# Kinematics Part 1: Where am I?

I claimed that my last post was not going to be foundational, and then I went an wrote about pretty much everything which lies at the foundation of classical mechanics. Now it’s time I feel to distill all that down to the bare fundamentals, without the wrapper of a falling coin that my previous post provided.

# Aristotelian Physics is a Drag

Suppose you dropped a penny at exactly the same time you threw another penny sideways. Which one hits the ground first? Suppose you also dropped a quarter, what then?

# No, this August, Mars will not appear as big as the full moon in Earth's sky... Part 2!

In my last post, I shared a bit of my history with the "Mars Spectacular," and I encourage you to take a look at that if you have not already.

But, alas, I can't just stop at refuting this claim by demonstrating that it's been made before. No, I have to refute it with math!

# No, this August, Mars will not appear as big as the full moon in Earth's sky...

...Unless you are viewing Mars in a telescope and the Moon with the naked eye.

# Getting to Work

Everything I write here involves learning physics, but it's time to go over some fundamental material that will serve as a foundation for upcoming posts I have in mind and provide much-needed background for one of my earliest articles.

# Standing In the Shadow of the Moon

I have gotten a couple of requests from family members for me to share my eclipse experience. They are itching to see my pictures and hear my stories, and I have been so focused on school that none of this material has been forthcoming. Until now!

In a recent post, I calculated the $$\Delta v$$ of an unladen Saturn V rocket and concluded that the maximum speed of such a vehicle, when launching from Earth, is over $$36,000\,\mathrm{mph}$$. As I explained then, that is fast, but not fast enough for our purpose! Furthermore, as is typically the case, we want to use our rocket to carry something into space, and the addition of a payload will slow us down even more!

# A Quick Proof: 08/11/17

I am busily working on another post called The Problem with Payloads, within which I make that claim that for any positive numbers $$A$$, $$B$$, and $$C$$, where $$A>B$$, $$\frac{A}{B} > \frac{A+C}{B+C} > 1. \label{081117frac}$$

# What is the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Saturn V?

For an upcoming blog post, I need to know the maximum speed that can be achieved by a Saturn V rocket—for SCIENCE!

# Beam Me Up, Qubit!

It's been a while, but if you have followed this website throughout the past couple of weeks, then you have (hopefully) learned that

# Getting Even More Entangled with Wave Functions

In my previous post, I used my latest invention, quantum playing cards, to give specific examples of entangled and non-entangled quantum systems. I recommend reading that article if you have not already done so, or reread it if it has been a while, for today I am going to expand upon that example and use it to introduce a bit of mathematical formalism, which is necessary for our ultimate goal of understanding quantum teleportation.

# Would You Like to Play a Game?

Not too long ago, I introduced the ideas of entanglement and wave functions with the ultimate goal of explaining quantum teleportation. I also wrote about how I have been too busy to post recently, and how I am therefore anxiously yearning to return to this topic. Since that post, I have been writing as much as I can and feverishly subjecting myself to a crash-course in JavaScript to come up with examples that I think nicely illustrate the basics of quantum entanglement. Hopefully, you will agree and by the end of this post poses the fundamental knowledge necessary to understand this phenomenon.