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    What are some unique senior project ideas in the field of physics?

    You could investage the physics of the bus on the well known movie "Speed". You could go on to explain how unrealisic it is and what would need to be changed in order for the event to be completed (i.e. road inclination, speed, road level etc.) I recall several other movies where...
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    Roche limits with a hint of internal bonds.

    Hello everyone, I have created a program that plots the orbit of a comet around our sun, as it orbits, a ratio between internal binding forces and tidal forces is calculated (this produces a Roche limit). I am using this equation to obtain the internal bonding force: F = (G * M * Mu) / (r ^ 2)...
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    3 Questions about our universe?

    Thanks everyone... really cleared up a few things :D
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    3 Questions about our universe?

    3 Questions about our universe? 1) This is a question my gf asked me and although I am currently studying cosmology I didn't know how to answer it. What is the universe expanding into? (I told her that the universe isn't like an object that expanded into something, more like the universe was...
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    CD Players: How Do They Interfere?

    Without certainty I thought I would bring up a point. Now that Cds are widly distributed in the commercial market, maybe useing a second laser to reflect off the surface (or "land") for interferance was flawed. You see, I remember some time back a product called.. "skip doctor" This product was...
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    Unsolvable: The Physics of a Hanging Rod and String Dilemma Explained

    also... you said "to be in the same direction all the time"... what is changing over time to make any difference?
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    Unsolvable: The Physics of a Hanging Rod and String Dilemma Explained

    "Be in the same direction" is a little unclear to be honest. Think about separate x,y and z components of the rod and the string. Assuming the setup is perfect (i.e the string is attached to the rod at the center of one of its ends, no exturnal forces are acting on it other then gravity, uniform...
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