Some people claim that quantum physics is too arcane and remote to have practical applications, but modern life would be impossible without our understanding of the quantum nature of light and matter.

Quantum mechanics, or quantum physics, is the body of scientific laws that describe the wacky behavior of photons, electrons and the other subatomic particles that make up the universe.

Accidental Science. In 1900, German theoretical physicist Max Planck accidentally gave birth to the field of quantum mechanics (aka quantum physics) when he tried to investigate why the results of ...

And that field of physics, which studies how quanta behave, is what we call quantum mechanics. Today, you learned about the ultraviolet catastrophe, and how it was resolved by Planck's law.

Having taught classical mechanics to advanced undergraduates in physics, I find this to be true. The following figure, which I've taken from chapter VI, sec. 37 of the Mechanics by Landau and ...

John Cramer, a UW physics professor emeritus, teamed up with Caltech electrical engineer and physicist Carver Mead to put forward an explanation for how the indefinite one-and-zero, alive-and-dead ...

Chemistry & Physics. Physics 202: Combining Vectors Graphically. Season 2 Episode 202 | 27m 30s. Students learn to combine component vectors graphically to produce resultants.

Worse, they don’t seem to want to understand it. By Sean Carroll Dr. Carroll is a physicist. “I think I can safely say that nobody really understands quantum mechanics,” observed the ...

In quantum mechanics, there is room for chance,” Danielsson tells Popular Mechanics. “Consciousness is a phenomenon associated with free will and free will makes use of the freedom that ...

Although it is the oldest branch of physics, the term "classical mechanics" is relatively new. Soon after 1900, a series of revolutions in mathematical thinking gave birth to new fields of inquiry ...