Q: What is radioactivity and why is it sometimes dangerous? Enough math, though. Each member of the team reads a flashcard and everyone attempts to answer it.
Has anyone calculated it? Pass the flashcards to the next team. Submit a Manuscript Q: What’s up with that “bowling ball creates a dip in a sheet” analogy of spacetime? © 2020 American Physical Society | Privacy Policy | Contact Us, Headquarters: 1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740-3844 | Phone: 301.209.3200 Finally, the nature of an orbit is discussed as well as how orbits enable us to get from planet to planet — spec... Students explore motion, rockets and rocket motion while assisting Spacewoman Tess, Spaceman Rohan and Maya in their explorations. Theoretically, which type of vision would be the best to see things with? (A brief introduction to infinite sets, infinite limits, and infinite numbers). Q: How many people riding bicycle generators would be needed, in an 8-hour working day, to equal or surpass the energy generated by an average nuclear power plant? Once all teams have tested themselves on all the flashcards, clarify any questions. No airplanes, bridges, or parachutes required!
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Physicists Can Be Engineers Small changes in gravity under the satellites caused small changes in the distance between them. Q: Aren’t physicists just doing experiments to confirm their theories? Q: Is there an equation that determines whether a question gets answered on ask a mathematician/physicist? Q: Why are the days still longer than nights, until a few days after the fall equinox? Most of their mass is far from their pivot so that they have a high moment of inertia without being ridiculously heavy. Q: If you were on a space station, would you be able to tell the difference between centrifugal force and normal gravity? Q: How is radiometric dating reliable? Any two objects will accelerate toward each other due to their gravitational attraction. Is it actually feasibly possibly for some ‘being’ to have just existed, infinitely? My bad: If atoms are mostly made up of empty space, why do things feel solid? Q: Why is the number 1 not considered a prime number? Q: If gravity is the reaction matter has on space, in that it warps space, why do physicist’s look for a gravity particle? Symptoms indicate the presence of disease. Submit a Meeting Abstract
"Why Physics?" Energy may take different forms (e.g.
By this definition then, a skydiver is never in true free fall, even before they deploy their parachute. Physics Gets You a Job (adding digits and tricks with nines). Can thinking affect the future? Without the effects of air resistance, the speed of an object free falling toward Earth would increase by about 32 ft (9.8 m) per second every second. Aerospace engineers in the US and Germany designed and built two satellites, nicknamed Tom and Jerry, and launched them into space in March 2002.
When you stand on a scale, the force of gravity is measured as your weight. But suppose you wish to know just the cranial ground impact, instigated by an insignificant small punch as in a gentle tilt-over. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Q: After the heat death of the universe will anything ever happen again? Q: Where do the weird rules for rational numbers come from? Q: What are the equations of electromagnetism? Thanks for your feedback! Nobel Prize winner Eugene Wigner explored this theme in a famous essay: Q: How far away is the edge of the universe? (Answer: All objects.) The reasoning is we now have heavier, more massive “fins”. Q: Why does the entropy of the universe always increase, and what is the heat death of the universe? weight: A measurement of the force of gravitational attraction. Q: How does the Oberth Effect work, and where does the extra energy come from? Isn’t it gravity that makes the dip in the first place?
(Answer: It cannot be done, due to gravity.) Some activities or lessons, however, were developed to stand alone, and hence, they might not conform to this strict hierarchy. Why do phonons and photons have such similar names? Q: Why can’t we see the lunar landers from the Apollo missions with the Hubble (or any other) telescope? Q: What is the connection between quantum physics and consciousness? Q: Is the total complexity of the universe growing, shrinking or staying the same? But the APS outreach website PhysicsCentral has an article about this fascinating subject. The "Why Take Physics?" What is the process of developing a picture of a higher dimensional object? Hand out the Planetary Mass and Gravity Worksheets and give students 10 minutes to complete them.
Q: Could a simple cup of coffee be heated by a hand held device designed to not only mix but heat the water through friction, and is that more efficient than heating on a stove and then mixing? Q: Why do heavy objects bend space and what is it they are bending? Hence it has a unique geodesic that it follows - if it is free from non-gravitational forces. Disease has a specific cause and can be recognized by particular signs and symptoms.
The only difference is that in GR the force of gravity is a fictitious force, but in a reference frame where a fictitious force exists it still accelerates objects and does work and all of the other things you expect of forces. Is it to give students new ideas – or to remove ideas they already hold? However, members belonging to a particular group, say bacteria, have many similarities in structure and biochemical pathways and these are not shared by the members of other group. Q: Since the real-world does all kinds of crazy calculations in no time, can we use physics to calculate stuff? If the Earth was flat and had infinite area, would that change the answer?
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Q: Is the Alcubierre warp drive really possible? How can a fictitious force exist? Gravity is the weakest of the four fundamental forces. For the first time ever, you can buy a book! But I don't really get how GR describes why we fall.
If so, what would it look like? Q: If Earth was flat, would there be a horizon? Become an APS Member Q: If you zoom in far enough, what do particles look like? According to GR, the future already exist?