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Re:GO MINERS! by auferstehung · 2003-07-23 17:02 · Score: 1 · on Missouri Wins American Solar Challenge

(I probably left one out...it's been a while since I was back)

Only the most important one,

home of the School of Mines and Metallurgy. Or is that what you meant by Geology and Geophysics sans Metallurical, Ceramic, Mining, and Petroleum engineering. For those not familiar with the University of Missouri-Rolla, it was originally the Missouri School of Mines before being "annexed" into the University of Missouri system.

My condolences to the family and friends of Dr. Robert E. Moore. His enthusiasm introducing the wonders of Ceramic engineering during my "camp-out" at the Jackling Institute the summer between my junior and senior years of high school was instrumental in my decision to attend UMR.

UMR class of 1988 (Ceramic Engineering)

JOE MINER!

damn you /. by (startx) · 2003-07-14 01:16 · Score: 1 · on American Solar Challenge 2003 Starts

I was reading the asc site to check on the status of my school, when the site became unbelievably slow. Fearing the worst I looked at slashdot, and sure enough it's the top story. Damn yous guys!

sample data from 55808 by LuxFX · 2003-06-22 04:51 · Score: 1 · on What's Behind The Odd Data?

searching on Google led me to a discussion at umr.edu

Spoofed TCP SYNs w/Winsize 55808 (was: Help with an odd log file...)

It shows a log file with the 55808 data in it, in case anyone is interested in seeing the actual data
.

exactly. by (startx) · 2003-06-18 00:43 · Score: 3, Informative · on Custom Linux Distributions from Educational Institutions?

The University of Missouri - Rolla keeps it's own custom version of Redhat Linux that gets installed on any machine that requires linux on campus. It takes care of the repetative steps of setting up kerberos, nis, and afs, along with the custom software path and login scripts, etc.

Granite for a stonehenge quarried with water jets by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-16 15:08 · Score: 0 · on Hydrodemolition Robot Crushes With Water

University of Missouri -- Rolla had a research project ~20 years ago to quarry granite with water. They built a stonehenge replica with blocks that they cut with water jets: http://web.umr.edu/~stonehen/

Re:Name by (startx) · 2003-06-10 11:58 · Score: 1 · on Hints for Planning a Network Gaming Marathon?

I still say the best name for a lan party ever is WANG, but only because I came up with it :-)

AFS good on linux, good luck on FreeBSD by (startx) · 2003-05-13 11:52 · Score: 1 · on Distributed Filesystems for Linux?

My university uses AFS as well. From a user standpoint, once everything is set up it works great. They've got it seemlessly integrated into all the Windows, Linux, and Solaris boxen on campus using OpenAFS and Kerberos.

I had no complaints with it at all, until I tried to get a FreeBSD machine working with AFS. For starters, OpenAFS doesn't have a FreeBSD port. I've heard rumors of one in the works, but I haven't seen anything useful in the last year. I did stumble across a project called arla however, which allowed me to at least mount /afs. Unfortunately, AFS uses kerberosIV authentication. This would be fine, accept my schools kerberos server only hands out v5 tickets. I have yet to find a kerberos implimentation that correctly finds my schools 524 server and actually get user permissions on AFS space. That's where I'm stuck right now any.

Like I said, works great in Linux, Solaris and Windows, but beware if you try with a BSD.

Re:Why are you speechless? by letxa2000 · 2003-04-24 11:42 · Score: 1 · on Record Labels Sue Napster's VC

Well, I wasn't going to reply but I see I have you all riled up so what the heck, let's have some more fun.

If somebody commits acts of copyright infringement amounting to a value greater than $1,000 over a period of 180 days, then it becomes a CRIMINAL offense, and that person can be ARRESTED and put in JAIL for it.

Without the content owner even complaining? Can you cite a case? I've never ever heard of that happening, and I don't see how it could happen unless you are suggesting that the government would call me up and say, "You know, we've seen your song being copied a lot on Napster and we assume you don't agree, should we go ahead and take care of him?" I can't imagine that has ever happened or the government would be doing the RIAA's legal work instead of the RIAA.

All professional musicians want to sell their music

"All". Right. Not a single professional musician wants to share their music and be heard for the love of music or so people come to their shows. Not a single one in the whole world. Right, I'll just take your word on that since you obviously speak for all professional musicians. :)

There are more musicians who care about copyright issues and piracy than there are who don't.

You seem pretty dang sure of yourself. Do you have some references (preferably not from the RIAA) that backs that up?

Crack a fucking history book! The atomic pile in the basement at the University of Chicago!

I refer you to the following two links:

The Fist Pile
The hHistory of Nuclear Energy

It was a controlled reaction and it was self-sustaining. Its power WASN'T harnessed.

Don't know what ad hominem means, huh? Here's a quick lesson for you, shitface. Calling a person a name is not an ad hominem attack. It's an insult.

It's both. Here's a definition for you...

ad hominem adj. Appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason.

Indicating that you might not have the qualifications to make an informed opinion is not an ad hominem attack--it's a logical observation entirely material to your ability to make such informed opinion. You calling me a "shitface" is ad hominem, however, since it gets down to "personal considerations" rather than anything that has to do with the issue at hand.

Have a nice day, glad I could help you with the history of nuclear power and the definition of ad hominem. Google is your friend.

Re:Are you high? by Dr.+Manhattan · 2003-04-22 05:14 · Score: 1 · on New Trailer for The Hulk

Yeah, right, because flying around the earth to go back in time was "getting it right"!

You can actually almost rationalize this. If you can go faster than light, you can access timelike trajectories and go backward in time.

Light goes 186,000 miles per second, so light can go all the way around the Earth (at the surface) just over seven times in one second. In the scene, Supes is at least 500 miles up, and doing more than seven laps per second, so he must be exceeding the speed of light. The blue glow of Cerenkov radiation around him confirms this.

So, it's actually not to unreasonable to suppose that he's exceeding the speed of light; the Earth isn't *really* spinning backward, he's just going back in time.

Then, of course, they spoil it by having him need so "spin up" the Earth again...

Mirror by SonCorn · 2003-04-07 03:05 · Score: 2, Informative · on Using OpenBSD's chrooted Apache

mirror

Re:What if something else moves faster? by atomicdragon · 2003-04-01 22:24 · Score: 1 · on Light Slowed Down To 127 mph

Relativity only uses c, the speed of light in the vacuum. Hence this doesn't affect relativity.

When particles go through a material faster than light goes through that material the result is Cerenkov Radiation, with quick google search gives a short and quick description here and a longer in depth one here. Cerenkov radiation is basically like a sonic boom of light that produces the blue glow seen around nuclear reactors where the beta particles from the fisson are travelling faster than light through the surrounding water.

Re:Signing URL by endquotedotcom · 2003-02-13 15:18 · Score: 1 · on Slashback: Regalia, Godseye, Undetection

Funny that they don't mention that his first stop was on the Microsoft campus.

Re:It's in the top 1% by Skim123 · 2003-02-04 14:36 · Score: 1 · on What Should I Do With My Life?

Here are my feelings on Turkey Farming.

In case you're wondering... by Bazzargh · 2003-01-29 23:11 · Score: 4, Informative · on A Unified Calculus?

...what this is all about, after a little digging on Martin's site I found this paper "Basic Calculus on Time Scales and some of its applications"

Its readable enough if you can remember your calculus from first year at Uni.

The gist: normally we do calculus with the set of real numbers, and difference equations with integers. The 'time scales' notion is that instead of having even gaps between numbers like the integers, you can have independently varying gaps, down to infinitesimal ones. Thus, timescales are really just arbitrary subsets of the reals. An example of a time scale might be:

1_2 3_4 5_6

(the underscore indicates a chunk of real numbers, the space a gap of numbers we don't use, and so on)

It's hopefully obvious that the set of integers and the set of reals are special cases of timescales. So, if you derive the fundamental theorems in calculus using timescales, you find the equivalent theorems for reals and integers are special cases.

Cheers,
Baz

Re:And another something else also cool... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-12-28 16:13 · Score: 0 · on DNA Goes Binary

I found your post interesting. However, D. radiodurans according to this page, has four "distinct" circular chromosomes (i.e., they are not the same). This, along with a highly efficient RecA, suggests that the organism does not really represent a RAID array, but is more akin to having backups, with a recombination/repair system on the loose.

Had similar case by kalvyn · 2002-10-10 01:09 · Score: 2, Informative · on Handling Campus AUP (non-)Violations?

I ran Seek42 at Northwest Missouri State last year. This system runs at University of Missouri-Rolla and the university supports it. At Northwest however, they didn't tell me to turn it off. They deactivated my port and then sent me a summons. I was charged with copyright infringement, aiding in mass copyright infringement, and running a webserver in my dorm room. After presenting my case to the board, everyone on the board was VERY interested and supported my implementation of it, but I understand they had a job to do. I was found in violation of only running a web server in my room. (Yes, I knew this was a violation before I started I originally started this up there as a proof-of-concept project. I just wanted to know that I could get it to work up there. They've got a crazy network anyway. In the end, I got a $50 fine and banned from network usage until Dec 30, 2002. It's not fair, but that's life I guess.

St. Pat's sweatshirt? by fiber_halo · 2002-07-26 02:24 · Score: 1 · on Build Your Own Battlemech

Hey! That looks like a 1986 St. Pat's sweatshirt (from UMR) he's wearing in some of those shots. Really cool!

mirrors by dotgod · 2002-07-23 05:35 · Score: 3, Informative · on Mandrake Linux 9.0 Beta 1

Australia

ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brisbane)
Austria

ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/Mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Vienna)

ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Vienna)
Belgium

ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Costa Rica

ftp://ftp.ucr.ac.cr/pub/Unix/linux/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/
Czech Republic

ftp://ftp.cesnet.cz/OS/Linux/Mandrake/mandrake/8.2 /i586/ (Brno)

ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brno)

ftp://klobouk.fsv.cvut.cz/pub/linux-mandrake/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Prague)

ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/OS/Linux/Dist/Mandrake/m andrake/8.2/i586/ (Prague)

http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brno)
Denmark

ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Koebenhavn)

ftp://ftp.sunsite.dk/mirrors/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Aalborg)
Estonia

ftp://ftp.aso.ee/pub/os/Linux/distributions/mandra ke/8.2/i586/
Finland

ftp://ftp.song.fi/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Espoo)
France

ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Nancy)

ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distribu tions/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.info.univ-angers.fr/pub/linux/distributi ons/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Angers)

ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake /8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.u-strasbg.fr/pub/linux/distributions/man drake/8.2/i586/ (Strasbourg)

ftp://linux.ups-tlse.fr/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Toulouse)
Germany

ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Esslingen)

ftp://ftp.de.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.fh-giessen.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (Giessen)

ftp://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/pub/os/linux/mandrak e/dist/8.2/i586/ (Wolfenbuettel)

ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Goettingen)

ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distribut ions/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Muenster)

ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/Mandrake/ Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Munchen)

ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i5 86/ (Chemnitz)

ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (Clausthal)

ftp://ftp.uasw.edu/pub/os/linux/mandrake/dist/8.2/ i586/ (Wolfenbuettel)

ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (bayreuth)

ftp://ftp.uni-kassel.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (Kassel)

ftp://ftp.uni-mannheim.de/systems/linux/mandrake/8 .2/i586/ (Mannheim)

ftp://ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Dresden)

ftp://ramses.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/mandrak e/8.2/i586/ (Dresden)

ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/ mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Aachen)
Greece

ftp://ftp.duth.gr/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Thrace)

ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Athens)
Hong Kong

ftp://ftp.wisr.eie.polyu.edu.hk/linux/mandrake/8.2 /i586/
Hungary

ftp://ftp.linuxforum.hu/mirror/Mandrake/8.2/i586/
Ireland

ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Italy

ftp://bo.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Bologna)

ftp://ftp.edisontel.it/pub/Mandrake_Mirror/Mandrak e/8.2/i586/
Latvia

ftp://ftp.latnet.lv/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Netherlands

ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Man drake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/M andrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.wau.nl/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Wageningen)
Poland

ftp://ftp.ps.pl/mirrors/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Szczecin)

ftp://ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Gdansk)
Portugal

ftp://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/8. 2/i586/ (Coimbra)

ftp://tux.cprm.net/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/
Russia

ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Chernogolovka)
Singapore

ftp://ftp.singnet.com.sg/opensource/linux/Mandrake /8.2/i586/
Slovakia

ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/Mandrake/8.2/i586 / (Bratislava)
Spain

ftp://ftp.cesga.es/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Galicia)

ftp://ftp.cica.es/pub/Linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Sevilla)

ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandr ake/8.2/i586/
Sweden

ftp://ftp.chello.se/pub/Linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.chl.chalmers.se/pub/Linux/distributions/ Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Gothenburg)

ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Dalarma)
Switzerland

ftp://ftp.pcds.ch/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Neuhausen)

ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Zurich)
Taiwan

ftp://linux.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/pub/Mandrake/mandrak e/8.2/i586/

ftp://linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw/distributions/mandrak e/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://mdk.linux.org.tw/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Turkey

ftp://ftp.ankara.edu.tr/pub/linux/dagitimlar/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Ankara)
United Kingdom

ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/un ix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Canterbury)
United States

ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributi ons/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Georgia)

ftp://ftp.cise.ufl.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Florida)

ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/Mandrake/mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (NY)

ftp://ftp.nmt.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (New Mexico)

ftp://ftp.orst.edu/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Oregon)

ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/distributions/mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (Virginia)

ftp://ftp.umr.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Missouri)

ftp://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586 / (Indiana)

ftp://linux-cs.tccw.wku.edu/pub/linux/distribution s/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (WKU-Linux, Western Kentucky University)

ftp://mirror.aca.oakland.edu/linux/mandrake/8.2/i5 86/ (Michigan)

ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/Mandrak e/8.2/i586/ (Wisconsin)

ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Illinois)

ftp://mirrors.ptd.net/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Pensylvania)

ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/

ftp://uml-pub.ists.dartmouth.edu/mirrors/ftp.mandr akesoft.com/pub/Mandrake/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (New Hampshire)

ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Hawaii)

http://mandrake.dsi.internet2.edu/Mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (For Internet2 academic institutions only)

vending machines by (startx) · 2002-07-10 05:28 · Score: 1 · on Soda Machines for Geeks?

Speaking of geeks and vending machines, at my local acm we are working on a computerized soda machine. The idea is you press order on the web form and if there's money in your account, the soda drops out of the machine. We are in the process right now of figuring out which caffinated beverages will and will not fit into into the slots of our pepsi can vending machine.

vending machines by (startx) · 2002-07-10 05:28 · Score: 1 · on Soda Machines for Geeks?

Speaking of geeks and vending machines, at my local acm we are working on a computerized soda machine. The idea is you press order on the web form and if there's money in your account, the soda drops out of the machine. We are in the process right now of figuring out which caffinated beverages will and will not fit into into the slots of our pepsi can vending machine.

Re:10000 years by Pooua · 2002-07-10 02:46 · Score: 2, Informative · on Yucca Mountain Approved for US Nuclear Waste Storage

What happens if some geologist of the future unknowingly takes a core sample in just the wrong place, to name just one of many not entirely unlikely scenarios.

I have a question. Where did the nuclear fuel come from? Can't we just put the nuclear waste back where the nuclear fuel came from? Like, maybe IN THE GROUND?!

Geologists go around claiming that the Earth's core is molten because of all the radioactive materials heating Earth. That stuff was there all this time. In fact, there are places on Earth where natural events have created natural nuclear reactors, which burned for thousands of years.

"If a canister holding either a whole fuel assembly or solidified waste should disintegrate, even soon after its emplacement in a repository, there is good reason to believe that the fission products and TRU nuclides would not diffuse far into the environment. Strong support for this contention is furnished by what has become known as the _Oklo phenomenon_. Oklo is the name of a uranium mine in the African nation of Gabon, where France obtains much of the uranium for her nuclear program. When uranium from this mine was introduced into a French gaseous diffusion plant, it was discovered that the feed uranium was already depleted below the 0.711 w% of ordinary natural uranium. It was as if the uranium had already been used to fuel some unknown reactor."

http://nova.nuc.umr.edu/~ans/oklo.html

Earth is naturally radioactive! You people are acting as if the world never saw radioactivity before science magically produced it. Do you think it would be healthy growing up in a pitchblend pit?

Try the Math Brain by KI0PX · 2002-07-02 09:10 · Score: 1 · on Options for Adults with Renewed Interest in Math?

My university has a site to help students review the math they may have forgotten. It's called Braintrax[braintrax.umr.edu], it's an excellent visually-oriented math review. Even if you aren't interested in the math, the java applet is very cool.

Acceleration of gravity by fiber_halo · 2002-05-03 04:33 · Score: 2 · on The Most Beautiful Experiments in Physics

One of the first experiments we did at UMR was to measure the acceleration of gravity. It was a weird contraption of a clothespin wired to a switch that started a timer when you released this badminton birdie from the clothespin.

We dropped the birdie onto a box with a microphone in it that stopped the timer when it heard the "thud". We dropped it from different heights and measured the time to fall and then plotted the results.

The beautiful thing wasn't learning that gravity is 9.8 m/s^2, but in showing us that from a fairly simple setup we could quantitatively measure something important in physics. We calculated the acceleration of gravity as well as the terminal velocity of the birdie. And our results were correct!

This was a great foundation to other experiments with interferometers measuring the wavelength of a laser, pendulums, exponential decay (of you name it -- cooling, capacitor discharge, etc.).

Tides != Waves. Either way storage still a problem by enkidu · 2002-03-20 11:28 · Score: 2 · on Alternative Energy: Power Via Coastal Wave Motion.

This thing uses waves not tides. The device seems to consist of segmented, articulating, horizontal cylinders tethered to the ocean floor. There have also been suggestions for floating pistons and the like as well as large installations to use waves to move large amounts of trapped air. Tidal generation has the advantage of predictability but has the disadvantage of requiring larger/less modular installations. There's a an overview of the different "large installation" techniques here. And a overview of smaller device wave generation techniques here. </Karma Whoring>

In my view, the main problem with solar/wind/tide/wave power generation is that we can't guarantee a steady flow of energy. Excess energy can't be stored for use when we need it. Solar energy is good as a supplementary source of energy for areas with high AC usage because when usually it's hot, the sun is out. But the problem still remains that we can't rely on any of these environmental energies for a constant flow of energy, which is what we need (Having lived in CA during the energy "shortage" recently, I know of what I speak).

I think we should be spending more time/energy (hah) researching methods to store large amounts of energy. Flywheels seem to me to hold good promise of extremely high energy density, efficiency and simplicity compared to schemes involving batterie or water <-> H2+0 schemes. Just don't put any on geologically unstable areas... Any other good energy storage devices in our future?

Oh yeah, I consider fusion research (hot/cold, laser pellet/toroidal plasma etc.) a huge waste of money and resources. We've already got a fusion reactor, damnit!

Re:mirrors? by friedmud · 2002-03-18 09:44 · Score: 2, Informative · on Mandrake 8.2 Available

Nope - that directory had the rc1 files in it try this directory instead - it looks like the real deal.

Sorry,
Derek

Re:mirrors? by friedmud · 2002-03-18 09:37 · Score: 1 · on Mandrake 8.2 Available

I don't use Mandrake - but I think my school in Missouri already has it mirrored.

Try here

Derek

Re:mirrors? by friedmud · 2002-03-18 09:37 · Score: 1 · on Mandrake 8.2 Available

I don't use Mandrake - but I think my school in Missouri already has it mirrored.

Try here

Derek

Re:different weight by friedmud · 2002-03-14 05:10 · Score: 1 · on Build Your Own Roller Coaster

Ya, it doesn't take much physics to do this...

If you don't consider friction you get this:
Kf-Ki=Uf-Ui (Change in Kinetic energy = change in potential)

Which is:
1/2M(Vf)^2 - 1/2M(Vi)^2 = MgHf - MgHi

And you can quickly see that you can divide both sides by the mass of the object (because the mass doesn't change).

And therefore the final velocty (Vf) is not dependent on the mass of the object at all.

Ok, so i'm a bored College Student that is sitting through Phys21 right now (yes that is our first physics class - for comparison the first Calculus class at my school is Math21 - and there is only 1 class below that, going to an engineering school is great fun! ;-)

Re:Computer Engineering by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-07 02:41 · Score: 0 · on On the Differences Between MIS/CIS/CS Degrees?

I am a CS student at the University of Missouri - Rolla . My first semester here, I majored in Computer Engineering. The problem with the degree for me was too much hardware. We had to take a lot of classes in Mechanical Engineering (Thermodynamics, etc.) as well as a lot of Electrical Engineering (Circuits I and II) courses. I was more interested in the theory/software side of computers, so I switched to CS.

I am now toying with double majoring in Management Information Systems and CS, because I might eventually want to move from the tech end of things to the business side. Just my two cents.