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1. How Could Ilan Ramon's Diary Survive the Fall from Space?

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   Tags: [space, earth, physics, friction, speed]  ...

2. Stay Abreast on Oscillations

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   Tags: [oscillation, physics, movement, naughty, friction, mass, speed, experiment]  ...

3. Sex in Space, Pt 1 - Action and Reaction

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   ... energy lost to the environment. It results in both colliding bodies moving in completely separate directions. The directions and angles can be calculated quite simply, if you know the velocity (speed and ...

4. How Could Ilan Ramon's Diary Survive the Fall from Space?

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   ... and can reach a temperature of about 1,400° Celcius (2,500° Fahrenheit). After the initial temperature rises, the Columbia initiated a roll to the right, a maneuver that decreases its speed and the heat ...

5. Top 10 Ways to Know the Earth is Not Flat

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   ... a “flat earth” theory), what we know of speeds and movements in space (like planets orbits, and the effects of gravity, etc). In short, we don’t just suspect that our planet is spherical. We know it. (8) ...

6. Olympic Controversy: How does the "Space-Age Swimsuit" Work?

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   ... geeks. The "Speedo" controversy raises some interesting points about the effect of a swimsuit on the swimmer, and the effect of physics in general as a consideration for the athletes. As we all ...

7. Stay Abreast on Oscillations

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   ... concept of oscillations, try to analyze the oscillating system in the picture. Remember, the movement is affected by the mass of the object(s), the velocity (speed) of the jumps, the medium in which the ...

8. Goofing around with Non-Newtonian [Goo] Fluid

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   ... I wouldn’t recommend using corn starch and water to stop a speeding bullet, but there are other fluids out there that can help in the matter. In fact, in many of the Kevlar armor suits today, there is ...

9. An otherwise straight beam of light...

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   ... in the speed of light. Which is fast. Very fast. Yay for optic cables. Resources Light Refraction: http://www.ps.missouri.edu/rickspage/refract/refraction.html Refraction of Light: http://sol.sci.uop.edu/~jfalward/refraction/refraction.html ...

10. Duckies and the Doppler Effect

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    ... in movement, and f’ is the “resulting” frequency (the one the mommy duckie actually hears). V is the speed of the wave itself. Sound waves in air, for instance, have a speed of approximately 330 meters ...

11. Measuring the Speed of Light

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    ... this wouldn’t be your first concern. Or maybe it would. Maybe that’s why they take so long to move away… long calculations about the speed of light flood their minds.. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPZ_cRv9P8Y] If ...