Physics and Physicists

The AIP has produced one of the most informative historical account of the history of quantum entanglement after EPR, especially on its deve...

I gave this prompt to ChatGPT: Sketch an object moving in a circular path, showing the tangential velocity at 4 different points along its p...

I got the new Dwarf Mini smart telescope for my birthday this year. I never had a desire for a telescope before even though images of these ...

A rather interesting post on AI's ability to actually do real physics research that beginning graduate students are expected to do. Mor...

It's unusual that a Nobel Prize in Physics is given to physicists working in the field that was the same as my PhD research work. It f i...

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...