With Part 1 we covered the origins of physics, the questions that gave birth to it as well as the though process of early physicists. With Part 2, physics came of age with the application of the scientific method and mathematics.
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In this third part of the series, we discuss how physics itself is applied to the real world and its problems.

For much of human history, harnessing power have been the main goal in most of its engineering endeavors. However there's another story to that, that of transmitting and controlling that power. There's no point to have something if you can't use it or control it.

This article is an overview of that history...

Continuing from Part 1, we will now explore how physics expands from the realm of observable theories to experimental practices.

​Kepler and Brahe had laid the foundations, though it takes an occultist and  part-time alchemist to unravel the mathematical language of physics.

Probably one of the most complicated machines we have ever invented, the jet engine is a marvel of ingenuity.

​It elegantly frames the relations between physics and engineering, theory and application. And yet most people have no idea how they work. Let us give you a quick tour.

The following is a tale of triumph and tragedy,  of brilliance and ignorance, and of how the passion of one man formed the foundations of our modern civilisation.

Though Antoine Lavoisier should be remembered for more than his achievements and death, it is his legacy and his sacrifice that has sealed his place in the annals history.