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| If a ruby is heated, it temporarily loses its color. |
| If two waves pass a given point simultaneously, they have no effect on each other's subsequent motion. |
| If we were to consider all of the different kinds of motion in discussing the movement of an object, it would be very confusing, because even an object at rest is moving as the earth turns. |
| If light strikes a rough surface, it diffuses. |
| A light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles or about 9,460,800,000,000 kilometers. |
| The angle at which light reflects off of water to create a rainbow is 42 degrees. |
| Photons have zero mass. |
| The E. Coli bacterium propels itself with a 'motor' only one-millionth of an inch in diameter, a thousand times smaller than the tiniest motors built to date by man. The rotation of the bacterial motor comes from a current of protons. The efficiency of the motor approaches 100 per cent. |
| A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. |
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