Word: inertias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Overcoming Inertia...
...Question. Under such conditions, how could an engine in orbit be restarted for a flight to the moon? Engineers speculated that if an Apollo vehicle were accelerated slightly, the inertia of the liquid hydrogen would force it toward the bottom of the tank. To provide that acceleration, they installed controllable, backward-pointing vents at the top of the SIV B's fuel tanks. They hoped that the gases gradually produced by the evaporating liquid fuel and oxidizer could be released into space to provide slight thrust and acceleration...
...lectures by locking the door at the opening bell ?to encourage promptness, he says; to keep the kids from fleeing, they say. As he carefully shows how a scientific theory can affect man's own view of himself, and requires students to explain such notions as velocity and inertia in their own words, the relevance hits them. The course, recalls Amherst Graduate Evan Snyder, "was absolute hell?but one of the most valuable intellectual experiences I've been through." One student slipped a note under Arons' door, reading "I can't help wondering if physics is really as interesting...
...bringing her home. She enters a house full of forgotten ambitions and of subsurface unhappiness. Danny's father, Sam, is bored by his wife; the couple barely tolerates self-centered grandmother Eleanor; and all three have lost contact with swingin' teen younger brother George. The house is heavy with inertia; the mother wanted to be an artist, the grandmother a pianist. Sam was once a critic of note, but, like the others, has now given up on himself...
...Garden, the conventional has resilience; the family does not give in. Though Sophia attracts each of them, none will give himself up to her. By the end of the play, the father has returned inertia, the grandmother to self-indulgence, and George to his home. Sophia had warned him "you want speed, not a place to ride to;" he closes the play with a speech about motorcycles that ends "The speed! The beautiful speed...