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...