Using the metaphor of filling rooms with gravel and transporting it hundreds of miles away, this video delves into the challenges of minimizing energy consumption in freight trains.
Is It Really Easier to Move Heavy Stuff by Train?
Related Posts
Bringing classical physics into the modern world with Galileo’s Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment
Galileo, holding two balls, about to perform his legendary experiment. Hulton Archive/Stringer via Getty Images Larry M. Silverberg,…
January 5, 2024
What’s So Bad About Asbestos?
The United States’ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has banned chrysotile asbestos in the US as of March 2024,…
June 8, 2024
New “Nanotherapy” Innovation May Become Future Type 1 Diabetes Treatment
The push that science has given itself towards developing new cures and treatments for diabetes is not lost…
February 15, 2022
Physicists solve 90-year-old quantum damping puzzle
Physicists have solved a longstanding quantum puzzle by describing how atomic-scale vibrations lose energy, opening the door to new ultra-precise sensor technologies.
August 27, 2025
