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The Bends -Causes
A medical explanation of what causes decompression sickness (the bends) in divers.
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What causes the bends?
SCUBA diving is different from holding your breath and diving, and to understand the difference you need to understand the incredible pressures that a diver's body experiences. Decompression ...
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How to Bend it Like Beckham
An excellent animation from the BBC demonstrating how to curve a football.
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Diving physics and fizzyology
A detailed account of how pressure affects the gases dissolved in divers'blood and how it can lead to decompression sickness - the bends.
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Diver's Decompression
Find out what causes the bends and plan a decompression dive.
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Cyclotron
The cyclotron was one of the earliest types of particle accelerators, and is still used as the first stage of some large multi-stage particle accelerators. It makes use of the magnetic force on a ...
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The physics of diving - pressure and buoyancy
A site about diving, examining how pressure affects divers and how they can fall victim to the bends.
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Refracted Light
Light travels at different speeds through different materials. When light slows down or speeds up, it bends in a new direction. This bending of light is called refraction.
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