Master the right-hand rule in physics with this easy-to-follow tutorial! In this video, we explain how to use the right-hand rule correctly to determine directions of magnetic fields, currents, and ...

Any Cornell student who has taken physics class may have wondered at some point: “what makes physics so difficult to understand?” While students may be asking this out of frustration, Prof. Paula ...

As enrollment numbers for the introductory chemistry and physics courses reach around 600 students each this semester, the need to understand how students learn in STEM classes only becomes more ...

Machine learning can get a boost from quantum physics. On certain types of machine learning tasks, quantum computers have an exponential advantage over standard computation, scientists report in the ...

Don’t know your convolutional neural networks from your boosted decision trees? Symmetry is here to help. It’s time for some deep learning. Check out this list to pick up some new terminology—and ...

Physicists explore science and how things work. Our students learn the physical concepts of the laws of nature and how these concepts answer questions and solve real problems. Earning a bachelor’s ...

image of Winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, John J. Hopfield (left) and Geoffrey E. Hinton. Winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, John J. Hopfield (left) and Geoffrey E. Hinton. Credit: ...