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Breaking the Ice

I was going for a nice walk today, it was a bit cold, but it didn't bother me too much. And I didn't too much mind the somewhat cloudy sky, the sprinkled snow on the ground was a nice touch as well. At one point I came to a spot on the sidewalk where the ground beneath my feet was no longer cement, it was ice. BUT THIS, this was no fine smooth sheet of ice, this was a cracked earth beneath my feet. The first crackle that reached me made me believe that I had just found my way on

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Archer's Paradox

Archery is pretty intense when you think about it with physics on the mind. There's tension in the string, aerodynamics (arrow dynamics), kinematics, oscillation, and probably a whole lot more things too. In archery there is this thing known as the "Archer's Paradox" which has to do with the oscillation of the arrow during it's flight.  As an arrow flies through the air, because of the flexibility of the arrow shaft, there is an oscillation that occurs. If the arrow were not flexible, if it

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$1 Magnet vs $700 Magnet

Some magnets are more, uh, magnetic than others?  Yes some magnets have a stronger magnetic force than others. Iron, nickel and cobalt atoms have more electrons orbiting in one direction than the other. This means they produce smaller currents like electromagnets. However, ferromagnetic metals like iron, nickel and cobalt like to line up into larger areas. These areas will line up, north to south like any other magnet if you put them in a strong magnetic field. You can even line up these ar

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"Semester Review"

My Semester Review Pledge to physics: I really think math is fun, it's like a puzzle, seriously no sarcasm here, I really enjoy taking math tests. They are surreal in a way, and I don't even know what surreal means, they just are and that sounds cool. But time goes by so fast and I just feel like super cool when I know what's going on, like we're speaking some secret code or something that only our class knows how to speak.  Now, I need to take that same fascination and put it into the

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