Physics and Physicists

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For the past couple of years, the school has been pushing various departments to start adopting Open Educational Resources (OER) for variou...

The physics of high-Tc superconductors (or the cuprate superconductors) continues to be elusive. After its first discovery in mid 1980's...

You would think that once the cosmic microwave background (CMB) has been discovered and studied, that was the end of it. That is not how sci...

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Previous posts: My favorite web applications - Part 1 My favorite web applications - Part 2 Continuing with this series, here is my next fav...

So I'm reading this article in Physics Today of a study done on citation numbers and frequency of citation of papers where the first an...

It's interesting how something things come in clumps. I had just posted a paper on the effect of sharing tasks during lab work on stude...

This is a rather eye-opening paper on the impact of how students work together during lab work. It seems that when students divide specific...

 Previous posts: My favorite web applications - Part 1 It is rather appropriate that the next web application on my list can actually make f...

First of all, I'm not sure why this is called "Quantum sensor". Maybe it is because it is using solid-state physics principles...

I was asked to show this video to students on how to set up their own vector calculator using Excel. The calculator gives you the ability to...

Remember way back when the LHC was about to start up and a couple of nutcases decided to file a lawsuit in the US to stop it? If you missed ...

I've used online web applications as supplement or enhancement to the class material, but during the pandemic when we went remote, I rel...

When classes had to go remote or online due to the pandemic, the biggest issue for general physics courses was, among other things, the labs...

First of all, a clarification for those who are not aware of this. The term "accessible" as used here in the US within this contex...

A while ago, I read this article on battling those who believe that the Earth is flat but forgot to highlight it here. I won't say much...

This news report on The Telegraph written by Joe Pinkstone about the James Webb Space Telescope reaching its final position has a basic fla...

This is not a critique of the winning photo. Rather, it is an example of a "click bait", where the news report tries to entice you...

It has been more than 20 months since we went completely remote due to the pandemic. I still remember the chaos and panic when we started al...