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Whether Earth is moving toward or away from Jupiter is almost immaterial in itself. The orbital period of Io is about 42.5 hours. In...

As Berkeman has pointed out you would need to cancel the marble’s orbital speed first in order for the marble to drop vertically to the...

If the thermodynamic work done by the gas changes the polarization of the gas molecules, that would be taken into account in the change...

How can you determine the gas polarization energy if you aren’t given any information about the polar nature of the gas molecules? AM

You have found an easier way to solve the problem by noticing that ##a=3/2=\gamma##, the adiabatic constant (Cp=3R;Cv=2R). So the...

The use of capital V for volume and voltage is confusing. I will use lower case ##v## for voltage and upper case ##V## for volume. Your...

Just so I am clear on the linkage, the angle of BD to the extension of BC is a fixed 120° and B is free to slide along BC. You are...

.... Wade is a journalist and has developed his own 'theories' about race and genetics. He has come under a lot of criticism for his...

Is that the exact wording of the question? I ask because in scientific usage "heat" only refers to the transfer of energy between...

This graphic from the paper published in Nature in 2015 may help explain the data that Reich was using: The green bars represent the...

So 3 times the fundamental is a harmonic (a twelfth) but not 1.5 (fifth). You might find musicians who would disagree that a perfect...

The OP was using "overtones" to refer to the sequential harmonics above the fundamental tone. I was just doing the same. I don't think...

It depends on whether these statements can be true: 1. "most Europeans are descended from the first settlers who arrived during the...

As someone with a long held interest in, but no academic background in, molecular biology, I find this is helpful. I became interested...