Our Inviolable Law of Conservation Of Energy

About this episode

Dr Ian Storey discusses the conservation of energy and its implications in physics and mathematics.

If you throw a tennis ball in space, does it go on forever? Dr Ian Storey, mathematician and Lecturer in Business Information Systems at Torrens University, talks physics, maths, Einstein and the probabilities. Oh.. and F1 cars. Brace for landing! [with apologies to Derek - not Eric - Muller of Veritasium fame]

People in this episode

Host: Piers Cunningham

Guest: Dr Ian Storey

Topics covered

• conservation of energy
• physics
• mathematics
• Einstein
• F1 cars

Keywords

• conservation of energy
• physics
• mathematics
• Einstein
• F1 cars
• space
• probabilities

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Torrens University

Books & works: Veritasium

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