Recent content by Blue_Jaunte

Sorry for the late reply, Quasar. I replied earlier, but I was reported for a well-deserved insult. Here is my solution: http://s78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/reclusivesage/?action=view&current=Asteroidssoln.jpg

I heard this puzzle on the MathFactor podcast (which I highly recommend). If you don't know what Asteroids is (somehow), here's a youtube video: If you fly off the right side, you reappear on the left side, and vice versa. If you fly past through the bottom, you reappear at the top, and...

I'm continually amazed that this is getting the kind of coverage it is. I just can't imagine why this is somehow extraordinary or even remotely newsworthy. Certainly SOMEone makes a big show of burning a koran every week, somewhere in America. And I lived in Gainesville for 6 years, so...

Homework Statement A friend lays out three playing cards on a table, from a pack of 52. He tells you that one is definitely a queen and the other two are definitely spades. What is the probability that the middle card is the queen of spades? Homework Equations The Attempt at a...

I meant the former, although the latter might be more useful at this point. From what I can tell, a bachelor's degree isn't worth any more than a high school diploma. I'd love for this to be wrong, but I don't think it is.

I was wondering if the schooling required to become one of these might be shorter if you already have a degree in a hard science. If not, are there any professional jobs for which a physics BS is at least a definite advantage? I'm only interested for financial reasons. Thank you, Michael

1) de Broglie 2) Leeuwenhoek 3) Huygens These are all the troublesome ones I can think of right now. There are probably others. Thanks

This paper, written by a University of Pittsburgh professor, John Norton, describes a simple situation in which Newtonian mechanics allows for purportedly non-deterministic equations of motion: http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/DomePSA2006.pdf In the first part of the paper, he describes the...

Wow, thanks guys. I should've known that someone would be on the case. DavidSnider, i noticed that the paper is a "Master's Thesis" from a university in Amsterdam. Is that comparable to a Master's thesis in the states or PhD? I'm just wondering because of the length.

I was playing Connect 4 the other day, and I started to wonder how you could fill the board entirely without connecting 4. I haven't tackled the problem so I don't know if it's of general interest at all, or if it yields any interesting results...but I thought I'd share it with you all...

I assume everyone who saw this thread first rolled their eyes. Sorry for that. My question is an innocent one, as I am completely uneducated in number theory. My understanding is that numbers are grouped in a sort of Russian doll fashion, with each successive group encompassing all previous...

I was asked this recently and the only explanation I could come up with was that the Earth is oblate and the difference in R would account for the difference in the period. Is this wrong? Is this even a real phenomenon (the longer period at the equator than at other latitudes)?

Oh sorry, I use the name mistepp23 on Y!M (that's the email associated with this account).

I'd be interested in talking to a Medical Physicist about all things professional: what the job opportunities are like, what the work load is like, how fulfilling the job is overall, etc. I'm on Yahoo! Messenger quite a bit, so we can talk there instead of shooting message board comments back...

I'm pretty sure you got it right. Although I don't know how a hair cell, which responds to a single frequency (I think) would respond to exactly double that frequency (that is, whether or not there would be a bump in sensitivity due to sympathetic vibration). There's a really good book about...