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    Can Spin Angular Momentum Keep Satellites Oriented Towards Earth?

    How are artificitial satellites made to point to the surface of the Earth as they orbit? Is it due their spin angular momentum?
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    Can Someone Explain How the Second Law of Thermodynamics Opposes the First Law?

    Yeah entropy (A measure of disorder) will tend to increase, meaning that everything will get more disordered as time progesses. Solids (Very ordered), Liquids (Disordered) and gases (Very disordered).
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    Can Light Particles Propel Spacecraft to the Speed of Light?

    No, but apparently swans make good propulsion for early space craft. Light particles or "Photons" are packets of energy that you can't catch. If you were to try and "grab" one with your hand and catch a ride you may be disappointed. Traveling at light speed is impossible for such a large mass as...
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    Hot Water Feeling Cold: A Neuroscientific Explanation

    I guess it's because of two things: Firstly the transfer of energy from the "hot" particles in the water to your hand. Tempreture is a measure of kinetic energy of particles. A hotter tempreture means a greater velocity of the particles. For heat to be transferred the kinetic energy must be...
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    Hot Wheels Racing: Factors for Fast Cars & Modifications

    Increasing the mass and reducing the area of car exposed to the air would increase the "terminal velocity" of the car down the plane, (If that is the correct term for this situation.) Because all objects fall at the same rate, increasing the mass would not decrease it's acceleration. Also...
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    Neutron Interactions: Collisions & Absorption

    At a macroscopic level it appears that when two objects collide, they physically interact and the atoms touch. However the charges of the electrons actually repel one another and they don't physically touch. Correct? A neutron however has no charge so what happens when a neutron collides with...
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    Surface Tension Forces: Physics & Intermolecular Forces

    From what i know: Hydrogen bonding : Occurs between Hydrogen atoms and atoms of oxygen, fluorine and nitrogen. It is the strongest out of the three intermolecular forces listed here. Hydrogen bonds pull the molecules of water outwards, resulting in water being less dense when frozen than when...
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    Supergun compared to nuclear bombs

    I don't know. How much would it cost and how long would it take to inrich some weapons grade radioactive material? I'm pretty sure it's pretty costly for time and money. A railgun only requires a metal projectile, a strudy set of rails and a huge amount of electricity.
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    Spacetime - it warps, it curves, but can't expand?

    It sounds more like they are disagreeing with the idea that space is an object. Space is nothing. You are talking about the expansion of the universe? I guess the distance between objects is increasing but space cannot increase as it isn't anything.
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    What Are BH Curve and Hysteresis in Magnetic Materials?

    http://www.answers.com/topic/b-h-curve?cat=technology (electromagnetism) A graphical curve showing the relation between magnetic induction B and magnetizing force H for a magnetic material. Also known as magnetization curve. Just google it...
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    What is the time and speed of a rolling ball from tabletop to floor?

    For (a) all you need to know is how long the ball was in the air. Consider the ball along the y direction only. What is the inital velocity, displacement and acceleration? Stick thoose values into an equation of motion to find the value of time. For (b) once you know the time the ball is in...
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    What Was the Initial Speed of a 81kg Projectile Fired Straight Up to 175km?

    Actually wait a minute ignore what i said. I assumed because you assumed the equation would be quadratic that it would be... if that makes any sense? You want an equation of speed vs time so you want time and speed to remain as symbols t and v.
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    What Was the Initial Speed of a 81kg Projectile Fired Straight Up to 175km?

    Yeah that looks good. It asks you for a quadratic equation and the only equation of motion that contains a square of t is : s = ut + 0.5at^2
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    What Was the Initial Speed of a 81kg Projectile Fired Straight Up to 175km?

    Yes all is correct expect your equation it's : v^2 = u^2 + 2as or as you would write Vf^2 = Vi^2 + 2ad I think you are confused, we are talking about only the first half of the journey, from the ground to the point where the object is at the point of coming back down (Has zero...
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    Understanding Gravity: Properties & Effects

    Energy and Matter (Which is energy locked up) bend space time. Although i do not know why... It doesn't follow a path it's traveling in a straight line. The space time is bent and it is traveling in a straight line through it. You have taken that picture out of context but i think what...
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