Category Archives: Physics

Periodic table of videos

January 10, 2010 – 4:56 pm

I found this very interesting site about the periodic table of elements, from the University of Nottingham. For each element, there’s a video showing the characteristics of the element, and a brief commentary. Worth checking out if you always had some curiosity about the chemical elements, what they look like, and how they behave.
They also [...]

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Non-newtonian fluids

November 14, 2009 – 12:51 pm

I must confess: I have a crush on non-newtonian fluids. They are so strange and beautiful… They defeat intuition by respecting the laws of nature… and they are fun to play with!
Fluids can be characterized by a parameter known as viscosity. We all have direct experience of viscosity, as it measures the “ease of flow”: [...]

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Smashing a car at the speed of sound

April 21, 2009 – 2:53 pm

Since I moved abroad, I rediscovered good TV. And Mythbuster is definitely an interesting show. Adam and Jamie are so fantastic in exceeding expectations every time. But this time, they did more.
So, the legend says that two trucks smashing onto each other pancake a car so badly that nobody is able to spot it in [...]

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LHC proton dump

November 8, 2008 – 4:19 pm

How to stop a beam of protons traveling at 99.99 % of the speed of light and able to melt 500 kg of copper in less than a second ?
I’ve found this interesting article about how to dispose of the proton beam from the Large Hadron Collider. The amount of energy and the focus of [...]

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Triboluminescence

February 19, 2008 – 8:44 pm

A few days ago I received a letter. While opening it, I was able to spot a considerably bright blue luminescence coming from the line where the glue separated. I heard many times about this phenomenon, but never able to witness it. It is called triboluminescence, and arises by charge separation created by the mechanical [...]

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