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    Integration of cotx

    well it makes it easier to post your solution on here if you do write those lines out also, in an exam, would you just write Int cotx.dx = log(sinx) + C [by inspection] ? or would you have to show the steps like Aerath did? (can a teacher mark you down for not including working in this question)
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    Very difficult Double angle questions needed.

    cos(A-B-2@) =cos(A-B)cos2@ + sin(A-B)sin2@ = (cos2@ - sin2@)(cosAcosB + sinAsinB) + 2sin@cos@(sinAcosB - sinBcosA) I wouldn't imagine there'd be a simpler way to do that one than regular expanding
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    Integration of cotx

    wouldn't doing this by inspection still use the same method that Aerath used, just in your head? "cotx = cosx/sinx = u'/u. where u = sinx, so u' = cosx, so the answer must be log(sinx) + C"
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    Circles =]

    how do you do it? (the show AFDC is cyclic bit)
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    Probability help needed.

    4. total of 10 bolts P = (1/10)3(9/10)7*10!/7!3! 5. 4/10 * 3/9 * 2/8 = 1/30 b) combiantions: 4 combinations of 3 red 6*6 = 36 combinations of 2 red, 1 black 4*15 = 60 combinations of 1 red, 2 black 6*5*4/6 = 20 combinations of 3 black so greatest probability of 1 red 6. P4 = 1/4 = 3/12, P2 =...
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    Parametrics Q

    kk, thought it was. btw, an easy way to solve this type of locus would be to notice that the locus will have the same gradient but the y intercept will be K times as much as the old intercept, where K is the ratio of the line intersected on the origin-side eg. for "2x-3y+6=0 and the point Q...
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    Parametrics Q

    you've never used pythag in 3-d? say you have 3 lines; x, y and z and you want to find the diagonal xyz then for the xy diagonal (xy) xy2 = x2 + y2 and for the the xyz diagonal (xyz) xyz2 = xy2 + z2 = x2 + y2 + z2 (hopefully the way I explained the diagonals makes sense) + what doesn't make...
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    Parametrics Q

    1. let the x coordinate be x1 then 2x1 = x y1 = 0.5(8x1 + 3) 2. 5/3x1 = x y1 = 2/5(5/3 x1+3) 3. just use pythagoras
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    Integration of 3^(x-1)

    yeah.. or you could just
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    Circles =]

    I suppose if there's nothing else you can do, you could first prove that the altitudes are concurrent, as shown here - http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/EMT668/EMT668.Student.Folders/BrombacherAarnout/write-up%203.aarnout/orthocenterproof.html
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    Circles =]

    for the second one, would we be allowed to use the rule that the altitudes of a triangle intersect at a common point?
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    maths abbreviations

    isn't similar |||? I reckon if a certain abbreviation isn't going to come up much just write the whole word, and if it is then putting a key might be acceptable, like "|| means parallel"
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    Chem Qs

    we most likely don't, but no harm in learning it anyway
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    Chem Qs

    I think it's measured by placing the substance between the plates of a capacitor and then measuring the change in the electric field of the capacitor (caused by the lining up of the molecules so that +ve end faces -ve capacitor plate, -ve end faces +ve capacitor plate) then do some calculations...
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    Chem Qs

    q is energy so you would expect the units to be joules - and the expression backs this up: mass*energy per gram per degree*number of degrees
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    Death Metal!!!

    yeah, great band. too bad the vocals are a bit.. ehhh
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    Chem Qs

    Re: Stupid chem assignment! intramolecular = within the molecule (eg C to O) intermolecular = between molecules (eg one glucose molecule to another)
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    Parametrics Q

    in 1. you should get pq = -2, and y0 = apq = -2a, so the midpoint of 2a and -2a is the x axis
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    Help understanding formula

    lol why do you have a inside and outside the square root? if you square your formula you get v2 = 2ad which is the same as v2=u2 + 2as when the intial velocity is 0
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    Parametrics Q

    focus is at (0,a) AB is (ap, 0) , (aq, 0) it's midpoint is (a(p+q)/2 , 0) gradient of line through focus and midAB is -a/[a(p+q)/2] = -2/(p+q) y-a = -2x/(p+q) 2x + y(p+q) - a(p+q) = 0 chord of contact is the line joining P(2ap,ap^2) and Q(2aq,aq^2). it's gradient is a(p+q)(p-q)/2a(p-q) =...
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