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Wind tunnels are machines in which objects are held stationary inside a tube, and air is blown around it to study the interaction between the object and...

Centrifugal compressors, sometimes called impeller compressors or radial compressors, are a sub-class of dynamic axisymmetric work-absorbing turbomachinery...

A solar neutrino is a neutrino originating from nuclear fusion in the Sun's core, and is the most common type of neutrino passing through any source observed...

Francisco Javier "Frank" Duarte (born c. 1954) is a laser physicist and author/editor of several books on tunable lasers. His research on physical optics...

Slow light is the propagation of an optical pulse or other modulation of an optical carrier at a very low group velocity. Slow light occurs when a propagating...

ALEPH was a particle detector at the Large Electron-Positron collider (LEP) at CERN. It was designed to explore the physics predicted by the Standard Model...

In electrodynamics, Poynting's theorem is a statement of conservation of energy for electromagnetic fields developed by British physicist John Henry Poynting...

Magnetic dipole–dipole interaction, also called dipolar coupling, refers to the direct interaction between two magnetic dipoles. Roughly speaking, the...

Vladimir Varićak (sometimes also spelled Vladimir Varičak; March 1, 1865 – January 17, 1942) was a Croatian Serb mathematician and theoretical physicist...

Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another, a non-fiction book by English chemist and physicist Philip Ball originally published in 2004, discusses...

In solid-state physics, the thermal Hall effect, also known as the Righi–Leduc effect, named after independent co-discoverers Augusto Righi and Sylvestre...

The time–temperature superposition principle is a concept in polymer physics and in the physics of glass-forming liquids. This superposition principle...

Anatolie S. Sidorenko (born September 15, 1953 in Bălți, Moldova) is a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences and professor at the Technical University...

Supreeme were an American rap group. Members include Shaka "Tom Cruz" Girvan aka Dope Pope, Negashi Armada, and Sam "King Self" Terrell. Girvan produces...

COMET (Coherent Muon to Electron Transition) is a nuclear physics experiment in J-PARC, Tokai, Japan. In contrast to the usual muon decay to an electron...

Richard Dryden Field (born April 13, 1944) is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. He is known particularly...

Kerry J. Vahala is an American professor of Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He holds the Ted and Ginger Jenkins chair...