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Are Cooling Blankets a Real Thing? The Physics of Making Something

I know summer is over (but it’s still hot here) so that you might soon stop seeing all of these promotional videos for “cooling blankets”…

2d ago

Are Cooling Blankets a Real Thing? The Physics of Making Something

2d ago

Remember When Phoebe Destroyed Ross With the Nature of Science?

Of course it’s an older show and some people think it’s silly — but still, there is a TON of stuff out there from the show Friends (you…

Oct 30

Remember When Phoebe Destroyed Ross With the Nature of Science?

Oct 30

Fake Forces in a Rotating Frame: Derivation of the Centrifugal and Coriolis Forces

Newton’s second law says that the net force on an object causes an acceleration. These forces are due to real interactions — like the…

Oct 28

Fake Forces in a Rotating Frame: Derivation of the Centrifugal and Coriolis Forces

Oct 28

Mole Day: What the Heck Is a Mole and How Do You Measure It?

When you take your first chemistry course, you are going to see a mole. Not the animal, the number of things. Oh, and guess what? October…

Oct 23

Mole Day: What the Heck Is a Mole and How Do You Measure It?

Oct 23

Classical Mechanics: Using Potential to Find Stable Equilibrium

In classical mechanics, it’s sometimes easier to look at a problem from a different perspective. I’m going to show you a situation in which…

Oct 21

Classical Mechanics: Using Potential to Find Stable Equilibrium

Oct 21

Why Can’t I See the Comet ATLAS, But My Phone Can?

If you don’t love comets, you haven’t seen a comet. I mean, it’s a giant ball of ice that you can sometimes see with your naked eye as it…

Oct 18

Why Can’t I See the Comet ATLAS, But My Phone Can?

Oct 18

Video Analysis: SpaceX Super Heavy Booster Landing. A Perfect Physics Problem.

Rockets are cool. I mean, who would think that humans could play with weird spacecraft in Kerbal Space Program and then actually make it…

Oct 15

Video Analysis: SpaceX Super Heavy Booster Landing. A Perfect Physics Problem.

Oct 15

How Ridiculous Drops a Tungsten Cube From 1000 Feet. Will It Reach Terminal Velocity?

What happens when you have a nice sized budget and you just want to do some fun stuff? Well, for one — you could drop a bunch of objects…

Oct 13

How Ridiculous Drops a Tungsten Cube From 1000 Feet. Will It Reach Terminal Velocity?

Oct 13

The Nature of Science According to Donald Trump (and the Real Nature of Science).

I didn’t want to write the piece — but here I am writing about Donald Trump. From the things he’s said, it seems clear that Trump isn’t…

Oct 11

The Nature of Science According to Donald Trump (and the Real Nature of Science).

Oct 11

Everyday Physics: Estimating Values for Energy

We live in a world of energy. You store energy in your body by eating food. Your car transforms the energy in gasoline into motion. Even…

Oct 6

Everyday Physics: Estimating Values for Energy

Oct 6

Rhett Allain

Rhett Allain

Physics faculty, science blogger of all things geek. Technical Consultant for CBS MacGyver and MythBusters. WIRED blogger.

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