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Hello, I have to do a project for my political science course. It should be in the area of "design, implementation, and analysis of survey data; design, development, and analysis of voting technology." The professor said that he preferred that the projects that had quantitative data and...

Hello all, i have a small dilema. I am interested in computer simulation for engineering and design purposes. I am currently evaluating as many of the available ( and free or accessible to joe public ) applications/software systems for engineering simulations and dynamics, with the aim of...

Hey everyone, I need to do a research paper on a recent innovation in Physics. Anyone have any splended ideas? Thanks a bunch! :wink:

Hey... I am kinda got stuck with this problem... can you guys give me a hint or something... Problem says: The tangentline to the curve y=1/3 x^3 - 4x^2 + 18x + 22 is parallel to the line 6x - 2y = 1 at 2 points on the curve... find the 2 points. Well I was thinking about writing the...

[FONT="Trebuchet MS"]Hey, I'm new. I want to buy a telescope but don't know what to get... This is the one I'm looking at: http://tinyurl.com/k7pxp" I don't want to go tooo much over that price. Any helpful advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hello All, I am an elactrical student in the U.A.E University and I plan to do an electrical day and I don't know what to do in this day so Can I have your suggestion for this day and what kind of activeties, please?

Hi, sorry if this is posted/answered all the time, but I need some book advice. Basically, I will be taking this course in the fall: And required prep knowledge for entering this course is: Now I've taken tons of Linear Algebra and Multivariable calculus, but I need brush up on...

Hey everybody, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions of good chemistry/biochemistry texts that I could work through. So far my chemistry background is two undergraduate level general chemistry courses, two undergraduate level organic chemistry courses and one biochemistry course (I...

I have IE 6, and when I go to type in URLs into my address bar, and I type in an 'h' say, then since I have Hotmail bookmarked, a little thing will appear below the address bar saying Hotmail.com. Also, if I have recently been to a site whose name starts with an h, then it will show up there...

Ok, I know that no one really knows what time is (the recent set of articles in the Scientific American special issue made that clear enough.) But I do want to do some reading on this topic. Are there any books that people would reccomend on this subject? I notice that the following books...

Hi, please can someone help me with this. I want to write a function sequence in C that returns 1 when a set of 5 cards appear in sequence ; 0 if not. I don't understand very well what to do here. the sequence is 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,jack,queen,king, with ace considered as either before...

Back when I was in college I used "Modern Physics" by Paul Tipler. It seemed like a good book (and it helped to have a good teacher.) This book was copyright 1978 by Worth Publishers; I took it to be a 2nd edition since it was a revision of Tipler's 1969 "Foundation of Modern Physics"...

I need your help wise folks, Need suggestions on "good" or best Engineering dynamics book. thanks in advance for replies.

I have several around my. cott, i need some suggestions as to what plants to put in them, some thing evergreen that flowers maybe

I ask you to point out for me a few resources available online (free) for learning statistics and the "must do" steps. I don't have time or money to enroll to a school but I want to study for myself this field. thanks.

Hi everybody, I was wondering if anyone can suggest any really interesting math problem, as I seem to have reached a point where I am tired of reading theory and need to focus on some serious problem. I have studied Calculus 1 and 2(=single and multivariable calculus for Real numbers) ,some...

there is a contest to build an electric motor for which we can get some bonus points on the final in my E&M class. they give us a very limited kit and we can only use what comes in the kit which is a couple pieces of thick poster board, 6 feet of insulated wire, a couple paper clips, a couple...

So, for my physics class we have to design an experiement. So, I was wondering if anyone had any simple ideas they could suggest. (FYI: This is an introductory physics class). The simpler the better for me. Thanks for any idea in advance.

I am a physics major but i do want to also major in analysis and calculus. But ihav always had difficulties with the proofs involved (not unlike many of my friends). Although i learn the threorems and axioms it is always so hard for me to really apply them, especially the delta epsilon proofs. I...

Hello, I am planning to take some Entrance Exams for an Msc. in Physics in Indian Institute of Technology and some other universities. Could you suggest some good books to study undergraduate Physics from for the following topics: 1. Solid State Physics 2. Thermodynamics 3...

hi, i am looking or a lab to measure the radioactive half-life of particles. i have looked through the internet but can't find anything i like. i have access to my college's physics/chemistry labretories and have equipment. so i just need procedures for a lab. can you Please suggest a link...

I need just general help right now. I'm in physics, and I'm doing terrible in it. I'm reading the book, I work the examples out, then see how they were done. I've always got most of them right. I go to do the homework, and I'm stumped. My teacher doesn't work from the book because he wants you...

Hey everyone, I'm starting to take up an interest in microcontrollers and I have a basic idea of how they work, but I'm still really new to it all, and I think I could use some help or at least a pointer in the right direction... basically what I want is: to be able to control motors, lights and...

I have $600 left of my research stipend after buying a laptop, anyone have any suggestions as to what I should use it on? I need to use it on something educational so I figured I'd just buy MATLAB or something similar and some books but I am looking for suggestions as this is just an offhand...

I know I posted a thread like this one a while back, but I'm finally ready to make my own website and pay for it. I've done a lot of research on my own, but I would love to hear your suggestions for great web hosting services. I need medium storage and bandwith with PHP and MySQL capabilities...

Hey everyone, I have a chemistry lab that I have to set up for monday, and it is very open-ended, meaning we (the "scientists") design and perform our own lab according to some general guidlines. So I was hoping that by posting this here I would get some expert suggestions. "You will be...

I'm taking Classical Mechanics this semester, I haven't had a physics course in 1.5 semesters; I need to know what all of you would say are the best things with which to be familiar to do the best in this class. I asked my professor, he seems to think it's a good background in Diff Eq, Newtonian...

Does anyone know of any good freeware software out there that works well to rip MP3's from a CD? If not a point to another, more MP3 related, fourms might be good too. -Thanks

"Little G" Lab Suggestions Hey everyone, My goal is to find the Acceleration due to gravity to five significant figures. I think that I will use a pendulum to do the lab with, but am looking for suggestions for what I should use to measure distances and/or time with. For measuring time...

Do you have any suggestion to help this chimp?

Hello my friends, I need to select a topic for undergraduate research. I have a meeting set-up with my advisor, and I would like to take some possible problems with me to discuss with him. After searching for unsolved problems for some time, all of them seemed well above something an...

I just stumbled across this forum a days ago. It is quickly becoming my new favorite place to spend those slow times at work. :-p Anyway, I was wondering on some books suggestions. I am not really too far along in my classes so really technical books might be a tad hard to get through...

I have been toying with the idea of modding my road bike (pedal) for increased aerodynamicy; for starters of adding a small fiberglass shell on the front to channel the air around my legs and lower bike frame possibly eventually adding a shell to control the flow around my shoulders more does...

Book suggestions pleasee! I'm going on a trip to australia and the plane ride will be about 14 hours. I'm wondering if anyone has any book suggestions. I'm looking for science, puzzle, , science fiction, and anything of that nature. but if you think there's a really good book that doesn't fit...

Hello everyone, I've always been a follower of mathematics and physics. They're both very high on my list of possible careers. I've thought about majoring in physics and minoring in mathematics, but I don't think I'd like to pursue a career in research. I then considered engineering, but I am...

I just took an exam in my first semester inorganic course. I do all the homework without too much trouble and read the material but the problems on the exams are out of this world. They are nothing like the assigned problem sets and the problems in the course book . I've gone through the...

i was thinking can anyone findv the area of a straight line and also can anyone determine the area of a point or dot as the case maybe ,any suggestions wiil be appreciated

I need to make a database of a bunch of samples and log several bits of info about each sample. Any software suggestions on how to do this? A spreadsheet really doesn't work and I want to keep this within Windows.

science fiction books that you think are worthwhile for a reading list? What of these books are based on a firm/possible "scientific" basis (kind of visionary science if you would like)

Hey all, I have to start thinking bout a 4th yr thesis and to be honest its quite difficult coming up with something thats, different, interesting and not too advanced! If anyone has any ideas for a research project, or knows of a site i can get ideas from please post. My main interests...

i am looking for suggestions for any kinds of books on any kind of philosophy. does anyone have suggestions? if you do please state the subject of the book.

Book suggestions- Moved in Science book reviews Hi everybody, I am looking for books about Logic and Set Theory. In particular, I am looking for not very advanced books. What are axioms, how do theorems connect to the axioms, how are we sure that some methods of proving give always correct...

My youngest son and I are going on a thrill vacation this summer, and starting to plan ahead. Can you all give me some good places to visit in the USA with him? Also any site seeing places off the beaten road? I am also not up on the computer links like "expedia.com" and the such, so if you...

...::: Suggestions + Ideas Here Please! :::... Hello guys, I have been dumped with a huge Chemistry project over the christmas break, yes i can feel you crying :cry: for me but yes... that's what you get for being in IB. Anyway, I was given the topic of Kyoto Protocol And Climate Change...

I'm having trouble finding any good books and sites from which i can learn abstract algebra. Does anyone have any good suggestions so that i can learn the course? please include prices if possible

I was interested if anyone had suggestions of fields of study to couple with a computer science major. Thanks -Yoss

I seem to be drawn towards literature which tends to question reality, or answers questions which many people do not even begin to question in the first place. This then, can include both philosophical, and "scientific" literature (although it seems to be more metaphysical or 'metascientific')...

I want to find another book to study E&M. The book I have is university physics by sears/zemanski 11th ed. I think the book is ok but not great. Anyone know of any good E&M book that I can use to study this? I don't want to do problems, so I don't care if the problems in the back are terrible or...

hi can anyone please suggest an interesting, good practical experiment that i can carry out in a classroom explaining a physics concept. Its a project i have to do. any help would be greatly appreciated, thanx

hi, I am looking for any suggestions as to an interesting and relatively deep (but not too deep) topic to do a presentation on. This can be anything to do with physics e.g the collapse of the tacoma narrows bridge, particle physics, time travel, the doppler effect or any physics phenomena. Any...