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When an owl hears a sound, the sound will hit each of its ears at a different time because the separation between the ears results in a time delay. The neuronal stimuli triggered need to reach the audio processing centres of the brain simultaneously; *TBC

*continued;how would you design the neurones leading from the ears to the audio processing centre to ensure that the stimuli will reach it at the same time?We need to start by establishing that the signal...

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How do I choose which college to apply to?

This is difficult, especially when you don't have prior knowledge of the college system - I personally had no idea what it was until I went to an open day. So before you even start considering colleges, i...

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Differentiate x^x and sketch it

Write y = x^xln(y) = xln(x)1/y dy/dx = (1+ln(x)) by applying the chain rule to the LHS and product rule to the RHSdy/dx = y(1+ln(x)) Rearranging dy/dx = x^x (1+ln(x)) Substituting y=x^x into the equationN...

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What sort of questions I be asked in my interview?

This is a typical question that may be asked by application to Oxbridge. The interviews are daunting and often they are open-ended questions. In my subject area of humanities (Human, Social and Political ...

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A source emits yellow light (λ = 589nm) uniformly in all directions and has a power of 1W. Calculate the total number of photons emitted per second and the frequency with which they impinge on a surface area of (10^−19 m2) at a distance of 1m

First, to break down this sort of question we should read each physical unit (W(atts) in this case) as its equivalent statement. ie 1W=1Js^-1, if this is not intuitive, think of the basic equation P=E/t. ...

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