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Modern physics is a branch of physics that developed in the early 20th century and onward or branches greatly influenced by early 20th century physics. Notable branches of modern physics include quantum mechanics, special relativity, and general relativity.
The Revista Cubana de Física (Cuban Journal of Physics) is a biannual peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the Sociedad Cubana de Física (Cuban Physical Society) and the Physics Faculty (University of Havana) that was established in 1981.
Christiaan Huygens, a talented mathematician and physicist and older contemporary of Newton, was the first to successfully idealize a physical problem by a set of mathematical parameters in Horologium Oscillatorum (1673), and the first to fully mathematize a mechanistic explanation of an unobservable physical phenomenon in Traité de la ...
The Feynman Lectures on Physics is a physics textbook based on a great number of lectures by Richard Feynman, a Nobel laureate who has sometimes been called "The Great Explainer". [1]
According to Kaku, technological advances that we take for granted today were declared impossible 150 years ago. William Thomson Kelvin (1824–1907), a mathematical physicist and creator of the Kelvin scale said publicly that “heavier than air” flying machines were impossible: “He thought X-rays were a hoax, and that radio had no future.” [4] Likewise, Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937 ...
Castilla–La Mancha (UK: / k æ ˌ s t iː j ə l æ ˈ m æ n tʃ ə /, [6] US: /-l ɑː ˈ m ɑː n tʃ ə /; [7] Spanish: [kasˈtiʎa la ˈmantʃa] ⓘ) is an autonomous community of Spain.Comprising the provinces of Albacete, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara and Toledo, it was created in 1982.