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Entries Tagged as 'physics'

Magnetic Beauty

July 15th, 2008 · No Comments

This is an amazing video:

Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

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Tags: art · physics · video

So how fast is Bolt really?

June 10th, 2008 · 4 Comments

If you haven’t guessed it already, we here at Virtual Nerd are not exactly the “athletic type”. That sad reality does not stop us from being big sports fans, and contests of speed are no exception. So we were quite excited to see Usain Bolt break the world record and run 100 m in 9.72 [...]

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Tags: physics

Iron Man’s “Arc” Reactor : Freedom From Foreign Oil?

May 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment

There is nothing more pleasing to us here at Virtual Nerd than science popping up in movies, and the science in Iron Man is both fun and literally unbelievable. In one part of the movie, Tony Stark, a weapons mogul and science uber-genius, makes a miniature arc reactor that supposedly outputs 3 Giga Joules of [...]

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Tags: movie · physics