Recent content by tycon69

Ok, So I am a junior chemistry major doing organic research, but my question hasn't really occurred in organic lab and is really more microbiology related, but I assume chemists in certain fields have either run across this problem or already know how to prevent this from happening. I have a...

Homework Statement I am currently working on a homework assignment in Bruice Organic Chemistry and have ran across a problem that I can't find an answer to anywhere. It is simply a reaction between cyclopentane and chlorine in the presence of dichloromethane. Homework Equations This...

So I have been straining my mind for a science fair idea since august and have just now came up with a good idea. I was planning on studying the effects of addiction in mice. My idea is to get 9 mice and place them into 3 different cages and assign them each different numbers, A1 B1 C1, ect. I...

Yea I finally got some ph strips and found the ph to be 1 surprisingly. Why does it not corrode anything. Although i warned him not to, a crazy friend poured a large amount on himself and it did nothing.

So me and a few friends have a crazy idea for a science fair project. We want to make a small toy car that runs from hydrogen produced by hydrolysis harnessing electrical power from a solar panel and possibly wind turbines on the car. Besides the problem that we are merely high school students...

Me and some friends recently stumbled upon a 1M solution of Sulfuric Acid. It's in a small 30 ml bottle and has no distinct smell. After running a few amateur experiments (pouring it on stuff), we concluded that it is either extremely weak or simply water. I know from ap chemistry a few years...

My situation is quite similar to yours, except I borrowed a Calculus book from the school for the summer, and my friend has the newest "Physics for Scientists and Engineers" that he is going to let me borrow. I am actually taking non-calculus physics next year, but i figured if i got a good...

Is it out of the question to go to summer school? Alot of my advanced peers are failing AP english and are going to summer school to make that up. One guy who is an extremely good athlete is going to summer school for 5/7 classes, but its probably just because they need him for the football team.

I recently checked out a college physics book from my high school library. It is a Sears and Zemansky College Physics book. The problem is, it was published in 1960. Now I am pretty sure that it is nearly the exact same physics that would be in a more recent physics book, since the physics...

Yes, the problem was just to graph the function. I found out it was a pretty stupid mistake on my part in that i graphed cos(0)=0 when it should have of course been 1:bugeye:

yes it was, it's amplitude was one and everything was above 0. I just graphed it on a graphing application and the graph is identical to what i graphed. I must have overlooked a simple mistake, i'll have to look at it monday. Luckily she only counted off half so i ended up with an A. Thx for...

We had a test recently in trig on graphing trig functions. I found it all quite simple except a problem that we had not discussed. I believe the problem was something like y=cos^2(x). I graphed it by squaring each cosine value, because i had no idea what else to do, but when i turned the test...

Well, let's say we have a bike and we wanted to see the maximum speed that the bike would reach down a hill. Let's say that the combined weight of the rider and the bike is 210 lbs. The diameter of the wheels is about 20 inches and the hill is 45 degrees steep. The hill is smooth and has just...

Hhhhm... would be cool if it were to include a 5th force.

So I am just a simple high school student whom, while reading Elegant Universe, came up with an idea that would answer why the quantum world is so unusual. I am not well educated in quantum mechanics or the such, so please don't be too brutal while shooting down my thoughts, lol. So, while I...