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Things at home that have to do with physics explain

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  1. Just about everything.

    Cooking/refrigeration - heat transfer

    Plumbing - pressure / gravity

    Lighting/appliances/entertainment - electricity

    Heating/ventilation/air conditioning - electricity, dynamics, heat transfer


  2. A Toaster: Electricity

    A Refrigerator Magnet: Magnetism

    The Microwave: Physical optics (the protective screen in the door) and Wave theory

    Your Car: Springs, Thermodynamics

    The Oven: Convection and Conduction of heat

    Walking around the house: Friction and Newton's Laws of Motion

    Drop an Egg on the Floor: Gravity

    Your Computer: Solid State Physics

    The Water Pipes: Fluid Flow, Conservation of Mass

    Electrical Wires: EM waves

    A scale or Thermometer: Taking physical measurements

    Putting Salt in the Pasta Water: Colligiative properties (Boiling Point elevation)

    Your Freezer: States of matter and changing from one to another.

    And so many more.

    Anytime you interact with matter, physics is involved.

    -Fred

  3. Everything in your home, in fact everything in the world, or in the universe "has to do with physics", as nothing would exist without it.

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