Free Courses In Physics | Physics: An Introduction History of Physics: Ancient times
1895 to present
In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays, which turned out to be high-frequency electromagnetic radiation. Radioactivity was discovered in 1896 by Henri Becquerel, and further studied by Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, and others. This initiated...
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Free Courses In Physics | Physics: An Introduction History of Physics: Ancient times
The Scientific Revolution
The Scientific Revolution is held by most historians (e.g., Howard Margolis) to have begun in 1543, when the first printed copy of Nicolaus Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus (most of which had been written years prior...
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Free Courses In Physics | Physics: An Introduction History of Physics: Ancient times
Since antiquity, people have tried to understand the behavior of matter: why unsupported objects drop to the ground, why different materials in science have different properties, and so forth. Another mystery was the character of the...
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Free Courses In Physics | Physics: An Introduction Philosophical implications
Physics in many ways stemmed from ancient Greek philosophy. From Thales’ first attempt to characterize matter, to Democritus’ deduction that matter ought to reduce to an invariant state, to the Ptolemaic astronomy of a crystalline firmament upon which the...
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Free Courses In Physics | Physics: An Introduction Physics is quantitative
Physics is more quantitative than most other sciences. That is, many of the observations experimental results in physics are numerical measurements. Most of the theories in physics use mathematics to express their principles. Most of the predictions from...
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Free Courses In Physics | Physics: An Introduction
The scientific method
Physics uses the scientific method to test the validity of a physical theory, using a methodical approach to compare the implications of the theory in question with the associated conclusions drawn from experiments and observations conducted to test it. Experiments and observations are...
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Free Courses In Physics Physics: An Introduction
Physics is the discipline devoted to understanding nature in a very general sense: the fundamental characteristic of physics is that it aims to gain knowledge, and hopefully understanding, of the general properties of the world around us. As an example, we can...
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Physics Course: An Introduction 001
Free Courses In Physics Physics: An Introduction
Physics is the science of matter and its motion, as well as space and time — the science that deals with concepts such as force, energy, mass, and charge. Physics is an experimental science; it is the general analysis of nature, conducted to understand...
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Particle Colliders in Physics
Dr. Johnson C. Philip is an expert in High Energy Particle physics, and has done his research on the inner quark structure of protons and neutrons.
Smashing or taking apart a thing to explore it is usually done by curious children, but not always. Even self-respecting scientist on the cutting edge of physics also...
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