The Department of Physics and Engineering Physics offers major programs of lecture and laboratory instruction leading to the bachelor of science in physics and the bachelor of science in engineering ...

THERE must be very few students of advanced physics who are unaware of the contents and scope of Richtmyer‘s important book. The appearance of the fourth edition is indeed most welcome and a matter of ...

What is quantum physics? Put simply, it’s the physics that explains how everything works: the best description we have of the nature of the particles that make up matter and the forces with which they ...

THE second edition of Vol. 2 of Prof. Haas's “Introduction to Theoretical Physics” deserves special mention, because in the four years which have elapsed since the publication of the first English ...

There is a new standard in town, and it's sort of a big deal. This new standard is the definition of the kilogram, the unit of mass in the SI system—the International System of Units). It replaces the ...

"Opposites charges attract; like charges repel" is a long-held fundamental principle of physics that you might have heard at school, but your teacher may have been wrong. Researchers from the ...