Physics 120 - Modern Physics and Mechanics is an introductory course for honours science and engineering science students at Simon Fraser University. The content of this version of PHYS 120 is not ...
In modern physics, we have learned to formulate the laws for the behavior of matter, and for the large-scale organization of matter, in terms of standard models incorporating a very few parameters. We ...
In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...
In the early years of the 20th century the name of Albert Einstein achieved fame in popular culture. Few who recognized the name understood the theories that he developed. The ideas which caught the ...
THE theory of atomic structure has, during the past few years, reached a stage of sufficient success and stability for it to be possible to describe many of its features in a simple manner. There is a ...
A science festival's organisers claim they will host what could be the world's shortest physics lectures, which will be delivered in a shed. Two talks lasting two minutes each for an audience of one ...