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Contour Integrals and Residues [closed]
I'm trying to figure out what it is all about, but my mind is blowing up. First of all, I have turned back and looked at the general definitions of integrals. Then I have looked to line integrals. ...
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I reached a result concerning displacement with quantized time intervals. Am I on to something?
A few days ago, I realized a similarity between distance with constant acceleration, $d = v_i t + 1/2 a t^2$, and the sum of integers up to n, $(n^2 + n)/2$. This came up again today when I decided to ...
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Nicholas Kollerstrom article on the history of Calculus
Today, Newton´s birthday, I read an article posted in the arXiv by Nicholas Kollerstrom
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1212.2666
That basically claims that Newton did not invent Calculus. The article does ...
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Derivation of the self gravitational potential energy of a sphere
I have been searching on the Internet but have not found a derivation of the formula for the self gravitational potential energy of a sphere. Can someone show how to do this? I assume it involved 6 ...
