The physics behind our first brick-built roller-coaster with loops When we released our first roller-coaster set, we had no idea that it would become so popular. It turns out, though, that people really love roller-coasters! So, when it came to designing our newest roller-coaster set, ou...
You can make a LEGO balloon car or you can make a cardboard balloon car. Both work off of a similar principle and really go. Find out which makes the fastest balloon car. BALLOON IN A JAR Explore how changes in air pressure can cause a balloon to get pulled into a jar when you ...
Emily Kuhn, a former gymnast and current physics PhD student at Yale University, explains all the math behind the amazing flips and turns we see during the Olympic gymnastics competitions. Emily explains why "The Biles" tumbling routine is so difficult a
” meaning an electron cannot travel very far before colliding with another particle. It is like a driver trying to drag race through freeway gridlock. The driver might hit the accelerator but would travel only a few feet before smashing into another car. In the case...
Depending on the surface, there can be a turbulent wake behind the object with some laminar flow over its surface. For an N′R between 10 and 106, the flow may be either laminar or turbulent and may oscillate between the two. For N′R greater than about 106, the flow is entirely ...
Skumanich (LASL,, 2nd row, head tilted slightly right, just behind Vyssotsky); A. N. Cox (LASL, 4th row, just to the left of the woman above Skumanich and Vyssotsky); George Field (Harvard, right back row, tallest figure); J. Bev Oke (CalTech, in the next column, left ...
There was a $920,000 public stock offering offered to fund the build of this place. The folks behind the original corporation were Glenn Kleinhammer, Eugene Morosin, Milton Rohrberg, and Chrome John’s. Architect Ross also designed homes for Kleinhammer and Rohrberg just up the hill a few ...
To reach his conclusions about intelligence behind the universe, Dr. Kaku made use of what he calls “primitive semi-radius tachyons.” A tachyon is a particle that always moves faster than light. Many physicists believe such particles cannot exist because they are not consistent with the known...
BARREL (Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses) Characterizing the out-of-ecliptic Solar Wind ISINGLASS-2016 Magnetic Reconnection Measuring Travelling Ionospheric Disturbance Using Transmitters of Opportunity The mechanism for Higher Harmonic Radio Emission for Aurorae ...
The workhorse behind the SPEDAS operation is the concept of “tplot” variables. These are character strings, declared in double or single quotes, “” or ‘’, each pointing in memory to an IDL structure containing data arrays that represent a physical quantity. These are all transparent, tho...