Sentence examples for grasp of physics from inspiring English sources

But your grasp of physics is not.

"As anyone with a decent grasp of physics, biology, and materials science understands, Santa's advertised abilities are perfectly plausible," writes Mone.

He began the project with no background in textiles, industrial design, sewing, or aerodynamics, and only a passing grasp of physics, but, as he says, "I like to learn".

He had the vision, the instinctive grasp of physics, the ability to see "three-dimensional things", while Weber, who saw herself as a timid person, loth to give lectures, preferred her calculations.

In 1987 two Swiss artists, Peter Fischli and David Weiss with an extraordinary talent for using old bits of scrap, as well as a great grasp of physics and chemistry, created an installation film, Der Lauf Der Dingen (The Way Things Go).

Marcus does at one point express despair about his own grasp of physics (vii.67).67

Is it because his grasp of Stoic physics is so tenuous that he must be open to the possibility that Epicurean physics is true (Rist 1982, 43, Annas 2004, 116)?

But when she adds that dolphins seem "to have some grasp of the physics" behind these bubbles, the effort is too much.

Consolation came from the man in the shop near Tikal who moved on from the ancient Mayan grasp of quantum physics to congratulate us on bringing our boys to their culture.

Not every philosopher has a solid grasp of subatomic physics, but most know enough to grasp that, even if reality is eventually exhaustively accounted for through an enumeration of the kinds of particles and a few basic forces, this reality will still look nothing like what your average person-in-the-street takes reality to be.

Nor do we need to court the New Age crowd by echoing their familiar refrain, rooted in a thoroughly unsound grasp of subatomic physics, that, when one analyzes matter down to a certain elementary level, it loses its material character altogether and thereby shows itself to be somehow more mind-like.