History
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How Newton `revealed' to Leibniz his main discovery in mathematics
How Bernoulli and Leibniz tested
what Newton really knew (the brachistochrone problem).
Light I
Reflection. The earliest discovery about the nature of light
Light II
How to rescue drowning people, and how Pierre Fermat `explained' refraction (Last update 9/12)
Little Jo and her pig
(Solution posted 10/21)
Airplane and the wind
(Solution posted 10/21)
Gravity Train Project
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Solution
posted 10/21)
The Fastest Gravity Train
(TGV brachistochronique, as it is called on the other end)
Brief history
of clock making and of the problem of longitude (Posted 9/11)
How to make better clock I ( pendulum)
How to make better clock (tautochrone pendulum)
How clocks work (according to Andronov, Vitt and Khaikin)
Claude Ptolemy and his `Almagest'
Kepler and his laws
Who discovered the Universal Law of Gravity, and what does it mean `to discover'.
Newton's Principia, volume 1 (abridged).
How to make steam engines
Why the first transatlantic cable failed
How to chase the U-boats
(Solution posted on 10/21)
Can differential equations save your life?
String with beads
Why airplanes fly and ships sail