Episode 5: Weight and elevators, the space elevator, and listener feedback.
Play here.
Paige and Hillary explore what a scale reads in an accelerating elevator, Andy tells us about the space elevator concept, and Brian and Ken read a number of listener feedback letters. http://www.physicsinaction.com/
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Hello,
ReplyDeleteWhat a gratifying pod cast, it is wonderful to see how engaged young people can be on achieving results and dealing on substantive matters and initiatives. With your productions, you truly breathe hope for a fantastic future.
Regarding your program on elevators, if you ever revisit this topic I would suggest you consider describing to your audience other technologies for space elevators.
There are other proposals for such a system, for instance that of an inflated tower by Prof. Quine at York University in Canada; furthermore, other proposals can be found at http://wikipedia.org while my own system is described at http://spaceshaft.org.
I hope these suggestions will give you even more food for thoughts to inspire your audience.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you for the kind words. I wasn't aware of the variety of other proposals for such a system, but it sounds like we have a topic for a future episode! Perhaps we could interview someone from your organization as we look to learn more about the Spaceshaft Endeavor?
ReplyDeleteThank you for the suggestions, we hope you enjoy the podcast, and keep the feedback and ideas coming!