{"id":3397,"date":"2012-02-23T09:31:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T23:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/?p=3397"},"modified":"2012-02-23T09:31:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T23:31:56","slug":"everyday-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/2012\/02\/23\/everyday-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyday Science."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing how common demonstrations of scientific principles are in every day life, like the video below:<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"Slinky On Treadmill 1a\" width=\"668\" height=\"501\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yy7CwYB7Ds0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Such a simple thing, a slinky walking down a treadmill, but it aptly demonstrates the principles of kinetic\/potential energy, friction and a whole host of other physical science concepts. This is why I&#8217;m such a big fan of Mythbusters as whilst their experiments aren&#8217;t exactly rigorous science they do aptly demonstrate many basic scientific principles in a way that&#8217;s easily understood. Plus they have massive explosions nearly every episode and those never go astray \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing how common demonstrations of scientific principles are in every day life, like the video below: Such a simple thing, a slinky walking down&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[2303,3247,3248],"class_list":["post-3397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-demonstration","tag-slinky","tag-treadmill"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppBqt-SN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}