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    Undergrad A: "Transforming Coal into Diamond: How Much Does One Pound of Gold Compress?"

    Sorry responders, I meant coal not gold-the laugh is on me- it must have been a long day. PS
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    Undergrad A: "Transforming Coal into Diamond: How Much Does One Pound of Gold Compress?"

    If I have one pound of gold heated and compressed into a diamond, what will the weight of the diamond be? PS
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    The Circle and the Square - How do I get a max value from a min value problem?

    Dynamicsolo, here is my two cents eventho I have not done max and min problems for years. Plot you equation of TA=f(x) in the interval of 0<x<50 and see how it curves. We know that is is a parabolic curve and the max value should be evident but not necessarily useful. If you can use excel...
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    Graduate Is Point M on the Circumscribed Circle of Square ABCD?

    I just think that the original question was badly worded. Good going on the solution Tiny-Tim
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    Graduate Is Point M on the Circumscribed Circle of Square ABCD?

    Tiny Tim, are you saying the the square inscribes the circle, another word, the sides of the square are tangent to the circle?
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    Graduate Is Point M on the Circumscribed Circle of Square ABCD?

    I am a little bit "befuddled" about the sentence "point on a circle about square", however I am assuming that you are referring about four corners of a square on a circle . The proper sentence should be " circumscribing the square on the circle" that way there is no confusion. Nonetheless...
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    Undergrad Galaxies receeding at and above speed of light

    So if I understand the balloon analogy and the recession > c, as the photons travel from one galaxy to our own, the photons travel in a curved path (surface of the balloon). Before reaching a point ( lets's say the halfway point if the two galaxies were on the same latitude) on the surface of...
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    Undergrad Galaxies receeding at and above speed of light

    I am not a physicist but I am an engineer who uses your science. Cosmology is fascinating and what I know about it is not much and much of which I've learned from programs such as NOVA and from a 1960 college course in Modern Physics. My question is from some information I read or heard...
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    Fermi Telescope Spots Giant Explosion in Space

    12.2 billion light years, isn't that about the age of the universe?
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    Graduate Regression Analysis for a Gamma function

    Yeah, I see what you mean. Instead of one independent variable, I'll two in that transformed equation. Thx.
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    Graduate Regression Analysis for a Gamma function

    Note, my request is not homework. This is a real situation involving a flooding situation arising from tropical storm Tammy back in 2005.
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    Graduate Regression Analysis for a Gamma function

    [SOLVED] Regression Analysis for a Gamma function My regression analysis program that I developed in BASICS back in the 1980's applies for half a dozen linear equations some of which are transormed into log forms. I would like to modify my program to include this Gamma function...