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Physical Constants from the Particle
Data Group
Prelim Exam Problems
Leonhard Euler,
Swiss 10-Franc bill
Brachistochrone: [d/h](?), t(d/h),
log scale, trajectories,
animation
Catenary:
a necklace,
another necklace, Golden
Gate,
mathcurve,
St Louis Arch,
Parabola vs Catenary
Tautochrone
Emmy
Noether,
Invariant Variation Problems (Noether's [1918]
Theorem)
thank you emmy noether,
Conics (e = 0, 1/3, 2/3, 1, 4/3,
5/3, 2)
Tycho
Brahe's Observatory at Uraniborg (Island of Hven)
Eccentric Anomaly
Stellar Orbits Around the Galactic Center Black Hole
[video]
Why Orbits are Ellipses
(Feynman's Lost Lecture)
Jupiter ring:
Voyager 2,
Galileo
Spherical Coordinates
L1, L2, L3 (μ = 0.1),
WMAP and Lagrange Points,
Lagrange Point Stability,
Horseshoe orbits,
Kordylewski Cloud,
Kazimierz Kordylewski
Neural Network approach to 3-body
problem. "Newton vs the machine: Solving the chaotic three-body problem
using deep neural networks". arXiv:1910.07291. doi:10.1093/mnras/staa713
Latka-Volterra
equations
What happens as the
Moon Falls into the Earth (e.g. due to tidal friction, somewhat sped up)
Warning: not good things.
Battle of the Falkland Islands ("At 1247 at 16,500
yards the
battlecruisers opened fire, with little accuracy, taking
half an hour to
straddle the rear ship, Leipzig.")
Admiral Sturdee's Despatch,
The Dreadnought Project (with comment on the Coriolis
effect)
Foucault Pendulum at FNAL,
(Paris) Pantheon
Compton generator
demo
Compton generator explanation
List of moments of inertia
Tennis racket
theorem
Physics Girl, Rodney Mullen and
the Intermediate Axis (Tennis Racket) Theorem
Euler angle rotations
International Earth Rotation and Reference System
(Observatoire de Paris)
"How come the Chandler wobble hasn't dampened out?"
(The Straight Dope)
Veff
for symmetric top, [zoom]
Nyquist frequency
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