Physics

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Climate Change

2021 Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 was awarded “for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex systems” with one half jointly to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann “for the physical modeling of the Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming” and the other half to Giorgio Parisi

Andrea Ghez

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, which was announced on 6th October, 2020 was divided, one half awarded to Roger Penrose “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity“, and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez “for

Albert Einstein

All You Need To Know About Black Hole

Believe it or not, black holes are some of the mysterious and bizarre things in our galaxy. They are almost 1 billion in numbers and According to the simplest definition; it is a region in space which is awfully dense. Its sheer force of gravitation force is so strong that

Physics

Study Is Challenging: Why Physics Is the Uttermost Hated Subject by Students

Physics is one of the oldest elementary sciences. It is the expert learning subject for the study of matter, energy, time and space, velocity, etc., and it also explores in-depth knowledge about the interactions between these elements. Its objective is to know the universe and understand the different phenomena that

Baryons

Particle Frenzy: Poem

It began with a bang. At high energies the universe sang. Born were time and particles many; Perfect symmetry, there was complete harmony. What we see now is complete mystery, How is there a broken symmetry? Matter-antimatter, how does it matter? Matter/antimatter, which does it favor? Well…all that

Black Holes

Stephen Hawking: A Personal Tribute

3.14 is famous once again! is 3.14 approximately, -day is on 3-14 (March 14th), Albert Einstein’s birthday is on 3-14 and now Stephen Hawking’s demise. A famous cosmologist, an  icon of the scientific community and an inspiration for generations to come, Stephen Hawking is regarded as

Physics

Stigma: A Science Fiction Story

The laboratory seemed long deserted. No vital sign of breath. Somehow, at the secret underground part, there was something going on. Insignificant stage of a significant mission. And there he was, Dr. Hue, standing in front of a huge machine in the shape of a metallic ring. This machine, was

Big Bang

Einstein, the War and General Relativity

Einstein’s theory of General Relativity is one of the greatest exercise of human thought. For, those of us, who have had the good fortune to study it in detail, we cannot stop wondering in awe at the beauty of the theory. Though, built with techniques of abstract and abstruse

Cube of Nature

Cube of Nature: Evolution of physics and mathematics

“Mathematics is the mirror of civilization” Physics deals with the study and understanding of the physical world. And simultaneous study and measurement of experiment and mathematics lead us to the fundamental understanding of nature. Mathematics is the language of physics, and hence considered as the universal language to understand our

Albert Einstein

Gravitational Waves

The activities of the universe are truly mysterious. In its folds lie the knowledge of the past, the present and the course of the future. Science has always endeavored to unfold the true nature of our universe, and yet after centuries of human evolution we are to some extent unsuccessful

Dynamics

Simulating the Atomic World

Computer simulation, in the present day scientific scenario, has become one of the primary tools in both basic and applied sciences. With the escalating advancement of science in the last few decades experiments have become more complex with the use of sophisticated scientific instruments. And understanding such complex scientific phenomena

Physics

An ode to Physics

Image Source : Shutterstock Peerless physics-best of best among the modest Human’s hallucinations like the winter’s sun’s warmth Yea! Archimedes, Einstein, Newton’s strength Surely is something to be proud of; for true and honest. Indispensable physics- need of the needy in every century Cascades of mysteries like-

Aviation

Career opportunities in Physics after Class XII

Image Courtesy: Shutterstock Students who pursue the science stream in Class XI and Class XII have ample opportunities before them. Considered to be one of the most popular streams selected by students, science comprises of subjects such as Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics that are taught to students. Students who study

Astrophysics

Life cycle of Stars

Sun, the brightest object of our solar system, is the primary energy source of our life, in fact for any living organism. Sun is considered to be the central object of our solar system that holds all the planets and their moons together. The day begins with beautiful sunshine and

Electrodynamics

On the Nature of Light

It is the fastest in the universe and has to be fast since nothing can even reach its speed. Light or adustum as it is known in Latin is the ultimate form of energy. It is not just about the visible wavelengths but even more about numerous others that sustain

2013

Joint CSIR UGC NET-JRF/LS Physical Sciences (December 2013)

The joint CSIR UGC National Eligibility Test for Junior Research Fellowship and Lecturer Ship was recently held nationwide on December 22nd, 2013. The question paper for Physical Sciences can be downloaded here. [ad#ad-2]

Albert Einstein

Relating the Universal Relatives

This article bears a completely non mathematical approach to relativity , and rather a philosophical viewpoint and is intended for high school students and for those who are very new to the theory. Science, the other name for craze has led numerous people in history to come up with breathtaking breakthroughs

2013

Higgs Boson: The Nobel Winning Particle

Nobel Prize, the most prestigious honor awarded to physicists in his life time for outstanding contribution to physics. In 2013, Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to physicist Peter Higgs along with F. Englert for their contribution of Higgs Boson, the particle which is supposed to give mass to

Ashoke Sen

An Interview with Ashoke Sen

Ashoke Sen was born in Calcutta and studied physics at the Presidency College of the city, at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, and did his doctorate at Stony Brook. He has been with the Harish-Chandra Research Institute for the last seventeen years. His main area of work is

CERN

God Particle: “If Universe is the answer what is the question…??”

The whole conversation starts with Higgs Boson. If you are from non-physics background then just think it is a hypothetical sub-atomic particle with extremely negligible life span. It exists for a mere fraction of second. The specialty of Higgs boson particle is that it is considered to be the origin

Millenium Problems

Quantum Yang-Mills Theory

[Editor: This is next part in our series of articles on the Millennium Problems.] In classical physics, there were two kinds of entities, material particles governed by Newtonian mechanics and fields governed by appropriate field equations eg Maxwell’s equations for electromagnetic field. However just before and after the beginning

Physics

Time Dilation and Relativity

Of all that we have known in physics, the Galilean laws, the Newtonian laws, the discovery of the speed of light along with many others govern the mind. In the eyes of Physics, in the 20th century physics the very concept of Relativity was a Renaissance. Relativity can be said

Astrophysics

The Dark Fantasy

There seems to be a HALO of mysterious invisible material engulfing galaxies, which is commonly referred to as Dark matter. Scientists infer the existence of dark (=invisible!!!) matter from the observation of its gravitational pull, which causes the stars in the outer regions of a galaxy to orbit faster than

Invisibility

Invisibility tends to reality

Can invisibility be reality? A query which has been in the back of curious minds of the scientific giants and even the common masses throughout many generations, has finally found a positive answer and the credit for it unquestionably goes to science and particularly to physics. For decades, science fiction

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A Theoretical study on Negative Refractive Index Metamaterials (Review)

We are pleased to share a presentation that our Consulting Editor, Madhurrya Prakash Talukdar gave at the Technical Session of the Assam Science Society in 2011 held at Dibrugarh University. His paper was titled “A Theoretical Study on Negative Refractive Index Metamaterials (Review)” and will be published in a more