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Participation in this is very important, and useful for you and fun. The most slippery substance in the world polytetrafluoroethene ptfe, or teflon was discovered accidentally. Physics is the branch of science that studies how the world around us behaves. The sheer vastness of it, along with the trillions upon trillions of objects in the many billion galaxies of the universe is almost incomprehensible to the human brain. See the fact file below for more information about physics. Join us for community, games, fun, learning, and team play. P is how fast work is done or energy is given from one thing to another. In fact, it can be weighed almost as accurately as iron or lead. Thats right, you didnt misread, here we have one thousand random and interesting facts about literally everything you could think of.
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You can also find the cosmic microwave, gamma ray burst and supernovae explosion in astronomy. Why physics uses humor to draw in the viewer while slipping in plenty of serious reasons to take a physics class. The banu musa sons of moses, whose books on geometry aroused so much interest in the ninth century, also wrote extensively on the relationship between physics and mechanics. Equally, if you feel weve missed any of your favourite physics weirdnesses off the list, do tell us that as well. It is a force which opposes the relative motion of the body 2.
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