Physics offers a cross-discipline perspective to understanding other subjects. The purpose of this paper is to provide examples of physics in literature that physics and astronomy teachers can use to give students an indication of the relevance of science as depicted in the humanities. It is not possible to cite the thousands of examples available. I have tried to select authors whom students would be reading in high school and in college undergraduate English classes: in particular Joseph Conrad, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Shakespeare, H. G. Wells, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Norman Mailer, and an author currently in vogue, Dan Brown. I am sure many reading this article will come up with their own examples.

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1.
J.
 
Conrad
,
Heart of Darkness
(
Dover
,
New York
,
1990
), p.
1
.
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2.
A time-lapse video of a Thames River tidal change may be found on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsR_ RUYJXHo.
3.
S. T.
 
Coleridge
,
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,”
 
English Romantic Writers
, edited by
David
 
Perkins
 (
Harcourt, Brace & World
,
New York
,
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), p.
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4.
W.
 
Shakespeare
,
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
, edited by
Henry Norman
 
Hudson
 (
Ginn and Company
,
Boston
,
1916
), p.
3
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5.
Sylvan
 
Barnet
 (ed.),
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, edited by
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,
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6.
Ref. 4, p. 3n.
7.
H. G.
 
Wells
,
The Invisible Man
(
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,
New York
,
1988
), pp.
79
–
80
.
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8.
Ibid., p. 81.
9.
Ibid., p. 103.
10.
Ibid.
11.
A YouTube video of an x-ray of an esophagus during an esophagraphic diagnosis may be found at http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=fCQ_MrhhGvI.
12.
W.
 
Leatherbarrow
,
Fedor Dostoevsky
(
Twayne Publishers
,
Boston
,
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), p.
147
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13.
F.
 
Dostoevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
, translated by Constance Garnett (
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,
New York
,
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), p.
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14.
N.
 
Mailer
,
The Naked and the Dead
(
Henry Holt and Company
,
New York
,
1998
), p.
565
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15.
Those wanting the specifications to make these calculations may find online in the Internet Archive a declassified pdf technical manual, 105-mm Howitzer M3 and Howitzer Carriages M3 and M3A1, used during WWII at http://archive.org/ details/TM9-1326.
16.
Ref. 14, p. 570.
17.
D.
 
Brown
,
Angels and Demons
(
Pocket Star Books
,
New York
,
2000
), p.
87
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18.
Ibid., p. 75.
19.
Ibid., p. 78.
20.
Gerald
 
Gabrielse
,
“Slow antihydrogen,”
 
Phys. Today
 
63
(
3
),
68
(March
2010
).
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