rvsundaram, Author at AmazingPhysicsForAll

Solar System

The Solar system consists of the Sun, eight planets, their moons, and other objects like dwarf planets, comets, asteroids, and Kuiper belt..

Learn the physics behind double rainbow, understand primary and secondary, and the dark band between the primary and the secondary.

Learn the physics behind rainbow, understand primary and secondary, and the significance of dark band between primary and secondary bows?

Why does our Moon show only one side of it to Earth bound observers? What are synchronous rotation and tidal locking? Get answers here.

Is the shape of the crescent Moon like a ‘C’ or inverted ‘C’? What factors determine the shape? Get answers to these questions and many more.

What makes the sky so blue? It is due to a phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering. Learn Rayleigh scattering and much more on the blue sky.

Galileo Galilei, the founder of scientific method, was an Italian astronomer. He made fundamental contributions to the science of motion.

Albert Einstein, a creative genius, and the most celebrated theoretical physicists in the world, was born in Ulm, Germany in 1879.

Michael Faraday was one of the greatest scientists of 19th century. Starting as bookbinder, he taught himself science to become a scientist.

This explains how we arrived at the equation that determines that the time taken by a freely falling object is independent of the mass.