Applied Physics

Thermo-Pimp Your Home: Save On Heating & Cooling Costs With Thermodynamics

A smart scientist is a frugal scientist. The Frugal Scientist is a series of articles focusing on frugality with special attention to the fundamentals of science. When it comes to saving money on heating and cooling costs in the household, the frugal scie ...

Article - Jen Palmares Meadows - Dec 8 2008 - 2:14pm

Turbulent Flow Doesn't Always Stay Turbulent, Says Study

When a flow reaches a certain speed, things get turbulent: The fluid or the gas no longer flows in an orderly fashion but whirls around wildly.   Turbulent flows in pipes are of importance for many every-day applications. What they all have in common is th ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 21 2008 - 11:51am

Numerical Modeling Wants To Save Your Golf Game

Don't give up the driving range just yet, but a group of physicists at the 61st Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics say they can optimize a golf ball with numerical simulations, leaving prototyping to verify manu ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 24 2008 - 10:46pm

Cenocell Will Turn Coal Ash Into Cement Without Concrete

Each year, coal-burning power plants, steel factories and similar facilities in the United States produce more than 125 million tons of waste, much of it fly ash and bottom ash left over from combustion. Mulalo Doyoyo has plans for that material. An assist ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 28 2008 - 1:30am

Piezoelectrics Promise To Create Energy From Everything

Wouldn't it be great if your cell phone or mp3 player could charge itself? What if your house could generate electricity from the noise of the cars on the road? Or if the waste heat generated by your air conditioner could help put a dent in that expen ...

Article - Chris Rollins - Dec 9 2008 - 7:08pm

Stephen Hawking in Ontario.

Check this out... Hawking plans long commute to Canada ...

Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Dec 3 2008 - 5:01pm

MIT's Fusion Reactor Makes Fusion Power Possible

Research carried out at MIT's Alcator C-Mod fusion reactor may have brought the promise of fusion as a future power source a bit closer to reality, though scientists caution that a practical fusion powerplant is still decades away. Fusion, the reacti ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2009 - 3:12pm

Magnetic Behavior At One Billionth Of A Meter

A key challenge of nanotechnology research is investigating how different materials behave at lengths of merely one-billionth of a meter. When shrunk to such tiny sizes, many everyday materials exhibit interesting and potentially beneficial new properties ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2008 - 2:59pm

Sonar In Space? Space-DRUMS Makes It Possible

After it's conception and development during World War I, sonar is finally finding use in an unlikely medium: space. Astronauts on the International Space Station will soon be able to conduct experiments in zero gravity with no container contamination ...

Article - Chris Rollins - Dec 11 2008 - 5:36pm

If Silk Hadn't Been Invented, People Might Say 'Smooth As SPADD Damping'

During launch into orbit, a satellite is exposed to a number of extreme stresses. At takeoff the extremely strong engine vibrations are transmitted via the launcher structure to the satellite, which is also exposed to a high-intensity sound levels (140 dB ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 16 2008 - 12:53pm