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- He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963, "for his contributions ... his papers were drawing notice in the physics world. In 1930, Princeton ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 04:15, 23 March 2024
- ideal form of knowledge, and the laws of physics to be the fundamental principles ... Enlightenment and made contributions in physics, mathematics, philosophy ...12 KB (1,720 words) - 17:39, 2 April 2024
- In classical physics, free space, sometimes called the vacuum of free ... Even in classical physics, it was realized that the vacuum must have ...15 KB (2,209 words) - 19:32, 8 October 2022
- In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle ... The Standard Model of particle physics contains 12 flavors of elementary ...18 KB (2,400 words) - 16:06, 13 February 2024
- physicist, specializing in mathematical physics. He is best known for his ... devote themselves to study and research in physics. Unfortunately, modern physics ...13 KB (1,968 words) - 17:03, 23 December 2022
- of cycles, or periods, per unit time. In physics and engineering disciplines ... In experimental work (for example, calculating the frequency of an ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 10:59, 11 April 2024
- The Standard Model of particle physics is a theory that describes ... -the wave-particle duality of quantum physics. The wave tells the particle ...25 KB (3,578 words) - 16:25, 8 February 2023
- an Irish professor of "natural and experimental philosophy" (that ... Erasmus Smith Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy, a position ...10 KB (1,556 words) - 15:45, 6 November 2022
- In particle physics, a quark is one of the elementary (or fundamental ... particle duality" of quantum physics. The particle aspect of ...22 KB (3,412 words) - 15:31, 7 December 2022
- and Koffka who served as his first experimental subjects and through whose ... received a thorough scientific training in physics, chemistry, and biology ...14 KB (2,050 words) - 23:20, 17 May 2023
- of North Dakota, where he built an experimental radio station and studied ... 25, 1918. He was appointed to head an experimental division of the Naval ...7 KB (1,005 words) - 05:01, 17 June 2023
- Electromagnetism is the physics of the electromagnetic field: A field ... of nineteenth century mathematical physics. It had far-reaching consequences ...14 KB (1,902 words) - 15:57, 13 February 2024
- his findings in his 1912 paper Experimental Studies on the Seeing of Motion. This formed the beginnings of Gestalt psychology, which led to fundamental ...5 KB (719 words) - 02:33, 21 January 2022
- In physics, a fundamental interaction or fundamental force is a mechanism ... Efforts of modern physics are directed at explaining every observed ...16 KB (2,260 words) - 09:25, 18 October 2022
- #039;s assistant Robert Hooke built the experimental apparatus. Boyle's ... Robert Boyle (and Edme Mariotte) derived the law solely on experimental ...8 KB (1,241 words) - 14:53, 28 April 2020
- used the instrument with great success for the experimental investigation of the distribution of charge on surfaces, and of the laws of electrical and ...9 KB (1,400 words) - 01:48, 4 December 2023
- known as the "father" of nuclear physics. His major contribution ... In 1898, Rutherford was appointed to the chair of physics at McGill ...17 KB (2,514 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- accelerators. Researchers in particle physics and nuclear physics study ... nuclei lies in the domain of nuclear physics. The study of subatomic ...20 KB (3,162 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- x-rays or visible light.Raymond A. Serway, Physics for Scientists & Engineers ... discovery led to the quantum revolution in physics and earned Einstein the ...23 KB (3,443 words) - 04:26, 24 November 2022
- 1801, he removed to Bourg, as professor of physics, and chemistry, leaving ... ==Contributions to physics and further studies== Ampere's work ...10 KB (1,522 words) - 17:59, 27 July 2023
- things act. It is also used in philosophy, physics, psychology, government ... to individual cases that provide experimental evidence of etiology. ...11 KB (1,616 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- research in comparative psychology and experimental psychology, providing ... following Wilhelm Wundt's experimental psychology, the dominant ...19 KB (2,675 words) - 10:26, 26 September 2023
- (mL) of liquid, using the low-temperature physics laboratory that had recently ... of the neutron in 1932, was an experimental shock to prevailing theory ...31 KB (4,687 words) - 10:07, 29 January 2024
- a unit of mass instead. Thus, in particle physics where mass and energy are ... to the accuracy 1/1012. More precise experimental efforts are still being ...19 KB (3,055 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- Special relativity is a fundamental physics theory about space and ... as a modification of Newtonian physics. It was created to deal with ...42 KB (6,653 words) - 19:12, 7 February 2023
- in 1828, and went on to study chemistry, physics, mineralogy, and mathematics ... the University of Göttingen and began experimental studies on the (in)solubility ...8 KB (1,189 words) - 20:25, 11 August 2022
- (1874-1915). He also conducted experimental work with Friedrich Kohlrausch ... In 1918, he made up his mind to abandon physics for philosophy, but ...17 KB (2,571 words) - 21:27, 20 March 2024
- He was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the conduction ... Lord Rayleigh resigned the chair of experimental physics at the Cavendish Laboratory ...15 KB (2,271 words) - 01:09, 8 February 2023
- Dirac shared the Nobel Prize in physics for 1933 with Erwin Schrödinger ... and in the nascent field of quantum physics, working under the supervision ...20 KB (2,926 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- effect on the history of chemistry and physics. Moreover, he was a great ... introduction to advanced mathematics, physics and chemistry. During his ...13 KB (1,969 words) - 07:30, 2 April 2008
- Boltzmann studied physics at the University of Vienna, starting in ... appointed full Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Graz ...19 KB (2,826 words) - 02:38, 5 November 2022
- his studies while tutoring mathematics and physics. He graduated in 1829, and ... appointed head of the Institute for Experimental Physics at the University ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 17:59, 10 December 2023
- * Liquid argon is used in calorimetry in experimental particle physics. * Argon is used in technical scuba diving to inflate the dry suit, because ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 06:25, 12 August 2023
- In physics, thermal conductivity, k, is the property of a material ... is that it takes a well-engineered experimental setup. The Divided Bar ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 18:28, 30 April 2023
- other natural sciences, such as astronomy, physics, material science, biology ... Chemistry is in some ways physics on a larger scale and in some ways ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- and devoted himself to languages and experimental research. The only teacher ... the sciences (grammar, logic, mathematics, physics, and philosophy), to the ...10 KB (1,503 words) - 02:30, 16 December 2022
- in Munich, changing his major to physics. During this time, encouraged ... Hertz was dissatisfied with the level of physics education in Munich ...15 KB (2,237 words) - 15:17, 25 January 2023
- important contributions to chemistry and physics and established himself ... burn. On a more fundamental level, his experimental results led him to think ...20 KB (3,111 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- In physics, a physical constant is a physical quantity with a value ... of Standards and Technology [http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/ ...22 KB (3,290 words) - 05:07, 24 November 2022
- astronomy,” the “father of modern physics,” and also the “father ... Although Galileo's application of mathematics to experimental ...28 KB (4,354 words) - 03:55, 18 April 2024
- of Berlin (1853-1855) chiefly to physics and mathematics. By 1856 ... admirable penetration and extraordinary experimental skill he combined dogged ...9 KB (1,376 words) - 06:04, 15 June 2023
- of his monastery. He was a teacher of physics and also a beekeeper who ... and the linking of certain traits his experimental results should not have ...16 KB (2,499 words) - 19:37, 5 January 2024
- way--almost all the advances in particle physics have been made using man ... in 2008) and the Tevatron, are used for experimental particle physics. ...19 KB (2,915 words) - 18:45, 23 March 2023
- acknowledged as the founder of experimental psychology and of structuralism ... psychology, stressing the use of experimental methods drawn from the ...20 KB (2,709 words) - 12:00, 5 May 2023
- Benjamin Franklin and Lightning Rods] Physics Today 59 (1): 42. Retrieved ... at very low current and used for classroom physics demonstrations, rely on ...18 KB (2,558 words) - 16:05, 13 February 2024
- some experiments on alleged telepaths. Experimental protocols, however, were ... involved more rigorous and systematic experimental protocols than those from ...13 KB (1,892 words) - 05:34, 27 February 2023
- * Experimental Researches in Electricity, vols. i. and ii., Richard ... * Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics, Taylor and Francis ...17 KB (2,503 words) - 16:54, 9 November 2022
- Galen's experimental methods foreshadowed later developments ... of his treatises on philosophy, logic, physics, and ethics perished in ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 03:50, 18 April 2024
- who was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the scattering ... he gained a Bachelors of Arts degree in physics at the Society of the Promotion ...35 KB (5,365 words) - 19:55, 24 November 2023
- In physics, a black body (in an ideal sense) is an object that absorbs ... is distributed thermally. In classical physics, each different Fourier ...23 KB (3,522 words) - 18:09, 31 October 2023
- (K) at standard pressure. Due to the experimental difficulty of precisely ... In physics, superheating (sometimes referred to as boiling retardation ...13 KB (2,088 words) - 05:24, 17 November 2023
- In nuclear physics, a nuclear reaction is a process in which two atomic ... These are particularly useful in experimental nuclear physics, because ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 00:39, 17 November 2022
- In physics, surface tension is an effect within the surface layer ... area.Harvey E. White, Modern College Physics (van Nostrand, 1948). ...28 KB (4,404 words) - 23:53, 26 February 2023
- discovered a state he termed "experimental somnambulism" (later ... 1996). ISBN 081035487X This type of experimental approach has characterized ...23 KB (3,205 words) - 11:26, 11 March 2023
- the scientific revolution, through both experimental and theoretical work. ... Scientific Revolution. Institute of Physics Publishing. ISBN 0750309873 ...11 KB (1,559 words) - 17:09, 15 March 2024
- Crystallography is the experimental science of determining the arrangement ... * Ion (physics) * Neutron * Optics * Protein * RNA * X-ray ...12 KB (1,754 words) - 06:35, 11 January 2024
- of neutrons is controlled instead by the physics of the chain reaction. The ... While the fundamental physics of the fission chain reaction in a nuclear ...31 KB (4,827 words) - 10:09, 11 March 2023
- awarded annually in the categories of physics, chemistry, physiology or ... discovery or invention within the field of physics; one part to the person ...34 KB (5,294 words) - 02:33, 16 November 2022
- confinement fusion reactor designs. The experimental fusion reactor ITER and ... NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. Kindle Edition ...18 KB (2,638 words) - 16:50, 5 November 2022
- For his war work, he took up teaching physics and mathematics at a series ... in the country in 1919, the Rothamsted Experimental Station. ...23 KB (3,500 words) - 21:28, 15 August 2022
- In classical physics, space and time are assumed to be quite different ... of four-vectors (and other tensors) in describing physics. ...28 KB (4,269 words) - 19:16, 17 August 2023
- remained only a speculation lacking any experimental foundation. ... * Khaleefa, O. 1999. Who is the founder of psychophysics and experimental ...14 KB (2,075 words) - 20:09, 21 April 2023
- as other sciences, especially physics. He believed that econometrics ... economy or “pure“ economics to experimental and numerical verification ...13 KB (1,910 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun ... ===Early experimental devices=== Marconi began to conduct experiments ...27 KB (3,973 words) - 00:54, 7 March 2023
- In physics, classical mechanics is one of the two major sub-fields ... to describe the system of mathematical physics begun by Isaac Newton and ...33 KB (4,963 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- service and the cost is very high. The experimental Japanese magnetic levitation ... === Experimental === There are other forms of motive power in experimental ...22 KB (3,331 words) - 07:49, 9 March 2023
- For the basic physics of a flywheel, see Flywheel Physics. ... Flywheels may have been used in the experimental Chrysler Patriot, though ...17 KB (2,549 words) - 06:12, 1 April 2024
- Gravesande of the Netherlands provided experimental evidence of this relationship ... * Serway, Raymond A., and John W. Jewett. 2004. Physics for Scientists ...22 KB (3,694 words) - 14:17, 5 October 2022
- incapable of being put to any experimental test. Granted that atomism ... elemental atom types, but in Vaisesika physics atoms had 24 different possible ...37 KB (5,618 words) - 06:58, 21 August 2023
- Experimental investigation of the paranormal is largely conducted ... *Jones, Marie D. 2006. PSIence: How New Discoveries in Quantum Physics ...25 KB (3,499 words) - 11:26, 11 March 2023
- problems in modern cosmology and particle physics. It has been noted that ... are part of the standard model of particle physics, but they can arise in extensions ...31 KB (4,554 words) - 22:23, 25 January 2024
- of 9 km. Hess received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936, for his discovery ... from 1927 to 1937, a wide variety of experimental investigations demonstrated ...37 KB (5,720 words) - 08:13, 10 January 2024
- == Physics and operation == A termite-bored didgeridoo has an irregular ... and somewhat unwieldy instrument at the physics workshop of Oxford University ...18 KB (2,678 words) - 14:27, 29 January 2024
- * Experimental drop tube of the metallurgy department of Grenoble ... html Weightlessness in Orbit] The Physics Classroom. Retrieved February ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 23:27, 3 May 2023
- In modern physics, the photon is the elementary particle responsible ... The photon concept has led to momentous advances in experimental and ...34 KB (4,943 words) - 20:26, 27 September 2023
- who contributed to the foundations of experimental science there. He pioneered ... appointed Bose officiating professor of physics in Presidency College. The ...24 KB (3,668 words) - 12:40, 6 November 2021
- of Marburg. His subsidiary subjects were physics and philosophy. Here, Hahn ... a profoundly significant discovery in physics with far-reaching consequences ...24 KB (3,736 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- metals in his classic 1857 paper "Experimental relations of gold (and ... Michael Faraday, Experimental relations of gold (and other metals ...18 KB (2,579 words) - 01:19, 11 November 2022
- he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1913. In subsequent decades ... temperature of 35 K (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1987). It was soon found ...21 KB (3,041 words) - 23:46, 26 February 2023
- of a dissertation entitled Perception, Physics, and Reality. This became ... -1935 and 1958. He concluded that the experimental data warranted a belief ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 19:14, 24 November 2023
- such theory that is consistent with the experimental data. However, a number ... provided a new framework for all of physics by introducing radically ...66 KB (9,838 words) - 15:01, 26 September 2022
- used to argue that the underlying physics only needs one junction ... of materials. Thus, there is no direct experimental method to determine an ...25 KB (3,886 words) - 18:30, 30 April 2023
- is a result of the modern attempt, in physics, to define the basic unit ... was a great triumph of nineteenth-century physics. By the late nineteenth ...39 KB (6,028 words) - 01:15, 26 October 2022
- ==History and experimental discovery== The term graphene first appeared ... be grown even in principle. An article in Physics Today reads: ...43 KB (6,272 words) - 12:18, 24 January 2023
- The physics of operating a nuclear reactor are explained in Nuclear ... gamma radiation and free neutrons.Health Physics Society, [http://www.hps ...45 KB (6,704 words) - 00:40, 17 November 2022
- Thus, in quantum physics, the outcome of even an ideal measurement ... experiments are in a sense the clearest experimental confirmation of quantum ...26 KB (4,014 words) - 01:33, 3 May 2023
- until the seventeenth century. Experimental techniques were developed ... on Isambard Kingdom Brunel's experimental atmospheric railway. ...37 KB (5,624 words) - 20:38, 21 April 2020
- acids and the introduction of the experimental method. Many of Jabir ... Blossom, which included information on experimental techniques. He also is ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 08:37, 13 March 2024
- In physics and nuclear chemistry, nuclear fusion is the process by ... factors are related. On theoretical and experimental grounds, particle and ...39 KB (6,029 words) - 23:53, 16 November 2022
- measured in detail, and match to within experimental error what would be expected ... and the spectra agreed to within the experimental error. They concluded ...47 KB (6,936 words) - 08:12, 10 January 2024
- be expected by chance. According to experimental results, believers in ... time, responded to critiques of their experimental protocol to combat such ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 12:32, 21 January 2023
- 1841, he took up the study of astronomy, physics and chemistry. He also read ... of science. The study of mathematics, physics, and in particular, of electricity ...36 KB (5,321 words) - 20:35, 13 May 2023
- In physics and chemistry, an atomic orbital is a region in which an ... In atomic physics, the atomic spectral lines correspond to transitions ...33 KB (5,193 words) - 01:09, 18 November 2022
- metal from melting. In recent years, experimental ceramic blades have been ... Category:Physics 234548487 ...17 KB (2,749 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
- 1904. He quickly impressed the head of the physics department, A. Wilmer Duff ... Goddard received his B.S. degree in physics from Worcester Polytechnic ...27 KB (4,141 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- refers to an article by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University ... Gravity,"Alan D. Sokal, [http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_ ...26 KB (3,718 words) - 13:50, 2 February 2023
- Oppenheimer was introduced to experimental physics. In 1933 he learned ... that his forte was theoretical, not experimental physics, so he left in 1926 ...58 KB (8,808 words) - 01:10, 8 February 2023
- work in the disciplines of mechanics, physics, geology, astronomy, international ... Treatise, Astronomy and General Physics considered with reference ...22 KB (3,347 words) - 20:45, 13 May 2023
- :Main articles: History of physics, History of nuclear weapons, World ... coordinating and contacting several experimental physics groups scattered across ...52 KB (8,009 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- who made contributions to quantum physics, functional analysis, set ... He received his Ph.D. in mathematics (with minors in experimental ...30 KB (4,433 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
