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Hello, I'm getting my B.S. in Physics at a liberal arts college. One of my graduation requirements is two semesters of a foreign language. I wanted some advice about what languages are particularly useful to career physicists. Here are some ideas I've had. Latin- useful for science...

I completely understand the concerns. I have no intention of teaching anyone how to make a home made bomb. I want to explain the physics behind an explosion acting on a larger percentage of the surface area of a mass (in the case of an efp) vs. an explosion acting on a smaller percentage of the...

Hello, I'm creating a slide-show presentation that describes how a shape charge explosion (namely that of an improvised explosive formed projectile) is more effective than that of a bullet projectile. I would like to include visuals and equations which describe how the initial explosion...