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Awesome, thanks!

I appreciate the response but mainly what I'm wondering is why is it OK to add chlorine to water but not vice versa?

So, unfortunately a neighbor of mine had a terrible accident involving pool chemicals. He added water to chlorine and started shaking it, causing an explosion that left him in bad shape (luckily, I am told he will make a full recovery). I have not had a course in chemistry in a few years...

Ok I cleaned things up a bit, I realized it was a little hard to follow. So what you are saying is my calculation for P(X<=4) is incorrect? This is NOT equal to P(3<=X<=5)? Also, for the last part I would compute 1-F(5)?

Homework Statement The current in a certain circuit as measured by an ammeter is a continuous random variable X with the following probability density function: f(x) = 0.057x + 0.272 if 3 <= x <= 5. It is 0 otherwise. a) Verify that the total area under the density curve is 1. b) Obtain the...

Awesome, thanks for the reply. One thought I did have was to consider this as a crank and slotted lever mechanism, where the disk is the crank. Could I do an analysis this way? Or would it be too inaccurate?

Homework Statement A slotted link AC is is driven by the peg P connected to a rotating disk. Point A is fixed. Determine the link's angular velocity, \omega_{ac} and acceleration, \alpha_{ac} when the angular velocity and acceleration are \omega and \alpha , respectively. \omega = 6...

Thank you. I'm starting to think that one of the main reasons I have been having trouble even getting asked to job interviews is that I went with Mechanical Engineering. To me it seems, in my area at least, that Electrical/Computer Engineers and Computer Scientists are all that are in demand :(...

Thanks again. I definitely need to work on my networking skills. In fact, a few of my friends from class have found internships mostly because of who they know (neighbor works for the company, father is the CFO, etc.) Some of that may be luck more than networking, but I suppose you need a mix of...

Thanks for your response. As I expected, I did not get asked back for a second interview. Although I did desire the internship, I'm trying not to get too upset because I still have a few applications out for internships that I'd prefer. One thing that I am a little perplexed about is that the...

Great, thank you!

I have one more question. When I was interviewed Wednesday, I was told I would know the next day whether or not I was going to be asked back for a second interview or if I was not. Yesterday we got about a foot of snow so I didn't expect to here anything, but I've still not heard anything...

Awesome, I appreciate the advice

and using that number I do get 2.01 seconds after using the quadratic equation :)

Ok, I see where I went wrong now, thank you very much!