This word, used with "theory" & "mechanics", is from the Latin for "how much"
It's the tendency of a body to stay at rest unless acted on by an outside force
It's compressed to run a pneumatic device like a jackhammer
In the 1800s scientists proposed a luminiferous ether to explain how this can travel in waves
Parents, the answer to this perennial kids' question is "Due to Rayleigh scattering"
The red shift of galaxies & the change in the pitch of a train whistle are examples of this man's effect
Type of mechanics illustrated here
In 1938 Otto Hahn & Fritz Strassman discovered nuclear fission by splitting atoms of this element
Sublimation is the process by which a solid changes into a gas without going through this stage
Term first used by James Watt for a unit equivalent to 550 foot-pounds of work per second