In April 1969, Physics Today published a photograph of the American Physical Society’s 1932 banquet at the Ambassador Hotel in Atlantic City. The striking group portrait, dense with faces, was paired with an open call to readers: How many diners …
The 2024 AS Summer Progamme will provisionally take place 17-19th June. Please subscribe to our physics teacher mailing list to get announcements. It’s time for the 2023 Cardiff University Physics Summer School ! This extremely popular 3-day non-residential programme is …
Students and instructors in Physics I (8.01) discuss how AI has impacted how the class is taught Learning classical mechanics has long been a source of frustration for first-years at MIT. Even for those with high school experience in physics, …
📖Read Time: 7 minutes 📊Readability: Standard (High school level) 🔖Core Topics: itex, function, tex, linear, delta Introduction: “Convenient Notation” Approaching a Dirac delta function In Dirac’s Principles of Quantum Mechanics published in 1930 he introduced a “convenient notation” he referred …
Sunflowers are blooming, stores are trumpeting back-to-school sales, and professors are scrambling to chart out the courses they planned to develop in July. If you’re applying for an academic job this fall, now is the time to get your application …
Physics has 7 base units: seconds, metres, kilograms, amperes, kelvins, moles, and candela. Of those, we technically only need the first three to calculate the latter four. But according to a new paper, we can actually calculate the first three …
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Winds from the north made for wild conditions at Nazaré in Portugal. Photographer Ben Thouard caught these crashing waves in the late afternoon, when the low sun angle illuminated the spray of the surf. Every year teratons of salt and …
Gayoung Lee at Gizmodo today has responses to the question Whatever Happened to String Theory?. Carlo Rovelli and I give the obvious and accurate answer that it’s a failed idea, explaining why. The other answers exhibit the sad state of …
Most of the atomic clocks in the world — fewer than 500 in total — are housed at standards institutes and used to keep time for the planet. But the one inside UC Berkeley’s Kolkowitz Lab has a different mission. …