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Mathematics

Hang on a moment…

26th February 2020 Going Postal 3675 Comments

In part four we covered the basic principles of constant rotational acceleration, moment of inertia and related topics, in this part we will take this and demonstrate what this means. When we looked at constant [more…]

Mathematics

Swivel on it…

12th February 2020 Leopard 2855 Comments

In previous parts we have considered and described linear motion and constant linear acceleration. We will now expand upon this a little and consider how the same principles apply to rotation. Again firstly we will [more…]

Mathematics

Gravity is getting me down…

5th February 2020 Leopard 4256 Comments

As promised in part two we will now construct an experiment to demonstrate acceleration under gravity, show how vectors can be “resolved” into a 2 dimensional plane (3 three dimensional if you fancy the extra [more…]

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Throwing apples at scientists…

29th January 2020 Leopard 3134 Comments

In part one we covered the basics of motion, some definitions, a few useful equations, units of measurement and similar governing constant linear acceleration. This time we are going to look at Newton’s three laws [more…]

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You spin me right round baby…

22nd January 2020 Leopard 3165 Comments

Musings on objects and motion, part one, the basics Recently a comment, that nobody read, was posted by one of our more trollish contributors trying to toll people about the world not be round or [more…]

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From a Sum to a Product

20th January 2020 OldTrout 1946 Comments

In The Basel Problem we saw that Euler answered the question by showing that the sum of the reciprocals of the square numbers is equal to . That is The partial sums slowly converge to [more…]

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Upsetting people in the Festive Season

1st January 2020 Going Postal 6822 Comments

Lots of your friends might be very upset this Christmas, Boris has decisively won the election and consequently we are definitely leaving the EU. To make their day you can also explain about why they [more…]

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Wilson’s Theorem

2nd December 2019 OldTrout 1970 Comments

Wilson’s Theorem is a test for primality.  It is inefficient for large numbers since factorials () grow very fast.  Nevertheless, it has its uses because of its simplicity. It was conjectured by Wilson and published [more…]

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Interest Calculation

25th November 2019 well_chuffed 3220 Comments

Swiss Bob’s favourite place of work – not actually in the main building, we were fortunate to be about 50m away where we couldn’t be seen staggering back from 2-4 hour lunches This is going [more…]

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