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An Introduction to the Generation of Mass from Energy
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Introduction
This article is essentially an addition to the previous one on (mainly) inelastic collisions to include the particular case of inelastic…
Frequently Made Errors in Mechanics: Momentum and Impacts
An impact is an impulse (change of momentum) that involves arbitrarily large forces acting very briefly. These result in near-instantaneous…
Frequently Made Errors in Mechanics: Moments
The term "moment" is used in various ways in Physics and Mathematics:Given a force and a reference point, the force has a moment (or…