Category: everyday examples
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Mach’s Principle
This is called Mach’s principle because Ernst Mach had questioned the validity of associating the rotation to immediate surrounding. Now to visually understand the Mach’s principle Weinberg stood up, in that video, and made a movement which explained how your hands rotate faster or slower. I didn’t understand this well enough so one night I…
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Radioactivity of cigarettes and banana
Radioactivity of cigarettes and banana, a research article by Manmohan Dash
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the curious case of uncertainty principle
Thursday Bibhäv Paudel hello sir, im a 12th grade student and im having trouble explaining the uncertainity of the velocity as in comes in the uncertainity principle by Heiseinberg , and what about speed of light , uncertainity in the measurement of the velocity of light , does this make sense ??? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ there is 1. uncertainty relation between momentum…
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The synchronization of GPS clocks at two positions on earth
You can do this experiment with your digital watch if your watch is not synchronized by a GPS satelite, if it says 2 seconds either way after you have fixed all other factors you would know that there is something wrong with GPS system, we do not need very precise experiments to claim GPS precision…
