I've been having to ask a LOT of questions on SO lately - I'm a lone developer at my company working on a lot of different tech stacks and I don't really have anyone reliable in house to ask for help. My specific question is do I lose points if I max out my allotted daily/monthly quota?  I make sure to research my questions thoroughly, and include links to previous answers and resources that didn't help me. I work hard to make sure I provide a  for every question I ask.
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Find weak form of linear transport equation I am stuck on the following problem that says:       a) Find a weak formulation for the partial differential equation $${\partial u\over\partial t\ }+ c{\partial u \over \partial x\ }=0$$    b) Show that $u=f(x-ct)$ is a generalized solution of $${\partial u\over\partial t\ }+ c{\partial u \over \partial x\ }=0$$ for any distribution $f$    My Attempt:   I know that in order to find a weak form of a pde, we need to multiply it by a test function, then integrate it. Also, to find a generalized solution, we need to find a weak solution and just multiply it by the Heaviside function.  Let's take any test function $\phi $, then we have (integrating by parts second part of the integral) $$\int_{\Omega } ( {\partial u\over\partial t\ }+ c{\partial u \over \partial x\ })*\phi(x) dx= \int_{\Omega } {\partial u\over \partial t}\phi(x) dx - c\int_{\Omega } u(x,t)\phi'(x)dx$$ where $\phi $ vanishes at boundaries. So, is it the final form or can we proceed further? And how am I supposed to find a generalized solution?  Can someone help me out? Thanks in advance for your time. UK visa refusal on V 4.2 a + c (and sometimes 'e') C++ Struct Pointer Segfault algebra - matrices and polynoms $T:\mathbb P_2[x]↦\mathbb P_2[x]$ s.t.:   $T(1)=3+2x+4x^2$, $T(x)=2+2x^2$, $T(x^2)=4+2x+3x^2$.   Is there base $B$ of $\mathbb P_2[x]$ that $[T]_B$= \begin{bmatrix}     2 &amp; 0 &amp; 0\\     -1 &amp; 1 &amp; 0\\     5 &amp; 0 &amp; 4\\  \end{bmatrix}  Please help. Thanks. Microsoft has steadily improved its operating cash flows in the past three years. Microsoft has steadily improved its operating cash flows in the last three years. Microsoft has steadily improved its operating cash flows for the past three years. Microsoft has steadily improved its operating cash flows for the last three years. Microsoft has steadily improved its operating cash flows for the past three years. 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Prepositional Phrase - confused - at or in Story on quantum indeterminacy: protagonist has to “quantum select” a portable computer’s state Alternative Method to Acquire El Capitan Upgrade How should a physics student study mathematics? Note: I will expand this question with more specific points when I have my own internet connection and more time (we're moving in, so I'm at a friend's house).  This question is broad, involved, and to some degree subjective.  (I started out as a physics-only student, but eventually decided to add a mathematics major. I am greatly interested in mathematics; the typical curriculum required for physics students is not deep or thorough enough; mathematics is more general (that means work!); and it only requires a few more classes. Naturally, I enjoy  immensely.)  This question asks mainly of undergraduate-level study, but feel free to discuss graduate-level study if you like.  Please do not rush your answer or try to be comprehensive. I realize the StackOverflow model rewards quick answers, but I would rather wait for a thoughtful, thorough (on a point) answer than get a fast, cluttered one. (As you probably know,  produces clear, useful writing; and a properly-done comprehensive answer would take more than a reasonable amount of time and effort.) If you think an overview is necessary, that is fine.  For a question this large, I think the best thing to do is focus on a specific area in each answer.    Update: To Sklivvz, Cedric, Noldorin and everyone else: I had to run off before I could finish, but I wanted to say I knew I would regret this; I was cranky and not thinking clearly, mainly from not eating enough during the day. I am sorry for my sharp responses and for not waiting for my reaction to pass. I apologize.  Re: Curricula:   Please note that I am not asking about choosing your own curriculum in college or university. I did not explicitly say that, but several people believed that was my meaning. I will ask more specific questions later, but the main idea is how a physics student should study mathematics (on his or her own, but also by choosing courses if available) to be a competent mathematician with a view to studying physics.  I merely mentioned adding a mathematics major to illustrate my conclusion that physics student need a deeper mathematical grounding than they typically receive.   And now I have to run off again. I need to enter the command line alone with no GUI to install the official NVIDIA drivers. I'm trying to get my computer to work over HDMI and someone on Youtube shows how but you have to be in the Nvidia settings program. In Minecraft, the NBT (Named Binary Tag) format is used to store data of our Minecraft worlds, including block, entity, and item properties. In the Java Edition of Minecraft, you can modify this data by including the data in the command, like so: /give @s diamond_sword{Enchantments:[{id:&quot;minecraft:knockback&quot;,lvl:10s}]}  In the Bedrock Edition, on the other hand, NBT is inaccessible from commands. In order to modify NBT, we need to use an external editor. What are some useful item properties that I can modify with an NBT editor, and how can I do so?  Related: What to put in "affiliation" field when submitting paper without affiliation? Recently my paper is reviewed (by a professor from independent third party) and accepted by a journal. But, my employer allows me to publish this paper only without its name there.  Publishing house is expecting affiliation for each author, i.e. I can not leave affiliation as blank.   What should I write as the affiliation? What formats supporting animation are suitable for the web? What formats supporting animation are suitable for the web and what are the pros and cons of each. Dropping z dimension programmatically Deductible expenses paid with credit card: In which tax year would they fall? If I paid my business expenses with a credit card during the month of December, which year can I deduct them from my taxes? 2011 (when the purchase was made) or 2012 (when I paid off the credit card)?  IRS pub reference greatly appreciated I have a dictionary of values read from two fields in a database: a string field and a numeric field. The string field is unique, so that is the key of the dictionary.  I can sort on the keys, but how can I sort based on the values?  Note: I have read Stack Overflow question here  and probably could change my code to have a list of dictionaries, but since I do not really need a list of dictionaries I wanted to know if there is a simpler solution to sort either in ascending or descending order. I have my CIFS setup in fstab and they are working as they are supposed to on boot. They mount as they should and work for a while. Out of nowhere it seems (could be after unlocking machine etc) I get "Host is down" error trying to access it. I have multiple and they are all down. They are also shared from the same server. At this time i check on a windows computer and an outdated 14.04 machine and they are up and functioning as they are supposed to. After clicking around on the shares in nautilus and getting repeat errors they will just start working again. To access a share that is "down" takes about 2-3min of randomly clicking different mounts and going back to the first one when automagically it shows the data in the mount point.  I do not have this problem on 14.04 machines that have not been updated in a while. All of those machines are fully functional and the CIFS never go "down". On 16.04 they were not a problem until more recently.  I have made sure to update every other day and have cleaned old linux headers (in hind sight i probably should have reverted). I do this because im begging for a fix to just appear but its been weeks of battling CIFS mounts without any solution. Can I access private members from outside the class without using friends? If a subsequence of a Cauchy sequence converges, then the whole sequence converges. Let $(X,d)$ be a metric space, and say $(x_n)$ is a Cauchy sequence such that it has a convergent subsequence $(x_{n_k})$ that converges to $x$. We show $x_n \to x$. Let $\epsilon &gt; 0$. Take $N &gt;0$ such that for all $n,m &gt; N$, we have   $$d(x_n,x_m) &lt; \frac{\epsilon}{2}.$$  By hypothesis, we can take also $K &gt;0$ such that for all $n_k &gt; K$, we have  $$ d(x_{n_k},x) &lt; \frac{\epsilon}{2}.$$  Put $M = \max \{N,K\}$. Therefore, for all $n,m,n_k &gt; M$, we have  $$ d(x_n,x) \leq d(x_n, x_{n_k}) + d( x_{n_k},x) &lt; \frac{\epsilon}{2} + \frac{\epsilon}{2} = \epsilon.$$  Hence, $x_n \to x$ as desired.  Is this a correct approach? Thank you very much in advance.