The Hunt for Red October II: A magnetohydrodynamic boat demonstration for introductory physics
| Autor: | Anjalee Rutah, Jim Selway, Daniel Zile, Thomas Sebastian, Viktor Polyak, James Overduin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Physics
geography Science instruction geography.geographical_feature_category 05 social sciences 050301 education General Physics and Astronomy Submarine Art history 01 natural sciences Education Silence Classical mechanics 0103 physical sciences Magnetohydrodynamic drive 010306 general physics 0503 education Sound (geography) |
| Zdroj: | The Physics Teacher. 55:460-466 |
| ISSN: | 0031-921X |
| Popis: | The 1990 film “The Hunt for Red October” (based on Tom Clancy’s 1984 debut novel of the same name) featured actors like Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin, but the star of the movie for physicists was a revolutionary new magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) marine propulsion system. The so-called “caterpillar drive” worked with no moving parts, allowing a nuclear missile-armed Soviet submarine to approach the U.S. coast undetected. As the submarine captain (played by Connery) said, “Once the world trembled at the sound of our rockets … now they will tremble again—at the sound of our silence. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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