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Transcendental numbers I was trying to find out more about transcendental numbers , but I couldn't find more about it other than that they can't be drawn...<--which is still a little confusing because pi is a transcendent number but if you draw a circle w/ radius of 0.5, the circumference is...

My old teacher actually worked with the guy (sorry, I forgot the name) who posted that article in the magazine. I believe he referred to that phenomenon as "mass loading". I can't remember from top of my head, but it's got to do with density as you guessed. After all the suger dissolves into the...

I just have a question about cylinder. If a cylinder is on a frictionless inclined plane, does it spin as it comes down? I guess on a level surface, frictional force is required for a cylinder to roll, but I'm not sure about inclined plane.