Physics
- Power factor, or cos phi, of an AC electric power system
- Purple fringing, a type of chromatic aberration in photography
- Phenol formaldehyde resin, the earliest synthetic polymer
- Picofarad (pF) or petafarad (PF), multiples of farad, the SI unit of electric capacitance (petafarads rarely if ever used)
- Photon Factory, a synchrotron located at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan
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Famous quotes containing the word physics:
“The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced—by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.”
—Erich Fromm (1900–1980)
“But this invites the occult mind,
Cancels our physics with a sneer,
And spatters all we knew of denouement
Across the expedient and wicked stones.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)
“... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.”
—Tennessee Claflin (1846–1923)