final state photons, the large-angle vetoes (LAVs) must detect particles with better than 1 ns time resolution and 10% energy resolution over a very large energy range. [...] arXiv:1111.5768.- 2012 - 8 p. - Published in : JINST 7 (2012) C01097 Preprint: PDF; External link: Preprint In : Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics, Vienna, Austria, 26 - 30 Sep 2011, pp.C01097 Detailed record - Similar records 2011-11-21 10:50
Characterisation of the NA62 GigaTracker end of column readout ASIC / Noy, M (CERN) ; Fiorini, M (CERN) ; Perktold, L (CERN) ; Rinella, G A (CERN) ; Riedler, P (CERN) ; Morel, M (CERN) ; Kluge, A (CERN) ; Kaplon, J (CERN) ; Martin, E (Cathol. U. Louvain (main)) ; Jarron, P (CERN) The architecture and characterisation of the End Of Column demonstrator readout ASIC for the NA62 GigaTracker hybrid pixel detector is presented. This ASIC serves as a proof of principle for a pixel chip with 1800 pixels which must perform time stamping to better than 200 ps (RMS), provide 300 mu m pitch position information and operate with a dead-time of 1\% or less for 800 MHz-1 GHz beam rate. [...] 2011 - Published in : JINST 6 (2011) C01086 IOP Open Access article: PDF; In : Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics 2010, Aachen, Germany, 20 - 24 Sep 2010, pp.C01086 Detailed record - Similar records 2011-10-20 16:22
Integrating Controls Frameworks: Control Systems for NA62 LAV Detector Test Beams / Holme, Oliver (CERN ; Zurich, ETH) ; Arroyo Garcia, Jonas (CERN) ; Golonka, Piotr (CERN) ; Gonzalez-Berges, Manuel (CERN) ; Milcent, Hervé (CERN) The detector control system for the NA62 experiment at CERN, to be ready for physics data-taking in 2014, is going to be built based on control technologies recommended by the CERN Engineering group. A rich portfolio of the technologies is planned to be showcased and deployed in the final application, and synergy between them is needed. [...] CERN-OPEN-2011-043.- Geneva : CERN, 2011 - 4 p. - Published in : Conf. Proc.: C111010 (2011) , pp. MOPMN020 Fulltext: PDF; External link: Published version from JaCoW In : 13th International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems, Grenoble, France, 10 - 14 Oct 2011, pp.285-288 Detailed record - Similar records 2011-05-23 17:30 Detailed record - Similar records
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Inclusive J/ψ production has been studied with the ALICE detector in p-Pb collisions at the nucleon–nucleon center of mass energy √sNN = 5.02TeV at the CERN LHC. The measurement is performed in the center of mass rapidity ...
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The ALICE Collaboration has studied the inclusive production of the charmonium state ψ(2S) in proton-lead (p-Pb) collisions at the nucleon-nucleon centre of mass energy √sNN = 5.02TeV at the CERN LHC. The measurement was ...
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The inclusive J/$\psi$ nuclear modification factor ($R_{AA}$) in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=2.76TeV has been measured by ALICE as a function of centrality in the $e^+e^-$ decay channel at mid-rapidity |y| < 0.8 ...
Multiplicity Dependence of Pion, Kaon, Proton and Lambda Production in p-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV
(Elsevier, 2014-01)
In this Letter, comprehensive results on $\pi^{\pm}, K^{\pm}, K^0_S$, $p(\bar{p})$ and $\Lambda (\bar{\Lambda})$ production at mid-rapidity (0 < $y_{CMS}$ < 0.5) in p-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV, measured ...
Multi-strange baryon production at mid-rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV
(Elsevier, 2014-01)
The production of ${\rm\Xi}^-$ and ${\rm\Omega}^-$ baryons and their anti-particles in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV has been measured using the ALICE detector. The transverse momentum spectra at ...
Measurement of charged jet suppression in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV
(Springer, 2014-03)
A measurement of the transverse momentum spectra of jets in Pb–Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76TeV is reported. Jets are reconstructed from charged particles using the anti-kT jet algorithm with jet resolution parameters R ...
Two- and three-pion quantum statistics correlations in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
(American Physical Society, 2014-02-26)
Correlations induced by quantum statistics are sensitive to the spatiotemporal extent as well as dynamics of particle-emitting sources in heavy-ion collisions. In addition, such correlations can be used to search for the ...
Exclusive J /ψ photoproduction off protons in ultraperipheral p-Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02TeV
(American Physical Society, 2014-12-05)
We present the first measurement at the LHC of exclusive J/ψ photoproduction off protons, in ultraperipheral proton-lead collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV. Events are selected with a dimuon pair produced either in the rapidity ...
Measurement of quarkonium production at forward rapidity in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV
(Springer, 2014-08)
The inclusive production cross sections at forward rapidity of J/ψ , ψ(2S) , Υ (1S) and Υ (2S) are measured in pp collisions at s√=7 TeV with the ALICE detector at the LHC. The analysis is based on a data sample corresponding ...
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OpenCV 3.1.0
Open Source Computer Vision
Here, the matter is straight forward. If pixel value is greater than a threshold value, it is assigned one value (may be white), else it is assigned another value (may be black). The function used is
cv2.threshold. First argument is the source image, which should be a grayscale image. Second argument is the threshold value which is used to classify the pixel values. Third argument is the maxVal which represents the value to be given if pixel value is more than (sometimes less than) the threshold value. OpenCV provides different styles of thresholding and it is decided by the fourth parameter of the function. Different types are:
Documentation clearly explain what each type is meant for. Please check out the documentation.
Two outputs are obtained. First one is a
retval which will be explained later. Second output is our thresholded image.
Code :
Result is given below :
In the previous section, we used a global value as threshold value. But it may not be good in all the conditions where image has different lighting conditions in different areas. In that case, we go for adaptive thresholding. In this, the algorithm calculate the threshold for a small regions of the image. So we get different thresholds for different regions of the same image and it gives us better results for images with varying illumination.
It has three ‘special’ input params and only one output argument.
Adaptive Method - It decides how thresholding value is calculated. Block Size - It decides the size of neighbourhood area. C - It is just a constant which is subtracted from the mean or weighted mean calculated.
Below piece of code compares global thresholding and adaptive thresholding for an image with varying illumination:
Result :
In the first section, I told you there is a second parameter
retVal. Its use comes when we go for Otsu’s Binarization. So what is it?
In global thresholding, we used an arbitrary value for threshold value, right? So, how can we know a value we selected is good or not? Answer is, trial and error method. But consider a
bimodal image ( In simple words, bimodal image is an image whose histogram has two peaks). For that image, we can approximately take a value in the middle of those peaks as threshold value, right ? That is what Otsu binarization does. So in simple words, it automatically calculates a threshold value from image histogram for a bimodal image. (For images which are not bimodal, binarization won’t be accurate.)
For this, our cv2.threshold() function is used, but pass an extra flag, cv2.THRESH_OTSU.
For threshold value, simply pass zero. Then the algorithm finds the optimal threshold value and returns you as the second output, retVal. If Otsu thresholding is not used, retVal is same as the threshold value you used.
Check out below example. Input image is a noisy image. In first case, I applied global thresholding for a value of 127. In second case, I applied Otsu’s thresholding directly. In third case, I filtered image with a 5x5 gaussian kernel to remove the noise, then applied Otsu thresholding. See how noise filtering improves the result.
Result :
This section demonstrates a Python implementation of Otsu's binarization to show how it works actually. If you are not interested, you can skip this.
Since we are working with bimodal images, Otsu's algorithm tries to find a threshold value (t) which minimizes the
weighted within-class variance given by the relation :
\[\sigma_w^2(t) = q_1(t)\sigma_1^2(t)+q_2(t)\sigma_2^2(t)\]
where
\[q_1(t) = \sum_{i=1}^{t} P(i) \quad \& \quad q_1(t) = \sum_{i=t+1}^{I} P(i)\]
\[\mu_1(t) = \sum_{i=1}^{t} \frac{iP(i)}{q_1(t)} \quad \& \quad \mu_2(t) = \sum_{i=t+1}^{I} \frac{iP(i)}{q_2(t)}\]
\[\sigma_1^2(t) = \sum_{i=1}^{t} [i-\mu_1(t)]^2 \frac{P(i)}{q_1(t)} \quad \& \quad \sigma_2^2(t) = \sum_{i=t+1}^{I} [i-\mu_1(t)]^2 \frac{P(i)}{q_2(t)}\]
It actually finds a value of t which lies in between two peaks such that variances to both classes are minimum. It can be simply implemented in Python as follows:
*(Some of the functions may be new here, but we will cover them in coming chapters)*
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Definition
Let $S$ be a set.
The
restriction of the epsilon relation on $S$ is defined as the endorelation $\Epsilon {\restriction_S} = \left({S, S, \in_S}\right)$, where: $\in_S \; := \left\{{\left({x, y}\right) \in S \times S: x \in y}\right\}$
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Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology | Cronbach's $ \alpha $ (alpha) is a statistic. It has an important use as a measure of the reliability of a psychometric instrument. It was first named as alpha by Cronbach (1951), as he had intended to continue with further instruments. It is the extension of an earlier version, the Kuder-Richardson Formula 20 (often shortened to KR-20), which is the equivalent for dichotomous items, and Guttman (1945) developed the same quantity under the name lambda-2. Cronbach's $ \alpha $ is a coefficient of consistency and measures how well a set of variables or items measures a single, unidimensional latent construct. DefinitionEdit
Cronbach's $ \alpha $ is defined as
$ \alpha = { { {N} \over{N-1} } \left(1 - {{\sum_{i=1}^N \sigma^{2}_{Y_i}}\over{\sigma^{2}_{X}}}\right) } $
where $ N $ is the number of components (items or testlets), $ \sigma^{2}_{X} $ is the variance of the observed total test scores, and $ \sigma^{2}_{Y_i} $ is the variance of component
i.
Alternatively, the standardized Cronbach's $ \alpha $ can also be defined as
$ \alpha = {N\cdot\bar c \over (\bar v + (N-1)\cdot\bar c)} $
where N is the number of components (items or testlets), $ \bar v $ equals the average variance and $ \bar c $ is the average of all covariances between the components.
Cronbach's alpha and internal consistencyEdit
Cronbach's alpha will generally increase when the correlations between the items increase. For this reason the coefficient is also called the internal consistency or the
internal consistency reliability of the test. Cronbach's alpha in classical test theoryEdit
Alpha is an unbiased estimator of reliability if and only if the components are essentially $ \tau $-equivalent (Lord & Novick, 1968
[1]). Under this condition the components can have different means and different variances, but their covariances should all be equal - which implies that they have 1 common factor in a factor analysis. One special case of essential $ \tau $-equivalence is that the components are parallel. Although the assumption of essential $ \tau $-equivalence may sometimes be met (at least approximately) by testlets, when applied to items it is probably never true. This is caused by the facts that (1) most test developers invariably include items with a range of difficulties (or stimuli that vary in their standing on the latent trait, in the case of personality, attitude or other non-cognitive instruments), and (2) the item scores are usually bounded from above and below. These circumstances make it unlikely that the items have a linear regression on a common factor. A factor analysis may then produce artificial factors that are related to the differential skewnesses of the components. When the assumption of essential $ \tau $-equivalence of the components is violated, alpha is not an unbiased estimator of reliability. Instead, it is a lower bound on reliability.
$ \alpha $ can take values between negative infinity and 1 (although only positive values make sense). Some professionals, as a rule of thumb, require a reliability of 0.70 or higher (obtained on a substantial sample) before they will use an instrument. Obviously, this rule should be applied with caution when $ \alpha $ has been computed from items that systematically violate its assumptions. Further, the appropriate degree of reliability depends upon the use of the instrument, e.g., an instrument designed to be used as part of a battery may be intentionally designed to be as short as possible (and thus somewhat less reliable). Other situations may require extremely precise measures (with very high reliabilities).
Cronbach's $ \alpha $ is related conceptually to the Spearman-Brown prediction formula. Both arise from the basic classical test theory result that the reliability of test scores can be expressed as the ratio of the true score and total score (error and true score) variances:
$ \rho_{XX}= { {\sigma^2_T}\over{\sigma_X^2} } $
Alpha is most appropriately used when the items measure different substantive areas within a single construct. Conversely, alpha (and other internal consistency estimates of reliability) are inappropriate for estimating the reliability of an intentionally heterogeneous instrument (such as screening devices like biodata or the original MMPI). Also, $ \alpha $ can be artificially inflated by making scales which consist of superficial changes to the wording within a set of items or by analyzing speeded tests.
Cronbach's alpha in generalizability theoryEdit
Cronbach and others generalized some basic assumptions of classical test theory in their generalizability theory. If this theory is applied to test construction, then it is assumed that the items that constitute the test are a random sample from a larger universe of items. The expected score of a person in the universe is called the universum score, analogous to a true score. The generalizability is defined analogously as the variance of the universum scores divided by the variance of the observable scores, analogous to the concept of reliability in classical test theory. In this theory, Cronbach's alpha is an unbiased estimate of the generalizability. For this to be true the assumptions of essential $ \tau $-equivalence or parallelness are not needed. Consequently, Cronbach's alpha can be viewed as a measure of how well the sum score on the selected items capture the expected score in the entire domain, even if that domain is heterogeneous.
Cronbach's alpha and the intra-class correlationEdit
Cronbach's alpha is equal to the stepped-up consistency version of the Intra-class correlation coefficient, which is commonly used in observational studies. This can be viewed as another application of generalizability theory, where the items are replaced by raters or observers who are randomly drawn from a population. Cronbach's alpha will then estimate how strongly the score obtained from the actual panel of raters correlates with the score that would have been obtained by another random sample of raters.
Cronbach's alpha and factor analysisEdit
As stated in the section about its relation with classical test theory, Cronbach's alpha has a theoretical relation with factor analysis. There is also a more empirical relation: Selecting items such that they optimize Cronbach's alpha will often result in a test that is homogeneous in that they (very roughly) approximately satisfy a factor analysis with one common factor. The reason for this is that Cronbach's alpha increases with the average correlation between item, so optimization of it tends to select items that have correlations of similar size with most other items.It should be stressed that, although unidimensionality (i.e. fit to the one-factor model) is a necessary condition for alpha to be an unbiased estimator of reliability, the value of alpha is not related to the factorial homogeneity. The reason is that the value of alpha depends on the
size of the average inter-item covariance, while unidimensionality depends on the pattern of the inter-item covariances. Cronbach's alpha and other disciplinesEdit
Although this description of the use of $ \alpha $ is given in terms of psychology, the statistic can be used in any discipline.
Construct creationEdit
Coding two (or more) different variables with a high Cronbach's alpha into a construct for regression use is simple. Dividing the used variables by their means or averages results in a percentage value for the respective case. After all variables have been re-calculated in percentage terms, they can easily be summed to create the new construct.
ReferencesEdit ↑ Lord, F. M. & Novick, M. R. (1968). Statistical theories of mental test scores. Reading MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. Cronbach, L. J. (1951). Coefficient alpha and the internal structure of tests. Psychometrika, 16(3), 297-334. Allen, M.J., & Yen, W. M. (2002). Introduction to Measurement Theory.Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press. See also Edit
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Hello one and all! Is anyone here familiar with planar prolate spheroidal coordinates? I am reading a book on dynamics and the author states If we introduce planar prolate spheroidal coordinates $(R, \sigma)$ based on the distance parameter $b$, then, in terms of the Cartesian coordinates $(x, z)$ and also of the plane polars $(r , \theta)$, we have the defining relations $$r\sin \theta=x=\pm R^2−b^2 \sin\sigma, r\cos\theta=z=R\cos\sigma$$ I am having a tough time visualising what this is?
Consider the function $f(z) = Sin\left(\frac{1}{cos(1/z)}\right)$, the point $z = 0$a removale singularitya polean essesntial singularitya non isolated singularitySince $Cos(\frac{1}{z})$ = $1- \frac{1}{2z^2}+\frac{1}{4!z^4} - ..........$$$ = (1-y), where\ \ y=\frac{1}{2z^2}+\frac{1}{4!...
I am having trouble understanding non-isolated singularity points. An isolated singularity point I do kind of understand, it is when: a point $z_0$ is said to be isolated if $z_0$ is a singular point and has a neighborhood throughout which $f$ is analytic except at $z_0$. For example, why would $...
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The absolute value of a complex number $z=x+iy$ is defined as $\sqrt{x^2+y^2}$. Hence, when evaluating the absolute value of $x+i$ I get the number $\sqrt{x^2 +1}$; but the answer to the problem says it's actually just $x^2 +1$. Why?
mmh, I probably should ask this on the forum. The full problem asks me to show that we can choose $log(x+i)$ to be $$log(x+i)=log(1+x^2)+i(\frac{pi}{2} - arctanx)$$ So I'm trying to find the polar coordinates (absolute value and an argument $\theta$) of $x+i$ to then apply the $log$ function on it
Let $X$ be any nonempty set and $\sim$ be any equivalence relation on $X$. Then are the following true:
(1) If $x=y$ then $x\sim y$.
(2) If $x=y$ then $y\sim x$.
(3) If $x=y$ and $y=z$ then $x\sim z$.
Basically, I think that all the three properties follows if we can prove (1) because if $x=y$ then since $y=x$, by (1) we would have $y\sim x$ proving (2). (3) will follow similarly.
This question arised from an attempt to characterize equality on a set $X$ as the intersection of all equivalence relations on $X$.
I don't know whether this question is too much trivial. But I have yet not seen any formal proof of the following statement : "Let $X$ be any nonempty set and $∼$ be any equivalence relation on $X$. If $x=y$ then $x\sim y$."
That is definitely a new person, not going to classify as RHV yet as other users have already put the situation under control it seems...
(comment on many many posts above)
In other news:
> C -2.5353672500000002 -1.9143250000000003 -0.5807385400000000 C -3.4331741299999998 -1.3244286800000000 -1.4594762299999999 C -3.6485676800000002 0.0734728100000000 -1.4738058999999999 C -2.9689624299999999 0.9078326800000001 -0.5942069900000000 C -2.0858929200000000 0.3286240400000000 0.3378783500000000 C -1.8445799400000003 -1.0963522200000000 0.3417561400000000 C -0.8438543100000000 -1.3752198200000001 1.3561451400000000 C -0.5670178500000000 -0.1418068400000000 2.0628359299999999
probably the weirdness bunch of data I ever seen with so many 000000 and 999999s
But I think that to prove the implication for transitivity the inference rule an use of MP seems to be necessary. But that would mean that for logics for which MP fails we wouldn't be able to prove the result. Also in set theories without Axiom of Extensionality the desired result will not hold. Am I right @AlessandroCodenotti?
@AlessandroCodenotti A precise formulation would help in this case because I am trying to understand whether a proof of the statement which I mentioned at the outset depends really on the equality axioms or the FOL axioms (without equality axioms).
This would allow in some cases to define an "equality like" relation for set theories for which we don't have the Axiom of Extensionality.
Can someone give an intuitive explanation why $\mathcal{O}(x^2)-\mathcal{O}(x^2)=\mathcal{O}(x^2)$. The context is Taylor polynomials, so when $x\to 0$. I've seen a proof of this, but intuitively I don't understand it.
@schn: The minus is irrelevant (for example, the thing you are subtracting could be negative). When you add two things that are of the order of $x^2$, of course the sum is the same (or possibly smaller). For example, $3x^2-x^2=2x^2$. You could have $x^2+(x^3-x^2)=x^3$, which is still $\mathscr O(x^2)$.
@GFauxPas: You only know $|f(x)|\le K_1 x^2$ and $|g(x)|\le K_2 x^2$, so that won't be a valid proof, of course.
Let $f(z)=z^{n}+a_{n-1}z^{n-1}+\cdot\cdot\cdot+a_{0}$ be a complex polynomial such that $|f(z)|\leq 1$ for $|z|\leq 1.$ I have to prove that $f(z)=z^{n}.$I tried it asAs $|f(z)|\leq 1$ for $|z|\leq 1$ we must have coefficient $a_{0},a_{1}\cdot\cdot\cdot a_{n}$ to be zero because by triangul...
@GFauxPas @TedShifrin Thanks for the replies. Now, why is it we're only interested when $x\to 0$? When we do a taylor approximation cantered at x=0, aren't we interested in all the values of our approximation, even those not near 0?
Indeed, one thing a lot of texts don't emphasize is this: if $P$ is a polynomial of degree $\le n$ and $f(x)-P(x)=\mathscr O(x^{n+1})$, then $P$ is the (unique) Taylor polynomial of degree $n$ of $f$ at $0$.
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In this answer the following lemma is proved:
Lemma
Let $X$ be a Hausdorff space and $C \subset X$ have a compact
neighbourhood $K$. Then $C$ is a component of $X$ if and only if
$C$ is a component of $K$
Also:
Let $X$ be a compact Hausdorff space, $Y$ an open subspace and $Z$ a closed
subspace.
Let $C$ be a connected subset of $Y \cap Z$ such that $C$ is a component
of $Y$ and a component of $Z$. Then $C$ is a component of $Y\cup Z$.
which can be simplified to (as per the remark by Hamcke on that answer): if $X$ is a compact normal space and $Y$ is an open subset of $X$, then a compact connected component of $Y$ is also a connected component for $X$.
This applies directly to your question: your $X$ is compact and normal (follows from compact plus Hausdorff) and $Y = X \setminus \{x\}$ is open, and if $C$ were a compact component of $Y$ it would be one for $X$ but this cannot be, as the only connected component for $X$ is $X$ itself.
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Let $B = \left\{ A \cup \mathbb{N}_\text{even} : A\subseteq \mathbb{N}_\text{odd} \right\}$
I need to show $\left|B\right| = \mathfrak{c}$
by using an equivalence function (bijection) to another set with the same cardinality.
Any idea? Thanks.
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Let $B = \left\{ A \cup \mathbb{N}_\text{even} : A\subseteq \mathbb{N}_\text{odd} \right\}$
I need to show $\left|B\right| = \mathfrak{c}$
by using an equivalence function (bijection) to another set with the same cardinality.
Any idea? Thanks.
HINT: Note that there is a bijection between $B$ and $\mathcal P(\Bbb N_{\rm odd})$.
Let $\lambda: 2^{\mathbb{N}} \to B$ be defined by $\lambda(X) = (2X+\{1\}) \cup 2 \mathbb{N}$. It is fairly straightforward to show that this is a bijection, let $\phi_1 = \lambda^{-1}$.
Now let $\Omega = \{ X \subset \mathbb{N} | \exists n_0 \text{ such that } \forall n \ge n_0, \ n \in X \} \cup \{ \emptyset \}$. Note that $\Omega$ is countable, let $\omega_k$ be an enumeration.
It is straightforward to check that $\phi_3:2^{\mathbb{N}} \setminus \Omega \to (0,1)$ defined by $\phi_3(X) = \sum_{k \in X} {1 \over 2^k}$is a bijection.
Now define the bijection $\phi_2: 2^{\mathbb{N}} \to 2^{\mathbb{N}} \setminus \Omega $ as follows: $\phi_2(X) = \begin{cases} \{ 2n-1 \}, & X=\{n\} \\ \{2 n \}, & X = \{\omega_n\} \\ X, & \text{otherwise} \end{cases}$.
The map $\phi_4: (0,1) \to \mathbb{R}$ given by $\phi_4(x) = \tan ((2x-1){ \pi \over 2} )$ is also a bijection.
Hence we have a bijection $\eta: B \to \mathbb{R}$ given by $\eta = \phi_4 \circ\phi_3 \circ \phi_2 \circ \phi_1$.
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In this article I’m about to present the process of decoding previously recorded FSK transmission with the use of Python, NumPy and SciPy.
The data was gathered using SDR# software and it is stored as a wave file that contains all the IQ baseband data @ 2.4Msps
The complete source code for this project is available here: https://github.com/MightyDevices/python-fsk-decoder
Step 0: Load the data
The data provided is in form of a ‘stereo’ wave file where the left channel contains the In-Phase data and the right one has the Quadrature data. The wave file is using 16-bit PCM samples. For the sake of further processing let’s convert the data into the list of complex number in form: \[z[n] = in\_phase[n] + j * quadrature[n]\]
If we don’t wan’t to deal with large numbers along the way it it also wise to scale things down to \((-1, 1)\) according to how many bits per sample are there.
import numpy as npimport scipy.signal as sigimport scipy.io.wavfile as wfimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt# read the wave filefs, rf = wf.read('data.wav')# get the scale factor according to the data typesf = { np.dtype('int16'): 2**15, np.dtype('int32'): 2**32,}[rf.dtype]# convert to complex number c = in_phase + j*quadrature and scale so that we are# in (-1 , 1) rangerf = (rf[:, 0] + 1j * rf[:, 1]) / sf
Step 1: Center The data around the DC
First of all we need to tune the system so that it receives only what will become the subject of further analysis. Initial data spectrum looks like this:
In order to move the signal of interest to the DC we use the concept of
mixing which is no more no less than multiplying by a sine and cosine that are tuned to the offset frequency. Thank’s to the magic of complex numbers we can combine the whole sine/cosine gig into single operation using the equation \[e^{i\theta}=cos(\theta) + isin(\theta)\] If we want to generate appropriate sine and cosine functions that represent 360kHz oscillations in 2.4Msps system then the \(\theta\) has to be as follows: \[\theta(n)=n*2\pi*\frac{360kHz}{2.4MHz}\] where \(n\) is the sample number, ranging from 0 to the number of samples within the input data.
# offset frequency in Hz (read from the previous plot)offset_frequency = 366.8e3# baseband local oscillatorbb_lo = np.exp(1j * (2 * np.pi * (-offset_frequency / fs) * np.arange(0, len(rf))))# complex-mix to bring the rf signal to baseband (so that is centered around# something around 0Hz. doesn't have to be perfect.bb = rf * bb_lo
This is what we end up with. All is shifted, including that naaasty DC spike.
Step 2: Remove unwanted data in the frequency domain
It’s easy to see that the signal of interest occupies only a small part of the band so the obvious next step will be to limit the sampling rate. The process is called
Decimation and must be accompanied by proper filtering. Without filtering all the out-of-band data would simply alias into the band of interest. Let’s design appropriate filter, apply it and decimate (remove all samples except every n-th)
In this example I’ve decimated by
4 even though one could go as high as 8, but the remaining samples will come in handy when we reach the point of symbol synchronization.
# limit the sampling rate using decimation, let's use the decimation by 4bb_dec_factor = 4# get the resulting baseband sampling frequencybb_fs = fs // bb_dec_factor# let's prepare the low pass decimation filter that will have a cutoff at the# half of the bandwidth after the decimationdec_lp_filter = sig.butter(3, 1 / (bb_dec_factor * 2))# filter the signalbb = sig.filtfilt(*dec_lp_filter, bb)# decimatebb = bb[::bb_dec_factor]
Step 3: Remove unwanted data in time domain
The overall length of the recording is much-much longer than the transmission itself. It would be wise to get rid of the moments of “radio silence” so that we can focus solely on what’s meaningful. Needless to say the computation performance will also benefit greatly from that.
The easiest way around that is to select the signal that is above certain magnitude threshold.
Here’s the selection code. I’ve selected samples spanning from the 1st one that exceeded 0.01 level to the last one. This is to avoid any potential discontinuities that may occur for when signal strength drops for couple of samples.
# using the signal magnitude let's determine when the actual transmission took# placebb_mag = np.abs(bb)# mag threshold level (as read from the chart above)bb_mag_thrs = 0.01# indices with magnitude higher than thresholdbb_indices = np.nonzero(bb_mag > bb_mag_thrs)[0]# limit the signalbb = bb[np.min(bb_indices) : np.max(bb_indices)]
Step 4: Demodulation
Now it’s the perfect time to do the demodulation. The transmitter uses
FSK which is basically a form of digitally controlled Frequency Modulation where ones and zeros are transmitted as tones below and above the center frequency. If you take a look at the baseband spectrum from Step 2 you will clearly notice two peaks in the spectrum that are the result of transmitter sending consecutive zeros and ones.
In order to know whether a zero or one is being transmitted at the moment we need to know the instantaneous frequency. Since we are dealing with complex numbers this is actually easier to accomplish than one may think. During the transmission the consecutive samples form a circle when plotted on a complex plane:
In order to determine the current frequency value one needs simply to calculate the rate at which the samples rotate around the circle, meaning that we need to know the
angle between consecutive samples. Calculating the angle between two complex numbers is quite easy: \[angle=arg(z_{n-1}*\bar{z_{n}})\] where \( \bar{z_{n}} \) denotes the complex conjugate of the n-th sample. Here’s the code for the demodulation:
# demodulate the fm transmission using the difference between two complex number# arguments. multiplying the consecutive complex numbers with their respective# conjugate gives a number who's angle is the angle difference of the numbers# being multipliedbb_angle_diff = np.angle(bb[:-1] * np.conj(bb[1:]))# mean output will tell us about the frequency offset in radians per sample# time. If the mean is not zero that means that we have some offset. lets' get# rid of itdem = bb_angle_diff - np.mean(bb_angle_diff)
Second part of the snippet above helps to remove any frequency offset that may come from us not being able to provide the exact value for the frequency shift in Step 1. This operation ensures that both zeros and ones are now evenly spaced around the center frequency. And finally here’s the result of the demodulation:
Step 5: Guess the data rate.
This is as easy as looking at the spectral plot of the demodulated data. Since we are dealing with binary data transmission it should have a spectrum with shape similar to \(H(f) = \frac{\sin(f)}{f}\) Such spectra have nulls (zeros in magnitude-scale or dips in decibel-scale) at the exact multiplies of the bit frequency a.k.a
bitrate.
From the shape of the spectrum we can make a initial guess about the bit rate to be
100kbit/s Step 6: Symbol synchronization – data recovery
With all the information gathered we can now proceed with data sampling. In order to determine the correct sampling time a symbol synchronization scheme must be employed.
Such schemes (or algorithms if you like) are often build around controllable clocks (oscillators) that provide the correct timing for the sampler. The clock ‘tick’ rate is controlled by an error term derived from the algorithm. In this article I’ll discuss the simplest method: Early-Late
Imagine that you were to sample data three times per symbol, taking the middle sample as the final symbol value. You can imagine that the best moment to sample a bit is right in the middle. That means that samples before and after the middle sample should have similar values:
If the sampling time is not aligned with the incoming stream of bits then the first and last sample are no longer similar in value. If you subtract the value of the last sample from the value of the first you’ll get the positive values when you are sampling too early (the sampling clock needs to be slowed down) and negative when sampling is late (the sampling clock needs to be sped up) with respect to incoming data. The result of the subtraction is nothing else than the error term itself.
In order to support sign change (applying the process for the negative data from the demodulator) we additionally scale the output by the middle sample value. The whole error term is then fed to the sampling clock generator implemented as the Numerically Controlled Oscillator. This oscillator is nothing more than accumulator (
phase accumulator, to be exact) to which we add a number ( frequency word) once per every iteration of the algorithm and wait for it to reach a certain level (1.0 in my code). If the value is reached then we sample. Simple as that. Frequency word (the pace at which the sampling clock is running) is constantly adjusted by the error term from above, so that the clock will eventually synchronize to the data.
Following code implements the early-late synchronizer. Keep in mind that I’ve intentionally negated the error value so that I can add it (in proportion) to the frequency word (nco_step and the phase accumulator (nco_phase_acc).
# bitrate assumption, will be corrected for using early-late symbol sync (as# read from the spectral content plot from above)bit_rate = 100e3# calculate the nco step based on the initial guess for the bit rate. Early-Late# requires sampling 3 times per symbolnco_step_initial = bit_rate * 3 / bb_fs# use the initial guessnco_step = nco_step_initial# phase accumulator valuesnco_phase_acc = 0# samples queueel_sample_queue = []# couple of control valuesnco_steps, el_errors, el_samples = [], [], []# process all samplesfor i in range(len(dem)): # current early-late error el_error = 0 # time to sample? if nco_phase_acc >= 1: # wrap around nco_phase_acc -= 1 # alpha tells us how far the current sample is from perfect # sampling time: 0 means that dem[i] matches timing perfectly, 0.5 means # that the real sampling time was between dem[i] and dem[i-1], and so on alpha = nco_phase_acc / nco_step # linear approximation between two samples sample_value = (alpha * dem[i - 1] + (1 - alpha) * dem[i]) # append the sample value el_sample_queue += [sample_value] # got all three samples? if len(el_sample_queue) == 3: # get the early-late error: if this is negative we need to delay the # clock if el_sample_queue: el_error = (el_sample_queue[2] - el_sample_queue[0]) / \ -el_sample_queue[1] # clamp el_error = np.clip(el_error, -10, 10) # clear the queue el_sample_queue = [] # store the sample elif len(el_sample_queue) == 2: el_samples += [(i - alpha, sample_value)] # integral term nco_step += el_error * 0.01 # sanity limits: do not allow for bitrates outside the 30% tolerance nco_step = np.clip(nco_step, nco_step_initial * 0.7, nco_step_initial * 1.3) # proportional term nco_phase_acc += nco_step + el_error * 0.3 # append nco_steps += [nco_step] el_errors += [el_error]
As the result of the algorithm we end up with sample times and their values which look like this when plotted over the demodulator output:
As one can tell the algorithm works nicely as there are no samples taken during the bit transitions, only when the bits are ‘stable’
Step 7: Determining the bit value
Probably the easiest step. Just use the sampled data and produce the output value: zero or one depending on it’s sign and your done!
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How to Build Gear Geometries in the Multibody Dynamics Module
Realistic gear geometries are useful for multibody dynamics simulations when coupled with other physical phenomena. Rather than manually building these geometries, we can use built-in parts available in the Part Library. With these highly parameterized gear parts, we can build a wide range of parallel and planetary gear trains and learn how to use different aspects of the built-in parts to create a realistic gear model in the Multibody Dynamics Module.
The Benefits of Using Built-In Gear Parts
In principle, we can analyze mechanical devices with gears by explicitly including the contact interactions between gears as part of the simulation, but this method is computationally time-consuming when performing a multibody dynamics analysis. Instead, we can implement a mathematical formulation to model the contact interactions between the gears.
With this formulation, we can include a realistic gear geometry, which provides accurate inertial properties when used in transient and frequency-domain studies. Realistic gear geometries from the Part Library can also be used to evaluate gear mesh stiffness in a static contact analysis and for multiphysics simulations. Note that the gear mesh stiffness is not analyzed through finite element analysis, but the stiffness of pairs of gear teeth are still in contact. Another benefit of having realistic gear geometries in a multibody dynamics analysis is that this provides better visualization when either setting up the physics or when postprocessing.
Geometry of a helical gear pair built using the Part Library.
We could manually build the geometry, but using built-in parts is both easier and faster. These parts are parametric in nature, which means that we can change their shape by readjusting the geometric parameters, and they come with optional features that can be added, such as shafts and fillets. The parts also have extensive checks to validate the input data as well as selections for the gear, shaft, and contact boundaries, therefore ensuring realistic physical entities and behavior. With the Part Library, it’s easy to specify the position and orientation of the gears as well as to align the gear mesh with their counterpart. These parts also contain robust geometric operations when creating complex gear geometries and the ability to manually change geometric operations.
The gear parts in the Part Library are divided into three categories based on whether they are gears with an external mesh, a gear with an internal mesh, or a rack. To learn more about the gear parts available in the Part Library, please read the previous blog post in our Gear Modeling series.
Building a Gear Train from Individual Gears
While the gear geometries in the Part Library are for individual gears or racks, gears are always used in pairs. Due to this, we need to build a gear train using individual gear parts. To illustrate the steps involved, we use a 2D spur gear pair example. The known quantities are as follows:
Position of the first gear (x_1,y_1) Pitch radius of the first gear (r_1) Pitch radius of the second gear (r_2) Angular position of the second gear (\theta) A spur gear pair showing the center distance of the two gears and the angular position of the second gear.
To place the second gear correctly, the first step is to compute the center distance (d):
The position of the second gear (x_2,y_2) can be defined as:
Once the second gear is placed at the correct location, the next step is to align the teeth, or in this case mesh, of both gears. To accomplish this task, rotate the second gear with a mesh alignment angle (\theta_a) defined as:
where \theta_{m1} and \theta_{m2} are the mesh cycle of both gears, and they are defined as:
where n_1 and n_2 are the number of teeth of the first and second gear, respectively.
After computing the position of the second gear as well as the mesh alignment angle, we enter them as either expressions or numbers in the input parameter fields of the second gear, as shown below:
Setting Up the Gear Tooth Parameters
For the gear tooth, we define the profile using an involute curve. The tooth shape and size are specific to the gear’s application, so a different application would require another type of gear tooth. Here is a list of input parameters through which we can control the shape and size of a gear tooth:
Number of teeth (n) Pitch diameter (dp) Pressure angle (\alpha) Helix angle (\beta) Addendum-to-module ratio (adr) Tooth-height-to-addendum ratio (htr) Backlash-to-pitch-diameter ratio (blr) Tip-fillet-radius-to-pitch-diameter ratio (tfr) Root-fillet-radius-to-pitch-diameter ratio (rfr)
In the case that the fillet is not required in these places, we can set the tip or root fillet radius to zero.
An external gear tooth showing various input parameters.
The input parameters are mostly relative quantities for better scalability. We can compute different tooth profile parameters in terms of these input parameters:
Normal module: m = dp/n*cos\beta Addendum: ad = adr*m Tooth height: ht = htr*m Dedendum: dd = ht-ad Base diameter: db = dp*\cos\alpha Tip fillet radius: tf = tfr*dp Root fillet radius: rf = rfr*dp Tooth thickness at the pitch circle: t = \pi *m/2 -blr*dp
Some applications require a specific type of gear tooth. High-pressure angle gears are better for high-speed applications as their wear rate is less than that of a standard tooth profile. Similarly, backlash is needed in high-speed applications because it provides space for a film of lubricating oil between the teeth, which prevents overheating and tooth damage. On the other hand, backlash is not desirable in precision equipment, such as instruments, machine tools, and robots. Backlash in these devices causes lost motion between input and output shafts, making it difficult to achieve accurate positioning.
Gears for different pressure angles and modules. Left: Gear with a standard tooth profile. Middle: High-pressure angle gear. Right: High-module gear. The Geometry of the Gear Blank and Shaft
After exploring the details of a gear tooth, we look at other parameters that influence the shape and size of a gear. The gear geometry is divided into three components: the gear teeth, gear blank, and shaft. For the gear shaft, the parameters are as follows:
Gear-width-to-pitch-diameter ratio (wgr) Ring-width-to-gear-width ratio (wrr) Ring-outer-diameter-to-root-diameter ratio (dorr) Ring-inner-diameter-to-hole-diameter ratio (dirr)
Although the shaft is not an integral part of a gear, we can create one at the gear center with built-in gear parts. It is also possible to set the axial position of the gear on the shaft.
Shaft-length-to-pitch-diameter ratio (lsr) Relative axial position of shaft center (zs)
By default, a gear is placed at the origin and its axis is set to the
z-axis, but it’s possible to control the position and orientation of the gear using the following parameters: Gear center (\{xc, yc, zc\}) Gear axis (\{egx, egy, egz\})
In order to align the gear mesh with the mating gear, we use a mesh alignment angle parameter to rotate the gear around its own axis.
Mesh alignment angle (th) A helical gear geometry showing different input parameters.
These input parameters, like the ones for the gear tooth, are relative quantities that we can use to calculate the gear parameters. They are as follows:
Gear width: wg = wgr*dp Ring width: wr = wrr*wg Ring outer diameter: dor = dorr*dr Ring inner diameter: dir = dirr*dh Shaft length: ls = lsr*dp
By default, a gear geometry comes with a set of features. Some of these are optional, and we can remove them by setting the appropriate input parameter to zero. It is possible, for example, to build a gear geometry without a shaft, gear blank ring, center hole, and fillets at the root and tip.
Geometry of spur gears where optional features are removed sequentially from (A) to (F). (A) Default geometry; (B) Without shaft; (C) Without gear blank ring; (D) Without center hole; (E) Without tip fillet; (F) Without root fillet.
While the gear blank shape is rather standard in all of the built-in gear parts, we can create a ring by removing the material in the gear blank. To customize the gear blank shape, we need to perform various manual geometric operations on the built-in parts.
Gears with customized gear blanks. Selections Provided by Gear Parts
The built-in gear parts provide selections that we can use when setting up the physics or postprocessing. The available selections are for different components of the gear as well as for the gear teeth boundaries. We can use these boundaries to model contact between the two gears.
A spur gear where the geometry of the gear body, excluding the shaft, (left) and the gear teeth boundaries (right) are highlighted. Checks to Validate the Input Data
Since the gear parts are highly parametric, it is important to have an extensive set of checks to validate the input data. These checks ensure that the input parameters are correct independently as well as when combined with other parameters. We perform these checks before proceeding to build the geometry.
In the case that the set of input parameters is invalid, an appropriate error message is displayed. A few examples of nontrivial geometry checks, an external gear for instance, are as follows:
Addendum check: ad<=(dp-db)/2 Dedendum check: (2*dd/dp)<=0.9 Hole diameter check: dh<(dp-2*dd)
Next, we’ll look at some examples of gear geometries created using built-in parts.
A Differential Gear Example
The first example is a differential gear mechanism used in automobiles. This gear allows the left and right axles to rotate at different speeds. A differential gear uses five pairs of bevel gears, six bevel gears in total, to perform its operation.
Geometry of a differential gear mechanism. Three-Stage Wind Turbine Gearbox Example
The next example is a three-stage wind turbine gearbox. The first stage is a planetary gear train, which has three planet gears, one sun gear, and one ring gear. The second and the third stages are parallel gear trains that each have a pair of gears. This gearbox uses eight pairs of helical gears, nine in total, to perform its operation. The typical gear ratio of this gearbox varies from 50 to 100.
Geometry of a wind turbine gearbox with the top and front view showing. Concluding Thoughts About the Built-In Gear Parts
Designed to transfer rotary motion from one shaft to another, gears are important devices in a variety of machines, from automobiles to wind turbines. New functionality in COMSOL Multiphysics provides you with several possibilities for quickly building gear geometries. With these robust and highly parametric built-in parts, you can change the shape of a gear to create an application-specific gear geometry.
In the next blog post in our Gear Modeling series, we’ll show you how to simulate gearbox noise and vibration. Stay tuned! We encourage you to browse the additional resources below in the meantime.
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I‘ll ignore $q$ and $v$ in the following, so that $\gamma$ is a unit speed geodesic and $u(t)=exp_p^{-1}(\gamma(t)).$ Furthermore let $\sigma(t)=exp_p(tu(1)).$
Then by the Gauss Lemma\begin{equation}\langle u‘(t),u(0)\rangle=\langle (dexp_p)_{u(0)}(u‘(0)),\sigma‘(1)\rangle=\langle \gamma‘(0),\sigma‘(1)\rangle.\end{equation}
The fact that $\gamma‘(0)$ is tangent to the geodesic sphere means that this expression is $0$ because geodesics which pass through $p$ are orthogonal to spheres centered at $p$ and because $\sigma$ is such a geodesic. This in turn follows again by the Gauss Lemma as follows:
Let $w\in T_q S(r,p),$ where $q=exp_p(v)$ and $\sigma(t)=exp_p(tv)$ is the geodesic connecting $p$ and $q.$ Then there exists a curve $v(s)$ in $T_pM$ with constant length, $v(0)=v$ and $(dexp_p)_{v}(v‘(0))=w.$Then the Gauss Lemma inpliess\begin{equation}\langle w, \sigma‘(1)\rangle =\langle (dexp_p)_{v}(v‘(0)), (dexp_p)_{v}(v)\rangle =\langle v‘(0),v(0)\rangle=0,\end{equation} where the lase equality follows because $||v(s)||$ is constant.
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A particle moves along the x-axis so that at time t its position is given by $x(t) = t^3-6t^2+9t+11$ during what time intervals is the particle moving to the left? so I know that we need the velocity for that and we can get that after taking the derivative but I don't know what to do after that the velocity would than be $v(t) = 3t^2-12t+9$ how could I find the intervals
Fix $c\in\{0,1,\dots\}$, let $K\geq c$ be an integer, and define $z_K=K^{-\alpha}$ for some $\alpha\in(0,2)$.I believe I have numerically discovered that$$\sum_{n=0}^{K-c}\binom{K}{n}\binom{K}{n+c}z_K^{n+c/2} \sim \sum_{n=0}^K \binom{K}{n}^2 z_K^n \quad \text{ as } K\to\infty$$but cannot ...
So, the whole discussion is about some polynomial $p(A)$, for $A$ an $n\times n$ matrix with entries in $\mathbf{C}$, and eigenvalues $\lambda_1,\ldots, \lambda_k$.
Anyways, part (a) is talking about proving that $p(\lambda_1),\ldots, p(\lambda_k)$ are eigenvalues of $p(A)$. That's basically routine computation. No problem there. The next bit is to compute the dimension of the eigenspaces $E(p(A), p(\lambda_i))$.
Seems like this bit follows from the same argument. An eigenvector for $A$ is an eigenvector for $p(A)$, so the rest seems to follow.
Finally, the last part is to find the characteristic polynomial of $p(A)$. I guess this means in terms of the characteristic polynomial of $A$.
Well, we do know what the eigenvalues are...
The so-called Spectral Mapping Theorem tells us that the eigenvalues of $p(A)$ are exactly the $p(\lambda_i)$.
Usually, by the time you start talking about complex numbers you consider the real numbers as a subset of them, since a and b are real in a + bi. But you could define it that way and call it a "standard form" like ax + by = c for linear equations :-) @Riker
"a + bi where a and b are integers" Complex numbers a + bi where a and b are integers are called Gaussian integers.
I was wondering If it is easier to factor in a non-ufd then it is to factor in a ufd.I can come up with arguments for that , but I also have arguments in the opposite direction.For instance : It should be easier to factor When there are more possibilities ( multiple factorizations in a non-ufd...
Does anyone know if $T: V \to R^n$ is an inner product space isomorphism if $T(v) = (v)_S$, where $S$ is a basis for $V$? My book isn't saying so explicitly, but there was a theorem saying that an inner product isomorphism exists, and another theorem kind of suggesting that it should work.
@TobiasKildetoft Sorry, I meant that they should be equal (accidently sent this before writing my answer. Writing it now)
Isn't there this theorem saying that if $v,w \in V$ ($V$ being an inner product space), then $||v|| = ||(v)_S||$? (where the left norm is defined as the norm in $V$ and the right norm is the euclidean norm) I thought that this would somehow result from isomorphism
@AlessandroCodenotti Actually, such a $f$ in fact needs to be surjective. Take any $y \in Y$; the maximal ideal of $k[Y]$ corresponding to that is $(Y_1 - y_1, \cdots, Y_n - y_n)$. The ideal corresponding to the subvariety $f^{-1}(y) \subset X$ in $k[X]$ is then nothing but $(f^* Y_1 - y_1, \cdots, f^* Y_n - y_n)$. If this is empty, weak Nullstellensatz kicks in to say that there are $g_1, \cdots, g_n \in k[X]$ such that $\sum_i (f^* Y_i - y_i)g_i = 1$.
Well, better to say that $(f^* Y_1 - y_1, \cdots, f^* Y_n - y_n)$ is the trivial ideal I guess. Hmm, I'm stuck again
O(n) acts transitively on S^(n-1) with stabilizer at a point O(n-1)
For any transitive G action on a set X with stabilizer H, G/H $\cong$ X set theoretically. In this case, as the action is a smooth action by a Lie group, you can prove this set-theoretic bijection gives a diffeomorphism
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Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis Topol. Methods Nonlinear Anal. Volume 46, Number 1 (2015), 223-246. Index 1 fixed points of orientation reversing planar homeomorphisms Abstract
Let \(U \subset {\mathbb R}^2\) be an open subset, \(f\colon U \rightarrow f(U) \subset {\mathbb R}^2\) be an orientation reversing homeomorphism and let \(0 \in U\) be an isolated, as a periodic orbit, fixed point. The main theorem of this paper says that if the fixed point indices \(i_{{\mathbb R}^2}(f,0)=i_{{\mathbb R}^2}(f^2,0)=1\) then there exists an orientation preserving dissipative homeomorphism $\varphi\colon {\mathbb R}^2 \rightarrow {\mathbb R}^2$ such that \(f^2=\varphi\) in a small neighbourhood of \(0\) and \(\{0\}\) is a global attractor for \(\varphi\). As a corollary we have that for orientation reversing planar homeomorphisms a fixed point, which is an isolated fixed point for \(f^2\), is asymptotically stable if and only if it is stable. We also present an application to periodic differential equations with symmetries where orientation reversing homeomorphisms appear naturally.
Article information Source Topol. Methods Nonlinear Anal., Volume 46, Number 1 (2015), 223-246. Dates First available in Project Euclid: 30 March 2016 Permanent link to this document https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.tmna/1459343892 Digital Object Identifier doi:10.12775/TMNA.2015.044 Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet) MR3443685 Zentralblatt MATH identifier 1364.37096 Citation
Ruiz del Portal, Francisco R.; Salazar, José M. Index 1 fixed points of orientation reversing planar homeomorphisms. Topol. Methods Nonlinear Anal. 46 (2015), no. 1, 223--246. doi:10.12775/TMNA.2015.044. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.tmna/1459343892
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Bill Dubuque raised an excellent point here: Coping with *abstract* duplicate questions.
I suggest we use this question as a list of the generalized questions we create.
I suggest we categorize these abstract duplicates based on topic (please edit the question). Also please feel free to suggest a better way to list these.
Also, as per Jeff's recommendation, please tag these questions as faq.
Laws of signs (minus times minus is plus): Why is negative times negative = positive?
Order of operations in arithmetic: What is the standard interpretation of order of operations for the basic arithmetic operations?
Solving equations with multiple absolute values: What is the best way to solve an equation involving multiple absolute values?
Extraneous solutions to equations with a square root: Is there a name for this strange solution to a quadratic equation involving a square root?
Principal $n$-th roots:
$0! = 1$: Prove $0! = 1$ from first principles
Partial fraction decomposition of rational functions: Converting multiplying fractions to sum of fractions
Highest power of a prime $p$ dividing $N!$, number of zeros at the end of $N!$ and related questions: Highest power of a prime $p$ dividing $N!$
Solving $x^x=y$ for $x$: Is $x^x=y$ solvable for $x$?
What is the value of $0^0$? Zero to the zero power – is $0^0=1$?
Integrating polynomial and rational expressions of $\sin x$ and $\cos x$: Evaluating $\int P(\sin x, \cos x) \text{d}x$
Integration using partial fractions: Integration by partial fractions; how and why does it work?
Intuitive meaning of Euler's constant $e$: Intuitive Understanding of the constant "$e$"
Evaluating limits of the form $\lim_{x\to \infty} P(x)^{1/n}-x$ where $P(x)=x^n+a_{n-1}x^{n-1}+\cdots+a_0$ is a monic polynomial: Limits: How to evaluate $\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow \infty}\sqrt[n]{x^{n}+a_{n-1}x^{n-1}+\cdots+a_{0}}-x$
Finding the limit of rational functions at infinity: Finding the limit of $\frac{Q(n)}{P(n)}$ where $Q,P$ are polynomials
Divergence of the harmonic series: Why does the series $\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac1n$ not converge?
Universal Chord Theorem: Universal Chord Theorem
Nested radical series: $\sqrt{c+\sqrt{c+\sqrt{c+\cdots}}}$, or the limit of the sequence $x_{n+1} = \sqrt{c+x_n}$
Derivative of a function expressed as $f(x)^{g(x)}$: Differentiation of $x^{\sqrt{x}}$, how?
Removable discontiuity: How can a function with a hole (removable discontinuity) equal a function with no hole?
Calculus Meets Geometry Volume of intersection between cylinders Two cylinders, same radius, orthogonal. This post is not particularly good but there are many existing duplicate-links. Note that this can be done without calculus. Two cylinders variation: different radii (orthogonal), non-orthogonal (same radius), and elliptic cylinders (essentially unsolved). Three cylinders: same radius and orthogonal. Number of permutations of $n$ where no number $i$ is in position $i$ How many equivalence relations on a set with 4 elements. How many ways can N elements be partitioned into subsets of size K? Seating arrangements of four men and three women around a circular table How to use stars and bars? How many different spanning trees of $K_n \setminus e$ are there? (or Spanning Trees of the Complete Graph minus an edge) Definition of Matrix Multiplication: (Maybe there should just be one canonical one?) On the determinant: Determinants of special matrices: Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization Prove that A + I is invertible if A is nilpotent A generalization for non-commutative rings Modular exponentiation: How do I compute $a^b\,\bmod c$ by hand? Solving the congruence $x^2\equiv1\pmod n$: Number of solutions of $x^2=1$ in $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$ Can $\sqrt{n} + \sqrt{m}$ be rational if neither $n,m$ are perfect squares? What is the period of the decimal expansion of $\frac mn$?
Geometric Series: Value of $\sum\limits_n x^n$
Summing series of the form $\sum_n (n+1) x^n$: How can I evaluate $\sum_{n=0}^\infty(n+1)x^n$?
Finding the limit of rational functions at infinity: Finding the limit of $\frac{Q(n)}{P(n)}$ where $Q,P$ are polynomials
Divergence of the harmonic series: Why does the series $\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac1n$ not converge?
Nested radical series: $\sqrt{c+\sqrt{c+\sqrt{c+\cdots}}}$, or the limit of the sequence $x_{n+1} = \sqrt{c+x_n}$
Limit of exponential sequence and $n$ factorial: Prove that $\lim \limits_{n \to \infty} \frac{x^n}{n!} = 0$, $x \in \Bbb R$.
There are different sizes of infinity: What Does it Really Mean to Have Different Kinds of Infinities?
Solving triangles: Solving Triangles (finding missing sides/angles given 3 sides/angles)
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Define $f:\mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$. For any fixed closed interval $[a,b] $,$f(x) $ is $Riemann$ integrable on $[a,b].$
Show that $\forall a,b;c,d\in\mathbb{R},a<b,c<d.$$\int_{a}^{b}dx\int_{c}^{d}f(x+y)dy=\int_{c}^{d}dy\int_{b}^{a}f(x+y)dx.$
If $f (x+y) $ is $Riemann$ integrable on $\mathcal{R}=[a,b]\times [c,d] $,then we can easily get the equality by applying
Fubini's theorem. So the key to this question is to ensure that $f (x+y) $ is Riemann integrable on $[a,b]\times [c,d] $ .Let $A= \lbrace (u,v)\in \mathcal {R^{\circ}} \quad |\quad f (x+y) \text{ is discontinuous at } (u,v)\rbrace$,we only need to prove $A$ has Lebesgue measure zero .But how can I prove $m(A)=0$ is ture?
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If I understand correctly the equation for kinetic energy in relativity is $$ E_k= mc^2 \left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-\frac{v^2}{c^2}}}-1\right) \;,$$ and the equation for escape velocity in General Relativity is the same as in Newtonian Physics so $v_e=\sqrt{\frac{2GM}{r}}$ and when something is moving at escape velocity the kinetic energy must be equal to the opposite of the Gravitational Potential Energy, so $U=-E_k$. If I I substitute in $\sqrt{\frac{2GM}{r}}$ for the escape velocity, I get $$U=-mc^2\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-\frac{2GM}{rc^2}}}-1\right)\;.$$ So is this the correct equation for Gravitational Potential Energy in General Relativity?
This has some correct elements, but there are flaws in your reasoning. You can't get correct results in GR by plugging relativistic correction factors into Newtonian equations.
So is this the correct equation for Gravitational Potential Energy in General Relativity?
There isn't really "the" equation for gravitational energy in GR. It's not an instantaneous action at a distance theory like Newtonian gravity. What you've cooked up resembles the square root of the time-time component of the metric in the Schwarzschild spacetime. The metric is what plays the role of a potential in GR, although we can define a scalar potential in a static spacetime. The earth's field, for example, is not static, because the earth is rotating.
One way to see that your equation can't really be valid in GR is that it predicts $U=0$ when $m=0$, but we know that light rays do interact gravitationally.
the equation for escape velocity in General Relativity is the same as in Newtonian Physics so $v_e=\sqrt{\frac{2GM}{r}}$
This logic doesn't make sense. The derivation of this equation uses $K=(1/2)mv^2$, which is false in relativity.
In GR, in general, the definition of a gravitational potential energy is meaningless. GR is a geometric theory, so you have to find the analogy with the concept of "potential" in a geometric object. It turns out that the geometrical equivalent of the gravitational potential is the
metric tensor.
The metric $g$ is a symmetric tensor of second rank which basically tells you how to "measure" space-time interval. Here the link if you want to deepen the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_tensor.
In GR particles move along specific curves called geodesics, the equation of geodesics is: $$\ddot x^\mu = -\Gamma_{\sigma\nu}^\mu\dot x^\sigma \dot x^\nu$$ where the gamma factors are called Christoffel symbols, here the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoffel_symbols.
You see that there is an analogy of equation of motion in newtonian mechanics where $$m\ddot{\textbf{x}}=\textbf{F}$$ and thus you can think of Christoffel symbols as something regarding gravitational force.
Since for the Levi-Civita connection Christoffel symbols are completely defined by the metric and, in particular, by the derivatives of the metric in this way $$\Gamma^\mu_{\sigma\nu}=\frac{1}{2}g^{\mu\tau}(\partial_{\sigma}{ g_{\nu\tau}} +\partial_{\nu}{ g_{\sigma\tau}} - \partial_{\tau}{ g_{\sigma\nu}})$$ then you can think of the metric as the gravitational potential (the force is the derivative of the potential).
This is just an analogy and of course it has nothing to do with rigorous definitions (except for the geometric part)...
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I am working through the NLP notes for Naive Bayes' classification here: https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/6.pdf
Below $c$ is the class of the observation and $w_i$ is the $i$th word of a text document.
In developing the maximum likelihood estimate for the conditional probability of the feature (word) $w_i$ given class $c$ the following expression is given for the conditional probability:
$$\hat{P}(w_i \mid c) = \frac{count(w_i,c)}{\sum_{w\in V} count(w,c)}$$
It is mentioned that $V$ consists of the union of all the word types in all classes, not just the words in one class $c$. The importance of this fact is stressed later on when add-one (Laplace) smoothing is used to avoid probability estimates that equal 0.
It is mentioned that:
It is crucial that the vocabulary $V$ consists of the union of all the word types in all of the classes, not just the words in one class $c$ (try to convince yourself that this is true).
I have thought for awhile on this aside given in the text, but it does not seem to make much sense. To me, wouldn't $count(w,c)$ always equal $0$ for any $w$ which is not contained in a document of class $c$? Why sum over all words in the vocabulary if they will just equal $0$?
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As far as your added question goes, no, I'm afraid your thought process is invalid. You are essentially using a classic misapplication of the Divergence Test.
Divergence Test. If the limit of $a_n$ as $n\to\infty$ is not equal to $0$ (either does not exist, or exists and is not equal to $0$), then the series
$$\sum a_n$$
diverges.
(Sometimes the Divergence Test is phrased in the contrapositive:
If
$$\sum a_n$$
converges, then $\lim\limits_{n\to\infty}a_n = 0$.
but you are still trying to use it by affirming the consequent, which is a logical fallacy and an invalid mathematical argument). The Divergence Test can
never let you conclude a series converges (look at the name: it's a dead giveaway). But that's what you are trying to do.
To go over the points I made in comments: whenever you have a series,$$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}a_n$$you automatically get
two sequences that are associated to the series. The sequence that you are actually interested in, vis a vis the series, is the sequence of partial sums:$$\begin{align*}
s_1 &= a_1\\
s_2 &= a_1+a_2\\
s_3 &= a_1+a_2+a_3\\
&\vdots\\
s_n &= a_1 + a_2 + \cdots + a_n\\
&\vdots
\end{align*}$$When we ask whether a series $\sum a_n$ converges, we are really asking whether the sequence $\{s_n\}$ of partial sums converges. When we say that the series "converges to $L$", $\sum a_n = L$, we are really saying that the sequence $s_n$ converges to $L$. When we say the series $\sum a_n$ diverges, we are really saying that the sequence of partial sums $\{s_n\}$ diverges.
Unfortunately, the sequence of partial sums is usually very hard to get a hold of. Thing about even a very simple series, like the harmonic series,$$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{n} = 1 + \frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{3} + \frac{1}{4}+\cdots + \frac{1}{n} + \cdots$$The sequence of partial sums is pretty complicated, in terms of trying to get a formula for the $n$th term:$$\begin{align*}
s_1 & = 1\\
s_2 &= 1 + \frac{1}{2} = \frac{3}{2}\\
s_3 &= 1 + \frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{3} = \frac{11}{6}\\
s_4 &= 1 + \frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{3}+\frac{1}{4} = \frac{25}{12}\\
&\vdots
\end{align*}$$
The consequence of this difficulty is that we usually have a very hard time telling directly whether the sequence of partial sums converges, let alone what it converges to; because it's so hard to get a hold of the series.
So instead we look at the
other sequence that we get from the series (which I alluded to above): when we have the series$$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}a_n$$we also get the sequence of terms, $$a_1,a_2,a_3,\ldots,a_n,\ldots$$This is a much easier sequence to get a hold of, because we usually have it right in front of us.
Now, the sequence of terms is
not what we are actually intereted in (we are actually interested in the sequence of partial sums), though it is of course related to the sequence of partial sums. Because the sequence of terms is so much easier to handle, though, we would like to be able to infer properties of the sequence of partial sums (in particular, whether it converges or not) from properties of the sequence of terms.
This is what pretty much all the tests for series that you see in Calculus II are about: they are ways in which you may be able to infer whether the sequence of partial sums converges or not, based on properties of the sequence of terms.
But, ultimately, we are looking in the wrong place: we are like the drunk searching for his keys under the streetlight, not because that's where the keys were lost, but because that's where there is enough light. Because we are really looking at the wrong place (and merely hoping to catch a glimpse of what we are really looking for from the corner of our eye), almost all tests are limited in some way: either you cannot always use them (e.g., the limit comparison test cannot be used if the series have positive and negative terms; the alternating series test cannot be used if the series is not alternating, etc); or they are not always conclusive (the Divergence Test can tell you a series diverges, but it can never tell you a series converges; the Ratio Test can be inconclusive; the Alternating Series Test can be inconclusive; etc). Because, ultimately, we are focusing on the wrong thing.
Which is what makes things so complicated and confusing for students. There is no recipe; instead, there are just a bunch of things you can try, and which may or may not work. You need to try several things, and you need to remember
exactly what you can conclude and what you cannot from the different things you try, and when you can use them and when you cannot. It's a lot to keep in mind, but unfortunately it's the best we can do.
With practice, one comes to recognize certain series, to get more series "under one's belt" (so that we can do things like apply Comparison or Limit Comparison), or through experience get a feel for what kind of tests tend to work well with what kind of series (for instance, my experience tells me that trying to use the Ratio Test with the series you give in your addendum would be a waste of time, since it would come out inconclusive). But I'm afraid that comes with experience, and there is no clever mnemonic that you can memorize, or clever trick you can always use, or magic elixir you can drink, that will let you do it easily and every time (and without having to think about it too much). There just isn't any such thing, just like there isn't any such thing for finding antiderivatives.
For the series$$\sum_{n=2}^{\infty}\frac{1}{n^2-1},$$what you did was apply the Divergence Test to see if the series might diverge; this is generally a good first step, because it is generally easy to do, and if the terms fail the divergence test (the terms do not go to $0$), then you are done: the series diverges. You performed the test correctly: it is indeed the case that$$\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{1}{n^2-1} = 0$$because the denominators grow without bound. Unfortunately, what this means is that the terms
pass the Divergence Test, and therefore that the divergence test does not settle whether the series converges or diverges: the test is inconclusive.
Instead, you might note that this series is very close to the series $\sum\frac{1}{n^2}$; so you might want to try a comparison or limit comparison test with that series (assuming you know whether $\sum\frac{1}{n^2}$ converges or diverges).
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The following words reflect my understanding(an elementary one) of the divergent series. We first define an infinite series as follows:
$L = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}a_n \Leftrightarrow L = \lim_{k \rightarrow \infty} S_k.$
Where $S_k$ is the partial sum of the infinite series from $a_0$ to $a_k$. A series whose limit exists is said to be convergent, if not, then it's called divergent.
By this former definition, series like:
$1-1+1-...$ and $1+2+3+...$ are divergent.
Then we have the notion of regularized sum. Where we look for a new definition for infinite series such that it allows us to assign real values to some divergent series. Also in the new definition series that are normally convergent under the definition $L = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}a_n \Leftrightarrow L = \lim_{k \rightarrow \infty} S_k$, are convergent under the new definition, and the two definitions yield the same exact limit $L$ for the normally convergent series. Although I'm not sure of following, but different summation methods always assign the same value for a divergent series(in case it can be assigned to), so that $1-1+1-...=1/2$ under Caesaro summation and Abel's and any other summation that assign a value to such series.
In addition to that, there are series like $1+2+3+...$ , that are not Caesaro or Abel summable, but can be summed under other methods like zeta regularization; This implies that a series that is not summable under certain summation method(say Caesaro's), can be summable under other summation methods(like zeta).
This last fact leads me to my question:
-Can every divergent series be regularized? That is, for every series that is not summable under certain summation methods, can we find a new summation method that sums it up?
-If the answer is yes to the last question, then, does there exist a summation method such that it can sum(regularize) every single divergent series?
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To understand the concept
intuitively, ask the question of why it is needed. And start from a simpler question, why is the variance computed as $V = \frac 1 {N-1} \sum (x_i-\bar x)^2$ with a $N-1$ as denominator.
The fact is that you are interested in the variance of the population, not of the one of sample. Now obviously the sample is less dispersed than the population (because it is very likely that your sample missed a few of the extreme values), so the variance computed on the sample is lower than the variance of the population.
You have to correct the bias.
Intuitively, the observed average $\bar x = \frac 1 N \sum x_i$ is not exact but only an approximation of the population mean. The variance of this approximation should be added to the observed variance on the sample in order to to get the best approximate of the population sample.Now this variance can be computed: $\sigma^2(\bar X) = \frac 1 N \sigma^2(X)$ (using the iid if the $X_i$). So the sample variance is $1 -\frac 1 N$ the variance of the population.
Formally (in case you need to read twice the previous reasoning), compute the expected value of $\sum (X_i-\bar X)^2$. You will find $(N-1) \sigma^2$ rather than $N \sigma^2$, hence the population variance is $\frac N {N-1}$ the sample variance (as claimed).
When you follow the computations, you start by replacing $\bar X$ by its definition $\bar X = \frac 1 N \sum X_i$, develop the squares, expand the sum, and then one of the term disappears. Namely $N\bar X=\sum X_i$ appears twice with opposite sign, negative in the double product $2 \bar X X$ and positive in the square $\bar X^2$. So $\sum (X_i-\bar X)^2$ is the sum of $N-1$ terms equal in expectation.
This is because the $X_i$ are not independent but linked by one relation $\sum X_i=N \bar X$. In general, if you know the $X_i$ are linked by $p$ independent linear relations $f_j$, then you can cancel out $p$ terms out of the sum $\sum (X_i-f_j(X_i))^2$. Hence the
unbiased estimator, $\sum (X_i-f_j(X_i))^2 \approx \frac N {N-p} \sum (x_i-f_j(x_i))^2$.
In regression, ANOVA, etc, the independents relations are not so independent because it is often supposed that the sum of the independents variables (causes) have the same average than the dependent variable (effect). $\sum a_i \bar X_i = \bar Y$. Hence the degree of freedom $N-1$, $p-1$ and $N-p$ and unbiasing factors $\frac N {N-1}$, $\frac p {p-1}$ and $\frac N {N-p}$ for $SS_{Total}$, $SS_{Model}$ and $SS_{Error}$ respectively.
In two words, the degree of freedom is the number of
independent relationships linking a set of variables, taking into account the variable introduced for intermediary estimators.
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CentralityBin () CentralityBin (const char *name, Float_t low, Float_t high) CentralityBin (const CentralityBin &other) virtual ~CentralityBin () CentralityBin & operator= (const CentralityBin &other) Bool_t IsAllBin () const Bool_t IsInclusiveBin () const const char * GetListName () const virtual void CreateOutputObjects (TList *dir, Int_t mask) virtual Bool_t ProcessEvent (const AliAODForwardMult *forward, UInt_t triggerMask, Bool_t isZero, Double_t vzMin, Double_t vzMax, const TH2D *data, const TH2D *mc, UInt_t filter, Double_t weight) virtual Double_t Normalization (const TH1I &t, UShort_t scheme, Double_t trgEff, Double_t &ntotal, TString *text) const virtual void MakeResult (const TH2D *sum, const char *postfix, bool rootProj, bool corrEmpty, Double_t scaler, Int_t marker, Int_t color, TList *mclist, TList *truthlist) virtual bool End (TList *sums, TList *results, UShort_t scheme, Double_t trigEff, Double_t trigEff0, Bool_t rootProj, Bool_t corrEmpty, Int_t triggerMask, Int_t marker, Int_t color, TList *mclist, TList *truthlist) Int_t GetColor (Int_t fallback=kRed+2) const void SetColor (Color_t colour) TList * GetResults () const const char * GetResultName (const char *postfix="") const TH1 * GetResult (const char *postfix="", Bool_t verbose=true) const void SetDebugLevel (Int_t lvl) void SetSatelliteVertices (Bool_t satVtx) virtual void Print (Option_t *option="") const const Sum * GetSum (Bool_t mc=false) const Sum * GetSum (Bool_t mc=false) const TH1I * GetTriggers () const TH1I * GetTriggers () const TH1I * GetStatus () const TH1I * GetStatus ()
Calculations done per centrality. These objects are only used internally and are never streamed. We do not make dictionaries for this (and derived) classes as they are constructed on the fly.
Definition at line 701 of file AliBasedNdetaTask.h.
Calculate the Event-Level normalization.
The full event level normalization for trigger \(X\) is given by
\begin{eqnarray*} N &=& \frac{1}{\epsilon_X} \left(N_A+\frac{N_A}{N_V}(N_{-V}-\beta)\right)\\ &=& \frac{1}{\epsilon_X}N_A \left(1+\frac{1}{N_V}(N_T-N_V-\beta)\right)\\ &=& \frac{1}{\epsilon_X}N_A \left(1+\frac{N_T}{N_V}-1-\frac{\beta}{N_V}\right)\\ &=& \frac{1}{\epsilon_X}N_A \left(\frac{1}{\epsilon_V}-\frac{\beta}{N_V}\right) \end{eqnarray*}
where
\(\epsilon_X=\frac{N_{T,X}}{N_X}\) is the trigger efficiency evaluated in simulation. \(\epsilon_V=\frac{N_V}{N_T}\) is the vertex efficiency evaluated from the data \(N_X\) is the Monte-Carlo truth number of events of type \(X\). \(N_{T,X}\) is the Monte-Carlo truth number of events of type \(X\) which was also triggered as such. \(N_T\) is the number of data events that where triggered as type \(X\) and had a collision trigger (CINT1B) \(N_V\) is the number of data events that where triggered as type \(X\), had a collision trigger (CINT1B), and had a vertex. \(N_{-V}\) is the number of data events that where triggered as type \(X\), had a collision trigger (CINT1B), but no vertex. \(N_A\) is the number of data events that where triggered as type \(X\), had a collision trigger (CINT1B), and had a vertex in the selected range. \(\beta=N_a+N_c-N_e\) is the number of control triggers that were also triggered as type \(X\). \(N_a\) Number of beam-empty events also triggered as type \(X\) events (CINT1-A or CINT1-AC). \(N_c\) Number of empty-beam events also triggered as type \(X\) events (CINT1-C). \(N_e\) Number of empty-empty events also triggered as type \(X\) events (CINT1-E).
Note, that if \( \beta \ll N_A\) the last term can be ignored, and the expression simplyfies to
\[ N = \frac{1}{\epsilon_X}\frac{1}{\epsilon_V}N_A \]
Parameters
t Histogram of triggers scheme Normalisation scheme trgEff Trigger efficiency ntotal On return, the total number of events to normalise to. text If non-null, fill with normalization calculation Returns \(N_A/N\) or negative number in case of errors.
Definition at line 1784 of file AliBasedNdetaTask.cxx.
Referenced by End().
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Suppose the curve is given in parametric form $$ C: \vec{r} = \langle x(t), y(t) \rangle$$
At any time $t_0$, a point on the curve is given by
$$ P(x_0,y_0) = \langle x(t_0), y(t_0) \rangle $$
The vector tangent to $C$ at $P$ is $$ \vec{v} = \langle \dot x(t_0), \dot y(t_0) \rangle $$
The direction vector of the line $OP$ is given by
$$ \vec{u_1} = \langle x(t_0), y(t_0)\rangle $$
and the direction vector of the line $x=x_0$ (parallel to the $y$-axis) is simply the $y$ unit vector$$\vec{u_2} = \langle 0, 1 \rangle $$
These two vectors make the same angle with the tangent vector, so by the dot product rule we have
$$ \cos\theta = \frac{\vec{u_1} \cdot \vec{v}}{\vert\vec{u_1}\vert\vert\vec{v}\vert} = \frac{\vec{u_2}\cdot\vec{v}}{\vert\vec{u_2}\vert\vert\vec{v}\vert} $$$$ \implies \frac{x\dot x + y\dot y}{\sqrt{x^2+y^2}} = \dot y $$
The equivalent ODE where $y = y(x)$ can be found by rearranging the above to get
$$ \frac{dy}{dx} = \frac{\dot y}{\dot x} = \frac{x}{\sqrt{x^2+y^2}-y} $$
The solution of this turns out to be
$$ y = \frac{x^2-a^2}{2a} $$
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I am currently attempting to calculate the heat transfer when compressed air is flowing isothermally through a pipe with frictional losses. I realise this might seem like an odd question, but I am aiming to demonstrate the difference between assuming isothermal flow and isentropic on the calculated pressure drop and wish to calculate the entropy generation.
Note that I am assuming the pipe has a constant cross sectional area.
I have been following the book "Fundamentals of pipe flow" by Benedict. Which writes the modified darcy-weisbach equation (differential form):
$$ \delta F=f_d\frac{dx}{D}\frac{V^2}{2} $$
and defines the compressible loss coefficient as: $$dK=f_d\frac{dx}{D} $$
For the isothermal case: $$K_{1,2}=\frac{A^2}{\dot{m}^2RT}(p_1^2-p_2^2) +2ln(\frac{p_2}{p_1}) $$
I am struggling to understand how to calculate the heat transfer from the Darcy-Weisbach equation. The form that the Dracy-Weisbach equation is written is suggests integrating it as:
$$\Delta F= K_{1,2}\frac{V^2}{2} $$
However, I realise that velocity obviously increases along the pipe due to pressure drop requiring velocity to increase to preserve the mass flow rate. So would it be true to simply write
$$F_{1,2}= K_{1,2}\frac{V_2^2-V_1^2}{2} $$
I personally thought when integrating you should taking into account the fact that $V=V(x)$ as:
$$\Delta F= \frac{f_D}{D}\frac{V_2^3-V_1^3}{3} $$ But this would result in dimensional inconsistency (dimension on right is not equal to J/kg).
Any help on this would be much appreciated!
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You might want to look at
https://scilearn.sydney.edu.au/fychemistry/prelab/e12.shtml
and the related page
https://scilearn.sydney.edu.au/fychemistry/calculators/lattice_energy.shtml
which has a nice lattice energy calculator that allows you to play with the parameters and see how the lattice energy varies, but I'll try to summarise those the argument below.
Here we are dealing with the ionic model - everything is totally ionic, there is total charge separation, all binding is electrostatic. Thus our system consists of a set of point charges. We can write the energy of such a system as
$$E=N_AM \frac{z_1 z_2 e^2}{4 \pi \epsilon_0 r}$$
where $N_A$ is the Avogardro constant, $z_1$ the charge on the first ion, $z_2$ the charge on the second, r is the closest separation of the ions and M the Madelung constant. Now note the Madelung constant only depends upon the structure of the crystal - all Sodium Chloride type crystals, whether it be NaCl, KF, or FeO, all use the same value off M. Looking at the formula we can see that FOR A GIVEN STRUCTURE (i.e. with the same M)
High charges on the ions mean high lattice energy Small separation means high lattice energy
Thus point 2 addresses point 2 in your question, K is bigger than Li, hence the separation is bigger in KF than LiF, hence KF has a lower lattice energy than LiF. The first point explains why MgO has a higher lattice energy than NaF. However it doesn't cover your first example, as $\ce{AlF3}$ and MgO have different structures (and actually I don't think it is a very good question).
Comparing different structures is very difficult. About the best we can do is the electrostatic term from the Kapustinskii equation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapustinskii_equation)$$U_{L}={K}\cdot {\frac {\nu \cdot |z^{+}|\cdot |z^{-}|}{r^{+}+r^{-}}}$$This is an approximation to the above. Here K is a constant which is INDEPENDENT of structure and $\nu$ is the number of ions in the empirical formula, 2 for MgO, 4 for $\ce{AlF_3}$. Thus assuming ${r^{+}+r^{-}}$ is the same for both of these $\ce{AlF3}$ has a bigger lattice energy because $\nu\cdot |z^{+}|\cdot |z^{-}|$ is bigger - For $\ce{AlF3}$ it is 4*3*1=12, while for MgO it is 2*2*2=8. What this is really saying is that the $\ce{AlF3}$ structure has a much larger Madelung constant than the NaCl one, enough to overcome the charge differences, and thus it has a higher lattice energy.
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I'm trying to locate my four zeroes of a complex-valued function, in order to apply the Residue Theorem.
After using the quadratic formula, I am left with $$z^2 = [-3 \pm i\sqrt7] / 2$$
writing the left side in exponential form, I get: $$z^2 = 2exp(\pm i\theta)/2$$
which gives $$z=\pm \sqrt2exp(\pm i\theta/2)/2$$
these are my four roots; however, I don't know how to compute $\theta$ explicitly. I tried using that arctan(y/x) formula, and but I'm getting anything that's clean.
Thanks in advance,
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Steric hinderance is a major component in determining the feasibility and the rate of a chemical reaction. Wouldn't it be useful to measure it quantitatively then? This would make it easier to compare the property of two molecules. Are there currently ways to measure steric hindrance, or is it not possible for some reason?
There are two ways I know of to measure steric hindrance. Once such quantitative measurement are A values, which give the energetic preference of having the substituent on a substituted cyclohexane ring in the equatorial position versus the axial position. This preference is a result of 1,3-diaxial strain.
Additionally, the Taft equation is a linear free-energy relationship used to measure the steric effects of a substituent on the rate of reaction. The equation is given by:
$${\displaystyle \log \left({\frac {k_{s}}{k_{\ce {CH3}}}}\right)=\rho ^{*}\sigma ^{*}+\delta E_{s}}$$
where $\displaystyle \frac {k_{s}}{k_{\ce {CH3}}}$ is the ratio of the substituents rate of reaction relative to a methyl group, $\sigma^*$ is the polar substituent constant that describes the field and inductive effects of the substituent, $E_s$ is the steric substituent constant, $\rho^*$ is the sensitivity factor for the reaction to polar effects, and $\delta$ is the sensitivity factor for the reaction to steric effects.$^{[1]}$
Though A values are useful as a quick reference in deducing the major products of an unfamiliar reaction, the Taft equation would be used preferentially when doing an in depth mechanistic study of a reaction for publication.
$^{[1]}$ Wikipedia, Taft equation There is a full way but it's not easy to calculate.
Steric hindrance is indeed a generic term for a quantifiable phenomenon: electron-electron repulsion, or (much) more broadly, chemical physics.
Electron-electron repulsion can be measured simply/crudely by Coulomb's law: \begin{align} E &= \frac{q_1 q_2}{4\pi \epsilon_0 r}, & F &= \frac{q_1 q_2}{4\pi \epsilon_0 r^2}. \end{align}
Here, e.g. you can approximate atomic charges with some atomic volume assigned and quantify the forces involved between molecules.
But the full dynamics requires quantum mechanical calculations (ignoring things like relativity and gravity).
Coulomb's energy does appear in QM equations but electron-electron interactions are more complicated than simple point-charges so more terms appear for correlation/exchange energies etc. The general principle is the same as for classical physics though: you calculate total kinetic and potential energy of your system.
The quantitative expression would be
the way potential energy changes with intermolecular distance. So you could set up a series of systems with different distances between molecules and see how the energy changes.
One can calculate QM energies with QM software like NWChem, QChem, Orca, Gaussian and others.
While not directly "measuring" steric hindrance but rather "distortion energy" the computational Interaction/Distortion model from K.N. Houk (1, 2) and Bickelhaupt who calls it "Activation Strain" model (3) can give pretty good insight in such things. Especially since steric hindrance is only half (or even less) of the story.
For similar reactions this distortion energy can (!) be related to steric hindrance, but is also inflenced by electronic effects the substituents might have on the reactive center. Over all this model provides pretty good insight if a reaction proceeds fast/slow due to electronic effects or energy needed for distortion.
So how does it work? We pretty much arbitrarily devide our energy of activation into two parts, the interaction energy and the distortion energy. Distortion energy is the energy needed to "twist" the reactants from ground state geometry into geometry at the transition state structure. For this energy is needed. If you then bring this distorted reactants together they will interact and what you get out here is the interaction energy. Sum of all distortion energies and the interaction energy is the energy of activation.
$$\Delta E^{\ddagger}_\mathrm{act}=\Delta E^{\ddagger}_\mathrm{dist} + \Delta E^{\ddagger}_\mathrm{int}$$
Houk himself explains this very well in this talk.
References:
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The examples we just worked through have shown how we can use the steady-state energy density model to calculate various fluid flow or charge flow parameters given sufficient details about the physical situation. Now we extend this analysis to complete “circuits.” There is not any really new physics in what we are about to do, but it is certainly useful to learn some of the electrical engineers’ little tricks for analyzing the kinds of circuits we encounter in our daily lives.
It is useful to combine the complete energy-density equations with conditions on charge or fluid conservation into some practical rules. We will apply the circuit analysis rules arising from that combination to some practical fluid and electrical circuits.
Generalized Continuity Equation
Previously we wrote the Continuity Equation, which is another way of expressing the conservation of
fluid volume:
\[A_1 v_1 = A_2 v_2 = I .\]
This can be extended to include the effects of having multiple pipes joined together in junctions, or branching off in several directions. We do not have to be limited to only a single pipe!
Figure 5.5.1
Current that flows into a junction must be equal to the current that flows out. This is frequently called the
junction rule by electrical engineers, but it is a really just a statement of conservation of fluid applicable to all fluid transport phenomena. Concept of Complete Circuit
(Note: in this section, we will mostly talk about electric circuits and use the symbols for electric circuits. However, the same relationships exit for complete fluid circuits.) Up to this point, we have treated the current as an independent variable, as we looked at drops in potential (or head for fluid systems). However, frequently, we deal with complete circuits. That is, the complete path of the charge flow is topographically equivalent to a circle or complete loop. The current is no longer an independent variable; rather, the various resistances and sources of emf (batteries or generators) will determine the current that exists in the circuit.
Figure 5.5.2
First, some standard notation and use of symbols. It is customary to indicate batteries and resistors as shown in the figure 5.5.2. Also, it is customary to draw the wires connecting the electrical components as straight and usually in either the vertical or horizontal direction.
The figure 5.5.2 illustrates a section of a circuit that contains both a battery that
increases the energy density of the electrical charge that flows through it by an amount \(+\varepsilon\), and a separate resistive section that decreases the potential of the electric charge that flows through it by an amount \(IR\). Thus:
\[\Delta V_{1~ to~ 2} = +\varepsilon - IR \]
In going from
to point 1 , the battery increases the electrical potential by \(+\varepsilon\) while some energy is transferred to thermal systems by the resistor. Whether the potential at point 2 is higher or lower than at point 2 depends on the relative amounts of increase due to the battery and decrease due to the resistor. point 1
Figure 5.5.3
Now imagine what happens if the charge is transported around a complete loop? Like our previous example, this circuit includes a battery, and a resistor, but the current continues back to its original starting point. Because
and point 1 are connected by what we are modeling as a zero resistance wire, \(\Delta V_{2~ to~ 1} = 0\). That is, 2 and point 1 must be at the same potential, because there is nothing separating them but a zero-resistance wire. Electrically, they are the same point. So, 2
\[\Delta V_{1~ to~ 2} = \Delta V_{1~ to ~1} = +\varepsilon - IR = 0, \]
or
\[\varepsilon = IR \]
If there is more than one battery and/or resistor in a complete circuit, then energy density conservation says that for
any loop that comes back on itself, the sum of the sources of emf and the voltage drops across the resistors must sum to zero. We have to get back to the same potential.
\[\sum \varepsilon- \sum (IR) = 0 \]
In words, this equation(5.5.6) states that for
loop of circuit (no matter how complicated the path appears, and how many batteries and resistors are in the loop), the total increase in potential caused by the batteries must equal the total any complete IRlosses caused by all resistors in the loop. This is known as the in electricity, but it is a formal statement of energy density conservation applicable to any fluid transport phenomena. loop rule Method of Equivalent Reduction
In analyzing circuits, the most straightforward method is to apply
both the junction and loop rules and translate them into algebraic equations to solve for any unknown quantities. In complicated circuits there will typically be multiple complete loops. By simply writing down the loop rule for enough loops, you can eventually get sufficient number of equations to solve for the number of unknowns.
For many simple circuits of practical significance, we can reduce sets of circuit elements (batteries and resistors) into simpler
equivalent circuit elements. We will consider only circuits that can be solved using this equivalent reduction method.
Resistors in
series or parallel are equivalent to a single resistor in terms of the currents and potential changes in the remainder of the circuit. These equivalent resistance values may be found by applying the junction and loop rules.
For resistors in
series, the equivalent resistance is just the algebraic sum of the individual resistance: Figure 5.5.4
Example: Calculating Resistance: Analysis of a Series Circuit
Suppose the voltage output of the battery in Figure is \(12.0\mathrm{V}\), and the resistances are \(R_{1}=1.00\Omega\), \(R_{2}=6.00\Omega\), and \(R_{3}=13.0\Omega\). What is the total resistance?
Strategy and Solution
The total resistance is simply the sum of the individual resistances, as given by this equation:
\[R_{\mathrm{S}}=R_{1}+R_{2}+R_{3}\]
\[=1.00\Omega + 6.00\Omega + 13.0\Omega\]
\[=20.0 \Omega.\]
For resistors in
parallel, the reciprocal of the equivalent resistance is just the sum of the individual reciprocal resistances:
Figure 5.5.5
If sources of emf (such as batteries) are hooked up in series, their ε ’s add algebraically. The sign of the ε of a battery is positive if the current enters the negative terminal and exits the positive terminal.
Figure 5.5.6
Note: Adding batteries in parallel is not normally done, because the equivalent voltage depends on the internal resistance as well as the emfs of each one separately.
Example: Calculating Resistance: Analysis of a Parallel Circuit
Let the voltage output of the battery and resistances in the parallel connection in Figure be the same as the previously considered series connection: \(V=12.0\mathrm{V},\: R_{1}=1.00\Omega,\: R_{2}=6.00\Omega\), and \(R_{3}=13.0\Omega\). What is the total resistance?
Strategy and Solution
The total resistance for a parallel combination of resistors is found using the equation below. Entering known values gives
\[\dfrac{1}{R_{\mathrm{p}}}=\dfrac{1}{R_{1}}+\dfrac{1}{R_{2}}+\dfrac{1}{R_{3}}=\dfrac{1}{1.00\Omega}+\dfrac{1}{6.00\Omega}+\dfrac{1}{13.0\Omega}.\]
Thus,
\[\dfrac{1}{R_{\mathrm{p}}}=\dfrac{1.00}{\Omega}+\dfrac{0.1667}{\Omega}+\dfrac{0.07692}{\Omega}=\dfrac{1.2436}{\Omega}.\]
(Note that in these calculations, each intermediate answer is shown with an extra digit.)
We must invert this to find the total resistance \(R_{\mathrm{p}}\). This yields
\[R_{\mathrm{p}}=\dfrac{1}{1.2436}\Omega=0.8041\Omega.\]
The total resistance with the correct number of significant digits is \(R_{\mathrm{p}}=0.804\Omega\).
Contributors
Authors of Phys7B (UC Davis Physics Department)
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Strong Acids
In water, strong acids completely dissociate into free protons and their conjugate base.
Learning Objectives
Calculate pH for solutions of strong acids.
Key Takeaways Key Points Strong acids can catalyze chemical reactions. Strong acids are defined by their pKa. The acid must be stronger in aqueous solution than a hydronium ion, so its pKa must be lower than that of a hydronium ion. Therefore, strong acids have a pKa of <-174. Strong acids can be organic or inorganic. Strong acids must be handled carefully because they can cause severe chemical burns. Strong acids are essential for catalyzing some reactions, including the synthesis and hydrolysis of carbonyl compounds. Key Terms carbonyl: a divalent functional group (-CO-), characteristic of aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, amides, carboxylic acid anhydrides, carbonyl halides, esters, and others. ester: a compound usually formed by condensing an alcohol and an acid and eliminating of water. it contains the functional group carbon-oxygen double bond joined via carbon to another oxygen atom hydrolysis: a chemical process of decomposition; involves splitting a bond and adding the hydrogen cation and water’s hydroxide anion Definition of Strong Acids
The strength of an acid refers to the ease with which the acid loses a proton. A strong acid ionizes completely in an aqueous solution by losing one proton, according to the following equation:
[latex]\text{HA} (\text{aq}) \rightarrow \text{H}^+ (\text{aq}) + \text{A}^-(\text{aq})[/latex]
where HA is a protonated acid, H
+ is the free acidic proton, and A – is the conjugate base. Strong acids yield weak conjugate bases. For sulfuric acid, which is diprotic, the “strong acid” designation refers only to the dissociation of the first proton:
[latex]\text{H}_2\text{SO}_4 (\text{aq}) \rightarrow \text{H}^+ (\text{aq}) + \text{HSO}_4 ^- (\text{aq})[/latex]
More precisely, the acid must be stronger in aqueous solution than a hydronium ion (H
+), so strong acids have a pKa < -1.74. An example is hydrochloric acid (HCl), whose pKa is -6.3. This generally means that in aqueous solution at standard temperature and pressure, the concentration of hydronium ions is equal to the concentration of strong acid introduced to the solution.
Due to the complete dissociation of strong acids in aqueous solution, the concentration of hydronium ions in the water is equal to the total concentration (ionized and un-ionized) of the acid introduced to solution:
[H
+] = [A −] = [HA] total and pH = −log[H +].
Strong acids, like strong bases, can cause chemical burns when exposed to living tissue.
Examples of Strong Acids
Some common strong acids (acids with pKa < -1) include:
Hydroiodic acid (HI): pKa = -9.3 Hydrobromic acid (HBr): pKa = -8.7 Perchloric acid (HClO 4): pKa ≈ -8 Hydrochloric acid (HCl): pKa = -6.3 Sulfuric acid (H 2SO 4): pKa1 ≈ -3 (first dissociation only) p-Toluenesulfonic acid: pKa = -2.8 Nitric acid (HNO 3): pKa ≈ -1.4 Chloric acid (HClO 3): pKa ≈ 1.0 Strong Acid Catalysis
Strong acids can accelerate the rate of certain reactions. For instance, strong acids can accelerate the synthesis and hydrolysis of carbonyl compounds. With carbonyl compounds such as esters, synthesis and hydrolysis go through a tetrahedral transition state, where the central carbon has an oxygen, an alcohol group, and the original alkyl group. Strong acids protonate the carbonyl, which makes the oxygen positively charged so that it can easily receive the double-bond electrons when the alcohol attacks the carbonyl carbon; this enables ester synthesis and hydrolysis.
Weak Acids
A weak acid only partially dissociates in solution.
Learning Objectives
Solve acid-base equilibrium problems for weak acids.
Key Takeaways Key Points The dissociation of weak acids, which are the most popular type of acid, can be calculated mathematically and applied in experimental work. If the concentration and K aof a weak acid are known, the pH of the entire solution can be calculated. The exact method of calculation varies according to what assumptions and simplifications can be made. Weak acids and weak bases are essential for preparing buffer solutions, which have important experimental uses. Key Terms conjugate acid: the species created when a base accepts a proton conjugate base: the species created after donating a proton. weak acid: one that dissociates incompletely, donating only some of its hydrogen ions into solution
A weak acid is one that does not dissociate completely in solution; this means that a weak acid does not donate all of its hydrogen ions (H
+) in a solution. Weak acids have very small values for K a (and therefore higher values for pK a ) compared to strong acids, which have very large K a values (and slightly negative pK a values).
The majority of acids are weak. On average, only about 1 percent of a weak acid solution dissociates in water in a 0.1 mol/L solution. Therefore, the concentration of H
+ ions in a weak acid solution is always less than the concentration of the undissociated species, HA. Examples of weak acids include acetic acid (CH 3COOH), which is found in vinegar, and oxalic acid (H 2C 2O 4), which is found in some vegetables. Dissociation
Weak acids ionize in a water solution only to a very moderate extent. The generalized dissociation reaction is given by:
[latex]\text{HA}(\text{aq}) \rightleftharpoons \text{H}^+ (\text{aq}) + \text{A}^- (\text{aq})[/latex]
where HA is the undissociated species and A
– is the conjugate base of the acid. The strength of a weak acid is represented as either an equilibrium constant or a percent dissociation. The equilibrium concentrations of reactants and products are related by the acid dissociation constant expression, K a:
[latex]\text{K}_\text{a} = \frac{[\text{H}^+][\text{A}^-]}{[\text{HA}]}[/latex]
The greater the value of K
a, the more favored the H + formation, which makes the solution more acidic; therefore, a high K a value indicates a lower pH for a solution. The K a of weak acids varies between 1.8×10 −16 and 55.5. Acids with a K a less than 1.8×10 −16 are weaker acids than water.
If acids are polyprotic, each proton will have a unique K
a. For example, H 2CO 3 has two K a values because it has two acidic protons. The first K a refers to the first dissociation step:
[latex]\text{H}_2\text{CO}_3 + \text{H}_2\text{O} \rightarrow \text{HCO}_3^{-} + \text{H}_3\text{O}^+[/latex]
This K
a value is 4.46×10 −7 (pK a1 = 6.351). The second K a is 4.69×10 −11 (pK a2 = 10.329) and refers to the second dissociation step:
[latex]\text{HCO}_3^- + \text{H}_2\text{O} \rightarrow \text{CO}_3^{2- } + \text{H}_3\text{O}^+[/latex]
Calculating the pH of a Weak Acid Solution
The K
a of acetic acid is [latex]1.8\times 10^{-5}[/latex]. What is the pH of a solution of 1 M acetic acid?
In this case, you can find the pH by solving for concentration of H
+ ( x) using the acid’s concentration ( F) and K a. Assume that the concentration of H + in this simple case is equal to the concentration of A –, since the two dissociate in a 1:1 mole ratio:
[latex]\text{K}_\text{a} = \frac{[\text{H}^+][\text{C}_2\text{H}_3\text{O}_2^-]}{[\text{HA}]} = \frac{\text{x}^2}{(\text{F}-\text{x})}[/latex]
This quadratic equation can be manipulated and solved. A common assumption is that
x is small; we can justify assuming this for calculations involving weak acids and bases, because we know that these compounds only dissociate to a very small extent. Therefore, our above equation simplifies to:
[latex]\text{K}_\text{a}=1.8\times 10^{-5}=\frac{\text{x}^2}{\text{F}-\text{x}}\approx \frac{\text{x}^2}{\text{F}}=\frac{\text{x}^2}{1\text{ M}}[/latex]
[latex]1.8\times 10^{-5}=\text{x}^2[/latex]
[latex]\text{x}=3.9 \times 10^{-3}\text{ M}[/latex]
[latex]\text{pH}=-\text{log}[\text{H}^+]=-\text{log}(3.9\times 10^{-3})=2.4[/latex]
Although it is only a weak acid, a concentrated enough solution of acetic acid can still be quite acidic.
Calculating Percent Dissociation
Percent dissociation represents an acid’s strength and can be calculated using the K
a value and the solution’s pH. Learning Objectives
Calculate percent dissociation for weak acids from their K
a values and a given concentration. Key Takeaways Key Points Percent dissociation is symbolized as α ( alpha ) and represents the ratio of the concentration of dissociated hydrogen ion [H +] to the concentration of the undissociated species [HA]. Unlike K a, percent dissociation varies with the concentration of HA; dilute acids dissociate more than concentrated ones. Percent dissociation is related to the concentration of both the conjugate base and the acid ‘s initial concentration; it can be calculated if the pH of the solution and the pKa of the acid are known. Key Terms dissociation: the process by which compounds split into smaller constituent molecules, usually reversibly. percent ionization: the fraction of an acid that undergoes dissociation
We have already discussed quantifying the strength of a weak acid by relating it to its acid equilibrium constant K
a; now we will do so in terms of the acid’s percent dissociation. Percent dissociation is symbolized by the Greek letter alpha, α, and it can range from 0%< α < 100%. Strong acids have a value of α that is equal to or nearly 100%; for weak acids, however, α can vary, depending on the acid’s strength. Example
Calculate the percent dissociation of a weak acid in a [latex]0.060\;\text{M}[/latex] solution of HA ([latex]\text{K}_\text{a}=1.5\times 10^{-5}[/latex]).
To determine percent dissociation, we first need to solve for the concentration of H
+. We set up our equation as follows:
[latex]\text{K}_\text{a}=\frac{[\text{H}^+][\text{A}^-]}{[\text{HA}]}[/latex]
[latex]1.5\times 10^{-5}=\frac{\text{x}^2}{0.060-\text{x}}[/latex]
However, because the acid dissociates only to a very slight extent, we can assume
x is small. The above equation simplifies to the following:
[latex]1.5\times 10^{-5}\approx \frac{\text{x}^2}{0.060}[/latex]
[latex]\text{x}=[\text{H}^+]=9.4\times 10^{-4}[/latex]
To find the percent dissociation, we divide the hydrogen ion’s concentration of by the concentration of the undissociated species, HA, and multiply by 100%:
[latex]\alpha = \frac{[\text{H}^+]}{[\text{HA}]}\times 100\%=\frac{9.4\times 10^{-4}}{0.060}\times 100\%=1.6\%[/latex]
As we would expect for a weak acid, the percent dissociation is quite small. However, for some weak acids, the percent dissociation can be higher—upwards of 10% or more. For example, with a problem involving the percent dissociation of a 0.100 M chloroacetic acid, we cannot assume x is small, and therefore use an ICE table to solve the problem.
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... counterclockwise 45 degrees with respect to z axis means that you look along the +z direction from the origin. The plane of the loop then lies along the same direction as $B$ so $\mu$ and $B$ are now perpendicular. Torque is now a maximum. (See diagram below.)
The magnitude of $\mu$ is still the same ($0.016 Am^2$) because the current and area of the loop are the same. $B$ is still the same - its magnitude is $|B|=0.05T$. So the torque is now $\tau=|\mu| |B| \hat{k}=0.016\times 0.05 \hat{k} Nm=0.0008 \hat{k} Nm$.
The given answer is far too big. It should be the same order of magnitude as (a) but a little bigger.
In the diagram, the magnetic field $B$ (red) lies at $45^{\circ}$ to the x and y axes, and the rectangular loop (blue) initially lies in the yz plane in position $L_1$. (The +z direction points into the screen.)
After the $45^{\circ}$ counter-clockwise rotation about the z axis the rectangular loop lies in position $L_2$. The magnetic moment $u_2$ (green) is normal to the plane of the rectangle and is now perpendicular to $B$. In this position the torque on the rectangular loop $u_2 \times B$ is a maximum.
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The general Solution to the Equation A more general way to write this equation that emphasizes its applicability to all cases of SHM is as follows: We will arbitrarily use the symbol “y”, but we just as well have used \( \theta \), or x, or any other symbol.
\[ \dfrac{d^2}{dt^2} y(t) = \left(\dfrac{- 2 \pi} { T} \right)^2 y(t) \]
The general solution in standard form is,
\[ y(t) = A \sin \left( \dfrac{2 \pi t}{T} + \phi \right) \]
What is the meaning of the constants? The sine function goes through a complete cycle every \(2\pi\) radians. This occurs each time
t increases by an amount . Thus T is the T periodof the oscillations, as was mentioned before. The reciprocal of the period is the of oscillations, \( \mathcal{f} \): frequency
\[ \mathcal{f} = \dfrac{1}{T}\]
is the time required to complete the cycle, while \(\mathcal{f}\) is the number of cycles per second. T is measured in seconds;\(\mathcal{f}\), in reciprocal seconds (1/s), which are called hertz and abbreviated Hz. T
The maximum value of the sine function is +1 and the minimum value is -1. Thus, A is the
of the oscillations. That is, the maximum value of y is +A and the minimum value is -A . amplitude
The angle \( \phi \) is determined by the value of y at the particular time t = 0. If y has its positive maximum value at t = 0, then \(\phi \) has to be \( 90^\circ\) or \(\pi/2 \) radians. We say that \(\phi\) depends on the “initial conditions”. The angle \(\phi\) is often n referred to as the
. By including the phase angle, we can make the sine function fit any particular physical situation. Without the phase angle, we would always have to start timing the oscillation when the position had the value zero. By including the phase angle, we have a perfectly general solution. phase angle
The solutions we have written down describe the position as a function of time for any object vibrating in simple harmonic motion. They give the specific time dependence of the position of whatever it is that is vibrating. The three constants depend on the particular situation.
Let's explore our solution to SHM further. The
equillibrium value of y is the value y has when no oscillation is occurring. For the way we have written the solutions, this value is zero. Thus, the amplitude is the change in y that occurs in going from the equilibrium value to the maximum value of y.
The picture(Figure 8.6.1) is for the angle \(\phi = 0 \). Changing the value of the phase angle \(\phi \) shifts the curve sideways. Compare this plot to the plot of the sine solution with \(\phi = \pi/4 \) radians, in the following graph. You can see that they are just the same except for a sideways shift.
Figure 8.6.1
To summarize, then, the solutions we have written down describe the position as a function of time for any object vibrating in simple harmonic motion. They give the specific time dependence of the position of whatever it is that is vibrating. The three constants,
, A and \(\phi\) characterize the motion and depend on the particular situation. T
Figure 8.6.2
The period,
, or frequency, \( \mathcal{f} \), of an oscillating system is determined by the constants appearing as the coefficient of the linear term of the differential equation when written in standard form: T
\[ \dfrac{d^2}{dt^2} y(t) = \left(\dfrac{- 2 \pi} { T} \right)^2 y(t) \]
For a mass on a spring, we found that,
\[ (\dfrac{2\pi}{T})^2 = \dfrac{k}{m} \rightarrow T = 2\pi \sqrt{\dfrac{m}{k}} \]
For the pendulum,
\[ (\dfrac{2\pi}{T})^2 = \dfrac{g}{l} \rightarrow T = 2\pi \sqrt{\dfrac{g}{l}} \]
Note that you do not need to write out the solution of the differential equation to get the frequency or period. It comes directly from applying Newton’s 2
nd law and “reading off” the constants. Energy for a Mass Hanging from a Spring
As a mass hanging from a spring oscillates, very little mechanical energy is converted to thermal energy or sound, so we expect the mechanical energy to remain essentially constant for many periods.
The potential energy is defined in terms of the work required to move the spring, and has the value,
\[ PE = \dfrac{1}{2} ky^2 \]
assuming that the origin is placed at the equilibrium value of y and that the potential energy is defined as zero there.
As usual kinetic energy is,
\[ KE = \dfrac{1}{2} mv^2 \]
Let's substitute the general solution for \(y(t)\) into these expressions:
\[ PE = \dfrac{1}{2}ky^2 = \dfrac{1}{2}kA^2 \sin \left( \dfrac{2 \pi t}{T} + \phi \right) \]
To calculate the kinetic energy, we differentiate the expression for y(t) to get v(t):
\[ v(t) = \dfrac{dy}{dt} = \dfrac{2\pi}{T}A \cos \left( \dfrac{2 \pi t}{T} + \phi \right) \]
so that
\[ KE = \dfrac{1}{2}m \left(\dfrac{ 2\pi}{T} \right)^2A^2 \cos^2 \left( \dfrac{2 \pi t}{T} + \phi \right) \]
But for a mass spring system, (2 \(\pi\)/T)
2 = k/m. We can substitute this relation into the equation 8.6.11, finally getting the expression for the kinetic energy:
\[ KE = \dfrac{1}{2}k A^2 \cos^2 \left( \dfrac{2 \pi t}{T} + \phi \right) \]
We note that the maximum values of the PE and KE are the same. Also, the time average values of the KE and the PE are the same: 1/2 of the maximum values, since the average of \(sin^2\) or \(cos^2\) is just 1/2. In Chapter 3 we could merely say this was plausible in our discussion of equipartition of energy. Now we see why we were justified in saying the average energy in the KE mode is the same as the average in the PE mode.
When we add the kinetic energy to the potential energy to get the total energy, we notice that we have the sum \((sin^2 + cos^2) \) which always has value unity. Hence the total energy is,
\[E_{tot}= 1/2A^2 \]
There are two things that are important about this equation 8.6.13,
the total energy is a constant just as we expected, and the total energy is proportional to the square of the amplitude.
This is a characteristic of all kinds of oscillating systems and extends even to wave motions, as will see in the next chapter in Part 3 of this text.
Energy Graphs
The Potential Energy Function,
\[PE = \frac{1}{2}y^2\]
is a parabola when plotted as a function of y, while the total energy, being constant, is a horizontal line (Figure 8.4.3).
Figure 8.6.3
The kinetic energy is the difference, \(KE=E_{tot} - PE\). But the kinetic energy cannot be negative, since the mass is never negative and \(v^2\) is never negative regardless of the sign of \(v\) itself. This means that the oscillation is limited, and can go from \(y_{max}\) to \(y_{min} \). Of course this just reinforces what we already know, since \(y_{max} = A\) and \(y_{min}=-A\).
But for any object that oscillates about an equilibrium position, even when the force law is not as simple as F=-ky, this graphical analysis provides an accurate description for small oscillations. As an example, look at the plot below(Figure 8.6.4):
Figure 8.6.4
This is the shape of the potential energy between two bound atoms that we encountered in chapter 3. Even though the pair-wise potential energy function is not a parabola over all distances, near the minimum it is approximately so, and therefore the oscillations of this system will be
simple harmonic if they are at sufficiently small amplitude about the minimum in the potential energy curve.
Thus, we can make a very strong statement: essentially every system that vibrates, does so in SHM for small amplitudes of vibration. All molecules, including those in our bodies, and all atoms in solids and liquids move essentially in simple harmonic motion.
Applying our Results to the Universe!
Let’s now consider our model for matter. For liquids and solids, we picture molecules that are bound to each other as if they have little springs attaching them together. They bounce around, and in liquids tumble and change positions. What is the nature of the oscillations these molecules undergo? And what happens when we exert external forces on the matter and bend it or compress it. How then does the matter respond on a macroscopic scale? What we saw in the discussion above on SHM, is that if the restoring force is proportional to the displacement, but in the opposite direction of the displacement, then SHM results. portional to the displacement, but in the opposite direction of the displacement, then SHM results. This will always be the case if the displacement from equilibrium is sufficiently small. The result is that everything, on both the atomic scale and macroscopic scale, tends to vibrate in SHM. This is very nice, because we know the solution! The period of oscillation depends on factors like the mass of the particles or object being considered and the strength of the restoring forces. If we can identify the forces acting and write down Newton’s 2
nd law, then for small oscillations, we have the problem solved!
Think about what we have accomplished. For any kind of matter, we know how to go about finding its vibration frequencies when subjected to external forces as well as how its internal parts oscillate. We have a very general and powerful approach that works for almost all vibrating phenomena on any scale!
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I solved one question in a book of analysis, and although I used an informal method to check it, I'd like to know more about what should be done. The question was the following:
$A\subset X$ and $ B \subset X$;
If $A\subset Y$ and $ B\subset Y$, then $X\subset Y$.
Prove that $X=A\cup B$.
Looking at the second line, we have an implication. If $Q$, then $P$. And it's truth table is the following:
$$\begin{matrix} {P}&{Q}&{}&{P\rightarrow Q}\\ {0}&{0}&{}&{1}\\ {0}&{1}&{}&{1}\\ {1}&{0}&{}&{0}\\ {1}&{1}&{}&{1} \end{matrix}$$
Then $Q\equiv A\subset Y, B\subset Y$ and $P\equiv X\subset Y$, to answer it, what line should I take from that truth table? I did by thinking that $P=1$ and $Q=1$, but there are other choices too. Is it possible to obtain the same answer with any choices of $P$ and $Q$? I've been thinking in the other ways but assuming that $P=1=Q$ seems more natural. I guess that it should be valid for every row, but I'm not sure.
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Armed with only a basic knowledge of vectors and knowing the required length proportions for an equilateral triangle and a regular tetrahedron, here is a plodding derivation of the coordinates for your circumscribing tetrahedron.
I start with a unit cube with corners at $(0,0,0)$ and $(1,1,1)$ for convenience.
As noted by previous answers, the equilateral triangle slice on top of the unit cube can be dissected, so that there is a smaller unit equilateral triangle on top, and two $30-60-90$ triangle "ears" on the side.
We know that the height of an equilateral triangle with side length $s$ is $\dfrac{\sqrt{3}}{2}s$ (which follows from using the Pythagorean theorem on a $30-60-90$ triangle).
Thus, for the ears, if the "height" of the $30-60-90$ triangle is $1$, the offset from the cube corners would be $\dfrac1{\sqrt{3}}$, giving two of the triangle points as
$$\left(-\frac1{\sqrt{3}},0,1\right),\left(1+\frac1{\sqrt{3}},0,1\right)$$
The third point can be obtained by making an offset of $\dfrac{\sqrt{3}}{2}$ off the midpoint of the furthest top edge of the unit cube, $\left(\frac12,1,1\right)$ in the $y$ direction. Thus, the three points are
$$\left(-\frac1{\sqrt{3}},0,1\right),\left(1+\frac1{\sqrt{3}},0,1\right),\left(\frac12,1+\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2},1\right)$$
At this point, we recall that the height of a regular tetrahedron with edge length $s$ is $\dfrac{\sqrt{6}}{3}s$.
We use this piece of information first to get the peak of the circumscribing tetrahedron. First, we determine the centroid of our initial equilateral triangle to be
$$\left(\frac12,\frac13+\frac{\sqrt3}{6},1\right)$$
We then make an offset of $\left(1+\dfrac2{\sqrt 3}\right)\left(\dfrac{\sqrt{6}}{3}\right)=\frac{\sqrt 2}{3}\left(2+\sqrt 3\right)$ in the $z$ direction, yielding the coordinates
$$\left(\frac12,\frac13+\frac{\sqrt3}{6},1+\frac{2\sqrt 2}{3}+\frac{\sqrt 6}{3}\right)$$
This expression is particularly convenient; from here we find that the height of the circumscribing tetrahedron ought to be $1+\dfrac{2\sqrt 2}{3}+\dfrac{\sqrt 6}{3}$ as well. We thus determine the edge length of the circumscribing tetrahedron to be
$$\frac{1+\frac{2\sqrt 2}{3}+\frac{\sqrt 6}{3}}{\frac{\sqrt{6}}{3}}=1+\frac{2}{\sqrt 3}+\sqrt{\frac32}$$
We can use this to determine the coordinates of the other three points of the circumscribing tetrahedron. We first note that the centroid of the tetrahedron's base ought to be at $\left(\dfrac12,\dfrac13+\dfrac{\sqrt3}{6},0\right)$ (why?).
From there, we can find the base points by making an offset of $\dfrac{\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}+\frac{2}{\sqrt{3}}+1}{\sqrt{3}}=\dfrac23+\dfrac1{\sqrt{3}}+\dfrac1{\sqrt{2}}$ from the centroid, in the $-30^\circ$, $90^\circ$ and $210^\circ$ directions (why?). For example, we obtain one point as
$$\begin{align*}&\left(\frac12,\frac13+\frac{\sqrt3}{6},0\right)+\left(\frac23+\frac1{\sqrt{3}}+\frac1{\sqrt{2}}\right)\left(\cos(-30^\circ),\sin(-30^\circ),0\right)\\&=\left(1+\sqrt{\frac38}+\frac1{\sqrt{3}},-\frac1{2\sqrt{2}},0\right)\end{align*}$$
We finally obtain the four corners of the circumscribing tetrahedron as
$$\begin{align*}&\left(1+\sqrt{\frac38}+\frac1{\sqrt{3}},-\frac1{2\sqrt{2}},0\right)\\&\left(\frac12,1+\frac{\sqrt{2}+\sqrt{3}}{2},0\right)\\&\left(-\frac1{\sqrt{3}}-\sqrt{\frac38},-\frac1{2\sqrt{2}},0\right)\\&\left(\frac12,\frac13+\frac{\sqrt3}{6},1+\frac{2\sqrt 2}{3}+\frac{\sqrt 6}{3}\right)\end{align*}$$
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{-1/Sqrt[3] - Sqrt[3/8], -1/(2 Sqrt[2]), 0},
{1/2, (2 + Sqrt[3])/6, (3 + 2 Sqrt[2] + Sqrt[6])/3}}]}},
Axes -> True, Boxed -> False]
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Steric hinderance is a major component in determining the feasibility and the rate of a chemical reaction. Wouldn't it be useful to measure it quantitatively then? This would make it easier to compare the property of two molecules. Are there currently ways to measure steric hindrance, or is it not possible for some reason?
There are two ways I know of to measure steric hindrance. Once such quantitative measurement are A values, which give the energetic preference of having the substituent on a substituted cyclohexane ring in the equatorial position versus the axial position. This preference is a result of 1,3-diaxial strain.
Additionally, the Taft equation is a linear free-energy relationship used to measure the steric effects of a substituent on the rate of reaction. The equation is given by:
$${\displaystyle \log \left({\frac {k_{s}}{k_{\ce {CH3}}}}\right)=\rho ^{*}\sigma ^{*}+\delta E_{s}}$$
where $\displaystyle \frac {k_{s}}{k_{\ce {CH3}}}$ is the ratio of the substituents rate of reaction relative to a methyl group, $\sigma^*$ is the polar substituent constant that describes the field and inductive effects of the substituent, $E_s$ is the steric substituent constant, $\rho^*$ is the sensitivity factor for the reaction to polar effects, and $\delta$ is the sensitivity factor for the reaction to steric effects.$^{[1]}$
Though A values are useful as a quick reference in deducing the major products of an unfamiliar reaction, the Taft equation would be used preferentially when doing an in depth mechanistic study of a reaction for publication.
$^{[1]}$ Wikipedia, Taft equation There is a full way but it's not easy to calculate.
Steric hindrance is indeed a generic term for a quantifiable phenomenon: electron-electron repulsion, or (much) more broadly, chemical physics.
Electron-electron repulsion can be measured simply/crudely by Coulomb's law: \begin{align} E &= \frac{q_1 q_2}{4\pi \epsilon_0 r}, & F &= \frac{q_1 q_2}{4\pi \epsilon_0 r^2}. \end{align}
Here, e.g. you can approximate atomic charges with some atomic volume assigned and quantify the forces involved between molecules.
But the full dynamics requires quantum mechanical calculations (ignoring things like relativity and gravity).
Coulomb's energy does appear in QM equations but electron-electron interactions are more complicated than simple point-charges so more terms appear for correlation/exchange energies etc. The general principle is the same as for classical physics though: you calculate total kinetic and potential energy of your system.
The quantitative expression would be
the way potential energy changes with intermolecular distance. So you could set up a series of systems with different distances between molecules and see how the energy changes.
One can calculate QM energies with QM software like NWChem, QChem, Orca, Gaussian and others.
While not directly "measuring" steric hindrance but rather "distortion energy" the computational Interaction/Distortion model from K.N. Houk (1, 2) and Bickelhaupt who calls it "Activation Strain" model (3) can give pretty good insight in such things. Especially since steric hindrance is only half (or even less) of the story.
For similar reactions this distortion energy can (!) be related to steric hindrance, but is also inflenced by electronic effects the substituents might have on the reactive center. Over all this model provides pretty good insight if a reaction proceeds fast/slow due to electronic effects or energy needed for distortion.
So how does it work? We pretty much arbitrarily devide our energy of activation into two parts, the interaction energy and the distortion energy. Distortion energy is the energy needed to "twist" the reactants from ground state geometry into geometry at the transition state structure. For this energy is needed. If you then bring this distorted reactants together they will interact and what you get out here is the interaction energy. Sum of all distortion energies and the interaction energy is the energy of activation.
$$\Delta E^{\ddagger}_\mathrm{act}=\Delta E^{\ddagger}_\mathrm{dist} + \Delta E^{\ddagger}_\mathrm{int}$$
Houk himself explains this very well in this talk.
References:
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Physicists prefer to work with conservative forces because this results in path independence. What this means is that the net work done by a system over a closed path goes to zero:
\begin{equation}W = \oint_C \vec{F}\cdot d\vec{r} = 0\end{equation}
This can only be true if the force $F$ does not depend explicitly on the velocity $\dot{q}$ of the system. We know that we can obtain the force on a particle from its potential energy
\begin{equation}F = - \frac{dV}{dq}\end{equation}
This treatment works for both Newtonian gravity and the Coulomb force. The above equations don't work if the potential $V$ has an explicit time dependence, however.
I want to be clear about something here: it is not correct to say that "conservative forces are more fundamental than non-conservative forces." Rather, the reality is that the mathematics of classical mechanics was historically developed to only deal with conservative forces.
Quantum mechanics was built from an extension of classical Hamiltonian mechanics, so the expectation that all subatomic interactions are conservative emerged from the limitations of the mathematical formalism. The fact that spontaneous-symmetry breaking occurs in beta decay is evidence of the limitations of extending classical expectations to the quantum world.
Non-conservative systems abound in nature. Any open thermodynamic system dissipates energy into its environment and failing to account for the missing degrees of freedom requires treating it as non-conservative. Finally, General Relativity is non-conservative because the Einstein field equations are non-linear.
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I have a small confusion over describing the cutoff point for the critical region in a likelihood ratio test when the null hypothesis is composite. Take this exercise in particular:
Let $(X_1,X_2,\ldots,X_n)$ be a random sample from a shifted exponential distribution with density $$f_{\theta}(x)=e^{-(x-\theta)}\mathbf1_{x\ge\theta}\quad,\,\theta\in\mathbb R$$
I am to derive the likelihood ratio test of size $\alpha$ for testing $$H_0:\theta\le \theta_0\quad\text{ against }\quad H_1:\theta>\theta_0$$
, where $\theta_0$ is a specified value of $\theta$.
Given the sample $(x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_n)$, the likelihood function is
$$L(\theta\mid x_1,\ldots,x_n)=\prod_{i=1}^n f_{\theta}(x_i)=\exp\left[-\sum_{i=1}^n (x_i-\theta)\right]\mathbf1_{x_{(1)}\ge\theta}\quad,\,\theta\in\mathbb R$$
Unrestricted MLE of $\theta$ is clearly $$\hat\theta=X_{(1)}$$
And I think the restricted MLE of $\theta$ when $\theta\le \theta_0$ is $$\hat{\hat\theta}=\begin{cases}\hat\theta&,\text{ if }\hat\theta\le\theta_0 \\ \theta_0&,\text{ if }\hat\theta>\theta_0 \end{cases}$$
So my LR test statistic is
\begin{align} \Lambda(x_1,\ldots,x_n)&=\frac{\sup_{\theta\le\theta_0}L(\theta\mid x_1,\ldots,x_n)}{\sup_{\theta}L(\theta\mid x_1,\ldots,x_n)} \\\\&=\frac{L(\hat{\hat\theta}\mid x_1,\ldots,x_n)}{L(\hat\theta\mid x_1,\ldots,x_n)} \\\\&=\begin{cases}1&,\text{ if }\hat\theta\le\theta_0\\\\\frac{L(\theta_0\mid x_1,\ldots,x_n)}{L(\hat\theta\mid x_1,\ldots,x_n)}&,\text{ if }\hat\theta>\theta_0\end{cases} \end{align}
If $\hat\theta\le\theta_0$, we trivially accept $H_0$.
Now when $\hat\theta>\theta_0$,
$$\Lambda(x_1,\ldots,x_n)=\frac{L(\theta_0\mid x_1,\ldots,x_n)}{L(\hat\theta\mid x_1,\ldots,x_n)}=e^{n(\theta_0-x_{(1)})}$$
Therefore, when $x_{(1)}>\theta_0$,
\begin{align} \Lambda(x_1,\ldots,x_n)<\text{ constant }&\implies x_{(1)}-\theta_0>\text{ constant } \end{align}
My confusion is whether I should rewrite that last line as $x_{(1)}>\text{ constant }$ or keep it as it is.
We know that an appropriate test statistic here is $$2n(X_{(1)}-\theta)\sim \chi^2_2$$
But under $H_0$, how is $\theta<\theta_0$ reflected in this statistic (if it was a simple null it would have been fine)? Is it correct to say, that under $H_0$, $2n(X_{(1)}-\theta_0)\sim \chi^2_2$ ?
If I describe the critical region as $x_{(1)}>c$, then I have to find $c$ subject to $$P_{H_0}(X_{(1)}>c)=\alpha$$
I can do this by finding the probability directly. But suppose I want to find the cutoff point in terms of the $\chi^2_2$ fractile. Then I get for some $k (=c-\theta_0)$, $$P_{H_0}(2n(X_{(1)}-\theta_0)>2n k)=\alpha$$, which gives me $$2nk=\chi^2_{2;\alpha}\implies k=\frac{1}{2n}\chi^2_{2;\alpha}$$, where $\chi^2_{2,\alpha}$ is the $(1-\alpha)$th fractile of a $\chi^2_2$ distribution.
Then my decision rule for $\hat\theta>\theta_0$ would be "Reject $H_0$ at size $\alpha$ if $X_{(1)}>\frac{1}{2n}\chi^2_{2;\alpha}$".
Is there anything wrong with the last line? Or should I write the cutoff point in terms of $c$ , that is $c=\frac{1}{2n}\chi^2_{2;\alpha}+\theta_0$ ?
In other words, should I write the cutoff point including or excluding $\theta_0$?
This question arises because I have been told that the LRT coincides with the UMP test whenever the latter exists. And for the UMP test (UMP test exists because $f_{\theta}$ has the MLR property), the cutoff point for the critical region is expressed in terms of $\theta_0$.
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Introduction
Built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory by an Investigation Definition Team (IDT) headed by John Trauger, WFPC2 was the replacement for the first Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WF/PC-1) and includes built-in corrections for the spherical aberration of the HST Optical Telescope Assembly (OTA). The WFPC2 was installed in HST during the First Servicing Mission in December 1993.
Early IDT report of the WFPC2 on-orbit performance: Trauger et al. (1994, ApJ, 435, L3) A more detailed assessment of its capabilities: Holtzman et al. (1995, PASP, 107, page 156 and page 1065).
The WFPC2 was used to obtain high resolution images of astronomical objects over a relatively wide field of view and a broad range of wavelengths (1150 to 11,000 Å). WFPC2 was installed during the first HST Servicing Mission in 1993 and removed during Servicing Mission 4 in 2009. WFPC2 data can be found on the MAST Archive.
ISRs Filter WFPC2 ISRs Listing Results 2010-04: The Dependence of WFPC2 Charge Transfer Efficiency on Background Illumination 2010-01: WFPC2 Standard Star CTE Optical Configuration
While it was in operation, the WFPC2 field of view was located at the center of the HST focal plane. The central portion of the f/24 beam coming from the OTA would be intercepted by a steerable pick-off mirror attached to the WFPC2 and diverted through an open port entry into the instrument. The beam would then pass through a shutter and interposable filters. An assembly of 12 filter wheels contained a total of 48 spectral elements and polarizers. The light would then fall onto a shallow-angle, four-faceted pyramid, located at the aberrated OTA focus. Each face of the pyramid was a concave spherical surface, dividing the OTA image of the sky into four parts. After leaving the pyramid, each quarter of the full field of view would then be relayed by an optically flat mirror to a Cassegrain relay that would form a second field image on a charge-coupled device (CCD) of 800 x 800 pixels. Each of these four detectors were housed in a cell sealed by a MgF2 window, which is figured to serve as a field flattener.
The aberrated HST wavefront was corrected by introducing an equal but opposite error in each of the four Cassegrain relays. An image of the HST primary mirror would then be formed on the secondary mirrors in the Cassegrain relays. The spherical aberration from the telescope's primary mirror would be corrected on these secondary mirrors, which were extremely aspheric; the resulting point spread function was quite close to that originally expected for WF/PC-1.
Field of View
The U2,U3 axes were defined by the "nominal" Optical Telescope Assembly (OTA) axis, which was near the center of the WFPC2 FOV. The readout direction was marked with an arrow near the start of the first row in each CCD; note that it rotated 90 degrees between successive chips. The x,y arrows mark the coordinate axes for any POS TARG commands that may have been specified in the proposal. An optional special requirement in HST observing proposals, places the target an offset of POS TARG (in arcsec) from the specified aperture.
Camera Configurations
Camera Pixels Field of View Scale f/ratio PC (PC1) 800 x 800 36" x 36" 0.0455" per pixel 28.3 WF2, 3, 4 800 x 800 80" x 80" 0.0996" per pixel
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A Note about HST File Formats
Data from WFPC2 are made available to observers as files in Multi-Extension FITS (MEF) format, which is directly readable by most PyRAF/IRAF/STSDAS tasks. All WFPC2 data are now available in either waivered FITS or MEF formats. The user may specify either format when retrieving that data from the HDA. WFPC2 data, in either Generic Edited Information Set (GEIS) or MEF formats, can be fully processed with STSDAS tasks.
The figure below provides a physical representation of the typical data format.
Resources Charge Traps
There are about 30 pixels in WFPC2 that are "charge traps" which do not transfer charge efficiently during readout, producing artifacts that are often quite noticeable. Typically, charge is delayed into successive pixels, producing a streak above the defective pixel. In the worst cases, the entire column above the pixel can be rendered useless. On blank sky, these traps will tend to produce a dark streak. However, when a bright object or cosmic ray is read through them, a bright streak will be produced. Here, we show streaks (a) in the background sky, and (b) stellar images produced by charge traps in the WFPC2. Individual traps have been cataloged and their identifying numbers are shown.
Warm Pixels and Annealing
Decontaminations (anneals), during which the instrument is warmed up to about 22
o C for a period of six hours, were performed about once per month. These procedures are required in order to remove the UV-blocking contaminants which gradually build-up on the CCD windows (thereby restoring the UV throughput) as well as fix warm pixels. Examples of warm pixels are presented in the figure below.
Calibration
Procedure Estimated Accuracy Notes Bias subtraction 0.1 DN rms Unless bias jump is present Dark subtraction 0.1 DN/hr rms Error larger for warm pixels; absolute error uncertain because of dark glow Flat fielding <1% rms large scale Visible, near UV 0.3% rms small scale Visible, near UV ~10% F160BW; however, significant noise reduction achieved with use of correction flats
Relative Photometry
Procedure Estimated Accuracy Notes Residuals in CTE correction < 3% for the majority (~90%) of cases up to 1-% for extreme cases (e.g., very low backgrounds) Long vs. short anomaly (uncorrected) < 5% Magnitude errors <1% for well-exposed stars but may be larger for fainter stars. Some studies have failed to confirm the effect. (see Chapter 5 of IHB for more details) Aperture correction 4% rms focus dependence (1 pixel aperture) Can (should) be determined from data <1% focus dependence (> 5 pixel) Can (should) be determined from data 1-2% field dependence (1 pixel aperture) Can (should) be determined from data Contamination correction 3% rms max (28 days after decon) (F160BW) 1% rms max (28 days after decon) (filters bluer than F555W) Background determination 0.1 DN/pixel (background > 10 DN/pixel) May be difficult to exceed, regardless of image S/N Pixel centering < 1%
Absolute Photometry
Precedure Estimated Accuracy Sensitivity < 2% rms for standard photometric filters 2% rms for broad and intermediate filters in visible < 5% rms for narrow-band filters in visible 2-8% rms for UV filters
Astrometry
Procedure Estimated Accuracy Notes Relative 0.005" rms (after geometric and 34th-row corrections) Same chip 0.1" (estimated) Across chips Absolute 1" rms (estimated)
Photometric Systems Used for WFPC2 Data
The WFPC2 flight system is defined so that stars of color zero in the Johnson-Cousins UBVRI system have color zero between any pair of WFPC2 filters and have the same magnitude in V and F555W. This system was established by Holtzman et al. (1995b)
The zeropoints in the WFPC2 synthetic system, as defined in Holtzman et al. (1995b), are determined so that the magnitude of Vega, when observed through the appropriate WFPC2 filter, would be identical to the magnitude Vega has in the closest equivalent filter in the Johnson-Cousins system.
\(m_{AB} = -48.60-2.5\log f_\nu \)
\(m_{ST} = -21.10-2.5\log f_\lambda\)
Photometric Corrections
A number of corrections must be made to WFPC2 data to obtain the best possible photometry. Some of these, such as the corrections for UV throughput variability, are time dependent, and others, such as the correction for the geometric distortion of WFPC2 optics, are position dependent. Finally, some general corrections, such as the aperture correction, are needed as part of the analysis process. Here we provide examples of factors affecting photometric corrections.
Cool Down on April 23, 1994
PSF Variations
34th Row Defect
Gain Variation
Pixel Centering
Possible Variation in Methane Quad Filter Transmission
Polarimetry
WFPC2 has a polarizer filter which can be used for wide-field polarimetric imaging from about 200 through 700 nm. This filter is a
quad, meaning that it consists of four panes, each with the polarization angle oriented in a different direction, in steps of 45 o. The panes are aligned with the edges of the pyramid, thus each pane corresponds to a chip. However, because the filters are at some distance from the focal plane, there is significant vignetting and cross-talk at the edges of each chip. The area free from vignetting and cross-talk is about 60" square in each WF chip, and 15" square in the PC. It is also possible to use the polarizer in a partially rotated.
Accurate calibration of WFPC2 polarimetric data is rather complex, due to the design of both the polarizer filter and the instrument itself. WFPC2 has an aluminized pick-off mirror with a 47° angle of incidence, which rotates the polarization angle of the incoming light, as well as introducing a spurious polarization of up to 5%. Thus, both the HST roll angle and the polarization angle must be taken into account. In addition, the polarizer coating on the filter has significant transmission of the perpendicular component, with a strong wavelength dependence.
Astrometry
Astrometry with WFPC2 means primarily
relative astrometry. The high angular resolution and sensitivity of WFPC2 makes it possible, in principle, to measure precise positions of faint features with respect to other reference points in the WFPC2 field of view. On the other hand, the absolute astrometry that can be obtained from WFPC2 images is limited by the positions of the guide stars, usually known to about 0.5" rms in each coordinate, and by the transformation between the FGS and the WFPC2, which introduces errors of order of 0.1"
Because WFPC2 consists of four physically separate detectors, it is necessary to define a coordinate system that includes all four detectors. For convenience, sky coordinates (right ascension and declination) are often used; in this case, they must be computed and carried to a precision of a few mas, in order to maintain the precision with which the relative positions and scales of the WFPC2 detectors are known. It is important to remember that the coordinates are
not known with this accuracy. The absolute accuracy of the positions obtained from WFPC2 images is typically 0.5" rms in each coordinate and is limited primarily by the accuracy of the guide star positions.
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The Particle In Cell example posted previously was based on a uniform, Cartesian mesh. Such meshes are common in PIC simulations for a good reason. The PIC method requires interpolation of properties between particles and the mesh. As such, it is important to be able to quickly find the containing cell and compute the interpolation factors. This is a non-trivial task on unstructured meshes. On the other hand, in the PIC method we also desire the cell sizes to scale inversely with the plasma density. Small cells are needed in dense regions to resolve the Debye length and larger cells are desired in the low density region to assure enough particles to reduce statistical noise. This is impossible with the uniform Cartesian mesh. Lucky for us, there exists another possibility: a
stretched mesh. In this article, we’ll derive the governing equations and we’ll see how to implement a stretched mesh in PIC simulations. Equations
A stretched mesh is a mesh in which the cell spacing changes according to some analytical relationship. In this example we consider probably the simplest method in which the cell size increases
linearly. This will result in a quadratic relationship for node positions. Cell spacing, as a function of the node index i can be written as $$\Delta x =\Delta x_0 (1+ki)$$ where \(k\) is the stretch factor and \(i\) is assumed to be an integer in range \([0,n-1]\). Next, we need an expression for the node position. It is given by $$x = \Delta x_0\left[i+0.5k(i^2-i)\right]+x_0$$ You will notice that this expression is the integral of the cell spacing evaluated at the half-way point. This is due to the fact that the the integral is continuous while our mesh-spacing is defined as a step-wise function. Also note that if \(k=0\), we recover the uniform Cartesian mesh. Node Index
The expression for node position can be inverted to obtain the relationship for node index. It requires solving the quadratic equation,
$$ i = \frac{-b + \sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}$$ with $$\begin{align} a &= k \\ b &=2-k \\ c &= 2(x_0-x)/\Delta x_0 \end{align}$$ Stretch Factor
So far, we have not addressed the stretching factor. The stretch factor can be determined analytically given the following three user inputs: span of the mesh, reference cell size, and number of cells. It is computed by evaluating node position at the index of the last node, \(c=n-1\)
$$ k= \frac{2\left[(x_{max}-x_0)/\Delta x_0 -c\right]}{c^2-c}$$ Shrinking Mesh
The opposite of a stretched mesh is a shrinking mesh. In the formulation below, \(\Delta x_0\) is the size of the last (and smallest) cell. In other words, the cells shrink from some unknown size in the first cell to the user-defined value at the end.
$$\begin{align} \Delta x &= \Delta x_0 \left[1+k(n-2-i)\right]\\ x &= \Delta x_0\left[i+k\left(i(n-1.5)-0.5i^2\right)\right] + x_0 \end{align}$$
The coefficients for the quadratic equation for the node index on a shrinking mesh are:
$$\begin{align} a &= -k \\ b &=2[1+k(n-1.5)] \\ c &= 2(x_0-x)/\Delta x_0 \end{align}$$ Non-Uniform Mesh Finite Difference First Derivative
The stretched mesh results in a non-uniform cell spacing, which will require adjustments to our finite difference formulation. Noticing that the central difference for the first derivative is basically the average of the slopes on the “plus” and “minus” sides of a node, we can write
$$ \left(\frac{\partial \phi}{\partial x}\right)_i \approx \frac{1}{2}\frac{1}{\Delta x^+\Delta x^-} \Big[ \Delta x^- \phi_{i+1} + (\Delta x^+ – \Delta x^-)\phi_i – \Delta x^+\phi_{i-1}\Big]$$ where \(\Delta x^- \equiv x_i-x_{i-1}\) and \(\Delta x^+ \equiv x_{i+1}-x_i\). The standard central difference \((\phi_{i+1}-\phi_{i-1})/(2\Delta x)\) is recovered if \(\Delta x^+=\Delta x^-\). Second Derivative
Probably the most direct way to compute the non-uniform form for the second derivative (Laplacian) is to start with the Taylor series. We have
$$\begin{align} \phi_{i+1}&=\phi_i + \Delta x^+ \frac{\partial \phi}{\partial x} + \frac{\Delta^2x^+}{2}\frac{\partial^2\phi}{\partial^2 x}\\ \phi_{i-1}&=\phi_i – \Delta x^- \frac{\partial \phi}{\partial x} + \frac{\Delta^2x^-}{2}\frac{\partial^2\phi}{\partial^2 x} \end{align}$$ Next we mulitply the first equation by \(\Delta x^-\) and the second by \(\Delta x^+\). We can then add the two equations to eliminate the first derivative and obtain the following expression for the second derivative $$\left(\frac{\partial^2\phi}{\partial x^2}\right)_i \approx \left[\frac{2}{\Delta x^-\Delta^2x^+ + \Delta x^+\Delta^2x^-}\right] \Big[\Delta x^-\left(\phi_{i+1}-\phi_i\right) + \Delta x^+\left(\phi_{i-1}-\phi_i\right)\Big] $$
Again, if mesh spacing is uniform, we recover the standard central difference for the second derivative \((\phi_{i+1}-2\phi_i+\phi_{i-1})/\Delta^2x\).
Multiple Zones
Stretched mesh is best utilized as a part of a complex mesh definition consisting of multiple
zones. For instance, your domain may be best described by a shrinking mesh, followed by a uniform cell section, and then a growing mesh. The above relationship for computing the node index is valid only within each zone. Your code will first need to determine which zone the particle belongs to, and then computing the local node index. Finally, zone starting index is added to get the index in the global mesh.
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Hello guys! I was wondering if you knew some books/articles that have a good introduction to convexity in the context of variational calculus (functional analysis). I was reading Young's "calculus of variations and optimal control theory" but I'm not that far into the book and I don't know if skipping chapters is a good idea.
I don't know of a good reference, but I'm pretty sure that just means that second derivatives have consistent signs over the region of interest. (That is certainly a sufficient condition for Legendre transforms.)
@dm__ yes have studied bells thm at length ~2 decades now. it might seem airtight and has stood the test of time over ½ century, but yet there is some fineprint/ loopholes that even phd physicists/ experts/ specialists are not all aware of. those who fervently believe like Bohm that no new physics will ever supercede QM are likely to be disappointed/ dashed, now or later...
oops lol typo bohm bohr
btw what is not widely appreciated either is that nonlocality can be an emergent property of a fairly simple classical system, it seems almost nobody has expanded this at length/ pushed it to its deepest extent. hint: harmonic oscillators + wave medium + coupling etc
But I have seen that the convexity is associated to minimizers/maximizers of the functional, whereas the sign second variation is not a sufficient condition for that. That kind of makes me think that those concepts are not equivalent in the case of functionals...
@dm__ generally think sampling "bias" is not completely ruled out by existing experiments. some of this goes back to CHSH 1969. there is unquestioned reliance on this papers formulation by most subsequent experiments. am not saying its wrong, think only that theres very subtle loophole(s) in it that havent yet been widely discovered. there are many other refs to look into for someone extremely motivated/ ambitious (such individuals are rare). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHSH_inequality
@dm__ it stands as a math proof ("based on certain assumptions"), have no objections. but its a thm aimed at physical reality. the translation into experiment requires extraordinary finesse, and the complex analysis starts with CHSH 1969. etc
While it's not something usual, I've noticed that sometimes people edit my question or answer with a more complex notation or incorrect information/formulas. While I don't think this is done with malicious intent, it has sometimes confused people when I'm either asking or explaining something, as...
@vzn what do you make of the most recent (2015) experiments? "In 2015 the first three significant-loophole-free Bell-tests were published within three months by independent groups in Delft, Vienna and Boulder.
All three tests simultaneously addressed the detection loophole, the locality loophole, and the memory loophole. This makes them “loophole-free” in the sense that all remaining conceivable loopholes like superdeterminism require truly exotic hypotheses that might never get closed experimentally."
@dm__ yes blogged on those. they are more airtight than previous experiments. but still seem based on CHSH. urge you to think deeply about CHSH in a way that physicists are not paying attention. ah, voila even wikipedia spells it out! amazing
> The CHSH paper lists many preconditions (or "reasonable and/or presumable assumptions") to derive the simplified theorem and formula. For example, for the method to be valid, it has to be assumed that the detected pairs are a fair sample of those emitted. In actual experiments, detectors are never 100% efficient, so that only a sample of the emitted pairs are detected. > A subtle, related requirement is that the hidden variables do not influence or determine detection probability in a way that would lead to different samples at each arm of the experiment.
↑ suspect entire general LHV theory of QM lurks in these loophole(s)! there has been very little attn focused in this area... :o
how about this for a radical idea? the hidden variables determine the probability of detection...! :o o_O
@vzn honest question, would there ever be an experiment that would fundamentally rule out nonlocality to you? and if so, what would that be? what would fundamentally show, in your opinion, that the universe is inherently local?
@dm__ my feeling is that something more can be milked out of bell experiments that has not been revealed so far. suppose that one could experimentally control the degree of violation, wouldnt that be extraordinary? and theoretically problematic? my feeling/ suspicion is that must be the case. it seems to relate to detector efficiency maybe. but anyway, do believe that nonlocality can be found in classical systems as an emergent property as stated...
if we go into detector efficiency, there is no end to that hole. and my beliefs have no weight. my suspicion is screaming absolutely not, as the classical is emergent from the quantum, not the other way around
@vzn have remained civil, but you are being quite immature and condescending. I'd urge you to put aside the human perspective and not insist that physical reality align with what you expect it to be. all the best
@dm__ ?!? no condescension intended...? am striving to be accurate with my words... you say your "beliefs have no weight," but your beliefs are essentially perfectly aligned with the establishment view...
Last night dream, introduced a strange reference frame based disease called Forced motion blindness. It is a strange eye disease where the lens is such that to the patient, anything stationary wrt the floor is moving forward in a certain direction, causing them have to keep walking to catch up with them. At the same time, the normal person think they are stationary wrt to floor. The result of this discrepancy is the patient kept bumping to the normal person. In order to not bump, the person has to walk at the apparent velocity as seen by the patient. The only known way to cure it is to remo…
And to make things even more confusing:
Such disease is never possible in real life, for it involves two incompatible realities to coexist and coinfluence in a pluralistic fashion. In particular, as seen by those not having the disease, the patient kept ran into the back of the normal person, but to the patient, he never ran into him and is walking normally
It seems my mind has gone f88888 up enough to envision two realities that with fundamentally incompatible observations, influencing each other in a consistent fashion
It seems my mind is getting more and more comfortable with dialetheia now
@vzn There's blatant nonlocality in Newtonian mechanics: gravity acts instantaneously. Eg, the force vector attracting the Earth to the Sun points to where the Sun is now, not where it was 500 seconds ago.
@Blue ASCII is a 7 bit encoding, so it can encode a maximum of 128 characters, but 32 of those codes are control codes, like line feed, carriage return, tab, etc. OTOH, there are various 8 bit encodings known as "extended ASCII", that have more characters. There are quite a few 8 bit encodings that are supersets of ASCII, so I'm wary of any encoding touted to be "the" extended ASCII.
If we have a system and we know all the degrees of freedom, we can find the Lagrangian of the dynamical system. What happens if we apply some non-conservative forces in the system? I mean how to deal with the Lagrangian, if we get any external non-conservative forces perturbs the system?Exampl...
@Blue I think now I probably know what you mean. Encoding is the way to store information in digital form; I think I have heard the professor talking about that in my undergraduate computer course, but I thought that is not very important in actually using a computer, so I didn't study that much. What I meant by use above is what you need to know to be able to use a computer, like you need to know LaTeX commands to type them.
@AvnishKabaj I have never had any of these symptoms after studying too much. When I have intensive studies, like preparing for an exam, after the exam, I feel a great wish to relax and don't want to study at all and just want to go somehwere to play crazily.
@bolbteppa the (quanta) article summary is nearly popsci writing by a nonexpert. specialists will understand the link to LHV theory re quoted section. havent read the scientific articles yet but think its likely they have further ref.
@PM2Ring yes so called "instantaneous action/ force at a distance" pondered as highly questionable bordering on suspicious by deep thinkers at the time. newtonian mechanics was/ is not entirely wrong. btw re gravity there are a lot of new ideas circulating wrt emergent theories that also seem to tie into GR + QM unification.
@Slereah No idea. I've never done Lagrangian mechanics for a living. When I've seen it used to describe nonconservative dynamics I have indeed generally thought that it looked pretty silly, but I can see how it could be useful. I don't know enough about the possible alternatives to tell whether there are "good" ways to do it. And I'm not sure there's a reasonable definition of "non-stupid way" out there.
← lol went to metaphysical fair sat, spent $20 for palm reading, enthusiastic response on my leadership + teaching + public speaking abilities, brought small tear to my eye... or maybe was just fighting infection o_O :P
How can I move a chat back to comments?In complying to the automated admonition to move comments to chat, I discovered that MathJax is was no longer rendered. This is unacceptable in this particular discussion. I therefore need to undo my action and move the chat back to comments.
hmmm... actually the reduced mass comes out of using the transformation to the center of mass and relative coordinates, which have nothing to do with Lagrangian... but I'll try to find a Newtonian reference.
One example is a spring of initial length $r_0$ with two masses $m_1$ and $m_2$ on the ends such that $r = r_2 - r_1$ is it's length at a given time $t$ - the force laws for the two ends are $m_1 \ddot{r}_1 = k (r - r_0)$ and $m_2 \ddot{r}_2 = - k (r - r_0)$ but since $r = r_2 - r_1$ it's more natural to subtract one from the other to get $\ddot{r} = - k (\frac{1}{m_1} + \frac{1}{m_2})(r - r_0)$ which makes it natural to define $\frac{1}{\mu} = \frac{1}{m_1} + \frac{1}{m_2}$ as a mass
since $\mu$ has the dimensions of mass and since then $\mu \ddot{r} = - k (r - r_0)$ is just like $F = ma$ for a single variable $r$ i.e. an spring with just one mass
@vzn It will be interesting if a de-scarring followed by a re scarring can be done in some way in a small region. Imagine being able to shift the wavefunction of a lab setup from one state to another thus undo the measurement, it could potentially give interesting results. Perhaps, more radically, the shifting between quantum universes may then become possible
You can still use Fermi to compute transition probabilities for the perturbation (if you can actually solve for the eigenstates of the interacting system, which I don't know if you can), but there's no simple human-readable interpretation of these states anymore
@Secret when you say that, it reminds me of the no cloning thm, which have always been somewhat dubious/ suspicious of. it seems like theyve already experimentally disproved the no cloning thm in some sense.
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The goal of this section is simply to extend the naive discussion of energy and temperature we have running so far to include phase changes. I use the word naive in the sense that, at this point in the course, we still don't understand what the underlying mechanisms in thermal phenomena really are. There were a lot of questions and only a few half-answers on the previous page. Keep in mind that the take away from these first sections are not fundamental, but are still of value. Firstly, they can be applied to predict a fairly wide range of phenomena involving heat and energy transfers. Secondly, and more importantly, they create a framework for the more fundamental ideas to attach to. For example, when a theory comes along claiming to be about the underlying mechanisms of temperature, it can attach to and be tested against this basic framework. Does the theory explain the connection between thermal equilibrium and temperature? Does the theory explain the phases of matter? How does this theory predict the widely varied values of specific heat and "latent heat" (which we are about to learn about).
Pure Substances Have a Phase
We adopt the standard chemistry definition that a substance is any material with a definite chemical composition. By “pure,” we simply mean that only one chemical substance is present in the sample. So, water has a definite phase, but mixtures (like
oobleck) do not. This is partly a disclaimer so that questions such as "is glass a liquid or a solid?" can be put out of mind for now. For the first pass at this model, we treat pure substances as though they are in one of three phases: solid, liquid, or gas.
Note that we are choosing which relevant features to include in our model and which to exclude. The choices will definitely affect the level of detail we can address in our questions and discuss in our explanations. At this time, we are deliberately choosing to be more general to keep the model as simple as possible and at the same time, applicable to as wide a range of phenomena as possible.
Phases Can Be Determined by Temperature and Pressure
Pictured below is the "phase diagram" for water in temperature-pressure space.
With temperature on the x-axis, and pressure on the y-axis, the diagram indicates which situations water is observed to be solid (ice), liquid (water), or gas (water vapor).
If you follow the horizontal dotted line at 1 atm, you should recover the common freezing and boiling points: 0 °C and 100 °C.
The following ideas are not important enough to try to remember them, but they're interesting.
The phase diagrams of pure substances all share this basic shape, but vary greatly in where exactly the phases occur in temperature-pressure space. Single phase regions are separated by lines, where phase transitions occur, which are called phase boundaries.
The phase boundary between liquid and gas does not continue indefinitely. Instead, it terminates at a point on the phase diagram called the
critical point. This reflects the fact that, at extremely high temperatures and pressures, the liquid and gaseous phases become indistinguishable, in what is known as a supercritical fluid. In water, the critical point occurs at around T c = 647.1 K (374.0 °C) and p c = 22.064 MPa (217.75 atm). In conditions more extreme than this, the liquid and gas phases become indistinguishable from one another in the sense that there is no longer a boiling point, but rather a smooth transition from gas to liquid.
When conditions are on a phase boundary, multiple phases can coexist within the substance. For example, at boiling point, water will transition spontaneously back and forth between liquid and gas. The special boundary point where all three phases can coexist is called the
triple point. Check out what the triple point of water looks like here. Energy and Phase Changes
In much the same way scientists observed a linear connection between energy input and temperature for pure substances in a single phase, there is a simple relationship between energy input and phase change. The trend is best summarized with a diagram.
Temperature vs. Energy Added
The important thing to notice is that
during a phase change, temperature remains constant even while energy is being added. In real life, this could be tested by boiling a pot of water while measuring temperature with a thermometer. If you do this yourself, you will find that the water temperature remains at exactly 100 °C throughout the boiling process. Even as the flame continues to pour heat into the pot-water system, the water's temperature will not change until all the water is boiled away.
In the simplest form of the
Three-Phase Model of Matter, the phase changes occur at the same temperature “on the way down” as “on the way up.” That is, the temperature of the change from liquid to solid as energy is removed is the same as the temperature of the phase change from solid to liquid as energy is added. Due to this symmetry, the liquid-solid or solid-liquid phase change temperature can be referred to as either the freezing or melting temperature. Likewise at the boiling point, the phase change temperature can be referred to as the boiling or condensation temperature. Summary of Possible Phase Transitions
(Don't worry about plasma or enthalpy for now.)
The question often arises: "why does water at room temperature evaporate?". Everyone knows that leaving something out to dry does not require heating said object to 212 °F, and yet that seems to be what we've been saying thus far. The answer relies on substances being made of an enormous number of particles, and temperature being a measure of an
average over that large number of particles. It is possible that individual particles can be spontaneously given enough energy to escape the liquid and fly off into the air, at which point that particle has "boiled". In fact, you can calculate an expected rate for this to occur (which we won't do right now). Latent Heat
Suppose you have noticed that water does not change temperature while boiling. Once you have a way to measure the amount of energy being added to the water. it is then a sensible next step to ask: "How much energy does it take to boil the water?". Performing this exact experiment will leave you with the
specific latent heat of water. The word latent comes from Latin, meaning lying hidden. The reasoning behind this title is that energy added or removed during phase changes seems to be "hidden", in that it does not show up as a change in temperature.
Energy of a Phase Change
The specific latent heat,
L, expresses the amount of energy E required to convert a pure substance of mass m entirely from one phase to another with no change in temperature.
\[ L = \frac{E}{m} \]
The equation is more commonly written solved for the energy, since we often know the
specific latent heat, and wish to know the energy of phase change.
\[ E = mL \]
The energy is often (confusingly) called the
latent heat, without the "specific" in front. In this case, it is often written using the heat Q rather than the more general energy E. This acknowledges that phase change energy commonly enters a system as heat. However, the more general "energy" encompass the fact that the energy can really enter in any form, so long as it eventually becomes internal energy of the substance changing phases.
The value of various specific latent heats are readily available online.
Example: Melting Gold and Water
How much energy does it take to melt 1 kg of ice? How much energy does it take to melt 1 kg of gold?
Solution
This problem just comes down to looking the answers up online. Quoted from a quick Google search:
"The
specific latent heat of fusion of ice is the amount of heat required to change 1 kg of ice to water without a change in temperature. The specific latent heat of fusion of ice is 0.336 MJ/kg "
Similarly, a quick search should reveal that the
specific latent heat of fusion of gold is around 65.0 kJ/kg.
Surprisingly, the energy required to melt ice is much greater than the amount of energy required to melt gold! You may have already encountered this fact from chemistry, but if you have not, try to think about
why this might be the case.
Example: Putting Phase and Temperature Together
Imagine 0.30 kg of ice at 0 °C is added to 1.0 kg of water at 45 °C. What is the final temperature after the water comes to equilibrium, assuming no heat exchange with the surroundings? Take the specific heat capacity of water to be 4200 J/kg K and the specific latent heat of fusion of ice to be 3.4 × 10
5 J/kg. Solution Let T f be the final temperature.
By energy conservation, the heat lost by the water must be equal to the heat gained in melting the ice, plus the heat gained in warming the ice water.\( m_{w}c_{w} \Delta
\( T_{w} = m_{\text{ice}}L_{\text{ice}} + m_{\text{ice}}c_{w} \Delta T_{ \text{melted ice}} \)
\( m_{w} c_{w} (T_{f} – 45) = m_{\text{ice}} L_{\text{ice}} + m_{\text{ice}}c_{w} (T_{f} - 0) \)
Replacing the numbers back in and solving for T
f,
\( (1 \text{kg})(4200 \text{J/kg K})(45 °\text{C} – T_{f}) = (0.30 \text{kg})(3.4 \times 10^{5} \text{J/kg}) + (0.3 \text{kg})(4200 \text{J/kg K}) T_{f} \)
\( (4200 \text{J/kg K})(45 °\text{C} – T_{f}) = 1.02 \times 10^{5} \text{J} + (1260 \text{J/K})T_{f} \)
\( 1.89 \times 10^{5} \text{J} – 1.02 \times 10^{5} \text{J} = (1260 \text{J/K}) T_{f} + (4200 \text{J/K}) T_{f} \)
\[ T_{f} = 16 ° \text{C} \]
Why Sweating?
Explain why sweating is an effective means of cooling ourselves down.
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I recently looked up J. van Hoorn's question on How to color delimiters in Math Mode, and so I decided to test my LaTeX knowledge by trying to define a new appropriate command:
\leftcolor{color}<delim symbol> and
\rightcolor{color}<delim symbol>.
The MWE is as follows:
\documentclass{article}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{xcolor}%\newcommand*\leftcolor[2]{% \color{#1}\left#2\normalcolor%}\newcommand*\rightcolor[2]{% \color{#1}\right#2\normalcolor%}%\begin{document}\begin{equation*}%\leftcolor{red}(\frac{a}{b}\rightcolor{red})^n \neq \left(\frac{a}{b}\right)^n%\end{equation*}\end{document}
The problem can be seen in the result shown below:
I clearly see that the exponent positioning is wrong, but I have no clue on how LaTeX puts that symbol in this way, because I followed the only option possible for the correct coloring (even after searching on the
xcolor documentation I didn't find anything related to this topic).
My guess is that the effective size of the delimiter is "faked" in such a way that the compiler finds more correct to put the exponent as one normal size delimiter rather than the extended one.
I don't know if there is some plain TeX or LaTeX string to help about this situation, because the most common solution in these cases involves the making new delimiters such as:
\customdelim{\frac{a}{b}}^n % these commands are not present in this case
The fact is that
I don't request this kind of macro because I want to be able to switch directly from one color to another as a specific argument.
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$\mathop {\lim }\limits_{x \to {0^ + }} \left( {\frac{1}{x} - \frac{1}{{\sqrt x }}} \right) = \mathop {\lim }\limits_{x \to {0^ + }} \frac{{1/\sqrt x - 1}}{{\sqrt x }} = \mathop {\lim }\limits_{x \to {0^ + }} \frac{{ - \frac{1}{2}{x^{ - 3/2}}}}{{\frac{1}{2}{x^{ - 1/2}}}} = \mathop {\lim }\limits_{x \to {0^ + }} \left( { - \frac{1}{x}} \right) = - \infty $. However, the answer is $\infty$. Can you help me spot my error? Thanks!
l'Hôpital's rule was incorrectly applied to $\mathop {\lim }\limits_{x \to {0^ + }} \frac{{1/\sqrt x - 1}}{{\sqrt x }} $. The numerator goes to $+\infty$, while the denominator goes to $0$.
Both factors of $\frac{1}{\sqrt x}\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt x}-1\right)$ go to $+\infty$. Or consider $\frac{1}{x}(1-\sqrt x)$, where the second factor goes to $1$.
You've misapplied L'Hopital rule. Your numerator tends to $+\infty$ and your denominator tends to $0$ (from above). Thus, the quotient tends to $+\infty$.
In this problem you will evaluate the right hand limit of the function at $x = 0$, this means that we need to find the limiting value of the function
$$\frac{1}{x}-\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}}$$ as the value of $x$ reaches $0$ from a value that is slightly greater than $0$ or in other words a number which is infinitesimally greater than $0$.This can be approached by putting $x=0+h$. Now since $x\rightarrow 0^{+}$ , we can be sure that $h\rightarrow 0$.Now the problem becomes: $$\lim_{h \rightarrow 0}(\frac{1}{h} -\frac{1}{\sqrt{h}})$$or $$\lim_{h \rightarrow 0}(\frac{1-\sqrt{h}}{h})$$Simply put $h$ as $0$ the limit becomes $+\infty$
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Why does delocalization of electrons generally make compounds more stable (e.g. in carboxylate anions, where the lone pair on the negatively charged oxygen is delocalised into the C=O π* orbital)? Is there any proper explanation involving quantum mechanics?
A simple QM explanation I can think of would invoke Hückel theory. It would go this way:
Suppose you have a two-state system (analogous to having two orbitals) with eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian $\lambda_1$ and $\lambda_2$. These correspond to the orbital energies. So just for argument's sake, let's say that
$$\begin{equation} \mathbf{H} = \begin{pmatrix}1 & 0 \\ 0 & 2\end{pmatrix} \end{equation}$$
then obviously you have $\lambda_1 = 1, \lambda_2 = 2$. Let's say this system has two electrons. They would both go into the orbital with the lower energy, i.e. $\lambda_1$. In the context of organic chemistry, this would typically mean that the first orbital would be bonding in nature (hence filled), and the second orbital would be antibonding (hence empty), although that's not
always the case.
Now, you perturb the system by making the non-diagonal elements of the Hamiltonian negative (analogous to allowing the orbitals to overlap, i.e. allowing delocalisation of electron density between the two). Just for argument's sake, let's change $\mathbf{H}_{12}$ and $\mathbf{H}_{21}$ to both be $-0.1$. If you recalculate the eigenvalues you get
$$\lambda_1 = 0.99, \lambda_2 = 2.01$$
The new eigenvectors will be linear combinations of the old eigenvectors – one in-phase and one out-of-phase combination. The "bonding" or in-phase combination of the two orbitals will have decreased in energy, whereas the out-of-phase combination of the two orbitals will have an increased energy. If you put both electrons into the bonding orbital, you get a net stabilisation.
In general, interactions between filled and unfilled orbitals are stabilising in nature, since both electrons occupy a lower-energy bonding orbital.
On the other hand, interactions between two filled orbitals are destabilising, because you would have four electrons and you would have to fill both of the new orbitals. If you add up the two new eigenvalues, the total energy is greater than it was before when $\mathbf{H}$ was unperturbed.
This is not evident in my example above. The reason is that I made the assumption that $\langle i | j \rangle = \mathbf{S}_{ij} = \delta_{ij}$. In extended Huckel theory you would solve the generalised eigenvalue equation, $\mathbf{Hc} = E\mathbf{Sc}$. However with my assumption, $\mathbf{S}$ is simply the identity matrix and this reduces to $\mathbf{Hc} = E\mathbf{c}$. A theorem from linear algebra states that the sum of the eigenvalues of $\mathbf{H}$ is simply equal to the trace of $\mathbf{H}$. Therefore, as long as we assume $\mathbf{S}_{ij} = \delta_{ij}$, merely changing the off-diagonal values will not change the sum of the orbital energies.
In general, the basis vectors are not orthogonal. If you solved the full equation, $\mathbf{Hc} = E\mathbf{Sc}$ then you would find that the sum of the new eigenvalues is greater than the sum of the old, unperturbed eigenvalues.
Obviously this is ignoring other important aspects, e.g. electron-electron repulsions (that is a problem intrinsic to Huckel theory), but it's a start.
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Is there an exact form of $$f(s)=\sum_{n=0}^\infty {\frac{(-1)^n}{(2n+1)^s}}=1-\frac{1}{3^s}+\frac{1}{5^s}-\frac{1}{7^s}+\dots$$ when $s$ is odd?
Discussion
I have been exploring infinite series and will be spending my evening looking for patterns in this particular class. I invite the interested reader to join me and the not so interested to just move along. I will be updating this question with relevant facts as the evening unfolds.
There must (there must!) be some closed form in terms of $\pi$ and $s$ when $s$ is odd and there will definitely be something we can say about how this relates to the generalized zeta function.
$f(1)=\frac{\pi}{4}$
$f(2)=$Catalan. [I will leave a remark about this below.]
$f(3)= \frac{1}{64} (ζ(3, 1/4) - ζ(3, 3/4))=\frac{\pi^3}{32}$
$f(4)= \frac{1}{256} (ζ(4, 1/4) - ζ(4, 3/4))$
$f(5)= \frac{1}{1024}(ζ(5, 1/4) - ζ(5, 3/4)) =\frac{5\pi^5}{1536} $
$f(6)= \frac{1}{4096}(ζ(6, 1/4) - ζ(6, 3/4)$
$f(7)=\frac{1}{16384}(ζ(7, 1/4) - ζ(7, 3/4))= \frac{61 π^7}{184320}$
I thought about posting in Meta asking about this type of question. It's a "call to adventure" question: Come look at this with me if you so please. If you're not into it... downvote the question/let me know in the comments/move on to some other question that you do enjoy.
Update 1: It looks like $$f(s)= \frac{1}{2^{2s}} \Bigg(\zeta(s, \frac{1}{4})-\zeta(s, \frac{3}{4}) \Bigg)$$
Update 2:
A remark on Catalan's number and on $s$ even in general. The wiki page claims it to be unknown whether this Catalan's constant is irrational or transcendental. Come on guys? What do we pay you for? Let me just state for the conjectural record that $\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{a_n}{n^s}$ for a periodic sequence of integers $a_n$ has just must be transcendental (it must!). I am very confident this is the case when $a_n$ has period of prime $p$ and for $s=1$. It's surprising to me that I would need these conditions. Note that for $f(2)$ the numerators of the series would be $1,0,-1,0 \dots$ and that's not a prime period and also $s \neq 1$ so we cannot use any of those tools to make any statements about Catalan's number but also... one cannot deny the conjecture isn't really too bold. Most numbers should be transcendental and this periodic numerators of these series must be a push in the transcendental direction.
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Approximation
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An
approximation is anything that is intentionally similar but not exactly equal to something else. Etymology and usageEdit
The word
approximation is derived from Latin approximatus, from proximus meaning very near and the prefix ap- ( ad- before p) meaning to. [1] Words like approximate, approximately and approximation are used especially in technical or scientific contexts. In everyday English, words such as roughly or around are used with a similar meaning. [2] It is often found abbreviated as approx.
The term can be applied to various properties (e.g., value, quantity, image, description) that are nearly, but not exactly correct; similar, but not exactly the same (e.g., the approximate time was 10 o'clock).
In science, approximation can refer to using a simpler process or model when the correct model is difficult to use. An approximate model is used to make calculations easier. Approximations might also be used if incomplete information prevents use of exact representations.
The type of approximation used depends on the available information, the degree of accuracy required, the sensitivity of the problem to this data, and the savings (usually in time and effort) that can be achieved by approximation.
MathematicsEdit
Approximation theory is a branch of mathematics, a quantitative part of functional analysis. Diophantine approximation deals with approximations of real numbers by rational numbers. Approximation usually occurs when an exact form or an exact numerical number is unknown or difficult to obtain. However some known form may exist and may be able to represent the real form so that no significant deviation can be found. It also is used when a number is not rational, such as the number π, which often is shortened to 3.14159, or √ to 1.414.
Numerical approximations sometimes result from using a small number of significant digits. Calculations are likely to involve rounding errors leading to approximation. Log tables, slide rules and calculators produce approximate answers to all but the simplest calculations. The results of computer calculations are normally an approximation expressed in a limited number of significant digits, although they can be programmed to produce more precise results.
[3] Approximation can occur when a decimal number cannot be expressed in a finite number of binary digits.
Related to approximation of functions is the asymptotic value of a function, i.e. the value as one or more of a function's parameters becomes arbitrarily large. For example, the sum (
k/2)+( k/4)+( k/8)+...( k/2^ n) is asymptotically equal to k. Unfortunately no consistent notation is used throughout mathematics and some texts will use ≈ to mean approximately equal and ~ to mean asymptotically equal whereas other texts use the symbols the other way around.
As another example, in order to accelerate the convergence rate of evolutionary algorithms, fitness approximation—that leads to build model of the fitness function to choose smart search steps—is a good solution.
ScienceEdit
Approximation arises naturally in scientific experiments. The predictions of a scientific theory can differ from actual measurements. This can be because there are factors in the real situation that are not included in the theory. For example, simple calculations may not include the effect of air resistance. Under these circumstances, the theory is an approximation to reality. Differences may also arise because of limitations in the measuring technique. In this case, the measurement is an approximation to the actual value.
The history of science shows that earlier theories and laws can be
approximations to some deeper set of laws. Under the correspondence principle, a new scientific theory should reproduce the results of older, well-established, theories in those domains where the old theories work. [4] The old theory becomes an approximation to the new theory.
Some problems in physics are too complex to solve by direct analysis, or progress could be limited by available analytical tools. Thus, even when the exact representation is known, an approximation may yield a sufficiently accurate solution while reducing the complexity of the problem significantly. Physicists often approximate the shape of the Earth as a sphere even though more accurate representations are possible, because many physical characteristics (e.g., gravity) are much easier to calculate for a sphere than for other shapes.
Approximation is also used to analyze the motion of several planets orbiting a star. This is extremely difficult due to the complex interactions of the planets' gravitational effects on each other.
[5] An approximate solution is effected by performing iterations. In the first iteration, the planets' gravitational interactions are ignored, and the star is assumed to be fixed. If a more precise solution is desired, another iteration is then performed, using the positions and motions of the planets as identified in the first iteration, but adding a first-order gravity interaction from each planet on the others. This process may be repeated until a satisfactorily precise solution is obtained.
The use of perturbations to correct for the errors can yield more accurate solutions. Simulations of the motions of the planets and the star also yields more accurate solutions.
The error-tolerance property of several applications (e.g., graphics applications) allows use of approximation (e.g., lowering the precision of numerical computations) to improve performance and energy efficiency.
[6] This approach of using deliberate, controlled approximation for achieving various optimizations is referred to as approximate computing. UnicodeEdit
Symbols used to denote items that are approximately equal are wavy or dotted equals signs.
[7] ≈ (U+2248, almost equal to) ≉ (U+2249, not almost equal to) ≃ (U+2243), a combination of "≈" and "=", also used to indicate asymptotically equal to ≅ (U+2245), another combination of "≈" and "=", which is used to indicate isomorphism or congruence ≊ (U+224A), yet another combination of "≈" and "=", used to indicate equivalence or approximate equivalence ∼ (U+223C), which is also sometimes used to indicate proportionality ∽ (U+223D), which is also sometimes used to indicate proportionality ≐ (U+2250, approaches the limit), which can be used to represent the approach of a variable, y, to a limit; like the common syntax, ≐ 0 LaTeX symbolsEdit
Symbols used in LaTeX markup.
(
\approx), usually to indicate approximation between numbers, like .
(
\not\approx), usually to indicate that numbers are not approximately equal (1 2).
(
\simeq), usually to indicate asymptotic equivalence between functions, like . So writing would be wrong, despite wide use.
(
\sim), usually to indicate proportionality between functions, the same of the line above will be .
(
\cong), usually to indicate congruence between figures, like .
See alsoEdit Approximately equals sign Approximation error Congruence relation Estimation Fermi estimate Fitness approximation Least squares Linear approximation Binomial approximation Newton's method Numerical analysis Orders of approximation Runge–Kutta methods Successive approximation ADC Taylor series Small-angle approximation Approximate computing Tolerance relation Rough set ReferencesEdit The Concise Oxford Dictionary, Eighth edition 1990, ISBN 0-19-861243-5 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Pearson Education Ltd 2009, ISBN 978 1 4082 1532 6 Numerical Computation Guide Encyclopædia Britannica The three body problem Mittal, Sparsh (May 2016). "A Survey of Techniques for Approximate Computing". ACM Comput. Surv. ACM. 48(4): 62:1–62:33. doi:10.1145/2893356. "Mathematical Operators – Unicode" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-04-20.
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A sequence which is either non-decreasing or non-increasing is said to be monotone, this is the definition we have been given. But if a sequence is strictly increasing or strictly decreasing then that doesn't mean it is monotone so monotone is only if it is non-decreasing or non-increasing. Am I correct or not?
A sequence of real numbers $(s_n)$ is:
monotoneif $s_n \leq s_{n+1}$ for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$ or $s_n \geq s_{n+1}$ for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$. strictly increasingif $s_n < s_{n+1}$ for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$. strictly decreasingif $s_n > s_{n+1}$ for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$.
As $s_n < s_{n+1}$ for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$ implies $s_n \leq s_{n+1}$ for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$, a strictly increasing sequence is monotone.
As $s_n > s_{n+1}$ for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$ implies $s_n \geq s_{n+1}$ for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$, a strictly decreasing sequence is monotone.
In summary, strictly increasing and strictly decreasing sequences are monotone.
A sequence is monotone if it is either non-increasing or non-decreasing.
That is, $(s_n)$ is monotone if either $\forall n \in \mathbb{N}$, $s_{n+1} \geq s_n$ or $\forall n \in \mathbb{N}$, $s_{n+1} \leq s_n$
Monotone in words means it can
only increase or it can only decrease. And in that case for instance a strictly increasing sequence is monotone since it cannot decrease.
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Here is a well-known interview/code golf question: a knight is placed on a chess board. The knight chooses from its 8 possible moves uniformly at random. When it steps off the board it doesn’t move anymore. What is the probability that the knight is still on the board after \( n \) steps?
We could calculate this directly but it’s more interesting to frame it as a Markov chain.
Calculation using the transition matrix
Model the chess board as the tuples \( \{ (r, c) \mid 0 \leq i, j \leq 7 \} \).
Here are the valid moves and a helper function to check if a move
\( (r,c) \rightarrow (u,v) \) is valid and if a cell is on the usual \( 8 \times 8 \) chessboard: moves = [(-2, 1), (-1, 2), (1, 2), (2, 1), (2,-1), (1,-2), (-1,-2), (-2,-1)] def is_move(r, c, u, v): for m in moves: if (u, v) == (r + m[0], c + m[1]): return True return False def on_board(x): return 0 <= x[0] < 8 and 0 <= x[1] < 8
The valid states are all the on-board positions plus the immediate off-board positions:
states = [(r, c) for r in range(-2, 8+2) for c in range(-2, 8+2)]
Now we can set up the transition matrix.
def make_matrix(states): """ Create the transition matrix for a knight on a chess board with all moves chosen uniformly at random. When the knight moves off-board, no more moves are made. """ # Handy mapping from (row, col) -> index into 'states' to_idx = dict([(s, i) for (i, s) in enumerate(states)]) P = np.array([[0.0 for _ in range(len(states))] for _ in range(len(states))], dtype='float64') assert P.shape == (len(states), len(states)) for (i, (r, c)) in enumerate(states): for (j, (u, v)) in enumerate(states): # On board, equal probability to each destination, even if goes off board. if on_board((r, c)): if is_move(r, c, u, v): P[i][j] = 1.0/len(moves) # Off board, no more moves. else: if (r, c) == (u, v): # terminal state P[i][j] = 1.0 else: P[i][j] = 0.0 return to_idx, P
We can visualise the transition graph using graphviz (full code here):
Oops! The corners aren’t connected to anything so we have 5 communicating classes (the 4 corners plus the rest). We never reach these nodes from any of the starting positions so we can get rid of them:
corners = [(-2,9), (9,9), (-2,-2), (9,-2)] states = [(r, c) for r in range(-2, 8+2) for c in range(-2, 8+2) if (r,c) not in corners]
Here’s the new transition graph:
Intuitively, the knights problem is symmetric, and this graph is symmetric, so it’s likely that we’ve set things up correctly.
Let \( X_0 \), \( X_1 \), \( \ldots \), \( X_n \) be the positions of the knight. Then then probability of the knight moving from state \( i \) to \( j \) in \( n \) steps is
\[
P(X_n = j \mid X_0 = i) = (P^n)_{i,j} \]
So the probability of being on the board after \( n \) steps, starting from \(i\), will be
\[
\sum_{k \in \mathcal{B}} (P^n)_{i,k} \]
where \( \mathcal{B} \) is the set of on-board states. This is easy to calculate using Numpy:
start = (3, 3) n = 5 idx = to_idx[start] Pn = matrix_power(P, n) pr = sum([Pn[idx][r] for (r, s) in enumerate(states) if on_board(s)])
For this case we get probability \( 0.35565185546875 \).
Here are a few more calculations:
start: (0, 0) n: 0 Pr(on board): 1.0 start: (3, 3) n: 1 Pr(on board): 1.0 start: (0, 0) n: 1 Pr(on board): 0.25 start: (3, 3) n: 4 Pr(on board): 0.48291015625 start: (3, 3) n: 5 Pr(on board): 0.35565185546875 start: (3, 3) n: 100 Pr(on board): 5.730392258771815e-13
It’s always good to do a quick Monte Carlo simulation to sanity check our results:
def do_n_steps(start, n): current = start for _ in range(n): move = random.choice(moves) new = (current[0] + move[0], current[1] + move[1]) if not on_board(new): break current = new return on_board(new) N_sims = 10000000 n = 5 nr_on_board = 0 for _ in range(N_sims): if do_n_steps((3,3), n): nr_on_board += 1 print('pr on board from (3,3) after 5 steps:', nr_on_board/N_sims)
The estimate is fairly close to the value we got from taking power of the transition matrix:
pr on board from (3,3) after 5 steps: 0.3554605 Absorbing states
An
absorbing state of a Markov chain is a state that, once entered, cannot be left. In our problem the absorbing states are precisely the off-board states.
A natural question is: given a starting location, how many steps (on average) will it take the knight to step off the board?
With a bit of matrix algebra we can get this from the transition matrix \( \boldsymbol{P} \). Partition \( \boldsymbol{P} \) by the state type: let \( \boldsymbol{Q} \) be the transitions of transient states (here, these are the on-board states to other on-board states); let \( \boldsymbol{R} \) be transitions from transient states to absorbing states (on-board to off-board); and let \( \boldsymbol{I} \) be the identity matrix (transitions of the absorbing states). Then \( \boldsymbol{P} \) can be written in block-matrix form:
\[
\boldsymbol{P}= \left( \begin{array}{c|c} \boldsymbol{Q} & \boldsymbol{R} \\ \hline \boldsymbol{0} & \boldsymbol{I} \end{array} \right) \]
We can calculate powers of \( \boldsymbol{P} \):
\[
\boldsymbol{P}^2= \left( \begin{array}{c|c} \boldsymbol{Q} & \boldsymbol{R} \\ \hline \boldsymbol{0} & \boldsymbol{I} \end{array} \right) \left( \begin{array}{c|c} \boldsymbol{Q} & \boldsymbol{R} \\ \hline \boldsymbol{0} & \boldsymbol{I} \end{array} \right) = \left( \begin{array}{c|c} \boldsymbol{Q}^2 & (\boldsymbol{I} + \boldsymbol{Q})\boldsymbol{R} \\ \hline \boldsymbol{0} & \boldsymbol{I} \end{array} \right) \]
\[
\boldsymbol{P}^3= \left( \begin{array}{c|c} \boldsymbol{Q}^3 & (\boldsymbol{I} + \boldsymbol{Q} + \boldsymbol{Q}^2)\boldsymbol{R} \\ \hline \boldsymbol{0} & \boldsymbol{I} \end{array} \right) \]
In general:
\[
\boldsymbol{P}^n= \left( \begin{array}{c|c} \boldsymbol{Q}^n & (\boldsymbol{I} + \boldsymbol{Q} + \cdots + \boldsymbol{Q}^{n-1})\boldsymbol{R} \\ \hline \boldsymbol{0} & \boldsymbol{I} \end{array} \right) \]
We want to calculate \( \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \boldsymbol{P}^n \) since this will tell us the long-term probability of moving from one state to another. In particular, the top-right block will tell us the long-term probability of moving from a transient state to an absorbing state.
Here is a handy result from matrix algebra:
Lemma. Let \( \boldsymbol{A} \) be a square matrix with the property that \( \boldsymbol{A}^n \rightarrow \mathbf{0} \) as \( n \rightarrow \infty \). Then \[ \sum_{n=0}^\infty = (\boldsymbol{I} – \boldsymbol{A})^{-1}. \]
Applying this to the block form gives:
\[
\begin{align*} \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \boldsymbol{P}^n &= \left( \begin{array}{c|c} \boldsymbol{Q}^n & (\boldsymbol{I} + \boldsymbol{Q} + \cdots + \boldsymbol{Q}^{n-1})\boldsymbol{R} \\ \hline \boldsymbol{0} & \boldsymbol{I} \end{array} \right) \\ &= \left( \begin{array}{c|c} \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \boldsymbol{Q}^n & \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} (\boldsymbol{I} + \boldsymbol{Q} + \cdots + \boldsymbol{Q}^{n-1})\boldsymbol{R} \\ \hline \boldsymbol{0} & \boldsymbol{I} \end{array} \right) \\ &= \left( \begin{array}{c|c} \mathbf{0} & (\boldsymbol{I} – \boldsymbol{Q})^{-1}\boldsymbol{R} \\ \hline \boldsymbol{0} & \boldsymbol{I} \end{array} \right) \end{align*} \]
where \( \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \boldsymbol{Q}^n = 0\) since all of the entries in \( \boldsymbol{Q} \) are transient.
The top-right corner also contains the
fundamental matrix as defined in the following theorem: Theorem Consider an absorbing Markov chain with \( t \) transient states. Let \( \boldsymbol{F} \) be a \( t \times t \) matrix indexed by the transient states, where \( \boldsymbol{F}_{i,j} \) is the expected number of visits to \( j \) given that the chain starts in \( i \). Then
\[
\boldsymbol{F} = (\boldsymbol{I} – \boldsymbol{Q})^{-1}. \]
Taking the row sums of \( \boldsymbol{F} \) gives the expected number of steps \( a_i \) starting from state \( i \) until absorption (i.e. we count the number of visits to each transient state before eventual absorption):
\[
a_i = \sum_{k} \boldsymbol{F}_{i,k} \]
Back in our Python code, we can rearrange the states vector so that the transition matrix is appropriately partitioned. Taking the \( \boldsymbol{Q} \) matrix is very quick using Numpy’s slicing notation:
states = [s for s in states if on_board(s)] + [s for s in states if not on_board(s)] (to_idx, P) = make_matrix(states) # k states k = len(states) # t transient states t = len([s for s in states if on_board(s)]) Q = P[:t, :t] assert Q.shape == (t, t) assert Q.shape == (64, 64) F = linalg.inv(np.eye(*Q.shape) - Q) # example calculation for a_(3,3): state = (3, 3) print(F[to_idx[state], :].sum())
Again, compare to a Monte Carlo simulation to verify that the numbers are correct:
start: (0, 0) Avg nr steps to absorb (MC): 1.9527606 start: (0, 0) Avg nr steps (F matrix): 1.9525249995183136 start: (3, 3) Avg nr steps to absorb (MC): 5.4187947 start: (3, 3) Avg nr steps (F matrix): 5.417750460813215
So, on average, if we start in the corner \( (0,0) \) we will step off the board after \( 1.95 \) steps; if we start in the centre at \( (3,3) \) we will step off the board after \( 5.41 \) steps.
Further reading
The theoretical parts of this blog post follow the presentation in chapter 3 of Introduction to Stochastic Processes with R (Dobrow).
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Learning Objectives
Describe the general characteristics of friction List the various types of friction Calculate the magnitude of static and kinetic friction, and use these in problems involving Newton’s laws of motion
When a body is in motion, it has resistance because the body interacts with its surroundings. This resistance is a force of friction. Friction opposes relative motion between systems in contact but also allows us to move, a concept that becomes obvious if you try to walk on ice. Friction is a common yet complex force, and its behavior still not completely understood. Still, it is possible to understand the circumstances in which it behaves.
Static and Kinetic Friction
The basic definition of friction is relatively simple to state.
Friction
Friction is a force that opposes relative motion between systems in contact.
There are several forms of friction. One of the simpler characteristics of sliding friction is that it is parallel to the contact surfaces between systems and is always in a direction that opposes motion or attempted motion of the systems relative to each other. If two systems are in contact and moving relative to one another, then the friction between them is called kinetic friction. For example, friction slows a hockey puck sliding on ice. When objects are stationary, static friction can act between them; the static friction is usually greater than the kinetic friction between two objects.
Static and Kinetic Friction
If two systems are in contact and stationary relative to one another, then the friction between them is called
static friction. If two systems are in contact and moving relative to one another, then the friction between them is called kinetic friction.
Imagine, for example, trying to slide a heavy crate across a concrete floor—you might push very hard on the crate and not move it at all. This means that the static friction responds to what you do—it increases to be equal to and in the opposite direction of your push. If you finally push hard enough, the crate seems to slip suddenly and starts to move. Now static friction gives way to kinetic friction. Once in motion, it is easier to keep it in motion than it was to get it started, indicating that the kinetic frictional force is less than the static frictional force. If you add mass to the crate, say by placing a box on top of it, you need to push even harder to get it started and also to keep it moving. Furthermore, if you oiled the concrete you would find it easier to get the crate started and keep it going (as you might expect).
Figure 6.10 is a crude pictorial representation of how friction occurs at the interface between two objects. Close-up inspection of these surfaces shows them to be rough. Thus, when you push to get an object moving (in this case, a crate), you must raise the object until it can skip along with just the tips of the surface hitting, breaking off the points, or both. A considerable force can be resisted by friction with no apparent motion. The harder the surfaces are pushed together (such as if another box is placed on the crate), the more force is needed to move them. Part of the friction is due to adhesive forces between the surface molecules of the two objects, which explains the dependence of friction on the nature of the substances. For example, rubber-soled shoes slip less than those with leather soles. Adhesion varies with substances in contact and is a complicated aspect of surface physics. Once an object is moving, there are fewer points of contact (fewer molecules adhering), so less force is required to keep the object moving. At small but nonzero speeds, friction is nearly independent of speed.
The magnitude of the frictional force has two forms: one for static situations (static friction), the other for situations involving motion (kinetic friction). What follows is an approximate empirical (experimentally determined) model only. These equations for static and kinetic friction are not vector equations.
Magnitude of Static Friction
The magnitude of static friction f
s is
$$f_{s} \leq \mu_{s} N, \label{6.1}$$
where \(\mu_{s}\) is the coefficient of static friction and N is the magnitude of the normal force.
The symbol ≤ means
less than or equal to, implying that static friction can have a maximum value of \(\mu_{s}\)N. Static friction is a responsive force that increases to be equal and opposite to whatever force is exerted, up to its maximum limit. Once the applied force exceeds f s (max), the object moves. Thus,
$$f_{s} (max) = \mu_{s} N \ldotp$$
Magnitude of Kinetic Friction
The magnitude of kinetic friction f
k is given by
$$f_{k} \leq \mu_{k} N, \label{6.2}$$
where \(\mu_{k}\) is the coefficient of kinetic friction.
A system in which f
k = \(\mu_{k}\)N is described as a system in which friction behaves simply. The transition from static friction to kinetic friction is illustrated in Figure 6.11.
As you can see in Table 6.1, the coefficients of kinetic friction are less than their static counterparts. The approximate values of \(\mu\) are stated to only one or two digits to indicate the approximate description of friction given by the preceding two equations.
System Static Friction \(\mu_{s}\) Kinetic Friction \(\mu_{k}\) Rubber on dry concrete 1.0 0.7 Rubber on wet concrete 0.5-0.7 0.3-0.5 Wood on wood 0.5 0.3 Waxed wood on wet snow 0.14 0.1 Metal on wood 0.5 0.3 Steel on steel (dry) 0.6 0.3 Steel on steel (oiled) 0.05 0.03 Teflon on steel 0.04 0.04 Bone lubricated by synovial fluid 0.016 0.015 Shoes on wood 0.9 0.7 Shoes on ice 0.1 0.05 Ice on ice 0.1 0.03 Steel on ice 0.4 0.02
Equation 6.1 and Equation 6.2 include the dependence of friction on materials and the normal force. The direction of friction is always opposite that of motion, parallel to the surface between objects, and perpendicular to the normal force. For example, if the crate you try to push (with a force parallel to the floor) has a mass of 100 kg, then the normal force is equal to its weight,
$$w = mg = (100\; kg)(9.80\; m/s^{2}) = 980\; N,$$
perpendicular to the floor. If the coefficient of static friction is 0.45, you would have to exert a force parallel to the floor greater than
$$f_{s} (max) = \mu_{s} N = (0.45)(980\; N) = 440\; N$$
to move the crate. Once there is motion, friction is less and the coefficient of kinetic friction might be 0.30, so that a force of only
$$f_{k} = \mu_{k} N = (0.30)(980\; N) = 290\; N$$
keeps it moving at a constant speed. If the floor is lubricated, both coefficients are considerably less than they would be without lubrication. Coefficient of friction is a unitless quantity with a magnitude usually between 0 and 1.0. The actual value depends on the two surfaces that are in contact.
Many people have experienced the slipperiness of walking on ice. However, many parts of the body, especially the joints, have much smaller coefficients of friction—often three or four times less than ice. A joint is formed by the ends of two bones, which are connected by thick tissues. The knee joint is formed by the lower leg bone (the tibia) and the thighbone (the femur). The hip is a ball (at the end of the femur) and socket (part of the pelvis) joint. The ends of the bones in the joint are covered by cartilage, which provides a smooth, almost-glassy surface. The joints also produce a fluid (synovial fluid) that reduces friction and wear. A damaged or arthritic joint can be replaced by an artificial joint (Figure 6.12). These replacements can be made of metals (stainless steel or titanium) or plastic (polyethylene), also with very small coefficients of friction.
Natural lubricants include saliva produced in our mouths to aid in the swallowing process, and the slippery mucus found between organs in the body, allowing them to move freely past each other during heartbeats, during breathing, and when a person moves. Hospitals and doctor’s clinics commonly use artificial lubricants, such as gels, to reduce friction.
The equations given for static and kinetic friction are empirical laws that describe the behavior of the forces of friction. While these formulas are very useful for practical purposes, they do not have the status of mathematical statements that represent general principles (e.g., Newton’s second law). In fact, there are cases for which these equations are not even good approximations. For instance, neither formula is accurate for lubricated surfaces or for two surfaces siding across each other at high speeds. Unless specified, we will not be concerned with these exceptions.
Example 6.10
Static and Kinetic Friction
A 20.0-kg crate is at rest on a floor as shown in Figure 6.13. The coefficient of static friction between the crate and floor is 0.700 and the coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.600. A horizontal force \(\vec{P}\) is applied to the crate. Find the force of friction if (a) \(\vec{P}\) = 20.0 N, (b) \(\vec{P}\) = 30.0 N, (c) \(\vec{P}\) = 120.0 N, and (d) \(\vec{P}\) = 180.0 N.
Strategy
The free-body diagram of the crate is shown in Figure 6.13(b). We apply Newton’s second law in the horizontal and vertical directions, including the friction force in opposition to the direction of motion of the box.
Solution
Newton’s second law gives
$$\sum F_{x} = ma_{x}$$
$$P - f = ma_{x}$$
$$\sum F_{y} = ma_{y}$$
$$N - w = 0 \ldotp$$
Here we are using the symbol f to represent the frictional force since we have not yet determined whether the crate is subject to station friction or kinetic friction. We do this whenever we are unsure what type of friction is acting. Now the weight of the crate is
$$w = (20.0\; kg)(9.80\; m/s^{2}) = 196\; N,$$
which is also equal to N. The maximum force of static friction is therefore (0.700)(196 N) = 137 N. As long as \(\vec{P}\) is less than 137 N, the force of static friction keeps the crate stationary and f
s = \(\vec{P}\). Thus, (a) f s = 20.0 N, (b) f s = 30.0 N, and (c) f s = 120.0 N. (d) If \(\vec{P}\) = 180.0 N, the applied force is greater than the maximum force of static friction (137 N), so the crate can no longer remain at rest. Once the crate is in motion, kinetic friction acts. Then
$$f_{k} = \mu_{k} N = (0.600)(196\; N) = 118\; N,$$
and the acceleration is
$$a_{x} = \frac{\vec{P} - f_{k}}{m} = \frac{180.0\; N - 118\; N}{20.0\; kg} = 3.10\; m/s^{2} \ldotp$$
Significance
This example illustrates how we consider friction in a dynamics problem. Notice that static friction has a value that matches the applied force, until we reach the maximum value of static friction. Also, no motion can occur until the applied force equals the force of static friction, but the force of kinetic friction will then become smaller.
Exercise 6.7
A block of mass 1.0 kg rests on a horizontal surface. The frictional coefficients for the block and surface are \(\mu_{s}\) = 0.50 and \(\mu_{k}\) = 0.40. (a) What is the minimum horizontal force required to move the block? (b) What is the block’s acceleration when this force is applied?
Contributors
Samuel J. Ling (Truman State University), Jeff Sanny (Loyola Marymount University), and Bill Moebs with many contributing authors. This work is licensed by OpenStax University Physics under a Creative Commons Attribution License (by 4.0).
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For the electromagnetism, the charge density is defined as the total amount of charge carried for a particular length, area, or the volume. The symbol Pho (ρ) is used to denote the electric charge and subscript (v) is added to indicate the volume charge density.
Here, is given the volume charge density formula for your reference –
\[\ \huge q=int\, \rho\, dv\]
Where,ρ is charge density,dv is change in volume.The formula can also be written in a simple term as shown below.
\[\ \huge \rho =\frac{q}{v}\]
Where,
q is the charge,v is the total volume in m3.
Here, is given the surface charge density formula for your reference –
σ
= q / A .
Where,
q = charge and A = surface area. Electric field regarding surface charge density formula is given by,
σ
= -2 ϵ0 E.
Where,
ϵo = permittivity of free space,
E = electric field.
Here, is given the linear charge density formula for your reference –
\[\ \lambda {q} = \frac{dq}{dl} \]
λq = Linear charge density (C/m)
dq = derivative of the charge function (C) dl = one dimension of the wire (the position along its length) (m)
Let us take the example of special relativity to understand the concept deeper. Here, the length of a wire generally depends on the velocity of observer because length is contracted and the charge density is directly related to the velocity. You must have heard of how magnetic field forces for a current-bearing wire increases when relative charge density increases. He used the pho diagram to explain the concept and how much charge density is carried by a moving frame.
Further, the concept of charge density is also applicable to maintain the continuity of the electric current and it can also be used for Maxwell equations too. It is generally defined as the source of electromagnetism field where the charge distribution is maintained evenly as per the current density level. Additionally, the charge density is also impacting the chemical or mechanical separation processes of molecules.
Take an example, where charge density directly influences the hydrogen bonding ormetal-metal bonding. For the separation processes like nanofiltration, the charge density of ions will influence the rejection by membrane as well.
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The normal contact impulse $J$ between the rod and plane has two effects : it changes the velocity of the CM of the rod, and it makes the rod rotate about its CM.
The impulsive force is related to the change in momentum of the CM of the rod, and the impulsive torque to the change in angular momentum of the rod, as follows : $$J=m(v_0+v_1)$$ $$J\frac{L}{2}\cos\theta=I\omega$$ Here $v_0, v_1$ are the vertical velocities of the CM before and after the collision, and $I=\frac{1}{12}mL^2$ is the moment of inertia of the rod about its CM.
The rod is not rotating initially. After the collision, the velocity of the end A which collided with the ground is $v_2'=\frac{L}{2}\omega$ relative to the CM of the rod, directed perpendicular to the rod, ie at an angle of $\theta=60^{\circ}$ to the vertical. The CM of the rod is moving upwards with speed $v_1$ so the vertical component of the velocity of A relative to the ground after collision is $$v_2=v_2'\cos\theta+v_1$$
The elasticity of the collision is known ($e=1$) so the
Law of Restitution can be applied to the relative velocities of approach and separation at the point of contact : $$v_2=ev_0$$
From the above equations you can eliminate $v_2, v_2', \omega$ to find the rebound speed $v_1$ of the CM of the rod and thereby the height to which the CM rises after collision.
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Note that it suffices to prove that every partition of $V$ into finite sets, $U_i$, with $|U_i|\geq k$ you can choose $v_i$ as described. The result would then hold for arbitrary partitions: if $U_i$ with $i\in I$ is a partition such that $|U_i|\geq k$ for all $i$, pick any subpartition of finite sets, $W_i$ indexed by $J$ such that $|W_i|\geq k$ for each $i\in J$, and find the requisite $v_i$ for each $W_i$. By choice, for each $U_j$ we can pick a unique $W_i$ that is a subset of $U_j$, and let $U_j$s representative be $W_i$s representative, $v_i$.
So, suppose that $U_i$, indexed by $i$, is a partition of finite sets such that $|U_i|\geq k$. For each finite $X\subseteq I$ let $f_X$ be a function where $f_X(U_i) \in U_i$ for every $i\in X$ such that $\{f_X(U_i), f_X(U_j)\}\not\in E$ whenever $i\not=j$. Such a function exists since the $\langle\bigcup_{i\in X} U_i, E\cap \bigcup_{i\in X} U_i\rangle$ is a finite subgraph and so is $k$-good.
Let $F$ be an ultrafilter containing each set $F_X=\{Y \subseteq I| X\subseteq Y$ and $Y$ finite$\}$ for each finite $X\subseteq I$.
Finally define $f(U_i)=x$ iff $\{X|f_X(U_i)=x\}\in F$. (This is well defined for otherwise the complement of $\{X|f_X(U_i)=x\}$, for each of at most finitely many different $x$, would belong to $F$. Since $F$ is an ultrafilter the intersection of these complements would belong to $F$, since there are at most finitely many things being intersected. But the intersection is empty and so cannot be a member of $F$.)
Suppose that $i\not= j$ and $f(U_i)=x$ and $f(U_j)=y$. This means that $\{X|f_X(U_i)=x\}$, $\{X|f_X(U_j)=y\}\in F$ and thus their intersection, $\{X|f_X(U_i)=x, f_X(U_j)=y\}$, is in $F$ and is therefore non-empty. So it follows that for some $X$, $f_X(U_i)=x, f_X(U_j)=y$, and by the way we chose each $f_X$, that $\{x,y\}\not\in E$.
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I'm a high school student who never studied any relativity before, but I'm just wondering what was THE question that Einstein asked himself before going into this field. I knew he has done lots of work such as Brownian motion, photoelectric effect,etc. What was the question that baffled and therefore motivated him to work on relativity?
Let's talk about special relativity (1905) first, then general relativity (1915).
The motivation for special relativity is stated clearly in the first sentence of Einstein's paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies":
It is known that Maxwell's electrodynamics -- as usually understood at the present time -- when applied to moving bodies, leads to asymmetries which do not appear to be inherent in the phenomena.
Let me unpack that. Maxwell's equations differ from the equations of Newtonian mechanics in one crucial aspect: Maxwell's equations
seem at first glance to single out a particular reference frame. The clearest example is the speed of electromagnetic waves: this is given by the formula $c=1/\sqrt{\epsilon_0\mu_0}$, where $\epsilon_0$ and $\mu_0$ are universal physical constants. The speed of the source has nothing to do with the speed of the wave, according to this formula. If you turn on a flashlight while standing still, the light beam that comes out should have the same speed as a light beam from a flashlight on a train whizzing along as fast as you please. (The speed of both beams being measured in the same frame.)
Before special relativity, physicists invoked an invisible medium, the aether, to explain this. Sound waves have a certain speed in air, independent of the source of the wave; likewise water waves on a pond. If EM waves are waves in the so-called luminiferous ("light-carrying") aether, then the formula $c=1/\sqrt{\epsilon_0\mu_0}$ makes sense. Here, $\epsilon_0$ and $\mu_0$ are constants describing aspects of the aether. And $c$ then describes the speed of light
in the rest frame of the aether.
On the other hand, Maxwell's equations also contain hints that there
is no special frame of reference. Right after that first sentence, Einstein gives an example. Move a coil of wire through the field of a magnet. A current will be induced. (This is one of Faraday's most famous discoveries: electromagnetic induction. Also discovered independently by Joseph Henry.) You can calculate the current using Maxwell's equations in two ways: either pick a frame where the wire is at rest, or one in which the magnet is at rest. You get the same current either way!
Another famous example: the Michelson-Morley experiment. I won't go into details, but the upshot is that Michelson and Morley failed to detect the speed at which the earth was, supposedly, traveling through the aether. Einstein alludes to this briefly in his 1905 paper:
Examples of this sort [the wire and magnet], together with the unsuccessful attempts to discover any motion of the earth relatively to the "light medium", suggest that the phenomena of electrodynamics as well as of mechanics [i.e., Newton's laws] possess no properties corresponding to the idea of absolute rest.
I should say that historians disagree on how critical this experiment was to Einstein's thought.
And now the punchline:
They suggest rather that ... the same laws of electrodynamics and optics will be valid for all frames of reference for which the equations of mechanics hold good. We will raise this conjecture (the purport of which will hereafter be called the "Principle of Relativity") to the status of a postulate, and also introduce another postulate, which is only apparently irreconcilable with the former, namely that light is always propagated in empty space with a definite velocity $c$ which is independent of the state of motion of the emitting body.
The key phrase here is "apparently irreconcilable". I hope you see the apparent contradiction right away. How can a light beam appear to travel at the same speed $c$ to
all observers, regardless of how they are moving themselves?
That was Einstein's motivation for special relativity (SR).
Now let's turn to general relativity (GR). This started off as an attempt to reconcile Newton's law of gravity with special relativity. Newton's law says that two point masses $m$ and $M$ attract each other with force $F=GmM/r^2$, where $r$ is the distance between them. SR doesn't like this for several reasons. Writing in 1920, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington described some of the difficulties:
The most serious objection against the Newtonian law as an exact law was that it had become ambiguous. The law refers to the product of the masses of the two bodies; but the mass depends on the velocity -- a fact unknown in Newton's day. Are we to take the variable mass, or the mass reduced to rest? Perhaps a learned judge, interpreting Newton's statement like a last will and testament, could give a decision; but that is scarcely the way to settle an important point in scientific theory.
Further
distance, also referred to in the law, is something relative to an observer. Are we to take the observer travelling with the sun or with the other body concerned, or at rest in the aether or in some gravitational medium? [from Space, Time, and Gravitation, Eddington's pop-sci treatment]
(Eddington was one of first scientists to master GR, and played a key role in its early history, post-1915.)
But the following point probably loomed as even more problematic:
According to Newton's law, if you move one mass to a new position, this affects the gravitational force on the other mass instantaneously, according to Newton's formula. In principle, you could use this to send signals faster than light, indeed, instantaneously.
Not only Einstein, but several other physicists saw these problems, and set about trying to find the correct law of gravity for SR. In 1921, looking back, Einstein described his motivation this way:
When, in 1907, I was working on a comprehensive paper on the special theory of relativity for the
Jahrbuch der Radioaktivität und Electronik, I had also to attempt to modify the Newtonian theory of gravitation in such a way that its laws would fit in the [special relativity] theory. Attempts in this direction did show that this could be done, but did not satisfy me because they were based on physically unfounded hypotheses. [quoted in Pais, Subtle is the Lord, p.178]
Einstein then described how there occurred to him "the happiest thought of my life":
The gravitational field has only a relative existence in a way similar to the electric field generated by magnetoelectric induction.
Because for an observer falling freely from the roof of a house there exists-- at least in his immediate surroundings -- no gravitational field[his italics; op cit.]
This led to the famous Principle of Equivalence. Roughly speaking, a
free-falling frame of reference in a gravitational field, is equivalent to a non-accelerating frame of reference in a gravity-free field. Also, an accelerating frame of reference in a gravity-free field is equivalent to a non-accelerating frame of reference in a gravitational field (again, roughly speaking).
You can see why Einstein regarded this as an essential clue. To study what gravity should look like according to SR, we can study accelerating frames of reference without gravity. It turns out that there are useful ways to approach the latter question.
One of the early successes of the Principle of Equivalence was an explanation of why so-called gravitational mass is equal to inertial mass. In Newtonian mechanics, this equality explains why all things fall with the same acceleration (ignoring air resistance). The Principle of Equivalence takes a different tack on this: it replaces the two falling objects in a gravitational field, with freely floating objects viewed from an accelerating frame of reference. So they appear to accelerate at the same rate. You can then argue from that result back to the equality of gravitational and inertial mass. This discovery must have reassured Einstein that he was on the right track.
Einstein wrote his first paper on this new approach in 1907. He did not arrive at the equations of GR until 1915. The "happiest thought of his life" provided his initial motivation (plus the need to reconcile gravity with SR), but the full tale is much longer, with many twists and turns.
I suppose you are asking about Special relativity, which Einstein proposed in 1905. (Special relativity is about light and kinematics, while General relativity is about gravity).
There was an apparent contradiction concerning the speed of light. On the one hand there was Maxwell theory which predicted that the speed of light must be the same in all frames of reference. Maxwell's theory was well established and experimentally tested (by Hertz and others. Wireless communication was based on Maxwell theory). On the other hand, this contradicted classical mechanics, which was even better established and tested.
Some of the most striking consequences of Maxwell theory (obtained by Lorenz and Poincare) were that such things as length of a rod and time interval between two events depends on the frame of reference. This is why it is called "relativity".
Einstein's theory of special relativity was essentially a new kinematics which removed all these apparent contradictions. The famous formula $E=mc^2$ is a consequence of the special relativity.
Later general relativity was a different theory which was not motivated by any experiment. There, the main motivation was the strange fact (well known since Galileo) that the "gravitational mass" (or "gravitational charge", the thing which stands in the gravity law) is identical to the "inertial mass", the thing which stands in the newton second law. This strange coincidence is responsible for the well-known fact that all bodies fall with the same acceleration (in vacuum). General relativity was designed to explain this strange fact. As far as I know, nobody before Einstein even tried. The fact was considered as "evident". Unlike special relativity, the effects of general relativity are small, and difficult to measure. But there were two consequences of the new theory which could be measured: the gravitational lensing, and shift of mercury perihelion. Gravitational lensing was measured and found to conform to general relativity by Eddington in 1918, and this immediately made Einstein famous.
References. E. Whittaker, A history of the theories of aether and electricity. This is not for a high school student. When I was a high school student I read Martin Gardner, Relativity for the million, but there are many other good popular books.
I suggest to see these sources:
O.Darrigol, The Electrodynamic Origins of Relativity Theory (1996)
as well as :
Olivier Darrigol, The Genesis of the Theory of Relativity (2005).
From this one, page 2 :
A first indication of the primary context of the early theory of relativity is found in the very title of Einstein's founding paper:
On the electrodynamics of moving bodies. This title choice may seem bizarre to the modern reader, who defines relativity theory as a theory of space and time. In conformity with the latter view, the first section of Einstein's paper deals with a new kinematics meant to apply to any kind of physical phenomenon.
Much of the paper nonetheless deals with the application of this kinematics to the electrodynamics and optics of moving bodies. Clearly, Einstein wanted to solve difficulties he had encountered in this domain of physics.
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Harmonic Wave Equation
For the rest of the course we will focus on infinite repeating waves of a specific type:
harmonic waves. Mechanical harmonic waves can be expressed mathematically as \[y(x,t) - y_0 = A \sin{\left( 2 \pi \dfrac{t}{T} \pm 2 \pi \dfrac{x}{\lambda} + \phi \right)}\]The displacement of a piece of the wave at equilibrium position \(x\) and time \(t\) is given by the whole left hand side \((y(x,t) - y_0)\). \(y_0\) is the position of the medium without any wave, and \(y(x,t)\) is its actual position. Earlier we carelessly used \(y(x,t)\) to describe the displacement, but to be precise we must describe the displacement using the entire left side.
On the right hand side, we're familiar with \(A\) the amplitude, \(T\) the period, and \(\lambda\) the wavelength. The
fixed phase constant \(\phi\) is new; it describes what the wave looks like at \((x=0,t=0)\). The symbol \(\pm\) asks us to choose \(+\) or \(-\), which describes the direction that the wave travels.
Before going too much further, it is worthwhile noting the difference between
variables and parameters. The parameters \((A, T, \lambda , \phi , y_0\) and the choice of \(+\) or \(-\) are defined for any given harmonic wave. They describe the wave and its behavior. The wave exists in all space and at any time (for any \(x\) and any \(t\)). In the formula above, \(x\) and \(t\) are chosen by us to answer a question about the displacement of a specific piece in the medium at a specific time. This distinction makes \(x\) and \(t\) variables.
In other words, we can ask about different locations and times by changing variables, but parameters for a wave are
fixed values. Extending the Harmonic Wave Model
While we have framed this discussion in terms of material waves because it is the easiest to visualize, we should be aware that the harmonic wave is a much more general concept. It can apply to the variation in pressure (for sound waves):
\[P(x,t) - P_0 = A \sin{\left( 2 \pi \dfrac{t}{T} \pm 2 \pi \dfrac{x}{\lambda} + \phi \right)}\]
or the variation in electric field due to a light wave.
\[\textbf{E} (x,t) - \textbf{E}_0= A\sin{\left( 2 \pi \dfrac{t}{T} \pm 2 \pi \dfrac{x}{\lambda} + \phi \right)}\]
In general we can let \(y(x,t)\) stand for any of these physical quantities, not just position. We shall refer to \(y(x, t)\) in this general form as the wave function. Sometimes harmonic waves are also called sinusoidal waves as the wave function represents a sine or cosine function.
While waves in the real world do not go on forever, and do not exist for all time, we can still use harmonic waves of this form as a good approximation. They offer a considerable simplification.
Total Phase \(\Phi\)
If we wanted to, we could define a new quantity \(\Phi\) as a function of \(x\) and \(t\) so that
\[\Phi (x,t) = 2 \pi \dfrac{t}{T} \pm 2 \pi \dfrac{x}{\lambda} + \phi \]
Using this, we can rewrite our general harmonic wave formula as
\[y(x,t) - y_0 = A \sin {\Phi (x,t)}\]
Because the sine function is periodic with period \(2 \pi\), changing \(\Phi\) by \(2 \pi\), \(4 \pi\), . . . does not change \(y(x, t)\). This ambiguity exists partially because the wave repeats so that many places on the wave look exactly the same. Let us try and make our example more concrete: because \(\sin \frac{\pi}{2} = 1\) is the maximum of the sine function, \(\Phi = \frac{\pi}{2}\) labels a peak in our wave. Note that \(\Phi = \frac{5 \pi}{2}\) and \(\Phi = \frac{3 \pi}{2}\) also label peaks, but they label
different peaks. When we imagine ourselves riding the wave, or when we watch a wave peak travel, we are really following a point of constant total phase. The next example should make this more clear
Example \(\PageIndex{1}\)
We are going to look at the wave described by this equation
\[y (x,t) = (25 \text{ cm}) \sin \left( 2 \pi \dfrac{t}{4 \text{ s}} + 2 \pi \dfrac{x}{4 \text{ cm}} + \dfrac{\pi}{2} \right)\]
One of the peaks of the wave has a total phase \(\Phi = \pi /2\). What is the location of this peak when \(t=0, t=1 s, t=2s, t=3s,\) and \(t = 4 s\)? Is the wave travelling to the left or right? Solution a. We only need information about the total phase to solve this. We are given
\[\Phi(x,t) = 2 \pi \dfrac{t}{4 \text{ s}} + 2 \pi \dfrac{x}{4 \text{ cm}} + \dfrac{\pi}{2}\]
We are asked to find where (for which \(x\)) \(\Phi = \pi /2\) is at \(t = 0\). We can solve this rather simply:
\[\Phi (x,t) = \dfrac{\pi}{2} = 2 \pi \dfrac{0}{4 \text{ s}} + 2 \pi \dfrac{x}{4 \text{ cm}} + \dfrac{\pi}{2}\]
Which is only satisfied for \(x = 0\). Therefore the \(\Phi = \pi /2\) peak is at \(x=0\) when \(t=0\). Substituting the remaining values for \(t\) we find that for \(t= \text{ 1 s, 2 s, 3 s, and 4 s}\), we have the peak is located at \(x= \text{ 0 cm, -1 cm, -2 cm, -3 cm, and -4 cm}\) respectively.
b. We see that a particular peak goes from 0 cm to -4 cm. The peak moves in the direction of negative x, which is to the left by our convention.
We can see that the \(+\) sign in front of the spatial term is responsible for this. Remember that by riding the wave we are actually looking at a piece of constant total phase \(\Phi\). Going back to our equation, to ensure the left side of our equation remains constant as \(t\) increases, another term must decrease. \(\phi\) the phase constant of our wave does not change with time. Therefore our \(x\) term must decrease, showing again that our wave travels to the left.
Exercise \(\PageIndex{1}\)
Carry out Example #2 on your own using the \(-\) sign instead.
Fixed Phase Constant \(\phi\)
Note that the phase expression is very similar to the mathematical description we developed for the motion of a particle vibrating in simple harmonic motion. The first term in the argument of the sine function, \(2 \pi t/T\), like in harmonic motion, gives information about the phase for different values of \(t\). The fixed phase constant \(\phi\) gives the proper value of \(y\) at \(t = 0\) and \(x = 0\). The new term, (2 \pi x/ \lambda\), resembles the time-dependent term very closely. This term involving \(x\) and \(\lambda\) gives the change in phase as we look along different values of \(x\).
The total phase \(\Phi\) goes through a complete cycle of \(2 \pi\) radians each time \(x\) increases or decreases by an amount equal to the wavelength \(\lambda\). Likewise the total phase goes through a complete cycle of \(2 \pi\) radians each time t increases by one period \(T\). This is a reminder that \(\lambda\) controls repetition in
space, while \(T\) controls repetition in time. Note that if \(y=0\) and \(t=0\), we have \(\Phi=\phi\); the total phase is given by the fixed phase constant. Relationship between \(v_{wave}\), \(\lambda\), and \(f\)
We have already learned that the speed of the wave depends on the properties of the medium. When dealing with repeating waves we must consider three additional parameters: the wavelength \(\lambda\), the period \(T\) and the frequency \(f\). Recall that frequency and period are related by \(f = 1/T\), so only two of the three parameters are independent. Below, we go through two different arguments to show that these parameters are related to wave speed \(v_{wave}\) by
\[v_{wave} = \lambda f.\]
One Argument, Distance over Time
Our definition of speed (more specifically, velocity) from Physics 7B can be written as
\[\textrm{speed} = \dfrac{\textrm{Distance travelled}}{\textrm{Time spent}}\]
Let us look at the wave at a particular time, and focus on a particular peak indicated by the solid dot.
Recall that one period is the shortest amount of time before the wave looks
exactly the same. For the wave to look exactly the same, the peak indicated by the solid black dot must have moved to the location of the dashed circle, which means it moved a distance of one wavelength. We can now calculate the speed of the peak (which is the same as the speed of the entire wave).
\[\textrm{Distance peak travels} = \lambda \textrm{, Time spent} = 1 \textrm{ period} = T\]
\[v_{wave} = \dfrac{\textrm{Distance}}{\textrm{Time}} = \dfrac{\lambda}{T}\]
Using the fact that \(1/T\) is another way of writing the frequency \(f\), we can write this formula in a more familiar form
\[v_{wave} = \lambda f\]
Note that this method works for a wave traveling in the opposite direction as well. We would still see a peak travel one wavelength in one period, so we would still obtain \(v_{wave} = \lambda f\).
Another Argument, Following the Total Phase
A superficially different way of finding the wave speed is to follow a piece of the wave, that is look at a piece of the wave with a constant total phase \(\Phi\) (see Example). Let us pick a phase and look at it at two different times \(t_1\) (where it is at \(x_1\)) and \(t_2\) (where that piece of the wave is at \(x_2\)). This gives us the relationships
\[\Phi = 2 \pi \dfrac{t_1}{T} \pm 2 \pi \dfrac{x_1}{\lambda} + \phi\] \[\Phi = 2 \pi \dfrac{t_2}{T} \pm 2 \pi \dfrac{x_2}{\lambda} + \phi\]
Now we can subtract these equations from one another and rewrite them as follows:
\[2 \pi \dfrac{t_2 - t_1}{T} \pm 2 \pi \dfrac{x_1 - x_2}{\lambda} = 0\] \[2 \pi \dfrac{\Delta t}{T} \pm 2 \pi \dfrac{\Delta x}{\lambda} = 0\]
where we use \(\Delta\) to mean "final minus initial." Dividing the whole equation by \(2 \pi\) and rearranging, we get
\[\dfrac{\Delta x}{\Delta t} = \mp \dfrac{\lambda}{T}\]
But this expression tells us how far (\(\Delta x\)) the “disturbance” with phase \(\Phi\) moved in a time \(\Delta t\). This is exactly what we mean by velocity! Taking the absolute value of this gives us the wave speed:
\[v_{wave} = \left|\dfrac{\textrm{distance traveled}}{\textrm{time taken}} \right| = \left| \dfrac{\Delta x}{\Delta t} \right| = \dfrac{\lambda}{T} = \lambda f\]
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I am trying to solve the following:
The nonnegative, integer-valued, random variable X has generating function $g_{X(t)}=log(\frac{1}{1-qt})$. Determine $P(X = k)$ for $k = 0, 1, 2, . . .$, $E[X]$, and $Var[X]$.
I know the probability generating function is of the form $g_{X(t)}=E[t^{x}]=\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}t^{n}*P(X=n)$. I thought I could do a Taylor Series expansion of the $g_{X(t)}$ and make maniuplate it into the form of $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}t^{n}*P(X=n)$, but I'm not sure I can get it to factor. When I take the Taylor Series expansion I get $log(\frac{1}{1-qt}) = -\sum_{k=1}^{\infty} \frac{(-1)^{k} (\frac{qt}{1-qt})^k}{k}$ for $|{\frac{x}{1-x}}|<1$. I'm not sure what to do about the alternating term, and this doesn't look like anyone of the discrete distributions I am familiar with.
To get the variance and expected value I should be able to use $E[X]=g'_x(1)$ and $Var[X]=g''_x(1)+g'_x(1)-(g'(1))^2$, where I substitute $qt=1$ into the probability generating function.
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Let $f :[a , \infty)\to \mathbb{R}$ a positive and Monotonic function such that $\int_a^\infty f$ converge
prove: $\lim_{x\to\infty}f(x)=0$
That's an easy calculation… assume $$\lim_{x\to\infty}f(x)\not=0$$ then because f is monotone and positive there exists an $\varepsilon > 0$ s.t. $f>\varepsilon$ so $$\int_a^\infty f \ge \int_a^\infty \varepsilon = \infty$$
Alternative answer: if $f$ is constant then the result is trivial; wlog $f$ is decreasing, since if it is increasing then the integral can't converge.
By the integral test for convergence, $\sum_{i=a}^{\infty} f(i)$ converges. Therefore $f(i) \to 0$ as $i \to \infty$ over the integers.
But $f$ is monotone, so $f(\lfloor x \rfloor) \geq f(x) \geq f(\lceil x \rceil)$; so we're done by the squeeze theorem.
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From the theory of conics circumscribing a quadrilateral we know that only one (degenerate or non degenerate) equilateral hyperbola passes through the four vertices of a quadrilateral (convex, concave or crossed), except when the two pairs of lines of opposite sides of the quadrilateral are perpendicular. In this exceptional case all the conics which circumscribe the quadrilateral are equilateral hyperbolas (three degenerate ones and infinite non degenerate ones).
Therefore, if $AB \perp CD$ and $BC \perp DA$, then $$m_1m_3+1=0$$ and $$m_2m_4+1=0$$ and the equation $$(m_1m_3-m_2m_4)p^2-((m_2+m_4)(1+m_1m_3)-(m_1+m_3)(1+m_2m_4))p-(m_1m_3-m_2m_4)=0$$
reduces to
$$0.p^2+0.p+0=0$$
which is obviously satisfied by both slopes of the perpendicular diagonals (in case both exist) or by the only existing slope, whichever they/it may be.
Barring this exceptional case, if the diagonal lines $AC$ and $BD$ are perpendicular, then line $AB$ isn't perpendicular to $CD$ and $BC$ isn't perpendicular to $DA$ (because if the diagonal lines are perpendicular and there is a pair of perpendicular opposite side lines, the other pair of opposite side lines will be also perpendicular). Thus $m_1m_3+1\neq 0$ and $m_2m_4+1\neq 0$.
So, being respectively $L_1\equiv m_1x -y +r_1=0$, $L_2\equiv m_2x -y +r_2=0$, $L_3\equiv m_3x -y +r_3=0$, $L_4\equiv m_4x -y +r_4=0$ the equations of lines $AB$, $BC$, $CD$, $DA$, all the conics which circumscribe the quadrilateral ABCD can be given by the equation $kL_1L_3+L_2L_4=0$ (except the degenerate conic consisting of the pair of lines $AB$ and $CD$).
Therefore all the conics circumscribing the quadrilateral (except the one mentioned) are given by the equation$$k(m_1x -y +r_1)(m_3x -y +r_3)+(m_2x -y +r_2)(m_4x -y +r_4)=0,$$$$(km_1m_3+m_2m_4)x^2-((m_1+m_3)k+(m_2+m_4))xy+(1+k)y^2+...=0$$
Then the only equilateral hyperbola circumscribing the quadrilateral $ABCD$ is given by a value of k such that
$$(km_1m_3+m_2m_4)+(1+k)=0,$$$$(1+m_1m_3)k+(1+m_2m_4)=0,$$$$k=-{1+m_2m_4\over 1+m_1m_3}$$
As for the perpendicular diagonals, at least one of them has a slope, so this one can be represented by the equation $qx-y+s=0$, and the other by the equation $x+qy+s'=0$. Therefore both can be represented by the second degree equation
$$(qx-y+s)(x+qy+s')=0,$$$$qx^2+(q^2-1)xy-qy^2+...=0$$
But this is the equation of the only equilateral hyperbola, which happens to be a degenerate one, circumscribing the quadrilateral ABCD .
Therefore the latter and the former equation have proportional coefficients, thus:
$$\begin{vmatrix} q^2-1 & -q\\ -((m_1+m_3)k+(m_2+m_4)) & (1+k)\\\end{vmatrix}=0 $$
for $$k=-{1+m_2m_4\over 1+m_1m_3}$$.
Then
$$(1+k)q^2-((m_1+m_3)k+(m_2+m_4))q -(1+k)=0,$$$$(1-{1+m_2m_4\over 1+m_1m_3})q^2-((m_1+m_3)(-{1+m_2m_4\over 1+m_1m_3})+(m_2+m_4))q -(1-{1+m_2m_4\over 1+m_1m_3})=0,$$$$(m_1m_3-m_2m_4)q^2-((m_2+m_4)(1+m_1m_3)-(m_1+m_3)(1+m_2m_4))q-(m_1m_3-m_2m_4)=0$$
Therefore the equation$$(m_1m_3-m_2m_4)p^2-((m_2+m_4)(1+m_1m_3)-(m_1+m_3)(1+m_2m_4))p-(m_1m_3-m_2m_4)=0$$
is satisfied by the slope $q$ of one diagonal, and also by the slope $-1/q$ of the other diagonal (in case it exists, if $q\neq 0$),
QED.
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Consider the following situation.
$1m^3$ of water is in the surface of the ocean. If we get that volume of water, and transport it $11km$ down into the ocean, what is going to be the new density of the water?
After a friend of mine asked this question to me, I considered the compressibility equation, that relates pressure and volume: $$ K = -\frac{\Delta v}{\Delta p \text{ }v} $$ Then I look up for some variables:
The normal atmospheric pressure is: $P_i = 1.0\cdot 10^5 \text{ pa}$
The pressure at $11km$ down into the ocean is close to: $P_f = 1.16 \cdot 10^8 \text{ pa}$
The $K$, compressibility of water, is $K = 45.8 \cdot 10^{-11} \text{ pa}^{-1}$.
Then I applied them into the equation:
$$ -\Delta v = K \cdot v_i \cdot \Delta p\\ -\Delta v = 45.8 \cdot 10^{-11} \cdot (1.16 \cdot 10^8 - 1.0\cdot 10^5)\\ -\Delta v = 7.3 \cdot 10^{-10} v_f = 1 - 7.3 \cdot 10^{-10} $$
After that I look up for the density of the water in normal atmosphere: $d_i = 1.03 \cdot 10^3 \frac{kg}{m^3}$
So for $1m^3$ I'll have $1.03 \cdot 10^3$ kg of water in the surface. Since $d = \frac{m}{v}$, I can get the new density($d_f$):
$$ d_f = \frac{m}{v_f}\\ d_f = \frac{1.03 \cdot 10^3}{1 - 7.3 \cdot 10^{-10}}\\ d_f = \frac{1.03 \cdot 10^3}{9.9\cdot 10^{-1}}\\ d_f = 0.104 \cdot 10^4 = 1.04 \cdot 10^3 $$
So the new density of $1m^3$, $11km$ into the ocean, is going to be $d_f = 1.04 \cdot 10^3$?
Am I correct? Because I think that its compression is too small... I don't know if what I've done is indeed correct. Can someone please correct me or let me know if it's everything correct?
And I know that I've made some approximations ok?
UPDATE
@David Hammen noticed that I've made a mistake at $10^8 - 10^5$. Idk why, I think that's because I was tired, and that's why I've got $1.04\cdot 10^3$ as the new density, when it should be more close to $1.08 \cdot 10^3$.
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Why does the concatenation of $\emptyset$ with any language give $\emptyset$. I would like to know the intuitive explanation for it.
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Why does the concatenation of $\emptyset$ with any language give $\emptyset$. I would like to know the intuitive explanation for it.
Let $L_1, L_2$ be languages, then the concatenation $L_1\circ L_2=\{w\mid w=xy, x\in L_1, y\in L_2\}$. If $L_2=\varnothing$, then there is no string $y\in L_2$ and so there is no possible $w$ such that $w=xy$. Thus for any $L_1$, we'll have $L_1\circ\varnothing = \varnothing$.
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I've recently learned that the cotangent satisfies the following functional equation:
$$\dfrac1{f(z)}=f(z)-2f(2z)$$
(true for $f(z)\neq 0$).
Can we solve this equation for real or complex functions $f?$ Can we give additional conditions such that $\cot$ is the only real or complex function satisfying these conditions and the equation? Or is there perhaps a different functional equation better suited for this purpose?
I'm asking this because I know about such a characterization of the real function $\exp$.
Please note that I know very little about functional equations. I've only seen two examples dealt with in my courses.
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@Mathphile I found no prime of the form $$n^{n+1}+(n+1)^{n+2}$$ for $n>392$ yet and neither a reason why the expression cannot be prime for odd n, although there are far more even cases without a known factor than odd cases.
@TheSimpliFire That´s what I´m thinking about, I had some "vague feeling" that there must be some elementary proof, so I decided to find it, and then I found it, it is really "too elementary", but I like surprises, if they´re good.
It is in fact difficult, I did not understand all the details either. But the ECM-method is analogue to the p-1-method which works well, then there is a factor p such that p-1 is smooth (has only small prime factors)
Brocard's problem is a problem in mathematics that asks to find integer values of n and m for whichn!+1=m2,{\displaystyle n!+1=m^{2},}where n! is the factorial. It was posed by Henri Brocard in a pair of articles in 1876 and 1885, and independently in 1913 by Srinivasa Ramanujan.== Brown numbers ==Pairs of the numbers (n, m) that solve Brocard's problem are called Brown numbers. There are only three known pairs of Brown numbers:(4,5), (5,11...
$\textbf{Corollary.}$ No solutions to Brocard's problem (with $n>10$) occur when $n$ that satisfies either \begin{equation}n!=[2\cdot 5^{2^k}-1\pmod{10^k}]^2-1\end{equation} or \begin{equation}n!=[2\cdot 16^{5^k}-1\pmod{10^k}]^2-1\end{equation} for a positive integer $k$. These are the OEIS sequences A224473 and A224474.
Proof: First, note that since $(10^k\pm1)^2-1\equiv((-1)^k\pm1)^2-1\equiv1\pm2(-1)^k\not\equiv0\pmod{11}$, $m\ne 10^k\pm1$ for $n>10$. If $k$ denotes the number of trailing zeros of $n!$, Legendre's formula implies that \begin{equation}k=\min\left\{\sum_{i=1}^\infty\left\lfloor\frac n{2^i}\right\rfloor,\sum_{i=1}^\infty\left\lfloor\frac n{5^i}\right\rfloor\right\}=\sum_{i=1}^\infty\left\lfloor\frac n{5^i}\right\rfloor\end{equation} where $\lfloor\cdot\rfloor$ denotes the floor function.
The upper limit can be replaced by $\lfloor\log_5n\rfloor$ since for $i>\lfloor\log_5n\rfloor$, $\left\lfloor\frac n{5^i}\right\rfloor=0$. An upper bound can be found using geometric series and the fact that $\lfloor x\rfloor\le x$: \begin{equation}k=\sum_{i=1}^{\lfloor\log_5n\rfloor}\left\lfloor\frac n{5^i}\right\rfloor\le\sum_{i=1}^{\lfloor\log_5n\rfloor}\frac n{5^i}=\frac n4\left(1-\frac1{5^{\lfloor\log_5n\rfloor}}\right)<\frac n4.\end{equation}
Thus $n!$ has $k$ zeroes for some $n\in(4k,\infty)$. Since $m=2\cdot5^{2^k}-1\pmod{10^k}$ and $2\cdot16^{5^k}-1\pmod{10^k}$ has at most $k$ digits, $m^2-1$ has only at most $2k$ digits by the conditions in the Corollary. The Corollary if $n!$ has more than $2k$ digits for $n>10$. From equation $(4)$, $n!$ has at least the same number of digits as $(4k)!$. Stirling's formula implies that \begin{equation}(4k)!>\frac{\sqrt{2\pi}\left(4k\right)^{4k+\frac{1}{2}}}{e^{4k}}\end{equation}
Since the number of digits of an integer $t$ is $1+\lfloor\log t\rfloor$ where $\log$ denotes the logarithm in base $10$, the number of digits of $n!$ is at least \begin{equation}1+\left\lfloor\log\left(\frac{\sqrt{2\pi}\left(4k\right)^{4k+\frac{1}{2}}}{e^{4k}}\right)\right\rfloor\ge\log\left(\frac{\sqrt{2\pi}\left(4k\right)^{4k+\frac{1}{2}}}{e^{4k}}\right).\end{equation}
Therefore it suffices to show that for $k\ge2$ (since $n>10$ and $k<n/4$), \begin{equation}\log\left(\frac{\sqrt{2\pi}\left(4k\right)^{4k+\frac{1}{2}}}{e^{4k}}\right)>2k\iff8\pi k\left(\frac{4k}e\right)^{8k}>10^{4k}\end{equation} which holds if and only if \begin{equation}\left(\frac{10}{\left(\frac{4k}e\right)}\right)^{4k}<8\pi k\iff k^2(8\pi k)^{\frac1{4k}}>\frac58e^2.\end{equation}
Now consider the function $f(x)=x^2(8\pi x)^{\frac1{4x}}$ over the domain $\Bbb R^+$, which is clearly positive there. Then after considerable algebra it is found that \begin{align*}f'(x)&=2x(8\pi x)^{\frac1{4x}}+\frac14(8\pi x)^{\frac1{4x}}(1-\ln(8\pi x))\\\implies f'(x)&=\frac{2f(x)}{x^2}\left(x-\frac18\ln(8\pi x)\right)>0\end{align*} for $x>0$ as $\min\{x-\frac18\ln(8\pi x)\}>0$ in the domain.
Thus $f$ is monotonically increasing in $(0,\infty)$, and since $2^2(8\pi\cdot2)^{\frac18}>\frac58e^2$, the inequality in equation $(8)$ holds. This means that the number of digits of $n!$ exceeds $2k$, proving the Corollary. $\square$
We get $n^n+3\equiv 0\pmod 4$ for odd $n$, so we can see from here that it is even (or, we could have used @TheSimpliFire's one-or-two-step method to derive this without any contradiction - which is better)
@TheSimpliFire Hey! with $4\pmod {10}$ and $0\pmod 4$ then this is the same as $10m_1+4$ and $4m_2$. If we set them equal to each other, we have that $5m_1=2(m_2-m_1)$ which means $m_1$ is even. We get $4\pmod {20}$ now :P
Yet again a conjecture!Motivated by Catalan's conjecture and a recent question of mine, I conjecture thatFor distinct, positive integers $a,b$, the only solution to this equation $$a^b-b^a=a+b\tag1$$ is $(a,b)=(2,5).$It is of anticipation that there will be much fewer solutions for incr...
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You have a good intuition on the possible answer because it does involve oscillations, but you need to visualize the string differently. The origin of the conundrum is not quantum, but relativistic. Here's why:
Consider an inertial frame O and set up a string spanning the entire $x$ axis, stretching from $x \rightarrow -\infty$ to $x \rightarrow \infty$. Alternatively, you can just set up a uniform scalar field throughout the entire space. Say the string moves only in the y direction and let its displacement from the $x$-axis at point $x$ and time $ct$ be $\phi(x,ct)$ (or for the field, assume it varies only along the $x$-axis). Now somehow make the string oscillate in unison across O$x$ along its entire span according to $$\phi(x,ct) = \phi_0 \sin(kct),\;\; \text{for}\;\text{some}\;k \in {\mathbb R}$$The frequency of the oscillation is simply $\omega = ck$.
If we look at this simple setup from another frame O', moving at velocity $v$ along x, the displacement of the string at location x' and time ct' will be $$\phi'(x',ct') = \phi_0 \sin\left( \gamma k (ct' + \beta x') \right)$$where $\beta = \frac{v}{c},\;\gamma = {1}{\sqrt{1-\beta^2}}$, $x' = \gamma (x-\beta ct)$, $ct' = \gamma (ct - \beta x)$ as usual, per Lorentz transforms. This is obviously a wave and it must satisfy a wave equation. So let's take a look at the usual ingredients for a wave equation:$$\frac{\partial \phi'}{\partial x'} = - \beta \gamma k \phi_0 cos\left( \gamma k (ct' + \beta x') \right), \;\;\frac{\partial^2 \phi'}{\partial x'^2} = - \beta^2 \gamma^2 k^2 \phi'(x',ct') \\\frac{\partial \phi'}{\partial (ct')} = - \gamma k \phi_0 cos\left( \gamma k (ct' + \beta x') \right), \;\;\frac{\partial^2 \phi'}{\partial (ct')^2} = - \gamma^2 k^2 \phi'(x',ct')$$From this it follows immediately that our wave conveniently satisfies $$\frac{\partial^2 \phi'}{\partial x'^2} - \frac{\partial^2 \phi'}{\partial (ct')^2} = \gamma^2 k^2 (1 - \beta^2) \phi'(x',ct')$$or simply the Klein-Gordon equation:$$\frac{\partial^2 \phi'}{\partial x'^2} - \frac{\partial^2 \phi'}{\partial (ct')^2} = \frac{\omega^2}{c^2} \phi'(x',ct') $$
What we see here is that the oscillations of the string in frame O, which are parallel to the $x$-axis, appear in O' as Klein-Gordon waves traveling along $x'$ in the direction of motion of O and at apparently faster-than-light wavefront velocities.
The reason for the apparently faster-than-light Klein-Gordon wave propagation is very simple: In O a "wavefront" corresponding to time $ct_0$ is simply a line parallel to the $x$-axis at distance $d = \phi_0 sin(kct_0)$ along $y$. All its points belong to a space-like hyperplane and are therefore not causally related. In O' the same front appears
not as a wave, but as a single point propagating along $x'$ at faster-than-light "velocity" $-c/\beta$ (the negative sign arises because O' sees the string in O moving in the negative x direction). To see this, look at the coordinates of the front points in O', as given by the Lorentz transform:$$x' = \gamma (x-\beta ct_0) \\ct' = \gamma (ct_0 - \beta x)$$Since $ct_0$ is fixed, each $x$ in O corresponds to a single $x'$ in O', which in turn corresponds to a single time $ct'$. Alternatively, eliminate $x$ or use the reverse Lorentz transform to obtain$$x' = - \frac{ct'}{\beta} + \frac{ct_0}{\beta\gamma}, \;\; \frac{dx'}{d(ct')} = -\frac{1}{\beta}$$ In other words, O' observes a "propagating point" with faster-than-light velocity, but this "point" is in fact a collection of spatially-separated, causally unrelated points of the O front as observed at consecutive times in O'. Taking into account all wavefronts as generated in O, leaves O' with an observation of a "faster-than-light" Klein-Gordon wave.
And now
the answer to your question :
A similar reasoning applies to a scalar field $\phi$. In O, let $\phi$ be a space-wise uniform field that oscillates in time, $\phi({\bf x}, ct) = \phi_0 \sin(\omega t)$. Its wavefront in O at a given moment $ct_0$ becomes the entire 3D-space, which is basically a constant-time, space-like hyperplane. What O' observes of this hyperplane at any moment $ct'$ in his own time is only a 2D plane, $x'=- \frac{ct'}{\beta} + \frac{ct_0}{\beta\gamma}$, perpendicular to the direction of motion of O. When O' follows this plane in time, he observes a wavefront propagating along $x'$ at faster-than-light phase velocity $-c/\beta$. The entire field appears to him as a wave $\phi'(x',ct') = \phi_0 \sin\left( \gamma k (ct' + \beta x') \right)$ satisfying the Klein-gordon equation $\Delta'\phi' - \frac{\partial^2}{\partial (ct')^2}\phi' = \frac{\omega^2}{c^2} \phi'(x',ct')$.
Conversely, we can start with a solution of the Klein-Gordon equation and boost to a frame where $\phi$ appears as a uniform field, then retrace the same reasoning.
Quantum connection:
The difference between the string Klein-Gordon eq. above and the one in relativistic quantum fields is merely the form of the coefficient on the rhs. To obtain the correct term for a field of mass m, one only has to replace the arbitrary frequency $\omega$ with the fundamental frequency (Plank frequency?) for mass m:$$\frac{\omega^2}{c^2} = \frac{\left(\frac{mc^2}{\hbar}\right)^2}{c^2} = \frac{m^2c^2}{\hbar^2}$$Everything else you know about "deriving" the Klein-Gordon in relativistic quantum theory is great, but hey, it can be done this way too.
Bottom line:
Leaving aside the string image and considering strictly scalar fields, the correct way to interpret the Klein-Gordon "faster-than-light" waves is that there exists an inertial frame where the Klein-Gordon field is uniform in space and oscillates in time at frequency $\frac{mc^2}{\hbar}$. This frame can be viewed as the "rest frame" of the particle represented by the field. The wavefronts correspond to constant time, space-like hyperplanes of the "rest frame" and necessarily "propagate" faster-than-light because this is how constant time hyperplanes transform under the Lorentz transforms. Everything else follows from the nature of space-time and there is no conflict with causality.
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Functiones et Approximatio Commentarii Mathematici Funct. Approx. Comment. Math. Volume 37, Number 2 (2007), 461-471. Hypothesis H and the prime number theorem for automorphic representations Abstract
For any unitary cuspidal representations $\pi_n$ of $GL_n(\mathbb{Q}_\mathbb{A})$, $n=2,3,4$, respectively, consider two automorphic representations $\Pi$ and $\Pi'$ of $GL_6(\mathbb{Q}_\mathbb{A})$, where $\Pi_p\cong\wedge^2\pi_{4,p}$ for $p\neq 2,3$ and $\pi_{4,p}$ not supercuspidal ($\pi_{4, p}$ denotes the local component of $\pi_4$), and $\Pi'=\pi_2\boxtimes\pi_3$. First, Hypothesis H for $\Pi$ and $\Pi'$ is proved. Then contributions from prime powers are removed from the prime number theorem for cuspidal representations $\pi$ and $\pi'$ of $GL_m(\mathbb{Q}_\mathbb{A})$ and $GL_{m'}(\mathbb{Q}_\mathbb{A})$, respectively. The resulting prime number theorem is unconditional when $m,m'\leq 4$ and is under Hypothesis H otherwise.
Article information Source Funct. Approx. Comment. Math., Volume 37, Number 2 (2007), 461-471. Dates First available in Project Euclid: 18 December 2008 Permanent link to this document https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.facm/1229619665 Digital Object Identifier doi:10.7169/facm/1229619665 Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet) MR2364718 Zentralblatt MATH identifier 1230.11065 Citation
Wu, Jie; Ye, Yangbo. Hypothesis H and the prime number theorem for automorphic representations. Funct. Approx. Comment. Math. 37 (2007), no. 2, 461--471. doi:10.7169/facm/1229619665. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.facm/1229619665
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I have found a new proof of the Barwise extension theorem, that wonderful yet quirky result of classical admissible set theory, which says that every countable model of set theory can be extended to a model of $\text{ZFC}+V=L$.
Barwise Extension Theorem. (Barwise 1971) $\newcommand\ZF{\text{ZF}}\newcommand\ZFC{\text{ZFC}}$ Every countable model of set theory $M\models\ZF$ has an end-extension to a model of $\ZFC+V=L$.
The Barwise extension theorem is both (i) a technical culmination of the pioneering methods of Barwise in admissible set theory and infinitary logic, including the Barwise compactness and completeness theorems and the admissible cover, but also (ii) one of those rare mathematical theorems that is saturated with significance for the philosophy of mathematics and particularly the philosophy of set theory. I discussed the theorem and its philosophical significance at length in my paper, The multiverse perspective on the axiom of constructibility, where I argued that it can change how we look upon the axiom of constructibility and whether this axiom should be considered ‘restrictive,’ as it often is in set theory. Ultimately, the Barwise extension theorem shows how wrong a model of set theory can be, if we should entertain the idea that the set-theoretic universe continues growing beyond it.
Regarding my new proof, below, however, what I find especially interesting about it, if not surprising in light of (i) above, is that it makes no use of Barwise compactness or completeness and indeed, no use of infinitary logic at all! Instead, the new proof uses only classical methods of descriptive set theory concerning the representation of $\Pi^1_1$ sets with well-founded trees, the Levy and Shoenfield absoluteness theorems, the reflection theorem and the Keisler-Morley theorem on elementary extensions via definable ultrapowers. Like the Barwise proof, my proof splits into cases depending on whether the model $M$ is standard or nonstandard, but another interesting thing about it is that with my proof, it is the $\omega$-nonstandard case that is easier, whereas with the Barwise proof, the transitive case was easiest, since one only needed to resort to the admissible cover when $M$ was ill-founded. Barwise splits into cases on well-founded/ill-founded, whereas in my argument, the cases are $\omega$-standard/$\omega$-nonstandard.
To clarify the terms, an
end-extension of a model of set theory $\langle M,\in^M\rangle$ is another model $\langle N,\in^N\rangle$, such that the first is a substructure of the second, so that $M\subseteq N$ and $\in^M=\in^N\upharpoonright M$, but further, the new model does not add new elements to sets in $M$. In other words, $M$ is an $\in$-initial segment of $N$, or more precisely: if $a\in^N b\in M$, then $a\in M$ and hence $a\in^M b$.
Set theory, of course, overflows with instances of end-extensions. For example, the rank-initial segments $V_\alpha$ end-extend to their higher instances $V_\beta$, when $\alpha<\beta$; similarly, the hierarchy of the constructible universe $L_\alpha\subseteq L_\beta$ are end-extensions; indeed any transitive set end-extends to all its supersets. The set-theoretic universe $V$ is an end-extension of the constructible universe $L$ and every forcing extension $M[G]$ is an end-extension of its ground model $M$, even when nonstandard. (In particular, one should not confuse end-extensions with rank-extensions, also known as top-extensions, where one insists that all the new sets have higher rank than any ordinal in the smaller model.)
Let’s get into the proof.
Proof. Suppose that $M$ is a model of $\ZF$ set theory. Consider first the case that $M$ is $\omega$-nonstandard. For any particular standard natural number $k$, the reflection theorem ensures that there are arbitrarily high $L_\alpha^M$ satisfying $\ZFC_k+V=L$, where $\ZFC_k$ refers to the first $k$ axioms of $\ZFC$ in a fixed computable enumeration by length. In particular, every countable transitive set $m\in L^M$ has an end-extension to a model of $\ZFC_k+V=L$. By overspill (that is, since the standard cut is not definable), there must be some nonstandard $k$ for which $L^M$ thinks that every countable transitive set $m$ has an end-extension to a model of $\ZFC_k+V=L$, which we may assume is countable. This is a $\Pi^1_2$ statement about $k$, which will therefore also be true in $M$, by the Shoenfield absolutenss theorem. It will also be true in all the elementary extensions of $M$, as well as in their forcing extensions. And indeed, by the Keisler-Morley theorem, the model $M$ has an elementary top extension $M^+$. Let $\theta$ be a new ordinal on top of $M$, and let $m=V_\theta^{M^+}$ be the $\theta$-rank-initial segment of $M^+$, which is a top-extension of $M$. Let $M^+[G]$ be a forcing extension in which $m$ has become countable. Since the $\Pi^1_2$ statement is true in $M^+[G]$, there is an end-extension of $\langle m,\in^{M^+}\rangle$ to a model $\langle N,\in^N\rangle$ that $M^+[G]$ thinks satisfies $\ZFC_k+V=L$. Since $k$ is nonstandard, this theory includes all the $\ZFC$ axioms, and since $m$ end-extends $M$, we have found an end-extension of $M$ to a model of $\ZFC+V=L$, as desired.
It remains to consider the case where $M$ is $\omega$-standard. By the Keisler-Morley theorem, let $M^+$ be an elementary top-extension of $M$. Let $\theta$ be an ordinal of $M^+$ above $M$, and consider the corresponding rank-initial segment $m=V_\theta^{M^+}$, which is a transitive set in $M^+$ that covers $M$. If $\langle m,\in^{M^+}\rangle$ has an end-extension to a model of $\ZFC+V=L$, then we’re done, since such a model would also end-extend $M$. So assume toward contradiction that there is no such end-extension of $m$. Let $M^+[G]$ be a forcing extension in which $m$ has become countable. The assertion that $m$ has no end-extension to a model of $\ZFC+V=L$ is actually true and hence true in $M^+[G]$. This is a $\Pi^1_1$ assertion there about the real coding $m$. Every such assertion has a canonically associated tree, which is well-founded exactly when the statement is true. Since the statement is true in $M^+[G]$, this tree has some countable rank $\lambda$ there. Since these models have the standard $\omega$, the tree associated with the statement is the same for us as inside the model, and since the statement is actually true, the tree is actually well founded. So the rank $\lambda$ must come from the well-founded part of the model.
If $\lambda$ happens to be countable in $L^{M^+}$, then consider the assertion, “there is a countable transitive set, such that the assertion that it has no end-extension to a model of $\ZFC+V=L$ has rank $\lambda$.” This is a $\Sigma_1$ assertion, since it is witnessed by the countable transitive set and the ranking function of the tree associated with the non-extension assertion. Since the parameters are countable, it follows by Levy reflection that the statement is true in $L^{M^+}$. So $L^{M^+}$ has a countable transitive set, such that the assertion that it has no end-extension to a model of $\ZFC+V=L$ has rank $\lambda$. But since $\lambda$ is actually well-founded, the statement would have to be actually true; but it isn’t, since $L^{M^+}$ itself is such an extension, a contradiction.
So we may assume $\lambda$ is uncountable in $M^+$. In this case, since $\lambda$ was actually well-ordered, it follows that $L^M$ is well-founded beyond its $\omega_1$. Consider the statement “there is a countable transitive set having no end-extension to a model of $\ZFC+V=L$.” This is a $\Sigma^1_2$ sentence, which is true in $M^+[G]$ by our assumption about $m$, and so by Shoenfield absoluteness, it is true in $L^{M^+}$ and hence also $L^M$. So $L^M$ thinks there is a countable transitive set $b$ having no end-extension to a model of $\ZFC+V=L$. This is a $\Pi^1_1$ assertion about $b$, whose truth is witnessed in $L^M$ by a ranking of the associated tree. Since this rank would be countable in $L^M$ and this model is well-founded up to its $\omega_1$, the tree must be actually well-founded. But this is impossible, since it is not actually true that $b$ has no such end-extension, since $L^M$ itself is such an end-extension of $b$. Contradiction. $\Box$
One can prove a somewhat stronger version of the theorem, as follows.
Theorem. For any countable model $M$ of $\ZF$, with an inner model $W\models\ZFC$, and any statement $\phi$ true in $W$, there is an end-extension of $M$ to a model of $\ZFC+\phi$. Furthermore, one can arrange that every set of $M$ is countable in the extension model.
In particular, one can find end-extensions of $\ZFC+V=L+\phi$, for any statement $\phi$ true in $L^M$.
Proof. Carry out the same proof as above, except in all the statements, ask for end-extensions of $\ZFC+\phi$, instead of end-extensions of $\ZFC+V=L$, and also ask that the set in question become countable in that extension. The final contradictions are obtained by the fact that the countable transitive sets in $L^M$ do have end-extensions like that, in which they are countable, since $W$ is such an end-extension. $\Box$
For example, we can make the following further examples.
Corollaries. Every countable model $M$ of $\ZFC$ with a measurable cardinal has an end-extension to a model $N$ of $\ZFC+V=L[\mu]$. Every countable model $M$ of $\ZFC$ with extender-based large cardinals has an end-extension to a model $N$ satisfying $\ZFC+V=L[\vec E]$. Every countable model $M$ of $\ZFC$ with infinitely many Woodin cardinals has an end-extension to a model $N$ of $\ZF+\text{AD}+V=L(\mathbb{R})$.
And in each case, we can furthermore arrange that every set of $M$ is countable in the extension model $N$.
This proof grew out of a project on the $\Sigma_1$-definable universal finite set, which I am currently undertaking with Kameryn Williams and Philip Welch.
Jon Barwise. Infinitary methods in the model theory of set theory. In Logic
Colloquium ’69 (Proc. Summer School and Colloq., Manchester, 1969), pages 53–66. North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1971.
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Here is a well-known interview/code golf question: a knight is placed on a chess board. The knight chooses from its 8 possible moves uniformly at random. When it steps off the board it doesn’t move anymore. What is the probability that the knight is still on the board after \( n \) steps?
We could calculate this directly but it’s more interesting to frame it as a Markov chain.
Calculation using the transition matrix
Model the chess board as the tuples \( \{ (r, c) \mid 0 \leq i, j \leq 7 \} \).
Here are the valid moves and a helper function to check if a move
\( (r,c) \rightarrow (u,v) \) is valid and if a cell is on the usual \( 8 \times 8 \) chessboard: moves = [(-2, 1), (-1, 2), (1, 2), (2, 1), (2,-1), (1,-2), (-1,-2), (-2,-1)] def is_move(r, c, u, v): for m in moves: if (u, v) == (r + m[0], c + m[1]): return True return False def on_board(x): return 0 <= x[0] < 8 and 0 <= x[1] < 8
The valid states are all the on-board positions plus the immediate off-board positions:
states = [(r, c) for r in range(-2, 8+2) for c in range(-2, 8+2)]
Now we can set up the transition matrix.
def make_matrix(states): """ Create the transition matrix for a knight on a chess board with all moves chosen uniformly at random. When the knight moves off-board, no more moves are made. """ # Handy mapping from (row, col) -> index into 'states' to_idx = dict([(s, i) for (i, s) in enumerate(states)]) P = np.array([[0.0 for _ in range(len(states))] for _ in range(len(states))], dtype='float64') assert P.shape == (len(states), len(states)) for (i, (r, c)) in enumerate(states): for (j, (u, v)) in enumerate(states): # On board, equal probability to each destination, even if goes off board. if on_board((r, c)): if is_move(r, c, u, v): P[i][j] = 1.0/len(moves) # Off board, no more moves. else: if (r, c) == (u, v): # terminal state P[i][j] = 1.0 else: P[i][j] = 0.0 return to_idx, P
We can visualise the transition graph using graphviz (full code here):
Oops! The corners aren’t connected to anything so we have 5 communicating classes (the 4 corners plus the rest). We never reach these nodes from any of the starting positions so we can get rid of them:
corners = [(-2,9), (9,9), (-2,-2), (9,-2)] states = [(r, c) for r in range(-2, 8+2) for c in range(-2, 8+2) if (r,c) not in corners]
Here’s the new transition graph:
Intuitively, the knights problem is symmetric, and this graph is symmetric, so it’s likely that we’ve set things up correctly.
Let \( X_0 \), \( X_1 \), \( \ldots \), \( X_n \) be the positions of the knight. Then then probability of the knight moving from state \( i \) to \( j \) in \( n \) steps is
\[
P(X_n = j \mid X_0 = i) = (P^n)_{i,j} \]
So the probability of being on the board after \( n \) steps, starting from \(i\), will be
\[
\sum_{k \in \mathcal{B}} (P^n)_{i,k} \]
where \( \mathcal{B} \) is the set of on-board states. This is easy to calculate using Numpy:
start = (3, 3) n = 5 idx = to_idx[start] Pn = matrix_power(P, n) pr = sum([Pn[idx][r] for (r, s) in enumerate(states) if on_board(s)])
For this case we get probability \( 0.35565185546875 \).
Here are a few more calculations:
start: (0, 0) n: 0 Pr(on board): 1.0 start: (3, 3) n: 1 Pr(on board): 1.0 start: (0, 0) n: 1 Pr(on board): 0.25 start: (3, 3) n: 4 Pr(on board): 0.48291015625 start: (3, 3) n: 5 Pr(on board): 0.35565185546875 start: (3, 3) n: 100 Pr(on board): 5.730392258771815e-13
It’s always good to do a quick Monte Carlo simulation to sanity check our results:
def do_n_steps(start, n): current = start for _ in range(n): move = random.choice(moves) new = (current[0] + move[0], current[1] + move[1]) if not on_board(new): break current = new return on_board(new) N_sims = 10000000 n = 5 nr_on_board = 0 for _ in range(N_sims): if do_n_steps((3,3), n): nr_on_board += 1 print('pr on board from (3,3) after 5 steps:', nr_on_board/N_sims)
The estimate is fairly close to the value we got from taking power of the transition matrix:
pr on board from (3,3) after 5 steps: 0.3554605 Absorbing states
An
absorbing state of a Markov chain is a state that, once entered, cannot be left. In our problem the absorbing states are precisely the off-board states.
A natural question is: given a starting location, how many steps (on average) will it take the knight to step off the board?
With a bit of matrix algebra we can get this from the transition matrix \( \boldsymbol{P} \). Partition \( \boldsymbol{P} \) by the state type: let \( \boldsymbol{Q} \) be the transitions of transient states (here, these are the on-board states to other on-board states); let \( \boldsymbol{R} \) be transitions from transient states to absorbing states (on-board to off-board); and let \( \boldsymbol{I} \) be the identity matrix (transitions of the absorbing states). Then \( \boldsymbol{P} \) can be written in block-matrix form:
\[
\boldsymbol{P}= \left( \begin{array}{c|c} \boldsymbol{Q} & \boldsymbol{R} \\ \hline \boldsymbol{0} & \boldsymbol{I} \end{array} \right) \]
We can calculate powers of \( \boldsymbol{P} \):
\[
\boldsymbol{P}^2= \left( \begin{array}{c|c} \boldsymbol{Q} & \boldsymbol{R} \\ \hline \boldsymbol{0} & \boldsymbol{I} \end{array} \right) \left( \begin{array}{c|c} \boldsymbol{Q} & \boldsymbol{R} \\ \hline \boldsymbol{0} & \boldsymbol{I} \end{array} \right) = \left( \begin{array}{c|c} \boldsymbol{Q}^2 & (\boldsymbol{I} + \boldsymbol{Q})\boldsymbol{R} \\ \hline \boldsymbol{0} & \boldsymbol{I} \end{array} \right) \]
\[
\boldsymbol{P}^3= \left( \begin{array}{c|c} \boldsymbol{Q}^3 & (\boldsymbol{I} + \boldsymbol{Q} + \boldsymbol{Q}^2)\boldsymbol{R} \\ \hline \boldsymbol{0} & \boldsymbol{I} \end{array} \right) \]
In general:
\[
\boldsymbol{P}^n= \left( \begin{array}{c|c} \boldsymbol{Q}^n & (\boldsymbol{I} + \boldsymbol{Q} + \cdots + \boldsymbol{Q}^{n-1})\boldsymbol{R} \\ \hline \boldsymbol{0} & \boldsymbol{I} \end{array} \right) \]
We want to calculate \( \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \boldsymbol{P}^n \) since this will tell us the long-term probability of moving from one state to another. In particular, the top-right block will tell us the long-term probability of moving from a transient state to an absorbing state.
Here is a handy result from matrix algebra:
Lemma. Let \( \boldsymbol{A} \) be a square matrix with the property that \( \boldsymbol{A}^n \rightarrow \mathbf{0} \) as \( n \rightarrow \infty \). Then \[ \sum_{n=0}^\infty = (\boldsymbol{I} – \boldsymbol{A})^{-1}. \]
Applying this to the block form gives:
\[
\begin{align*} \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \boldsymbol{P}^n &= \left( \begin{array}{c|c} \boldsymbol{Q}^n & (\boldsymbol{I} + \boldsymbol{Q} + \cdots + \boldsymbol{Q}^{n-1})\boldsymbol{R} \\ \hline \boldsymbol{0} & \boldsymbol{I} \end{array} \right) \\ &= \left( \begin{array}{c|c} \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \boldsymbol{Q}^n & \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} (\boldsymbol{I} + \boldsymbol{Q} + \cdots + \boldsymbol{Q}^{n-1})\boldsymbol{R} \\ \hline \boldsymbol{0} & \boldsymbol{I} \end{array} \right) \\ &= \left( \begin{array}{c|c} \mathbf{0} & (\boldsymbol{I} – \boldsymbol{Q})^{-1}\boldsymbol{R} \\ \hline \boldsymbol{0} & \boldsymbol{I} \end{array} \right) \end{align*} \]
where \( \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \boldsymbol{Q}^n = 0\) since all of the entries in \( \boldsymbol{Q} \) are transient.
The top-right corner also contains the
fundamental matrix as defined in the following theorem: Theorem Consider an absorbing Markov chain with \( t \) transient states. Let \( \boldsymbol{F} \) be a \( t \times t \) matrix indexed by the transient states, where \( \boldsymbol{F}_{i,j} \) is the expected number of visits to \( j \) given that the chain starts in \( i \). Then
\[
\boldsymbol{F} = (\boldsymbol{I} – \boldsymbol{Q})^{-1}. \]
Taking the row sums of \( \boldsymbol{F} \) gives the expected number of steps \( a_i \) starting from state \( i \) until absorption (i.e. we count the number of visits to each transient state before eventual absorption):
\[
a_i = \sum_{k} \boldsymbol{F}_{i,k} \]
Back in our Python code, we can rearrange the states vector so that the transition matrix is appropriately partitioned. Taking the \( \boldsymbol{Q} \) matrix is very quick using Numpy’s slicing notation:
states = [s for s in states if on_board(s)] + [s for s in states if not on_board(s)] (to_idx, P) = make_matrix(states) # k states k = len(states) # t transient states t = len([s for s in states if on_board(s)]) Q = P[:t, :t] assert Q.shape == (t, t) assert Q.shape == (64, 64) F = linalg.inv(np.eye(*Q.shape) - Q) # example calculation for a_(3,3): state = (3, 3) print(F[to_idx[state], :].sum())
Again, compare to a Monte Carlo simulation to verify that the numbers are correct:
start: (0, 0) Avg nr steps to absorb (MC): 1.9527606 start: (0, 0) Avg nr steps (F matrix): 1.9525249995183136 start: (3, 3) Avg nr steps to absorb (MC): 5.4187947 start: (3, 3) Avg nr steps (F matrix): 5.417750460813215
So, on average, if we start in the corner \( (0,0) \) we will step off the board after \( 1.95 \) steps; if we start in the centre at \( (3,3) \) we will step off the board after \( 5.41 \) steps.
Further reading
The theoretical parts of this blog post follow the presentation in chapter 3 of Introduction to Stochastic Processes with R (Dobrow).
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Title: Chambers of Arrangements of Hyperplanes and Arrow's Impossibility Theorem Authors: Terao, Hiroaki Browse this author Keywords: arrangement of hyperplanes chambers braid arrangements Arrow's impossibility theorem Issue Date: 24-Aug-2006 Journal Title: Hokkaido University Preprint Series in Mathematics Volume: 799 Start Page: 1 End Page: 13 Abstract: Let ${\mathcal A}$ be a nonempty real central arrangement of hyperplanes and ${\rm \bf Ch}$ be the set of chambers of ${\mathcal A}$. Each hyperplane $H$ makes a half-space $H^{+} $ and the other half-space $H^{-}$. Let $B = \{+, -\}$. For $H\in {\mathcal A}$, define a map $\epsilon_{H}^{+} : {\rm \bf Ch} \to B$ by $ \epsilon_{H}^{+} (C) = + _*_\text{(if_*_} C\subseteq H^{+}) \, \text{_*_and_*_} \epsilon_{H}^{+} (C) = - _*_\text{(if_*_} C \subseteq H^{-}).$ Define $ \epsilon_{H}^{-}=-\epsilon_{H}^{+}.$ Let ${\rm \bf Ch}^{m} = {\rm \bf Ch} \times{\rm \bf Ch}\times\dots\times{\rm \bf Ch} \,\,\,(m\text{_*_times}).$ Then the maps $\epsilon_{H}^{\pm}$ induce the maps $\epsilon_{H}^{\pm} : {\rm \bf Ch}^{m} \to B^{m} $. We will study the admissible maps $\Phi : {\rm \bf Ch}^{m} \to {\rm \bf Ch}$ which are compatible with every $\epsilon_{H}^{\pm}$. Suppose $|{\mathcal A}|\geq 3$ and $m\geq 2$. Then we will show that ${\mathcal A}$ is indecomposable if and only if every admissible map is a projection to a component. When ${\mathcal A}$ is a braid arrangement, which is indecomposable, this result is equivalent to Arrow's impossibility theorem in economics. We also determine the set of admissible maps explicitly for every nonempty real central arrangement. Type: bulletin (article) URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/69607 Appears in Collections: 理学院・理学研究院 (Graduate School of Science / Faculty of Science) > Hokkaido University Preprint Series in Mathematics
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void cv::ximgproc::anisotropicDiffusion ( InputArray src, OutputArray dst, float alpha, float K, int niters )
Python: dst = cv.ximgproc.anisotropicDiffusion( src, alpha, K, niters[, dst] )
Performs anisotropic diffusian on an image.
The function applies Perona-Malik anisotropic diffusion to an image. This is the solution to the partial differential equation:
\[{\frac {\partial I}{\partial t}}={\mathrm {div}}\left(c(x,y,t)\nabla I\right)=\nabla c\cdot \nabla I+c(x,y,t)\Delta I\]
Suggested functions for c(x,y,t) are:
\[c\left(\|\nabla I\|\right)=e^{{-\left(\|\nabla I\|/K\right)^{2}}}\]
or
\[ c\left(\|\nabla I\|\right)={\frac {1}{1+\left({\frac {\|\nabla I\|}{K}}\right)^{2}}} \]
src Grayscale Source image. dst Destination image of the same size and the same number of channels as src . alpha The amount of time to step forward by on each iteration (normally, it's between 0 and 1). K sensitivity to the edges niters The number of iterations
void cv::ximgproc::niBlackThreshold ( InputArray _src, OutputArray _dst, double maxValue, int type, int blockSize, double k, int binarizationMethod =
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Python: _dst = cv.ximgproc.niBlackThreshold( _src, maxValue, type, blockSize, k[, _dst[, binarizationMethod]] )
Performs thresholding on input images using Niblack's technique or some of the popular variations it inspired.
The function transforms a grayscale image to a binary image according to the formulae:
\[dst(x,y) = \fork{\texttt{maxValue}}{if \(src(x,y) > T(x,y)\)}{0}{otherwise}\]
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The threshold value \(T(x, y)\) is determined based on the binarization method chosen. For classic Niblack, it is the mean minus \( k \) times standard deviation of \(\texttt{blockSize} \times\texttt{blockSize}\) neighborhood of \((x, y)\).
The function can't process the image in-place.
_src Source 8-bit single-channel image. _dst Destination image of the same size and the same type as src. maxValue Non-zero value assigned to the pixels for which the condition is satisfied, used with the THRESH_BINARY and THRESH_BINARY_INV thresholding types. type Thresholding type, see cv::ThresholdTypes. blockSize Size of a pixel neighborhood that is used to calculate a threshold value for the pixel: 3, 5, 7, and so on. k The user-adjustable parameter used by Niblack and inspired techniques. For Niblack, this is normally a value between 0 and 1 that is multiplied with the standard deviation and subtracted from the mean. binarizationMethod Binarization method to use. By default, Niblack's technique is used. Other techniques can be specified, see cv::ximgproc::LocalBinarizationMethods.
Matx23d cv::ximgproc::PeiLinNormalization ( InputArray I )
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Calculates an affine transformation that normalize given image using Pei&Lin Normalization.
Assume given image \(I=T(\bar{I})\) where \(\bar{I}\) is a normalized image and \(T\) is an affine transformation distorting this image by translation, rotation, scaling and skew. The function returns an affine transformation matrix corresponding to the transformation \(T^{-1}\) described in [PeiLin95]. For more details about this implementation, please see [PeiLin95] Soo-Chang Pei and Chao-Nan Lin. Image normalization for pattern recognition. Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 13, N.10, pp. 711-723, 1995.
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void cv::ximgproc::PeiLinNormalization ( InputArray I, OutputArray T )
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Applies a binary blob thinning operation, to achieve a skeletization of the input image.
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src Source 8-bit single-channel image, containing binary blobs, with blobs having 255 pixel values. dst Destination image of the same size and the same type as src. The function can work in-place. thinningType Value that defines which thinning algorithm should be used. See cv::ximgproc::ThinningTypes
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Let's discuss all of the "ingredients" separately, and then add them:
The base odds for rolling any given number on a d6 are \$\frac{1}{6}\$. The base odds for rolling a 5 or 6 on a d6 are \$\frac{1}{3} = 0.33\$ (2 out of 6 making \$\frac{2}{6} = \frac{1}{3}\$). Similarly, the odds for rolling 1-4 on a d6 are \$\frac{2}{3} = 0.67\$. The odds for a successful "single-shot" explosion are \$\frac{1}{6} \times \frac{1}{3} = \frac{1}{18} = 0.06\$. Similarly, the odds for a failed explosion are \$\frac{1}{6} \times \frac{2}{3} = \frac{4}{18} = 0.22\$.
Combining these for a single die yields the following:
\begin{array}{l|lll}\text{Number of successes} & 0 & 1 & 2 \\\hline\text{Odds using exploding die} & 0.67 & 0.28 & 0.06 \\\text{Odds using normal die} & 0.67 & 0.33 & 0\end{array}
There are a number of ways to combine the various rolls, but I think the most straight forward one is to see how the "normal" dice behave, and then account for what the "special" (exploding) die does and how it effects the results.
For example, if we know that the odds of \$N\$ normal dice to produce 2 successes is \$P\$, then we'll get: 2 successes at probability \$P \times 0.67\$ (no success from special die) 3 successes at probability \$P \times 0.28\$ (normal success from special die) 4 successes at probability \$P \times 0.06\$ (double success from special die)
So, the normal dice odds for various successes are:
\begin{array}{l|lllll}\text{# successes} & 0 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4+ \\\hline\text{2d6} & 0.44 & 0.44 & 0.11 & 0 & 0 \\\text{3d6} & 0.30 & 0.44 & 0.22 & 0.04 & 0 \\\text{4d6} & 0.20 & 0.40 & 0.30 & 0.10 & 0.01 \\\text{5d6} & 0.13 & 0.33 & 0.33 & 0.16 & 0.05 \\\text{6d6} & 0.09 & 0.26 & 0.33 & 0.22 & 0.10 \\\text{7d6} & 0.06 & 0.20 & 0.31 & 0.26 & 0.17 \\\text{8d6} & 0.04 & 0.16 & 0.27 & 0.27 & 0.26 \\\text{9d6} & 0.03 & 0.12 & 0.23 & 0.27 & 0.35 \\\text{10d6} & 0.02 & 0.09 & 0.20 & 0.26 & 0.44\end{array}
And, the odds for results with one special die are:
\begin{array}{l|lllll}\text{# successes} & 0 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4+ \\\hline\text{special + 2d6} & 0.30 & 0.42 & 0.22 & 0.06 & 0.01 \\\text{special + 3d6} & 0.20 & 0.38 & 0.29 & 0.11 & 0.02 \\\text{special + 4d6} & 0.13 & 0.32 & 0.32 & 0.17 & 0.06 \\\text{special + 5d6} & 0.09 & 0.26 & 0.32 & 0.22 & 0.12 \\\text{special + 6d6} & 0.06 & 0.20 & 0.30 & 0.25 & 0.19 \\\text{special + 7d6} & 0.04 & 0.15 & 0.27 & 0.27 & 0.28 \\\text{special + 8d6} & 0.03 & 0.11 & 0.23 & 0.27 & 0.36 \\\text{special + 9d6} & 0.02 & 0.09 & 0.19 & 0.25 & 0.45 \\\text{special + 10d6} & 0.01 & 0.06 & 0.16 & 0.23 & 0.54\end{array}
Hope this helps!
P.S. - If anybody spots a miscalculation, or an error in the general approach, please correct or comment...
Addendum - more on probability calculations:
So would you be adding or multiplying those probabilities together?
– Metalgearmaycry
Actually, we do some of both: When calculating the odds for complex scenarios, there are two ways to combine the probabilities of the basic elements of these scenarios together:
For the odds of both
occurring together, A and B Multiply their probabilities \$P(A\;and\;B) = P(A) \times P(B)\$
For the odds of either
occurring, A or B Add their probabilities \$P(A\;or\;B) = P(A) + P(B)\$
As an example, let's consider the calculation for the odds of getting a single success with your "one-shot" exploding die. There are two ways to get (only) a single success:
Roll a 5 (mark this as event A). OR Roll a 6 (mark this as event B) and then roll 1-4 on the "exploding roll" (mark this as event C).
So, we are looking at the scenario "
(roll a 5) or (roll a 6 and then 1-4)", which may be written as \$P(one\;success) = P(A) + (P(B) \times P(C))\$. The odds for a die to come up on any given number are \$\frac{1}{6}\$, plugging that into the equation yields:
$$ P(one\;success) = P(A) + (P(B) \times P(C)) = \dfrac{1}{6} + \left(\dfrac{1}{6} \times \dfrac{4}{6}\right) = \dfrac{6}{36} + \dfrac{4}{36} = \dfrac{10}{36} = 0.28 $$
-- That's how the small table above was calculated.
Generating the "normal" dice table
When working with large groups of scenarios, there are shortcuts which work better than using only addition and multiplication. For example, consider the odds for rolling 5d6 normal dice and getting exactly 2 successes. In order to calculate that, we need to combine the following:
Dice 1 & 2 rolled a success and dice 3, 4, 5 rolled a failure. Dice 1 & 3 rolled a success and dice 2, 4, 5 rolled a failure. Dice 1 & 4 rolled a success and dice 2, 3, 5 rolled a failure. Dice 1 & 5 rolled a success and dice 2, 3, 4 rolled a failure. Dice 2 & 3 rolled a success and dice 1, 4, 5 rolled a failure. And so on and so forth...
Note that for each of these scenarios, the odds are the same (2 dice succeed and 3 dice fail). So, we can write them down and sum them all, but it would be easier to just count them and multiply the result by the odds for one such scenario.
For this we can use another tool, which comes from basic combinatorics (you can read more about it here) - it is used to find how many different combinations are there for \$K\$ elements chosen from an \$N\$ sized collection. And its formula is:
$$ \dfrac{N!}{(K!) \times (N-K)!} $$
For example, to calculate all the combinations of choosing the 2 successful dice out of the total of 5, the calculation is:
$$ \dfrac{5!}{2! \times 3!} = \dfrac{120}{2 \times 6} = 10 $$
Good, so we know there are 10 scenarios, and each with the odds of \$P(success)^2 \times P(failure)^3 = \left(\frac{2}{6}\right)^2 \times \left(\frac{4}{6}\right)^3 = 0.033\$ So the odds of rolling 5d6 and getting exactly 2 successes are \$10 \times 0.033 = 0.33\$. That's how the "normal" dice table was generated.
The general formula for \$K\$ successes rolling \$N\$ "normal" dice is:
$$ \dfrac{N!}{K! \times (N-K)!} \times \left(\dfrac{2}{6}\right)^K \times \left(\dfrac{4}{6}\right)^{N-K} $$
Generating the final table
Still here? well done!
We already know how a bunch of normal dice behave, in order to generate the final table, we need to account for what the "special" one-shot-explosion die can add to the result. Reminder:
\begin{array}{l|lll}\text{Number of successes} & 0 & 1 & 2 \\\text{Odds using exploding die} & 0.67 & 0.28 & 0.06\end{array}
Let's continue with the 5d6 and 2 successes example from before, we now add a sixth exploding die to the mix. So, there are 3 different scenarios to take into account:
The 5d6 yield no successes, and the special die explodes for 2 successes. The 5d6 yield 1 success, and the special die yield another 1 success. The 5d6 yield 2 successes, and the special die yields no successes.
In order to calculate their odds, we just multiply the value of the relevant cell in the "normal" dice table (for the 5d6 part) with the relevant cell in the mini-table above (for the exploding die part). So we'll get:
\$\begin{align}&\text{1. } P(\text{5d6 with 0 successes}) &\times &P(\text{exploding 2 successes}) &= 0.13 \times 0.06 &= 0.0078 \\&\text{2. } P(\text{5d6 with 1 success}) &\times &P(\text{exploding 1 success}) &= 0.33 \times 0.28 &= 0.092 \\&\text{3. } P(\text{5d6 with 2 successes}) &\times &P(\text{exploding 0 successes}) &= 0.33 \times 0.67 &= 0.22\end{align}\$
Summing all three results give the odds for getting exactly 2 successes for 5d6 + special, which are \$0.0078 + 0.092 + 0.22 = 0.32\$
And that's how the final table is generated!
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