October 28, 2021 at 1:57 pm
Veritasium Rents a Helicopter to Settle a Physics Debate
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The story of a controversial physics question on the qualifying exam for the 2014 US Physics Olympiad team
The story of a controversial physics question on the qualifying exam for the 2014 US Physics Olympiad team
I was not expecting that
Apparently some infinities are bigger than others..
How do you measure big forces accurately? By calibrating your force transducer on the world’s biggest weight – 1,000,000 pounds of force
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