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    What does the area under a Distance vs Time graph indicate

    You already figured out the units in your question. 1/2(5s)*5m = 12.5 ms Apparently this is called absement. In ordinary kinematics I don't believe it has any physical or useful meaning. However there may be some theoretical use to the quantity in more advanced systems/problems.
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    Calculating instantaneous acceleration

    No, sorry, that was directed at maxalador.
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    Calculating instantaneous acceleration

    You have a function for position with respect to time. Take the first time derivative. Show us what you get and what does this new function represent?
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    Calculating instantaneous acceleration

    How did you arrive at v(2.00s) = 0.217 m/s? Are you familiar with what the derivative of position means?
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    What option should I choose for my grade 12 physics course?

    Whichever is most interesting to you. At this level every one of these topics will be accessible to you (mathematically), so that shouldn't be a concern. Whichever topic interests you the most is the one you should take.
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    Graduate programs like Perimeter Institute for math?

    I do not mean that they copied the exact structure and progression course by course. I mean the structure of the Masters program itself is similar in style to Part III. Typical Masters programs take 2 years with concurrent courses and research spread out over the 2 years similar to undergraduate...
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    Graduate programs like Perimeter Institute for math?

    The Perimeter Institute models its Physics Masters program after the Mathematical Tripos III at Cambridge. So if you want a direct comparison then Cambridge's program is appropriate.
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    [Stat Mech] Different answers when using log space

    Oh ok that makes sense now, thanks for the help.
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    [Stat Mech] Different answers when using log space

    Ok, I'm not sure I'm following here. You have derived the correct expression, sure, but we can arrive at that just as easily by saying 1 - aV^{-1} = 1 in the second derivation. How come we're not allowed to do that when we have V^{N}(1-aV^{-1}) . I'm not sure I understand your comment about...
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    [Stat Mech] Different answers when using log space

    Homework Statement I have come across a rather interesting conundrum. Given the configurational potential energy partition function for a non-ideal gas: Z = Z_{internal}\frac{1}{N!}\left(\frac{2\pi m}{h^{2}\beta}\right)^{\frac{3N}{2}}(V^{N} - B_{2}(T)N^{2}V^{N-1}) where B_{2}(T) is the...
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    Recurrence relations for Associated Legendre Polynomials

    I've looked through Lebedev and he derives equation c) that I'm looking for first by using some recursion relations that I am not given in my text or notes. I'm first trying to doing only with what I'm given, but that book has been helpful so far.
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    Recurrence relations for Associated Legendre Polynomials

    Hm.. That disagrees with my text, I took a picture and uploaded it, no mistakes by me this time! All the problem says is "Establish the recurrence relations (6.97) for the associated Legendre functions." I figured the generating function would be the appropriate method to use.
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    Recurrence relations for Associated Legendre Polynomials

    When I physically write it down I don't make those mistakes, it's typing it out in latex after a long frustrating day of getting nowhere on the problem that caused the mistakes. Simple typos, that's all.
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    Recurrence relations for Associated Legendre Polynomials

    Ah, yes, my mistake. T should be T(\omega,s). Where \omega = cos(\theta). It's just a simplification that's made during the derivation. My prof used T(theta,phi) in class by mistake so that's just how I ended up writing it from my notes, it should be omega and s. As for the summation, another...
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    Recurrence relations for Associated Legendre Polynomials

    Oh, my bad, completely missed that entire section. Thank you, this seems to have what I've been looking for.
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