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How Air-Breathing Rockets Will Work

How Air-Breathing Rockets Will Work

 

Description:
A brief description of how Air-Breathing Rockets Will work. This site is part of Marshall Brain's HowStuffWorks.com.
Keywords:

air, air-augmented, air-breathing, atmosphere, burn, combustion, conventional, cost, engine, fly, fuel, jet, launch, liquid, nasa, orbit, oxidizer, pound, rocke, rocket, shuttle, space, spacecraft, speed, thrust, travel, vehicle, weight,

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Waves

Waves

 

Description:
Suggestions for demonstrations for various wave phenomena.
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coupled, demonstration, doppler, ear, effect, experiment, forced, fourier, harmonic, interference, motion, music, oscillation, resonance, shift, simple, sound, speed, standing, superposition, travelling, vibration, wave,

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Freefall

Freefall

 

Description:
Simulation of an object being dropped, with speed and time taken to fall from different heights. Velocity and gravity can be varied. Negative numbers for height put the object upwards.
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acceleration, applet, drop, freefall, gravity, multimedia, speed,

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Projectile Motion

Projectile Motion

 

Description:
Simulation of projectile motion. The range, height, velocities and times are shown for different launch velocities, angles and gravity.
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acceleration, applet, freefall, gravity, launch, motion, multimedia, projectile, range, speed, throw,

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Measuring the speed of light with chocolate

Measuring the speed of light with chocolate

 

Description:
Find out how to use your microwave and some chocolate to measure the speed of light at home.
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chocolate, galileo, light, measure, microwave, milky, node, roemer, speed, stars, wavelength,

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One dimensional kinematics

One dimensional kinematics

 

Description:
A comprehensive course on mechanics with links to a range of other topics
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acceleration, circular, force, kinematics, law, momentum, motion, newton, speed, velocity,

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Fluid gravity and applied electromagnetics

Fluid gravity and applied electromagnetics

 

Description:
A company collaborating in university research projects, mainly looking at the effect of blast shockwaves on structures. Offers modeling software and video clips.
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blast, combustion, detonation, dynamics, explosion, flow, fluid, gas, gaseous, gun, high, hydrocode, loading, muzzle, reactive, research, secondary, shock, speed, wave,

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Modern Madness

Modern Madness

 

Description:
Some ideas on relativity.
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contraction, einstein, general, length, light, mass, mechanics, quantum, relativity, special, speed, string, theory,

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How laser speed guns work

How laser speed guns work

 

Description:
A good explanation of how laser speed guns are used to measure a car's speed. There are links off to related questions.
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camera, car, gun, laser, radar, speed,

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  • Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Sound Propagation

Sound Propagation

 

Description:
Good clear introduction to sound concepts with diagrams, including why you sound good singing in the shower!
Keywords:

frequency, interfere, period, propagation, reflect, shower, sing, sound, speed, travel, wave, wavefront, wavelength,

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