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Hi everybody. My physics final is right around the corner and i was just wondering if there was any good way to help prepare and study. Physics isn't the easiet subjects for me, i tend to over think problems and get myself all nervous. Please let me know if there are any problem solving...

Please could ppl tell me about gud books to prepare for IIT?? I have checkmarked HC VERMA and IE IRODOV for physics...but please add on to this list...

Hi,I am a graduate student, want to transfer from physics to electrical engineering to study communication and digital signal processing , till now I don't know so much about that. Next semester, I will be a Teaching Assistant in Electrical engineering for the first year.each semester I must...

Rust for art--how to & suggestions? Hi, I noticed the topic on making rust from steel wool with vinegar and bleach. Can anyone suggest how to form iron rust quickly, but without the chlorine production? I am using large steel sheets and trying to produce art-worthy patterns without waiting...

Basically the extended essay is a piece of independent research done during the course of IB. I'm planning to do a physics EE, but now it's mid April and I still failed to find a simple yet specific topic to do reasearch on. My last few ideas were too complex or not specific enough. My...

I'm looking for a good Engineering Fluid Mechanics textbook. Any suggestions?

Hi guys i am new at mathematics, so i would like some suggestions on some math books, concerning calculus I and II. I like books with many theorems and a lot of proofs. Thankyou guys, it would be a great help.

First off, let it be noted that I'm not yet of age to go to university, and my high-school courses simply aren't challenging enough, so I always interest myself in studies of my own; in the last few years, I've studied linguistics, psychology, and biology... But I know next to nothing about...

Hello everyone, For my programming class we have to find somthing we want to code and do it, and it must be at least 1,000 lines of code. This is an indepedant project we have to work on through out the semester. This is an internmediate programming course so it doesn't have to be that...

suggest me... can anybody of you suggest me a good book for metallurgy?

Do yall know of any good books on: crystal thermodynamics, crystalography, and phonons? I am looking for introductory books that assume knowledge of the basics like thermodynamics, calculus, etc... Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Hey, My friend's about to make an order off Amazon and I thought I'd join in too.. I'm trying to find some decently priced books (preferrably Dover books) on introductory real analysis, electromagnetism, multivariable calculus and vector/tensor analysis (Something preferably including both)...

I just got assigned a project on equilibrium. We have to demonstrate how factors can cause shifts in equilibrium. I got assigned common ion, so I have to show how the common ion effect can affect the equilibrium. On Monday we can prepare the chemicals and practice doing the lab once before...

Hi, I have to do a brief introduction for transistors in my seminar class. Are there any simple demos you recommend? it's just to show the class what a transistor does? we were thinking about activating a LED. any other options (we wil be using a breadboard) thanks!

A plane flies 483 km east from city A to city B in 45.0 min and then 966 kim south from city B to city C in 1.50 h. For the total trip, what are the magnitude and direction of the plane's displacement, the magnitude and direction of its average velocity, and its average speed?

Hello everyone! THe directions are the following: Carefully formulate the negations of each of the statements. Then prove each statement by contradiction. Here is the problem: If a and b are rational numbers, b!=0, and r is an irrational number, then a+br is irrational. I made it...

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...

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...