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Thank-you! I've only worked with parabolas on a Cartesian plane, so I didn't know that it was part of a cone, and I couldn't decipher anything I found when I did some research!

I know the difference between the two, but I was wondering if parabolas ever became so steep that they turned back into an elliptical shape.

HI! I'm not sure if this can go in precalculus or not because I'm from Australia, and our Maths subjects don't get that specific until university level. 1. Homework Statement For my assignment on quadratic functions, I have to find the equation (the the form of ax^2+bx+c) for a table of...

Thank-you so much! I hate Wikipedia, but I guess it does have some advantages...

I think gravitational. I need to know if a bomb would explode an asteroid or not, and I was going to do a comparison on the energy of the bomb (which I've already figured out), to the binding energy of the asteroid.

Okay. Thank-you. Do you know how I would be able to find the binding energy of the asteroid?

If the binding energy in nuclear physics is e=mc^2, then would the binding energy of a larger object be: e=mv^2 where v=the velocity of the asteroid?

Thank-you. I've been working on this for the past few weeks, and I have, obviously gotten no where.

How would I find the total force of an explosion if I have the energy of the explosion, and no displacement? The explosion is taking in place inside a mine shaft in an asteroid, and I need to know if the asteroid would blow up or not? Is it possible to find the force, and how would I do it?

I know that it is probably a gas giant, but why blue? Saturn and Jupiter, and even Uranus aren't blue, so why would Planet X be blue?

Thank-you!

This is a question that has been bothering me, but I can't find an answer anywhere: If I were to hollow out Earth so that the crust was the only mass, and Earth was to keep it's shape, how would this affect the outside gravity?

Hi! I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but what the tensile strength of Nickel-iron, or where would I be able to find it?

Hi! I'm new here! I am in grade 10, 15 year old girl, from Australia and I love physics. Ever since I was very young (grade 3), I've decided that I want a job in physics. My favorite areas of physics are quantum physics and relativity, but they change every so often to astrophysics or...