Physics
What a Job!
You’ve got to see this to believe it. And even then, you might not believe it.
glumbert.com - High Power Job
I was dubious until another member of a forum where this video appeared wrote,
My neighbor works for Santee Electric in the transmission line area and he does this. He is 60 year old and still rides […]
What happens when lightning strikes an airplane?
What happens when lightening strikes an airplane?
According to Edward J Rupke, senior engineer at Lighting Technologies, Inc., not much. (Image courtesy of Edward J. Rupke and borrowed from Scientific American.com.)
Although passengers and crew may see a flash and hear a loud noise if lightning strikes their plane, nothing serious should happen because of the […]
Geometric Whirlpools
Nature.com reports, in Geometric whirlpools revealed - Recipe for making symmetrical holes in water is easy, that it is surprisingly easy to make “holes” in a bucket of water that have all kinds of interesting shapes.
The researchers found that once the plate was spinning so fast that the water span out to the sides, creating […]
Breaking News
Exciting, Breaking News, from the Weizmann Institute. Scientists have finally figured out how a material cracks:
Physicists attempting to find a formula for the dynamics of cracking, to allow them to predict how a crack will advance in a given material, have faced a serious obstacle. The difficulty lies in pinning down, objectively, the fundamental directionality […]
