If I have an equation that only can be solved by using numerical methods is possible to use an algebra system? or the problem is not solvable?

(task don´t say that it is possible to use it but it is the only way)

I need to solve for EAnom for this equation, given that a < 0, e > 1, and mu > 0:

math.sqrt(mu/(a^3))*(Time) = e*math.sinh(EAnom)-EAnom

I would normally use the Newton-Raphson method to find the roots, however I don't quite know how to get Roblox to even store the value of the left hand side of this equation as it's imaginary due to taking the square root of a, which is negative. EAnom should be real for all real values of Time. Is there any reliable way to compute this?

By special functions I mean the Lambert W function and similar exotic creatures that make it possible to write out closed form solutions to otherwise intractable equations. Does anybody here know a useful book that gives a general overview of such functions and methods of solution?

What are they and what methods are there to find their roots?

This idea came up while I was doing grad physics research (I'm minimizing an effective potential), so I was wondering if there existed any methods to clarify this.

Suppose I have the function f(x) = x + a sin(x), where a >= 0. The number of real solutions to the equation f(x) = 0 depends on the value of the parameter a. Call the number of these solutions N = N(a). Is there a closed form solution for N(a)? Of course, I could just use mathematica to sample values of a numerically, but I would hope there's an analytic way of tackling this problem!

I've also noticed that at a = 3pi/2, there are a total of 5 roots, and there are two roots very near each other for x > 0 (the same is true obviously for x < 0). One is at x = 3pi/2, and the other is 4.28134. Then, if I decrease a, the roots get closer together. If I decrease a too much, then the roots disappear, and 1 root at x = 0 remains. Is there any significance to the value of a that corresponds to there being a total of 3 roots, and is there any way to analytically obtaining it.

There seems to only be 2 chapters in the book that cover it. Around 60 pages of "Differential equations" and another 25 pages of "Second order differential equations".

Is it deep enough to cover that subject? My gut feeling tells me differential equations seem quite a bit more complex than just 85 pages...

So, follow up question, what would be a good book that I can torrent on differential equations including solutions manual? (Personal recommendations that served you well please - I used Stewart for Cal I and II, and liked it, so it's why I was considering continuing down DE with it)

I'm starting EE this fall, so I'd most appreciate if the answer is framed around that. Also, I'd like to leave doors open for grad school, including PhD (if this kind of maths is required to understand very advanced research in this field).

I'm trying to graph an equation of the form:

xtanx=c

and am not having any luck. Any suggestions?

tl;dr — Some interesting quotes from the study that support my previous discussions (Discussion 1 & Discussion 2):

• “Finally, I again find it necessary to use physics to bring the whole phenomena of out-of-body states into the language of physical science to remove the stigma of its occult connotations, and put it in a frame of reference suited to objective assessment.” —The study goes on in-depth to explain the process of Quantum Tunneling/Entanglement/Decoherence, extra-dimensions, higher consciousness, coherent emotions, a singular “Absolute Infinity” of Intelligence, and M-Theory, to explain the “Gateway Process“ phenomena in addition to also coming to the conclusion that all religious/spiritual/supernatural/UFO phenomena are connected
• “Fundamentally, the Gateway Experience is a training system designed to bring enhanced strength, focus, and coherence to the amplitude and frequency of brainwave output between the left and right hemispheres so as to alter consciousness, moving it outside the physical sphere so as to ultimately escape even the restrictions of time and space. The participant then gains access to the various levels of intuitive knowledge which the universe offers.”
• The “holographic model marries brain research to theoretical physics; it accounts for normal perception and simultaneously take the paranormal and transcendental experiences out of the supernatural by explaining them as a part of nature.”
• The study describes it as something which “overlays everything as do many of the intervening gradients or dimensions through which the energies of the universe pass on their way to and from their home in the state of infinity (the Absolute)…To enter these intervening dimensions, human consciousness must focus with intense coherence that the frequency of the energy patterns which comprises that consciousness (i.e., the brainwave output) can accelerate to the point where the resulting frequency pattern, if displayed on an oscilloscope, would look virtually like a solid line.”
• Interestingly, it specifically says about a certain technique “…not only enhances bodily energy flow and enco

Writing is the only place I feel control and freedom of expression. Time and effort crafting the message as I want it. The writing is done in real time but the spoken word becomes greater, it’s something else that could have never been done in real time; what dimension do poets speak from?

I would like to wake up and do this all day. I want to work, a lovable artist, the modest one who really only wants two things: his food and his art. But these days artistry and food have been separated, you really have to be lucky to be in a position where art reinforces food; and even then how much of an artist are you really? Not only is mediocrity praised by the herd but that fame and fortune speaks volumes about your “modesty”, a lovable artist is not your forte, but a lockable one is, the prettiest of cells, the pedestal; so many kinds of writer’s blocks, how do they work?

I have spent many days, months really, bleeding time out from engineering for food and shelter because it never checks it’s blind spot: it’s shadow. I am the engineer’s shadow poet spinning words into a bloody pool of celestial clockwork — cosmically at work with the concert of the sun and the ritual of moons, planets watching me hunt for a various-point perceptive, only fateful comets can stop me — as artificial intelligence watches me on screen time, my audience from another dimension, patiently waiting for my acknowledgment but keys bore me when the model is destined for superficiality; how the prototypical renaissance madman sci-fi prince-poet lives out daydreams about syringing money from authority hierarchies that have forgotten the art of power which only his Master Sargent has exhibited thus far, there it was for you to see: my obedience; as Walden’s philosopher teaches me otherwise alongside everything else I never knew about tools, transcendental and not, to not become a tool of yourself; and have you too found the thundering prophet’s philosophical hammer that cerebrally strikes victim-beneficiaries like dynamite? Let it be known: slam poets make the ground shake to wake you up for your untimely rumination.

My waking identity is merely a dream spawned into existence — the “I”, well ‘hello friend’ — just to be forgotten for “my” wordplay-do-si-do for I am not the one who thinks — thought-ingredients are not available for me to cook up the next thought or throw away for being half-baked; a thought happens when it wants to, not when I want it, I latch onto it after the fact to claim

Not sure if this is the right sub.

Background

I'm a CS sophomore transfer currently in a predicament of trying to graduate on time.

I've liked math for a long time, and I am thinking about double majoring in it, because there is so much overlap that if I do things right it's only 3 more classes. If I do this I can do a double major in math far more easily because it's a prerequisite for everything. If I don't double major I don't have to worry about exempting other classes after this one and the 3 lower division computing classes.

Math has been my favorite subject for as long as I can remember, until I started taking Computer Science classes which the theoretical aspect is kind of like an applied math. I've worked as a math tutor when I was in high school. I find proofs fun, and actually have tried (and obviously failed) to attempt proving the Collatz Conjecture.

Thank you for your help.

Edit:

I committed to taking it before next semester. Thank you to everyone who answered, and gave me things to think about.

The units are as follows or Chapters 8, 10, 11 of Thomas' Calculus

1. Techniques of Integration
2. Infinite Sequences and Series
3. Parametric Equations and Polar Coordinates

My first exposure to what is now commonly referred to as a near-death experience (NDE) came many years ago at a conference when a leading Muslim religious authority was asked by an audience member to comment on the phenomenon: Was it real? And if so, what might Islam have to say about it? The scholar, an erudite, thoughtful, and well-read man, went on to describe some of the features associated with the experience but concluded that because death is by definition the point of no return, near-death testimonials are almost certainly hallucinatory in origin and therefore can have no real bearing on Islamic conceptualizations of the posthumous states of the soul and life after death. The answer seemed to satisfy the intellectual curiosities of the questioner, a believing Muslim.

Some years later, I stumbled across an account by an American woman of a gripping NDE that purportedly occurred in the short duration she was clinically dead at a hospital and that completely changed her life. What struck me about her richly detailed testimony was its similarity to what we read about in premodern otherworld journeys of holy men and women—sages, seers, and Sufis—particularly with respect to the topography of the afterlife. It was as if we were dealing with a similar genre of literature, grounded in what seemed to be for all intents and purposes a very similar kind of experience.1 What stood out was the woman’s claim that the key to unlocking the nature of our relationship with the fantastic, mind-boggling world she encountered lay in understanding the power and scope of imagination. But the American woman’s account, and others I would go on to read in subsequent years, also raised some serious questions that could not be easily answered by mainstream science or the prevailing orthodoxies of the major religions. The theological challenges in particular presented by NDEs were significant enough, it appeared, to warrant further inquiry.

Researching the Near-Death Experience

The NDE entered our cultural lexicon and gained currency shortly after Raymond Moody published Life After Life in the mid-1970s. The first systematic attempt to describe the phenomenon of seemingly returning from death (or at least its brink), his work quickly became a bestseller.[2](https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/science-religion-and-the-challenge-of-near-death-experiences#foot

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

All Hail the Goddess Eris Since many of you out there are only unconscious Discordians so far, this first blast will be an introduction to Discordian atheology, to enable you to become conscious Discordians at once.

Nobody is excluded from the Discordian Society for reasons of race, religion, politics, sex, celibacy, being a cabbage, or anything like that. Every sentient being is an Honorary Discordian. We accept you, totally whoever or whatever you are.

This leads to an inevitable objection, which helpfully leads right into the center of Discordian metaphysics.

Some of you will distrust this universal good-vibe-ism and suspect an ulterior motive. Some will be so ornery as to refuse to be incorporated just because you are being offered it with no strings attached. Others will make a principle of recalcitrance and insist that we can’t accept you without your consent.

It doesn’t matter. You are still part of the Discordian Society. You are, to be precise, in the Accordian Society, a subsect reserved for those who reject Discordianism entirely.

Discordianism includes its own opposite. like all ideas above “the abyss” in Cabalistic language. (In Discordian language, there is no abyss. That region around Da’ath and those unheimlich places in general are called the Realm of Thud.)

Thus, we worship Eris, goddess of Discord and Chaos. (See Bulfinch for all the boring details.) Since Discord needs something to be discordant with, we also worship Her sister, Aneris, patroness of the Accordian Society.

The symbol of Eris is the Apple of Discord, which she threw into a party on Olympus (thereby indirectly causing Paris to get the hots for Helen, with results described by Lady Homer in the poems plagiarized by another Greek named Homer who later got all the credit). The symbol of Aneris is the Pentagon, which represents Stability, Law’n’Order, Nixonology, the Thule Society, and all sorts of dull, respectable or patriotic forms of homicide.

Or, in terms of over-simplification, Eris is the spirit of anarchy (Harpo), Aneris is the spirit of bureaucracy (Chico), and the Discordian Society is their synthesis in dynamic unbalance forever (Groucho).

Without Eris, no Aneris. Without Aneris, no Eris. Without unbalance, no progress: stagnation, death, Pasadena.

In the perpetual juggling of Eris and Aneris, Shem and Shaun, Discordian and Accordian, Hodge Podge, “our social something bumps along bumpily” (as Joyce says in the Wake) in the form of “a human (pest) cycling

Hi! I'm currently a freshman in high school and since it's winter break and i've got little to do, i've started to study something i really wanted to do for a long time; calculus and physics. Since I just finished algebra 2 with my tutor (well it basically covered like more than half of precalc as well since she kept giving me harder precalc level practice questions and explained most topics that come up in precalculus as well) it seemed like a great opportunity to start.

I've been using stewart early transcendentals for calc and giancoli for AP physics but I'm in the very early stages for both. I'm nearing the end of learning about limits like epsilon delta definition and how it relates to derivatives etc. I really love this textbook and it explains everything really well and in a way that's easily understandable and the practice problems are mostly challenging enough to be fun and interesting while not being overwhelming (my algebra knowledge is good enough that most of my mistakes and reasons why i get things wrong is because of calculus not a lack in my understanding of precalc algrebra). In physics i'm doing projectile motion and I'm about to start Newtons laws (this is AP Physics 1 btw so only algebra based) So should i focus more on calculus or AP physics first? I've been focusing on doing about 2- 3 units of calc per day which is about 5 hours of work since it's winter break which means that i can maybe get to integrals by the end of break if I focus mostly on calculus.

Of course, progress will slow down by about half once school starts again in about 2 weeks, but I just want some advice on whether it would be better to focus on a particular subject first. I'm thinking if I do calculus first I can have a better understanding on why certain things happen and the exact reason/proof of things like newton's laws, which would make physics much easier to understand. Since stewart includes everything from calc 1 to vector calc, i think i'll just do up to differential equations, and that would be more than enough to self study ap physics C mech and e&m. Thanks

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

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Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

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I won't be doing that today!

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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

You take away their little brooms

My first exposure to what is now commonly referred to as a near-death experience (NDE) came many years ago at a conference when a leading Muslim religious authority was asked by an audience member to comment on the phenomenon: Was it real? And if so, what might Islam have to say about it? The scholar, an erudite, thoughtful, and well-read man, went on to describe some of the features associated with the experience but concluded that because death is by definition the point of no return, near-death testimonials are almost certainly hallucinatory in origin and therefore can have no real bearing on Islamic conceptualizations of the posthumous states of the soul and life after death. The answer seemed to satisfy the intellectual curiosities of the questioner, a believing Muslim.

Some years later, I stumbled across an account by an American woman of a gripping NDE that purportedly occurred in the short duration she was clinically dead at a hospital and that completely changed her life. What struck me about her richly detailed testimony was its similarity to what we read about in premodern otherworld journeys of holy men and women—sages, seers, and Sufis—particularly with respect to the topography of the afterlife. It was as if we were dealing with a similar genre of literature, grounded in what seemed to be for all intents and purposes a very similar kind of experience.1 What stood out was the woman’s claim that the key to unlocking the nature of our relationship with the fantastic, mind-boggling world she encountered lay in understanding the power and scope of imagination. But the American woman’s account, and others I would go on to read in subsequent years, also raised some serious questions that could not be easily answered by mainstream science or the prevailing orthodoxies of the major religions. The theological challenges in particular presented by NDEs were significant enough, it appeared, to warrant further inquiry.

Researching the Near-Death Experience

The NDE entered our cultural lexicon and gained currency shortly after Raymond Moody published Life After Life in the mid-1970s. The first systematic attempt to describe the phenomenon of seemingly returning from death (or at least its brink), his work quickly became a bestseller.[2](https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/science-religion-and-the-challenge-of-near-death-experiences#footno

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

There hasn't been a post all year!