What exactly keeps a boat afloat on water? And how can physics knowledge help sportsmen and women? Experimental physicist Gernot Pottlacher reveals these and more in an interview.
What exactly keeps a boat afloat on water? And how can physics knowledge help sportsmen and women? Experimental physicist Gernot Pottlacher reveals these and more in an interview. By Dr. Daniela Müller - Stand-up paddleboarding, the Bernoulli equation and the magic lottery six-figure number: they all have to do with physics. In conversation with Gernot Pottlacher, experimental physicist at TU Graz. Albert Einstein is said to have given such incomprehensible lectures during his time at Zurich that the students didn't attend. Is it possible to explain physics simply and without much knowledge of formulas?. Gernot Pottlacher: Yes, it is possible, my team and I do it every year in my Christmas lecture. Then please explain to us briefly and simply: what exactly keeps us afloat on water?.
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