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Homework Statement Consider a brick wall, 4.0 m high, 6.0 m wide and 300 mm thick, where the thermal conductivity of the brick is 0.8 W.m-1.K-1. During a particular one-hour period, the temperatures of the inner and outer surfaces were measured to be T1 14oC and T2 6oC respectively. The...

Sorry for the very vague title but my brother and I had a long chat the other day and we could not come to a conclusion. Our question was, can every object be split into 3 equal parts? Scenario 1: If you split a 60cm ruler into 3 20cm parts you would say that yes the object is in 3...

So while i was doing some homework i noticed that when you square pie you end up with 9.869 which is very close to the gravity on earth. Just wondering if there is any relationship between the two, i don't see how there can be but it is a bit strange, is it coincidence?