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haruspex replied to the thread What Determines the Minimum Mass of Block B for Movement on an Inclined Plane?.Really? -
haruspex replied to the thread What Determines the Minimum Mass of Block B for Movement on an Inclined Plane?.What has the spring to do with it? When the system is released from rest, is the spring relaxed, at equilibrium with its suspended...
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haruspex replied to the thread Spherical capacitor RC system -- determine steady state charges.Please post your result and the official result if known.
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haruspex replied to the thread Calculation of Tensile Forces in Piston-Type Water-Lifting Devices at Elevated Locations.Then I misinterpreted your last diagram. I now presume it is a top view. That being so, a given movement of the piston raises twice...
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haruspex replied to the thread Calculation of Tensile Forces in Piston-Type Water-Lifting Devices at Elevated Locations.The lower portion is not raising any water, only moving it sideways.
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haruspex replied to the thread Errors and significant figures.Just a follow-up on the equation I gave in post #18… I felt it was surprisingly inelegant, then I realised it could be rewritten as...
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haruspex replied to the thread Errors and significant figures.Part of the problem is that there are two common systems which many (most) conflate. Either imply the uncertainty from the number of...
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When I was a practicing EE, none of this ever made sense to me. These problems rarely mention the probability distribution of the data...
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haruspex replied to the thread Errors and significant figures.It depends what you mean by the uncertainty. In many contexts you want the statistical uncertainty, i.e. standard deviation. If X and Y...
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haruspex replied to the thread A cylinder connected to a hanging mass.The horizontal forces on it are the friction from the floor, the pull of the rope, and the normal force from the wall. The first two...
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haruspex replied to the thread Physics Problem on Tension in Water.Yes, except that, as I wrote, the force is not constant. What you have calculated is the average. Is that what you are asked for?
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haruspex replied to the thread Physics Problem on Tension in Water.Ok, so can you do what I suggested in post #8? Do I need to explain more?
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haruspex replied to the thread Physics Problem on Tension in Water.I agree that is confusing, but since the question asks for a tension there was, presumably, some mention of a rope in the original text...
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haruspex replied to the thread Physics Problem on Tension in Water.Yes, I think we all read it that way. @jbriggs444's point is that we have no info re the surface area of the reservoir, other than that...
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haruspex replied to the thread Physics Problem on Tension in Water.You just have to draw the before and after pictures. You can consider the water as having gone from the volume that is occupied in the...
