21 Nov
2012
21 Nov
'12
6:47 p.m.
On Nov 21, 2012, at 12:33 AM, Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
A challenge to Veits' Mechanics geeks might be to fudge the museum cycloid to make a true tautochrone curve for a sphere of specific mass and diameter. Would the the mass actually matter?
It'll have to wait till next semester -- right now I'm teaching statistical mechanics. Homework: Find the probability a random NxN complex Hermitian matrix has only positive eigenvalues.