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Originally Posted by Dragoneye
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Yup. I know that. Now try to explain it to a bunch of 13 years olds who just a week before learned that thrust doesn't really push a rocket UP...it fires out down...causing an opposite reaction per Newton's third law of motion. THAT blew their minds.  |
i just had a great practical hands-on application that should help them grasp the concept, but there are probably 1000 fire & safety codes it would violate
and let's face it, not everybody (especially American kids today) is cut out to be a physicist