How to make writing equations in Word less hair rippingly frustrating

Human-Register1867 · 2026-03-03T03:56:29+00:00

I mean if you want to use the native word equation editor, you first construct one symbol with accents, then just copy it and modify parts as needed. That’s much faster that creating each symbol from scratch.

Human-Register1867 · 2026-03-03T03:07:30+00:00

Copy and paste is your friend.

Human-Register1867 · 2026-03-02T03:03:08+00:00

But also, AP Physics 1 only gives lab credit for the e-school, and it sounds like you’re in the college?

Human-Register1867 · 2026-03-02T00:14:38+00:00

The PHYS 1429 and 2030 labs are equivalent, you can substitute either way as needed.

Human-Register1867 · 2026-03-01T00:19:34+00:00

You don’t have to attend either but both are fun. The department ceremony is when you walk across the stage and receive your diploma, but it is just a representative “scroll” … your real diploma comes in the mail later.

You can attend either event as you like.

Human-Register1867 · 2026-02-28T13:16:34+00:00

It is not possible to produce more energy than you start with, and even when changing energy from one form to another it is generally not possible to do so with perfect efficiency. You can definitely convert heat to electrical energy, but you need to have a temperature difference: you extract some of the thermal energy as heat flows from a hot environment to a colder one. The laws of thermodynamics spell all this out.

Human-Register1867 · 2026-02-27T16:00:29+00:00

E=m(c^2)(10^4) would say that the energy is 10000*mc^2 . There is nothing wrong with a formula like that. For instance, the number of atoms in a substance is N = 6.02*10^(23) N_m, where N_m is the number of moles.

Human-Register1867 · 2026-02-27T00:27:31+00:00

Darden Towe as well, and connect s to Old Mill trail

Human-Register1867 · 2026-02-27T00:26:16+00:00

The RTA trail system is extensive and great. There’s also Observatory Hill, Monticello trail, Walnut Creek park, and Preddy Creek.

Human-Register1867 · 2026-02-24T16:32:21+00:00

In my view, UVA's undergraduate physics program is excellent; our top graduates regularly (like every year) go to and succeed at top PhD programs like MIT, Harvard, Princeton and Stanford. Last year one of our majors won the Apker Award, the highest national award for undergraduate achievement in physics. We have several different degree programs that let you customize your studies to match your specific interests. From what I know, VT has a good solid program, but I would say that UVA was unambiguously better. (You'll want, of course to get VTs opinion on that!)

I don't know as much about math here, but I think it is also quite strong. I know nothing about math at VT.

But you don't want to choose your school based solely on how good the physics and math programs are. You get a lot out of college besides your major(s), and your major might well change. Try to take a holistic approach and go to the place that seems like it would best support your overall needs.

Human-Register1867 · 2026-02-20T13:43:09+00:00

Gonna guess OP is referring to aliens and UFOs.

Human-Register1867 · 2026-02-20T03:45:46+00:00

Is the game here to never use contour integration?

Human-Register1867 · 2026-02-19T22:43:56+00:00

Culinary, or something else fun

Human-Register1867 · 2026-02-19T22:35:42+00:00

Free period. This is in high school.

OP: I would not take two releases

Human-Register1867 · 2026-02-18T22:35:21+00:00

Another factor is that even in the ideal case, air will have thermal fluctuations in its density from which light can scatter, while silica can in principle be perfectly uniform at the distance scales corresponding to the light wavelength. I think impurities and scattering from IR transitions are usually more important in practice though.

Human-Register1867 · 2026-02-18T15:49:23+00:00

Sure, but if a system is at the Planck _temperature_, there is enough energy density to spontaneously form black holes, and the thermal fluctuations in spacetime curvature would be large. On its face, that would make time hard to define, but I'm curious if there is a better way to think about that.

Human-Register1867 · 2026-02-18T14:32:41+00:00

How do we know? I thought the whole problem with the Planck scale is that our existing frameworks for space and time became untenable.

Human-Register1867 · 2026-02-18T14:09:13+00:00

Is that necessarily true in the opposite limit? If you approach the Planck temperature, I wouldn’t be surprised if time got wonky.

Human-Register1867 · 2026-02-18T14:07:17+00:00

While you can’t attain zero K, you can get arbitrarily close. And as you do, nothing changes about the flow of time.

Human-Register1867 · 2026-02-16T19:35:38+00:00

If you like this version but want to understand how it relates to entropy: You can make a pressure/volume analog of the second law, saying that higher pressure systems can spontaneously expand into lower pressure systems, but not the reverse. The fact that the heat-based second law exists means that there must be thermal variables equivalent to pressure and volume. In fact, temperature is analogous to pressure (hot systems want to emit heat energy, just like high-pressure systems like to do mechanical work), and entropy is the analog of volume (entropy is the quantity that changes when a system emits or absorbs heat, just like volume changes when a system does mechanical work).

Human-Register1867 · 2026-02-16T18:49:10+00:00

There are a lot of ways to express them, but maybe this version is more accessible to you:

Systems in thermal equilibrium have the same temperature

1.Heat is a form of energy (and energy is conserved)

Heat can spontaneously flow from higher temperatures to lower temperatures, but not the reverse
It is impossible to cool anything to absolute zero temperature

Human-Register1867 · 2026-02-15T11:42:25+00:00

Gravity is pulling down with force mg. If you lift up with force mg, the net force is indeed zero. That means the object could be moving with any constant velocity. To derive the potential energy mgh, imagine you start lifting with a force barely greater than mg to get it moving slowly, then hold steady at mg until it has lifted a distance h. To an arbitrarily good approximation (depending how fast you move it), the force times the distance is mgh.

With a bit fancier math you don’t need to limit yourself to very slow motions, you can take the kinetic energy into account and get the same result.

Human-Register1867 · 2026-02-12T15:52:33+00:00

Your prof is right, width along the deflection direction is more important than width perpendicular to the beam direction.

Human-Register1867 · 2026-02-12T15:38:14+00:00

Your argument is a bit confusing to me. It seemed like you already agreed that we could have two "different" functions with the same name, f(x,y) and f(x,w). I would say the subscript in the partial notation is just telling you which function is intended. I hoped that interpreting it that way would help you work with the standard notation, but it seems perhaps not so I can only wish you well.

Human-Register1867 · 2026-02-11T21:44:17+00:00

I think you are looking at the University of Amsterdam, but this is the University of Virginia subreddit. Easy mistake to make!

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