Posts Tagged ‘work’

When I saw this video, I thought of taking a slightly different assumption. From the video, it looks like as Kirk leaves the car he is not moving too fast with respect to the ground. He could do this with super-human jumping ability.

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 at 21:53 | Comments Off
Categories: physics

Here is what is cool about Fantastic Contraption – it’s like a whole new world, a world ready for exploring. I am Newton, and I can see if this world follows the models that I propose.

In this post, I am going to explore the elastic nature of the “water-sticks”. If you have played [...]

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 at 13:04 | 5 comments
Categories: physics

Which wastes more fuel? Daytime running lights, or driving too fast? (and thus produces more carbon dioxide). This is a difficult to question to answer for a variety of reasons. The main reason is that a speed change from 71 mph to 70 mph is different than a reduction from 56 to 55 mph.

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 at 02:43 | 2 comments
Categories: physics

I recently saw a comment on a blog somewhere about putting satellites into space (I think it was from a post about a rocket that blew up). The poster suggested using a giant catapult to put things in space instead of rockets. Maybe he or she was kidding, or maybe not. But [...]

Thursday, August 28th, 2008 at 20:45 | 19 comments
Categories: physics
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