Materials Science (P&A) Materials Sciences (M&T) Quantum Physics The forces of attraction between atoms or molecules, which the Dutch physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals discovered almost 150 ...
Barry Lienert, a geophysicist at the University of Hawaii, provides the following explanation. We start by determining the mass of the Earth. Issac Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation tells us that ...
Ionic bonds are formed between a metal and non-metal, for example sodium chloride. An atom of sodium will lose an electron and form a positive ion. An atom of chlorine will gain an electron and form a ...