If you’re studying for the higher tier exam, you will need to be familiar with calculations involving very large and very small numbers by using the ×10x or EXP button on your calculator. The equation ...

I love using seemingly random data to figure out stuff I wouldn't otherwise know. You can do this with all kinds of things, but in this example, I use video that I recorded from an airplane to figure ...

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A research team led by Tomoro Sashida and Tomoharu Oka of Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, has succeeded in precisely measuring the expansion velocity of a shock wave of the supernova remnant W44. The ...

We reconsider the stability theory of boundary conditions for the wave equation from the point of view of energy techniques. We study, for the case of the homogeneous half-space, a large class of ...

Harry Friebel, surfer, ocean engineer and research assistant for the Stevens Institute of Technology responds: “Answering a question like this is highly complicated — to say the least. There are just ...

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