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    Why the need to be careful opening a switch on this RL circuit?

    When the switch is closed for a long time, the current through the inductor will be ##I## ( given by ##E_0/R_1##). As soon as the switch is opened, that current through the inductor will persist; the inductor will not change its current rapidly. The inductor will create whatever voltage it...
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    Engineering Intro to Power Systems: AC RLC circuit voltage calculations

    I think it would be simpler to work from the magnitudes: $$\left| \frac{V_R}{V_S} \right| = \frac{\left| R \right|}{\left| R - \omega^2 R L C + j \omega L \right| }$$ Take the magnitudes and clear the square root on the right hand side by squaring; it doesn't matter if you maximize the left...
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    Pulley system and energy conservation?

    Take a look at the image supplied in the first post. You have the height and width of the triangle. Solving for θ should be easy. I included θ below:
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    Engineering Intro to Power Systems: AC RLC circuit voltage calculations

    True. I admit I took a shortcut where ##\left| R \right| = R##, since ##R## is positive real.
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    Engineering Intro to Power Systems: AC RLC circuit voltage calculations

    Start with: $$ \frac{V_R}{V_S} = \frac{R}{R + \left( j \omega L \right) \left(j \omega R C + 1 \right)}$$ $$\left| \frac{V_R}{V_S} \right| = \left| \frac{R}{R - \omega^2 LRC + j \omega L} \right|$$ But ##\left| \frac{V_R}{V_S} \right| = 1##, so: $$1 = \frac{R}{\left| R - \omega^2 LRC + j \omega...
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    Engineering Intro to Power Systems: AC RLC circuit voltage calculations

    I think you want to ponder what ##\left| \frac{V_{R}}{V_{S}}\right| ## actually is. It's magnitude is one, but that means you need to take the magnitude of the expression on the right hand side. You should get: $$1=\left| \frac{R}{R+(j\omega L)(j\omega RC+1)}\right|$$ Then solve for C. Edit...
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    What is the mass of the Galaxy's core?

    It doesn't matter. The core is stated to be spherically symmetric, so that it behave as a point mass to anything beyond it's boundary. It doesn't matter whether it's homogeneous (radially) or not, if it is given as spherically symmetric. It may have alternating layers of dark and normal...
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    What is the mass of the Galaxy's core?

    Yes. That would be my answer.
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    What is the mass of the Galaxy's core?

    I find it doubtful that dark matter is not fully mixed with the core, and only surrounds it. But anyway, that's that's irrelevant; mass is mass. If you have a mass of dark matter mixed in with normal matter, you cannot distinguish the two. The mass of the core ##M## would not distinguish...
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    What is the mass of the Galaxy's core?

    If the core of mass ##M## has a radius of ##r_1##, and the speed of the closest stars is ##v_0##, wouldn't that give you the mass of the core? I presume that the mass of the core includes a mixture of regular as well as dark matter, but that the dark matter extends beyond the core and...
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    Comp Sci Use a simulator to produce a resonance curve for this RLC circuit

    For a Bode plot (sweeping through multiple frequencies) you'll want to specify the voltage and frequencies in a different way. There should be some entries equivalent to LTSPICE's 'Small signal AC analysis' in the setup for the voltage source, probably shown as magnitude and phase? For the...
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    Comp Sci Use a simulator to produce a resonance curve for this RLC circuit

    In LTSPICE the voltage source gives you the option of SINE and you can specify the AC voltage and Frequency, as well as a value for Phi, the angular offset. I don't know what Multisim gives (I don't have it installed, or signed up for the online version). But surely there must be some option...
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    Comp Sci Use a simulator to produce a resonance curve for this RLC circuit

    You've already got the voltage, no? The current is just ##I = V_s/Z##.
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