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Your life on Mars
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What causes the Earth's magnetic field?
Are we really all made of stardust?
Could your phone harm your health?
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Who is Stephen Hawking?
Laser pest control
A beginners' guide to exoplanets
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Photoelectric Effect
An explanation of the photoelectric effect and its implications for quantum physics.
Photoelectric effect
An account of Einstein's discovery of the photoelectric effect and its implications.
The Brazil Nut Effect
Why do raisins always rise to the top of cereal pack? It's the Brazil nut effect.
The Mpemba Effect
The Mpemba Effect is a bizarre phenomenon where hot water freezes faster than cold water. This site gives a basic introduction to the ideas involved.
The Mpemba Effect
There is in fact a large body of literature about initially hot water freezing faster than cold water and this phenomenon has been labeled the "Mpemba effect".
The Photoelectric Effect
Java Applet simulating a photoelectric effect experiment, measuring current and stopping potential for a variety of metals and monochromatic wavelengths. A sophisticated simulated experiment.
Temperature effect on atomic motion
You can move the cursor up and down to see the effect of increasing temperature on the speed of particle motion.
Arthur Compton
Arthur Holly Compton (1891 - 1961) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927 for the discovery of the phenomenon named after him the Compton effect. The Compton effect is a reduction in the energy ...