In the Fall I'll be starting teaching again, after a semester away on sabbatical and then enjoying teaching relief during my first semester at Penn. I'll be teaching a course that I truly love, and ...
Equations are ordered, elegant mathematical constructs used to describe specific patterns. Can you imagine some formulas depict the very opposite: chaos and randomness? What's more intriguing, they ...
Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism and the Euler equation top a poll to find the greatest equations of all time. Robert P Crease discusses the results of his reader survey First among equals – ...
More than a century after Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his astonishing formulas for π in notebooks in India and England, physicists are finding that those same equations describe how nature behaves ...
Michio Kaku explores the eureka moment when Einstein came up with special relativity, the theory that spawned E = mc2. ByMichio Kaku Tuesday, October 11, 2005 NOVA Einstein realized that the world ...
Some questions in the exam will require you to recall and apply equations you have learned in class. Other questions will ask you to use the ‘Physics Equation Sheet’. This is a set list of equations ...