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Does this equation look familiar?
smrkangl
post Oct 11 2007, 08:59 PM
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My teacher showed us this and started a contest of who could figure out what it's meant for or what it means. I have no idea what it could possibly mean blink.gif , help?

http://i20.tinypic.com/mkhflw.jpg

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post Oct 19 2007, 03:15 PM
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it means america is stupid and cant figure out things.


haha jk. i have nooo idea.
 
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post Oct 19 2007, 08:37 PM
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I've taken university calculus and I have no freaking idea what that is, lol. What level of math is this?
 
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post Oct 19 2007, 10:48 PM
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^^
Thats what I was thinking. blink.gif
 
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post Oct 19 2007, 11:00 PM
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I'm pretty sure some of those symbols aren't even related to calculus...
 
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post Oct 20 2007, 02:34 AM
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this reminds me of ap physics with multivariable calculus? but old school...
Fs = static friction
 
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post Oct 20 2007, 10:53 AM
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Yea, Fs is static friction. The symbol that looks like a w (I forgot which greek letter it is) is the symbol for angular frequency. Man, I hate integration.
 
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post Oct 20 2007, 08:01 PM
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the greek w is just another symbol for omega (ohms)

hah, but perhaps we're overthinking it.
 
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post Oct 21 2007, 02:07 AM
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The R... Rydberg Constant? :D 8.3145 x J K-1 mol-1 ?

Naw..


I can't figure it out either.
 

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