A freshly cut log floats with one fourth of its volume

Introductory Chemistry 5
Write a balanced chemical equation for the reaction of gaseous nitrogen dioxide with hydrogen gas to form gaseous ammonia and liquid water.

Understandable Statistics 9
Cowboys: Longevity How long did real cowboys live? One answer may be found in the book The Last Cowboys by Connie Brooks (University of New Mexico Press). This delightful book presents a thoughtful sociological study of cowboys in West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico around the year 1890. A sample

Organic Chemistry 9
Do the following electrocyclic reactions take place in a conrotatory or disrotatory manner? Under what conditions, thermal or photochemical, would you carry out each reaction? (a) H H (b) H H

Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics 7
For the following set of data, by hand, correlate minutes of exercise with grade point average (GPA). What do you conclude given your analysis? These data are saved as Chapter 5 Data Set 5.

Plant Systematics 3
What is phylogenetic systematics and what are its goals?

Urban Economics 8
The real estate agents in Rampville are baffled. Although dwellings are subject to the normal decrease in quality over time, there is no filtering: No household has changed its house in the last 10 years. Provide an explanation for this phenomenon. Use a figure like Figure 145 to depict the housing m

Principles of Economics 9
Barney runs a small manufacturing company. He pays his employees about twice as much as other firms in the area, even though he could pay less and still recruit all the workers he needs. He believes that higher wages make his workers more loyal and hard-working. This is an example of a. a compensatin

Biochemistry 9
The fidelity of protein synthesis is assured twice during protein synthesis. How and when?