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hutchphd reacted to kuruman's post in the thread Finding proper value for centripetal acceleration in a plane rising up with
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There is another way of looking at this. First let's ask why the pilot loses consciousness. I would say that if he accelerates up with... -
hutchphd reacted to FactChecker's post in the thread Undergrad Please Explain (actually explain) The Monty Hall Problem with
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Have you done the math? Math is your friend in this. The conditional probabilities are completely different in the two situations. See... -
hutchphd replied to the thread There Be Monsters by Dave Collins.That's very impressive. I look forward to reading it. Congratulations. -
hutchphd reacted to Ibix's post in the thread High School Is there anything in the Universe that is not fundamentally made up of matter? with
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I'm torn between a line about "doesn't matter" and quoting Neil Armstrong. 😁 -
hutchphd reacted to Ibix's post in the thread High School Is there anything in the Universe that is not fundamentally made up of matter? with
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So, we're concluding that the answer is either yes or no, depending on what you include in the definition of the word "matter". -
hutchphd reacted to russ_watters's post in the thread High School The world is not enough with
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Something I didn't learn in school (or maybe just misremembered) is that Magellan did not return to Spain, he was killed in the... -
hutchphd replied to the thread Looking for movies where mathematics actually matters.I have a certain fondness for "The Big Bang Theory" television show and have been pleased not to have detected horrible gaffs when they...