Assistant Professor Tiffany Lewis joined the physics department faculty in fall 2023 and specializes in blazar theory. Blazars are galaxies in which the frenzied feeding of the supermassive black hole ...

As a result, any object in free fall near Earth's surface accelerates at 9.81 m/s/s. The gravitational force acting on an object is not always equal to its weight. A free falling object experiences a ...

Explore mechanics in action with **“Understanding Physics: Heavy Crate Falling On Spring.”** In this video, we break down the physics of a heavy crate dropping onto a spring, covering concepts like ...

In April, the Department of Physics’ Claudia de Rham published her book, The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity through Princeton University Press. A diver, a pilot, an astronaut ...