Browsing: dot physics

Humans are animals that measure things. Call us Homo mensura. We have a compulsion to quantify, and for millennia we’ve…

The “Golden Age of Radio” supposedly ended in the ’50s, with the advent of television. But guess what? TV shows…

Let’s use our car again, but this time we’ll get real numbers from the accelerometer in our smartphone. Say we…

Get it? So a spinning loop produces an oscillating flux; if you graphed its values it would trace out a…

The second difference is the equal sign instead of less-than-or-equal. This means the frictional force is constant as long as…

I don’t know who invented this crazy challenge, but the idea is to put someone in a carved-out ice bowl…

You know what’s great about a show like Pluribus? It’s that we don’t really know what’s going on, so we…