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navigation, search  Naïve physics or folk physics is the
untrained human perception of basic physical phenomena. In the
field of artificial intelligence the study of naïve physics is a
part of the effort to formalize the common knowledge of human
beings.  Many ideas of folk physics are simplifications,
misunderstandings, or misperceptions of well-understood
phenomena, incapable of giving useful predictions of detailed
experiments, or simply are contradicted by more thorough
observations. They may sometimes be true, be true in certain
limited cases, be true as a good first approximation to a more
complex effect, or predict the same effect but misunderstand the
underlying mechanism.  Naïve physics can also be defined as an
intuitive understanding all humans have about objects in the
physical world.[1] Cognitive psychologists are delving deeper
into these phenomena with promising results. Psychological
studies indicate that certain notions of the phys