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When I left high school, I thought I’d seen the last of physics. What a fool I was. Like the urban legend that you’re never more than six feet from a spider, Physics Life reminded me that powerful scientific principles are at work all around us at all times (I feel a little better about the physics, though).

Physics Life presents students with a cartoon neighborhood consisting of sites like a home, a school, a playground, and a car factory. Exploring each site reveals the physics behind automobile lifts, telephones, swing sets, and all sorts of everyday objects. After reading Physics Life’s brief descriptions, you can click on a link to find the full details. Now you can learn that a laser printer works by creating an electrostatic version of your document.

Physics Life is full of information that will get your students thinking about how physics plays a big part in their lives. Hopefully that will also get them thinking about how their physics homework plays a big part in their GPA. -BILL FERRIS

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