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russ_watters reacted to jedishrfu's post in the thread The Guardian Investigates Student Use of ChatGPT for 18 months with
Informative.
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russ_watters reacted to tellmesomething's post in the thread B Why Does a Spring Return to Its Original Position After Being Stretched? with
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this was possibly the dumbest question i asked on here, at that time i had just started learning physics and had very wrong... -
russ_watters reacted to hutchphd's post in the thread B Why Does a Spring Return to Its Original Position After Being Stretched? with Like.
This is not how the world works. You are in good company: Aristotle made the same wrong assumption. It was shown incorrect by Isaac Newton
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russ_watters reacted to Dale's post in the thread B Why Does a Spring Return to Its Original Position After Being Stretched? with Like.
It doesn’t require a force to move in a straight line at a constant speed. That is Newton’s 1st law. When you stop pushing then the...
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russ_watters reacted to Dale's post in the thread B Why Does a Spring Return to Its Original Position After Being Stretched? with Like.
Your hand is the source of the applied force. Why would the applied force remain after its source leaves?
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russ_watters reacted to PeroK's post in the thread Mexican lawyer turned AI entrepreneur, aspiring physics researcher with Like.
Don't forget to claim your $1 million-dollar prize!
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russ_watters reacted to .Scott's post in the thread A Ultrasound Velocities in 25% Propylene Glycol + Water between 20-40C with Like.
The first thing I would check is whether you device has a calibration procedure. What is the model number? Have you checked the user's...
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russ_watters reacted to Astronuc's post in the thread Is nuclear fusion without radioactive waste possible? with Informative.
Not as yet. This would require an aneutronic fusion reaction, i.e., a fusion reaction that does not produce neutrons. One reaction of...
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The Special and General theories of Relativity are 120 and 110 years old respectively. There's nothing deeper to find now. One area of...
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russ_watters reacted to kuruman's post in the thread I want to help Physics education. What should I do? with Like.
That is not unfortunate, think of all the years that you have ahead of you to work towards your goals. Keep focused and don't let those...
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russ_watters reacted to jedishrfu's post in the thread B What is the Correct Reading on the Scale in This Mass/Scale Puzzle? with Like.
Not to be negative, but it seems we've exhausted this thread, and now is a good time to close it with the famous Jimmy Durante quote...
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russ_watters reacted to kuruman's post in the thread B What is the Correct Reading on the Scale in This Mass/Scale Puzzle? with Like.
We do take it for granted. Everybody should agree that there is a stopping force behind the screen the prevents the weight on the left...
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russ_watters reacted to Herman Trivilino's post in the thread B What is the Correct Reading on the Scale in This Mass/Scale Puzzle? with Like.
It's difficult to predict, without experimenting, how a person will react to an explanation. Ask someone who thinks there's no gravity...
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russ_watters reacted to renormalize's post in the thread B What is the Correct Reading on the Scale in This Mass/Scale Puzzle? with Like.
Yes, and as I tried to do in post #34 and @vela in post #60.
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russ_watters reacted to Herman Trivilino's post in the thread B What is the Correct Reading on the Scale in This Mass/Scale Puzzle? with Like.
That's what I was trying to explain to you in Post #7.