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Physicists Think They’ve Found a Way to Harvest Energy from Earth’s Rotation — And It Might Be Just Crazy Enough to Work
In theory, as Earth spins through its magnetic field, any conductive material placed on its surface should experience a force ...
Dirac's Plate Trick, the Hairy Ball Theorem and more: Research probes physics of irregular objects on inclined planes
How gravity causes a perfectly spherical ball to roll down an inclined plane is part of the elementary school physics canon.
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Martin A. Fisher School of Physics
The Martin A. Fisher School of Physics enjoys an international reputation for excellence in research, and is one of the highest-ranked of its size in the country. The department offers rigorous ...
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Physics of irregular objects on inclined planes probed
How gravity causes a perfectly spherical ball to roll down an inclined plane is part of elementary school physics canon. But the world is messier than a textbook. Scientists have sought to ...