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  2. Timeline of fundamental physics discoveries - Wikipedia

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    1610 – Galileo Galilei: discovered the Galilean moons of Jupiter. 1613 – Galileo Galilei: Inertia. 1621 – Willebrord Snellius: Snell's law. 1632 – Galileo Galilei: The Galilean principle (the laws of motion are the same in all inertial frames) 1660 – Blaise Pascal: Pascal's law. 1660 – Robert Hooke: Hooke's law.

  3. Richard Feynman - Wikipedia

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    Richard Phillips Feynman (/ ˈ f aɪ n m ə n /; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model.

  4. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (short story collection)

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    Meanwhile, after having given Beibei sleep medicine, Mrs. Su receives another call; Mrs. Fong tells of how Mr. Fong confessed to her and recommended that the paramour live with them as a second wife to which Mrs. Fong responded with outrage. After Mr. Su helps Mr. Fong fall asleep on the couch and Mrs. Su starts to ignore Mrs. Fong, the Sus ...

  5. Outline of physics - Wikipedia

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    Physics – branch of science that studies matter [ 9] and its motion through space and time, along with related concepts such as energy and force. [ 10] Physics is one of the "fundamental sciences" because the other natural sciences (like biology, geology etc.) deal with systems that seem to obey the laws of physics.

  6. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Wikipedia

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    sevenbrieflessons .com. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics ( Italian: Sette brevi lezioni di fisica) is a short book by the Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli. Originally published in Italian in 2014, by 2021 the book has been translated into 52 languages. [1] More than a million copies have been sold, of which more than 400,000 in Italy.

  7. Fundamentals of Physics - Wikipedia

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    The cover page of Fundamentals of Physics, Extended 12th edition (October 12, 2021). Fundamentals of Physics is a calculus -based physics textbook by David Halliday, Robert Resnick, and Jearl Walker. The textbook is currently in its 12th edition (published October, 2021). The current version is a revised version of the original 1960 textbook ...

  8. History of physics - Wikipedia

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    Ancient history. Elements of what became physics were drawn primarily from the fields of astronomy, optics, and mechanics, which were methodologically united through the study of geometry. These mathematical disciplines began in antiquity with the Babylonians and with Hellenistic writers such as Archimedes and Ptolemy.

  9. The Feynman Lectures on Physics - Wikipedia

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    The Feynman Lectures on Physics. The Feynman Lectures on Physics is a physics textbook based on a great number of lectures by Richard Feynman, a Nobel laureate who has sometimes been called "The Great Explainer". [ 1] The lectures were presented before undergraduate students at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), during 1961–1964.