Physics and Physicists

CERN Courier has a special issue this month celebrating what they consider as the 100th anniversary of Quantum Mechanics. Of course, the fo...

First of all, I'm old! I started being in a student in physics since the early 1980's (do your own math). During all of that time wh...

Nature has published a wonderful review of the discovery and progress that we have made in understanding BE condensation since its discover...

In one of my exam questions, I gave the students the average radius of Earth's orbit around the Sun at 150 million km. I told them that ...

I mentioned earlier of an article on the Davisson-Germer's experiment as part of the commemoration of 100 anniversary of Quantum Mechan...

As we continue to celebrate 100 years of Quantum Physics, this is a fun account of the famous Davisson-Germer experiment that was the first...

Rhett Allain posted this article on Wired on the 5 physics equation that "everyone" should know . They are, in the order that was ...

This is similar to my earlier query regarding the sequence of topics that are introduced. My earlier post was the order of introducing the ...

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) will be livestreaming the total Solar Eclipse of 2024. Here is the blurb from them: Don't jus...

In my algebra-based General Physics courses, I get many Biology/Pre-med/Life Science majors, so of course many of the examples that I choose...

Please read the article carefully before you freak out. Hint: look at the date. Zz.

This is a rather fun article in this week's Nature. It reveals some of the fascinating origin of words used in Physics and how they may...

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A while back, I wrote an article on how to impress upon the students of the need have units in most of the numbers that they write in physi...

This is a nice news article that provides a basic summary of the applications of physics in healthcare and medicine. It's another one o...

It's one of the reasons why I groan at popular media's reporting of science. This article is reporting on a paper that proposes a ...

Many of us knew that it would be a significant instrument. We just didn't know that in its early days, it would make this many discoveri...

If you missed my previous physics questions to ChatGPT, check them out here and here .  In this particular case, I asked ChatGPT a rather c...

I posted previously about ChatGPT's response to a projectile motion question . It got the answer correct, but with a wrong starting poin...

In my previous post, I mentioned an exercise that I often give to my General Physics students that are learning about projectile motion. Us...