Recent content by amolv06

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    How Can Phosphorus Form 5 Covalent Bonds?

    My o-chem book says that phosphorus can have more than 4 covalent bonds. Why is this with respect to valence bond theory?
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    Schools Should I Take High School AP Calculus? Math & Physics Books to Consider

    You will learn everything in a high-school calculus class that you would in a college calculus class. That said, I found university calculus to be much, much harder than high-school calculus. I never did homework in high-school, slept through class and got an A in calculus BC. I took college...
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    Integrate f(x) = (x^3 + 3x + 12) / (x(x+2)^2)

    Hmm, I don't know if this is correct or not, but have you tried long division?
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    Why is this linearly independent?

    Homework Statement Determine whether the given vector functions are linearly dependent or independent on the interval (-\infty, \infty) \begin{pmatrix} t \\ 3 \end{pmatrix}, \begin{pmatrix} 4 \\ 1 \end{pmatrix}Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution I computed the wronskian to be t-12...
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    Undergrad Is nuclear fusion radioactive?

    No worries! Please don't apologize, I was just curious.
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    Undergrad Is nuclear fusion radioactive?

    Hmm. A friend is telling me that "The fusion in the sun produces radiation of several types, including beta positive and gamma in huge quantities" Is this just radioactive waste?
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    Undergrad Is nuclear fusion radioactive?

    I was just wondering if nuclear fusion is considered a radioactive process?
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    Applying Kirchoff's Law in an R-L circuit with parallel resistors

    Thanks, I completely mistyped that. 3 should read opened rather than closed. Just to clarify, the answer to #1 should be: I=V/R where I = 55/150?
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    Applying Kirchoff's Law in an R-L circuit with parallel resistors

    Thanks, I completely mistyped that. 3 should read opened rather than closed. Just to clarify, the answer to #1 then should look like the following? \frac{V}{R} = I where I is 55/150?
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    Applying Kirchoff's Law in an R-L circuit with parallel resistors

    http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/6961/circuithk7.jpg Assume that the switch has been closed a long time. 1.) Find the current through the inductor before the switch is opened. 2.) Find the voltage in the right resistor before the switch is opened. 3.) Find the current in the right...
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    Charge movement in a magnetic field along the z-axis (into page/out of page)

    I'm not a big fan of the right-hand rule; it always confuses me. The system I use, which works pretty well for me, is that since you're looking for the cross product, why not just take the determinant? We know that F = q\vec{v}\times\vec{b}. For both problems, we have the particle moving in...
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    Graduate Algebraic Manipulation of Euler's Identity Leads to a Strange Result

    Thanks!
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    Graduate Algebraic Manipulation of Euler's Identity Leads to a Strange Result

    I was playing around with Euler's identity the other day. I came across something that seems contradictory to everything else I know, but I can't really explain it. I started with e^{i\pi} = -1. I rewrote this as ln[-1] = i\pi Multiplying by a constant, we have kln[-1] = ki\pi...
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    Survival of C. elegans in Benign vs. Natural Environments: Vassilieva 2000

    The text Evolutionary Analysis asserts otherwise. In general it states that the selection coefficients are generally (over 70% of the time) less than .02, (http://www.jstor.org/pss/2640707) but that most mutations are slightly deleterious.
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    Survival of C. elegans in Benign vs. Natural Environments: Vassilieva 2000

    My Biology text, Evolutionary Analysis, claims that survival to sexual maturity decreased in C. elegans that originated from a single progenitor and were kept in a benign environment to decrease selective forces. This is cited from a paper by Vassilieva in 2000. My book claims that this...