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I have heard Richard Feynman saying this: "I am a one sided person,I have limited intelligence and I direct it in a particular way...I read a bit,go to the cinemas...but basically I am a one sided person". How he kept focus is really a mystery to me.

Physics for a "multi dimensional" person Most people have given me the advice that physics is for the kind of "devoted and dedicated" people who give it their everything. You need to focus solely on it, be (a lot)patient and not loose your interest in the way. I am ,what I would like to...

Thank you for all your replies... What if your university offers only astrophysics? It is a space-science and technology institute and the degree is astrophysics. After that can you go in any other area of physics?

I am in the final year of high school.Many colleges offer astrophysics courses after high school.I am interested in physics in general and would not like to commit myself to an area so early to an area. I am sure about my interest in physics but I don't know which area I would like to go in and...

this is the action reaction pair of normal force:the block applies a normal force on the table, which is equal to its weight, in response to which the table exerts a normal force on the block of the same magnitude.

I had the sixth edition of resnick,halliday and walker.It was good but I feel the 3rd edition was the best with many good questions now omitted and contained a bit of ''history" as well to create a background.

University physics and fundamentals of physics are both very popular and none of them can be said to be better than the other.I have fundamentals of physics and find it very good.I have seen university physics also and feel that it has more matter and covers many more things. Both of them are...

thank you very much.

Please look at the picture.I wanted to ask if water from A will go to B then to C and so on..

I wanted to ask another thing.When water rises in a ct , if a hole is made, then water does not come out.Has it anything to do with this ?

I have never read that.If that is the case then at a large scale,energy can be generated by this method by some innovations.We can use the gravitaional P.E. of water for that.

are we not increasing the potential energy of water without doing any work ? is it not violation of law of conservation of energy ?

then from low level to high level ? water rises in the wick then it should also fall down due to gravity

Can water be transferred from high level to low level using a cotton wick ?

Does the water approach the maximum height in a capillary tube with 0 velocity?I mean to say that does it go to the maximum height and just stop or perform simple harmonic motion ?Water is in equilibrium but velocity need not be 0 or is it(why?).The expression we derive for h should be for...