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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I try to write as many questions as possible in terms of amusement park rides. Almost all of the basic Newtonian physics can be very well explained using amusement park rides.
That's AWESOME.
I can't believe it's not even 5 yet, especially given I didn't get here until 10. WTF?
Kings Dominon would have "Physics Day" where students went for free and had to do problems about the rides.
That's so cool!
If I were able to afford it, that's exactly what I'd do with my students - take them to the amsement park and then spoil it all for them by making them solve rollercoaster and ferris wheels questions.
If you seated in a closed car with a helium balloon and the car accelerates forward does the balloon move backward, forward, or neither relative to you?
Oh -- Anna Nicole Smith really DID die.
Yeah, she was at the Hard Rock hotel just south of here in Hollywood, FL. Eeep 39 years old. Whatever the story ends up being, very sad. What's the chances of her daughter not being totally screwed up?
I'm hoping the fact that it was several jobs, years and a city ago will render the point moot. FORGIVE ME RIO!
May she come back here and kick your ass (I particularly mean the 'come back here' part of that, and reckon you'd sacrifice your ass for some RIO).
Kings Dominon would have "Physics Day" where students went for free and had to do problems about the rides.
Cedar Point did the same thing.
Gud, last year's final (not written by me) contained a question very similar to yours!
If you seated in a closed car with a helium balloon and the car accelerates forward does the balloon move backward, forward, or neither relative to you?
Forward. The atmospheric density would increase towards the back of the car, pushing the balloon forward. Looking at it another way, the acceleration would be as if the car had been tilted back, causing the balloon to float up/forward.
Dude, like a bazillion fire trucks just passed by. What's going on here in Santa Monica?
Let it buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurn
I try to write as many questions as possible in terms of amusement park rides. Almost all of the basic Newtonian physics can be very well explained using amusement park rides.
Nilly, we had Physics Day in high school, where we spent the day at Six Flags riding rollercoasters and collecting position/velocity data.
My friend was a physics teacher, and Kings Dominon would have "Physics Day" where students went for free and had to do problems about the rides.
Er, yeah, what Vortex said.
Why does the atmospheric density increase towards the back?