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Yes, but the author's claim seems to imply that it's something that applies only to quantum mechanics: When in fact it's not unique to...

A physicist was attending a conference in a large venue that happened to also be holding an economics conference. One morning the...

That's true for the basic principles of every physical theory. Look at it this way. A proof starts with assumptions and uses deductive...

Teaching here on the gulf coast, humidity has been the bane of my electrostatics demonstrations and student experiments. In grad school...

... rather vague. So I addressed a specific point of yours: I gave you examples on how this approach fails and leads to wrong...

The problem with Newton's formulation is not that it is too brief, but rather the opposite: He should have skipped the initial prose...

I also presented research-based and other lessons I learned during my professional development activities. Followed up with homework...

And continues to do so. Elementary education teachers just have students memorize the blurb, "For every action there is an equal but...

Wow! This thread seems to be degenerating into a quibble. Newton's contemporaries were 17th and 18th century natural philosophers. Not...

Depends on what you mean by "harder". The force exerted is the same but the rate at which energy is expended is greater.

Googling Venn diagram of UK will get you a plethora of these. Choose as you like.

It was my understanding that Great Britain consists of the nations of England, Scotland, and Wales. And the United Kingdom (UK) also...

Fair enough. I have only one piece of anecdotal evidence that I can specifically recall, but I think I have encountered other documented...

In the introductory physics classroom they are presented to students as quoted in the Principia. This was written by Newton for his...

These research results are, to me, reinforcement of my belief that the terms action and reaction should be all but expunged from the...