This paper presents various examples of symbolic analysis of mechanical, electrical, and thermal networks. These examples illustrate several ways in which symbolic analysis ...

The SLC final focus system is designed to have an overall demagnification of 30:1, with a beta at the interaction point (beta*) of 5 mm, and an energy band pass of ~0.4%. ...

Recursive algorithms--often espoused by designers of computer languages--are a mixed blessing when it comes to practical computational algorithms needed in the physical ...

To become proficient problem-solvers, physics students need to form a coherent and flexible understanding of problem situations with which they are confronted. Still, many ...

Many mathematical concepts in analysis (and in most other subfields of mathematics, except perhaps finite mathematics) involve "change" and some kind of limiting process. ...

Numerical differentiation formulas based on interpolating polynomials, operators and lozenge diagrams can be simplified to one of the finite difference approximations based ...

Although it is in principle possible to compute dispersion curves for a buried low-density channel by numerical means, the interpretation of such results is fraught with ...

A reverse force analysis of a spatial three-spring system is presented which determines equilibrium positions when an external force is applied. The system consists of three ...

The Fril fuzzy data browser is a software tool which can automatically derive rules from large bodies of data. The data need not be completely known, and the derived rules ...

On constructing CPM propagators with an abundant number of terms by Mathematica, we have shown that the CPM[N,Q], where N is the number of polynomial terms by which the ...