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Showing posts with label physics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label physics. Show all posts
Tuesday, 1 April 2025

Waterproof Electricity

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Researchers at Oxford University proudly announced the development and successful testing of a new material which will conduct electricity ...
Thursday, 18 June 2015

Can a 747 take off from a conveyor belt runway?

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This question is currently going round on Facebook; one of my friends posted it, I answered it, and a few hours later entered a lengthy and...
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Sunday, 15 May 2011

Physics: The Sound Barrier and Sonic Booms

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After sobering up from his drunken walk home , Isaac Newton went to see his friend, Mr Science.  However, as Isaac went along, he noticed th...
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Saturday, 12 March 2011

Physics: Gravity vs Sound

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Isaac Newton, upset with his failed attempt to discard the apple that woke him from his afternoon nap, decided that it was time to take str...
Sunday, 27 February 2011

Physics discussion: Escape Velocity

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The story goes that Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree, when  an apple fell on his head, and prompted him to wonder why it fell  d...
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Friday, 25 February 2011

Astronomy 1: Stars, Planets and Moons

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Following last night's visit to Keele Observatory , I thought it might be helpful to cover some of the basics of astronomy, and then mo...
Tuesday, 15 February 2011

Calculating the Earth-Moon distance

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This post follows up my previous post on geostationary satellites .  Long before we were launching satellites (even non-geostationary ones),...