Partial Differential Equations!

by **Natapoc** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:43 pm

UnhealthyTruthseeker wrote:
Niur wrote:There is a reason nobody has ever made an NSG topic about higher mathmatics.

And that reason is?

I love this thread. It is non political and to every question there is an agreed upon correct answer

And it is so abstract that no one is so emotionally involved with their argument that they refuse to accept others points.

edit: Oh and the fact that we can have this large of a thread on Dif EQ speaks to the coolness factor of some posters on NS. (But not me because I don't remember enough of it)

by **UnhealthyTruthseeker** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 4:26 am

Natapoc wrote:I love this thread. It is non political and to every question there is an agreed upon correct answer And it is so abstract that no one is so emotionally involved with their argument that they refuse to accept others points.

edit: Oh and the fact that we can have this large of a thread on Dif EQ speaks to the coolness factor of some posters on NS. (But not me because I don't remember enough of it)

If we can get it going strong enough, this thread could be highly educational.

by **Natapoc** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 4:29 am

UnhealthyTruthseeker wrote:
Natapoc wrote:I love this thread. It is non political and to every question there is an agreed upon correct answer And it is so abstract that no one is so emotionally involved with their argument that they refuse to accept others points.

edit: Oh and the fact that we can have this large of a thread on Dif EQ speaks to the coolness factor of some posters on NS. (But not me because I don't remember enough of it)

If we can get it going strong enough, this thread could be highly educational.

Yeah it could

teach me something I forgot about Diff EQ. I'll read it when I wake up and be happy.

by **UnhealthyTruthseeker** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:25 am

Bump for great justice

by **EvilDarkMagicians** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:29 am

Too young to be educated by this.
Or too lazy.
15/6 By the way.

by **Duetopia** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:31 am

While we are on the subject of Diff Eq's, can you please fix your signature? The LHS has a wrong order of operators.

by **UnhealthyTruthseeker** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:33 am

One of my physics teachers died Tuesday night. He was there longer than any other faculty member on campus.

by **UnhealthyTruthseeker** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:34 am

Duetopia wrote:While we are on the subject of Diff Eq's, can you please fix your signature? The LHS has a wrong order of operators.

Oh, you mean how the Laplace transform as I've written it is technically an abuse of notation?

by **UnhealthyTruthseeker** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:42 am

The way I usually see it notated in a technical fashion is either:

L{f(t)}(s)

or

L[f(t)](s)

Is that better? Would you also prefer that I never use Leibniz notation because that is also technically wrong?

by **UnhealthyTruthseeker** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:25 pm

Very useful book, although a bit beyond the budget of most. Luckily the school library has it.

by **Deus Malum** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:40 pm

UnhealthyTruthseeker wrote:Very useful book, although a bit beyond the budget of most. Luckily the school library has it.

I'm finding http://www.amazon.com/Applied-Differential-Equations-Undergraduate-Mathematics/dp/0387209530/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253223546&sr=8-1 to be an extremely useful supplement to my PDE textbook.

by **UnhealthyTruthseeker** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 3:14 pm

I blow all my excess money on:

1) Textbooks

2) Video Games

Does anyone else have this problem?

by **UnhealthyTruthseeker** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 3:16 pm

Deus Malum wrote:I'm finding http://www.amazon.com/Applied-Differential-Equations-Undergraduate-Mathematics/dp/0387209530/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253223546&sr=8-1 to be an extremely useful supplement to my PDE textbook.

Must resist urge to spend money. Got to remember that I already have a book on PDE's.

by **Deus Malum** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 3:24 pm

UnhealthyTruthseeker wrote:I blow all my excess money on:

1) Textbooks

2) Video Games

Does anyone else have this problem?

3) Fiction books

Yeah, I have this problem.

by **Tunizcha** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 4:13 pm

Deus Malum wrote:
UnhealthyTruthseeker wrote:I blow all my excess money on:

1) Textbooks

2) Video Games

Does anyone else have this problem?

3) ~~Fiction books~~ Books on Theoretical Physics

Yeah, I have this problem.

by **Christmahanikwanzikah** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 4:43 pm

I just end up spending most of my money on food, gas and bills...

by **UnhealthyTruthseeker** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 3:14 pm

*bump*

by **Tunizcha** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 4:04 pm

*taps flux capacitor* Yep. It's broke.

by **Gleinster** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 4:24 pm

Why do you guys love maths so much?

It's just an abstract.

a million plus a million equals two million, yeah, great, what next?

by **UnhealthyTruthseeker** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:02 pm

Gleinster wrote:Why do you guys love maths so much?

It's just an abstract.

a million plus a million equals two million, yeah, great, what next?

1,000,001 + 1,000,001 = 2,000,002?

by **Tunizcha** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:36 pm

UnhealthyTruthseeker wrote:
Gleinster wrote:Why do you guys love maths so much?

It's just an abstract.

a million plus a million equals two million, yeah, great, what next?

1,000,001 + 1,000,001 = 2,000,002?

And then to polynomials.

by **UnhealthyTruthseeker** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:24 pm

*bump*

by **United Technocrats** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:28 pm

Northern Delmarva wrote:

by **New Genoa** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:30 pm

Gleinster wrote:Why do you guys love maths so much?

It's just an abstract.

a million plus a million equals two million, yeah, great, what next?

it's what's keeping your computer running, you know. without the math to describe the physical equations involved in the actual physical construction of the computer components, or the math describing the algorithms running on your PC, we wouldn't be having this online discussion to begin with.

by **UnhealthyTruthseeker** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:31 pm

Gleinster wrote:Why do you guys love maths so much?

It's just an abstract.

a million plus a million equals two million, yeah, great, what next?

It's an abstract with a great number of physically useful applications. Also, arithmetic =/= all of math.

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