Physics

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The International System of Units

When you measure something in physics, you need a standard everyone agrees on. Without that, measurements are meaningless. Over the centuries, different countries developed their own systems, and three of…

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Einstein Field Equations

The Einstein field equations (EFE) are a set of 16 coupled, hyperbolic-elliptic, nonlinear partial differential equations at the heart of general relativity. They describe how mass and energy curve the…

Bosons

What Are Bosons? In particle physics, a boson is a type of particle that obeys the rules of Bose-Einstein statistics. Every boson carries a quantum spin with an integer value:…

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Standard Model

One of the most surprising revelations of 20th-century physics was just how many elementary particles exist in the universe. The idea of fundamental, indivisible building blocks goes all the way…

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Special Relativity

Special relativity is one of those topics that sounds impossibly abstract until the moment it clicks. Once you see what Einstein actually did in 1905, you realize the whole theory…

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Kinematic Equations Made Easy

Here's the deal: if you can't solve kinematics problems in your sleep, physics will eat you alive. Every mechanics question—whether it's a car braking, a ball falling, or a wheel…

Boltzmann Constant

The Boltzmann constant is one of those numbers that quietly holds all of thermal physics together. It connects the energy of individual atoms and molecules to the temperature you read…

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Symmetry in Physical Laws

'Symmetry' has a special meaning in physics. A picture is said to be symmetrical if one side is somehow the same as the other side. Precisely, a thing is symmetrical…