(This letter was originally for Dr. Lawrence Krauss, who presented a lecture on physics Jan. 25 at the Wheeler Opera House.)Dear Editor:I want to express my profound appreciation for your book “Hiding ...

The Kaczmarczik Lecture is a significant event at Drexel University. For nearly 30 years, guest lecturers have included numerous Nobel Laureates and renowned scientists from around the world who ...

Over the decades, Feynman’s lectures have taken on a legendary status. CORRECTED PER NOTE BELOW: The Caltech lectures were also edited and illustrated to become the basis of one of Feynman’s most ...

This is the second article in a two-part series examining teaching techniques in college-level physics courses. The first part, which was printed in yesterday's paper, examined some of the bold leaps ...

In physics classes it is taught to include units when evaluating formulas with values and to always check that the units work out right in equations. That way we easily detect if we forgot to square a ...

Geometry has surprising consequences for the behaviour of matter. Living in three dimensions, we're familiar with liquids that abruptly freeze into solids, or crystals under pressure that suddenly ...

The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The experiment turned out to be hugely successful, spawning a book ...

Stacking dies introduces layers of complexity driven by multi-physics interactions, which must be addressed at the start of ...

In modern physics, we have learned to formulate the laws for the behavior of matter, and for the large-scale organization of matter, in terms of standard models incorporating a very few parameters. We ...