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Yes you read the title right. Animals and physics! The author/researcher makes a case that animals use physics in their lives. There are lots of ways they do things that require principles of physics. Just in case you think we don't use physics, I am pretty sure we all use gravity every day. I know I do.
So when you see a squirrel shaking its tail it is actually employing physics to protect itself from reptile predators.

http://news.google.ca/news/url?sr=1&ct2=...t=2&at=dt0


Of course the snakes in Manitoba is my favourite  part. I would love to see all those snakes emerging from the ground in the spring. Of course if I get there now I will better understand what the snakes are doing and why.

This is definitely more fun than the physics classes I took.

Oh wow, what an interesting-sounding book! It sounds as if this book would be a great tool to help teach children about Physics. How inspired to write something like this.

Quote:It sounds as if this book would be a great tool to help teach children about Physics.

It crossed my mind that it would help teach humans(children and adults) about physics.
Physics needs all the help it can get. I think humans don't have the physics instincts that animals have.
If they didn't have the instincts they wouldn't survive.

If my survival had depended on my ability to understand vectors, I wouldn't be here.

(04-01-2017, 02:42 PM)Catherine Wrote: [ -> ]If my survival had depended on my ability to understand vectors, I wouldn't be here.

Vectors? Sheesh! I have only just about heard of those.
I can handle gravity....just

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Some days I could do with a little less gravity.

Physics is just not something we do well with. It doesn't come naturally to us like it does to some animals.
Athletes of course must be using physics when they hit things and throw things. That would be vectors. I did say I am not an athlete and I don't do well with vectors. I never quite understood them. Of course I never needed to understand vectors, I just needed to put the right numbers into the formulas. The results are the same whether I understand or not.
All those hours I wasted trying to understand and all I needed was a calculator. Of course we didn't have calculators then.
Back in the day, I used a slide rule. Do they even make slide rules anymore?