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At the next junction, turn left

18th August 2020 rattuscatchus 3433 Comments

It was whilst approaching a junction where the options are to turn left or go straight ahead – I was going straight ahead – that I had to move slightly to the right as there [more…]

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The story of Matilda

13th August 2020 Going Postal 3529 Comments

Remember old Aesop and his Fables?  There’s one about the boy who was set to guard the sheep and as he was bored, he called the alarm to liven things up a bit.  Eventually the [more…]

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Ice Station Zero

30th July 2020 Going Postal 2731 Comments

Idly browsing the Interweb the other day, I came across this BBC article on the terrible outlook for the ice sheet around the North Pole: Arctic Summers to be ice-free by 2013. Well worth a [more…]

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Happy Birthday, Ruby!

16th May 2020 Doc Mike Finnley 2236 Comments

Above photo: My ruby laser with a ‘mirror alignment laser’ just off to the right hand side of the photo. A small amount of smoke in the air makes the alignment laser-beam visible. In the [more…]

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Of Planets and fairground rides, Part Two

18th March 2020 Going Postal 5998 Comments

In previous parts we have covered the basics of Newtonian mechanics, there is a lot more here but the basics provide enough to at least start to use this sort of stuff. So lets have [more…]

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Of Planets and fairground rides

11th March 2020 Leopard 4025 Comments

In the last part we covered a little bit about the earth and the moon, we have established there should be a common centre of rotation as both rotate around this common centre. If our [more…]

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He is heavy, he’s my planet

4th March 2020 Going Postal 3873 Comments

If you pick something up and lift it, this takes effort, if you let go it will fall, but why? We know objects, such as leopards, have a mass (m) as a fundamental property, we [more…]

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Hang on a moment…

26th February 2020 Going Postal 3678 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…]

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The Death of a Star

21st February 2020 Going Postal 3382 Comments

The star in question is Betelgeuse (pronounced Beetle Juice). Betelgeuse is what is known as a Red SuperGiant, a star so massive that if it were at the centre of our Solar System in place [more…]

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