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I have seen the glass floor broken as a result of sag due to insufficient support. The sides are beams, but the glass floor sags and...

Has anyone ever seen an aquarium stand sag? Don't the glass panels of the aquarium form beams?

Yes. Each corner post does that.

I thought that load was carried by the aquarium itself.

It seems to me that the horizontal members are not load-bearing so the concern over their strength is unwarranted. Virtually all the...

E2 and E3 are different events. Of course the clock readings are different. Would you expect leaving for home and arriving at an event...

In general I find Brian Cox unimpressive and boring.

I'm not sure what this question even means. In actual experiments, there is no such thing as "quantum interference pattern" vs...

That can never happen. You have misunderstood something. That can never happen, either. A reading on a clock, like any measurement, is...

To put it more rigorously, if two bodies are wholly or partly in rolling contact then at each instant a point on one body that is in...

Synchronization alone, perhaps not. I had the advantage of teaching in a system where students had the same classmates and instructor...

It seems to me this would only apply after a 5-year leave of absence.

It's a fact. And I can be more specific. There has been a progressive decline in student performance during the last 4-5 decades. The...

In my opinion a novice instructor needs to grade on a curve and an experienced instructor can and should grade on an absolute scale. How...

Pinewood derby in a frictionless world would indeed be very boring.