Recent content by 'roidbreaker

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    What Are Your Deepest Fears?

    EVA 23: exploring the frontier | Luca Parmitano drowning in a space suit takes the cake for me
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    Do Flies Sleep at Night? The Mystery of Insect Slumber Revealed!

    >>"Certain members of the family Apiadae will spend the night suspended by only the grip of their jaws on a favorite plant." thas so cute
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    Undergrad Do pseudo vectors have anything to do with motion?

    "angular quantities" are just abstractions that prequire special conditions to facilitate some computations. so yes, they are arbitrary, but they are mostly consistent and make it easier to do standard stuff. in most cases they are the analogues of the integral of the of the continuous function...
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    High School How to measure speed without knowing the distance?

    if that's true, then we can't really help you. if you determine speed and time, you automatically determine distance. if you determine acceleration and time, you can determine velocity, and hence distance. perhaps you don't want to use a direct measure of distance, like a ruler, a camera...
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    High School How to measure speed without knowing the distance?

    if it's the size of a key to it you probably won't be ductaping a phone to it. I would use my basic stamp or raspberry pi and buy an accelerometer module for that which i would tack onto the gizmo and connect to the controller with some lightweight wires. but apparently there are...
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    Aeronautical Engineering Jobs: Best Options in India

    I don't know that was just my experience and it worked out. Maybe consider looking for a job outside of india. I hope you find what you're looking for soon dude.
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    Aeronautical Engineering Jobs: Best Options in India

    have you done some internships? you need connections to get a good job.
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    Your assignment: Design a post-apocalyptic communication system

    they should use the remaining us nuclear arsenal to broadcast morsecode seismically. they can use old USGS equipment if they're a little further away or hard of hearing.
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    How Should I Spend My Time Studying?

    learning math early is not a waste of time. trigonometry and calculus are really easy concepts to understand if someone explains them to you intuitively, and you could achieve some level of proficiency in a day. If you're really curious, ask your parents to hire a tutor and sit down with him or...
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    High School What happends when you cut something in half?

    These bonds could be intertwined carbohydrate chains that get untangled, no? Yes, electromagnetic potential, but it doesn't necessarily have to be broken. Does it?
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    Unplug or not unplug, that is the question. (Coma)

    sage this disturbs me greatly! I'm not qualified to argue against these practices though.
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    High School How to measure speed without knowing the distance?

    how about an accelerometer? just put your android phone in the cube or whatever and write or download a dead reckoning app. \spoiler{ Protip: velocity is the integral of acceleration }
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    Unplug or not unplug, that is the question. (Coma)

    do you know if a biopsy is performed during diagnosis?
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    High School What happends when you cut something in half?

    I doubt cutting a piece of paper in half is chemistry. nevermind. you're breaking and untangling these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycosidic_bond
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    Graduate Stress around Fulcrum - How to Justify Net Momentum?

    discrete parts of the square would have various different "momentums" as indicated by the arrows, but the square as a whole isn't rotating, because the net momentum on both sides of the axis is zero. actually forget the axis, the axis isn't doing anything and probably just confusing things.