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Audio recordings from the Spring Weekend now available
Tyndall Lectures 2018
Physics of the circus, James Soper. Tyndall Schools Lecture tour Jan-Feb 2018
What is physics? Is physics for you?
A guide for parents and students
18 July
- 1853 Birth of Hendrik Lorentz, winner of the 1902 Nobel Prize along with Pieter Zeeman for their discovery and explanation of the Zeeman effect – the splitting of spectral lines in the presence of a magnetic field. Lorentz also lends his name to the coordinate transformation formula used by Albert Einstein in formulating his special theory of relativity
Physics in Perspective
Watch talks from well-renowned physicists at our lecture series; you may even learn a thing or twoSchools lecture series
The schools lectures feature topics from the Olympics to rock music. Plenty of physics to learn too!
Advanced Digital Imaging Laboratory Using MATLAB®
Listen to the IOP ebooksTM webinar with Professor Leonid Yaroslavsky.Six months in, and 80% of UK library services sign up to Access to Research
10 million academic articles, including content from IOP Publishing, now included in the initiative.
