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Homework Statement There are two rigid plates on the ends. In between them are two steel plates and one aluminum plate. The aluminum one is in the center. When the temperature increases enough the aluminum will buckle and touch one of the steel plates to close the circuit. alpha(alum)...

Oh, is it that I forgot to put SumFinclineblock=T-sin45*mg-.5*cos45*mg this equal to ma? I did that on the test, skipped my mind here

Homework Statement It was on my test yesterday. There is a 10kg block on an incline of 45degrees connected by a string to another block hanging over the side of the incline by a frictionless massless pulley. Kinetic friction on the block on the incline is mu=0.5 The block that is hanging...

Hey, check out this federal student loan thing I just foundout about. http://www.ibrinfo.org/ Maybe this will make my dreams possible :D

So, Monocles, you have graduated? How have you been faring on your own with that college debt? My problem is that my parents have no money to help me in any way. I'll have to buy my first car on my own and need to start building credit all on my own since they can't help me. Because of this I...

I am going to do work study, and I already have a summer job and will continue to work in the summer. I want to hold on to some of that money though so that I have for any possible downpayments in the future. But, I don't plan on buying a house until I find someone to marry, which i'd like...

I understand that it's a lot, but don't engineers start off with about 60000? Besides, it's a little late for scholarships now, I'm going to start college this fall. My grades are good, just not good enough. 3.6 pff... sats are only 1860. I slacked off for the first two years of high...

Hey, so I've been using the financial aid calculators online to see how much the interest will rack up to once I graduate college. I'm finding that I'll be owing near 100000 dollars for loans that I'll have to take out. The monthly payment will be about 800 dollars a month. Has anyone...

Which engineers are working the most on sustainable energy such as wind, solar, and hydro? I'm guessing mechanical and electrical. Any other ones?

Yeah... My econ teacher says that economists are mostly full of wind. Redargon. thanks for the response. Isn't chemical engineering also a safe bet though? By the way does Materials Science include metallurgy? Do you guys know what kind of jobs metallurgists get?

So today, in high school, my Econ teacher told us that a few reputable economists are forecasting 20% unemployment by 2012. And I was wondering which engineering degree would be the safest or least vulnerable to such a rise in unemployment. The engineering degrees available at the college...

Homework Statement Light of wavelength 587.5 nm illuminates a single 0.75 mm wide slit. (a) At what distance from the slit should a screen be placed if the first minimum in the diffraction pattern is to be 0.85 mm from the central maximum? (b) Calculate the width of the central maximum...

So I'll be attending the university of Pittsburgh or Penn State this fall, and I plan on going to medical school after college. I also can't decide on a major. Mostly because of the chance that if I don't get into medical school, I don't want to have a degree that won't provide many job...