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Fully aware that Sri Lanka’s political landscape is often clouded by rhetoric and reduced to party lines, perhaps it is time we look elsewhere for insight: .... ..
Satellite 63235 is Rogue Space Systems' OTP-2 satellite and the propellantless drive onboard OTP-2 is IVO's Quantum Drive.
Life changed for Spaniards at noon on Monday. With the sun at its peak, the country’s largely solar-powered electrical grid ...
I’m just playing baseball.” That the Yankees had a historically great game, and that some players were using funny-looking ...
For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an ...
Now back to the torpedo bat. It's designed so that the wider part of the bat IS the sweet spot. Since it’s wider, it's easier to hit the ball. Since that part is the sweet spot, it gives the ball a ...
Researchers have developed a method to quickly create NOON states using ultra-cold atoms. These states, which play an ...
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Moneyball for Bats
In any case, by redistributing some mass closer to the handle, the bowling-pin design could actually make a bat feel lighter when swung—it could lower the “moment of inertia,” in physics parlance.
All are familiar with one of the many definitions given in the works on physics, of the term Vis Inertia— a want of power in a body to move itself when at rest or to come to rest when in motion.
For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an asteroid and eventually concluded it was more like a planet with a crust, mantle ...