The Physics Behind Stone Skipping
"What makes a stone bounce repeatedly when thrown across the surface of a lake, and how many bounces can it perform?"
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Tuesday February 14, 2006
Sunday February 12, 2006
Bubble Chamber
"The 'Bubble Chamber' program is a simulation of particle collision that runs in your browser window."
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Video: Disconnecting 500kV
"This is how disconnecting a 500kV line under load looks like."
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Sunday February 05, 2006
Video: Computer Generated Animation of Water
"By Ron Fedkiw, Assistant Professor at Stanford Computer Science, whose research areas include computational fluid dynamics and computer graphics"
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Sunday January 22, 2006
Short Video That Fools the Eye
A clip showing a cut-out that is built backwards intead of forwards, giving the illusion of movement from a stationary object. Watch the end of the video to see how it is pulled off.
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Monday January 02, 2006
The Pitch Drop Experiment- The longest continuously running lab experiment
In 1927 Professor Parnell heated a sample of pitch and poured it into a glass funnel with a sealed stem. Three years were allowed for the pitch to settle, and in 1930 the sealed stem was cut. From that date on the pitch has slowly dripped out of the funnel - so slowly that now, 72 years later, the eighth drop is only just about to fall.
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