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Gravity Assist: the Planetary Slingshot
How does a gravity assist, or slingshot, work exactly for a spacecraft skimming around a planet? Where does the momentum gain come from?
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Why is glass transparent?
If all things consist of molecules, why is it that some materials are transparent while others aren’t? Why is glass transparent?
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The Copenhagen interpretation
We will have a look at the Copenhagen interpretation as proposed by Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg to explain the stranger things in quantum mechanics.
