How the World Works: A Guide to Science's Greatest Discoveries"Explanations of the people and discoveries that have contributed to our world view today" including "24 major scientic concepts everyone should know ... A-Z format." |
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... objects within the everyday realm of experience . It is now known that these laws do not hold inside the atom or for objects moving at velocities near the speed of light , for which Einstein's relativity theory is more accurate . Newton ...
... objects within the everyday realm of experience . It is now known that these laws do not hold inside the atom or for objects moving at velocities near the speed of light , for which Einstein's relativity theory is more accurate . Newton ...
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... objects have one form , some have the other , and some have nei- ther . Objects having the same charge ( be it negative or positive ) repel one another , while objects having different charges attract each other . The principal natural ...
... objects have one form , some have the other , and some have nei- ther . Objects having the same charge ( be it negative or positive ) repel one another , while objects having different charges attract each other . The principal natural ...
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... object be- comes hotter , it expands , and as the hotter object cools , it shrinks . It is exactly as if a liquid were flowing be- tween the two objects except for two things : You can't see heat , and the weight of the two objects does ...
... object be- comes hotter , it expands , and as the hotter object cools , it shrinks . It is exactly as if a liquid were flowing be- tween the two objects except for two things : You can't see heat , and the weight of the two objects does ...
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