How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a system—like the orbit of planets.

When a high-intensity laser interacts with plasma, the charged particles typically oscillate back and forth like waves on the ...

Physicists and instrument makers in Leiden have succeeded in optimizing a spring that almost completely filters out ...

In northern Australia, a newly described “ballista spider” appears to hunt only one species: the green tree ant. Its ...

use Mondays as regular lecture days Wednesdays as a mix of lectures and problem solving (or just one of them depending on needs and feedback from you). The first two weeks we will lecture both Monday ...