Figure 1: The WEBTOP Waves module simulating the interference of the waves in a ripple tank caused by two small oscillating plungers at the back end of the tank. The last 20 years has been a ...

Due to come online later this year and packed with state-of-the-art optics, Advanced LIGO is aiming for a direct detection of gravitational waves that will open a new window on the universe, say Iain ...

A research team led by Dominik Schneble, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has uncovered a novel regime, or set of conditions within a system, for cooperative radiative ...

A new book on infrared spectroscopy picks up where all previous books leave off. Jena-based scientist PD Dr. Thomas Mayerhöfer has written the first book on infrared spectroscopy that explains spectra ...

In February 1986 the passenger ship SS Spray was travelling along the east coast of the US when it was suddenly hit by a wave that was estimated to be 17 m high – the second in a system of three ...

First or second year graduate students in BME, Physics, and Electrical Engineering departments. Students should have completed undergraduate physics curriculum including electricity and magnetism and ...