The latest web celeb is a physics professor. Professor Walter Lewin, who teaches an introductory physics course at MIT, has become an internet celebrity thank to his outrageous antics, daredevil ...

At an age when many kids prefer to play games on their phones, 11-year-old Vivan Mirchandani wanted to explore physics videos ...

Mostafa Fawzy became interested in physics in high school. It was the "elegance and paradox" of quantum theory that got his attention and led to his ...

While teaching large physics lectures at MIT, Walter H. G. Lewin radiates enthusiasm. "And now, I’m going to blow your mind," said Lewin before giving a lesson about electrical circuits that seem to ...

Jerrold R. Zacharias developed the first commercial atomic clock, made advances in radar systems, and helped build the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos during World War II. The adoption of atomic time ...

This is the first article in a two-part series discussing innovative teaching techniques in college physics classes. Today's installment will focus on interactive programs instated at other ...

For the past four minutes, Walter Lewin has been laboring at the chalkboard, bent on conveying a point—or rather, a series of small, swift points, so close together they resemble a perforation. The 76 ...