Physics Facts

48 facts, from the everyday to the astonishing.

There are two main ways to make light. In incandescence , something is heated until it glows, like the filament of an…

A new form of radiation was discovered in 1895 by Wilhelm Roentgen, a German physicist. He called it X-radiation to…

The word transformation means one thing changing into another, like Dr. Jekyl changing into Mr. Hyde. In mathematics,…

In the nuclear fission process, a heavy atomic nucleus spontaneously splits apart, releasing energy and an energetic…

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