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The Promising Math Behind ‘Flattening the Curve’
Rhett Allain//32 views/1 comments
To revisit this article, select My Account, then View saved stories. Last week I wrote about the alarming math of a viral pandemic. We talked about how infec...
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Car on a Trampoline: More Kicks With Kinetic Energy
Rhett Allain//29 views/1 comments
Oh, sure, you’ve seen a watermelon dropped from a balcony onto a trampoline. But what happens when you drop a car from a high tower onto a trampoline? That’s a...
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How Fast Does a Virus Spread? Let’s Do the Math
Rhett Allain//39 views
How far and how fast will the Covid-19 pandemic spread? That question is on everyone’s mind, and it’s something most of us don’t have a good intuition for. The ...
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Moving Your Class Online? Tips for Keeping Students Engaged
Rhett Allain//38 views
With the spread of the new coronavirus, colleges and universities around the country are shutting down and asking instructors to move their classes online. For ...
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Can You Calculate Pi by Drawing a Circle?
Rhett Allain//37 views/2 comments
If you think about it, pi is really weird. This irrational number shows up in the craziest places. If you swing a mass back and forth on a string, there's a pi ...
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How Long Could the World Run on Geothermal Power?
Rhett Allain//29 views/1 comments
Pop quiz: Of all the different ways of generating electricity or getting things (like cars) to do work, which of them don’t use energy from the sun? Fossil fuel...