Physics, the study of space, time, matter, and energy, is a fundamental component of a liberal arts education. Introductory courses in physics and astronomy are designed to give students a broad ...

The Department of Physics and Astronomy offers graduate programs leading to the Ph .D. and M.S. degrees. The department is in Sharp Laboratory, which houses a physics library, research and teaching ...

The Physics Help Center, located in Sharp Lab 101B, is a place where students in introductory physics and astronomy courses can come for assistance with homework, studying, lab reports and other ...

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As the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) delights stargazers with breathtaking images and groundbreaking discoveries — like the recent revelation that a planet 700 light-years away has a carbon ...

The largest ever survey of low-frequency radio emissions from satellites has detected emissions from the Starlink satellite “mega-constellation” across scientifically important low-frequency bands, ...

The theoretical and experimental tools of physics are directly applied to research and development efforts, which have a high level of practical significance to society. Applied physics offers to the ...

Physics professor Laura Pyrak-Nolte and graduate student Liyang Jiang use a 3D X-ray microscope to examine and analyze created mineral samples. Pyrak-Nolte and her lab team work to better understand ...

It would be understandable if you stopped thinking as much about Pluto after it was “demoted” from being considered one of the nine planets sharing the Earth’s solar system to being classified as a ...

This course examines energy as a fundamental concept in physics and an essential element of human society. Basic principles of energy conservation and transformation are developed to understand ...

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