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There is nothing more tedious than yet another boring lecture. Derek Raine describes how students at one university are learning their core physics without traditional lectures. End of the lecture?
The lectures of Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman were legendary. Footage of these lectures does exist, but they are most famously preserved in The Feynman Lectures. The three-volume ...
Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I ...
Ask professors about important physics lectures, and they'll probably point you toward Richard Feynman's famous 1964 talks. They led to one of the most popular physics books ever (over 1.5 million ...
This is the second article in a two-part series examining teaching techniques in college-level physics courses. The first part, which was printed in yesterday's paper, examined some of the bold leaps ...
In “The Feynman Lectures on Physics,” he attributes the difference in ages to the acceleration one twin experiences: the twin who accelerates ends up younger.
University of Bristol physics professor Sir Michael Berry visited the University of Wisconsin on Monday to for a seminar on geometric phase. The seminar was part of the Chemistry Department’s Willard ...
Drexel’s Department of Physics welcomed physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander to deliver the 24th Kaczmarczik Lecture.
(This letter was originally for Dr. Lawrence Krauss, who presented a lecture on physics Jan. 25 at the Wheeler Opera House.)Dear Editor:I want to express my profound appreciation for your book “Hiding ...