Understanding how to calculate impact force is essential for engineers, physicists, and everyday people who work with objects in motion. Impact force is the amount of force exerted when an object ...

A new computational method now makes it possible to calculate the forces between large molecules with unprecedented accuracy.

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Virtual particles exploit the natural fuzziness of the subatomic world, where if these ephemeral particles live briefly enough, they can also briefly borrow their energy from empty space. The haziness ...

The method, developed by researchers at the State University of Campinas in Brazil, uses images of dune surfaces to estimate ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

Machine learning models are designed to take in data, to find patterns or relationships within those data, and to use what ...

A magnetic flow meter relies on Faraday's Law of Induction to measure the flow of a fluid. Magnets outside the pipe create a ...

Every year in October our UCSB Physics faculty present an explanation of the Nobel Prize in Physics for that year.

Driving a spacecraft around a planet isn’t anything like driving on a planet. A physicist explains orbital navigation.