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    superconductors, generation, transmission and transport Q

    what did you guys put for this one? i thought it was a rather stupid q. with transport, were they refering to the transportation of electricity through lines and the energy benifits here, or were they talking about transport as in maglev trains etc. they could have worded it better......
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    Attention All Astrophysicists (requiem)

    what you guys think? i thought it was way too fucken easy. just like the rest... 2 marks for colour index, they must be expecting us to fail with something that easy worth 2 marks.. nothing on absorbtion or emmission spectra... nothing on STELLER LIFECYCLES fume. they asked us crap. what...
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    final questions

    any final questions before the big one? "i've been waiting for you O big one. We meet again. this times the last....."
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    the magical mystery tour pt2

    a poll for the sake of a poll.... why i'm on the net now...
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    New Dotpoint *freak*

    MY GOD, I'VE JUST FOUND A NEW DOT POINT. WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO CALCULATE MASS CHANGES AT C AND WE'RE NOT GIVEN THE FORMULA ON THE FORMULA SHEET!MY TEXTBOOK HASN'T GOT IT!ANYONE KNOW IT HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!! not really, i just thought i...
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    mystery thread (reward your curiosity)

    good luck to everyone who sits phys tomorrow...... (unless you beat me) and may the force be with you ....(wish me the same for chem, i'll need it.): :D :D
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    two mothers...(food for thought)

    i've got two practice q's from space and motors for the game, i can't get the same answer as the given solutions. any ideas? 1.an aircraft can withstand the stresses of a 15g acceleration (ie an acceleration 15 times that of gravity), then what is its minimum turning radius at a speed of...
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    the individual in society

    the essay for module b the individual and society....who thought it was hard? How did you approach it? :confused:
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    genius mind bender.......

    i've always wondered, when newton dropped the cannon ball from the ship mast to proove his theory of projectile motion, why didn't the cannon ball break the deck and sink the ship!!?? any ideas?
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    the great debate

    what does everyone think? if you have to argue whether superconductivity is a new state or not?
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    w/w and v/w

    does anyone know what w/w and v/w means as a unit? iknow ppm is the same as mg/kg.
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    practice tests

    has everyone done all the practice tests on the notes section? have you noticed all of the dumb mistakes in some of the answers? i think it was the grammer or girls school (figures) that got all the forces on charges in magnetic fields wrong. A pos charge can't experience a force perpendicular...
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    Attention All Astrophysicists!!!!

    is there anyone out there who fully understands the boarderlines of solar massess that lead to different star deaths? ie I have conflicting sources for all!! the boarder line where a star becomes a planetary nebula and white dwarf could be anywhere between 1.4 and 5 solar massess. any ideas...
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    back EMF re load, I, PD, A and electron density

    I understand the concept of Back EMF, but i know that if a motor slows down under a load, the motor can burn out. I also know that this causes changes to the level of back EMF and current, voltage etc, but can't find out what exactly. Is there anyone out there who can tell me? Also, how does the...
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