I have found a question that I do not believe is hard, but I don't understand what it is asking. The question is:
"The expression
has the dimension of an area. Find the value of n."
What is a dimension of an area?
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I have found a question that I do not believe is hard, but I don't understand what it is asking. The question is:
"The expression
has the dimension of an area. Find the value of n."
What is a dimension of an area?
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Originally Posted by JRichardson1729
I have found a question that I do not believe is hard, but I don't understand what it is asking. The question is:
"The expression
has the dimension of an area. Find the value of n."
What is a dimension of an area?
The dimension of an area is
For this question you need to find a value of n such the quotient of the whole fraction has an exponent of 2.
But, what does "dimension of an area" mean?
This is an example of Dimensional AnalysisQuote:
Originally Posted by JRichardson1729
Length, Time, Temperature (basically anything described by an SI base unit) is a dimension. The area of something is Length x Length so that is it's dimension.
Does the problem say "dimension of an area" or "dimensions of an area".