Favourite Equations of All Time
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You could almost call it Equation Idol - readers of Physics World have voted for their favourite equations of all time. But what do they mean? [^]
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You could almost call it Equation Idol - readers of Physics World have voted for their favourite equations of all time. But what do they mean? [^]
Vogon Building and Loan advise that your planet is at risk if you do not keep up repayments on any mortgage secured upon it. Please remember that the force of gravity can go up as well as down.
The worst thing is that I've been studying each one of them in the past three years, and I haven't finished yet :sigh: Luca Leonardo Scorcia http://zip.to/kojak (only in Italian)
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You could almost call it Equation Idol - readers of Physics World have voted for their favourite equations of all time. But what do they mean? [^]
Vogon Building and Loan advise that your planet is at risk if you do not keep up repayments on any mortgage secured upon it. Please remember that the force of gravity can go up as well as down.
#2 has been a favorite of mine for a while (espically after learning about phasors). e****i p = -1 has always creeped me out, even after I understood the reasoning behind it.
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You could almost call it Equation Idol - readers of Physics World have voted for their favourite equations of all time. But what do they mean? [^]
Vogon Building and Loan advise that your planet is at risk if you do not keep up repayments on any mortgage secured upon it. Please remember that the force of gravity can go up as well as down.
My favorites are Pythagoras's theorem, Einsten's equation and Schrödinger's equation. Pythagora's is intresting, because it have so many different situations where you can use it (and with very small modifications you can use it multidimension spaces). Also it is simple and easy to teach. It is perfect. Einsten's equation is "a giant leap for mankind". It is landmark, where mankind starts understand beyond 3 dimensional world and Newton's laws. Schrödinger's equation says: "Stop here. God(s) only after this point." :laugh: Janeway enters and comments: "I wondered who was running my program. Master da Vinci doesn't like visitors after midnight." Seven: "He protested. I deactivated him." Janeway: "What are you doing here, Seven?" Seven: "This simulation contains many religious components. I was studying them to help me understand what I saw in cargo bay two." Janeway: "The data wasn't clear on why Omega stabilised in the last few seconds. Chances are it was simply a chaotic anomaly, nothing more." Seven: "For 3.2 seconds, I saw perfection. When Omega stabilised, I felt a curious sensation. As I was watching it, it seemed to be watching me. The Borg have assimilated many species with mythologies to explain such moments of clarity. I've always dismissed them as trivial. Perhaps I was wrong." Janeway: "If I didn't know you better. I'd say you just had your first spiritual experience." I must confess that I really haven't never used or well-read Maxwell's or Euler's equations, but I guess that is because I am just software engineer. However Euler's quation seem to be like perfect computer program: nothing more to add and nothing more to remove. "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." - Robert Cringley
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You could almost call it Equation Idol - readers of Physics World have voted for their favourite equations of all time. But what do they mean? [^]
Vogon Building and Loan advise that your planet is at risk if you do not keep up repayments on any mortgage secured upon it. Please remember that the force of gravity can go up as well as down.
Joy :-) They've voted my favourite (e****i p + 1 = 0) as joint first. Ever since I learnt about that in maths (tooooo long ago), I've liked that because it's very simple yet so far-reaching (IMO)... Stuart Dootson 'Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p'
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Joy :-) They've voted my favourite (e****i p + 1 = 0) as joint first. Ever since I learnt about that in maths (tooooo long ago), I've liked that because it's very simple yet so far-reaching (IMO)... Stuart Dootson 'Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p'
Stuart Dootson wrote: They've voted my favourite (e****i p + 1 = 0) as joint first. Why is it any better than, say e****i p/2 + e-i p/2 = 0[
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Stuart Dootson wrote: They've voted my favourite (e****i p + 1 = 0) as joint first. Why is it any better than, say e****i p/2 + e-i p/2 = 0[
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because the first is more elegantly said?
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You could almost call it Equation Idol - readers of Physics World have voted for their favourite equations of all time. But what do they mean? [^]
Vogon Building and Loan advise that your planet is at risk if you do not keep up repayments on any mortgage secured upon it. Please remember that the force of gravity can go up as well as down.
Linked article wrote: i, which is the square root of minus one No, no, no, no, no!!! :mad: This would imply that i2 = sqrt(-1) * sqrt(-1) = sqrt(-1 * -1) = sqrt(1) = 1. But by definition, i2 = -1. The correct definition of i is that i2 = -1.
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