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Free Body Diagram
A free-body diagram is a sketch of an object of interest with all the surrounding objects stripped away and all of the forces acting on the body shown.
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Newton's Second Law With Friction
Experiment to show how the mass of a body and/or force on a body can affect its kinetic energy.
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How Body Armor Works
Explains how Body Armor works, with animations. This site is part of Marshall Brain's HowStuffWorks.com.
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An Introduction to Solid State Many-Body Theory
Aims not to cover the details of many-body theory or solid state physics, but to introduce some basic concepts in both fields at a level suitable for a general audience.
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Black body
This site allows the temperature of the Black Body applet to be set in two ways. The applet will then show you the spectrum and the apparent color of the object. Temperature can also be related to ...
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Electric Shock
The primary variable for determining the severity of electric shock is the electric current which passes through the body. This current is of course dependent upon the voltage and the resistance of ...
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Gravitation
A program which models the gravitational effects of different bodies in different systems. This program is simple and shows the effect of gravity very well. It can also be modified and there is ...
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Free-Fall Equations
The equation of two-body non-rotating radial free-fall in Newtonian theory is formally identical to the one-body radial free-fall solution in Einstein's theory. This site derives the cycloidal form ...
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History of the Parachute
The devices retarding the falling of bodies were mentioned as early as nearly two thousand years ago. A Chinese emperor by name of Shun got down from a rooftop by means of two oversized rush hats. ...
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Charles Augustin de Coulomb
Charles Augustin de Coulomb (1736 - 1806) developed a theory of attraction and repulsion between bodies of the same and opposite electrical charge. He demonstrated an inverse square law for such ...
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