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7. Sorry, Chuck.
Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoon of them
would be equal to the weight of Earth’s entire population.
In fact, Scientists agree that even Chuck Norris couldn’t
bench press a neutron star.
Aleksandra Sokaroska | Factinate
6. Dizzy stars.
Neutron stars are the fastest spinning objects known in
the universe. Pulsars are a particular type of neutron star
that emits a beam of radiation that can be observed as a
pulse of light. The rate of this pulse allows astronomers to
measure the rotation. The fastest spinning known pulsar
is the catchily-titled PSR J1748-2446ad, which spins at
over 70,000 kilometres per second.
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5. Creating singularities.
Dying stars create black holes. Like a good old chap, our
Sun is going to end its life quietly. When its nuclear fuel
burns out, it’ll slowly fade into a white dwarf. That’s not
the case for far more massive stars. Let’s say you have a
star that’s about 20 times more massive than the Sun.
When this monster runs out of fuel, gravity violently
overwhelms and collapses the core and other layers are
flung into space. This is called a supernova. The
remaining core collapses into a singularity — a spot of
infinitely dense mass and almost no volume. That’s
another name for a black hole.
Aleksandra Sokaroska | Factinate
4. High praise.
Using the Equivalence Principle, Einstein is the man who
discovered relativity. Here’s what Stephen Hawking had
to say about his work: “Einstein’s use of the equivalence
of inertial and gravitational mass to derive his principle of
equivalence, and eventually all of general relativity,
amounts to a relentless march of logical reasoning
unmatched in the history of human thought.” That’s high
praise from one smart dude to another!
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2. Perpetual motion.
Newton’s First Law of Motion explains how inertia affects
moving and non-moving objects must remain at rest or
move at a constant speed in a straight line unless acted
upon by an unbalanced force.
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sheldon Probably all the lazy people out there must be interested in knowing
this that the energy is added to the moving object with increased speed.
Since mass and energy is equivalent, then while increasing speed, the
object’s mass also increases. As you approach speed of light, mass tends to
increase dramatically. But cars and air planes don’t fall in this category
because the increase of speed is temporary in these things.
8. 8. Black Holes are not Black in color
blackhole Another interesting fact about Physics is that the famous physicist,
Stephen Hawking who proposed the existence of Black hole discovered a
radiation called “Hawking radiation” which makes the black hole glow and
gives off light across whole spectrum.
phones Don’t get surprised that much. Physics has all the answers. Based on the
formula of resistance, body’s electrons repel the objects similarly when we
touch the screen of phone. The current circuit is broken, potential drop at the
point you touch and sensed by a sensor, implementing required action.
foam All the empty space of universe is not empty. The particles constantly pop
into and out of existence and are called virtual particles. They exist for fraction
of seconds, break some fundamental laws of physics and this does not matter.
This phenomenon is known as “Quantum foam”. It is like shifting bubbles in
the head of soft drink.
sugarcube Atoms are made of protons, neutrons and electrons along with
empty space. So if we gather all the humanity at one place and remove all
the empty spaces from the atom, it would fit in a small sugar cube and that
would weigh 5 billion tons because of being extremely dense!
Mind blowing, isn’t it!!
52. The average velocity of an object does not tell us anything about what
happens to it between the starting point and ending point, however.
53. The smaller the time intervals considered in a motion, the more detailed
the information. Carrying this process to its logical conclusion, we are left
with an infinitesimally small interval. Over such an interval, the average
velocity becomes the instantaneous velocity, or the velocity at a specific
moment.
54. What does speed mean?
In everyday language, most people use the terms speed and velocity
interchangeably. In physics, however, they do not have the same meaning,
and they are distinct concepts. One major difference is that speed has no
direction. Thus, speed is a scalar. Just as we need to distinguish between
instantaneous velocity and average velocity, we also need to distinguish
between instantaneous speed and average speed.
55. since distance traveled can be greater than the magnitude of displacement,
the average speed can be greater than the magnitude of the average velocity.
For example, if you drive to a store and return home in half an hour and your
car’s odometer shows the total distance traveled was 6 km, then your
average speed was 12 \dfrac{\text {km}}{\text{hr}}12hrkm12, start
fraction, k, m, divided by, h, r, end fraction.
56. How are position vs. time graphs useful?
Many people feel about graphs the same way they do about going to the
dentist: a vague sense of anxiety and a strong desire for the experience to be
over with as quickly as possible. But position graphs can be beautiful, and
they are an efficient way of visually representing a vast amount of
information about the motion of an object in a conveniently small space.
57.What does the vertical axis represent on a position graph?
The vertical axis represents the position of the object. For example, if you
read the value of the graph below at a particular time you will get the
position of the object in meters.
58. What does the slope represent on a position graph?
The slope of a position graph represents the velocity of the object. So the
value of the slope at a particular time represents the velocity of the object at
that instant.
59. This is also true for a position graph where the slope is changing. For the
example graph of position vs. time below, the red line shows you the slope at
a particular time. Try sliding the dot below horizontally to see what the slope
of the graph looks like for particular moments in time.
60. What does the curvature on a position graph mean?
Look at the graph below. It looks curvy since it's not just made out of
straight line segments. If a position graph is curved, the slope will be
changing, which also means the velocity is changing. Changing velocity
implies acceleration. So, curvature in a graph means the object is
accelerating, changing velocity/slope.
61. What does acceleration mean?
Compared to displacement and velocity, acceleration is like the angry, fire-
breathing dragon of motion variables. It can be violent; some people are
scared of it; and if it's big, it forces you to take notice. That feeling you get
when you're sitting in a plane during take-off, or slamming on the brakes in a
car, or turning a corner at a high speed in a go kart are all situations where
you are accelerating.
62. If you’re not changing your speed and you’re not changing your direction,
then you simply cannot be accelerating—no matter how fast you’re going.
So, a jet moving with a constant velocity at 800 miles per hour along a
straight line has zero acceleration, even though the jet is moving really fast,
since the velocity isn’t changing. When the jet lands and quickly comes to a
stop, it will have acceleration since it’s slowing down.
63. What's confusing about acceleration?
I have to warn you that acceleration is one of the first really tricky ideas in
physics. The problem isn’t that people lack an intuition about acceleration.
Many people do have an intuition about acceleration, which unfortunately
happens to be wrong much of the time. As Mark Twain said, “It ain’t what
you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that
just ain’t so.”
64.Another way to say this is that if the acceleration has the same sign as the
velocity, the object will be speeding up. And if the acceleration has the
opposite sign as the velocity, the object will be slowing down.
65. What does the vertical axis represent on a velocity graph?
The vertical axis represents the velocity of the object. This probably sounds
obvious, but be forewarned—velocity graphs are notoriously difficult to
interpret. People get so used to finding velocity by determining the slope—
as would be done with a position graph—they forget that for velocity graphs
the value of the vertical axis is giving the velocity.
66.What does the slope represent on a velocity graph?
The slope of a velocity graph represents the acceleration of the object. So,
the value of the slope at a particular time represents the acceleration of the
object at that instant.
67.What does the area under a velocity graph represent?
The area under a velocity graph represents the displacement of the object. To
see why, consider the following graph of motion that shows an object
maintaining a constant velocity of 6 meters per second for a time of 5
seconds.
68.What does the vertical axis represent on an acceleration graph?
The vertical axis represents the acceleration of the object.
69. What does the slope represent on an acceleration graph?
The slope of an acceleration graph represents a quantity called the jerk. The
jerk is the rate of change of the acceleration.
70. What does the area represent on an acceleration graph?
The area under an acceleration graph represents the change in velocity. In
other words, the area under the acceleration graph for a certain time interval
is equal to the change in velocity during that time interval
71. What is a freely flying object—i.e., a projectile?
it might seem like the fact that the kinematic formulas only work for time
intervals of constant acceleration would severely limit the applicability of
these formulas. However one of the most common forms of motion, free fall,
just happens to be constant acceleration.
72. How do you select and use a kinematic formula?
We choose the kinematic formula that includes both the unknown variable
we're looking for and three of the kinematic variables we already know. This
way, we can solve for the unknown we want to find, which will be the only
unknown in the formula.
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