College Questions A Bit Confused

A couple college questions?!?

The liberal arts are all the non-professional majors. Professional majors are things like nursing, engineering, and accounting. The liberal arts are every thing else - English, history, humanities, languages, art, music, math, science, computer science, and economics. All colleges and universities offer these, not just liberal arts colleges.

You'll fill out the FAFSA to see how much you can take out in loans, and try applying for scholarships as well. Upper-middle-class means about 250k a year, so if your mother is making that much, don't expect any financial aid.

Colleges ask for unweighted GPA on the 4.0 scale. Try Rutgers and a few of the satellite campuses (you might be a long shot for the main campus).

Question about GPA? Confused about this...?

My school doesn't use a 4.0 scale. We do percentages. My current cumulative average is a 77.69% so what would that be on the 4.0 scale? The 77.69% is from the first two years of high school (I'm a junior now) and I'm working really hard because I'm moving to Maryland and I'd like to get into University of Maryland College Park. I wanted to take some honors and AP classes but they're full. However, I'm in the Medical Assistant program at my school and signed up to take the BSS course for College Now. I was also planning to join Health Occupation Students of America (HOSA).

So...yeah...what would a 77.69% be on the 4.0 scale. I went all over the internet and got 2.2, 2.8, 3.0, etc and I'm confused. I want to know so I can speak to my guidance counselor and make a goal for myself. Thanks (: Another thing is, I'm moving to MD before I graduate high school in New York, so will me being in the Medical Assistant program show up on my transcript?

Physics- a bit confused?

The heavy falling object has velocity and thus momentum. When it strikes the bar, it transfers much of its momentum to the bar. Momentum is ALWAYS conserved in collisions.

Initial momentum: ( 2.0 x 10^3 kg ) ( 6.0 m / s )

Final momentum: ( 2.0 x 10^3 kg + 400 kg ) ( v )

Set these two expressions equal and solve for the velocity of the system after the collision, v.

You now know that the bar is driven .75 m into the ground. We can solve this part using conservation of energy. The initial energy of the system is kinetic plus potential. The final energy is zero, because friction with the ground did work on the bar.

The initial energy is 1/2 m v^2 + m g h
The final energy is zero

E = 1/2 ( 2.0 x 10^3 kg + 400 kg ) ( v^2 ) + ( 2.0 x 10^3 kg + 400 kg ) ( 9.8 m/s^2 ) ( .75 m)

You found v in the first part, so you can solve this for E.

Now work is equal to both the change in energy and to Force multiplied by distance:

W = F d = ΔE

You just calculated the change in energy and you know the distance; now calculate the average frictional force F.

Aside: I installed a fishing dock a while back and the technique for installing dock pilings is just that: a big heavy (and manual) pile driver applied repeatedly to big heavy utility poles. It was a long and hot weekend even though we were standing in water most of the time!

Stipend rotc SMP program? A bit confused?

Okay...

In order for you to be in the Simultaneous Membership Program (SMP), you have to be in the advance program of college ROTC, which is the last two years of ROTC. In order for you to be in Advanced ROTC, you have to either complete the Basic ROTC program, which is the first two years, have prior military service, JROTC, or completed the four-week long Leader's Training Course.

It sounds like you've done absolutely none of the above, and are extremely concerned with being deployed. Are you even in college?

Anywho, you're putting the cart before the horse.

There is also a two-week long SMP program where you're attached to an active duty unit after your six-week Advance Camp in the summer between your Junior and Senior year in college, but once again, you must be contracted into the Advanced ROTC program.

My advice to you is to enlist in the military, contract for the Montgomery GI Bill, work for a few years, get out, go to college, and then if you're still interested in ROTC and SMP, then go for it.

BTW...No, you don't deploy overseas with your SMP unit, but you'll have to look for another unit to join, which may be on the other side of who-knows-where. But you can still be activated during times of national emergency and/or natural disasters.

Additionally, all the previous information was in regards to the Army ROTC program.

Not to go into detail, but I was an Army SMP-ROTC cadet, completed the program, and decided it wasn't for me, plus I didn't like the branch I got, so I volunteered out of the program (I wasn't scholarship, so I didn't have any obligation) two months before graduating and got to choose exactly what I wanted to do, where I was to go, and for how long. You can't do that as an officer.

ADDED: Okay, Mr. Know-it-all, what the heck do I know...

Sorry I hurt your feelings, but I believe you have Officer Candidate School (OCS) confused with SMP.

BTW, you'd make a great officer...running off at the mouth about stuff you know nothing about and criticizing those trying to help to set you straight.

But what the heck do I know.

For AP Bio lab 8 could anyone explain questions 3 and 4?

Hardy Weinberg principle satets that frequencies of alleles and genotypes in a population remain constant from generation to generation. So in your case, does the PTC allele remain constant?