Professor Allen Mincer wrote a book! Great Science, Fabulous Science, and Voodoo Science is out now from World Scientific. It tours famous, forgotten, and infamous experiments and asks how scientists decide what their data really means. Written with students in mind. Link in bio!
Equation of the week: Newton's Law of Gravitation! A physics classic. #physics #nyu #nyuphysics #eotw #nyc
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Andrei Vrajitoarea, who has received a 2025 Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Course Spotlight No. 08: PHYS-UA 123 Quantum Mechanics I.
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Course Spotlight No. 07: PHYS-UA 210 Computational Physics.
Introduction to computational physics, with an emphasis on fields of current research interest where numerical techniques provide unique physical insight.
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OTDIP NO. 08:
1900: the first Zeppelin lifts off over Lake Constance.
1967: satellites hunting nuclear tests catch the first gamma-ray burst.
1985: Giotto launches to take the first close-up pictures of a comet.
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