oh i make it equal to 0 dont I yeah, for a maximum, dy/dx must equal 0 by mathematical convention/law its been too long

since i did maths and since i been fully awake yeap make it equal to 0. any astros got any advice whatsoever for question 2 the whole thing is just baff ling what does Q2 say? just sent you it, it's long and im not sure what its asking anyone want to be a total star and give us a hint for part b of q4? pairing and symmetry ah awesome, thank you have you done 2 rust? im just finding it stupidly difficult that and the pion se ction in Q2 Today astro dudes, do we have to use the dispersion relation to get omega for 1f? oh wait its stat mech everyone then Don't you just put it into the formula you just obtained in 1e...? yeah i have a formula for delta w, but i have no idea what i am putting in for t hat to equate it to that seeing as all we were given to go from is a mass and a wavelength well, you can turn the wavelength into omega, hint we did alot of it in oscialla tions and waves * oscillations right, i'll have a look, cheers. Though i thought they involved v, unless we can assume v = speed of light, which i doubt anywho SQRT 2PI/Lambda M? i'll have a look through that cheers I think it is that but prob wrong where are you getting it from though? in the notes it talked about relating k an d w from the dispertion relation but then never gives us the actual relation, so i googled up an equation that uses all the info we were given but it's not anywhere in the notes so i'm not to confident in it W = (k/m)^0.5

k=2PI/Lamda the k in that is spring constant and the k you used was wave number mhmm meh heh Not the way I did it, but interesting approach and looks better ah well if it comes down to it, it's just 4 marks in a single paper out of 5 or so stat mech papers, so nothing to lose much sleep about Yeah, the exam looks like it will be easy too? all the hard stuff he keeps sayin g we wont need to do in the exam... i got the answer as 44 that sound right? i have no idea i dont know what values a mu should look like in the problem class it is 98... i got a 10 to the -23 though ohhh well i'm pretty off then heh I did.. f = c/LAMDA then w = 2PIf sub it in you get 44 see, can we assume c? we are told its just radiation not EM well the magnitude of omega in the PC is x10 13 same as the one I get here so sounds right... sounds pretty good then go for it if you want I am happy till someone says otherwise i've not got much else to go on, so i might as well I hope I am right then Well doesnt it have to be EM radiation? what else can it be :s no idea I am off to watch "In Time" great movie I hear enjoy anyone got ideas on how to do Q1 of NaP?

The most stable A = 85 element is the one which has the lowest mass. So differentiate m with respect to Z and make it equal to 0. yeah, thought as much, do i need to swap out A for N+Z? no leave it as A