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"Easy Physics" is a podcast that delves into the bizarre and fascinating world of this amazing science. Join us as we use humor and plain language to explore many foundamental principles, and learn about each one of them in a few minutes. From particles that exist in multiple places at once to the immensity of the cosmos, we'll take a lighthearted look at the most mind-bending concepts in physics.Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Bite-sized, plain-language physics • quantum phenomena and paradoxes • relativity and spacetime concepts • particle physics (Standard Model, quarks, neutrinos, Higgs) • cosmology (expanding universe, multiverse) • scientists’ stories • experiments and materials (graphene, plasma, superfluidity)This podcast presents short, plain-language introductions to a wide range of physics topics, aiming to make mind-bending ideas more approachable through clear explanations and a light, occasionally humorous tone. Across the episodes, it spans core theoretical frameworks used to describe motion and physical systems, including ideas from classical mechanics and statistical physics that connect microscopic behavior to macroscopic outcomes.
A major thread is modern physics, especially quantum theory and particle physics. Listeners will encounter concepts tied to quantum behavior in matter, foundational puzzles and paradoxes about measurement and reality, and overviews of key entities and models used in high-energy physics. Related topics extend to quantum-enabled technologies and how quantum effects can produce unusual states of matter.
The podcast also leans into cosmology and relativity-oriented questions about the universe at large, with discussions that touch on spacetime, gravity, and speculative but physics-adjacent ideas about the structure of the cosmos. Some episodes focus on “big questions” where physics overlaps with philosophy, including how scientists interpret theories and what counts as an explanation.
Interwoven throughout are episodes highlighting notable scientists and historical developments that shaped the field, alongside applied areas where physics informs real-world domains such as medicine and climate-related phenomena. The show notes indicate the program is AI-generated and narrated, and the overall format is designed for quick, stand-alone learning segments rather than a single continuous course.
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Unraveling the Universe: The Magic of Hamiltonian Mechanics 2025-Jan-10 9 minutes |
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The Brazil Nut Effect 2024-Dec-30 10 minutes |
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Understanding Ergodicity: Unlocking Complexity in Physics 2024-Dec-23 9 minutes |
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The Mould Effect 2024-Dec-12 10 minutes |
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Graphene 2024-Dec-06 10 minutes |
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Superfluidity: The Liquid That Defies Gravity | Quantum Physics Made Simple 2024-Dec-02 10 minutes |
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Wormholes 2024-Dec-02 9 minutes |
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The Physics Of Time Travel 2024-Aug-29 4 minutes |
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The Multiverse Hypothesis 2024-Aug-22 5 minutes |
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The Concept Of Entropy 2024-Aug-15 5 minutes |
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The Anthropic Principle 2024-Aug-08 4 minutes |
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Stephen Hawking 2024-Aug-01 4 minutes |
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Standard Model 2024-Jul-25 5 minutes |
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Richard Feynman 2024-Jul-18 5 minutes |
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Quarks 2024-Jul-11 4 minutes |
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Physics Behind Plasma 2024-Jul-04 5 minutes |
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Physics and Philosophy 2024-Jun-27 5 minutes |
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Oppenheimer's Story 2024-Jun-20 5 minutes |
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Nobel Prize In Physics 2024-Jun-13 5 minutes |
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Nikola Tesla And Alternating Current 2024-Jun-06 4 minutes |
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The Anthropic Principle 2024-Jun-05 7 minutes |
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Neutrinos 2024-May-30 4 minutes |
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Higgs Boson 2024-May-23 4 minutes |
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Gravitons 2024-May-16 5 minutes |
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Niels Bohr and Quantum Mechanics 2024-Apr-19 4 minutes |
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Michael Faraday 2024-Apr-17 6 minutes |
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Medical Physics 2024-Apr-10 5 minutes |
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Max Planck and the birth of the Quantum Theory 2024-Apr-08 5 minutes |
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Wigner's Friend Paradox 2024-Mar-13 2 minutes |
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Marie Curie And Radioactivity 2024-Feb-29 5 minutes |
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Quantum Computing and how it will change the world 2024-Feb-29 5 minutes |
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Erwin Schrödinger and Quantum Mechanics 2024-Feb-19 5 minutes |
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Lewis Strauss' And Oppenheimer's Story 2024-Feb-19 5 minutes |
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James Clerk Maxwell 2024-Feb-19 4 minutes |
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Galileo Galilei and the Telescope 2024-Feb-19 5 minutes |
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Edwin Hubble and the Expanding Universe 2024-Feb-15 5 minutes |
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Coriolis effect and climate change 2024-Feb-13 5 minutes |
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Enrico Fermi and Nuclear Reactions 2024-Feb-11 4 minutes |
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Climate change and how it works 2024-Feb-09 5 minutes |
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The Curie Point 2024-Feb-03 5 minutes |
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Mass Increase In Relativity 2024-Feb-01 4 minutes |
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De Broglie-Bohm Theory 2024-Jan-25 |
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The Shapiro Time Delay 2024-Jan-19 4 minutes |
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Thomas Precession 2024-Jan-18 |
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The Klein Bottle 2024-Jan-13 4 minutes |
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The Geiger-Nuttall Law 2024-Jan-09 4 minutes |
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Feynman's Checkerboard Model 2024-Jan-08 2 minutes |
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Sakharov Oscillations 2024-Jan-02 |
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Ehrenfest Paradox 2023-Dec-29 |
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Franck-Hertz Experiment 2023-Dec-26 |
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Feynman Diagrams 2023-Dec-21 |
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Bessel Functions 2023-Dec-21 |
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Norton's Dome 2023-Dec-20 |
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Fine Structure Constant 2023-Dec-13 |
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Transformers and Inductors 2023-Dec-08 7 minutes |
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Berry Phase 2023-Dec-06 |
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Eddy Currents and Magnetic Damping 2023-Dec-01 7 minutes |
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Paramagnetism 2023-Nov-29 |
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Gravitational Waves and LIGO Experiment 2023-Nov-24 7 minutes |
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Pulsar and Magnetar 2023-Nov-22 |
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Tidal Forces and Gravitational Interactions 2023-Nov-17 7 minutes |
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Electromagnetic Spectrum 2023-Nov-15 5 minutes |
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Mass-Energy Equivalence 2023-Nov-15 3 minutes |
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Dark Matter and its Gravitational Effects 2023-Nov-12 8 minutes |
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Magnetic Materials and Properties 2023-Nov-12 5 minutes |
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Gravitational Lensing 2023-Nov-11 7 minutes |
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Antennas and Radiowaves 2023-Nov-11 7 minutes |
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The Equivalence Principle 2023-Nov-11 7 minutes |
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Compton Scattering 2023-Nov-07 |
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Isospin Symmetry 2023-Nov-03 3 minutes |
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Radioactive Decay 2023-Oct-27 3 minutes |
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Nuclear Fusion 2023-Oct-20 4 minutes |
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Nuclear Fission 2023-Oct-13 3 minutes |
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Law of Work and Energy 2023-Oct-06 3 minutes |
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Gauge Symmetry 2023-Sep-29 3 minutes |
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Conservation of Momentum 2023-Sep-22 3 minutes |
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Conservation of Energy 2023-Sep-15 3 minutes |
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Conservation of Angular Momentum 2023-Sep-08 3 minutes |
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Capillary Action 2023-Aug-31 3 minutes |
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Law of Projectiles 2023-Aug-30 3 minutes |
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Topological States of Matter 2023-Aug-27 4 minutes |
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Buoyancy 2023-Aug-26 4 minutes |
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Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff Limit 2023-Aug-26 3 minutes |
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String Theory 2023-Aug-25 4 minutes |
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Einstein-Rosen Bridge 2023-Aug-24 3 minutes |
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Chandrasekhar Limit 2023-Aug-24 4 minutes |
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Life of Werner Heisenberg 2023-Aug-16 4 minutes |
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Jet Propulsion 2023-Aug-15 3 minutes |
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Time Crystals 2023-Aug-15 2 minutes |
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The Twin Paradox 2023-Aug-08 1 minute |
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Project Manhattan 2023-Aug-08 6 minutes |
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The Quantum Pigeonhole Principle 2023-Aug-06 1 minute |
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The Papinian Vine Effect 2023-Aug-02 1 minute |
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The Möbius Strip 2023-Jul-31 1 minute |
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The Kapitsa-Dirac Effect 2023-Jul-27 2 minutes |
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The Casimir-Polder Force 2023-Jul-25 1 minute |
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Quantum Beat 2023-Jul-23 1 minute |
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Quantum levitation 2023-Jul-17 1 minute |
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Inflationary universe 2023-Jul-12 2 minutes |
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Geometric Phase 2023-Jul-01 1 minute |
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Muon G-2 Anomaly 2023-Jun-28 2 minutes |
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Fermi Paradox 2023-Jun-24 2 minutes |
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Bell's Theorem 2023-Jun-23 2 minutes |
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Quantum foam 2023-Jun-21 2 minutes |
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Poynting-Robertson effect 2023-Jun-21 2 minutes |
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The Stark effect 2023-Jun-17 1 minute |
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The Rutherford scattering experiment 2023-Jun-17 1 minute |
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The Josephson effect 2023-Jun-17 1 minute |
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Van der Waals forces 2023-Jun-17 2 minutes |
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The observer effect 2023-Jun-17 2 minutes |
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The Lamb shift 2023-Jun-17 1 minute |
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Spontaneous symmetry breaking 2023-Jun-17 2 minutes |
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Piezoelectric effect 2023-Jun-17 2 minutes |
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Photoelectric effect 2023-Jun-17 1 minute |
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Photoacoustic effect 2023-Jun-17 1 minute |
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Peltier effect 2023-Jun-17 2 minutes |
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Meissner effect 2023-Jun-17 2 minutes |
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Magnus effect 2023-Jun-17 1 minute |
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Mach effect 2023-Jun-17 2 minutes |
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Hawking radiation 2023-Jun-17 2 minutes |
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Hall Effect 2023-Jun-17 1 minute |
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Gyroscopic effect 2023-Jun-17 2 minutes |
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Faraday effect 2023-Jun-17 2 minutes |
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Compton scattering 2023-Jun-17 1 minute |
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Coriolis effect 2023-Jun-16 2 minutes |
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Capillary action 2023-Jun-16 1 minute |
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Bernoulli's principle 2023-Jun-16 2 minutes |
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Mathematical Physics 2023-Jun-16 2 minutes |
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Geophysics 2023-Jun-16 1 minute |
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Fluid Dynamics 2023-Jun-16 2 minutes |
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Biomechanics 2023-Jun-16 2 minutes |
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Astroparticle Physics 2023-Jun-16 2 minutes |
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Nanophysics 2023-Jun-16 2 minutes |
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Atomic Force Microscopy 2023-May-08 2 minutes |
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X-Ray Cristallography 2023-May-08 2 minutes |
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Quantum Gravity 2023-May-08 2 minutes |
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Quantum Chaos 2023-May-08 2 minutes |
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Ultrasonics 2023-May-08 2 minutes |
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Superfluidity 2023-May-08 2 minutes |
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Nonlinear Dynamics 2023-May-08 1 minute |
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Plasma Physics 2023-May-08 2 minutes |
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Superconductivity 2023-May-08 2 minutes |
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Gravitational Waves 2023-May-08 2 minutes |
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Neutron 2023-May-08 1 minute |
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Proton 2023-May-08 1 minute |
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Tau 2023-May-08 2 minutes |
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Muon 2023-May-08 2 minutes |
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Neutrino 2023-May-08 1 minute |
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Up Quark 2023-May-08 1 minute |
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Strange Quark 2023-May-08 2 minutes |
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Charm Quark 2023-May-07 2 minutes |
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Bottom Quark 2023-May-07 1 minute |
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Higgs Boson 2023-May-07 2 minutes |
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Top Quark 2023-May-07 2 minutes |
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W and Z bosons 2023-May-07 2 minutes |
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Gauss' Law For Magnetism 2023-Apr-19 1 minute |
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Gauge Invariance 2023-Apr-19 2 minutes |
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Faraday's Law Of Electromagnetic Induction 2023-Apr-19 2 minutes |
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Equivalence Principle 2023-Apr-19 2 minutes |
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Doppler Effect 2023-Apr-19 1 minute |
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CPT Symmetry 2023-Apr-19 1 minute |
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Momentum Conservation Principle 2023-Apr-14 1 minute |
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Charge Conservation Principle 2023-Apr-14 2 minutes |
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Boyle's Law 2023-Apr-14 1 minute |
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Bernoulli's Principle 2023-Apr-07 1 minute |
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Avogadro's Law 2023-Apr-07 2 minutes |
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Ampere's Circuital Law 2023-Apr-07 1 minute |
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The Perpetual Motion Machines 2023-Mar-18 3 minutes |
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Scientists: The Rivalry Between Tesla and Edison 2023-Mar-16 4 minutes |
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The Quantum Tunnel Effect 2023-Mar-14 5 minutes |
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The Special Relativity Theory 2023-Mar-12 3 minutes |
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The General Relativity Theory 2023-Mar-10 6 minutes |
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The Boltzmann Brain Paradox 2023-Mar-08 3 minutes |
The Uncertainty Principle2023-Mar-07 4 minutes |