wigton physics
Thursday, 29 April 2021
A curved lake in a mapping
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I love the panoramic function on the camera. It must simehow be mapping from curved space onto a flat plane, like the way that the globe g...
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Arch dam at Seathwaite Tarn
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Seathwaite Tarn was turned into a reservoir for Barrow over a hundred years ago. The dam is actually curved - seen behind the spillway in ...
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
How long was the adit at Seathwaite Tarn Mine?
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In his book Mining in the Lake Counties, W T Shaw explains that you can guess the length of a tunnel from the volume of rock that has been...
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Speed of water in the stream
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This small stream on the way down Buckbarrow had an interesting feature. As water hit a shallow, weed-infested section at A, bubbles formed...
Friday, 16 April 2021
Deceleration at Swirls
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Deceleration is a word rarely seen on road signs. Acceleration, the rate of change of velocity, is a vector. That means it can have any dir...
Wednesday, 14 April 2021
Is it possible to move 730kg?
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I have been thinking about the result of my calculation yesterday that the mass of the roundabout was 730kg. I have translated into hundredw...
Tuesday, 13 April 2021
Trying to find the mass of the roundabout
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I was back on the roundabout. I timed myself as 7 seconds per rotation near the centre (say 0.5m from axis) and 8 seconds when I was about ...
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