In this lesson, we introduce the one dimensional wave equation and explore how it appears in electrodynamics. This video ...

An introduction to how Maxwell’s equations lead to electromagnetic plane waves. This lesson explains the physics behind wave ...

More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that ...

It isn’t often that physics produces news that diverts the mainstream media from politics, crime and sports. But, now, in the space of four years’ time, physicists have twice elevated the intellectual ...

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger developed quantum theory’s wave equation, which describes quantum systems as waves that ...