Recent content by IITian

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    Programs Is Cambridge's Part III Equivalent to a Master's Degree or First Year PhD?

    CASM is not a degree. So think about it again before you comit to anything!
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    Where Else Should I Apply for a Physics Major?

    I would say Harvard, Yale, MIT, Princeton, Caltech, Berkeley, Cornell, Columbia, Chicago, Santa Barbara, USC, Northwestern, Dartmouth, St Louis, Brown, Wisconsin in US are all good. If you want to come to Europe then- Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial, Durham are all good for Physics.
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    What Was the Initial Speed of a Ball Thrown Horizontally from a Building?

    well done!
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    Incline plane, two masses, a pulley

    Is this your homework?
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    Solving Physics Puzzles in Space: A 500cm^3 Challenge

    convert the cm^3 into m^3. How many puffs do you take per minute? How many per year? The rest is simple arithmatic...
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    Heat Transfer of nail into a board

    Nail is struck 10 times and moreover is there any heat loss while the nail is being driven!
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    Maths problem: deriving expressions for the critical temperature/volume/pressure

    These will be quite useful for people working with critical fluids, particularly for Carbon dioxide capture, transportation and storage. Needless to say that Van der Waals EoS is not valid for CO2!
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    Graduate What would happen if you tossed one end of a wormhole into the other end?

    i would be interested to know the answer!
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    FREE Materials Science Lecture Notes

    http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/Teaching/index.html
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    Graduate Dielectric constant depression of water?

    I don;t think freezing is a good idea. It would solidify the medium and render the cells immobile
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    Calculating 0.2% proof stress of aluminium

    good old Al eh? I guess the initial bit is the settling-in phase of the mechanical tester?
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    How Can Biomineralization Kinetics Influence Bone Regeneration?

    I can't imagine bio-mineralisation kinetics being any different from general kinetics of reactions. The factor that one might have to consider is the added catalytic effects of biological cells that might enhance the reaction rates.
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    What major of Chemistry is dealing with toxic?

    You can get into the field either by doing BS with Bio-Chem major and then forensic science or by doing physiology. There might be other ways of getting there...
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    Find Free Grain Size Images for ASTM (G) 10.48 @ 400x

    try our dept. website. It has a lot of SEM images. www.msm.cam.ac.uk http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/miclib/index.php
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    How to write the thesis proposal for Masters

    I wrote a proposal when I applied for my masters' degree in Materials. Usually anything with "nano" or "bio" works!