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 ...

Presented by: Professor Paul Beale 2:30 p.m. Abstract: Science is a human endeavor. The discovery that the Universe began abruptly 13.8 billion years ago is one of the great scientific stories of the ...

All of Walter Lewin’s 8.01, 8.02, and 8.03 lectures are available on MIT OpenCourseWare: 8.01: Classical Mechanics (Fall 1999) 8.02: Electricity and Magnetism (Spring 2002) 8.03: Vibrations and Waves ...

“Physics and Dance” is the theme of the spring 2016 Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities, hosted by the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC). This is the image for the poster for the “Physics and ...

The lecture is one of the oldest forms of education there is. "Before printing someone would read the books to everybody who would copy them down," says Joe Redish, a physics professor at the ...

Texas A&M professor Tatiana Erukhimova has become a viral sensation thanks to her energetic demonstrations of physics experiments as part of the university's outreach programs. She now boasts a larger ...

A series of free lectures at the University of Chicago will describe how the machines that physicists have built to understand matter on the smallest scales over the last century have found additional ...

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 ...