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    Undergrad Does Light Have Infinite Mass When Traveling at the Speed of Light?

    Even if it could, how could such a discovery in any way be significant?
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    Schools What Colleges Can I Get Into with My Grades and Test Scores?

    ... you will certainly get into plenty of good schools. You definitely don't need junior college. I had a 3.2 cumulative high school GPA (not including senior year, though first term Senior Year I had a 3.9). I've gotten into the engineering programs at two schools so far. And if you are...
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    For the first question: Calculate Initial Temp of Forging (76kg, 430J/(kg·°C))

    At a fabrication plant, a hot metal forging has a mass of 76 kg and a specific heat capacity of 430 J/(kg · °C). To harden it, the forging is immersed in 710 kg of oil that has a temperature of 32°C and a specific heat capacity of 2900 J/(kg · °C). The final temperature of the oil and forging at...
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    High School Read in the Da Vinci Code that phi = 1.68

    For the programmers amonst us: public double findPhi(int degree){ double phi = 1.0; int n = 1; while ( n < degree + 1 ){ phi = Math.sqrt( phi + 1 ); n++; } return phi; } This is some code I wrote a little while ago, in Java.
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    Add Statistics & Computer Science Forums to Mathematics & Technology Sections

    If i could offer a bit of advice for the site, I would say that you should add a Statistics forum in the Mathematics section. Also, the technology section is a bit dull I must say. Since so many people here are computer scientists, I think it would also be a good idea to put in a Computer...
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    Solving for Tangential Speed of a Uniform Bar

    Nobody in the class can figure this problem out? Can anyone show me how to solve this exactly?
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    Solving for Tangential Speed of a Uniform Bar

    A 0.200 m uniform bar has a mass of 0.770 kg and is released from rest in the vertical position, as the drawing indicates. The spring is initially unstrained and has a spring constant of k = 28.0 N/m. Find the tangential speed with which end A strikes the horizontal surface. (if the img...
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    Quantum Computing Career Choices: Money, Classes, Colleges, and Languages

    So. I'm a high school senior going through this whole college application process right now. Despite my good performance this past school year (3.9 GPA with almost all AP/PostAP Classes) , I was deferred from the local state school (University of Maryland: Baltimore County, a relatively...
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    Schools Which Maryland Colleges Offer the Best Astrophysics Programs for Undergraduates?

    Wow! I saw this post and had to register and respond to this ASAP. I am also a senior in high school in maryland. For the schools in Maryland, I applied to UMBC and UM:CP. We should both consider ourselves lucky to be living in such close proximity to schools lauded for their physics...