An unhinged carriage problem
As part of tutoring high school students in maths and physics, I sometimes run across problems that I find interesting. Here’s one involving an unhinged rai...
Maths
Action of a simple harmonic oscillator
What’s the action of a simple harmonic oscillator? And how does this change depending upon the path? Some mates of mine and I worked through this recently....
Self nerd-sniping with macaroni cheese
The other day I baked macaroni cheese in an oval-shaped oven dish and ended up going down quite the rabbit hole when wanting to divide it into eight equal po...
Calculating the volume of a cup via rotational solids
As part of tutoring physics and maths to high school students, I sometimes write up deep-dive explanations of questions arising during lessons. This post dis...
The Enterprise amusement park ride
As part of tutoring physics and maths to high school students, I sometimes write up deep-dive explanations of questions arising during lessons. Below I disc...
Throwing a javelin and finding where it lands
As part of tutoring physics and maths to high school students, I sometimes write up deep-dive explanations of questions arising during lessons. Below I disc...