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Doctor Who-based Physics C blog (with a few other TV shows thrown in for fun)

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Blog Post #1

Hello! If you are reading this then you've found your way to my physics blog. To be honest, I did not expect to be doing this sort of a thing when I chose to take AP Physics C, but I'm not complaining either. A little about me first then. I believe I am fairly strong intellectually, particularly with math and science because I find it much more interesting than most other subjects. I hoping that AP Physics C will help me improve my calculus skills though, as the concepts are new to me. H
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Doctor Who Season 5 Episode 2 "The Beast Below"

A quick reiteration for anyone reading this that doesn't know what Doctor Who is: it's basically a show about a time-travelling alien and his human companions (you really should watch if you haven't). My weekly blog posts are going to be about the physics of Doctor Who from episodes past and present. I'm not going to get into the physics of time travel just yet though. I'm going to start with this: So there is an average, run of the mill human being floating in space with nothing but her
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Doctor Who Season 8 Christmas Special: "Last Christmas"

So this is about 24 days too late but... So, I have question for you. I really hope not. I thought I could use the Christmas Special to talk about the physics of Santa's sleigh, since he was a main focus of the episode and my research yielded so interesting results. (If you still believe in Santa, skip to the very end or you will never be the same again) Santa has over 300 million Children to deliver presents to and approximately 31 hours- with different time zones taken in
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Doctor Who Season 8 Episode 10: "In the Forest of the Night"

From this episode I get to talk about something pretty neat: solar flares. Yes, the plot of this episode revolves around a magical forest covering the Earth over night in order to save it from a massive solar flare. Confused yet? Solar flares are massive explosions on the surface of the Sun that release a significant amount of energy in multiple forms at once. A solar flare occurs when magnetic energy that has built up in the solar atmosphere is suddenly released. So, one of the most impo
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Scorpion Season 1 Episode 13: "Kill Screen"

Ok, so this the best I can find, go to about 2:00 and watch that little bit (where he is working on the rocket). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9A0Dev7DQw I thought this could be a fun one to use to talk about rockets! Ok, I guess I'm more talking about a question I got wrong on a recent test. So the question was why do objects in a rocket that is in orbit around Earth appear weightless? I've done some research and I'm ready to give it another try. As it turns out, for a rocket or sp
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