Recent content by delsaber8

So my question arises from the whole time dilation thought experiment where one person stays on Earth the other speeds off in a rocket at near light speed. Upon return of course the one in the rocket is younger, etc. The reason I bring this up is how do we determine who is actually moving...

ok I feel really dumb about this, I realized that the concentration I was using was of coke that was heavily diluted, after going through some ratios I got a much more reasonable answer of 671mg/L

yes I believe it become 3H++PO42- -> H3PO4 but since the ratio is the same between the phosphate and the phosphoric acid they should have the same concentration. PLEASE do correct me if I am mistaken, Thanks!

This is exactly as typed in the question: Show the calculations for determining the phosphate ion concentration in the original Coke and converting the moles of phosphate / litre of Coke into grams of H3PO4/355 mL can and mg of H3PO4/1 L. Now you may notice there are more questions than those...

I have an answer of 2.8616 mg/L, the reason I fear my answer is wrong is because my prof gave an answer which was several orders of magnitude different.

Ok so I think I have a suitable answer to my question but because of certain circumstances I have reason to believe my answer is wrong. The question is: calculate the amount of phosphoric acid in mgH3PO4/L in a solution of concentration 2.92X10^-5 mol/L. seems pretty straight forward but...

Lol, will do. I actually think I have a good grasp now that you showed me the exponential form, I assume everything should fall into place.

Yes, in fact just saying that, I'm starting to see the connection.

Alright so my problem is if I don't see exactly how things work (in math) I can't use them. Like what I mean is some people use memorization and other methods but I really need to understand things deep down to be successful. So my problem is, I have trouble understanding logarithms. Now I...

I only managed to skim the article but does it mention anything about the explosive lenses used in the pit, to compress the plutonium into a super critical mass?

Thank you, I see how this works now, a little tricky to think about at first but the diagrams really helped.

My apologize for the confusion, I completely agree that is not relativity of simultaneity. I was referring to pervect's post, in which he talks about the lights flashing in different orders, which is more or less what I meant by a different series.

I'm thinking I have a better handle on the whole cross section thing, and the temperature dependence. Now forgive my if I'm wrong, but is this the reason U-238 can be used in the jacket stage of a nuclear weapon, because the temperature is so high?

I see, so then why exactly could different observers, observe the flashes of light in a different series? Again my apologize my background is little to nothing in this field.

By the sounds of it, we are dealing with relativity of simultaneity, similar to the classic train problem. Now I've always had a bit of trouble understanding this concept. I understood the one with the car crashes on separate sides of the world. Now I know what happens in this case but I don't...