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The Physics of Car Crashes

minutephysics · 2 min read

Gasoline packs enormous energy, and only a fraction of it becomes the car’s motion—yet that fraction is still enough to make crashes violently...

Energy ConversionCrumple ZonesCrash Deceleration

A Simple Proof of Conservation of Energy

minutephysics · 2 min read

A force that doesn’t explicitly depend on time automatically leads to conservation of energy: the system’s total energy stays constant even as...

Conservation of EnergyTime-Translation SymmetryKinetic Energy

Windmills Are NOT Like Dams

minutephysics · 2 min read

Windmills can’t behave like dams because wind energy comes from motion: slowing the air to extract power inevitably reduces how much wind continues...

Wind TurbinesEnergy ExtractionKinetic Energy

The Trebuchet Challenge | Space Time

PBS Space Time · 2 min read

Energy’s conservation turns a messy trebuchet mechanics problem into a clean calculation: once the counterweight and projectile start and end at...

Energy ConservationTrebuchet MechanicsGravitational Potential Energy