No that's not strange at all! Part of the fun of learning something new is its difficulty. If you want to learn more about math all you have to do is stay curious. Wikipedia is always a great res...
Hey there, Why don't you check out this earlier post. It should give you a brief intro to the types of energy, the law of conservation of energy, efficiency and Sankey diagrams! Hopefully th...
It sounds like you’re a bit confused between fractional distillation and cracking. It’s true that cracking is a chemical process and fractional distillation is a physical process, but by sayi...
DEMONS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE PART ONE OF TWO: LAPLACE’S DEMON Some might say that the modern day physicists have it easy; they can appeal to the public with their stories of eleven-dime...
Two days ago, the CERN team announced that they had found a new particle whose properties are consistent with the long sought-after Higgs Boson’s. Whether or not it is the elusive boson however...
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MAXIMUM ENTROPY DISTRIBUTIONS Entropy is an important topic in many fields; it has very well known uses in statistical mechanics , thermodynamics , and information theory . The classical formu...
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CHARGE, PARITY AND TIME REVERSAL (CPT) SYMMETRY From our everyday experience, it is easy to conclude that nature obeys the laws of physics with absolute consistency. However, several experimen...
REFRACTION Light waves are part of the EM wave spectrum. When moving through an optical medium (i.e. air, glass, etc. …), the E field of the wave excites the electrons within the medium, caus...
THE HAMILTON-JACOBI EQUATION This blog has posted more than a few times in the past about classical mechanics. Luckily, classical mechanics can be approached in several ways. This approach...
VARIABLE STAR ASTRONOMY Variable stars are stars whose brightness changes because of physical changes within the star. There exist more than 30,000 variable stars in just the Milky Way. Variabl...
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THE VIRIAL THEOREM In the transition from classical to statistical mechanics, are there familiar quantities that remain constant? The Virial theorem defines a law for how the total kinetic ene...
… is a differential equation: where acceleration A(t), velocity V(t), and displacement S(t) are all vectors and functions of time. This equation is second-order in position because the highes...
GOING SUPERFLUID! A liquid goes superfluid when it suddenly loses all internal friction and gains near infinite thermal conductivity. The combination of zero viscosity but nonzero surface tens...
HYPERCUBES What is a hypercube (also referred to as a tesseract ) you say! Well, let’s start with what you know already. We know what a cube is, it’s a box! But how else could you describ...
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UNIFORM CIRCULAR MOTION describes an object that is travelling at constant speed in a circular pathway. Though the speed which is the magnitude of the velocity remains the same, the direction of...
We can't seem to find the post you are referring to on the featured section! Sorry! Perhaps it had something to do with this ? Since the particles accelerators collect a TREMENDOUS amoun...