How to Use physics in a Sentence
physics
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So, what came first for you: the volcanoes, or the physics?
— Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023 -
For now, such clocks can at least confirm the old physics.
— Tom Vanderbilt, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023 -
That's the physics of airplane flight in just a few sentences.
— WIRED, 28 Oct. 2022 -
However, the physics of flight is more or less the same in all planes.
— Doug Drury, CNN, 8 Feb. 2023 -
For All Mankind treats the future as a matter of physics.
— Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2023 -
Not many 6-year-olds ask why the sky is blue and then get a treatise on the physics of light waves.
— Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2022 -
The trailer shows things like sneaking, a creepy door, and some nice can physics.
— Andrew Webster, The Verge, 11 June 2023 -
While the same laws of physics reign over Earth’s smallest and largest species, the balance of forces shifts with size.
— quantamagazine.org, 30 Sep. 2024 -
Just in terms of physics, that means air is taking longer to reach the very end of the train to trigger the air brakes on those cars.
— Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023 -
There may be, in fact, multiple pieces of new physics at play.
— Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024 -
Parade balloons seem to cheat physics in order to move through the sky.
— Rhett Allain, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2024 -
Two of its three founders were MIT grads who went on to teach physics at the university.
— Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023 -
The banked angles allow for vehicles in each lane to find a speed where physics takes over and steers the car.
— Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2023 -
And there’s not much to be done about it unless either the planet cools — or the laws of physics get amended.
— Peter Green, Quartz, 1 June 2024 -
The notion of a random walk is based in part on the physics concept of Brownian motion.
— Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Feb. 2023 -
Some looked into the chemistry of the problem, others into the physics.
— Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2024 -
The foundation of the work was one of the hotter trends in modern physics, holography.
— Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023 -
The problem here is physics, which not even Tesla can alter.
— IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023 -
This defies the physics of legacy media, in which things tend to get smaller.
— Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2022 -
His 6,000-student Bronx high school didn’t offer the math that physics requires.
— WIRED, 18 Oct. 2022 -
Defying the laws of physics, the world splinters and is put back together.
— Eve Hill-Agnus, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2023 -
Blake pauses for a moment, measuring the physics of it all.
— Andrew Sean Greer, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2024 -
Some processes in physics happen in the blink of an eye while others happen in the blink of a photon.
— Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2023 -
Cortes was the guest speaker that night for Sulzer’s class on the physics and neuroscience of music.
— Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023 -
In 2014, Bankman-Fried graduated with a degree in physics, and went to work at Jane Street.
— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022 -
Martin, who was teaching the 11th grade physics class, raised the idea with her students who were in the midst of selecting a class project.
— Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 3 May 2024 -
But what is the twentieth-century physics that is said to break down?
— Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2024 -
Much of pitching is physics: how to leverage your body to get the most torque, and thus velocity.
— Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2024 -
In high school, Rubin was ignored by a physics teacher who seemed surprised that girls were allowed to enroll in his class.
— Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024 -
In addition, the user might have stated that physics is altered, maybe telling the AI to pretend that the action is occurring on the Moon or Mars.
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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