
The Physics behind Kepler’s Laws
Kepler’s laws of planetary motion are not really laws of physics. To understand the reason behind these laws, we need to consider Newton’s law of motion. […]
Kepler’s laws of planetary motion are not really laws of physics. To understand the reason behind these laws, we need to consider Newton’s law of motion. […]
Astrophysics covers a vast range of scales, from nanometers to billions of light years. It is a fascinating science that needs the help of special maps and charts to be understood. […]
The study of astrophysics requires different units of measurement than the standard ones. Thus, we have radius of the Earth, solar radius, AU, light year, and parsec as units to measure distances in space. […]
Margaret Burbidge’s enthusiasm for astronomy led her to applying for a postdoctoral research position at Mount Wilson. However, she was turned down as women were barred from staying on the mountain and working as lead observers. […]
It seems amazing that using data from observations of the present, we can come to a conclusion of how the universe’s state was in the past, about 14 billion years ago. […]
How have the theories of Einstein and other key physicists influenced modern technology? Test yourself in our fun quiz. […]
To discover more particles, it’s necessary to build particle accelerators with high power and energy. The more energy the machines have, the more massive the number of particles produced. […]
An 89-year-old retiree has fulfilled his dream of becoming a physicist. Manfred Steiner of Rhode Island earned his Ph.D. in physics after defending his dissertation at Brown University in Providence. Physics governs nearly everything we do. […]
Even though scientists base their beliefs on facts, they disagree on how they interpret their theories and this separates them into realists and non-realists. […]
In classical economics, the idea was that we ought to be able to model the flow of money in the marketplace on our vision of energy flowing in a physical system. […]
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