Recent content by Julian Solos

Do my Sheep applets run at all on non-Windows computers such as macs and Solaris? My "sheep" applets version 0.03 and later have a popup menu which can be brought op by right-clicking on Windows computers. Can Mac and Solarises users bring up the popup menu on their computers? I have...

Try version 0.03 In version 0.03, there are two big bugs. (One is caused by a flaw in my program. The other one is caused by Sun Microsystems' Java API set itself.) They are both very visual and obvious once you find them. Can you find out what they are?

My "Sheep" applets. Would you test them? I've been writing little applet programs in Java. I'd appreciate it if you could test them. They are called Sheep (So, you can't sleep, huh?) version 0.00, 0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.04a, 0.05, and 0.06. They are all at...

Tom Cruise is a member of Scientology.

Then, the usual premise "neglecting friction" in this sort of a-tunnel-through-the-earth problems is unrealistic, isn't it? Considering an object dropped into the tunnel will reach its terminal velocity, the object reaching a speed of 18,000 MPH at the center of the Earth and the motion...

Are you sure? "1965: L. Ron Hubbard elected to membership in National Geographic Society." From: http://www.religio.de/books/bfm/trutfict.html

Oops! How about this? "During all police investigations, it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once." From: http://www.authorware.com/humtext.asp?Hum_ID=56 It's number 10 there.

You've missed this one: "27. When they are alone, all foreign military officers prefer to speak to each other in English." From: http://www.authorware.com/humtext.asp?Hum_ID=56

Besides, x is not given.

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! I blindly assumed chroot's equation was correct. Give me back the two minutes of my life I wasted!

I've browsed through that. Thank you. I've read this one too: http://www.pol.ac.uk/psmsl/puscience/ And I'm still CLUELESS about "sea level." Is it a conceptual quantity or is it an actual physical measurable quantity?

Are you sure? Are you sure? Alexander Graham Bell was working on an apparatus for transmitting sound by electricity in 1870's. Impressed with Bell's research efforts, the fathers of two deaf students Bell helped assisted him financially in his scientific pursuits. The patent for...

You must have written the problem incorrectly. As it was written, it didn't have enough information. "Vx = 15 m/s (horizontal)" was misleading. Vx is always horizontal, if we assume the x-axis is horizontal, and it's always 15 m/s if we are allowed to ignore air resistance.

Not to nitpick, but isn't "same speed" more appropriate than "same velocity"?

Excuse me, but g is not a constant. It is commonly called the acceleration due to gravity, which is related to the Gravitational constant, G. The value of g depends on where it is measured, including the altitude. Even though g is commonly called the acceleration due to gravity, the measured...