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41Threshold braking — or limit braking is a driving technique most commonly used in motor racing, but also practised in road vehicles to slow a vehicle at the optimum rate using the brakes. This is mostly used in vehicles without an anti lock braking system fitted,… …
42Blowback (firearms) — Blowback is a system of operation for self loading firearms that obtains energy from the motion of the cartridge case as it is pushed to the rear by expanding gases created by the ignition of the propellant charge.[1] Several types of blowback… …
43MythBusters (2009 season) — Country of origin Australia United States No. of episodes 23 (includes 3 specials) Broadcast Original channel …
44Slippery slope — In debate or rhetoric, the slippery slope is one of the classical informal fallacies. It suggests that an action will initiate a chain of events culminating in an undesirable event later without establishing or quantifying the relevant… …
45Simple machine — This article is about the concept in physics. For the Internet forum software, see Simple Machines Forum. Table of simple mechanisms, from Chambers Cyclopedia, 1728.[1] Simple machines provide a vocabulary for understanding more complex machine …
46Guillaume Amontons — Infobox Scientist name = PAGENAME box width = image width =150px caption = PAGENAME birth date = August 31, 1663 birth place = Paris, France death date = October 11, 1705 death place = Paris residence = citizenship = nationality = French… …
47Bicycle and motorcycle dynamics — A computer generated, simplified model of bike and rider demonstrating an uncontrolled right turn. An …
48Rolling resistance — Figure 1  Hard wheel rolling on and deforming a soft surface, resulting in the reaction force from the surface having a component that opposes the motion. Rolling resistance, sometimes called rolling friction or rolling drag, is the… …
49Reactionless drive — A reactionless drive (also known by many other names, such as an inertial propulsion engine, reactionless thruster, reactionless engine, bootstrap drive or inertia drive) is a fictional or theorized method of propulsion where thrust is generated… …
50List of elementary physics formulae — A list of elementary physics formulae commonly appearing in high school and college introductory physics courses. The list consists primarily of formulas concerning mechanics, showing relations between matter, energy, motion, and force in… …
