In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

A 1-kg mass pendulum is held up to the demonstrator's face and is released. Because of conservation of energy, the mass will not swing higher than the height at which it was released. In fact, because ...

A magnetic mass hangs on the end of a swinging rod. A movable copper plate damps the oscillations. The rod is connected to a rotational motion sensor, which can transmit the data to a computer for ...

For as long as people have looked for answers in the night sky, the idea of stepping into a machine and arriving in an ...

The tick-tick sound comes from the movement of gears and parts inside the clock. In mechanical clocks, a part called the escapement mechanism controls this sound.

In the months following Jean Bernard Leon Foucault's early 1851 demonstration in Paris of the earth's diurnal rotation with a vibrating pendulum, members of the entire scientific community, as well as ...

Applied physics is the study of physics for a practical purpose, as opposed to physics motived solely for an improved fundamental understanding. This includes technological advances such as the ...

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THE eighteenth lecture of the “Physics in Industry” series founded by the Institute of Physics was delivered on November 2 by Dr. G. C. Simpson, Director of the Meteorological Office, who took as his ...

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