Machine learning is becoming an essential part of a physicist’s toolkit. How should new students learn to use it? When Radha Mastandrea started her undergraduate physics program at MIT in 2015, she ...
Dive into Python Physics Lesson 18 and master numerical integration! In this tutorial, we explain step by step how to use Python to approximate integrals, solve physics problems, and analyze motion ...
Middle school students learned more about a sustainable future this week at Franklin College. Arbin Thapaliya, associate professor of physics, was awarded a $25,000 grant from the Ball Venture Fund to ...
Participants in a Physics Summer Camp, designed for high school students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, take a tour of Mississippi State’s Raspet Flight Research Laboratory. Each day, campers are ...
Muons tend to scatter more from high-atomic-number materials, so the technique is particularly sensitive to the presence of materials such as uranium. As a result, it has been used to create systems ...
The renowned cosmologist wants to make the ideas of modern physics accessible to anyone who’s willing to do a bit of extra thinking. The following is an excerpt from The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: ...
In his years as a physics teacher, students often asked Mark Whalley why they had to learn the subject when most of them would never directly use it in their careers. Having never been satisfied with ...