When a certain quantity is removed from a fundamental equation, what is lost? Is it a phenomenon that can be calculated? Or is it the insight of the person who created the theory, or the clarity of ...

Lowry Kirkby reviews The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics by Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky Thirst for physics: Leonard Susskind's popular series of lectures ...

Transport equations lie at the heart of mathematical descriptions of the conservation and movement of quantities—mass, momentum, energy or more abstract densities—along prescribed vector fields. In ...

A research team led by Prof. Wang Qun from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has made significant progress in the theoretical study of ...

This is a Power Point on vector components. It includes using vector components to solve for the resultant vector, solving for x-components and solving for y-components. It explains the topic using ...

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: ...