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Imagine you have two metal rods that are perfectly parrel and separated in by a small distance. One is at ground potential. The other is connected on each end to ideal supplies. The supplies can deliver any voltage waveform you need no matter the current. You desire to change the location that...

as a revised idea the projectile could just be smaller (10kg) and fired a lot more times. the gun could be positioned near a mountain that has a heavy block (2*10^7 kg suspended by explosives. If a deviation occurred as detected by sensors the block would fall and absorb the impact. (by...

Hi I’m a high school senior taking physics and had this crazy idea for nuclear waste disposal. Given: Space is a good place to put nuclear waste Rockets can malfunction possibly leading to their nuclear waste payload being being dispersed I thought of looking toward a rail gun. I found a...