Michael Shook

Highly curated inchoate miscellany

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Isaac Newton's Principia - Kronecker Wallis http://www.kroneckerwallis.com/product/isaac-newtons-principia
#newton #book #design #obsession #art #calculus #physics #wishlist

original #math and #physics visualizations (some for Wikipedia)
1ucasvb's lab http://1ucasvb.tumblr.com
#cool #visualization #video #long

Airspeed control: Power variable? Power : Power fixed? Pitch
#flight #physics #ruleofthumb
http://www.airplanedriver.net/study/physics.htm

3D Printed | VORTEX GENERATORS WORK! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP-YUDe9HF0
#very #cool #aerodynamics #explanation #example #flight #3d #cad #cfd #video #how #physics #lift #good #interesting

Quadcopter Dynamics and Simulation - http://andrew.gibiansky.com/blog/physics/quadcopter-dynamics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVrM1iAd8ic
http://andrew.gibiansky.com/downloads/pdf/Quadcopter%20Dynamics,%20Simulation,%20and%20Control.pdf
https://github.com/gibiansky/experiments/tree/master/quadcopter
#quadcopter #drone #physics #math #simulation #video #gnc #flight #pid #cool #matlab #saved #pdf #code #octave

Why does deep and cheap learning work so well? http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08225
#neural #network #nn #physics #math #why #harvard #via #mit #pdf

#cool #eclectic #books #math #geometry #planet #orbit #art #physics #evolution
Wooden Books http://woodenbooks.com/
#belfast #january #2016 #book
Saw a bunch at Left Bank
#cool

OMerkel/rocketscience · https://github.com/OMerkel/rocketscience
#game #apollo #moon #landing #physics #simulation #lem #november #2015

HT @quickfoundnet #experiment #wing #lift #physics #1940s #video #why
Aerodynamics: Forces Acting on an Airfoil 1941 US Army Air Forces Training Film TF1-161 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmhlFYE4iVU
#cool #october #2015 #army #flight

#freeman #dyson #interview #book #review #climate #legacy #august #2015 #physics
http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/PT.5.3026

http://www.eclecticon.info/index_htm_files/Parasailing.ppt
#physics #powerpoint #slides #kite #parachute #parasailing #august #2015 #flight #aero #math
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZvJ7eMOub-KAn1OA2ybQ2-Jps4M62pqxeS9snt2GQU0/edit?usp=sharing

#wind #turbine #links #ah #ahi #mit #wamit #math #windturbine #july #2015 #link #ahah #ahiahi #mitmit #physics #energy #renewable
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lFilGiNiHtAQONLUo2WaE3K-hCcgZb_kJP__BXD03y8/edit?usp=sharing

Last night at #swhpl: Mad Science of Maine http://maine.madscience.org/
#entertaining #science #gravity #newton #education #edutainment #entercation #july #2015 #diary #rocket #co2 #physics

Jocelyn Bell Burnell: 'a bit of "scruff''
#radio #astronomy #cosmology #physics #narrative #humor #via #freeman #dyson #gender #nobel #prize #july #2015 #book From Eros to Gaia #narrative #story
Cosmic Search Vol. 1, No. 1 - Little Green Men, White Dwarfs or Pulsars? http://www.bigear.org/vol1no1/burnell.htm
#viavia #saved #good #interesting

Eject Vectors for Jet Planes - Ejecting from a Jet Plane - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvBxQC-Olyg
#parachute #ejection #flight #physics #vector #july #2015 #video

Aerocon Systems http://aeroconsystems.com/cart/
#parachute #flight #interesting #july #2015 #physics #rocket #store #buy

.@GravityRulesPro
"Matter shapes the geometry of space and the geometry of space tells matter how to move" - Physicist John Wheeler to Margaret Geller
http://storycollider.org/podcast/2014-05-21
8:40
#interesting #conversation #physics #spirit #gravity #local #vermont #samba #july #2015

Newton’s proof of Kepler’s second law
http://www.math.ku.edu/~lerner/m500f09/NewtonKepler.pdf
#physics #newton #proof #law #lawlaw #july #2015 #image #pdf #pdfpdf #orbit #space #moon #solarsystem #satellite #cool #saved

"in a 2–MW wind turbine, the weight of the rotor and the tower is typically about 250 tons [...] a kite generator of the same rated power can be obtained using a 500–m2 kite and cables 1000–m long, witha total weight of about 2 tons only."
#wind #turbine #windturbine #kite #comparison #energy #renewable #june #2015 #pdf #pdfpdf #power #electricity #saved #kitegen #physics #kitegen
http://www.dariopiga.com/Papers/Conference/ICREGA2010Kite.pdf

Kite Flying, Fun, Art and Science - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TQtXCy2KbQ
#kite #physics #mit #mitmit #aero #aerodynamics #malaysia #june #2015 #video