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    Stacked blocks & pulley system

    you're right it doesn't matter, I'm overthinking this (as usual) Thank you again for your help
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    Stacked blocks & pulley system

    my apologies i should have clarified. We don't know if the hanging mass M is the biggest mass possible to cause the boxes to slide In fact, is this something that we'd have to solve for before we simplified & treated m1 and m2 are one unit?
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    Stacked blocks & pulley system

    This is great thank you for the advice here.
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    Stacked blocks & pulley system

    I've posted my attempt at a solution but I haven't gone through the whole process of putting together equations 1 -4 yet as I wanted to clarify if I'm on the right path My doubt lies in the formulation of equation 4 - the force equation for the stacked block. Since we don't know the...
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    Graphs of RC Circuit Responses

    This isn't a homework question per se but I wanted to understand how integration can connect things. If we integrated the area under the graph, would this give us the total charge to charge the capacitor? My logic here is purely based on units - if we integrate current on a current-time...
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    Interpret Riemann sum to determine integral

    I see it now - testing the upper bound of the summand in the 'x' term gives pi/2 Thanks very much for your help!
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    Interpret Riemann sum to determine integral

    Just looking at the summand, I can see that the function is ln(pi/4 + x^2) as the (i pi/2n) term is the 'x' term. How do I determine the limits of the integral, however? I was thinking about using the lower bound of the summation --> this given the (pi / 2n)^2 term, implying that nothing was...
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    Vertical spring & maximum length

    Whoops! thanks for catching this! Something seemed off initially when i wrote it down too Just want to clarify.. did I not include the spring extending the mass when it first loaded?
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    Vertical spring & maximum length

    Included a diagram as well... forgive me... I cannot seem to 'uninvert' the attached picture final velocity is zero if we set the lowest point that the mass reaches as zero, then the final height is zero let H be the 'extra' length that the spring reaches over and above the initial stretch...
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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 What Is the Hair Color of Offspring When Both Parents Have Dominant Alleles?

    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 ?