{"id":117349,"date":"2015-08-21T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=3d93edb6e01d0ab0a4cdf723e36574f9"},"modified":"2015-08-21T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T23:00:00","slug":"work-gravitational-energy-and-the-great-pyramid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=117349","title":{"rendered":"Work, gravitational energy and the Great Pyramid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Greek historian Herodotus, it took a task force of 100\u2005000 men and 20 years to<br \/>\nbuild up the Great Pyramid of Gizeh or Khufu\u2019s Pyramid. In this work we discuss an analytical<br \/>\nsolution obtained in the framework of basic Newtonian mechanics that allows us to check Herodotus\u2019s<br \/>\nstatement. Numerical estimates are compared to more detailed calculations. An estimation of the<br \/>\ndietary energy intake necessary to accomplish the task is also discussed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Greek historian Herodotus, it took a task force of 100\u2005000 men and 20 years to<br \/>\nbuild up the Great Pyramid of Gizeh or Khufu\u2019s Pyramid. In this work we discuss an analytical<br \/>\nsolution obtained in the framework of basic Newtonian me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-117349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}