It would take more than one opinion to make me remove it from consideration entirely, so I am most certainly still thinking about it. However you did make me realize that
A.) I have not been giving the thought of majoring in CompE the same scrutiny as I have Physics over the past few weeks...
I've read "So you want to be a physicist" but will read the other two now, thanks for the suggestion.
That's a good point too. I think I might just be over thinking my decision.
I already have drastically changed my study habits. My first two semesters at community college I didn't try...
Hello there, I'm not really big on posting around here, mostly just lurk and read. Today however I feel I really need some help with making an important decision in my life. Being that this is the physics forums, and almost all of you are going to have a better knowledge of physics and even...
I think I may have figured it out, but I want to get someone to check it for me before I submit. After breaking the two tensions forces, which I'll call T1 and T2 from here, I was able to work out a solution.
ΣFx = T1cos(25) - T2cos(10) = ma
a = 0 m/s^2 so
ΣFx = T1cos(25) - T2cos(10) = 0...
Im not sure if I know the two basic rules or not to be honest. I'd love to learn them though so I can hopefully get through these sorts of problems in the future without assistance. I've attached the diagram that is given in the online assignment.
Homework Statement
A mountain climber, in the process of crossing between two cliffs by a rope, pauses to rest. She weighs 514 N. As the drawing shows, she is closer to the left cliff than to the right cliff, with the result that the tensions in the left and right sides of the rope are not the...