At nine fifteen on august sixth in 1945, an atom bomb of fifteen kilotons was dropped on Hiroshima. It was detonated one thousand, eight hundred feet over the ground. The plane that dropped the bomb was the Enola Gay aircraft bomber. The same thing happened on August ninth over Nagasaki. The fatali...

MECHANICAL ENERGY Have you ever wondered how a jet aircraft lifts its tremendous weight off the ground, or what gives a runner the stamina to reach the finish line in a race? In order to answer all these questions we must talk about the transformation of one sort of energy into another. The ...

Introduction Nuclear fission is a nuclear reaction in which the atomic nucleus breaks up into tiny fragments, usually two fragments of the same size, letting off around 100 million to several hundred million volts of energy. This energy is placed accordingly to form a really big and violent explosio...