Topic “physics student”
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2008-07-23
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Gay Honor Killing in Turkey
(Istanbul, Turkey) A 26-year-old, gay physics student, Ahmet Yildiz, died this past week after being shot as he was leaving a cafe near the Bosphorus Strait. It's believed to be the nation's first gay honor killing. Yildiz's family has so... read
2008-05-13
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5 Scientific Laws and the Scientists Behind Them
"Eureka!" Archimedes screamed, then he ran outside naked ... <br>Every high school physics student knows about Fourier’s Law of Heat Conduction and Hooke’s Law of Elasticity. But [...] read
2008-02-02
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Steam battery - breath power calculator
[…] Mark Valentine on his "steam battery" he writes - A few months ago, Forrest M. Mims III, the editor of The Citizen Scientist, received an inquiry from an upper-level physics student that led to a brief (or perhaps not so brief) account of how I discovered the "Steam Battery." Essentially, this is an arrangement that produces a voltage across a sample of black ESD (Electro Static Discharge) foam when human breath is applied to one side of it. After I gave my account, I began thinking about […] read
2007-10-22
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Homemade Helicopter: Nigerian Man Builds Working Helicopters from Junk
A 24-year-old undergraduate from Nigeria is building helicopters out of old car and bike parts. Mubarak Muhammed Abdullahi, a physics student, spent eight months building the yellow model seen here, using the money he makes from repairing cell phones and computers. While some of the parts have been sourced from a crashed 747, the chopper contains all sorts of […] read