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  2. PhysicsOverflow - Wikipedia

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    In addition to the two primary forms of content, the PhysicsOverflow community also welcomes discussions on unsolved problems, and hosts a chat section for discussions on topics generally of interest to physicists and students of physics, such as those related to recent events in physics, physics academia, and the publishing process.

  3. Force Concept Inventory - Wikipedia

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    The Force Concept Inventory is a test measuring mastery of concepts commonly taught in a first semester of physics developed by Hestenes, Halloun, Wells, and Swackhamer (1985). It was the first such " concept inventory " and several others have been developed since for a variety of topics.

  4. Leaky bucket - Wikipedia

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    Water can be added intermittently to the bucket, which leaks out at a constant rate until empty, and will also overflow when full. The leaky bucket is an algorithm based on an analogy of how a bucket with a constant leak will overflow if either the average rate at which water is poured in exceeds the rate at which the bucket leaks or if more ...

  5. Double-slit experiment - Wikipedia

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    A laboratory double-slit assembly; distance between top posts is approximately 2.5 cm (one inch). Near-field intensity distribution patterns for plasmonic slits with equal widths (A) and non-equal widths (B). In 1967, Pfleegor and Mandel demonstrated two-source interference using two separate lasers as light sources. [60] [61]

  6. Experimental testing of time dilation - Wikipedia

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    The emergence of the muons is caused by the collision of cosmic rays with the upper atmosphere, after which the muons reach Earth. The probability that muons can reach the Earth depends on their half-life, which itself is modified by the relativistic corrections of two quantities: a) the mean lifetime of muons and b) the length between the upper and lower atmosphere (at Earth's surface).

  7. Tests of relativistic energy and momentum - Wikipedia

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    Einstein proposed such a test in the paper where he first stated the equivalence of mass and energy, mentioning the radioactive decay of radium as a possibility. [35] The first test in a nuclear reaction, however, used the absorption of an incident proton by lithium-7, which then breaks into two alpha particles. The change in mass corresponded ...

  8. Galileo's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment - Wikipedia

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    The two sciences were the science of motion, which became the foundation-stone of physics, and the science of materials and construction, an important contribution to engineering. Galileo arrived at his hypothesis by a famous thought experiment outlined in his book On Motion. [14] He writes: Salviati. If then we take two bodies whose natural ...

  9. Yale Wright Laboratory - Wikipedia

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    The history of Wright Lab begins with the creation of accelerator physics in the 1920s, and continues with the creation of the Arthur W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory (WNSL) to operate the Yale MP-1 "Emperor" tandem Van de Graaff heavy ion accelerator from 1966 until 2011, and continues further with its transformation into the new Wright Lab, which was dedicated in 2017, to enable Wright ...