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Olympic Controversy: How does the "Space-Age Swimsuit" Work?
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Stay Abreast on Oscillations
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Sex in Space, Pt 1 - Action and Reaction
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... direction) and the mass of the objects. In fact you probably do that quite a lot - without thinking about it - if you play billiards. Billiards, or pool, is a great example of seeing these types of collisions ...
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How Could Ilan Ramon's Diary Survive the Fall from Space?
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... after re-entry and lasted until the massive body crashed on the surface. The various parts and debris were scattered over an enormous area, from eastern Texas to Western Louisiana. The fact that the ...
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Top 10 Ways to Know the Earth is Not Flat
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... in one while there’s light in the other, is if the world is spherical. (9) The Center of Gravity There’s an interesting fact about mass: it attracts things to it. The force of attraction (gravity) ...
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Olympic Controversy: How does the "Space-Age Swimsuit" Work?
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... with seams, usually, is that they have stitches. Stitches are adding mass and weight to the fabric (not only the string itself, but also the fact that stitches require folding the fabric, hence increasing ...
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Stay Abreast on Oscillations
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... teh floor, the force the player is using to push the ball back onto the floor, the mass of the ball, etc. If we know how it works, we can anticipate the movement. If we look only at the movement of the ...
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A Party Trick for the Watery Dense..
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... water. And we’re using this property in this nifty trick. Did I say it was cool? What is Density? Density is the measurement of mass per unit of volume. Put simply, it is the amount of particles within ...
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An otherwise straight beam of light...
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... their world look like if they knew that light can be bent. Well, in huge distances (like space) light is bent with gravit, which is pretty cool, but it takes a big body of mass and quite a large distance ...
