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    How do I calculate Fn and Ff for each wheel in an emergency stop situation?

    "a car on a horizontal road makes an emergency stop such that all four wheels lock and slide." the coefficient of friction is 0.40. The car weighs 1.1x10^4 N. <-------------------|------------> -X +X this means that the car is going to slid along the road...
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    Exploring the Derivative of x^x and Sin(x)/x

    yea... just make sure that u chain rule ALL of the steps, especially if u are dealing with variable to variable or function to function. also, the "inner derivative" is just called the last term of the chain rule.
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    News USA's Moral Obligation to Spread Democracy: Thoughts?

    Hmm... it was mentioned in the beggining, but this is the topic for the November-December time period for the Lincoln Douglas Scholastic debate circuit and affirmative is getting OWNED MASSIVELY. I've workd on about 18 different possible arguements and neither of them work out as there are...
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    Dune by Frank Herbert: Overview

    ah, dragonlance chronicles and trilogy is amazing. i personally enjoyed the raistlin chronicles as he is my favorite fantasy char. :-) IMHO, this is wat terry goodkind vs robert jordan is. TG: sex, some corny lines, good concept of pace, rememberable chars. RJ: cool magic, good premise...
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    Doctors and patients relationship

    admitedly, insurance companies do get wealthy off the misfortunes of other people, but drugs can help people live as physically healthy people even if they are born with a defect or suffers from trauma or parylysis. drugs give hope to people, and hope is what is in short supply in this world...
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    Exploring Good and Evil: Where Do We Draw the Line?

    returning to the question at hand, ill take a stab at responding. evil is the lack of virtue, not its opposite. one can't be perfectly evil in a comprehendable way, only pure good. it is similar to light. darkness is but a measurement we invented involving the absence of light. light is infinite...
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    Understanding Dualism: Exploring the Mind-Body Duality

    thanks guys, both of those threads contain very relevant information. :)
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    Dune by Frank Herbert: Overview

    yeah, frank herbert wrote 6 out of the planned 7. dune dune mesiah children of dune god emperor of dune heretics of dune chapterhouse dune his son wrote 2 trilogies of prequels Buterlian Jihad Machine Crusade Battle of Corrin (planned for September 2004) House Atreides House...
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    Chem: if u can do this u = genius

    as previously mentioned, please don't expect anyone in this world to do your homework for you, tedious, boring, and insulting to your genius as it may be. if you have a puzzleing problem that involves real thinking, then I am sure one person who likes to be flattered as a genius would be glad to...
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    Measuring the Immeasurable: The Possibility of Quantifying Thought Speed

    for all we know, thought processes are completely different from person to person. how could you mesure thought? the means are difficult at best to even comprehend, and the ends are unmeasurable as the conclusions of deep thinking are partially unconcious. i would just like a clarification of...
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    God releases Satan ? Why God allow Evil to exist?

    one quick point: evil does not exist. There is only good, and lack of it. its like saying how do we know that the sun isn't cold and instead, pluto was hot? cold doesn't exist. its just a lack of heat, otherwise we could say it is 500 degrees cold, which is impossible because of absolue 0...
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    Understanding Dualism: Exploring the Mind-Body Duality

    thanks! that's a pretty good analogy. but how can the mind exist without the body? in your analogy, the body is an extension of the mind. but from our senses, it would seem that the mind is an extension of the body.
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    Searching for Direction in a Sea of Ideas

    It would seem that one of our main focuses is to find order among the world. This can be done by understanding new ideas. Right now, this is stalgenating as new ideas are patented and used for money rather than intellectual self improvement.
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    Understanding Dualism: Exploring the Mind-Body Duality

    Dualism. I was wondering if anyone could help me with this. If our mind and our body can interact, and our mind is mental and our bodies are physical, then there should be some sort of integration. Yet this integration cannot touch at a mental level and a physical level, because this is...
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    Does Tradition Stifle Progress or Foster Stability?

    In tradition, we have to be careful of allowing the ends to become more important than the means, the action more than the ideal. I apologize for going back to such an early post, but with the bicycle, we stop pedaling because we get tired, see a bus heading for us, or we get home. In...
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