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kiwi_girl
Anmeldungsdatum: 16.03.2006 Beiträge: 5 Wohnort: Schweiz
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Verfasst am: 16. März 2006 19:53 Titel: |
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hi!
no, not as often as I would like to.
I've been about 3-5 times. Can't remember exactly...but it's a lovely country and I can't wait to go back .
bye
PS: if you want to have information about new zealand just ask |
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ACH
Anmeldungsdatum: 26.01.2006 Beiträge: 117
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Verfasst am: 17. März 2006 12:39 Titel: |
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Well, I haven't been there myself (nor do Iplan to go there anytime soon) but thanks for the offer. Though I hear it is mostly populated by sheep .
ACH _________________ A Stór Mo Chroí, when you're far away//Far from the land you'll be leaving, // It's many a time by night and by day// That your heart will be sorely grieving.
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splitpers Gast
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Verfasst am: 19. März 2006 18:47 Titel: |
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I would like to know wether they talk British English or any kind of slang in New Zealand`? |
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kiwi_girl
Anmeldungsdatum: 16.03.2006 Beiträge: 5 Wohnort: Schweiz
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Verfasst am: 02. Apr 2006 15:13 Titel: |
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Which country sounds the same like an other country?
NZ has got a different "slang" english...they also got maori language...so they are quite mulitlanguage. |
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josi
Anmeldungsdatum: 02.04.2006 Beiträge: 31
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Verfasst am: 04. Apr 2006 15:11 Titel: |
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Hi everybody!
My name is johanna I am sixteen years old and i live in hamburg...
I went to a gymnasium and I am in 10th grade...
i really like english it is my favorite subjekt in school in combination with german and history. In my freetime i ride or meet friends, read a lot (german and english) go to the cinema and so on. I hope you will correct me whenever I `ll make too much mistakes (or too many see it already starts ) well I think that is enough about me
so far joha |
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nuit
Anmeldungsdatum: 16.04.2006 Beiträge: 3
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Verfasst am: 16. Apr 2006 19:16 Titel: |
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i wasn't really good in english, until i went to ireland for a school year...i applied on a school there (County Kerry, Dingle)...i nearly finished my 5th grade...but I'm not going to stay there for the final leaving Cert. .
I'm 17 years old and normally go to a secondary school in Germany, in a small town in Bavaria (Maybe, the same town as thomas *fg*)
in two years time i'm going back to ireland to college, probably.. |
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josi
Anmeldungsdatum: 02.04.2006 Beiträge: 31
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Verfasst am: 16. Mai 2006 14:27 Titel: |
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To be honest i am a little disappointed.... everyone got a "warm welcome" from the mods.... what about me |
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Ulli Ehrenmoderator
Anmeldungsdatum: 03.07.2004 Beiträge: 1389
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Verfasst am: 16. Mai 2006 17:44 Titel: |
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josi hat Folgendes geschrieben: | To be honest i am a little disappointed.... everyone got a "warm welcome" from the mods.... what about me |
Hi, Josi,
We haven't forgotten you, glad to have you here in our board.
Why not join the word game or the rhyming one? _________________ LG Ulli
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
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Jack Ehrenmoderator
Anmeldungsdatum: 09.04.2006 Beiträge: 549
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Verfasst am: 17. Mai 2006 10:07 Titel: |
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I think it wouldn't do any harm to introduce myself as well
I'm 19 years old and currently waiting for my "Abitur" results. I like the English language a lot, since I've been to the USA and Canada several times and enjoyed those trips very much. Moreover, I like to help people, so that's probably why I'm here. |
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Ulli Ehrenmoderator
Anmeldungsdatum: 03.07.2004 Beiträge: 1389
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Verfasst am: 17. Mai 2006 11:40 Titel: |
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Jack hat Folgendes geschrieben: | I think it wouldn't do any harm to introduce myself as well
I'm 19 years old and currently waiting for my "Abitur" results. I like the English language a lot, since I've been to the USA and Canada several times and enjoyed those trips very much. Moreover, I like to help people, so that's probably why I'm here. |
Welcome Jack , glad to read about you and good luck for your Abi results . _________________ LG Ulli
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
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Ari
Anmeldungsdatum: 30.01.2006 Beiträge: 6 Wohnort: Wilhelmshaven
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Verfasst am: 17. Mai 2006 15:19 Titel: |
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I'm sorry I haven't introduced myself yet.
I've found this board because I'm already registered in other boards from web-z. My English isn't the best but my grammar is even worse
Well, if you got questions - just ask ^^ don't know exactly what I could tell you _________________ Liebe Grüße,
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Ulli Ehrenmoderator
Anmeldungsdatum: 03.07.2004 Beiträge: 1389
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Verfasst am: 17. Mai 2006 15:36 Titel: Hi |
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Welcome to this board, Ari
Maybe you can tell us about your home town Wilhelmshaven? _________________ LG Ulli
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
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Ari
Anmeldungsdatum: 30.01.2006 Beiträge: 6 Wohnort: Wilhelmshaven
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Verfasst am: 18. Mai 2006 18:04 Titel: |
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I can try
Wilhelmshaven is near the north coast. We have approximately 80.000 residents. The last days the weather was okay but usually it rains often.
It is the biggest town for the next 60km. _________________ Liebe Grüße,
Ariane |
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Ukkat Gast
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Verfasst am: 19. Mai 2006 09:59 Titel: |
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Welcome to you all....
I would really be interested to get to know more about you.
Normally you just read messages such as "Can you help me with this and that" and "I am really bad in English" but what about the personal stuff?!
Where do you all come from and are you still attending school?!
Im in my last year at school and hopefully I have my a-levels in three weeks. Just waiting to get my written results and than in 3 weeks I have got an oral exam in Music.
After that I wanna go to University and study Hydrology.
Right now I live in Berlin and I enjoy the life in the big city. |
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Jack Ehrenmoderator
Anmeldungsdatum: 09.04.2006 Beiträge: 549
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Verfasst am: 19. Mai 2006 10:40 Titel: |
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I forgot to mention that I'm from Hannover by the way, which is a very nice city as well in my opinion. As I already said, I'm waiting for my "Abitur" (or a-level if you prefer that; it's still not the same though) results, too, but my oral exam is already over. |
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D4redevil
Anmeldungsdatum: 14.05.2006 Beiträge: 47
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Verfasst am: 20. Mai 2006 14:41 Titel: |
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Hi dudes
My real name is Hendrik and I come from a city roughly 20 kilometres south of Bremen.
I'm a student of a secondary school and at the moment I'm in class 10.
Furthermore, I am 16 years old and I'm fond of playing volleyball and enjoy meeting friends.
I participate in an exchange to the U.S. this year, and I'll spend my next school year in a school in Texas =)
I haven't had a single able English teacher during the last years so I try to improve my English myself _________________ a friend in need is a friend indeed |
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ale Ehrenmoderator
Anmeldungsdatum: 19.01.2005 Beiträge: 237 Wohnort: Hessen
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Verfasst am: 31. Mai 2006 19:55 Titel: |
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hey and welcome.
I also went for an exchange to the USA. It was about 1 month and it was a lot of fun. I was in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Have fun here and a nice time,
ale |
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maya02
Anmeldungsdatum: 04.07.2006 Beiträge: 7 Wohnort: Munderkingen (near ulm) Germany
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Verfasst am: 08. Jul 2006 16:56 Titel: hi |
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Hi everyone,
I am Mai-Trang (Mai-Tschang) and I'm from Munderkingen, that's a little town near Stuttgart.
I'm 16 years old.
I really like english, but I've never had anyone to speak. So, anyone would like to help me?
I can speak Vietnamese (because I was born in Vietnam), English, German and French. But that's not important.
My English is still worse.
So I found this page and now I'm really happy.
Ok, See you
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D4redevil
Anmeldungsdatum: 14.05.2006 Beiträge: 47
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Verfasst am: 09. Jul 2006 12:25 Titel: |
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Hi maya02
Practice makes perfekt so don't be despaired if your English is not excellent at the moment. I have got many classmates that are 16 too and who have great problems with English. Reading English books and watching English films is a first step to improve your English. Moreover, you have to learn vocabularies and grammar, of course.
This is a very good page that deals with English grammar
http://www.ego4u.de/de
regards _________________ a friend in need is a friend indeed |
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maya02
Anmeldungsdatum: 04.07.2006 Beiträge: 7 Wohnort: Munderkingen (near ulm) Germany
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Verfasst am: 10. Jul 2006 10:18 Titel: |
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Hi D4redevil
I know this, thanks for the page.
I watch films aswell and I read book, but I must learn how to communicate with people and how to talk with them.
Practice is hard.
Regards |
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D4redevil
Anmeldungsdatum: 14.05.2006 Beiträge: 47
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Verfasst am: 10. Jul 2006 13:37 Titel: |
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I think it also depends wheter you develop a feeling for the language or not.
If you have a feeling for language, you don't have to consider consciously every word or sentence you write. You can just kind of "hear" if the word order, etc. is correct or not. _________________ a friend in need is a friend indeed |
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maya02
Anmeldungsdatum: 04.07.2006 Beiträge: 7 Wohnort: Munderkingen (near ulm) Germany
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Verfasst am: 11. Jul 2006 10:43 Titel: |
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Yes, that's right, englisch is a easy language but I also must know how to use it right. |
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John
Anmeldungsdatum: 11.08.2006 Beiträge: 3 Wohnort: Baden-Württemberg
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Verfasst am: 11. Aug 2006 13:51 Titel: |
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Hello my name is John and I am 15 years old. I will be in class 11 after the summer holidays. I live in Heilbronn (BW) but I originally come from Birmingham. I learn German,English,French and Latin at school but I can also speak Spanish and Vietnamese. I'm here to improve my english skills.
I don't know what to say any more so that's it for now. |
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maya02
Anmeldungsdatum: 04.07.2006 Beiträge: 7 Wohnort: Munderkingen (near ulm) Germany
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Verfasst am: 12. Aug 2006 08:55 Titel: hi |
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Hi, John, hey that's cool! Can you speak Vietnamese, too?
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John
Anmeldungsdatum: 11.08.2006 Beiträge: 3 Wohnort: Baden-Württemberg
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Verfasst am: 12. Aug 2006 22:57 Titel: |
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Yes , I can speak Vietnamese , too. My parents are Vietnamese. |
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maya02
Anmeldungsdatum: 04.07.2006 Beiträge: 7 Wohnort: Munderkingen (near ulm) Germany
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Verfasst am: 15. Aug 2006 08:45 Titel: |
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Ah, thats really cool. So you can also write and read Vietnamese? |
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John
Anmeldungsdatum: 11.08.2006 Beiträge: 3 Wohnort: Baden-Württemberg
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Verfasst am: 18. Aug 2006 00:50 Titel: |
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Unfortunately I can't write and read Vietnamese but I want to learn that sometime. |
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ale Ehrenmoderator
Anmeldungsdatum: 19.01.2005 Beiträge: 237 Wohnort: Hessen
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Verfasst am: 18. Aug 2006 23:15 Titel: |
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Hey John,
Hope you have a nice time here
ale |
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NicoRobin
Anmeldungsdatum: 08.10.2006 Beiträge: 4
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Verfasst am: 08. Okt 2006 20:38 Titel: |
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Hello my name is NicoRobin and I'm 14 jears old. My real name is Viktoria and I'm in the 9th grade.
I live in Friedberg near Frankfurt (Hessen).
In school I learn German, English and Latin.
My family and I were often in USA and there I can speak english very well.
But in school my marks are not really good, so I hope you can help me...
So,
See you^^ |
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maya02
Anmeldungsdatum: 04.07.2006 Beiträge: 7 Wohnort: Munderkingen (near ulm) Germany
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Verfasst am: 16. Okt 2006 12:12 Titel: |
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Hi, that's good to hear that you can speak Englisch very well, but why, do you think that your marks are so bad???
How can I help?
Bye |
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sqrt(2)
Anmeldungsdatum: 13.01.2007 Beiträge: 25
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Verfasst am: 21. Jan 2007 16:15 Titel: |
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In an attempt to revive this thread:
Hi, I'm sqrt(2). (You'd never have guessed that, would you?) You probably know me from Matheboard, where I am a moderator. People say that I speak English quite well, but I for myself feel that I need more practice, which essentially is the reason why I am here. As I figured out that the best way for me to extend my active vocabulary and reduce my grammar errors is thinking thouroughly about individual sentences, I'm trying to help you by correcting your texts and explaining the mistakes you have made (don't feel addressed, if you don't need that help ).
If you've expected to get something about me as a person and not about my motivation to be here, there you go: I'm currently a physics student at the University of Vienna (although I'm tinkering with the idea of starting to study mathematics parallely and see which suits me better) and am interested in computer science (besides physics and mathematics, of course), guitar music (that is, playing the guitar) and discussing interesting topics with my friends (drinking beer).
Hope, I won't annoy you too much. |
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ACH
Anmeldungsdatum: 26.01.2006 Beiträge: 117
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Verfasst am: 21. Jan 2007 21:16 Titel: |
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Does that mean that you can help me solve Sturm-Lioville problems in English ?
No, seriously, good idea getting this thread back on the frontpage...
ACH _________________ A Stór Mo Chroí, when you're far away//Far from the land you'll be leaving, // It's many a time by night and by day// That your heart will be sorely grieving.
---Irish patriotic song (Brian O'Higgins) |
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sqrt(2)
Anmeldungsdatum: 13.01.2007 Beiträge: 25
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Verfasst am: 21. Jan 2007 23:29 Titel: |
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ACH hat Folgendes geschrieben: | Does that mean that you can help me solve Sturm-Lioville problems in English ? |
Differential equations is a field that I find particularly interesting and I wouldn't mind discussing it in English. Sturm-Liouville problems, however, are something I never heard of until now, so I guess my answer would be "no"... |
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ACH
Anmeldungsdatum: 26.01.2006 Beiträge: 117
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Verfasst am: 22. Jan 2007 01:57 Titel: |
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Hey, I was just joking. Hopefully I won't need any help and I certainly don't expect you to understand all the mathematical lingo ...
But I thought I'd mention something odd to pique your curiosity. I guess you are going to do these equations at some later point in your degree ( ? )
So long,
Alex _________________ A Stór Mo Chroí, when you're far away//Far from the land you'll be leaving, // It's many a time by night and by day// That your heart will be sorely grieving.
---Irish patriotic song (Brian O'Higgins) |
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sqrt(2)
Anmeldungsdatum: 13.01.2007 Beiträge: 25
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Verfasst am: 22. Jan 2007 17:17 Titel: |
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ACH hat Folgendes geschrieben: | Hey, I was just joking. |
I got that, I was just keeping up the conversation...
ACH hat Folgendes geschrieben: | I guess you are going to do these equations at some later point in your degree ( ? ) |
I guess so, Sturm-Liouville problems seem to be somewhat similar to certain forms of the Schrödinger equation. (The correct term would simply have been "education", I think.) |
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ACH
Anmeldungsdatum: 26.01.2006 Beiträge: 117
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Verfasst am: 23. Jan 2007 09:11 Titel: |
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Hmmm, I seem to remember that the SE can be solved (for the harmonic potential) using series solution & some cunning substitutions of the sort z=exp(-x^2) but I digress...
SL theory can also be used to construct series representations of general functions (a bit like a Fourier series, but more general) though I must say I haven't seen that much application of this particular feature yet.
Also, I am not sure what you mean by the correct term being education - please be aware that it's hard to tell sarcasm over the 'net. _________________ A Stór Mo Chroí, when you're far away//Far from the land you'll be leaving, // It's many a time by night and by day// That your heart will be sorely grieving.
---Irish patriotic song (Brian O'Higgins) |
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sqrt(2)
Anmeldungsdatum: 13.01.2007 Beiträge: 25
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Verfasst am: 23. Jan 2007 16:20 Titel: |
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ACH hat Folgendes geschrieben: | Hmmm, I seem to remember that the SE can be solved (for the harmonic potential) using series solution & some cunning substitutions of the sort z=exp(-x^2) but I digress... |
I remember my old physics textbook containing a few pages that discussed how to solve the Schrödinger Equation (in time-invariant, onedimensional form) for the "particle in a box" problem, then concluding that minor changes to the potential function result in a problem that only can be solved by numerical means. It's good to know that there are important potential functions (I consider the harmonic potential to be quite important, when I think about single hydrogen atoms...) where the Schrödinger Equation still results in wave functions that can be described analytically.
ACH hat Folgendes geschrieben: | SL theory can also be used to construct series representations of general functions (a bit like a Fourier series, but more general) though I must say I haven't seen that much application of this particular feature yet. |
This sounds really interesting; I have no idea how a set of differential equations can result in a series converging against a certain function, though. Could you enlarge on that a little? Is the Fourier Series a special case of series expansions resulting from Sturm-Liouville problems?
ACH hat Folgendes geschrieben: | Also, I am not sure what you mean by the correct term being education - please be aware that it's hard to tell sarcasm over the 'net. |
I wasn't being sarcastic at all, my remark referred to the question mark you appended to the word "degree". |
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ACH
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Verfasst am: 23. Jan 2007 23:16 Titel: |
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sqrt(2) hat Folgendes geschrieben: |
I remember my old physics textbook containing a few pages that discussed how to solve the Schrödinger Equation (in time-invariant, onedimensional form) for the "particle in a box" problem, then concluding that minor changes to the potential function result in a problem that only can be solved by numerical means. It's good to know that there are important potential functions (I consider the harmonic potential to be quite important, when I think about single hydrogen atoms...) where the Schrödinger Equation still results in wave functions that can be described analytically.
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The SE can actually be solved analytically for an even more complex case (but I think it's the most complex you can get) which yields better results: that is the Morse potential Vm(x) = D ( 1- exp(-bx))^2 . Solving this one is really hard though afaik.
sqrt(2) hat Folgendes geschrieben: |
This sounds really interesting; I have no idea how a set of differential equations can result in a series converging against a certain function, though. Could you enlarge on that a little? Is the Fourier Series a special case of series expansions resulting from Sturm-Liouville problems?
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The basic idea is this: let f(x) be a function that satisfies the boundary conditions of the SL equation that we are talking about (e.g. y(a)=0=y(b)).
Then it can be shown that one can write f(x) as
are the eigenfunctions of the SL problem and their coefficients.
We can find the by using the orthogonality of the eigenfunctions:
- take eqn (1), multiply by & integrate:
(using bra-ket notation for simplicity)
but using orthogonality unless
therefore
Hence
If the eigenfunctions are normalized then
so .
Thus, in conclusion
(we can also get Green's function in a series form from this)
This eigenfunction expansion is the same as the Fourier series in the case of the SL problem i.e. where the eigenfunctions are trigonometric.
In all likelihood that wasn't too clear so you are probably better off having a look at the wikipedia article or in a textbook.
EDIT: improved readibility using LaTex _________________ A Stór Mo Chroí, when you're far away//Far from the land you'll be leaving, // It's many a time by night and by day// That your heart will be sorely grieving.
---Irish patriotic song (Brian O'Higgins)
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MI Administrator
Anmeldungsdatum: 22.01.2005 Beiträge: 1140 Wohnort: München
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Verfasst am: 24. Jan 2007 12:51 Titel: |
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I hope you excuse my interference here, as I cannot contribute to your conversation (a poor 18-year-old secondary school student as I am is not yet able to understand it - but I will hopefully be able to understand it some years from now).
However I have two remarks:
1. This is rather "Off-Topic", so probably you would like me to split the topic? However, I would be the last to suppress such interesting conversations, so I believe the conversation should only be encouraged.
2. My second remark goes into this direction: Why not use to better visualize your ideas? Thomas was so nice to implement that into the board software some time last year.
You can use it like the Matheboard-Latex, so that
Code: | [latex]\sum\limits_{k=0}^{n}\, \binom{n}{k}p^k(1-p)^{n-k}=1[/latex] |
gives
MI |
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sqrt(2)
Anmeldungsdatum: 13.01.2007 Beiträge: 25
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Verfasst am: 24. Jan 2007 14:19 Titel: |
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ACH hat Folgendes geschrieben: | In all likelihood that wasn't too clear so you are probably better off having a look at the wikipedia article or in a textbook. |
It was clear enough to give me a idea of what the series expansion is all about. The procedure seems to be quite similar to what I read in the Mathworld article about Generalized Fourier Series (to maintain honesty, I have to point out that it's two years now since I read that article).
Whereas the German Wikipedia article about Sturm-Liouville theory disappoints me (the English one seems to be better), I just discovered that the book about differential equations I recently ordered ("Differential Equations and Their Applications" by Martin Braun, you probably know it) has a chapter entitled "Sturm-Liouville boundary value problems". I hope I'll soon have more time, so I can get further into that matter.
MI hat Folgendes geschrieben: | This is rather "Off-Topic", so probably you would like me to split the topic? |
As I don't want to raise philosophical discussions about whether or not you can get off-topic in the off-topic area of a forum, I remain indifferent. |
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