School of Rock: The Physics of Waves on Guitar Strings
The rubber band example does indeed have two nodes—they are at the ends of the rubber band where your fingers
Read moreThe rubber band example does indeed have two nodes—they are at the ends of the rubber band where your fingers
Read moreNot only do I get the “shape” of the acceleration curve for the colliding cart, but I also get a
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Read moreThis also works the other way: Incoming electromagnetic waves will get canceled by the moving charges in the Faraday cage.
Read moreNext, I need the mass. Each car has an empty mass of 26,000 kilograms and a capacity of 34 seats,
Read moreFor many of the sources you encounter in everyday life, the amount of radiation is so low that you don’t
Read morePhysics questions are the most fun when people don’t immediately agree on the answer. What feels intuitive or obvious—sometimes isn’t.
Read moreThat expression doesn’t look nice, but at least now the energy calculation is in terms of things that we actually
Read moreSince the vehicle is moving up the incline and gravity only pulls straight down, there is a component of this
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