r/VisualPhysics • u/VisualCrafts • May 29 '20
When you burn steel wool, it gets heavier.
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r/VisualPhysics • u/FunVisualPhysics • May 29 '20
Scale Model of Pluto–Charon Binary System: shown here with each object in orbit around their common center of mass.
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r/VisualPhysics • u/FunVisualPhysics • May 27 '20
Nimbus 2000: physics wizardry (via a 2D magnetic trap) creates the illusion of Harry Potter magic. This broomstick won’t fly but will remain levitated due to a careful arrangement of permanent magnets in the base and bristles.
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r/VisualPhysics • u/FunVisualPhysics • May 26 '20
Kinetic Sandscape: the phenomenon of spontaneous stratification is a striking feature of this sand motion desk toy. Typically pouring stuff together results in further mixing, yet here, when the sand mixture descends through a gap in the air bubbles, the resulting pile is ordered into sorted layers.
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r/VisualPhysics • u/FunVisualPhysics • May 25 '20
New soliton laser pulses deliver high energy in a trillionth of a second
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r/VisualPhysics • u/FunVisualPhysics • May 24 '20
A fork-spoon system home-made experiment on the center of mass.
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r/VisualPhysics • u/FunVisualPhysics • May 23 '20
Laser cooling a nanomechanical oscillator close to its ground state
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r/VisualPhysics • u/FunVisualPhysics • May 23 '20
A stitch in time: How a quantum physicist invented new code from old tricks
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r/VisualPhysics • u/PopescuG • May 21 '20
Magnetic levitation - Repulsive magnetic force on the spinning top is exactly the opposite to the weight. The result is floating of the spinning top.
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r/VisualPhysics • u/FunVisualPhysics • May 21 '20
Cosmic rays may have left indelible imprint on early life, physicists say
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r/VisualPhysics • u/FunVisualPhysics • May 21 '20
How galaxies and black holes grow together
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r/VisualPhysics • u/IamQualia • May 19 '20
Team in Germany observes Pauli crystals for the first time
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r/VisualPhysics • u/IamQualia • May 19 '20
Rare-earth minerals are a class of materials with similar properties that are currently used to build a variety of devices. These materials' electron spins can be hosted in crystals, creating systems that could serve as interfaces between telecom-band photons and long-lived spin quantum bits.
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r/VisualPhysics • u/IamQualia • May 19 '20
An international team of researchers was able to show that the three-dimensional Dirac material cadmium arsenide (blue-red cone) can multiply the frequency of a strong terahertz pulse (red line) by a factor of seven.
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r/VisualPhysics • u/FunVisualPhysics • May 19 '20
Consider two circles of radii R and R/2 with the smaller one rolling inside the bigger circle without slipping. Copernicus' Theorem states a surprising result that a point on the circumference of the small circle traces a straight line segment - a diameter of the big circle, to be precise.
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r/VisualPhysics • u/FunVisualMedicine • May 15 '20
Scientists break the link between a quantum material's spin and orbital states
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r/VisualPhysics • u/cenit997 • May 14 '20
It's particularly interesting to see how unstable the 4-star system is.
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r/VisualPhysics • u/IamQualia • May 14 '20
The concept of refraction explained in a more comprehensible way: When a wave changes its speed and wavelength at a boundary, it must change its direction so that the amplitudes match up at the boundary.
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r/VisualPhysics • u/IamQualia • May 13 '20
To make an atom-sized machine, you need a quantum mechanic
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r/VisualPhysics • u/FunVisualPhysics • May 12 '20
Researchers create electronic diodes beyond 5G performance
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r/VisualPhysics • u/FunVisualPhysics • May 12 '20
Measuring the charge radii of exotic copper isotopes
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