Maths lovers come here!

[NotAProdigy]

So there's this one integral that my physics professor put up (for kicks), and it's been eating at me ever since. I want to see what people here, at The Escapists, think of it.

And of course, b=final time and a=initial time.

 

[Berethond]

There is no "a"!
Or "b"

Or I'm just missing something.

 

[Last of the Chinchillas]

You've caused much pain in my brain meats. I'm going to go and weep at my lack of mathematical skill now.

 

[AkJay]

Physics? odd, i got (generally) the same problem in my Chemistry class.

 

[Aqualung]

Boo maths!

Yay history!

.../leaves

 

[Berethond]

Physics? odd, i got (generally) the same problem in my Chemistry class.

Chemistry is just applied Physics.
(Yay XKCD)

 

[NotAProdigy]

Physics? odd, i got (generally) the same problem in my Chemistry class.

Chemistry is just applied Physics.
(Yay XKCD)

Haha and physics is just applied math. -high fives- (even though Issac Newton invented Calculus for the sole purpose of Physics).

edit*: Also b and a are just replaced by Delta t (which stands for time). Just fill in the blanks with your imagination.

 

[madcap2112]

*drool*.....I think my brain is melting.

 

[Alpha Centauri]

Physics? odd, i got (generally) the same problem in my Chemistry class.

Chemistry is just applied Physics.
(Yay XKCD)

Haha and physics is just applied math. -high fives- (even though Issac Newton invented Calculus for the sole purpose of Physics).

Calculus? *Shudders*

 

[j0z]

what pretty little symbols!
...
I have no idea what I am looking at.
Carry on math chaps! have fun... doing whatever you do.

EDIT

Doesn't look too difficult. The answer is 42.

of course! why didn't I see it before! of course it is!

 

[soulsabr]

Doesn't look too difficult. The answer is 42.

 

[Skeleon]

Gah, I used to know this stuff but didn't need or use integrals in the last 4 years.
Now I have no clue how to approach this thing.

 

[Spaceman_Spiff]

So there's this one integral that my physics professor put up (for kicks), and it's been eating at me ever since. I want to see what people here, at The Escapists, think of it.

And of course, b=final time and a=initial time.

Yo dawg did yo prof just put a function in yo function?

 

[NotAProdigy]

So there's this one integral that my physics professor put up (for kicks), and it's been eating at me ever since. I want to see what people here, at The Escapists, think of it.

And of course, b=final time and a=initial time.

Yo dawg did yo prof just put a function in yo function?

No, it's a function + the same function repeated g(x) times and to the inte--- ohhhh. I see what you did there. >___>

 

[Datalord]

Physics? odd, i got (generally) the same problem in my Chemistry class.

Chemistry is just applied Physics.
(Yay XKCD)

Haha and physics is just applied math. -high fives- (even though Issac Newton invented Calculus for the sole purpose of Physics).

edit*: Also b and a are just replaced by Delta t (which stands for time). Just fill in the blanks with your imagination.

FOOL, Liebniz invented calculus, not Newton
/math obsessived bad joke referencing an old math controversy

but you're right about physics, math, and newton, just thought i'd mention the controversy in a dramatic manner

 

[buklau]

What's so special about this integral? It seems relatively simple...you're just multiplying two functions together, unless I'm missing something...

Derivatives are just slopes of functions, and integrals are just areas underneath (or between) functions.

 

[Berethond]

Physics? odd, i got (generally) the same problem in my Chemistry class.

Chemistry is just applied Physics.
(Yay XKCD)

Haha and physics is just applied math. -high fives- (even though Issac Newton invented Calculus for the sole purpose of Physics).

edit*: Also b and a are just replaced by Delta t (which stands for time). Just fill in the blanks with your imagination.

FOOL, Liebniz invented calculus, not Newton
/math obsessived bad joke referencing an old math controversy

but you're right about physics, math, and newton, just thought i'd mention the controversy in a dramatic manner

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/newton_and_leibniz.png

XKCD strikes again!

 

[CIA]

FOOL, Liebniz invented calculus, not Newton

Oh yeah?

http://xkcd.com/626/

I love the last two panels.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

I honestly saw this title as "Meth Lovers Come Her!". Just thought I'd point that out.

OT: BUH?

 

[riskroWe]

Have you not been taught how to integrate a product of two functions?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integration_by_parts
Be warned, it's fairly time consuming.