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Homework Statement Given that 1,206,900 liters of oxygen are required for a round-the-world trip for a hot-air balloon with a crew of three, and given that carbon-fiber wrapped bottles have a maximum pressure of approx 4500 psi, what total volume of pressure vessel would be necessary to...

Following your 'gut feeling' is absolutely correct. If you really feel that it is morally wrong to engineer lethal weapons then don't do it. I understand the arguments and don't have any problems with the line of thought. I felt the same thing for a few months after my Engineering instructor...

When my first engineering instructor told our class his proudest accomplishment was designing missles as a defense contractor I asked myself the same question. If we don't have missles, bombs, fighter jets or aircraft carriers someone who does will jack us up. Possessing an atomic bomb to...

My suggestion: it would be worth it to take an introductory level course at the U your senior year. Don't take it for the reason of getting ahead, take it so you can get an idea of how University courses are taught. College classes are completely different. College courses often teach you...

I'm in the same boat you are. I had my first Physics test yesterday and likely failed. I scored poorly on conceptual questions but understood all the long drawn out math based questions. I'll find out monday my exact grade. The same thing happened to me in Calculus I. I miserably failed the...

Dang, that's a terribly heavy load of classes to take. I'm currently in a Mechanical Engineering program that requires me to take Dynamics, Statics, Electromagnetic Physics, Thermodynamics, Differential Equations, and Circuits next years. From what fellow ME students have told me, they all...

Thanks to everybody’s responses. The test today wasn’t that bad. I still probably scored in the 50s or 60s. After taking some of your suggestions, and obtaining a solutions manual and other textbooks, I studied well into midnight and a lot of the concepts started coming together. Lesson...

Sorry if this topic has been visited in the past, but I'm having an extremely hard time with Intro to Mechanical Physics and it's a pretty awakening experience. I'm 99% certain I will fail the first test tommorrow and the reason I'm writing this rather than studying is because studying doesn't...