American Journal of Physics®
Edward Purcell
- Tides
- Baseball thrown from a spacecraft
- Tidal friction
- Escaping the earth
- Balancing a pencil
- Escaping from an asteroid
- Spinning a water drop
- Value of g at surface of a gold nucleus
- Sag of a guitar string
- Scattering of a hydrogen ion
- Length of the day due to cars
- Height of a basketball bounce
- Electromagnetic energy in your eyeball
- Thermal energy in the Earth
- Ratio of food to fuel consumption
- Squirting water from a heat engine
- Energy released by a burning candle
- Energy in a light bulb and in oil
- Daily energy from the sun
- Temperature of the Earth's crust
- Entropy and adding creasm to coffee
- U. S. electrical energy use
- Airplane Collisions
- Baseball batting average
- Breathing a molecule
- Probability of a line from the earth hitting a star
- Oxygen supply
- Energy to feed a person
- Transmitting the information in the human genome
- Pump power of the heart
- Galaxy collisions
- Cosmic Microwave Background
- Opacity of intergalactic space
- Amount of starlight
- Light deflection from a neutron star
- Moon's path relative to the sun
- Motion of an electron in the solar system
- Probability of a line from the earth hitting a star
- Star visibility
- Cosmic Microwave Background
- Magnetically lifting a snowflake
- Reversal of Earth's magnetic field
- Radiation from a basketball
- Energy transmitted by a power line
- Electrical energy in a capacitor
- Drift speed of an electron
- Energy stored in the earth's magnetic field
- Electrons in a raindrop
- Raleigh scattering
- Radiation from an electron captures by a proton