The Taylor expansions about are
Adding them cancels the odd powers of and gives
Thus the centred finite difference has truncation error , so .
Using the Taylor expansion
we obtain
When cooling is negligible, the milk lowers the temperature by one unit at . The hot-water term begins at and raises it at one unit per unit time, so one further unit of time is needed to erase the deficit.
Let be the distance from the origin to each fixed charge, and denote their position vectors by . For a small planar displacement , the Taylor expansion
can be summed using the threefold symmetry relations
The electric potential due to the fixed charges is consequently
The moving charge has electrostatic potential energy of point charges . Because the quadratic coefficient is positive, the origin is a strict local minimum of , and the equilibrium is stable.
Write and . The constant electric force gives momentum
Combining with the relativistic energy-momentum relation gives
The dimensional analysis from part (a) confirms that has the dimensions of momentum, so is dimensionless and the expression has the dimensions of velocity.
The speed increases monotonically from zero and approaches the speed of light asymptotically:
Integrating in the direction of the field gives
At small times, the Taylor expansion of the square root gives the nonrelativistic limit
which is motion from rest with the constant acceleration .
For unit mass, the Lagrangian in cylindrical coordinates is
Introduce shearing sheet coordinates by and . Evaluate all derivatives of at . The reference circular orbit obeys , while midplane symmetry gives . Its Taylor expansion is
Expanding the kinetic energy to the same order gives
The terms linear in cancel by circular-orbit balance. Discard the constant and the term by total-time-derivative invariance of a Lagrangian; these do not change the Euler-Lagrange equations. The particle Lagrangian in a shearing sheet is therefore
with shearing-sheet tidal potential
The second form follows from , the orbital shear parameter and the vertical epicyclic frequency .
Expand and . A Taylor expansion of the sheet boundary conditions about gives
The first-order Fourier mode is , with , , and . Decay excludes the growing exponentials, leaving . The two boundary values give :
There is no first-order mean boundary motion. Boundedness excludes mean shear, so .
The electric potential of a point charge at the origin is
For the two charges forming the dipole,
The first-order Taylor expansion at large is
and therefore, with the electric dipole moment ,
to leading order. Taking the interaction of a second dipole with the corresponding electric field gives the stated electric dipole-dipole interaction
Let the lattice spacing be and write the central dipole as
Its two horizontal neighbours have moment . For either one, the expression in parentheses, after extracting , is
Its two vertical neighbours have moment , and each contributes instead
Adding all four nearest-neighbour interactions and using the Pythagorean trigonometric identity gives
The angle has cancelled, so the energy is independent of .
Write and let be its score function. A second-order Taylor expansion around gives, for fixed ,
where every lies between and . The mean-zero score identity, the Fisher information matrix, and the multivariate central limit theorem give
The assumed regularity and a uniform law of large numbers give
Consequently, by the Slutsky theorem,
For the stated Gaussian shift model, direct expansion of the two normal distribution densities gives
Since , this has exactly the limiting distribution above. Equivalently, both limits are normal with mean and variance . This is the local asymptotic normality of the model at .
Let the pair potential be , so that in the dilute limit only one interacting pair need be retained at a time. The leading Mayer f-function expansion is
For each pair, translation of its center coordinate supplies and the other particles supply . Neglecting boundary corrections,
The Taylor expansion and in the thermodynamic limit give
Using and the ideal gas free energy,
With number density , this is , so is precisely the second virial coefficient.
This is the potential of Starobinsky inflation. Put and , so . Its potential slow-roll parameter and second potential slow-roll parameter are
At large positive , , so both and are small and slow-roll inflation is possible. Near the minimum, a Taylor expansion gives and hence
They are large for , so that region cannot sustain slow roll.
Near the minimum, the Taylor expansion of the potential is
Neglecting Hubble friction during one short oscillation reduces the Klein-Gordon equation to the harmonic oscillator equation
The virial theorem gives , so . Restoring the slow cosmological damping in the averaged cosmological perfect-fluid continuity equation gives
The coherently oscillating inflaton therefore behaves as pressureless matter.
At , the Taylor expansion of the relativistic energy is . The number density is
The ratio of the next momentum moment to this one is
Therefore
so .
Put , with and . The dispersion relation becomes
The two neutral roots are
Real roots enclosing a range with exist precisely when
which is the Toomre stability criterion for axisymmetric instability. For , the Taylor expansion of the square root gives
Along an exact autonomous-ODE solution, and
Move every term to the left and substitute the Taylor expansions about . The coefficients of vanish for , while the first nonzero coefficient is
Thus the local defect is . At the first characteristic polynomial is
which satisfies the root condition for a multistep method. The method is therefore zero-stable and has
Write the perturbation as and use the same factor for all velocity and pressure amplitudes. At the upper interface, the linearized kinematic boundary condition, zero tangential traction, and normal-stress balance are
The first term in the normal stress is the linearization of the attractive disjoining pressure , while the second is the stabilizing capillary pressure. Symmetry about makes even and odd, and supplies the lower-interface conditions.
For a two-dimensional Fourier mode, the Papkovich–Neuber representation is equivalently expressed by the odd biharmonic stream function for planar Stokes flow
The tangential-stress condition at , with , gives
whereas the kinematic condition gives . The associated normal traction is
Equating this with the linearized interfacial traction yields the dispersion relation
This is the Van der Waals rupture instability of a viscous sheet.
For , the growth rate is positive, starts from as , and decreases to zero like as . For , it has the same long-wave limit, vanishes at , and is negative for : surface tension damps wavelengths shorter than the cutoff. Long waves feel the attractive interaction but require coherent flow over a large distance; at short wavelengths viscous resistance suppresses the clean-film instability, while capillarity adds direct decay. A finite film size, fluid inertia, surrounding-fluid stresses, gravity, surface viscosity, and failure of the continuum disjoining pressure law can shift the observable most unstable wavelength.
During a growing thin spot, interfacial flow stretches the surface and dilutes its surfactant, thereby increasing the local surface tension above . Adjacent less-stretched regions retain more surfactant and lower tension. The resulting surface-tension gradient pulls toward the thin spot and opposes the outward flow that drives thinning. This is surfactant stabilization of film rupture; in the strong limit the surfaces behave almost as immobile boundaries.
For strong surfactant and , instability requires . The Taylor expansion
reduces the supplied relation to
It is maximal at
Thus the characteristic rupture time is . Surfactant greatly extends the life of a soap bubble while its film is moderately thick, but the growth-rate dependence predicts rapid final rupture after drainage has made the film sufficiently thin.
Let be the grain density and . Vertical force balance for the poroelastic aquifer gives
with compression taken negative in . Hence
The zero-effective-stress condition then gives
This identifies the poroelastic compaction length.
The water volume per unit horizontal distance is
For , a Taylor expansion yields
Storage conservation is . Integrating from river to divide and using gives the river influx
For and a groundwater profile that changes little during one tide, the direct storage oscillation has magnitude
With typical thickness and mean recharge discharge ,
Using the steady balance gives the equivalent estimate .
The ordinary least squares equations for model 2 are
For the Gamma generalized linear model, and , so its score equation under the logarithmic link is
When is close to ,
by the first-order Taylor expansion of the exponential function. The Gamma score equations then become the model-2 normal equations, so their coefficient estimates are close.
Write , , and retain the frozen axial field . The radial magnetostatic equilibrium equation now includes both the gradient of the toroidal magnetic pressure and the inward magnetic tension:
For , cylindrical gravity gives
Multiplication by the integrating factor therefore produces
The integration constant must vanish for regularity on the axis. Direct integration gives
Its Taylor expansion at the axis is
so the regular field behaves as . At large radius,
Nonnegativity at infinity requires
This condition is also sufficient: at the limiting value, the braces divided by reduce to , and decreasing only increases them. Thus the toroidal magnetic field is real and regular at every radius exactly in the stated range.
The Taylor expansion of the square root is
Substitution into the exact reflection coefficient gives
Consequently
This is exactly the reflected field furnished by both the Born approximation and the term linear in in the Rytov approximation. Thus the exact, Born, and Rytov fields agree through first order. If the Rytov exponential is retained without re-expansion, its higher powers generate spatial harmonics ; those terms are part of the approximation and should not be confused with the exact interface's single reflected wave.
For a slowly varying envelope , the paraxial approximation to the Helmholtz equation is
Because and , passage through a sufficiently thin phase screen produces
Its modulus is one at the screen exit. Beyond the screen, , so the parabolic wave equation is . A Taylor expansion in propagation distance gives
Since
we find
It follows that
or, equivalently, . Thus random phase curvature produces local focusing and defocusing: free-space diffraction converts phase fluctuations into amplitude fluctuations immediately after the screen.