Recent content by Jeff B

yes, he's going into the nuclear engineering department. Its not that I want anyone to solve it for us, just to get a train of thought going. He already has a biomedical engineering degree. He probably could have done this last year right after he graduated, but he's admittedly a bit rusty. I...

This is really more for a friend than for me. Basically he's doing a test for the navy officers position, and one of the questions on the review says to derive the proof that shows the sphere is the most efficient form of surface area to volume. Neither of us really know where to start. Any...

I was browsing a local bookstore a while back, and saw this book, but decided to not get it because I already had plenty of reading to do for my classes, but my girlfriend knew I wanted it so she got it for me for christmas. So I finally starting reading it the other day, and it really has me...

okay well I know this is a fairly simple problem, but I guess my brain isn't it gear today. I'm having trouble figuring this out. A batter hits a pitched ball when the center of the ball is 1.22 m above the ground. The ball leaves the bat at an angle of 45 degrees with the ground. With that...

light, although fairly simply defined, is something that I can't ever seem to make up my mind on. It's the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrium, and in essence is nothing more than waves. It has no mass, so it can't be pushed. It'd be like trying to push a giant mass of vaccumed...

people who ramble make me happy :) Indeed I've spent half my life going over this quiery... Jeff