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The Principle of the Rocket
Here NASA explain how the principle of centre of mass is applied to produce the motion of rockets.
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Pascal's Principle
Explanation of principle behind pressure transfer through a liquid.
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Fermat's Principle
Describing this principle and deriving Snell's law from this.
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Archimedes' principle
This site gives a colourful description of Archimedes principle, boyancy, density and specific gravity.
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Archimedes Principle
This is a QuickTime movie demonstrating Archimedes Principle. There are links to a more complex mathematical definition.
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Pauli Exclusion Principle
No two electrons in an atom can have identical quantum numbers. This is an example of a general principle which applies not only to electrons but also to other particles of half-integer spin ...
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Archimedes
Archimedes (187 - 111 BC) was a native of Syracuse, Sicily. He is best known for his discovery of the relation between the surface and volume of a sphere and his formulation of a hydrostatic ...
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Val Logsdon Fitch
Val Logsdon Fitch (1913 - ) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1980 along with James W. Cronin for their discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles. Symmetries play a great role ...
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James W. Cronin
James W. Cronin (1931 - ) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1980 along with Val Logsdon Fitch for their discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles. Symmetries play a great role ...
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Wolfgang Pauli
Wolfgang Pauli (1900 - 1958) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1945 for his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle.
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