From industrial robots to self-driving cars, engineers face a common problem: keeping machines steady and predictable. When ...

Practice how to recognise and determine the equation of a quadratic function from its graph ahead of your National 5 Maths exam with this interactive maths quiz. The equation of a a quadratic function ...

Figure 1: Signal from H43 as a function of pressure for three laser intensities, 1, 1.5 and 2 × 10 14 W cm −2, compared with quadratic behaviour.

In developing quality-control procedures, a step-loss function has been used implicitly or explicitly to describe consumer perceptions about product quality. A quadratic loss function has been ...

In a [previous post](/dotphysics/2008/09/basics-making-graphs-with-kinematics-stuff-part-ii/), I talked about how to plot kinematics data with a spread sheet and how ...