Educational Annotations

Some of the comics have (more or less) informative annotations on a variety of topics. This is a list of the more educational ones, sorted by subject tags. Some annotations are listed under multiple subjects.

Comics tagged: physics

• 341 - Baryons; fermions; spin quantum number; antisymmetric rotation
• 389 - Mössbauer spectroscopy
• 417 - Carnot's theorem; thermodynamic efficiency
• 431 - The laws of thermodynamics
• 433 - Square-cube law; giant animals
• 434 - Heat conduction; heat radiation
• 617 - Special relativity; time dilation; length contraction; mass increase; Lorentz factor
• 762 - Time travel; paradox-free time travel; fixed history
• 958 - Causality
• 1186 - Razors; nanotechnology; fractals
• 1213 - Zero-point energy; quantum harmonic oscillators; mass-energy equivalence; cosmological constant
• 1276 - Vector fields; curl; gradient; potential
• 1420 - Maxwell's equations; electromagnetism; speed of light
• 1525 - Quantum mechanics; quantum numbers; fermions; bosons; Pauli exclusion principle
• 1554 - Quantum; quantisation of matter; quantisation of energy; quantum leap
• 1636 - Nuclear reactors; supersonic speed; Cherenkov radiation
• 1871 - Time travel; causality; paradoxes
• 1944 - Quantum mechanics; double slit experiment; wave-particle duality; Schrödinger's cat
• 2038 - Carbonated drinks in space
• 2052 - Palladium; William Wollaston; Wollaston prisms; Wollastonite
• 2056 - Hammer optimisation
• 2092 - Large Hadron Collider
• 2175 - Black holes; gravity; Newton's Laws; general relativity; black body radiation; measuring stars
• 2201 - Black holes; Schwarzchild radius
• 2213 - Isaac Newton
• 2257 - Inverse square law; Robert Hooke; dipoles
• 2295 - Newton's First Law of Motion
• 2324 - Newton's First Law of Motion, part 2
• 2348 - Friction
• 2354 - Alessandro Volta; batteries
• 2404 - Robert Hooke; Isaac Newton; the inverse square law
• 2459 - Newton's Third Law of Motion
• 2729 - Measuring altitude
• 2743 - Kepler's Laws
• 2759 - Christiaan Huygens
• 2809 - Archimedes' Principle; zeppelin lift
• 2839 - Quantum immortality
• 2846 - The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics
• 2859 - Antimatter
• 2874 - Feynman diagrams
• 3032 - Bubble-free ice
• 3200 - Atoms
• 3202 - Motion and heat
• 3206 - Refraction and lenses
• 3211 - Static electricity; electric charge
• 3212 - Photographic exposure
• 3214 - Models of the atom; atomic structure
• 3217 - The atomic nucleus; neutrons
• 3219 - Electromagnetic waves
• 3221 - Golden hour; sunrise and sunset colours
• 3223 - Black body radiation
• 3230 - Convex, concave, and fresnel lenses; lens aberrations
• 3234 - The black body problem
• 3241 - Luminiferous aether; the Michelson-Morley experiment
• 3242 - Clouds, cloud chambers
• 3247 - Special relativity; time dilation
• 3253 - Mass-energy equivalence
• 3255 - Wave-particle duality; relativistic momentum; photons
• 3256 - Osmosis; second law of thermodynamics; honey
• 3259 - Electron shells; energy levels; spectroscopy
• 3262 - Radioactive decay; radiocarbon dating
• 3267 - Nuclear fusion
• 3272 - Collisions; particle collisions
• 3280 - Stellar nucleosynthesis
• 3294 - Electric potential
• 3295 - Electric power
• 3300 - Antimatter and antiparticles
• 3313 - Particle physics; quark model
• 3331 - Eye scans
• 3332 - Greatest discoveries of science
• 3335 - Polarisation of light
• 3345 - Flying; history of flight
• 3356 - Force; energy
• 3378 - Helium
• 3380 - Musical scales; music theory
• 3449 - Deterministic processes; randomness; chaos; stochastic processes; stochastic calculus
• 3507 - Colour vision; colour blindness; EnChroma glasses
• 3552 - Gravitons; photons; W and Z bosons; gluons
• 3598 - Weight versus mass
• 3661 - Existential risk
• 3768 - Geothermal energy; global energy consumption
• 3843 - Wilhelm Röntgen Museum
• 3849 - Faraday cages
• 3944 - Portmanteau words; portmanteau luggage; Oliver Heaviside; complex numbers in electrical engineering; the Heaviside layer
• 4010 - Cockcroft-Walton electrostatic generator
• 4073 - Vantablack
• 4102 - Blacker than Vantablack
• 4291 - Lunar water and atmosphere
• 4292 - Feluccas; sailing speed down the Nile River; boat speed versus power hydrodynamics
• 4330 - Louis de Broglie; wave-particle duality
• 4356 - Whammy bars; vibrating strings; Mersenne's laws
• 4391 - String theory
• 4547 - Radio signal modulation, communicating with aliens
• 4611 - Vampire reflections
• 4857 - Antimatter and gravity
• 5086 - Helium isotopes
• 5107 - Mass spectrometry

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