"What's Physics Good For?" Archive

• Global-Positioning Satellites
• Spin-flip Laser
• Planets around other stars
• Accelerometers
• Value of a physics degree
• Friction at the atomic level
• Light at 17 m/s
• The energy idea
• Ion rocket engines
• What happens in a car crash?
• Auto fuel cells
• Mars!
• Fractional Quantum-Hall effect (Nobel Prize 1998)
• Physics in Medicine
• Physics applied to the motion of flocks of birds
• Anti-lock Braking Systems