January 2010
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The Scale of the Universe →
jabinante:
Scroll from quantum foam to the edge of the universe.
These always blow my mind.
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Because of the rotation of the earth, an object...
(via theponzischeme)
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please accept our apologies for the lack of steady posts, loyal followers— we’ve been plagued by midterms and the stresses associated with actually having to do REAL physics (four lab reports in one week? i think yes!). hopefully things will be getting back to normal soon, and you will no longer have to sit around jonesing for a physicsphysics fix.
peace, love, and science,
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50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know?
navigolucky:
Book here, written by physical science editor at Science
Mach’s Principle
Newton’s laws of motion
Kepler’s laws
Newton’s laws of gravitation
Conservation of energy
Simple harmonic motion
Hooke’s law
Ideal gas law
2nd law of thermodynamics
Absolute zero
Brownian motion
Chaos theory
Bernoulli’s equation
Newton’s theory of color
Huygens’ Principle
Snell’s Law
Bragg’s...
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The Daily What →
More Carl Sagan… enjoy!
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A very special message from physicsphysics to our...
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Story Time
The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the University of Copenhagen: Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer.
One student replied: You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground. The length of the string plus the length of the barometer will equal the height...
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Stupid gravity...
agamenticus:
why did you have to pull on my water like that?
Assmuncher.
Gravity giveth, and gravity taketh away. For gravity is constant and must be dealt with as so.
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