At 11:03 A.M. on April 17, 2018, metal fatigue caused a fan blade to break off inside the left engine of Southwest flight 1380 en route from New York to Dallas at 32,000 feet. The rupture blew the ...

But a 250-year-old mathematical theorem developed by an English minister might be able to do what a small armada of satellites, planes and ships cannot — provide a location (or at least a guess ...

Bad Math, Pepsi Points, and the Greatest Plane Non-Crash Ever. ... Aircraft fuel is calculated in terms of its weight, not its volume. Temperature changes can cause things to expand and contract; ...

Flex your math muscles with this weekend’s brain teaser. Play now. ... April 5, 2025. Math Puzzle: Fuel the Planes. By Martin Gardner. A group of airplanes is based on a small island.

Not all great mathematical breakthroughs come from professional mathematicians some of the most amazing mathematical discoveries were made by amateurs driven by curiosity and passion. In this video, ...

While scientists have clearly made great strides in aerodynamics—particularly about aircraft—Ristroph et al. noted that there was not a good mathematical model for predicting the simpler ...

How gravity causes a perfectly spherical ball to roll down an inclined plane is part of elementary school physics canon. But the world is messier than a textbook. Scientists have sought to ...