How to Use physics in a Sentence

physics

noun
  • So, what came first for you: the volcanoes, or the physics?
    Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
  • For now, such clocks can at least confirm the old physics.
    Tom Vanderbilt, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • For All Mankind treats the future as a matter of physics.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The trailer shows things like sneaking, a creepy door, and some nice can physics.
    Andrew Webster, The Verge, 11 June 2023
  • There may be, in fact, multiple pieces of new physics at play.
    Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Two of its three founders were MIT grads who went on to teach physics at the university.
    Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
  • The banked angles allow for vehicles in each lane to find a speed where physics takes over and steers the car.
    Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The foundation of the work was one of the hotter trends in modern physics, holography.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The problem here is physics, which not even Tesla can alter.
    IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Defying the laws of physics, the world splinters and is put back together.
    Eve Hill-Agnus, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Some processes in physics happen in the blink of an eye while others happen in the blink of a photon.
    Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Cortes was the guest speaker that night for Sulzer’s class on the physics and neuroscience of music.
    Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Much of pitching is physics: how to leverage your body to get the most torque, and thus velocity.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Those forecasts draw on decades of research into the physics of rip currents.
    The Conversation, oregonlive, 22 July 2023
  • The underwater worlds are just fine, though there’s a lack of physics in the CGI action that rob the fights of dramatic weight.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • And though smartphone screens have become a lot stronger over the years, this phone’s survival is most likely because of physics.
    Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The physics of the event horizon is a long-standing problem in quantum mechanics.
    Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Meitner and Frisch were also nominated for the physics prize that year.
    Katrina Miller, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Seeing an increase in both dry and wet events may sound counterintuitive, but the physics are two sides of the same coin.
    Kasha Patel, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Now oil had made Hazim richer than physics ever could have.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The exit door plug landed in the southwest Portland backyard of high school physics teacher Bob Sauer.
    Terry Spencer, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
  • One is displayed outside the physics building at the Collège de France; the other is in the Ampère Museum.
    IEEE Spectrum, 11 July 2023
  • On Tuesday, three scientists won the physics prize for their work on how electrons zip around the atom in the tiniest fractions of seconds.
    Karl Ritter, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2023
  • And keep in mind that sea level rise will not unfold uniformly across US coastlines, due to quirks in the physics involved.
    WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • And this is part of why there is so much controversy about particle physics right now.
    Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The few other times that there's been a triple-dip La Nina have come after strong El Ninos and there's clear physics on why that happens.
    Seth Borenstein, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
  • In a straight line, there is nothing stopping them from sending all the battery can muster to the rear axle—except sanity and physics.
    Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 26 Mar. 2023
  • In Teslagrad 2, make use of the power of electromancy to solve physics puzzles and explore the world.
    Ash Parrish, The Verge, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The other uses computer modeling to re-create the physics of the sun and spin it forward.
    Javier Barbuzano, Quanta Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • In modern physics, this idea of nothingness has been making a comeback.
    Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023

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