Demonstrates basic principles of water, including surface tension, pressure, and buoyancy. It shows how water can hold more than its brim due to surface tension, how pressure increases with depth, and ...

Describe the kinetic theory and use it to describe the behavior of gases. Kinetic Theory, Atmospheric Pressure and Gas Pressure: Describe the kinetic theory and use it to describe the behavior of ...

The Romantic poet John Keats once defined a state of mind wherein a person "is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason." He called it ...

Many a high school smoker has built a gravity bong on the back porch to get stupid high on some mid-grade marijuana, but whatever contraption you rigged up with hot glue and soda bottles probably didn ...

In science, there are thousands of ways to measure the world around us that the average person may never encounter. For example: Pascals to measure pressure, Candles to measure light intensity, and ...

Light exerts a certain amount of pressure onto a body: sun sails could thus power space probes in the future. However, when light particles (photons) hit an individual molecule and knock out an ...

Prof. Bridgman has achieved an international reputation for his researches into the properties of matter under high pressures, so the volume under review is assured of a warm welcome by all who have ...