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Hi All, This is a good repository for FREE OCW links (complete video courses as well), and other online educational resources. http://delicious.com/SassyCat13 Lecture notes, textbooks, or general information pertaining to study subject are sometimes posted in tags headed with "rsc" for...

This might sound silly but...If you produce a magnetic field of large magnitude, does it locally distort the Earth's magnetic field? I figured that it might, but I didn't know how to go about analyzing it.

Woops, that was a typo...thanks for pointing that out lzkelly. I did mean to use a different variable, like Y=Acos(kx-wt).. So do you mean...I can take the wavenumber k=2pi/lambda, which would be it's spatial component or I can take k=2pi/T? i.e. k is then angular frequency?

Hello all, Any help with this will be much appreciated. I've scoured the web and searched through textbooks, but I don't have a definite answer to my question as of yet. First, here's the background on my question: If I have a standard mass on a spring set into motion, All the textbooks...

Ok, I've been working on this for awhile and I can't seem to understand how to work it out. ANY insight would be greatly appreciated! The problem: An erupting volcano (2.5 km tall) projects a boulder from a vent at an angle of 40 degrees to the horizontal direction. The rock lands 6.0 km away...