Traditional exams A new research-based conceptual assessment (the colorado classical mechanics/Math methods Instrument, or CCMI). This instrument is still under development. It is not included in the ...

Quantum mechanics revolutionizes our understanding of the classical world. A team of Spanish researchers offers a new perspective on the link between quantum and classical. The foundations of ...

Physicists have taken quantum strangeness to an extraordinary new level by measuring light across 37 dimensions. Their ...

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A new quantum algorithm accelerates the simulation of coupled oscillator dynamics. Quantum computers have the potential to ...

Pushing the limits of structured light, Harvard applied physicists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and ...

Their finding suggests that the classical world we see can emerge from the many-worlds picture of quantum mechanics, where many universes exist at the same point in spacetime and where almost a ...

Knowledge of Lagrangian mechanics assumed. Central force problem, scattering, rigid-body mechanics, normal modes and special relativity. Hamiltonian dynamics, canonical transformations, ...