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    The document lists and briefly describes four challenging physics problems that the author aims to solve: proving Amonton's Laws of friction; determining if a bicycle can stay upright on a frictionless surface by pedaling; establishing if pedaling in mid-air could straighten a falling rider; and calculating the cross-section for J.J. Thomson's atomic model given the results of Rutherford's scattering experiment.

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    The document lists and briefly describes four challenging physics problems that the author aims to solve: proving Amonton's Laws of friction; determining if a bicycle can stay upright on a frictionless surface by pedaling; establishing if pedaling in mid-air could straighten a falling rider; and calculating the cross-section for J.J. Thomson's atomic model given the results of Rutherford's scattering experiment.

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    The document lists and briefly describes four challenging physics problems that the author aims to solve: proving Amonton's Laws of friction; determining if a bicycle can stay upright on a frictionless surface by pedaling; establishing if pedaling in mid-air could straighten a falling rider; and calculating the cross-section for J.J. Thomson's atomic model given the results of Rutherford's scattering experiment.

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    Challenging Physics Problems

    Here is a list of physics problems that I will (eventually) solve one day. They may be simple or insanely difficult (I
    won’t know until I solve them), but I would be happy to talk about any of these.

    Laws of Friction
    Prove (or at least give a reasonable explanation for) Amonton’s Laws of friction:
    1. The force of friction is directly proportional to the applied load.
    2. The frictional force between two objects is independent of the surface area of contact between the two objects.
    3. Kinetic friction is independent of the sliding velocity.

    Bicycle on Ice
    If you were on ice (i.e. a frictionless surface) and you peddled a bike, would you be able to stay upright?
    If you are falling in the air (i.e. not on the ground) and are at a slight angle to the vertical, and you started peddling
    a bike, would you straighten upright?

    Thomson Scattering
    Historically, the J. J. Thomson model of the atom assumed that the electron and an equivalent number of positively
    charged particles are uniformly distributed throughout the atom. Rutherford’s scattering experiment (actually done
    by his graduate students Geiger and Marsden) showed that because there was non-zero large-angle scattering, there
    must be a region of very small and dense positive charge in atoms. The question remains, what should the cross
    section be for the JJ Thomson atom?

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