Self-tutoring about Canadian political issues: the tutor begins about the carbon tax. Today I looked into the Canadian carbon tax. I will admit I was somewhat surprised. Apparently, the carbon tax isn’t kept by the federal government; it’s collected at …
Self-tutoring about US politics: the tutor begins about the Inflation Reduction Act. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, to me, seemed rather difficult to connect with the goal of reducing inflation. In fact, it was perhaps much more interesting. The …
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Tutoring physics, everyday measures of energy come up. The tutor mentions kilowatt*hour. In rounded figures, lifting 100kg 1m in 1s develops a kilowatt. Doing so for an entire hour would be using a kilowatt*hour of energy. Source: Heath, Robert et …
With Einstein’s e=mc2, the tutor investigates an old claim. When I was a kid, a friend of mine told me you can travel around the earth, not just once, but seven times, on the energy contained in a grain of …