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  1. Pengwuino

    Hot & Spicy Foods: Why Do They Make Us Sweat & Clear Our Sinuses?

    So I was wondering (after laughing at a hilarious Seinfeld episode as usual) something, why does spicy food make people sweat? Also, why do some foods seemingly set off a bomb in your sinuses and clear them out pretty dang well? I've had chicken that was about 100x more effective then any cold...
  2. R

    Keyboard freezeup requires hot reboot problem

    Hi I have a toshiba laptop, xp, and have a problem with the keyboard freezing up. When this happens there seems to be no response to any keyboard or mouse command. The only fix I have found is to shut the computer off and then reboot, after which everything seems fine until the next time...
  3. Z

    Could Black Holes Survive the Hot Death of the Universe?

    I have a question about the hot death model of the end of the universe. If the current expansion of the universes was to slow down and eventually the universe started to contract ( I know very unlikely but…) would the matter in the universe coalesce into black holes, before the temperature...
  4. T

    Does Hot Water Freeze Faster? Investigating the Claim

    Hello, my colleague told me that he read once somewhere that water freezes more quickly if it is given to frost hot. It is supposed to be caused by tighter organisation of moleculs in a hot water and thus being better prepared for transition into crystalic state of matter. Is there any...
  5. wolram

    What Are the Best Papers on Dark Matter and Dark Energy?

    Google scholar has 651,000 results for dark matter and 521,000 results for dark energy, more than i could read in a life time, can anyone suggest the hot pappers on these subjects.
  6. M

    Why does hot water get colder right before it gets hot?

    Hi, I'm not sure if this is in the right section but here it goes. Ok for the sake of this question let's assume that the water hasn't run for a few hours Whenever I first turn on the hot water, the water first runs either cold or room temperature (depending on the amount of time since the...
  7. B

    1st year physic help - hot air balloons

    1st year physics help - hot air balloons... see next post...
  8. Pengwuino

    What Is the Correct Mass of Water When Hot Copper Meets Cold Water?

    hot metal + water = Tf? Yet again I find i am stumped by having no clue as to what I did in this incredibly easy problem. Simple right? 1 = water 2 = copper m1c1 delta T1 = -m2c2 delta T2 This simplifies to... m1= (-m2c2 delta T2)/(c1 delta T1) which is...
  9. M

    Concerns: Is My Cat's Ears Hot to the Touch?

    My kitten Salem, who is almost a year old now, is a vocal outdoor cat. An she loves to be petted. Especially when you pat her head and her ears. One thing I contimually notice is her ears are hot to the touch. I don't know if its normal or not. Does anyone know anything about this? ~Kitty
  10. Q

    Why is hot wax thrown into cold water a dangerous combination?

    Hi, recently I found something out by playing around with candles. Basically I heated some candle wax until it was completely out of its solid state (at least through the first approximation of my eye.) Then I continued to heat the wax until the liquid wax ignited and started to burn. Usually...
  11. zoobyshoe

    Hot Rock Mystery Near Santa Barbara - Earthfiles.com

    They haven't figured out what is causing these anomalous hot spots near Santa Barbara: Earthfiles.com Address:http://www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=938&category=Environment
  12. russ_watters

    Really Hot Weather: Good Thing I Have AC!

    Reaaaaaaly hot weather... I just checked the http://www.crh.noaa.gov/forecasts/PAZ068.php?warncounty=PAC091&city=Norristown for tonight (pic attached for if the link has been fixed). Good thing I have air conditioning.
  13. N

    Virtual mirror on the road on hot days. Why is that?

    While in a car on a hot day, I notice that far ahead of me is a mirror-like surface on the road. I can see the reflections in that virtual mirror too. The mirror shifts with your moving forwards. Can anyone give a simple explanation? Thanks.
  14. S

    How Much Mass Must Be Thrown Out for a Hot Air Balloon to Ascend Properly?

    Hi. There is a hot air balloon with total mass M. There is an upward lift force of 2Mg/3 but the balloon is accelerating downward at a rate of g/3. The passenger needs to make the balloon lighter and starts throwing things of. What fraction of the total weight must he drop overboard so that the...
  15. S

    Meeting Hot Girl at Starbucks - What to Do?

    >today while drinking coffe at starbucks i meet this hot hot girl,(all dudes were devouring her with their eyes) we talked about stuff, she gave me her e-mail. everything sounds perfect, :frown: unfortunatelly in two days I'm flying 6,000km to my old folks and i will stay with them for about...
  16. A

    Reason of hot water 'float' on the cold water

    i think that the reason of hot water 'float' on the cold water is not becuase of diffrent density. i make a model of a container containing a higher energy particle (hot water) and lower energy particle (cold water) using action script in flash and uploaded it in geocities...
  17. marcus

    What factors contribute to the migration of hot Jupiters?

    they ran computer simulations of 8500 planetary systems to see how giant planets could sometimes MIGRATE in close to the star and they got some statistics of what one might expect. I cannot vouch for this paper, or say how it stacks up compared with other similar papers, but this business...
  18. J

    Fine temperature of equal masses of hot tea and ice after melting

    A person makes a quantity of iced tea by mixing 559 g of hot tea (essentially water) with an equal mass of ice at its melting point. If the initial hot tea is at a temperature of 94 C, what are the (a) final temperature of the ice tea (in oC) and (b) mass of the remaining ice? what are the (c)...
  19. N

    What Temperature Must the Air Inside a Hot-Air Balloon Reach for Adequate Lift?

    I'm confused as to what equation I need to use for the following problem: A hot-air balloon achieves its buoyant lift by heating the air inside the balloon, which makes it less dense than the air outside. Suppose the volume of a balloon is 1820 m3 and the required lift is 2983 N (weight of...
  20. N

    Why Does Hot Water Conduct Heat Easier Downwards?

    while measuring th thermal conductivity of water the upper part is kept hot,why is this so? is this so because heat conduction is easier downwards.
  21. S

    Do I Need to Work on Ice for Hot Start PCR?

    Do i need to work on ice when i do Hot start PCR? Hope for inputs. Thanks.
  22. S

    Hot Air in Jet Engines: Fuel Burn and CO2 Formation

    When fuel is burnt in the jet engine, what is the major component of the hot gases thrown out of the back - the CO2 formed (I know CO2 is not the only component but it is the major one) from the fuel or the air entering the jet as a whole? In other words, does the heat of the burning fuel...
  23. marcus

    Why Do Hot Jupiters Exist and Not Other Planetary Configurations?

    Exoplanet statistics have been accumulating since 1995 (and especially since january 1996) the statistics are observationally biased. it is easier to detect hot jupiters. but even allowing for the bias, the picture is very strange massive planets in near circular orbits at...
  24. R

    Why do you feel hot after lifting weights?

    Can someone help me. The questions are in bold and my anwsers are not. Can someone explain it to me. 1. Why do you feel hot after lifting weight? Does it have something to do with cellular respiration.. 2. Can you tell when your muscles went into anaerobic respiration? What evidence...
  25. P

    Work Required to Empty Tank of Hot Chocolate

    A tank in the shape of an inverted right circular cone has height 8 meters and radius 6 meters. It is filled with 7 meters of hot chocolate. Find the work required to empty the tank by pumping the hot chocolate over the top of the tank. Note: the density of hot chocolate is 1510kg/m^3 m =...
  26. S

    Why in hot weather dry streets can appear to be wet?

    I'm studying interference and optics at the moment - can anyone explain why in hot weather dry streets can appear to be wet? Thanks :smile:
  27. K

    Sound when a droplet of water or other liquid falls on a hot surface

    I was wondering whether anyone could give me a bit of a point in the right direction for a physics assignment I have been given. The Question is: When a droplet of water or other liquid falls on a hot surface, it produces a sound. On what parameters does the sound depend? Any thoughts...
  28. V

    Should Coffee and Milk Be Mixed Immediately or Separately Served?

    hot coffee! i went with my friend and his wife to the coffee shop. the coffee was brought when my friend's wife was in the wash room. it was steaming hot while the milk was cold.we mixed the coffee and milk and started drinking. (considering the fact that i prefer my coffee without milk, take...
  29. R

    Could hot dark matter be cold dark matter?

    Could hot dark matter be cold dark matter? In other words did hdm cool and become cdm? And could hdm moving at or close to the speed of light exist beyond the most distant detected galaxies?
  30. M

    Hot air balloon buoyancy homework

    A hot air balloon plus cargo has a mass of 291 kg and a volume of 809 m3. The balloon is floating at a constant height of 6.25 m above the ground. The density of the outside air may be assumed to be 1.29 kg/m3. What is the density of the hot air in the balloon? can someone help me with this...
  31. M

    Why is Fire Hot? Explained for Kids

    hello, i am a homeschool mom with three inquisitive children. they would love to know why fire is hot...if anyone can answer this question i would appreciate it. i realize that this may be difficult to put in laymans terms, but any information would be helpful... thanks :) ~mbinnc :confused:
  32. Ivan Seeking

    Capt Kirk's Virgin flight [A Hot Pepper too]

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55041-2004Oct22.html
  33. T

    Hot Asian Girls: What Makes Them So Special?

    Hey you dudes, question to you; how come Asian girls are so hot? I personally love each and everyone of them but the most hottest girls in my view are of mixed race japanese/vietnamese,thai/chinese you catch my drift. So...?
  34. M

    How High Will the Passenger Be When the Camera Reaches Her?

    can someone help me with this problem? A hot air balloon has just lifted off and is rising at the constant rate of 2.4 m/s. Suddenly, one of the passengers realizes she has left her camera on the ground. A friend picks it up and tosses it straight upward with an initial speed of 11.2 m/s. If...
  35. W

    Can Microsoft Word or Excel Set Up Hot Keys for Greek Symbols and Subscripts?

    can microsoft word or excel set up hot keys for the greek letters(+-) symbol? what about super/sub scripts? can mircosoft or excel do any of that? I am trying to write my physics lab report and i need to input a lot of symbols. if mircsoft word/excel can't do it, is there any program that can? i...
  36. C

    Hot Air Balloon Free Fall Question

    A hot-air balloonist, rising vertically with a constant velocity of magnitude v=5.00m/s , releases a sandbag at an instant when the balloon is a height h=40.0m above the ground . After it is released, the sandbag is in free fall. 1.) Compute the position of the sandbag at a time 0.165s after...
  37. R

    Sidney Redner's Paper: Impact Factors in Science

    I have just read in a news@nature (http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040726/full/040726-16.html) a column by Phillip Ball on the paper of Sidney Redner (http://xxx.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0407137), who have studied the statistics of citations from all Physical Review journals for the 110-year...
  38. K

    Why Are Hot Brake Pads Harder to Manage?

    Why is it harder to slow a car down when the brakes are hot? Is there less friction between pads and disc? Is it harder to remove bits of pad material which can carry away kinetic energy?
  39. A

    Would a Hot star have more mass than a cooler one?

    If you had 2 identical stars, one was a very hot star, but the other was cooler. Since mass is relative to velocity, shouldn't the hotter star be more massive than the cooler one since the atoms in the hotter star would have more kinetic energy and therefore a higher speed?
  40. J

    Why Does Hot Air Rise Above Cooler Air?

    Why does hot air rise? What I'm really getting at is why should the speed of kinetic motion of the individual atoms of heated air rise compared to it's slow moving neighbor, is it merely because it bounces around more often and so all air competes for dominance upward such that the fastest...
  41. N

    Analysis of Pressurized Cylinder: Flashing to Steam or Hot Water?

    I have a question for you all, say you have a pressurized cylinder with water in it, it is at 200*F and at a pressure of 300psig. Now you open a drain valve on the bottom to the atomosphere. Will it flash to stream or just come out as hot water or a combo of the two? What equations and...
  42. Werdatothewise

    Who Won the Contests? Updates on Ongoing Forum Contests

    I am glad to be back. What is a hot topic that is happening to boggle the mind? To All the Forum People: You are all habit forming! I lost where I was - but, who won all the contests I entered? :smile:
  43. S

    Temperature Hotter at Top of Bulb - Why?

    CAn you tell me why will the temperature of the surface will be hotter at the top on the blub rathen than on the side? thank you
  44. Antonio Lao

    Hot & Cold: Understanding the Universe

    If scientists understand hot and cold completely then high temperature superconductivity will become a reality and cold fusion is just child play. Until then, we can do all the theorizing we want but to really understand the universe we must understand what is hotness and what is coldness...
  45. wasteofo2

    Why does hot food taste better?

    I'm eating some chinese food now. About 2 minutes ago it was hot and tasted good, now it's just kind of warm and isn't as appealing. Why is that?
  46. T

    What freezes faster in an ice tray, cool or hot water?

    I have heard this argument all my life. Some say put hot water in an ice tray and it will freeze quicker than cool water. I don't follow the logic to that way of thinking. Do you? What is the right answer?
  47. Monique

    Vietnamese hot sour soup w/ catfish recipe?

    There is this very tasty Vietnamese soup, which is on the top of my favorites list.. I once made it myself by just putting together the ingredients which I noted in the restaurant.. and it tasted pretty amazing I must say I'd really like to know the original recipe though, anyone an idea...
  48. N

    News Will corporations beat Bush to the Moon?

    There was no mention of Moon bases and Men on Mars in his SOU address last night, or at least according to the review I listened to (BBC?). Is this good news?
  49. Ivan Seeking

    Universe-shaking discovery or more hot air?

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/19/MNG3G4CAMF1.DTL
  50. V

    Universe began in a hot big bang

    This is my first post and I’ve got some questions in regards to our universe. From what I’ve been reading it is known that the universe began in a hot big bang, or evolved from a similar condition. Either way the information we have points to some kind of initial condition, and also a beginning...
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