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  2. Cosmic microwave background - Wikipedia

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    [15]: 140 Richard C. Tolman showed in 1934 that expansion of the universe would cool blackbody radiation while maintaining a thermal spectrum. The cosmic microwave background was first predicted in 1948 by Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman, in a correction [16] they prepared for a paper by Alpher's PhD advisor George Gamow. [17]

  3. This incredible basketball trick makes physics look cooler ...

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    The Magnus Effect is something most people have never heard of until now that a YouTube clip explaining what it does showed how incredibly cool physics can be. These kids went to a 415-foot-high ...

  4. List of cosmic microwave background experiments - Wikipedia

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    A comparison of the sensitivity and resolution of WMAP with COBE and Penzias and Wilson's telescope, simulated data [1]. This list is a compilation of experiments measuring the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation anisotropies and polarization since the first detection of the CMB by Penzias and Wilson in 1964.

  5. Black body - Wikipedia

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    The cosmic microwave background radiation observed today is "the most perfect black body ever measured in nature". [52] It has a nearly ideal Planck spectrum at a temperature of about 2.7 K. It departs from the perfect isotropy of true black-body radiation by an observed anisotropy that varies with angle on the sky only to about one part in ...

  6. Newton's law of cooling - Wikipedia

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    In the study of heat transfer, Newton's law of cooling is a physical law which states that the rate of heat loss of a body is directly proportional to the difference in the temperatures between the body and its environment.

  7. Mpemba effect - Wikipedia

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    The headmaster invited Dr. Denis Osborne from the University College in Dar es Salaam to give a lecture on physics. After the lecture, Mpemba asked him, "If you take two similar containers with equal volumes of water, one at 35 °C (95 °F) and the other at 100 °C (212 °F), and put them into a freezer, the one that started at 100 °C (212 °F ...

  8. 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. According to physics, the ...

  9. History of physics - Wikipedia

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    Physics is a branch of science in which the primary objects of study are matter and energy.These topics were discussed by philosophers across many cultures in ancient times, but they had no means to distinguish causes of natural phenomena from superstitions.