Physics Facts

48 facts, from the everyday to the astonishing.

All Physics facts

Atmospheric

• Coming In Strong On Your AM Dial
• Does Earth Have Its Own Neon Sign?
• Somewhere Over Which Rainbow?
• Sonic Boom
• The Coriolis Effect
• The Doppler Effect
• The Sound of Turbulence
• Your Own Personal Rainbow?

Classical Mechanics

• Can You Miss the Earth?
• Don't Make Waves
• What Makes a Frisbee Fly?
• Why Does A Golf Ball Have Dimples?
• Your Serve

Fundamentals

• Bizarre Boiling
• Galileo Thermometers
• Get the Point?
• How Fast is Mach 1?
• How Lasers Work
• Kinetic Theory of Gases
• Many Happy Returns!
• Newton's First Law of Motion
• Newton's Three Laws of Motion
• The Fourth State of Matter
• The Physics of Sandcastles
• The Weakest Force
• Tick-Tock Atomic Clock
• Torque
• What Is An Atom?
• What Is Radiofrequency Energy (Rf)?
• X-Rays - Another Form of Light

Magnetism

• Earth's Magnetism

Nonlinear Dynamics & Chaos

• Poincare's Chaos

Optics

• Delivered by TIR
• Does Your Brain Do Flips?
• Quick Change Artist
• Single Molecule Electroluminescence
• Ultraviolet Light

Quantum Mechanics

• Antimatter Discovery
• Neutrinos to the Rescue
• Quarks
• The Early Universe Soup
• The Equivalence Principle
• The World's Largest Laser

Radioactivity

• Carbon Dating From The Skies
• Fission and Fusion
• Nuclides & Isotopes
• When Do We Encounter Ionizing Radiation In Our Daily Lives?

Solid State

• Can Wint-O-Green Lifesavers® Light up Your Life?