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    Chemistry Why Should the Mole Ratio in Alkaline Buffers Be 5:1 Base to Acid?

    Ok that does help - so we should be looking at bisulfate rather than sulfuric acid but wouldn't the concentration of bisulfate be the same i.e. the second part of the henderson hasselbach would still be for a. log (0.05/0.1) = log(0.5) and for b. log(0.1/0.5) = log(0.2) I feel like i'm...
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    Chemistry Why Should the Mole Ratio in Alkaline Buffers Be 5:1 Base to Acid?

    THe answer is supposed to be (B) but I'm not understanding properly I initially chose A - to form an alkaline buffer, the # mol of acid should be half of this. But this doesn't seem to be the case I don't understand why the mol of base in this case should be 5x the mole of acid your help is...
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    Calculating Time Dilation for Space Travelers

    Aha! missed that, thank you ok so then that means the distance travelled according to the traveller is: 6.5c \times 24 \times 365 \times 60^2 = 6.14 \times 10^{16} m when the person is in motion, how is the 6.5 ly being interpreted ? Is the noninertial observer seeing a shorter'length that...
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    Calculating Time Dilation for Space Travelers

    If we took the perspective of the space traveller themselves, they are stationary and the whole universe goes past them at 0.7c. THen th elapsed time of 6.5 yr looking outside is \Delta t =6.5 \frac{1}{\sqrt{1-0.7^2}} = 9.11 yrs THen, when the traveller looks at the person travelling at 0.9c...
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    Biology A male has black hair and a woman has white hair. What is the expected hair color of the offspring if both alleles are dominant?

    If we draw a punnet square, it would look like this Male on horizontal Female on vertical Cb Cb Cw CbCw CbCw Cw CbCw CbCw Does this mean that the offspring will have a blend of both black & white hair i.e. grey? Or is there something that is being missed here?
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    Basic counting methods — integers between 1 and 100 that are divisible by 7

    Sorry about this. Added that question as well Further to Mark44's comment, the answer I got still seems to be double counting the 7x7, 14x14, and so on Is it as simple as dividing the result by two ?
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    Basic counting methods — integers between 1 and 100 that are divisible by 7

    There are 14 integers between 1 to 100 that are divisible by 7 If we used indirect approach, then we would do the total number of possibilities C(100,2) = 4,950 and subtract all nubmers that are indivisible by 7 : C(100-14, 2) = C(86,2) = 3,655 the difference of these two numbers is 4,950 -...
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    Binomial Theorem - determine the term with...

    I'm sort of stumped here , do i do this? (1+3x) \left( \frac{1+3x}{1+2x} \right)^2 = (1+3x) \left( \frac{3}{2} - \frac{1}{2(2x+1)} \right)^2 (1+3x) \left( \frac{3}{2} \right)^2 \left( 1 + \frac{-1}{3(2x+1)} \right)^2 and then apply the binomial theorem formula on the squared term above...
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    Integral of x^n using Reimann sums

    Thanks a lot - it certainly seems much easier Out of curiosity, is the 'direct' approach that I was taking above even solvable?
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    Integral of x^n using Reimann sums

    We don't need to worry about the n = -1 so we can assume that the function is continuous on any interval [a,b] where a, b are real numbers if I separate my interval into N partitions, then the right side values in my interval are a + \frac{b-a}{N}, a + 2 \frac{b-a}{N}, ... , a + k...
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    Question about approximate numerical integration methods

    The question of this assignment is to compare and contrast the three methods. I have a set of points that describe the flow rate of a blood pumped by a heart. I have studied numerical methods in a 2nd year course but it's been a while so much refresher is required. I have been using Numericals...
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    Question about approximate numerical integration methods

    This isn't a homework question per se but I can post more details like the data points & my work after. Suppose we are given a set of arbitrary points for which we cannot find an equation and we need to find the area under the curve without an analytical method - we can use either of the three...
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    Calculating Probability Using Bayes' Formula: Solving for P(urn III | silver)

    I believe that my usage of the Bayes formula (A|B) might be throwing you off. The question statement is " An urn is selected at random & a coin is drawn from the urn. If the selected coin is silver, what is the probability that urn III was selected" if using the formula, would it be the 1/2...
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    Calculating Probability Using Bayes' Formula: Solving for P(urn III | silver)

    From my understanding of Bayes formula, it should look like something like this P(Silver| III) = \frac{P(III | silver) \times P(silver)}{P(III)} now we know that P(urn III) = 1/3 and the probability of P(silver) = Pr(silver|urn I) + P(silver|urn II) + P(silver|urn III) = 1/3 (0) + 1/3 (1/2)...
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    Chemistry Moles of NaOH to Create Buffer Solution pH=6 in 0.42M Ethanoic Acid

    ahh... so the [base] is composed of ethanoate ions & NaOH? But how do we separate these two from the calculation?
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