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What does y with a line over it represent?
I've been asked to complete this chart and have never come across this symbol before, nor can I find anything about it on google:
http://postimage.org/image/oe7hb9cy3/
What does the y with the line ...
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Symbol for dashpot/damper (in a harmonic oscillator)
In diagrams that contain the dashpot symbol, sometimes the mass is attached to the "interior" end of the dashpot, other times the mass is attached to the "base" end.
For example, consider the ...
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What is $k_B$ in the context of this question?
Answering the following question
1000 atoms are in equilibrium at temperature T. Each atom has two
energy states, $E_1$ and $E_2$, where $E_2 > E_1$ . On average, there are 200
atoms in the ...
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Rocket drive and conservation of momentum
I am currently reading through some lecture notes of Physics 1 and in a chapter about the dynamics of the mass point, there is an example covering the rocket drive.
Let $v$ be the velocity of the ...
