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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Alonso vs Webber and Hamilton at Eau Rouge

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It's difficult to find a precedent for Mark Webber's frightening pass on Fernando Alonso last Sunday, but there is an interesting co...
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Monday, August 22, 2011

Wittgenstein's aircraft engine

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Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) consists of numbered paragraphs, the first of which reads, ' The world ...
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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Weak polygyny and Formula One

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Weak asymmetries are responsible for just about everything we experience. Most of the universe we observe, all the galaxies and the star...
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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Front-wing ground effect

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Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari currently appear to be converging on the same aerodynamic solution: a high-rake, nose-down stance to maximise ...

Lego Grand Prix

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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Peridynamics

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Q:So what exactly is peridynamics? A: Well, it's a new formulation of solid mechanics, which in turn, is part of continuum mechanics. ...
Friday, August 12, 2011

Multi-element wings and DRS

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So why are the wings on aircraft and racing cars broken up into multiple elements, with slots in-between? Well, it was found reasonably earl...
Sunday, August 07, 2011

Renormalization in quantum field theory

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So what exactly is renormalization in quantum field theory? Well, quantum field theory makes experimentally verified predictions about colli...
Saturday, August 06, 2011

The Hamilton duels

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There were two great wheel-to-wheel battles in the Hungarian Grand Prix, both, predictably, featuring Lewis Hamilton. First off was the Hami...
Thursday, August 04, 2011

A way to subvert the blown diffuser ban?

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Exhaust -blown diffusers will effectively be banned in Formula 1 from next year, but there may be other ways of blowing the diffuser, and ge...
Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Diffusers and rake

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A recent column by Mark Hughes ( Autosport , July 21, p21), and a subsequent explanation Mark elicited from McLaren technical director Paddy...
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