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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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Swivel on it…

12th February 2020 Leopard 2856 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…]

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Gravity is getting me down…

5th February 2020 Leopard 4261 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 3142 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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