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An interactive site which allows the user to see how a car stops given certain braking conditions.
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Kevlar the Wonder Material
Kevlar is a material so strong it stops bullets! Find out why Kevlar is so strong. And learn how research facilities like the Advanced Light Source can reveal the details of Kevlar's structure.
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Seatbelt Function
The task of the seatbelt is to stop you with the car so that your stopping distance is probably 4 or 5 times greater than if you had no seatbelt.
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The Portal to the Universe
Your one stop shop for astronomy news. The site features news, blogs, video podcasts, audio podcasts, images, videos and more. A range of "widgets" have also been developed to tap into all sorts of ...
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Online Depth of Field Plotter
Nicholas Sushkin' s online calculator will compute the depth of field for a photographic instrument given the focal length and the f-stop data.
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How does a rice cooker stop automatically when the rice is done?
Simplified explanation of how a 'rice cooker' switches off when rice is cooked.
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Temperature and Absolute Zero
When an object feels hot, the atoms inside it are moving fast in random directions, and when it feels cold, they are moving slowly and when it gets cold enough they stop moving - this is called ...
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Bullet Proof Composite Laboratory
Many devices we use every day were designed to absorb and dissipate energy. Automobile braking systems dissipate the kinetic energy of a moving car into heat and noise as they bring the car to a ...
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