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Why does the gas cloud of an underwater gunshot pulse?
I have been watching some slow motion video and I was intrigued by the slow motion underwater gunshot. The first moments of the video go as expected. The gun fires and a cloud forms in front of the ...
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Hyper-saturated blue colour in underwater explosions?
I've been looking at underwater explosions from various US navy shock trials:
e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV0eyP4nO20
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS2whGDzmzg
If you go frame by frame ...
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Water flow in a sink
When one turns on the tap in the kitchen, a circle is observable in the water flowing in the sink. The circle is the boundary between laminar and turbulent flow of the water (maybe this is the wrong ...
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Is submersion in a canal a good way to shelter from a nuclear strike?
I live 1.5 miles from the center of a city in a nuclear-armed country, and an adversarial country has just put its nuclear forces on high alert during a time of extraordinary geopolitical tension. I ...
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Falling elevator filled with water
Greetings physics superhumans!
If an adult human person is floating in a free-falling elevator, sealed and filled completely with water (no air space), that is damaged on impact in normal elevator ...
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Shooting a glass made different with water!
I read about an experiment conducted long back ago. The experiment tells that shock waves are the reason for this. The experiment goes like this, shooting a drinking glass with bullet then bullet ...
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Features of a Jet of Water
Having created a water rocket that operates with compressed air forcing water out through a bottle's nozzle, I was interested in the some of the features of the jet of water that can be seen using ...
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