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
  • Modern physics views the world through the lens of quantum fields, which soak all of spacetime.
    — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 18 May 2022
  • 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
  • The game itself is a lesson in physics, ideal for a high school field trip.
    — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 28 June 2022
  • 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
  • One bit of physics that produces this is called the Casimir effect, named for the Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir.
    — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 18 May 2022
  • In physics, power is the rate of energy change in units of watts (1 watt = 1 joule per second).
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • While such notions are counterintuitive to some, the physics is not.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025

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