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    Which high voltage is more dangerous: AC, or DC, and why?

    I wish I had a plot of voltage on the X-axis and danger level on the Y-axis for AC and DC. I was talking to an engineer at work, he was telling me that DC is more dangerous at high voltage. I said I disagreed with him but did not do into detail as to why I thought so. I did say that I've...
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    Understanding Method of Sections: Why is Fy=2T2 - 981? | WikiBooks

    Okay, so I am trying to understand the method of sections so I can finish my homework. I look at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Statics/Method_of_Sections" and for the life of me, I can't understand why at the bottom of the page it says Fy=0=2T2 - 981 . Where does the factor of 2 come...
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    PF Members in/around Portland - Ready to Geek Out & Hang Out?

    Its been a while since I've been on here. I moved to the Portland area, and was wondering if there was any more people from this forum in or around Portland? Oh yeah- I'm geeky again now... I'm just looking to see if any PF members want to hang out some time. Should I look in another...
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    What Do Scientists Think of This Video?

    Hello everyone, long time no see :) I hope this would be the correct forum to post in .. I haven't been here in a while so I don't know if this topic has already (probably surly has) been discussed. What does the chemists, physicist or engineers think about his video...
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    Mathematics of this optical illusion

    okay so the people who swap have a similar slice missing? Yes, I failed to see what this has to do with math also. Hence my question. What it does have to do with math, I was having a difficult time comprehending. So I wanted to get a quantitative analysis as to what was actuaclly...
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    Mathematics of this optical illusion

    I figured out what happened on the first post... when I made it a hyper link, I thought I had screwed because the url was there twice. It was actually there for the hyperlink text. So I still had the hyperlink there (as I found out when I edited my post) , but there was no hyperlink text so...
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    Mathematics of this optical illusion

    Maybe I will get it eventually, but I"M STILL TRIPPIN! on this one. It is very clever. I'm just still having a difficult time visualising the appearance / dissapearence ot the extra person! :cry: :rolleyes:
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    How High Can a Helium Fountain at the Lambda Point Reach?

    somebody?? anybody? c'mon, its been almost 2 years!
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    Mathematics of this optical illusion

    my bad! my original post had this link, but the site was having problems and i scuffed my post up upon redsoig it. I understand the triangle problem. the illusion that was bother me was this one: http://www.ebaumsworld.com/images/illusioncount.gif" I was thinking it might work similar...
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    Mathematics of this optical illusion

    yah, there was i a much better example i remember, but maybe I'm just imagining that? Maybe it was just a long time ago and it was impressive back then. I'm still stumped by this people illusion as of now.
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    Mathematics of this optical illusion

    Hello everbody, long time no see! I hope this is the right forum for this, I'm not ready to post it in the topology forum:cry: Okay, so I saw this neat optical illusion. It really started to bug me as I was playing around with it in paint trying to figure it out...
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    How can I prevent unexpected restarts in Windows XP?

    It sounds like your specified operating system is working exzctly as it was made to ( yes I use windows also )
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    Help With 8th Grade Science Fair Project: Magnetic Levitation Train

    the go to guy: If you're really serious about making this train for a science project, why not do something easier this year, and have the train be an early start on a project for next year?
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    Make it a little harder to find personal set up

    Also, note that there is a link in the email which allows you to unsubscribe from all threads. Hard to click, but the results are astouning:wink:
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