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    Math Struggles: Probability & Beyond

    I took pre-calc last year, and I caught onto almost everything very quickly and found most of the homework easy. However, when we had a chapter on counting methods (combinations and permutations) and probability, it was the complete opposite and had me spending significant amounts of time on...
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    Creating a Science Club at My School: Ideas and Suggestions

    Building something like a robot would definitely be fun, but I'm not sure where to start to learn how to build one. Are there any good books/websites?
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    Creating a Science Club at My School: Ideas and Suggestions

    There is a Science Olympiad team at my school, but no real science club, so I was thinking of forming one. However, to be honest, I don't really know what people do at science clubs. I was thinking we could do some interesting experiments, but I'm not sure what else, if anything. I'm thinking...
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    Summer Science Program: Chances of Acceptance?

    I'm about to be a junior and I'm planning on trying to get into the Summer Science Program (http://www.summerscience.org/home/index.php" ) next year, but I'm having some doubts about my chances of getting in. My work ethic was really non-existent my freshman year, so I ended up with a B and C...
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    Everyone in the world jumping in place at one time

    I heard from a person that his physics teacher told him that if every person were to gather in one area on the Earth and jump at once the Earth would not get any extra motion. He said the reason for this was that the Earth is a closed system. Is this right? If it is could someone please explain...
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    Can Gas Become Solid at Absolute Zero in a Bottle?

    The reason particles move from high to low pressure is because they aren't being hit by other particles as much in the low pressure area, and therefore are pushed towards it by the high pressure area particles. If there is no temperature, absolute zero, there is also no motion of the particles...
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    Nuclear Chemistry: Explaining Binding Energy and Mass Defect

    In the case of subatomic particles, what kind of potential energy is it?
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    Nuclear Chemistry: Explaining Binding Energy and Mass Defect

    I'm doing a nuclear chemistry project right now, and I am able to solve all of the problems involving binding energy and mass defect, however I have one conceptual question. Why is it that when the nucleons combine with each other they let off energy? At first I thought it was their kinetic...
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    Stargazing Can we see human history through a telescope?

    If you had an extremely large mirror and an extremely sensitive telescope, it should be possible if nothing is in its way, but something like that is completely unfeasible. Something slightly more likely, but still no where near possible today, is the use of a wormhole to travel far away in a...
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    Amount of Energy emitted from the sun to the earth

    You could try using the Stefan-Boltzmann law: L=4{\pi}R^2{\sigma}T^4 Where L is luminosity, R is the radius of the stellar object, T is the temperature, and sigma is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%E2%80%93Boltzmann_constant" ) and then the inverse...
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    Calculating Minimum Stopping Distance for Truck & Box

    You forgot to square the initial velocity in the second equation.
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    Calculating Volume of Earth Removed in Open-Pit Coal Mine

    Your conversion from hectares to km^2 is incorrect. To figure out what is correct start with the equation 1,000,000 m^2 = 1 km^2. Then convert the 1 million m^2 to hectares, and then solve for how many km^2 are in one hectare.
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    Calculating Volume of Earth Removed in Open-Pit Coal Mine

    Heres a hint: I would start by figuring out how many kilometers squared there are per hectare, and then multiplying by 80. If you know that then you already have the top area converted to km. You seem like you know what you should do from there.
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    Calculators Best Graphing Calculators for Pre-Calculus & SAT/ACT

    Thanks guys for giving me some names to look at, and reminding me that I really don't need a super duper calculator that can do everything and then some yet, if ever.
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    Calculators Best Graphing Calculators for Pre-Calculus & SAT/ACT

    I just started taking pre-calculus the other week, and I've now realized how useful a graphing calculator is for that class. What graphing calculators are the best? I'm looking for ones that are allowed on the SAT's and ACT's.
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