No thing is moving in the same direction as the wave.
Not quite an exact analogy. In water waves, an individual molecule moves slightly forward as it goes up and slightly backward as it goes down, following an approximately elliptic path. But yes, it has no mean movement in the wave direction.
It's easiest to think of a wave as a traveling disturbance.
I have a few exercises I give my students in which they have to make a guess at a quantity and then make a calculation to back it up. My favorite: If you marked off a tract of land in a 3x3 foot grid, and one person stood at each intersection, how many square miles would accommodate the entire world population, and what would be a country of comparable size?
Of course, after doing the calculation, one might ponder what it would smell like...
Pretty sure you're wrong. Life insurance generally comes with a no-pay provision for suicide that runs out after a specified time, typically two years.
On the surface your statement sounds really good, I certainly believe that I would get sick of violence very quickly after seeing it first hand.
On the first Christmas of WW1, troops came out of the trenches en masse on both sides and shared an observance. The following Christmases, most of them just kept on shooting.
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No thing is moving in the same direction as the wave.
Not quite an exact analogy. In water waves, an individual molecule moves slightly forward as it goes up and slightly backward as it goes down, following an approximately elliptic path. But yes, it has no mean movement in the wave direction.
It's easiest to think of a wave as a traveling disturbance.
Wired? Hell they still exist?
Matterafact, I just noticed Playboy's still out there too.
I have a few exercises I give my students in which they have to make a guess at a quantity and then make a calculation to back it up. My favorite: If you marked off a tract of land in a 3x3 foot grid, and one person stood at each intersection, how many square miles would accommodate the entire world population, and what would be a country of comparable size?
Of course, after doing the calculation, one might ponder what it would smell like...
we are more likely to be killed by falling debris.
Only if "we" means Homo Sap as a whole. Your personal chances are constant.
They already sold out when they switched to metal crankshafts.
Who rooted Hillary's server?
They certainly do. Every spin of a roulette wheel ends in an event with 1/38 probability (1/37 in Europe).
Figures don't lie, but liars figure.
If the coins and flips were fair, the odds against either candidate winning all flips is 97%.
98.5%.
Pretty sure you're wrong. Life insurance generally comes with a no-pay provision for suicide that runs out after a specified time, typically two years.
Too late. That and variations on it have been tried in several countries -- so far with little success as far as changing outcomes is concerned.
A "calorie" is a depreciated unit of measurement
You mean it used to be worth more money? The word is "deprecated".
somehow, the laws of thermodynamics don't apply just to them.
They might be the same people who think the 2nd Law of Thermo disproves evolution...
Two units, one 1000x the other, distinguished only by capitalization...WTF does it take to call something broken?
Your free legal advice is overpriced.
Only insightful (or interesting) if you assume that absence of proof constitutes proof of absence.
Of course it doesn't...and neither does faith constitute proof of presence. But a little evidence would help there.
https://xkcd.com/1235/
More likely, it's that in any large organization there's somebody who knows a priest or a lawyer.
If "he" imposed any tax on anything, it would indeed be dictatorial...
On the surface your statement sounds really good, I certainly believe that I would get sick of violence very quickly after seeing it first hand.
On the first Christmas of WW1, troops came out of the trenches en masse on both sides and shared an observance. The following Christmases, most of them just kept on shooting.
Some people are sickened; some are hardened.
That works just peachy in Hollywood...keeps the IRS happy and fucks the profit participants.
Standard conjugation of the Fifties: I program, you code, she keypunches.
...it will be on your foot.
Partially correct. We get to see 59% of the Moon's surface at various times, but not all at the same time.
This. Whatever my dead ass does to the planet is a rounding error compared to what I've done to it so far.
Schiess dem Fenster!