Nov 10, 2007
Well, not quite, but the wonderfully named Dr Mark Lewney puts on a great show not only as an axe hero extraordinaire but as a high-flying physicist who can explain why his nifty chops and runs sound the way they do. I had a quick e-chat with him the other day and we obtained permission to post his Famelab video from Channel4 on Youtube. So turn your speakers …
Oct 16, 2007
On this side of The Atlantic, there is growing interest this week in Jonny Wilkinson’s balls, and more to the point how he kicks them. Wilkinson’s drop goals are testament to his keen understanding of the physics of aerodynamics, fluid mechanics, and possibly even the Bernoulli effect. Perfect fodder for a physics science project I reckon, just watch……
Oct 9, 2007
This year’s Nobel Prize for Physics went to Albert Fert (France) and Peter Grünberg (Germany), who share the prize fifty:fifty for their discovery of giant magnetoresistance in which a very weak magnetic change gived rise to a major difference in electrical resistance of a system.
This effect underpins the technology that is used to read data on hard disks. It is thanks to their discovery that it has been possible to miniaturize hard disks so radically …
Sep 13, 2007
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to make a dollar bill smoothie? Well popular science guru Steve Spangler certainly did and with the help of a super powerful neodymium magnet he demonstrates in the video below just how much iron you would get if you were stupid enough to drink the smoothie. The iron is present in certain magnetic inks used to print a fistful of dollars.
There’s iron in them there bills…you …
Aug 28, 2007
Sciencebase Exclusive - Careful experimentation and theoretical analysis of a double-slit experiment have finally quashed a controversy in fundamental physics – the complementarity-uncertainty debate.
Ever since the catflap to the quantum world was opened up to us and Schrödinger’s feline friend was idiomatically let out of the bag, to mix a metaphor or two, there have been more questions and controversies raised than conundrums solved in the world of the very, very small. How …
Aug 20, 2007
It is not so long ago, that the first thing that sprang to mind when one read the phrase ‘quantum dot’ is some rather esoteric and complicated aspect of avant garde physics. This is still partly true, there is some rather complex experimental work underway underpinned by even more complex theoretical work investigating the bizarre properties of tiny devices that can trap a single electron in zero-dimensions.
Practical …
Aug 2, 2007
I’m on a photography course this week, hence the leaner, meaner Sciencebase posting regime. But, I did find time to chat with technology writer Wayne Smallman on Blah Blah Tech, who pointed out this neat video showing three distinct coloured fluids (dyed corn syrup) being poured into a vessel stirred slowly and then the flow reversed.
You might suspect it is a trick, but it is not. The three …
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