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Have you considered a button on the home page, like the search button for example, that does the same thing as the link. Making the link...

Well, sure. After all, statistical physics underpins all of thermodynamics. (It just occurred to me that that could be an answer to the...

I've had pretty good luck with them. Not so with the 18650's though. They seem to have declined in quality in the last few years. I...

OK, I guess I'm only buying name brand batteries now. Lumafield makes CT scanners for industrial engineering and production testing...

Conservation of energy was in serious danger of being abandoned when experiments by Curie seemed to show that radium salts were creating...

When Newton wrote about action and reaction he was referring to forces. It was the 1680's. The concept of energy, if it even existed at...

The table doesn't move relative to the floor in any frame.

Up to a point - depending on the brain. It actually happened in the lighthouse. What I saw was much easier to contemplate than a...

In the 19th century researchers unified two different different types of phenomena, mechanical interactions and thermal interactions...

Our brains do that.

In 1993 my immediate predecessor John Hubisz "retired" to teach in a different state, he had a building constructed to serve as his...

Here's the problem. Textbooks and instructors often refer to the gravitational potential energy of an object, such as a ball or in your...

We sold our set of encyclopedias for $1 by advertising in our local Facebook group. Digital is taking over. I was shocked when students...

That's a good way to make sure that they go to someone who has at least some appreciation for them.

I kept my textbooks for decades because if I wanted to look something up there's no substitute for revisiting a page I learned from...