لقراءة النسخة العربية أنقر هنا.
This experiment shows that, when placed in a liquid, the object displaces a quantity of liquid of mass that is equal to the mass of the object itself. Moreover, the volume of the displaced liquid is equal to the volume of the immersed part of the object.
Given the accelerated development of AI, there might soon be a ‘Super AI’. And I am not talking about an AI with super faster processing or super deeper analysis. I am talking about an AI that may develop a form of “perception” fundamentally different from human ways of perceiving reality. To us, its view of the world may appear almost metaphysical.
These simulations were made using the Adobe Flash/AcrtionScript. You can download them and run then in Windows.
Looking back, I wish I had access to tools like DeepSeek. During my development process. In my recent experimenting with this open-source AI model, I’ve found it provides structured, research-paper-like responses with meaningful technical information from the first interaction. This would have significantly streamlined my research phase. Definitely, DeepSeek wouldn’t have appeared if ChatGPT hadn’t existed in the first place. But the super abilities that DeepSeek came with as it came into existence, plus being open-source, makes it super competent to the existing AI tools.
Newton’s first law states that when net force is zero, objects at rest remain at rest and objects in motion continue at constant velocity. This experiment uses an air cushion scooter to eliminate friction, demonstrating that with zero net force (weight balanced by track reaction), the scooter remains stationary when at rest and continues moving at constant speed when given an initial push, until an external force stops it.
I conducted countless experiments in class throughout the course of my many years of teaching physics to motivate the students. However, I had never anticipated to find that nothing delighted the students as much as the simplest activity where I or the students made a light bulb light up by connecting a switch, wires and a battery.
في الكتب العلمية المترجمة إلى العربية، تُترجم عبارة “common sense” خطأً إلى “العقل السليم” أو “المنطق السليم”، مما ينشئ تناقضاً منطقياً خطيراً. فالمصطلح الإنكليزي يشير إلى الحدس اليومي والتصورات البديهية، بينما “العقل السليم” بالعربية يعني الاستدلال المنطقي الصارم. عندما نقرأ أن ميكانيك الكم “يناقض العقل السليم”، يبدو وكأن الفيزياء الحديثة تتعارض مع المنطق ذاته، بينما الحقيقة أنها تتعارض فقط مع حدسنا المبني على خبرتنا اليومية. هذه المغالطة الترجمية قوّضت صورة الفيزياء في الثقافة العربية وأضعفت الثقة بالعلم الحديث.