Science & Mathematics - 4 September 2006

2006-09-04 16:16:21 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Science

I'm in university doing a B.A. in Pure Math, one year away from graduation. I've got a 4.0 gpa, near the top of my class, doing honours and all that, blah blah blah blah. The thing is: I'm not interested in doing math as a career, but I feel kind of trapped by my degree. My profs are no good for advice, because they all just went straight to grad school, and then went straight into teaching.

I mean, math is a great thing to study, but I'm not a diehard, and I don't want to be.

Any of you math grads have advice for me?

2006-09-04 16:07:54 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mathematics

would you solve x^2=x to end up with the answer x=1 and x=0?

It's the example to a problem I'm working out....

2006-09-04 16:07:34 · 8 answers · asked by egyptsprincess07 3 in Mathematics

2006-09-04 16:06:36 · 8 answers · asked by niraj_bhindi 1 in Chemistry

2006-09-04 16:05:07 · 2 answers · asked by oladimejis 1 in Biology

2006-09-04 16:04:59 · 14 answers · asked by Sammy 3 in Astronomy & Space

I was on an all night road trip last night and spent hours watching them in the sky! It was nothing short of spectacular and I couldn't remember the last time I had seen them! I even remembered the proper name, "Aurora Borealis!"

To me, the sight almost seems 'divine.' It fills me with wonder and anticipation, just as it did when I was a child!

How do you feel when you see them?

For those who haven't... here are a couple of links:
The first one is almost exactly the same as what I saw!
http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/images/aurora8.jpg

http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/aurora_borealis.html

http://www.northern-lights.no/

http://www.iww.is/art/shs/pages/thumbs.html

2006-09-04 16:04:44 · 15 answers · asked by *ღ♥۩ THEMIS ۩♥ღ* 6 in Astronomy & Space

2006-09-04 16:03:25 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Medicine

This is for my Physics home work.
Newtons first law of motion --Inertia

2006-09-04 16:00:02 · 5 answers · asked by Peter T 1 in Physics

and i already know there are waaay more than 64

2006-09-04 15:59:28 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mathematics

2006-09-04 15:58:41 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Zoology

If u could time-travel and go back to the past, and then u got killed while u were visiting the past, how is it that u existed at all in the present? or if u killed ur own grandparents in the past, how would still have been able to exist to do that in the first place?
don't send me rude or perverted answers, i'll report you, this is just for fun.

2006-09-04 15:54:06 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Physics

2006-09-04 15:54:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Weather

Steve Irwin new crocodilian and snakes. Do you think he should have stayed away from deep sea life.

2006-09-04 15:53:24 · 6 answers · asked by Mr. Bodhisattva 6 in Zoology

99% of the Carbon on Earth is of the isotope Carbon 12, which has a half life of 50,000 years. Since the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, why is there still so much of it left? Wouldn't there be just a small fraction of it left? This may sound like a dumb question, but I've always wondered. Also, what happens to it when it decays and becomes radioactive?

2006-09-04 15:51:25 · 4 answers · asked by Michael F 3 in Chemistry

I just love the effects of Vinegar and Baking Soda, but I have gotten bored of it lately. What are some other interesting things similar to that?
(BTW: I already tried undesolving food coloring, I couldn't get it to work)

2006-09-04 15:50:47 · 6 answers · asked by TS2 3 in Chemistry

0.0334 mol C, 0.1000 mol H, and 0.0167 mol O

i just dont get how to do this, please walk me through.

2006-09-04 15:49:42 · 3 answers · asked by cheezzznitz 5 in Chemistry

im have to do this ad for a peanut 4 skool and have to add how a peanut smells taste sounds looks and feels i got most of those help!!!!!

2006-09-04 15:48:46 · 6 answers · asked by nini 1 in Other - Science

Strictly speaking, does a car burn more gasoline when its lights are turned on? And does the overall consumption of gas depend on whether or not the engine is running?

2006-09-04 15:48:15 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Physics

Anything can be divided infinitely, including a second. So aren't we then moving through an infinite amount of time every second?
How can that be?

2006-09-04 15:45:48 · 5 answers · asked by J 2 in Physics

"De-icing salt" is used to melt snow and ice on streets. The highway department of a small town is deciding whether to by NaCl or CaCl2 for the job. The town can obtain NaCl for $0.25/kg. What is the maximum the town should pay for CaCl2 to be cost effective?

2006-09-04 15:45:31 · 5 answers · asked by buttrefly007 1 in Chemistry

reason needs to be explained

2006-09-04 15:45:07 · 12 answers · asked by toddk57@sbcglobal.net 6 in Astronomy & Space

The CERN Courier states that creating nano-blackholes (NBHs) is safe because higher energy collisions happen naturally. If one considers the conservation of momentum, wouldn't thusly formed NBHs have to either absorb relatively enormous amounts of mass to stay with the earth, or always rapidly move through the earth and escape?

Isn't their argument for safety therefore invalid, since they either must grow so fast thet they'd swallow the earth in short order or they simply couldn't stay to begin with (as CERN created NBHs would)?

2006-09-04 15:43:34 · 5 answers · asked by ubavontuba 1 in Physics

I want to buy a telescope and don't know if I should get a reflector or a refractor. also is a 12 inch reflector telescope for $600 a good deal?

2006-09-04 15:40:55 · 10 answers · asked by wormhole 2 in Astronomy & Space

2006-09-04 15:40:38 · 3 answers · asked by Ejsenstejn 2 in Astronomy & Space

i got 25.9
are my significant figures wrong?
teacher says its wrong. what is correct answer?

2006-09-04 15:40:24 · 5 answers · asked by cheezzznitz 5 in Chemistry

I know that this is due to differences in testosterone production.
But why the differential evolution? What is the adaptive purpose of beards in men?

2006-09-04 15:39:53 · 13 answers · asked by Ejsenstejn 2 in Biology

I got 1.41
my teacher says its wrong. Wrong significant digits, or what?

2006-09-04 15:39:49 · 2 answers · asked by cheezzznitz 5 in Chemistry

Find the exact length of the interval [a,b] for ln^2(x)-2ln(x)-4=0.

I need to know what to do PLEASE!!

2006-09-04 15:37:46 · 6 answers · asked by Th_hT 1 in Mathematics

2006-09-04 15:37:16 · 24 answers · asked by duyanh_mvp06 1 in Mathematics