Recent content by catch.yossarian

What if you look at it from another way... Saying that something accelerating, and thus speeding it up, towards Earth is increasing its [Kinetic] energy (and thus losing Potential Energy) , and thus something must lose mass to compensate. Isn't that like saying: "okay, since I'm adding a...

Coincidentally, my answer is the same as the above x3. :-p

Got it, thanks! Man, such a small thing, too. *sigh of relief*

A spring with k=45 N/m is .35m when pulled down with a 1.0 kg mass, what is the length of the spring when the mass is taken off? The answer in the back of the book is .13m (13 cm), I can't for the life...

Infinite mass means infinite inertia. It resists all motion. One couldn't push a black hole out of their way like any other matter in space? Thus can one not get rid of a black hole once its there? Will this mean that our universe is destined to become a wasteland of neutron stars and...

Maybe you should google up yourself a dictionary. :smile: I kid.

look at your periodic table and check again to see if Hydrogen weighs more or less than Oxygen. I believe Oxygen is heavier. I'm not the best with this sort of stuff, but I believe you'd have to add something to separate the H2O. Since H2O is two hydrogens and an oxygen connected during...

a merry-go-round? dirt flying off a wheel? a tornado? Though I don't know how that would come in handy...

Hi guys, I'm completely stuck here when doing related rates questions. Here is the question, and following the setup I have so far. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Water is leaking out of an...

"Thou art God" - Michael Valentine.

Cool. :) The only interview I've seen with Dr. Kaku in it was on Big Thinkers on TechTV. The show itself kind of sucks, but that episode really seemed inspiring.

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So because man devised time (the hour, minute, second, millisecond, nannosecond, etc.) we cannot manipulate time? sort of like saying because man devised numbers to keep track of goods, (the integer, floating point-integer) and devised operands (plus, minus, etc.) then manipulating numbers...

Is there a link out there that'll help me "visualize" these higher dimensions, or are they something you can't/aren't supposed to visualize. Because I can get left-right, up-down, and forward-backward just fine, but after that I run into a bit of trouble, heh. Thanks in advance.

In Mathworld, they define Simple Interest as: a(t) = a(0)(1 + rt) where a(t) is the sum of principal and interest at time t for a constant interest rate r. I just want to know why that 0 is in there. Anything divided by 0 will be 0, thus a(t) = 0?