Lake Definition and 106 Threads

GARDEN CITY, Utah — There's no photographic proof, but some say it looks like a walrus minus the tusks. Something to talk a boat: A supposed monster has been talked about, debated and scouted since its first reported sighting in 1868. Others are adamant it's a dinosaur. Or a big alligator...

A woman at a point A on the shore of a circular lake with a radius of 2 miles wants to arrive at the point C opposite A on the other side of the lake in the shortest possible time. She can walk at a rate of 4 miles an hour and row a boat at 2 miles an hour. How should she proceed...

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In this glaciated upland region why is the the river or lake a green colour? Me thinks that it is obviously to do with the sediment on the bed of the lake. Perhaps it is a chalk bed or a solution lake?

Anybody else heard of this facility? Apparently some really odd stuff is happening at Lake Vostok. http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~mstuding/vostok.html http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/News_and_Information/Press_Releases/1998/19980317.html...

I have been rather unfortunate to attend a school with a physics department that uses Sears and Zemansky's University Physics textbook. I have been working unsuccessfully on the following problem (Chapter 15, #103 for those who have the book) for 2 days... Show that the thickness of the ice...