Princeton Professor Andrew Houck’s calculus students had just finished grappling with a set of equations on the forces of tension and gravity when he pulled a large pendulum back to his shoulder and ...

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 ...

A series of 10 free lectures at the University of Chicago will explore the bewildering number and variety of energy transformations that make everyday conveniences possible. These are easy to take for ...

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 ...

Explore the laws of nature and atmospheric phenomena. Physics is the study of the fundamental properties of energy and matter. When you study physics at Dalhousie, you’ll gain insight into our complex ...