Applied Physics
- Boring Science Produces Awesome Results
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Boring Science Produces Awesome results The simple scientific observation that you can't use the same energy twice is absolutely awesome! This is a further article in my occasional series about coal, engines and energy, heat and thermodynamics. What ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 18 2010 - 9:46pm
- Pushing The Moon Away With Victorian Machinery
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Pushing The Moon Away With Victorian Machinery This is a further article in my occasional series about coal, engines and energy, heat and thermodynamics. In this article I am going to show you how to push the Moon further away using some very basic machi ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 24 2010 - 12:28pm
- More Bang Per Buck In The Steam Age
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Getting More Bang Per Buck In The Steam Age Once the physics of steam engines began to be understood, engineers were able to focus their minds on how to get more power for the same fuel, or the same power from less fuel. A simple way to get more useful po ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 21 2010 - 7:13pm
- New Hydrophobic Interface Mimics Spider Hairs
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Engineers from the University of Florida and Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea have developed what they call a 'nearly perfect hydrophobic interface' by reproducing, on small bits of flat plastic, the shape and patterns of the minute hairs t ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 24 2010 - 12:30pm
- Spaceship Earth: Entropy Factor #1
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Spaceship Earth: Entropy Factor #1 We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 25 2010 - 7:04am
- Why Anchors Don't Work
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Why Anchors Don't Work From earliest times to today, from boat safety pamphlet to engineering treatise on marine architecture: all are agreed that the anchor does the work of keeping a boat or ship from moving. It doesn't. It can't. Machin ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 2 2010 - 5:36pm
- How Is Inkjet Printing Done?
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Inkjet Printing Technique ...
Article - Mei Fang - Jul 1 2010 - 5:06am
- The Science Of Caber Tossing
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I went to the Scottish Games in Woodland, California last weekend, two young boys in tow. They weren't remotely interested in Scottish women doing traditional dances and they were vaguely intrigued by why men wore kilts. "Papa, why is that man w ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 27 2019 - 10:22am
- Robots And Newton- How Science Will Clean Up The Gulf Oil Spill
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If you hadn't noticed before today, the impact of the Gulf Oil spill may have been understated. Sure, sure, I know what you are thinking; in the Internet-plus-24-hour-news-Age everything is overstated but just this once the mass hysteria apparently d ...
Article - Hank Campbell - May 14 2010 - 1:34pm
- What Makes Freak Waves Stable? Modelling Non-Linear Giant Waves
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Giant freak waves- seriously, that is what oceanographers and physicists call them- are called that because they can appear on the open sea out of nowhere. Researchers from the Ruhr- Universität Bochum and the University of Umeå, Sweden say they have devel ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2010 - 10:26am
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