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2022-09-28: Why Is 1/137 One of the Greatest Unsolved Problems In Physics?

  • 04:17: And the orbital speed of an electron in the ground state of the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom is 137 slower than the speed of light.

2022-05-25: The Evolution of the Modern Milky Way Galaxy

  • 05:58: ... same merger, they should also have similar  orbits. If their orbital speeds are even   slightly different, they may have drifted  to ...

2021-06-09: Are We Running Out of Space Above Earth?

  • 01:45: ... while a loose screw or paint chip may not be all that scary on earth, at orbital speeds of 7 km/s they can carry as much energy as a ...

2018-12-06: Did Life on Earth Come from Space?

  • 00:37: ... ahead to get to the nearest stars a rock traveling at the sun's galactic orbital speed of 30 km/s would take several tens of thousands of years but real ...

2015-08-12: Challenge: Which Particle Wins This Race?

  • 00:59: ... Newtonian gravity, you can work out an expression for the orbital speed of this particle in terms of the mass and radius of the planet, or in ...
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