Rhett Allain

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Physics faculty. Physics blogger at @wired. Technical consultant for CBS MacGyver and MythBusters. Nerd.
With Great Force Comes Great Acceleration: Calculating the Tension in Spider-Man’s Webs

SPOILER ALERT: I’m a huge Spider-Man fan. Yes, there’s a trailer out for Spider-Man: Brand New Day and I think that’s awesome. I should let…

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Here is the python code
#piday with #python and random numbers.

Here is my lecture on EM plane waves for #electrodynamics #physics. Yes, I include a #python model for a plane wave

https://youtu.be/260PsZEiFuE

Electrodynamics: Maxwell's Equations and Plane Waves

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Here is circularly polarized wave - from #electrodynamics #physics using #python
from #physics class today (#electrodynamics) - EM plane wave in #python
Peter Parker vs. Physics: How Hard Did He Actually Hit Flash?

There are no spoilers for Spider-Man with Tobey Maguire. Why not? It’s because the movie is 24 years old. It’s old enough to vote and it’s…

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Physics Notes: Describing Motion and the Kinematic Equations

I’m continuing to post my physics notes. This will be for an online summer course (but you get to see them now). So far, I’ve got the…

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How Big is Kong? A Lesson in Video Analysis and Scaling Factors

Big things are not the same thing as small things. In the show Monarch Legacy of Monsters (on Apple TV) we seen King Kong (or just Kong as…

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My #physics students were having trouble visualizing spherical coordinates - so I made a #python animation of a surface area integral.

https://youtu.be/ssUSt913nug

Math Methods: Spherical Coordinates, Integrals, and Python

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