The ancestors of Shishmaref have found ways around or used physics to their advantage.

They found that the physics in Shishmaref are more desireable than the physics in other places such as Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and other Southwestern, Midwestern, or another part of America.

Physics: Why Eskimos Live in Shishmaref, Alaska

Shishmaref, Alaska

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Physics of Transportation and Lodging

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Eskimos love physics

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Igloos, kayaks, and dog mushing all have physics to them including the following (but not limited to):

Force: a push or a pull that can cause an object with mass to change its velocity

Newton's Second Law: F=m*a

Particular forces:

Newton's Third Law: Force of bc=Force of cb

Drag force: opposes relative motion=.5*C*p*A*v*v

Kinetic energy: energy associated with the state of motion=.5*m*v*v

Work: energy transferred to or from an object by means of a force acting on the object

Power: amount of work done over a period of time

Potential energy: energy that can be associated with the configuration of a system of objects that exert forces on one another

Conservation of energy: the total energy of a system can change only by amounts of energy that are transferred to or from the system

Center of mass: a point that moves as though all of the system's mass were concentrated there and all external forces were applied there

Newton's Second Law for a System of Particles: the net force equals the total mass multiplied by the center of masses acceleration

Linear momentum: a vector quantity=mass*velocity

Equilibrium: linear and angular momentum are both constant

Static equilibrium: the net forces is equal to zero or the net torque is equal to zero

Density: change in mass divided by the change in volume

Pressure: change in force divided by the change in area

First Law of Thermodynamics: the internal energy of a system tends to increase if energy is added as heat and tends to decrease if energy is lost as work done by that system

Conduction: energy transferred as heat between a system and its environment

Second Law of Thermodynamics: if a process occurs in a closed system, the entropy of the system increases for irreversible processes and remains constant for reversible processes. It never decreases.


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