Tag: physics
Opinion: What we can learn from Tadashi Tokieda
In the first video I ever watched of Stanford mathematics professor Tadashi Tokieda, he compared his career in math to falling in love. He...
Opinion: I am (not) literally J. Robert Oppenheimer
During the "Barbenheimer" cultural event, I dressed in pastels for Greta Gerwig's "Barbie," so I figured I might as well dress in black slacks...
Occidental’s Foucault Pendulum: A unifying symbol of hard sciences
According to physics department chair Professor Daniel Snowden-Ifft, the idea to install a Foucault Pendulum in the Hameetman Science Center was the vision of late Professor George...
Students and faculty across disciplines witness the first planetary defense mission
A crowd gathered in Fowler Hall Sept. 26 to watch the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) execute their first planetary defense test mission. Double...