While teaching large physics lectures at MIT, Walter H. G. Lewin radiates enthusiasm. "And now, I’m going to blow your mind," said Lewin before giving a lesson about electrical circuits that seem to ...

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A series of free lectures at the University of Chicago will describe how the machines that physicists have built to understand matter on the smallest scales over the last century have found additional ...

The world is in an extraordinary era of astronomy — thanks to a suite of existing and upcoming facilities designed to study the universe across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. The James Webb ...

Struggling to understand energy quantization? In this MI Physics Lecture Chapter 8, you’ll learn the concept of energy quantization quickly and clearly with step-by-step explanations designed for ...

John McGreevy is Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. He is a theoretical physicist with interests in quantum matter, string theory, and ...

For the past four minutes, Walter Lewin has been laboring at the chalkboard, bent on conveying a point—or rather, a series of small, swift points, so close together they resemble a perforation. The 76 ...

Learning through doodling: Richard Feynman lecture doodle by Perrin Ireland taken from the March 2014 issue of Physics World magazine. (Courtesy: Perrin Ireland) The drawing’s creator is professional ...

In his school days Gamow became very much interested in astronomy, examining the starry sky through a little telescope, his father's present on the thirteenth birthday of his son. Gamow then decided ...

Long before nanotechnology existed, Richard Feynman explained how atoms could store huge amounts of information in ...