In a large, empty Dennison lecture hall Friday afternoon, three people wheeled in a large copper Tesla coil, a device that produces high-voltage, low-current electricity. After efficiently setting ...

The physics department offers students many teaching laboratories, where classroom theories are put into practice through real-world experiments and simulations. From electricity and magnetism to ...

Anand Mahindra shared a viral video of a physics teacher creatively explaining Bernoulli’s principle using a plastic bag, saying such animated teaching could have made science more exciting in school.

Science presenter Jon Chase explains friction. He describes how friction opposes or prevents motion, and demonstrates the force in action with an experiment involving two interleaved books. Students ...