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  • Potential Energy

    Potential Energy

    Potential energy can be easy to understand, tricky to define, and confusing to use. Here, we not only define potential energy, but explain what it …

  • Centrifugal force

    Centrifugal force

    Fictitious forces such as the centrifugal force are fake forces – they don’t really exist! However, fictitious forces are helpful when working in non-inertial reference …

  • Rocket equation

    Rocket equation

    How much fuel does it take to accelerate a rocket to a given velocity? Here we navigate a step-by-step derivation of the rocket equation, explain …

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