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The film explains the conversion of mechanical energy and thermal energy using examples like a bouncing ball and gas molecules. It discusses the principles of kinetic and potential energy, the ...

In this episode, Shini explores sea level, kinetic theory, and phase changes. How the heck do we map out a planet without oceans? There's some tricky, yet fascinating science behind all of it! In this ...

Now I get to do something with that force scale I built. I had a request some time ago to talk about friction. Friction is surprisingly complicated. When two surfaces rub against each other, why is ...

The dynamics of the englacial cryo-hydrologic system control two important mechanisms contributing to accelerated ice flow on the Greenland Ice Sheet- delivery of water to the bed to drive basal ...

Discover how to build your own water-powered generator and turn everyday flowing water into clean, renewable electricity!

The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world's most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering and medicine, and is the oldest scientific academy in ...

THE publication of my experiments on “Floating Magnets,” in the American Journal of Science and in NATURE, was made merely as a claim to this new method of experimenting. I now send you the law of the ...

The effects of ambient gas thermodynamic state and fuel composition on the autoignition of natural gas under direct-injection diesel conditions were studied experimentally in a constant-volume ...

THE difficulty of reconciling line spectra with the kinetic theory of gases, has been referred to by Prof. Fitzgerald (NATURE, January 3, p. 221). The following considerations show that it is possible ...