First, this all came after the latest MythBuster's episode where they tried to have a surf board fly off a crashing car and into another car. I don't have the exact quote, so I am just going to make ...

Anyone who has ever stood on the turbine deck of a power plant with a large steam power generator running at full load, knows, firsthand, the meaning of kinetic energy (energy due to its motion). It’s ...

The optimal size for a clutch or brake is determined by three things: Required torque, thermal horsepower per engagement, and average required thermal horsepower. Here, we'll discuss the first, ...

In a previous post, I first introduced you to my law of life inertia: "The tendency of people, having once established a life trajectory, to continue on that course unless acted on by a greater force.