Questions related to the application of Mathematica to problems in physics.
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Doing vector manipulations on Mathematica
This is hopefully a simpler version of this previous unanswered question of mine.
Let me just focus on the two expressions $F_2^{(s)}$ and $F_3^{(s)}$ given in A.3 and A.4 of page 19 of this paper. ...
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Measuring fractal dimension of natural objects from digital images
This is a useful topic. A college physics lab, medical diagnostics, urban growth, etc. - there is a lot of applications. On this site by Paul Bourke about Google Earth fractals we can get a high ...
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UnitConvert: the square of a dimensionless quantity is not dimensionless
This is pretty ridiculous. Look at the following code:
UnitConvert[Quantity["FineStructureConstant"], 1]^2
0.0000532513545
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Kramers-Kronig Mathematica code
I'm trying to write Mathematica code to use Kramers-Kronig on a csv file with 2 columns. Column 1 is h(eV). It goes from 0 to 6, in increments of 0.1. Column 2 is alpha (cm^-1). For some reason, my ...
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Getting poles of a Gamma functions
Why do the following 2 sequences give different answers?
n = 1.5
Series[Gamma[0.5 - n - x], {x, 0, 2}]
Series[Gamma[-1 - x], {x, 0, 2}]
(..clearly the output from the second expression is ...
