Dive deep into the scientific puzzle that shook physics—the Ultraviolet Catastrophe. Using classical laws, Lord Rayleigh and Sir James Jeans predicted that energy emitted by hot objects should rise ...

In the everyday world that humans experience, objects behave in a predictable way, explained by classical physics. One of the important aspects of classical physics is that nothing, not even ...

Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University If you drop a light object and a heavy object from a tower, which one reaches the ground first? As you may recall ...