Apr 21, 2021
Remembering the 1968 Olympics When One Man Defied Convention and Changed a Sport Forever
At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, high jumper Dick Fosbury shocked the world
Tag: physics
Apr 15, 2021
Invisible Rube Goldberg Machine 🤯
Scientist Masahiko Sato uses glass, oil, and refraction to create an invisible Rube Goldberg machine
Mar 18, 2021
The World’s Heaviest Weight
How do you measure big forces accurately? By calibrating your force transducer on the world’s biggest weight – 1,000,000 pounds of force
Dec 28, 2020
Carbon Fiber is 10x Stronger Than Steel, Unless You Do This
If you put carbon fiber under any load other than tension, the strength just disappears
Nov 30, 2020
4K: Spinning an Apple Until it Explodes at 28,500 FPS
Compressed air can be used to levitate rounded objects. Sometimes said rounded objects start spinning so fast that they give up on being round objects.
Jul 29, 2020
This ‘Magnus Effect’ RC Plane Looks Like a Push Reel Mower and Yes, It Flies
Who said lawn mowers can’t fly
Jun 23, 2020
The Incredible Property that Makes N95 Masks So Good at Filtering Particles
Electrostatic charged fabric, why didn’t I think of that!
May 17, 2020
This Guy Made a Googol to 1 Gear Reduction Machine Entirely Out of LEGO
The rotation time for the last gear would take 52433879932503535381614991275498187972589101825233846406570841889117043121149897330595482546 years to complete once
Apr 29, 2020
Guy Uses Chains to Build a Tensegrity Table You Can Actually Climb On
This thing is so cool!
