Tag: collision

On the 31st of August 1986, a quiet holiday weekend in the Los Angeles suburb of Cerritos was shattered by a distant bang, the roar of engines, and a mighty explosion. In the skies overhead, two planes had come together in the busy airspace near Los Angeles International Airport: a private Piper PA-...

When two objects interact in a collision, momentum is conserved where momentum (p) is defined as the product of mass (m) and velocity (v). However, if the kinetic energy also depends on mass and velocity (1/2 mv²) then shouldn’t it also be conserved? Nope. Let’s work through the who...

Chicago is a city of 2.75 Million people (as of 2020) in the north of the United States of America, located in the federal state of Illinois 135km/84mi south of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and 45km/28mi east of Naperville, Illinois (both measurements in linear distance). The location of Chicago in N...

One takes their own life in their hands by walking through town, and one eventually begins to attribute their continued breathing to a higher power. Cars and motorbikes weave between other cars wherever there is even a meter of room. One gets the impression that streetlights are more strong suggesti...

Collision Conference is one of the world’s biggest tech conferences which will take place in Toronto, Canada this year. Gaper.io will also be present at the conference this year. Gaper.io helps startups and businesses hire engineers and developers to scale their dev teams. Dr...

Kerang is a town of 3893 people (as of 2016) in southeast Australia, located in the federal state of Victoria 123km/76.5mi north of Bendigo and 50km/31mi southeast of Swan Hill (both measurements in linear distance). The location of Kerang in southeast Australia. The town lies on the Piang...

Crozet lies on the Rivanna Subdivision, an unelectrified, partially double-tracked main line connecting Gladstone in the west with Rivanna in the east. The line is owned by Florida-based CSX Transportation, a freight train operator formed in 1980. Due to that ownership the 192km/119mi line is mostly...

Astronomers have several theories on why Earth has a moon, although one is much more widely accepted than the others. The first is known as the fission theory, which states that the Moon may be a piece of Earth that broke off during its formation due to speedy rotation. Similarly, another theory cal...

All throughout the Universe, there are normally three ways that moons can form. Pluto, shown as imaged with Hubble in a composite mosaic, along with its five moons. Charon, its largest, must be imaged with Pluto in an entirely different filter due to their brightnesses. The four smaller moons...

Astronomers have several theories on why Earth has a moon, although one is much more widely accepted than the others. The first is known as the fission theory, which states that the Moon may be a piece of Earth that broke off during its formation due to speedy rotation. Similarly, another theory cal...