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Quick Hits
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Classical Physics.
Quick Hits
10 random key ideas.
1.
Sound does not change pitch when it moves to a new medium. Frequency remains constant while speed and wavelength adjust, revealing the quiet coherence of nature.
2.
Quote:
- Carl Sagan.
- circa 1980.
Meaning:
We are not separate from the universe—we are expressions of it, linked by matter, chemistry, and atoms.
3.
From History:
In 1842, Christian Doppler wrote about the doppler effect in stars. It was first confirmed with sound in 1845, then with light in 1848. The big moment came in 1868 when, for the first time, we could tell which stars were coming and going.
4.
Analog is the wave. Digital describes the wave. Analog mirrors the continuous shape, digital samples the shape. Most people do not hear a difference.
5.
Quote:
- Heraclitus.
- 500 BCE.
Meaning:
Change is the only form of permanence that exists—first glimpsed by ancient thinkers, and now woven into the fabric of modern science.
6.
From History:
In 1842, the Doppler effect was proposed by Christian Doppler. First confirmed for sound in 1845, then for light in 1848.
7.
Water doesn’t weaken a permanent magnet, but time eventually does.
8.
With the motion of life, cause and effect feel certain. We see stable patterns. But Hume reminds you, correlation does not guarantee causation.
9.
None. Both describe the same process of atoms or molecules gaining or losing electrons.
10.
Multiple sound waves including both harmonic and overtone waves, as well as the attack and decay which is the shape of the waves individually and in aggregate.
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