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What keeps a train on the track?2:27

What keeps a train on the track?

191K views • 17 years ago
BoreMeScience
A short clip of Richard Feynman explaining how a train stays on its tracks, through the conical shape of wheels and how it handles curves without differentials.
Feynman: How the train stays on the track  FUN TO IMAGINE 72:27

Feynman: How the train stays on the track FUN TO IMAGINE 7

820K views • 18 years ago
Christopher Sykes
A short clip from the 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine in which Richard Feynman explains how a train stays on the track. He covers the geometry of tapered wheels that steer the train back toward the center of the rails.
Trusted Computing? Yes or No3:31

Trusted Computing? Yes or No

47K views • 20 years ago
Robin Good
A four-minute 2006 explainer on trusted computing, describing what it is and whether users should support it, with a skeptical DRM angle.
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