(x, why?) Mini: Hot and Cold

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Sitting next to a four-year-old on long trips really can run hot and cold.

We did visit a coal mine in West Virginia, by the way.




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(x, why?) Mini: Under the Sci...

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I prefer to apply Sturgeon's Law to all webcomics, not just to the 1100+ I've written.

By the way, I was just at a Sweet 16 party with an "Under the Sea" theme for the daughter of a couple of friends who go back to my Brooklyn College Science Fiction Society days, which may have played a role and bringing this back to the forefront of my brain.




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Hypersphere

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RIP2-D2

I was considering this months ago, but because I wanted to do it in a classroom setting and didn't have time before the end of the year, I was saving it for the fall.

However, with the passing of Kenny Baker, the man inside the droid we were looking for, I moved it up and reworked it.

For the record, the Volume inside a 4D hypersphere would be 1/2 * pi^2 * r^4.

Edit Wayne's first dialogue balloon is messed up. Two sentences were combined by accident. It will be corrected as time permits. Oopsie!




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(x, why?) Mini: Kites

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Actually, we went South on vacation, not North.

Throwback Thursday: I used a PC with Windows XP and Paint 5.1 to create this one. You use the tools you have not the tools you wish you have.

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(x, why?) Mini: Slugger

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It's all a matter of momentum and position and energy and ... stuff.

Okay, so, no, I'm really not sure how to explain it, so I'll recommend that you check out a wiki page on Liouville equations.

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Daily Regents: Similar Triangles are Proportional (August 2015)

Even though the title says "Daily", I won't be doing them daily any more, until the exams get closer. But they will be frequent.

Geometry, August 2015, Question 27

27. To find the distance across a pond from point B to point C, a surveyor drew the diagram below. The measurements he made are indicated on his diagram.

Use the surveyor’s information to determine and state the distance from point B to point C, to the nearest yard

There are two right triangles. Right angles are congruent.
Both triangles contain angle A. Reflexive Property says angle A is congruent to itself.
Therefore, triangle ABC ~ ADE
If the triangles are similar, then their corresponding sides are proportional.

AE = 230, AC = 230 + 85 = 315. DE = 120. BC corresponds to DE.

Set up a proportion: AE / DE = AC / BC
230/120 = (230 + 85) / x
230 x = (120)(315)
230 x = 37800
x = 164.3478...
x = 164 yards

The distance from point B to point C is 164 yards.

Prove You're Not a Robot

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When we have to bow down to our Computer Overlords, someone will have to answer for this!

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