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I really enjoyed physics in high school, and still do today. Even if I went to a school with an engineering program I still would have wanted to major in physics because I enjoy it a lot. I just want to work in something more applied after college, rather than going into a PhD program. I do not...

I'm majoring in physics. We don't have any engineering majors here, so majoring in engineering is not an option.

Currently I am a sophomore physics undergrad, and I want to do some type of engineering/applied physics work after college. I'm OK with going to grad school for engineering. The reason I'm not just majoring in electrical or aerospace engineering in college is because I go to UChicago where we...

That's what I thought too. The way we're looking at the top in the picture, if it dropped it would fall in a clockwise direction (assuming it was connected to the origin). Thank you!

Homework Statement I'm reading through Taylor's Classical Mechanics, and I am confused by one sentence in section 10.6 The image he is referencing is this while the text is here. Specifically the statement "the gravitational torque is clockwise" Using the right hand-rule, I run my...

This is intermediate mechanics and yes we have "covered" up to section 10.8. My professor just has us read the book and doesn't cover it in lecture, so I haven't gotten much help on this problem. So I do understand Euler's equations, I just haven't read about them yet.I assume that the...

Homework Statement R = 4000mi phi = 60 Me = 5.972E24 kg Mm = 5.972E16 kg distance of procession = 100 mi Homework Equations I know the answer is supposed to be ~1010 years. I also know what I am trying to do is have that e3 axis be pointing straight up, then when the mountain is placed on...