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Right now I'm applying to schools, and trying to decide what path I'm going to take. I think it would be very exciting to help develop newer, better, faster computer components. What major(s) should I be looking at? And what sort of classes are involved in that path?

I'm a huge nerd, and I spend ~90% of my free time doing something on my PC, whether it's playing video games, browsing/posting on forums, playing with video editing software, messing around with various programming languages, you name it. So, I kind of want to factor that into my career...

Thanks. :) Another question that's been bugging me lately: is it possible to isolate certain ions, so that they are not part of any compound? Like, would it be possible to manufacture a container of pure chloride gas, as opposed to chlorine gas?

I'm just beginning to learn general chemistry, and I'm reading my textbook's chapter on aqueous solutions. My question is, why do we term a solution of an ionic compound (like NaCl) like this: NaCl(aq) instead of: Na+(aq) + Cl-(aq) ? Technically, when the sodium chloride is...

It's the form of an expression for the "room constant", a measurement in acoustics: S*A ---- S-A S is total surface area of a room, A is total absorption of a room in sabins. Nice one. Thanks.

Is there a specific mathematical term, which refers to this expression? A * B ------ A - B

I haven't taken calculus yet, but I'd like to determine the closest parameter value for when a parametric curve crosses a line (for a program I'm writing). The curve is such that I need to use calculus in some way or another - it is unsolvable algebraically. Newton iteration will find a point...

Wow! Thanks a lot for the help... luckily my bodies are all of uniform density (I'm not a math wizard by any means)... Just for future reference, what exactly are "integrals" and what is "integration"? I looked it up just now and the definitions I found were beyond my comprehension. :/

Hey there Physics Forums! I kept getting links to you guys cropping up in Google searches, so when I got stuck with something I figured I'd register and ask here -- seems like a pretty knowledgeable. :) Anyhow, I'm trying to calculate the mass moment of inertia for a flat, triangle-shaped...