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    Engineering Civil Engineering: Wages, Best Career Option & More

    Well, I really enjoy physics and I am interested by pretty much all of it. However, I really like the idea of civil engineering, you know, building bridges, tunnels, roads etc. But that's about it in terms of how much I know about the job. What is it really like? What are the wages like, and...
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    Understanding Proportional Components in Equations

    Homework Statement Looking at a set of equations -how exactly do you work out if one component is proportional to another. Homework Equations In the example given s = ut + 1/2 at^2, I am told that s is not proporional to t unless acceleration is zero, because u is a constant...
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    Pendulum Experiment - time period and length of string

    Homework Statement Hi, in class we done the classic pendulum experiment to investigate the relationship between time period and the length of the string. Here are my averages for time period and the length: Length (m)----Average time (T1+T2/2) 0.2 11.3 0.4...
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