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1st May 2009, 07:50pm
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by shadowslayer
Grand Rapids, Michigan United States
Member Since: Nov 2007
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I have some math, and science, questions and I would prefer to have answers; please note however I am 14, so it it seems silly or obvious, and it may be for all I know, don't mock me.

1. What is "e" and in what way can it be in formulas.

2. If "i" is put in a quatratic equation, or any non-linear, what will happen?

3. Can someone explain string-theroy and what it does? And please do if you know.

4. What is a basic physic equation? For the non-physic

5. What is the "real" equation for E=M^2 I can't seem to find it...

6. Can 0 Kelvin be reached? Like; if you suspend it in a pure vacuum so no transfer of energy occurred.

7. How can binay code be "compressed" into zip files?

I know the last one's technology, but I would really like to know.

1st May 2009, 08:04pm
#2
by KingsMove
Santo Domingo Dominican Republic
Member Since: Dec 2007
Member Points: 92

6. Can 0 Kelvin be reached? Like; if you suspend it in a pure vacuum so no transfer of energy occurred.

Im not sure bout the rest but actually I read something a while back that by some method scientists had discovered a fault in the kelvin scale, because they were able to reach temperatures of -1 and -2 Kelvins; you should look it up if your interested it´s pretty fascinating stuff.

1st May 2009, 08:30pm
#3
by shadowslayer
Grand Rapids, Michigan United States
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 1533

Allow me to re-state that:

6. Can absalote zero be reached? Like; if you suspend it in a pure vacuum so no transfer of energy occurred.

2nd May 2009, 08:42am
#4
by gobbel
Finland
Member Since: Mar 2009
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1. What is "e" and in what way can it be in formulas.

"e" is a constant, approximately 2.718 if I remember right. It can be used to alot of things that I don't remeber right now but one important role that it has is that it is the base of the natural logarithm (ln). Which makes it a usefull constant in functions containing logarithms.

2nd May 2009, 08:50am
#5
by gobbel
Finland
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 243

2. If "i" is put in a quatratic equation, or any non-linear, what will happen?

It depends on what exactly you mean by "i"? I have only used the letter "i" when solving complex roots (or whatever they are called in english) of a function.

2nd May 2009, 02:31pm
#6
by paul211
Canada
Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 1829
shadowslayer wrote:

I have some math, and science, questions and I would prefer to have answers; please note however I am 14, so it it seems silly or obvious, and it may be for all I know, don't mock me.

1. What is "e" and in what way can it be in formulas.

2. If "i" is put in a quatratic equation, or any non-linear, what will happen?

3. Can someone explain string-theroy and what it does? And please do if you know.

4. What is a basic physic equation? For the non-physic

5. What is the "real" equation for E=M^2 I can't seem to find it...

6. Can 0 Kelvin be reached? Like; if you suspend it in a pure vacuum so no transfer of energy occurred.

7. How can binay code be "compressed" into zip files?

I know the last one's technology, but I would really like to know.


 1. What is "e" and in what way can it be in formulas

Answer: e = 2.71828..., the Base of Natural Logarithms

e is a real number constant that appears in some kinds of mathematics problems. Examples of such problems are those involving growth or decay (including compound interest), the statistical "bell curve," the shape of a hanging cable (or the Gateway Arch in St. Louis), some problems of probability, some counting problems, and even the study of the distribution of prime numbers. It appears in Stirling's Formula for approximating factorials. It also shows up in calculus quite often, wherever you are dealing with either logarithmic or exponential functions. There is also a connection between e and complex numbers, via Euler's Equation.

e is usually defined by the following equation:

 

e = limn->infinity (1 + 1/n)n.

Its value is approximately 2.718281828459045... and has been calculated to 869,894,101 decimal places by Sebastian Wedeniwski.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_(mathematical_constant)

E is like pi it is a number that allows you to calculate and graph a number of arithmetical functions.

For istance you can make the graph of the bell curve also called the Gaussian and the Normal curve, the equation is:

1.http://www.willamette.edu/~mjaneba/help/normalcurve.html

2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution

3. In advanced trigonometry the "e" Euler number is also used to simplify all of the trigonometry formulae with a simple equation. A beauty as you use the "e" with exponential sin theta etc. 

2nd May 2009, 02:46pm
#7
by shadowslayer
Grand Rapids, Michigan United States
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 1533
gobbel wrote: It depends on what exactly you mean by "i"? I have only used the letter "i" when solving complex roots (or whatever they are called in english) of a function.

 "i" is the square rood of negitive one, and it is called complex equations over here.

2nd May 2009, 03:04pm
#8
by paul211
Canada
Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 1829
shadowslayer wrote:
gobbel wrote: It depends on what exactly you mean by "i"? I have only used the letter "i" when solving complex roots (or whatever they are called in english) of a function.

 "i" is the square rood of negitive one, and it is called complex equations over here.


 The question is about the "e" letter not the  "ì" letter, just read my post no6  above .

2nd May 2009, 03:09pm
#9
by shadowslayer
Grand Rapids, Michigan United States
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 1533
paul211 wrote:  The question is about the "e" letter not the  "ì" letter, just read my post no6  above .

 No; it is about #2. If that was the problem; I would have addressed it.

3rd May 2009, 11:21am
#10
by paul211
Canada
Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 1829
shadowslayer wrote:
paul211 wrote:  The question is about the "e" letter not the  "ì" letter, just read my post no6  above .

 No; it is about #2. If that was the problem; I would have addressed it.


 Understand now, thanks.

3rd May 2009, 11:38am
#11
by Icy001
Massachusetts United States
Member Since: Dec 2008
Member Points: 70

If a quadratic equation contains i, just treat it like you would any other equation. The quadratic formula is still valid. For example:

x^2 - ix - 1 = 0

Here, the coefficient of x is i. But we can still solve this with the quadratic formula:

x = (i +- sqrt(i^2 + 4)) / 2
  = (i +- sqrt(3)) / 2

3rd May 2009, 11:50am
#12
by paul211
Canada
Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 1829

5. What is the "real" equation for E=M^2 I can't seem to find it..

Are you looking for E=m(mass) x √1-v2/c2?

For a more detailled explanation refer to :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity

3rd May 2009, 04:43pm
#13
by shadowslayer
Grand Rapids, Michigan United States
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 1533

No, it is something along the lines of E^2= 2p+.... something something, I do know that is has to do with the mass of an electron, but why that's a variable; I do not know.

4th August 2009, 08:49am
#14
by Madison12345
McKinney United States
Member Since: Jul 2009
Member Points: 876

4. E(nergy)= M(ass)x S(peed)O(f)L(ight)

I know that is insanely basic, so post again if you want one a little more complex

4th August 2009, 01:11pm
#15
by guitarpick321
Chicago United States
Member Since: Nov 2008
Member Points: 9

5.   e=mc^2 is E (energy) = M (mass) * C (the speed of light) ^2

                                                    ^ that is a multiplication symbo btw

it was a revolutionary equation because it bascicly means that mass and energy are the same thing in different forms

4th August 2009, 01:15pm
#16
by guitarpick321
Chicago United States
Member Since: Nov 2008
Member Points: 9

oh and 6.

well, according to quantum physics, no, because atoms have trace amounts of energy from flicking in and out of this dimension (weird, i know-i don't know if i really believe it either-or perhaps i'm just interpreting it wrong)

also, in theory, it seems like it SHOULD be possible, but how would you do it? even in deep space the temperature is above absolute 0 or 0 Kelvin

4th August 2009, 10:22pm
#17
by shadowslayer
Grand Rapids, Michigan United States
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 1533

Sorry, I've found it; here is the 'real' E=MC2:

E2=m2c4+p2c2 
And I still know what all the variables are too.
5th August 2009, 11:16am
#18
by Jinnka
Waterloo Canada
Member Since: Oct 2008
Member Points: 85

I think what shadowslayer is trying to say is that the square root of 'i' is equal to negative one. It is an imagnary number, as it were. Thats about what i remember from high school. Get it... i? Ahahha...

18th December 2009, 02:48pm
#19
by strangequark
Quantum Superposition of States United States
Member Since: Oct 2008
Member Points: 3083

FIrst, let me clean up some misconceptions here. 0 K can never be reached because of 0 point quantum energy, after all, space is foamy on the Planck Scale.

Second, i is also the negative square root of negative 1. Like all roots, it also has a negative solution.

Most of my attention here will go to question 3:

String theory is the most popular theory of quantum gravity today that attempts to reconcile general relativity with quantum mechanics. String Theory is notoriously hard to test, and it is on the verge of not being a testable theory. Do to this falsifiability problem it is losing popularity to loop quantum gravity currently.

String theory unifies forces by adding more dimensions, that is to say, a total of 10 spacetime dimensions. Where are they? Curled up very small is the traditional answer, but recent calculations, especially by Lisa Randall have opened up new aveneus to explore. These curled up spaces take on Calabi-Yau shapes, of which there are hundreds of thousands of varieties.

etc.

I am writing a lot about it but I can't disclose a whole book here!

18th December 2009, 10:27pm
#20
by AnthonyCG
Washington DC United States
Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 2782
 

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