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.Scott replied to the thread High School Rubber band: More or less force to stretch at the beginning?.To be clear, rubber bands based on latex will never act like exactly like an ideal spring. The simplified model of a rubber band based...
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.Scott replied to the thread High School Rubber band: More or less force to stretch at the beginning?.So here's both stories: 1) Pro-Hooke's Law The main ingredient in a "rubber band" is latex. Here's a link to a section of a wiki...
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.Scott replied to the thread Side reactions while dissolving silver.About 20 years ago, I organized a few State-funded annual Household Hazardous waste sites (1 day events) in New Hampshire. There were...
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.Scott replied to the thread Side reactions while dissolving silver.I am hoping that you have consulted an MSDS for the materials you are dealing with. The two concerns I notice are proper PPE (glove...
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.Scott replied to the thread Graduate Aether equal to spacetime?.The basic principle behind the theory of ether was that there was such a thing as "absolute 0 velocity" - and that the speed of light...
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Ignition: NASA's Plan for The Moon 1 hour press conference with Artemis updates. Gateway is paused. Neither SpaceX nor Blue Origin...
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.Scott replied to the thread Gmail AI summaries.Personally, I do not send unencoded passwords in emails. In this particular case, you triggered the AI activity. The response you got...
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.Scott replied to the thread Racemic mixtures versus achiral compounds.Whenever you know the molecular structure (ie, the 3D positions of the atoms within the molecule), then you can immediately determine...
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.Scott replied to the thread Affordable way to remove potassium from off-grid water?.Hello 8938: It sounds like you have already investigated most alternatives. I think that any option you take has to compete with simply...
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.Scott replied to the thread Graduate Why is 0 K unattainable?.I was hoping one of the PF QM experts would catch this one. But let me take a whack at it. The actual refrigeration techniques are...
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.Scott replied to the thread Undergrad How many carriers for phased array?.I wasn't going to get into his theremin design. But if we do, why would we use a phase array instead of two or three directional...
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.Scott replied to the thread Undergrad How many carriers for phased array?.You need two radio receivers. Each receiver will include an antenna and some circuitry. The channel width is described in Hz. So, if...
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.Scott replied to the thread Undergrad How many carriers for phased array?.What device are you using to detect these pulses? Can that device be tuned to either carrier frequency? When you device is tuned to a...
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.Scott replied to the thread Undergrad How many carriers for phased array?.Perhaps I don't understand exactly what you are aiming for, but the "beating of the carriers (100 MHz)" isn't commonly considered a...
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.Scott replied to the thread High School The wisdom of betting on a losing gamble.Scott's my first name. It's not customary to post a full name in PF, so I won't. But, as a software engineer, ctor would be a fine...
