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How do you retain and understand information when you are reading?

First, it's important that you select the correct size of text for a reading session. Reading an entire textbook in one long session means that you will find it extremely difficult to retain any detailed inf...
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What is a neutrino?

A neutrino is a fundamental particle of matter, meaning that it has no substructure (it can't be broken down further into components). It has a very low mass, so the gravitational force exerted on it and by ...
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What is a vector?

A quantity may be a scalar (just a magnitude, just a number) or a vector, with magnitude and direction. For example, speed is a measure of how fast something is going, but velocity is a measure of how fast s...
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How do I differentiate an algebraic expression? (e.g. y=3x^4 - 8x^3 - 3) [the ^ represents x being raised to a power]

y=3x 4 -8x 3 -3 Let's say we want to calculate dy/dx. For a term A x n , the differential with respect to x is An x n-1 . For a constant value, we can say that n=0 because x 0 =1. This means that when you di...
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Work out the nth term of the sequence 3, 7, 11, 15, ...

This is an example of an arithmetic series because each term is +4 from the previous term.This means for the "nth term" we start with +4n.Now we take a specific term from the sequence e.g. 3 (1st t...
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