For nearly a century, scientists have understood how crystalline materials—such as metals and semiconductors—bend without ...

Students learn to combine component vectors graphically to produce resultants. Combining Vectors Graphically: Students learn to combine component vectors graphically to produce resultants and use the ...

Students typically do not delve deeply into the science of mechanics until early college introductory physics and engineering ...

Today we continue on our journey of understanding motion, direction, and velocity. Continuing in our journey of understanding motion, direction, and velocity... today, Shini introduces the ideas of ...

One of the most important topics taught at the start of introductory physics is the idea of vectors. Students really need proficiency with them if they are to use force and momentum. Just about every ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists – a Briton, a Frenchman and an American – for their ground-breaking discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics. John Clarke, ...

Quantum mechanics, or quantum physics, is the body of scientific laws that describe the wacky behavior of photons, electrons and the other subatomic particles that make up the universe. When you ...

In 1925, a young German physicist fled to the treeless island of Helgoland in the North Sea to ease a severe bout of hay fever. With nothing but daily walks and long swims to distract him, 23-year-old ...