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kleinbl00  ·  1543 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Inside SpinLaunch, the Space Industry’s Best Kept Secret

What this project needs is a high school physics teacher with a sense of humor and duty who walks his class through all the stuff they can see as a problem and then makes them do it on a chalkboard for Youtube.

Now'd be about the time. In the US, the first semester of high school physics is all Newton. Second semester becomes E&M. In between you do a little rotational stuff. It's pretty much the season to remind the class of everything they've learned so far and let them get investigative on it.

I would love to see a bunch of 11th graders schooling Kleiner Perkins on Newton's Laws. You don't even need to get into the more advanced shit ("If a 60cm^2 stalk of pure aramid fiber is necessary to support the centrifugal load of the launch vehicle, what will you make the release mechanism out of?"), just let 'em show off what they learned before Christmas.