Geometric optics is a confusing subject for many physics students, who often first encounter the subject in introductory college physics classes. Traditional instruction in geometric optics is not as ...

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the ...

Smarajit Triambak receives funding from the National Research Foundation, South Africa. As a physicist, I am trained to look for patterns in data. For example, the motion of the tiniest particles may ...