On August 8, 1902, English theoretical physicist Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was born. Dirac is best known for his fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics.
On October 7, 1885, Danish physicist and Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr was born. Bohr made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
MIT Professor Walter Lewin, Physics, Classical Mechanics, Lecture No. 08: Friction
This lecture deals exclusively with frictional forces.
Prof. Lewin demonstrates a strange experiment, where a flea is moving a thick book.
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