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30 Jan 2017 07:42

Wolfram Alpha can do just about anything in that vein.  

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Thanks for that, however it doesn't appear to give the answers in the format needed (Distance per second squared)
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30 Jan 2017 16:32

Gee Harliquin, I don't know what you mean, Wolfram Alpha can convert accelerations
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31 Jan 2017 02:34

Gee Harliquin, what are you trying to calculate?  (What is your input?)

As Hornblower said, it should have no trouble doing acceleration.  WolframAlpha is really good at figuring out the units (or 'dimensions') of the quantity you're interested in and converting them accordingly, even if the quantities you put in are in all sorts of different units.  (I think this is actually one of its best features).  So if it's not giving you acceleration out, then probably whatever you're putting in is not actually equivalent to acceleration.

For example, you can put in (10 Newtons)/(25 milligrams), and it correctly converts the answer to acceleration, in meters per second squared.  Or you can put in 2*G*(10 solar masses)/c^2, and it converts the answer to distance, which in this case is the size of the event horizon of a 10-solar-mass black hole.
 
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31 Jan 2017 13:03

yeahh!! my final grade in chemistry this half is 100/100
i love this and i hope i wont get worse.
its very hard year and the next rest with free days will be in 3 months
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01 Feb 2017 01:35

Wow, amazing... I remember I had horrible marks at the first year of high school and incredibly high mark on the second year.
The funny thing is that I wasn't interested in chemistry until I didn't have it as subject anymore, if I started to like it since the beginning it would be a completely different story :)
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01 Feb 2017 03:26

this is my second high school year too, last year i got 90/100. i loved chimestry since the beginning.
after the free days i will have in 3 months. there will be lot of finals tests. (this year and the next will have finals tests to determine your final grade in subjects)
chimestry was the highest in my grades this half. i got only 80/100 in math.
the next half will be harder because of the finals and i hope i wont fail. :) 
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01 Feb 2017 12:47

Very nice marks!  It's awesome that you're enjoying it so much and doing well to boot.  Keep up the great work. :)
 
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today i went to the peak of my hometown mountain (not so high, 750 meters above sea level, it will be more like an hill to watsisname  :) )
long history there. took some images of the view:
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the panoramic view ruined the english text on that square. its about the history of the place. 
also if you zoom in it will be blurry...for best panoramic view i need to move my phone very slowly. there was strong winds up there i tried my best  :D
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01 Feb 2017 17:06

That's a real nice view. :)  The scenery reminds me a lot of the foothills in Colorado.  Rocky and lots of shrubs, nice to hike or just relax.
 
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02 Feb 2017 12:51

[youtube]hC3VTgIPoGU[/youtube]
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02 Feb 2017 15:16

Wow, that's an amazing volume of ice flow.

I remember a documentary from a while back (can't remember the name), which contained footage of a (much smaller) calving of ice off of an iceberg, a small ripple slowly spreading out over the calm harbor.  But then when it reached land it rose up into quite a devastating tsunami and smashed all the ships that were anchored there.  It was really incredible to see how much energy was actually contained in that faint ripple from so far away.

edit:  Oh here it is.  I guess the initial wave really was bigger than I remembered, but it's still impressive what it becomes in shallower water.
[youtube]XY7Y313BUBA[/youtube]
 
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02 Feb 2017 15:44

Here are a couple of videos showing the effect of the 2011 Japan earthquake in Norway's Sognefjord which goes 200 km into the country.  Not very impressive waves, but we must recall that the source of these waves was over 8000 km away, causing slow ground movement of less than 1 cm in Norway.  The effect on the water was greatly amplified in shallower water and possibly from resonance: https://www.vgtv.no/#!/video/38567/unik-video-her-synes-japan-jordskjelvet-i-sognefjorden
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04 Feb 2017 09:15

"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." - Douglas Adams
 
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04 Feb 2017 10:32

WOW! I found a real space suit for sale on Ebay! only $39,999
Okay then. Does it actually work though?
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04 Feb 2017 10:43

Xoran, yeah!
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