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I'm an engineer. I love physics. I like to contribute to things online. My academic interests are in power plants of all types, shapes, and sizes, and how well they play with each other. Nuclear in particular. Small modular reactors in particular. My 2nd language is Japanese. My favorite hobby is juggling. I also love couchsurfing, online talks, and unorthodox political discussion.

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15	Home experiments to measure the RPM of a pedestal fan without special equipment?
12	What practical issues remain for the adoption of Thorium reactors?
9	Does it take significantly more fuel to fly a heavier airplane?
9	Why is 55-60 MPH optimal for gas mileage of a passenger car?
8	What is the logarithm of a kilometer? Is it a dimensionless number?

3,839 Reputation

+20	Turning an Airplane. What actually causes the circular motion in a banked (roll) turn?
+20	Nuclear reactor control rods
+10	Why does a thermometer in wind not show a lower temperature than one shielded from it?
+15	Astronaut on a rotating asteroid

32 Questions

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16	What nonlinear deformations will a fast rotating planet exhibit?
8	Why is radiative forcing from CO2 logarithimic and not a decreasing exponential?
8	If a Kerr-Newman black hole is like a charged, spinning, heavy magnet, what kind of magnet is it like?
8	Physics of Focusing a Laser
7	Do apparent event horizons have Hawking radiation?

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27 nuclear-physics × 8	18 energy × 7
23 measurement × 3	17 thermodynamics × 13
22 aerodynamics × 5	17 nuclear-engineering × 6
21 fluid-dynamics × 13	16 home-experiment × 3
21 classical-mechanics × 11	15 homework × 8