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http://www.wholikeshomework.com ask them chemhelper are you the owner of that website?
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the secret behind artificial gravity?
NeonBlack replied to dstebbins's topic in Astronomy and Cosmology
Also, there is no magnetic "charge." For example, a magnetic south pole cannot exist isolated from an equal north pole. If you're bent on using magnets, instead of putting magnets in your outfit and in the floor, maybe you could put a huge coil of wire with a current running through it around your ship (so that the magnetic field is just about uniform) and then just make the outfit with regular ferromagnetics (lightweight steel maybe) in it. -
the secret behind artificial gravity?
NeonBlack replied to dstebbins's topic in Astronomy and Cosmology
The force from magnetic dipoles decrease proportional to the inverse cube of distance, while gravity on earth (since it is so large) is just about constant. So by putting magnetic in the floor, your feet would feel a huge force and your head and arms would experience significantly less downward force. It might be like wearing iron boots here on earth. -
Is there an explaination/proof of how this method works? ... Okay I was impressed at first but now I see that it's actually very simple.
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Building your own notebook is absolutely out of the question.
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AJ- Your refridgerator? Another classic sandwhich: Captain Crunch cereal and pixie sticks on that squishy white bread.
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Need help choosing best Scientific Calculator
NeonBlack replied to Weegsta's topic in Linear Algebra and Group Theory
I have a TI-89 Platinum, which is very nice, but it can compute derivatives, integrals and symbolic solutions, so professors generally won't let you use it on math exams. Most of the time when people say "scientific" calculator, they mean a calculator which can do arithmetic, powers, roots and transcendental functions, but which does not have a graphical display. Even if you can only use a scientific calulator on an exam, the graphing calculators are very helpful for studying. -
This is a problem similar to one is Stewert's Early Trancendentals: A boat is being pulled towards a dock by a rope. The rope is reeled in at a constant speed. What is the speed of the boat moving across the top of the water when it is a certain distance away from the dock? (x and y are perpendicular) The solution is fairly straight-forward: Use the relationship between the distances [math]r^2 = x^2 + y^2[/math] Differentiate in time: [math]2r \frac{dr}{dt} = 2x\frac{dx}{dt}[/math] Here, dr/dt is the speed of the rope (constant) and dx/dt is the speed of the boat. I will now call these vr and vb. Finally: [math] v_b = v_r\frac{r}{x}[/math] This is the solution given by the book and just about everyone else. But now let's take the angle between the water and the rope and call it theta. Now: [math]v_b = \frac{1}{cos\theta}v_r[/math] Here, the problem becomes obvious. Since cosine < 1 the boat always moves faster than you pull it? Can anyone make sense of this?
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Are "virtual particles" a fact?
NeonBlack replied to gib65's topic in Modern and Theoretical Physics
1 quick question: Since a photon with sufficient energy may spontaneously become an electron positron pair (or any other fundamental particle/antiparticle presumably), which quickly annihilates, why isn't the speed of higher energy photons slower since this process must take some time? -
Welcome Christian. Do you go to U of M?
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For like that magic trick where someone autographs a playing card (not a baseball card) you tear it up, and then restore it.
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How long ago did english as we know it exist?
NeonBlack replied to GrandMasterK's topic in The Lounge
yeah, I think we had "old english" from about 500 to 1000. I don't think we would understand old english much more than we would understand german. After the Norman invasions, old english was mixed with a little french, which gave us middle english, which was used from 1000 to about 1500. During the renaissance, we got some new words from latin and greek which gave us modern english. I'd say that the only reason we can understand what shakespear wrote is because since then, english has become standardized. Before this, pronunciation and spelling varied widely from place to place and also changed rapidly. -
[math] \lim_{n\rightarrow \infty}\frac{n}{\sqrt{\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} n^2}} [/math] rewrite [math]\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}n^2[/math] as [math] \frac{n(n+1)(2n+1)}{6}[/math] Now if you just take a quick glance at it, your power of n on top is 1, and your highest power of n on the bottom is 1.5 so when you take the limit to infinity, you will go to zero. If you want a more formal proof, there are a number of tests you could try, but it seems like it's been so long since calc 2, and I am not sure which one exactly would work.
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A famous cajun chef, an english formula 1 driver, and interestingly, at least 3 or 4 college athletes.
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What did you get?
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Alright: Use the roots to get the equation in the form I told you before. Foiling this will get you to the form [math]ax^2 + bx + c[/math] Completing the square will get you to the form [math]a(x-h)^2 + k[/math] (h,k) gives you the vertex, and the "direction of opening" is given by the sign of a
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you've never heard of FOIL?
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If a quadratic has complex roots a and b, it can be written in the form [math](x-a)(x-b)[/math]
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Here is one way: [math]\frac{\pi^2}{6} = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{n^2}[/math] In this way, pi can be approximated by a very large n.
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Yes, it's true. An adoption agency once sold shaved apes as human babies and got away with it for quite some time. Read the World Weekly News if you don't believe me!!!!!!
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There's absolutely no reason to stop cracking your knuckles. If you're about to beat someone up, crack all of your knuckles at the same time. It'll make you look totally awesome! Wow, I just noticed that this thread has over 1000 views!
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Sniff of confidence, or insecurity
NeonBlack replied to Royston's topic in Psychiatry and Psychology
Yeah, I do it too. I will also kind of tap the side/tip of my nose with my thumb very quickly too. I have never really thought about why. The next time I catch myself doing it, I will though. -
You would prefer censorship and bias? What if someone said "When can I have a search engine without garbage like evolution?" What would you think?
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You need a date!