Recent content by MusicTheorist

The thing with 1? is that it's not a name that's easy to pronounce. One Questionmark isn't very catchy, neither is One Underscore. I'm not sure I get what you mean about Jimmy... I think we're going to stay with the ambiguity though, it seems to be more interesting.

That's actually pretty good...I just wonder if that's the right image to go with. Sounds rather poppy...hmmmm Thanks though, I'll definitely have to consider that.

Hey everyone, This is a really strange question and I wasn't sure where to post it, but I need those who are well versed in physics and math to help with this. I recently started a new band and we came up with the symbol "1_" as our logo. We had a name, One Unknown, but we found out that it...

I'm not sure what you're saying here. If you assume that Fc doesn't change then ac has to change, but where does the string unknotting a kink or the sticky patch come in? These possibilities aren't why I thought it was ambiguous. This isn't a string by the way, it's just a cart moving in a circle.

Yeah, that was why I asked the question. I'm big into educational reform (I made a website termonline.org and was on the TODAY show talking about it recently), and this is one of the things that I think is wrong with standardized testing: people who understand the material can get things wrong...

Well, I thought Fc COULD change, as long as the force currently being exerted wasn't the maximum, and doubling the mass wouldn't exceed the maximum. The lack of that information is what I think makes the question ambiguous. I agree that my teacher said something wrong, but that's not really my...

There's nothing wrong with it, I just thought that the same principle that applies to string tension would apply to anything in centripetal motion, and because of that unless I knew whether the force could change or not I thought I had to ask because otherwise changing the mass could exceed the...

Yes, I know Fc would change, but here's what I thought: If there's an object on a string in centripetal motion, and the maximum tension force is x, there's a possibility that doubling the mass without changing the acceleration could make the string snap and then it would just be regular...

Agh, sorry. Typo. The question should have read: If the mass of the cart was doubled, the magnitude of the centripetal acceleration of the cart would be: It's a pretty basic question, I just think its ambiguous.

Hi, I'm working on a paper about the problems with standardized testing. On a recent test that I took there was one problem that I thought could demonstrate one of the problems with standardized testing, multiple answers to a single question based on interpretation, and I thought I might use it...

Not at all :-p. I'm interested in cosmology for the most part.

Well, I wouldn't be going to college for performance, I'd go for film scoring. I'm in AP Theory now and I plan to take AP Physics next year along with AP Calculus, so that should give me a reasonable taste of each. Or is a first year college course much different from the AP courses?

Huh, that's surprising. I thought most physicists were left brained. I know that in real life you won't really get 100% on anything, but in school you need to or else you won't get into college. I'd be fine getting a 60% on tests in college, but I need great grades to get in there. The...

OK, so recently I've had a bunch of revelations in the way I think. I used to be an arts person (I still am!) who was mostly into music, english, film, etc. I thought I wanted to definitely go to school for those things. My math was not great, but I've always been good in science. I suddenly...

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