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When I drink carbonated drinks before having my breakfast in the mornings I get a bad pain on my lower stomach and it usually lasts about 5 hours. Anyone know what that's all about? I had my appendix removed about 5 years ago so that might have something to do with it.

The people from the college I'm applying to me tell me that seeing as I already have a fair amount of knowledge of chemistry and I'm highly interested in it that I should be accepted into the college after my interview alone regardless of the fact I never completed high school. They say that if...

Not trying to hijack your thread I just had a real quick question that isn't worthy or starting a new thread. Whats the difference between "solvating" and "dissolving"? I read that solvation is also called dissolution. Is dissolution just the process of dissolving? If I add salt to water I...

Does a salt always have an ionic bond in it regardless of whether it's constituents are covalently bonded or not? When an acid reacts with a base does it always create a salt by means of ionic bonding? I hear all salts are soluble in water but bases are not. What about acids. Are acids soluble...

I decided to try and learn what entropy is today and I swear to god I've been sitting here for 4 hours and I still don't have the foggiest idea of what the hell is it? Its driving me insane. I can't think anymore because of the stress that's building up from the fact that I just can't comprehend...

That explains it Curious. I read a lot about series and parallel resistors but I can't get it to stick in my mind yet. So on a series circuit no matter how many resistors you put throughout the circuit the current will be exactly the same at whatever point you measure it. The voltage on a...

Is Kirchoffs current law basically saying the current through any point in a circuit is exactly the same and will remain the same as long as the voltage remains the same? Lets say I have a steady current running through a circuit will that current be exactly the same on one end or the current...

Thanks a lot. I couldn't remember if it was 10x10x10 or 10x10x100. I was thinking it might have meant multiplying it by itself the amount of times the exponent indicates. For example 10 to the power of 5 I thought it might have been 10x10x100x1000x10000

I should have said "given a conductive path, causes current to flow to the positive terminal". I didn't really think of it like that asynchro. The fact that the potential difference is there regardless of whether current is flowing. Like in a battery. The potential different exists between both...

Wikipedia defines the volt as "The volt is defined as the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere dissipates one watt of power." Doesn't resistance always determine the dissipation of power? If you were to have a superconductor with no resistance then the current...

Does 10 to the power of 3 = 1,000 or 10,000? To calculate is do I multiply 10x10=100 then 100x100=10,100 or do I multiply 10x10=100 then 100x10=1,000? I know this is a really stupid question but its been a long time since I did basic maths and I've forgotten how this stuff works.

I just bought the book Art of Electronics that berkman recommended and I just started reading it. I already know what voltage is but if I didn't I would have made no sense of their explanation. They say "The voltage between two points is the cost in energy (work done) required to move a unit...

I read somewhere that increasing the current flowing through a solenoid will increase the magnetic flux density but cannot increase the magnetic flux. From what I gather magnetic flux is the space the magnetic field covers or the range of the magnetic flux lines and flux density is how many...

I read that the unit of inductance is the measure of the time it takes for a current to fully establish itself through the inductor. Is the reason it takes longer in some inductors for the current to establish itself because it creates a greater magnetic flux? Can the henry also tell you the...

Thanks for the replies. That explains a good bit but I'm still not sure if I understand SA charts. I saw a diagram on an e-book, I can't copy and paste it but it displayed a single line at 60Hz which reached an amplitude of 6. How does the "amplitude" on this kind of graph correspond to voltage...