Talk:physics

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The example sentence uses "physics" to modify "class" and thus it makes the word look like an adjective! Hogghogg 17:46, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It is normally OK to use a noun in an attributive manner as if it was an adjective. This is how we get words like bus stop. SemperBlotto 17:58, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

That's true, SB, my (trvial) point is just that there might be a better sentence; of course, if I had one (and I ought to, since I am a physicist), I would put it in there! Hogghogg 18:29, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Example sentence[edit]

I think we need a better exmaple sentence than the following. There is no context. --Rising Sun 16:28, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  1. The physics of car crashes would not let Tom Cruise walk away like that.


what are the examples of physics?

Michio Kaku claims that physics isn't only a field of study, but the universal causal mechanism[edit]

Of course he's wrong, but many people make that mistake.