Recent content by cseal

Hello all: I just finished my last semester at a community college, and I'll be starting at a university in the fall. I'm a little concerned with my preparation, especially in mathematics. My major choices were nuclear engineering and physics on my application, so I could be majoring in either...

Thanks for the reply. I have bentonite on a porous surface, and I wish to remove it. I have already washed the surface, but there is still a layer of bentonite. Bentonite can become very hydrated, so I need to use a solvent other than water.

Hello, Can anyone recommend a good solvent for sodium bentonite? I have used it as a sealant, and I need to remove it. Would it be better to dehydrate it with heat before trying to dissolve it?

Thanks for the replies, everyone. Astronuc, the NE department has a radiological concentration available for their undergraduate degree. QuantumPion, I'll be transferring with A.S. of chemistry, so I was planning to take some 300 and 400 level chemistry classes, such as biochemistry, as...

Hello all, I have a strong interest in nuclear science, especially medical physics, and I'll soon be transferring from a community college to a university that has, I believe, a very strong nuclear engineering department. Will undergraduate study in nuclear engineering or physics provide a more...

I'm currently using Briggs, Cochran, and Gillett's Early Transcendentals for Calculus 1, which is what my college uses for their three semester calculus sequence unfortunately. I don't like it. If a concept is not intuitive for me, reading the text does not illuminate the subject at all. It's...

Precalculus with Modeling and Visualizations by Gary Rockswold is good. I believe it's used frequently in community colleges. It has a review chapter prior to chapter 1.

Thanks for the response. The difference between the face-centered and body-centered cubic units were troubling me. I referenced my general chemistry text for a more elementary explanation than Pauling's.

Is anyone able to comment on the crystalline structures in the second chapter? Copper's cubic unit of structure is described as a face-centered cubic arrangement with atoms at coordinates 0,0,0; 0,1/2,1/2; 1/2,0,1/2; 1/2,1/2,0. The iron cubic unit of structure is described as a body-centered...