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Physics Quotes

Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.

Archimedes

What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

Richard Feynman

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

Stephen Hawking

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Albert Einstein

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Albert Einstein

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

Albert Einstein

I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details.

Albert Einstein

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Principles of Physics

• Principles of Classical Mechanics - Classical mechanics was the order which was believed to be true for a long time, and still it is applied to systems like machines, motionns of planets and many other macroscopic phenomena. Newton's laws of motion are the main laws that explain a wide range of phenomena.
  
  
• Principles of Electricity and Magnetism - Ideas of electromagnetism have been developing over a long period of time, and the different ideas were unified by Maxwell in his famous eqations of electromagnetism. Read about the ideas of fields and how they interact with charges.
  
  
• Principles of Quantum Physics - Quantum Physics was developed when the laws of classical physics could no longer explain the newly discovered phenomena at that time. Now it has explained many new phenomena and has given insight into the way the world is constituted at atomic scale. It has many counter-intutive ideas and strange predictions.
  
  
• Principles of Relativity - One of the most fascinating and revolutionary discoveries were the principles of relativity. Einstein resolved a mystery by changing the ideas of space and time help by physicists at that time. Phenomena like time dilation, length contraction are difficult to understand through common sense and yet very fascinating. General relativity is considered to be one of the biggest intellectual achievements of the human mind.
  
  
• Principles of Optics
  
  
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Applications of Physics

Read about the various applications of physics in daily life, industrial processes, research and advanced technologies.

The applications are classified according the field of physics they are most closely related to.

• Classical Mechanics - Probably the closest to our daily experiences, classical mechanics finds many applications in industry as well as research. Mechanical design and automation in industry, and simulation in research rely on principles of classical mechanics.
  
  
• Electricity and Magnetism - Development in the knowledge of Electricity and Magnetism has revolutionalised the technological development in all fields of physics. The generator and motor designed using the phenomena of Electromagnetic Induction are widely used machines. Technology and industry today depends largely on power. Knowledge of magnetism has helped us build precise instruments and mechanical systems.
  
  
• Thermodynamics
  
  
• Optics
  
  
• Nuclear Physics

History of Physics

Know about how the various theories in physics were developed at, sometime spanning centuries, while sometimes growing very quickly.

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