Rhett AllainWhy 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…2d ago12d ago1
Rhett AllainVideo 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…5d ago25d ago2
Rhett AllainHow 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 132Oct 132
Rhett AllainThe 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 111Oct 111
Rhett AllainEveryday Physics: Estimating Values for EnergyWe 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 64Oct 64
Rhett AllainPhysics: Motion of an Object With Linear DragIf you throw a tennis ball at normal human speeds, you can model this as projectile motion. For projectile motion, the object has a…Oct 4Oct 4
Rhett AllainPhysics Problem: What Value Would This Scale Read?This problem has been around for quite a while — and it’s usually very popular. It goes like this:Sep 212Sep 212
Rhett AllainRed Bull Physics: Trains, Bikes, and Inertial Reference FramesJust in case you didn’t know, there’s some crazy awesome stuff online. In this case it’s a video from Red Bull showing Dawid Godziek riding…Sep 14Sep 14
Rhett AllainUsing a Digital Balance to Measure the Travel Distance of an ElevatorFun physics questions are fun. Here’s one for you. Imagine you have a block of aluminum on a digital scale such that it reads 102 grams…Sep 11Sep 11
Rhett AllainDoes Your Digital Scale Measure Mass, Weight, or Something Else?Electronic balances are all over the place in a science lab. Yes, we even use them in physics. But here’s the fun part — do they actually…Sep 82Sep 82