The first semester of an undergraduate physics course invariably spends a lot of time on two big ideas: The momentum principle and the work energy principle. Both deal with forces acting on an object, ...

Researchers discovered that atomic rotations inside a crystal can unexpectedly flip direction while still obeying the laws of ...

When a magnetic material is bombarded with short pulses of laser light, it loses its magnetism within femtoseconds (10 –15 seconds). The spin, or angular momentum, of the electrons in the material ...

Consider the following physics problem. An object with a mass of 1 kg and a velocity of 1 m/s in the x-direction has a net force of 1 Newton pushing on it (also in the x-direction). What will the ...

It has been known for more than a century, since the seminal works by J.H. Poynting 1, that light carries momentum and angular momentum (AM) 2,3. These are the main dynamical properties of ...