Forces and Motion

The time-travelling astronaut: Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev holds the record for time spent in orbit around the Earth...

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The Isochronic map: In 1883, Francis Galton, Charles Darwin’s cousin, developed an ‘Isochronic Passage Chart for Travellers’...

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The speedy steel plate: One of the fastest moving man-made objects ever detected was a manhole cover. As a result of the...

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Jerks and jounces: In addition to the familiar first and second derivatives of displacement, velocity and acceleration...

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Scientists have investigated the forces animals can exert. For example, paleobiologist Gregory Erickson and his team measured...

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In 1537, Nicolò Tartaglia, an Italian mathematician, published Nova Scientia, a work that has subsequently been recognised as...

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Ultracentrifuges are devices used to separate materials and can achieve accelerations of up to 1,000,000 times the...

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The old riddle that asks whether a pound of feathers is heavier than a pound of lead is not as simple as it seems. Some...

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The length of the day has not been constant throughout the Earth’s history. For the last 2,700 years, the length of a day has...

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What is possibly the world’s longest running science experiment was set up at the University of Queensland, Australia in 1927...

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In the 1850s, the expansion of the rail network emphasised differences in local times across the UK. For example, it was noted...

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One of the best-known tests of the time dilation prediction of Einstein’s theory of relativity was the Hafele-Keating...

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