Overview Physics in general can be regarded as the study of how things work and operate in our day to day lives. It can help explain anything as simple as…
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Rockets. We can all picture one, blasting off from a launch tower amid a roar of smoke and fire, riding a tail of flames higher and higher until finally coming…
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There are several different types of forces that exist. One way of categorizing different forces is into contact and non-contact forces. A contact force requires something to be physically touching…
read moreOverview Curling and bobsled are winter sports that rely on friction against an icy track or surface. In curling, a special stone is moved by a combination of momentum and…
read moreOverview The type of energy and matter that we can observe in the universe is thought to be only a small fraction of its total contents, less than 5%. Dark…
read moreOverview Plasma is often called the fourth state of matter, as it has properties different from all the other states. Most of the matter contained in stars, interstellar clouds, and…
read moreOverview The sport of soccer is popular worldwide. Like other sports, the ball and the players follow laws of physics as games are played, especially Newton’s Laws of Motion, friction,…
read moreOverview The sport of basketball combines high energy with a fast pace. Although it is not essential to be an expert in math and physics to be a great basketball…
read moreOverview The Higgs boson is an elementary particle that is different from all others in the Standard Model of Quantum Physics. It is essential to the process governing mass in…
read moreOverview According to the Standard Model of Particle Physics, elementary and composite particles of matter exist. Both elementary and composite particles have corresponding antiparticles, as mirror images with the same…
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