Thanks for your help Borek.
just a few more questions:
* What do you mean by 'steps'? 1st order and 2nd order approximations?
* The difference between strong and weak acids are if they completely disassociate in water. I assume this has to do with the chemical structure (in particular...
Just to prove it's not a HW assignment. Feel free to make any assumptions you want:
I just looked at the coke here in the US and it lacks citric acid, so maybe that improves things.
Yes, go ahead and assume a ph of 3.
I think phosphoric acid is a weak acid, but I wouldn't mind seeing...
This is certainly NOT a homework assignment. I am a medical student and we are learning about oral flora, I read that the safe zone for enamel is a pH of 5.5, and as a diet soda drinker I am curious if this is even possible.
I probably should remember how to do something like this.
The...
It is correct that capillaries do not constrict because they are covered in a single endothealial layer, but further upstream pre-capillary arterioles contain a small myocyte layer and are the last vessel which have the ability to constrict before reaching the post-capillary venules. So blood...
Thank you for your reply mathman. Maybe I should take one step back.
Id like to write
\sqrt(x_1^2-C) - \sqrt(x_2^2-C)
in terms of \Delta(x) = x_1 - x_2 or \Delta(x) = x_1^2 - x_2^2
which is why I was hoping to do an expansion of the radicals. Even if it meant doing an...
I'm trying to do some rough error analysis and I came into a problem I can't do. I want to do a quick expansion of the radical:
sqrt(x^2-C)
I'm sure I can do a substitution of the x^2 or even (x^2-C), but nowhere is there an expansion listed for sqrt(x). I don't know why one couldn't...
I really don't think you understand the kind of emergence that we are talking about here. Do me a favor: Go to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and read the article on emrgence, then go to Google Books and find "Thinking in Complexity" and do a search for emergence. You should find, as...
The theory of emergent properties often comes down to an ill-defined notion or a language game.
If you look in any intro biology book they talk about "emergence" all the time. Take proteins for example. The primary structure of the amino acids govern the secondary, tertiary, and quaternary...
Actually they ARE the same thing:
"Another problem is that the best rules would not be simple. The best rule for promise-keeping would be of the form: 'Always keep your promises except...'(where the list of exceptions would be very long). This led the American philosopher David Lyons to...
Get off your soapbox and form an argument please. Philosophers use analogy all the time--it's an accepted practice. This is because ethics is very difficult. Sometimes wrong and right are not clear in complicated situations. And this case, no, it's not simple enough. Maybe you don't...
But I'm not trying to prove that sealing bread is wrong. And I was quoting you. Where did I say that stealing music was wrong?
That doesn't follow at all. What if the arguments are independent? The Utilitarian argument is independent of the selfishness of the artists argument. If one...
Doesn't matter. My arguments don't stand on this by anymeans. But one way to strengthen it is to ask the question(s):
"Do you think it's morally wrong to steal music?"
"Under what circumstances, because you can't steal a CD from the store."
Circumstances: infinitely reproduceable, owner...
I do understand. But you've failed to explain any of it. You said "two wrongs don't make a right." What are the two wrongs? I know one is withholding music. And the other? What is it? If it's stealing music being wrong, then why would I claim the exact opposite of what I was trying to...
Then change the analogy. Let's say someone owns infinite loaves of bread and some people are "doing quite nicely." They don't need the bread. But there lives are inhanced if they can have an extra piece of bread. Shouldn't the millionare give one of his infinite loves of bread to the couple...