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    Job Skills Occupational outlook and career exploration

    I thought it might be good to post resources on job outlooks, career quizzes, and just resources for those in school or just starting school: Job Outlooks: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/ Examples: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/home.htm...
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    Other Collection of Free Online Physics Books and Lecture Notes (Part 2)

    Standard undergrad mechanics: https://engineeringstatics.org/Chapter_01.html https://mechanicsmap.psu.edu/ ↑ if anyone knows of other statics/dynamics free textbooks, let me know.
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    Rope between inclines with maximum length of hanging middle portion

    You might want to study: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenary The trick for cables hanging under their own weight, the horizontal force is the same through the entire cable. The lowest point in cable has only horizontal forces. The angle of the cable is the amount of weight (vertical...
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    Collision between snooker balls

    A fun simulation to try out is the PHET collision lab - you can define coefficient of restitution, give initial velocities, and set up collisions - choose the 2D model: https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/collision-lab/latest/collision-lab_all.html For your equations, energy is a scalar...
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    Working out the accelerations in a double Atwood pulley system

    edit - either works: T1 - m1 g = m1 a1, T2 - m2 g = m2 a2, T2 - m3 g = m3 a3, T1 - (m2 + m3) g = m2 a2 + m3 a3, a2 + a3 = - 2 a1 or use T1 - m1 g = m1 a1, T2 - m2 g = m2 a2, T2 - m3 g = m3 a3, T1 = 2 T2, a2 + a3 = -2 a1 5 equations 5 unknowns: T1, T2, a1, a2, a3 test answer by plugging in...
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    I Best Derivation of E=mc^2 - Fdx = V^2 dm

    Sorry, on my phone without equation editor. Instead of E=m c^2, could be E=mv^2 where v is any constant velocity of any fluid. See original post, a chain rule, its a mass flow rate equation.
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    I X*t, what is position multiplied by time?

    non-Euclidean mathematics was explored prior to applying the ideas to quantum mechanics. If math is the language of the universe, something interesting should fall out of all of it. time position mass The above 3 are the building blocks if it all, and it just seems like all combinations of...
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    I Best Derivation of E=mc^2 - Fdx = V^2 dm

    Is there any relationship between: E = m v^2 and E = Pressure*Volume? PV = (density *Volume) * velocity^2 Pressure=density*velocity^2 almost starts looking like Bernoilli's equation.
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    I X*t, what is position multiplied by time?

    Why are some physical quantities multiplied or divided by other quantities interesting, and other combinations not explored?
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    I Best Derivation of E=mc^2 - Fdx = V^2 dm

    No aether, what was it- splitting light and bouncing back no matter how the thing is rotated with respect to the rotating earth that is flying around the sun. I'm on vacation, just looking for book suggestions.
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    I X*t, what is position multiplied by time?

    So the pattern goes: x(t) v(t) a(t) jerk(t) You can keep taking slopes of lines, and slopes of slopes - my questions is, what happens in the other direction- areas under curves and more areas under curves. What is the area under the x(t) curve? x*t, what is position multiplied by time?
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    I Best Derivation of E=mc^2 - Fdx = V^2 dm

    Darn, I'm on my phone, cannot see posted equations. Best? Occam's razor kind of best.
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    I Best Derivation of E=mc^2 - Fdx = V^2 dm

    F= V dm/dt = V (dm/dx)(dx/dt) = V^2 (dm/dx) Fdx = V^2 dm E = m v^2. ,mass flowing with constant velocity If velocity is changing rather than mass, then E = 1/2 m V^2 Ok, joking aside, what is the best derivation of E= mc^2 ?
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    Bold, Monster, Engineering Successes

    Can't wait to see what no one has seen before with LSST Vera Rubin Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope. The LHC should be added to the list, will be interesting what the new system will produce. "The discovery of the Higgs boson was only the first chapter of the LHC story. Indeed, the...
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    Comparing the kinetic energies among a solid sphere, a cylinder and a hoop

    A couple things just a little off in your written work, need w^2 for constant acceleration equations, and moment balance needs to add to both rXma and I*alpha: Here are two different ways to walk around it, using an energy balance, and also using constant acceleration equ's with moment balance...
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