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    Discovering Astrophysics: A Freshman's Perspective on Michio Kaku

    He taught me last semester. He's the co-founder of string-field theory. I don't know about if he's the HEAD PHYSICST lol... but he's a really...REALLY good speaker. Although if people ask him questions which he thinks are dumb he's going to single them out lol.
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    High School Interested in looking at the night sky

    Hey guys. I want to get started in looking at the night sky from my roof etc etc. I was thinking of getting Celestron SkyMaster Giant 15x70 Binoculars with a tripod as a starting tool which is only about $70-80. I don't want to buy a $4,000 telescope without knowing what I'm looking for lol...
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    High School How would I measure the angle of a certain street from true north?

    One more question I got to ask you guys, I had posted another thread relating to a phenomenon called Manhattanhenge where the sun aligns with the streets in Manhattan twice a year where it gets a nice view during sunset. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattanhenge I've been asking these...
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    High School How would I measure the angle of a certain street from true north?

    Ahh ok, cause I've been calculating them manually so far based on the latitudes and longitudes, I hoped google maps had that whole function set up lol. What you guys suggested will definitely save some time though. Thanks!
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    High School How would I measure the angle of a certain street from true north?

    I can't seem to find that function. Mind helping me out?
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    High School How would I measure the angle of a certain street from true north?

    As the title says, I want to measure the angle of a street from true north so I can know what time of the year the sun will align with it.
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    High School Explore Manhattanhenge – the Manhattan Solstice

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattanhenge "Manhattanhenge – sometimes referred to as the Manhattan Solstice – is a semiannual occurrence in which the setting sun aligns with the east–west streets of the main street grid in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The term is derived from...
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    How Did Mendel Conduct His Genetic Experiments?

    I'm trying to look at specific methods and results in how mendel did his experiment. The number of plants in the P generations, F1 generations etc that show the exact ratio between them. I'm finding it kind of hard to do so though. Can anyone help?
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    Graduate Electronic properties of graphene

    I was reading all over the place that graphene has some really great electronic properties that could potentially replace silicon, electrons in graphene behave almost like massless particles etc. My question is, HOW did scientists find out these properties in graphene? What kind of experiments...
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    The side of my rear tire popped

    So there's no way or method I can personally even attempt eh. That sucks >_<
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    The side of my rear tire popped

    4000 BC , can you help?
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    The side of my rear tire popped

    So I was driving down the road the other day, when I unknowingly drove over a pothole, I was not going even 15mph, and my rear tire popped, I stopped to notice what was wrong, and to my dissatisfaction, the side of the tire had popped. Naturally I'm pissed because apparently there's nothing I...
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    Limits involving trigonometric functions

    Limit...does not exist...?
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    Limits involving trigonometric functions

    Ok so what i did is (2sin5x/x)/((3x-2tan2x)/x) and i separated it into 2 limits so lim 2sin5x/x , then i do 2sin5x/5x * 5/1 then i get for the top fraction 10 x->0 then for the (3x-2tan2x)/x , i did 3x/x - 2tan2x/x , then i did 2tan2x/2x * 2/1 which gave m 4, then obviously i...
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    Limits involving trigonometric functions

    I'm not following you, you mean times it by 1/x or...times x/x...?