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Richard Tilghman Weidner
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Emeritus Professor of Physics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Author of Physics and others.

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A diagram of a cylindrical vessel containing gas, with a movable piston held down by a weight. Countless small dots beneath the piston represent gas particles in rapid, random motion, illustrating Bernoulli's model of gas pressure.
Physics, science that deals with the structure of matter and the interactions between the fundamental constituents of the observable universe. In the broadest sense, physics (from the Greek physikos) is concerned with all aspects of nature on both the macroscopic and submicroscopic levels. Its…
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