CU Boulder’s PhET Interactive Simulations are providing critical support to teachers, students and parents during the COVID-19 pandemic As schools adapt to the new normal of teaching remotely, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at Tampere University and the University of Eastern Finland have reached a milestone in a study where they derived a new kind of wave equation, which applies for accelerating waves. The ...

Waves are one way in which energy may be transferred between stores. Both mechanical and electromagnetic waves will transfer energy but not matter. Reflection, refraction, and sound waves - OCR ...

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 ...