Physical Science







The Physics of a Toilet

A toilet has three main parts: a bowl, a tank, and a siphon. Four principles of physics suffice to explain how it works: potential energy, pressure, the siphon effect and buoyancy. The bowl supports the seat and receives the “deposit”…
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How Gravity actually Works

A STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF GRAVITATIONAL PHENOMENA. For three hundred years the theory of gravity has been dominated by the names of Einstein, Newton and Le Sage. Whereas Einstein and Newton restricted themselves to developing mathematical descriptions of the movement of…
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