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Hi, Reading about physics is a pastime of mine. I have read about many of the famous experiemts such as Young's double slit experiment and such. I would like to do some of these experiements at home to start teaching my kids about QM and light. What types of QM light experiments are...

After living in our current house for about 18 years and only painting a couple of rooms, my wife and I have gone nuts and are now renovating everything. Actually, we were kind of forced into renovating. I have put on a new roof, enclosed our porch and right now we are painting the living...

Hey guys, Is there anyway at all to like bridge satelite television? I ask because I am going to have to switch to DirecTV because I got a HDTV and my local cable provider... sucks! So I'm going to have to route the cable for the satelite to my receiver... But no matter how I look at it, I...

I am trying to clean out this computer. BTW it's my mom's so recommending a switch from XP has already been noted ;) C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files has crap in it that I want to delete. Its Properties window says it contains 60 files and 5 folders. However, only 15 files (and no...

i cannot find the boot.ini on my windows xp home computer. I even searched for it but i had no success. Can someone please tell me where it is?

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I am a freshman at USD ( chem major). I absolutely love chem lab. I have been think about preforming some experiments at home. Is this a bad idea, unsafe. I have had basic college lab knowldge, i.e. what to do if you spill an acid, ect. Is it safe to buy chemcials (an or labware)...

Ok, here is the situation. I am working on a take home in which I have this problem involving the order of a group. Let: G be the group of all non singular matrices (matrices that you can invert) and the operation on the group is regular old matrix multiplication. a = a matrix: |0 -1| |1...

If a very large amount of power was grounded say in house and all the taps for example were connected to the same circuit would somebody touching a tap get any sort of eletric shock. I have heard that some peoples TVs etc explode when their house gets hit by lightning even though they have...

Today I finally moved to Google.com, after realizing it is the site I probably use the most every day. Besides, it's easy to load so I don't have to wait ages every time I open a new browser window. What's your home page?

I don't know... I've worked through this problem about ten times, but each time, I get the same answer. It's a kind of easy problem too. I don't konw what my problem with this is. If f(x) = sin (x/2), then there exists a number c in the interval pi/2 < x < (3*pi / 2 that satisfies the...

What will you do when you find yourself in a nursing home for the remainder of your life?

I'm trying to set up a home network between two comuters. i have both connected to a router and they connect to the internet just fine. On computer has Win 2000 Pro and the other Win 98 SE. My computer with win 2000 is able to see and connect to the win 98 machine but i can't get the win98 to...

Is it possible, and what would be simplest means to view sunspots at home? I figured some projection on the wall would be nice, but what you'd need to a get sharp image of say 2ft diameter?

Greetings, Not sure if this has been asked before. Feel free to refer to any previous post. My question is this: Since we know that our universe is expanding, has an extrapolation been done to approximate the actual origin in space of the Big Bang?

Hello, this is OnRadioactiveWaves First and foremost, sorry if this isn't the right place for this. I have a networking problem. All I need to do is network 2 computers to be able to talk, and both get dsl and share a printer. I have 2 new dell computers with their own network card plus...

A large tractor of a mass 13,600kg is being pulled by 2 smaller tractors. The tensions in the towing chains apply forces T1 and T2 at 2 different angles (25degrees and 35degrees, respectively) with respect to the tractor's axis. In addition, the large tractor's engine produces a forward drive...

I was just mulling this over recently. I was looking at homes in Jamaica, Italy, and Frace. I've ruled out France because it's too expensive and they hate americans. Italy is a bit cheaper, and they seem a bit more receptive to americans. Spain had crossed my mind as well. Call it...

Does anybody know a website for putting solar panels on the roof of your house?

"Trojan Horses" I recently bought a new computer which came with firewall software pre-installed (first time I've ever had one). About two or three times in the last two weeks, I've received warnings saying that Trojan Horses were blocked. The help file is not very helpful in describing what...

A professional Biologist assigned the responsibility of making closing remarks at a recent conservation conference reviewed the important issues discussed throughout the conference and insights into the future direction of research and left us with this take home message: ... as he noticed...

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/10/08/alien.life.reut/index.html

What are you opinions on this? Post to elaborate, if you wish...

A few questions about mirrors: 1) How much light (as a percentage) does your average home mirror reflect? 2) How much light (as a percentage) does a very high quality mirror reflect? 3) How much does a very high quality mirror cost? Thanks.

"A GHOSTLY figure captured unwittingly on a home video camera has spooked a Belfast family." http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=432972