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Physics Girl
Can you push a spacecraft with light?
Season 1
Episode 14
What if you could power a ship using sunlight instead of wind? Well in space, you can! Solar sails or light sails are pushed with light from the sun.
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How do you take copper wire, a battery and magnets and make electric train?
5:44
Curving and bending a ball using the magnus effect is common in every sport.
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Enormous, spontaneous waves in the open ocean were once the tall tales of sailors.
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Do cell phones placed in a microwave still receive signals?
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Light passing through the universe is "shifted" into cooler colors, but how?
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With recent high-profile security cases, encryption is more important than ever.
