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Example sentences for "physics"

Lexicographically close words:
physicist; physicists; physicked; physicking; physicochemical; physikalische; physikalischen; physiocratic; physiognomic; physiognomical
  1. As for the Prince, the courtiers were never tired of discussing and admiring his wonderful knowledge of physics which led to his adjusting the weight of the hamper of Christmas presents to his own so nicely that he could not fall.

  2. The distinction between physics and chemistry is here well shown.

  3. Rishel, Teachers of Physics in the Chicago High Schools.

  4. In this view, the division line between chemistry and physics is not a distinct one.

  5. For, unless Archimedes is to be considered as an exception, scarcely any of the numerous branches of physics and mechanical philosophy, which constitute so great a portion of modern science, even attracted the attention of the ancients.

  6. He lodged near the Jardin du Roi, where alone, at that time, physics were attended to in Paris.

  7. This is the point of view most important in the philosophy of the Stoics; it thus showed itself in their physics also.

  8. Of the Epicurean method in philosophy we may say this, that it likewise has a side on which it possesses value, and we may in some measure assent when we hear, as we frequently do, the Epicurean physics favourably spoken of.

  9. However, speaking generally, only those belonging to earlier times had a physical element in their philosophy: those coming later neglected Physics entirely and kept alone to Logic and to Ethics.

  10. Amongst the special sciences treated by Aristotle, the Physics is contained in a whole series of physical treatises, which form a tolerably complete system of what constitutes the Philosophy of Nature in its whole extent.

  11. Yet if, on the one hand, what is physical in Aristotle is mainly philosophic and not experimental, he yet proceeded in his Physics in what may be called an empiric way.

  12. As regards this plan, there is no question that this is not the necessary order in which natural philosophy or physics must be treated.

  13. As regards the Physics of the Stoics, we may in the first place say that it does not contain much that is peculiar to itself, since it is rather a compendium of the Physics of older times, and more especially of that of Heraclitus.

  14. In modern physics the heavenly bodies, on the other hand, are endowed with weight, and seek to rush into the sun, but cannot do so on account of another force.

  15. The Physics of the Stoics is thus Heraclitean, though the logical element is entirely at one with Aristotle; and we may regard it as being such.

  16. The English consider what we call experimental physics to be Philosophy; a philosopher to them is anyone who makes investigations in, and possesses a theoretic knowledge of chemistry, mechanics, &c.

  17. It was looked upon as a fundamental principle or entity, and until chemistry and physics reached the stage of experimental sciences it was impossible to give a correct explanation of the phenomena it presents.

  18. Similarly, teaching must be enriched by correlating physics and mathematics, chemistry and physics, literature and music, history of literature and general history, until instruction has taken advantage of every vital relation among subjects.

  19. Utilitarian value of the study Of physics= But with regard to everyday occurrences a study of physics is necessary.

  20. The course in the principles of physics deals with the elementary notions of matter, motion, and force, and everyday illustrations and problems are sought.

  21. Teaching of advanced courses in physics= On the more advanced college courses which follow the general physics course little comment is needed.

  22. If such is the case, let him question perhaps whether any study of physics should be attempted, as this query may have different answers for different individuals.

  23. Wherever a rigorous analytic course is given those who have been well trained in descriptive physics do well in it in general.

  24. It is not our purpose to give a synopsis of the entire general physics course.

  25. These latter especially are encouraged, as this does much to offset current ideas that physics is a subject of unmitigated severity.

  26. They would not rest satisfied with ascertaining the minute corner of the field of philosophy, history, or physics in which a man recommended had done research.

  27. Should the teaching of college physics change its aim for different classes of students?

  28. But, as an examination in Physics ought to include (as in the London University) all the mathematical applications, short of the higher calculus, it is not likely that Mathematics would be often dropped.

  29. You cannot stand a thorough examination in chemistry without indirectly showing your knowledge of physics; and a testing examination in biology would guarantee, with some slight qualifications, both physics and chemistry.

  30. After receiving the modicum required, the student should pass on to the other sciences, and employ his strength in adding Experimental Physics and Chemistry to his stock.

  31. So a good chemist must have so much familiarity with Physics, as to make it bad economy on his part not to give in Physics as well.

  32. It was now time that the Aristotelian Physics should be clean swept away.

  33. Here he left his physics and became the mathematician.

  34. All Hollond's tastes were on the borderlands of sciences, where mathematics fades into metaphysics and physics merges in the abstrusest kind of mathematics.

  35. Investigations in solar physics which formerly held chief place in the research program have developed along unexpected lines.

  36. The standard candle used in physics gives so little light in comparison that we have to use an enormous number to express the quantity of light that the sun gives.

  37. But physics and biology were undeveloped sciences in Herschel's days.

  38. The physics of the sun, also, was by no means neglected; and his lifework earned for him the title of father of descriptive astronomy.

  39. That branch of physics which treats of the mechanics of liquids, or of their laws of equilibrium and of motion.

  40. Our young student showed at once a decided predilection for mathematics, and those branches of physics which were connected with mathematics, or depended upon them.

  41. He likewise perused Keil's Lectures on Astronomy, which at that time were considered as the best introduction to physics and astronomy.

  42. Meanwhile the proportion of those studying physics and chemistry has fallen off slightly.

  43. The appeal to authority cannot be permitted in economics any more than in chemistry, physics or astronomy.

  44. The aim was to pass on a body of acquired knowledge regarded as embracing all that was possible of attainment, and the authority of Aristotle in physics as well as in philosophy, and of Galen and Hippocrates in medicine was absolute.

  45. What is still more in conformity to the physics of antiquity is the circumstance of this grotto or cavern being in the very centre of the earth.

  46. The study of the Law isn't like the study of physics or whatever; these are manmade laws--commands, not descriptions.

  47. A Doctorate of Philosophy in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  48. Take next the method of experiment so characteristic of physics and chemistry.

  49. Revolutions in Science 71 Some Comments on the Theory of Relativity and the new Physics IV.

  50. Even today philosophers fumble with it, patching soliloquy with physics and physics with soliloquy.

  51. In respect to the nature of matter, I have indicated above the position of Locke: pictorially he accepted an ordinary atomism; scientifically, the physics of Newton.

  52. If classical physics needed this fundamental revision, near to experience and fruitful as it was, what revision will not romantic physics require?

  53. Mechanism in physics is favourable to liberty in politics and morals: each creature has a right to be what it spontaneously is, and not what some previous classification alleges that it ought to have been.

  54. Though not following the technique of Descartes, the physics of our own day realises his ideal, and traces in nature a mathematical dynamism, perfectly sufficient for exact prevision and mechanical art.

  55. It is not sufficient to have made physics sentimental, mathematics must be made so too.

  56. It is the business of the abstract sciences, Physics and Chemistry, to ascertain these laws: to discover how and under what conditions bodies may become aggregated, and what are the possible modes and results of chemical combination.

  57. We can go in and out through the physics lab," he said.

  58. Chi released the hold by announcing briefly, "Machine shop and physics department secure.

  59. From the physics lab came a rather oddly pitched echo.

  60. Gently removing the work piece from its mounting, he turned to the open double bulkhead that served as an air lock in emergencies and that separated his shop from the physics lab beyond, where Dr.

  61. You understand that I am feeling my way here, for what we have done and what I thought I was doing are quite different, and I am looking with hindsight now at math-physics from the point of reality of this thrust.

  62. The bird was not simply gliding, utilizing gravity or acquired momentum, he was actually circling horizontally in defiance of physics and mathematics.

  63. This feat is so much opposed to our general ideas of physics that those who have not seen it sometimes deny its actuality, and those who have only occasionally witnessed it subsequently doubt the evidence of their own eyes.

  64. The consideration of molecular physics is not the direct ground of human love and moral action, any more than it is the direct means of composing a noble picture or of enjoying great music.


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