Visited Isaac Newton’s tomb inside Westminster Abbey London. Translation in comments.2mo ⋅ Pixote23 ⋅ r/Physics
From calculus to string theory and QCD - all my notes from a 4 year master's!2yr ⋅ arfamorish ⋅ r/Physics
The first detailed images of atoms (electron orbitals, 2009) came from Kharkov, Ukraine1yr ⋅ jarekduda ⋅ r/Physics
The 2020 Nobel prize in physics goes to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez2yr ⋅ Derice ⋅ r/Physics
Not sure if this allowed, but today I returned to the same lecture hall where I took my first physics class to give the weekly colloquium. I got a little emotional thinking about how far I’ve come!1yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Physics
We wrote Schrodingers Equation! It ain‘t much but at least it‘s honest work1yr ⋅ Arctic-Air ⋅ r/Physics
In 1960, R. Sutton wrote a paper describing the following simple experiment: if a mass slides down an inclined plane and launches with angle α, the range doesn't depend on g - it's the same on Earth or on Mars.5mo ⋅ Zee2A ⋅ r/Physics
In the early 1930s Richard Feynman's high school did not offer any courses on calculus. He decided to teach himself calculus and read Calculus for the Practical Man and took meticulous notes. Here is a look inside one of Feynman's notebooks.1mo ⋅ SKRyanrr ⋅ r/Physics
On 16th May 1931 in Oxford, England, Einstein gave a lecture on relativity. This is the blackboard that he explained the apparent expansion of the universe1yr ⋅ cal_exeter ⋅ r/Physics
Why can't you just let me try solve it with an extra repulsion term, it can't be *that* hard?3wk ⋅ MortSmith ⋅ r/Physics
Researchers found that accelerometer data from smartphones can reveal people's location, passwords, body features, age, gender, level of intoxication, driving style, and be used to reconstruct words spoken next to the device.2yr ⋅ bayashad ⋅ r/Physics
Double Pendulum, written in Python and visualized with matplotlib (github code in comments)1yr ⋅ OHUGITHO ⋅ r/Physics
How the moon would look from Earth if it orbited at its Roche limit, over 20 times closer1yr ⋅ quarkymatter ⋅ r/Physics
So I’m at the spring meeting of APS, and I think APS has given me my favorite piece of conference swag ever1mo ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Physics
Plot of the lifetimes of contributors to quantum mechanics, 1820-2020 [OC]1yr ⋅ _disengage_ ⋅ r/Physics
Astronomers have discovered a star traveling at 8% the speed of light, 24000 km/s around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way!3yr ⋅ alpha__lyrae ⋅ r/Physics
New 50p coins out this year in the United Kingdom, celebrating the legacy of Sir Isaac Newton.6yr ⋅ MohamedShaban ⋅ r/Physics
I just recently won a logo design competition for the ATHENA detector at the Electron-Ion Collider!2yr ⋅ quantanaut ⋅ r/Physics
On this day 1908 Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light, great day for science, thanks to sir Albert Einstein.2yr ⋅ Mvishoriya ⋅ r/Physics
The 2020 Ig Nobel prize in physics is awarded to Ivan Maksymov and Andriy Pototsky for determining, experimentally, what happens to the shape of a living earthworm when one vibrates the earthworm at high frequency2yr ⋅ dukwon ⋅ r/Physics
Inspired by hudsmith's previous post, here are the first 50 eigenstates in a potential that consists of four inverted Gaussian wells2yr ⋅ --CreativeUsername ⋅ r/Physics
The 2022 Ig Nobel physics prize is awarded to two groups: Frank Fish and Zhi-Ming Yuan et al, for trying to understand how ducklings manage to swim in formation9mo ⋅ dukwon ⋅ r/Physics
I graduated today and this is what one of the professors from our department had to say about us in our group chat.4yr ⋅ shyggar ⋅ r/Physics
J.J. Thomson, Nobel prize winning physicist, had 6 of his students win a Nobel prize in physics, and 2 win a Nobel prize in chemistry. His son also won a Nobel prize in physics.1wk ⋅ Zee2A ⋅ r/Physics
Bose letter to Einstein which accompanied his paper describing the first developments towards Bose-Einstein statistics2yr ⋅ _mak_ ⋅ r/Physics
This is a high-efficiency ultracold neutron detector. It was used in a new study to perform the world's most precise measurement of a decaying neutron lifetime.1yr ⋅ Agha_shadi ⋅ r/Physics
Today in class we verified Archimedes' Principle to an accuracy of 0.7%1yr ⋅ ultimateman55 ⋅ r/Physics
Got the light tweezers working in order to manipulate molecular qubits!!2yr ⋅ moiettoietnous ⋅ r/Physics
Video series on fluid simulation - all self-coded - link in the comments3mo ⋅ braintruffle ⋅ r/Physics
My physics professor is retiring after this semester and we made him this cake.5yr ⋅ KingShindo ⋅ r/Physics
Why do diagrams depicting the tides always show two tidal bulges on opposite sides of Earth? Shouldn't water just pool on the side closest to the moon? What causes the second bulge?1yr ⋅ Andy-roo77 ⋅ r/Physics
Raw data vs published data for room temperature superconductor with very unconventional background subtraction techniques (credits to commenters on PeerPub)2mo ⋅ CMScientist ⋅ r/Physics
I got to attend a lecture this weekend by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell! She discovered the first pulsars, but famously did not get the Nobel Prize in Physics for her work. What an inspiring scientist!3yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Physics
This remarkable photo shows a single atom trapped by electric fields. Shot by David Nadlinger (University of Oxford). This picture was taken through a window of the ultra-high vacuum chamber that houses the trap.5yr ⋅ ajitjohnson ⋅ r/Physics
Dirac and Feynman. One, a man of few words and the other quite the opposite. Both geniuses.4yr ⋅ wonderphy6 ⋅ r/Physics
2 decades worth of footage of stars orbiting a black hole - is this real and accurate?5yr ⋅ dangl ⋅ r/Physics
Omg. I always wanted to see this since my high school physics textbook had a problem using Smoots, and today I finally did!2yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/Physics
(C++) A simulation of Coulomb's inverse square law for electrically charged particles (with electric field)2yr ⋅ longuyen2306 ⋅ r/Physics
1927 group photo of some of the top minds in the history of science and physics.5yr ⋅ Der_Ist ⋅ r/Physics
Nuclear experts, how true are Russian claims about possible disaster at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant ?10mo ⋅ Affectionate_Run_799 ⋅ r/Physics
Use the mathpix Snipping Tool for Linux to convert screenshots of equations into LaTeX instantly. mathpix.com5yr ⋅ nicodjimenez ⋅ r/Physics
The coolest thing about this isn't the momentum...its the reference frame5yr ⋅ wisequokka ⋅ r/Physics
Does anyone else like to listen to audiobooks about cosmology and/or QM while going to sleep?7mo ⋅ ckayfish ⋅ r/Physics
I just learnt about reflections and refractions and i was interested about the reflections in this photo. Where does the laser on the right come from and why is there a smaller laser coming out on top of the wineglass?1yr ⋅ Narrow_Meet3228 ⋅ r/Physics
Dynamical system of our solar system, written in python and visualised with matplotlib, initial condition of planets’ position and velocity taken from nasa1yr ⋅ OHUGITHO ⋅ r/Physics
Happy Holidays Physicists!! (Here's a Christmas Tree that is actually a Pasc Triangle I stole)3yr ⋅ -meson- ⋅ r/Physics
I developed a 3D circuit builder for students and I would love for you to try it out!4yr ⋅ kaehn ⋅ r/Physics
I pointed my phone camera at the sun and saw this image of the eclipse in the glare6yr ⋅ gorillagrape ⋅ r/Physics
I posted asking for help with a C++ rocket simulator last week, so I though that you guys might like to see the finished product :)3yr ⋅ kkingsbe ⋅ r/Physics
Comparison of numerical solution of a quantum particle and classical point mass bouncing in gravitational potential (ground is on the left)3yr ⋅ tpolakov1 ⋅ r/Physics
I made a python package that can plot electric fields from drawings and point charges, and plot the EM fields after Lorentz boosting to a moving frame (video and jupyter notebook in comments)1yr ⋅ theillini19 ⋅ r/Physics
Phase portraits of a bead on a spinning parabola, for different spin speeds2yr ⋅ polecatpolemic ⋅ r/Physics
Amazing way to see the nodes of a sonic waveform using sand on a speaker!5yr ⋅ wisequokka ⋅ r/Physics
Scale invariant similarity of explosions: from laser-ablation to supernovae5mo ⋅ natures-numbers ⋅ r/Physics
I am so happy to finally see a Nobel prize winner speech in my small country4yr ⋅ Georgios- ⋅ r/Physics
Thought you guys would appreciate this note from my grandfathers stuff from the Radiation Lab at MIT in the 1940’s4yr ⋅ pewnanner ⋅ r/Physics
This is an oil painting (0.6x0.5m) that depicts Kaon Decay. It's one of a series I call pARTicles & waves that build off Feynman diagrams to visualize interactions of subatomic particles.3yr ⋅ joshuab0x ⋅ r/Physics
Tutorial about drawing Spring-Mass system in LaTeX using TikZ (1st comment link 🥰)2yr ⋅ ModyTex ⋅ r/Physics
This 720-Ton Suspended Steel Ball Is What Lets Taipei 101 Sway Instead Of Fall. The heavy counterweight hangs between the 92nd and the 87th floor, acting as a tuned mass damper, which keeps the building stable during high winds.5yr ⋅ FollowSteph ⋅ r/Physics
Numerical band structures of Graphene and Aluminum calculated with nothing but basic linear algebra libraries (link to code and tutorial in comments)8mo ⋅ tpolakov1 ⋅ r/Physics
Is it possible to plot a course in between two rotating black holes, pass through the location where both their event horizons would overlap then as they separate again come out with a glimpse of what’s inside?8mo ⋅ chancellortobyiii ⋅ r/Physics
When France switched to the meter in the 18th century, they placed 16 of these across Paris so that people would be able to tell exactly how long a meter is.6yr ⋅ loulan ⋅ r/Physics
A piece I really liked from Feynman’s lectures, and I think everyone should see it.4yr ⋅ silver_eye3727 ⋅ r/Physics
If only there was a realistic way to get our power plants to produce way less CO2...5yr ⋅ loulan ⋅ r/Physics
Researchers have selectively created superpositions of electron states in nanocrystals by using polarized light. In the future, these perovskite nanocrystals could be used in quantum information applications, with nanocrystal components that could be assembled like Legos!2yr ⋅ chinapimp ⋅ r/Physics
I am not a physicist, but I had this thought cross my mind today. It is possible that someday we could observe Earth from the past with a powerful and precise enough scope?1yr ⋅ prprpr89 ⋅ r/Physics
Vestiges of Feynman: Typed response to a 1968 invitation to give a colloquium lecture at University of Wisconsin5yr ⋅ gradi3nt ⋅ r/Physics
Did you know that seven parent-child pairs have been awarded a Nobel Prize? In this Picture, Marie with her daughters Irene and Eve sitting on a bench, 1905. Marie Skłodowska Curie won Noble Prize (physics 1903, chemistry 1911); Pierre Curie (physics 1903) and Irene Joliot-Curie (chemistry 1935).1d ⋅ Zee2A ⋅ r/Physics
Mythbusters fire a soccer ball at 50mph out of a cannon on a truck driving at 50mph in the opposite direction.6yr ⋅ TheMixKing ⋅ r/Physics
3d printed the electric potential of a proton and electron. The build layers show equipotential lines.10mo ⋅ ZodiacRooster ⋅ r/Physics
When designing your experiment, it's important to keep in mind what it's going to look like when you go to publish5yr ⋅ BigManWithABigBeard ⋅ r/Physics
I’m attending my first baby shower this afternoon. The mother-to-be and I have known each other for 28 years so she told me I was exempt from the gift registry.5yr ⋅ generallyrelative ⋅ r/Physics
An example of how a cameras capture rate changes due to the amount of light being let into the camera4yr ⋅ reid65910 ⋅ r/Physics
Our professor said no smart calculators, so a kid I know brought his Abacus to our Special Relativity Exam.5yr ⋅ Nofluxaregiven ⋅ r/Physics
