THE fifth and final volume of the “Dictionary of Applied Physics,” now well known and justly famous, edited by Sir Richard Glazebrook, deals with two of the youngest physical sciences, aeronautics and ...

For the definition of mistake, look no further than the Oxford English Dictionary. A physics professor from Australia's Queensland University of Technology discovered ...

In the video presentation available on this page, Professor Slavik Tabakov, President of the International Organization of Medical Physics (IOMP), Physics Reader in Medical Physics at the Kings ...

A revolutionary law of physics explains it all—sports and technology, air currents and population growth, migration and social hierarchy. According to your book, physics describes the actions or ...

Dr Stephen Hughes, a physics lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology, discovered the definition of "siphon" was wrong while writing a paper on how they work. Since 1911, the Oxford English ...

Matt Strassler is right regarding words used in physics that can mislead. Changing them might go a long way to clarifying things (21 September, p 32). For example, instead of using a word like ...

NOBEL SCIENCE prizes are awarded in three areas: physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine. But occasionally some noteworthy discovery comes along that does not really fit into any of them. In ...

IT is interesting to compare the second volume of Sir Richard Glazebrook's “Dictionary of Applied Physics”with the electrical portions of older dictionaries. For example, in Barlow's “Dictionary of ...