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Thanks for the help, Doc Al!

Wouldn't the quantitative and analysis skills learned in EE/CompE be applicable to careers in banking? Particularly S&T which many banks recruit engineers at colleges for? Also, another reason why I rather get a degree in engineering over a business related field is the job security and...

Should I plug in the values for M_earth, R_earth, and G to find out what g_planet equals? And then I do g_planet=(g/x) to solve for x to find out in terms of what value for g is right? Doing this method... I get accelerated is g/8. However, is the proper way to solve this problem or am I doing...

So then you would get this correct: g_{earth} = G (1/2)M_{earth}/(2*R_{earth})^2 Which you can then simplify to be: g_{earth} = G M_{earth}/8R_{earth} However, I don't know where to go from there to find the acceleration:confused:

Next year I will be applying to colleges and I have narrowed my choice of majors down to the following: 1. Electrical Engineering 2. Computer Engineering While both fields interest me, Computer Engineering worries me a bit as I found AP Computer Science AB to be difficult (was getting a C so I...

1. A planet has a mass 1/2 that of Earth and a radius 2 times that of Earth. What is the acceleration due to gravity on the surface of the planet in terms of g? 2. a)F=G*m1*m2/r^{2} b)F=mg 3. I figured that I would let the two equations equal to each other so...