All 9 Uses
physics
in
The Bell Jar
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- At college I had to take a required course in physics and chemistry.
Chpt 3 *physics = the science of matter and energy
- The day I went into physics class it was death.†
Chpt 3
- I took the physics book back to my dormitory.†
Chpt 3
- This book was written by Mr. Manzi to explain physics to college girls, and if it worked on us he would try to have it published.†
Chpt 3
- I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck.†
Chpt 3
- Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.†
Chpt 3
- She was a big wheel-president of her class and a physics major and the college hockey champion.†
Chpt 5
- Joan with her physics books and her golf clubs and her badminton rackets and her breathy voice.†
Chpt 17
- They had taken away her physics books and the piles of dusty spiral pads full of lecture notes that had ringed her room, and she was confined to grounds again.†
Chpt 18
Definitions:
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(1)
(physics) the science of matter and energy and their interactions
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) During Shakespeare's time, physics could refer to alleviating pain or illness. As a noun, physics could refer to medications--especially laxatives.