I teach two-semester College Physics and General Physics curricula often. The first course covers kinematics, dynamics, energy, momentum, rotational and harmonic motion, waves, fluid dynamics, heat, ...

IT is not often that a text-book, published under a familar title, presents so many novel and valuable features as Mr. Edser's latest production, “General Physics for Students.” It is scarcely ...

Black hole singularities should not exist, according to theories of quantum mechanics. New tweaks to Einstein's equations of general relativity could finally do away with them, and explain what ...

I had planned for part 2 of this series about π to be about the classical area formula for the circle, but then something new came up. Well, by new I mean a new proof of something old, and it's a ...

According to general relativity, the spacetime is a four-dimensional object that has to obey an equation, called the Einstein equation, which explains how the matter curves the spacetime.

Canada’s premier science institute is trying to jump-start a revolution in physics, in part by encouraging the randomness of human brilliance, writes Ivan Semeniuk. For inspiration on the way ...

Ph.D., General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Dr. Vladimir V. Fedorov received his PhD degree in physics for his work on color center lasers and laser ...