Particle in a Box The very first problem you will solve in quantum mechanics is a particle in a box. Suppose there is a one dimensional box with super stiff walls.

Whether as the protons and neutrons that help form chemical elements, the photons that we perceive as light or even the flows ...

Energy Levels for a Particle in a Box One of the fundamental aspects of physics is the study of light and how that interacts with matter.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Did the early universe have just one spatial dimension? That's the mind-boggling concept at the heart of a theory that University at Buffalo physicist Dejan Stojkovic and colleagues ...

Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in physics: string theory. This rare particle—never seen before and predicted ...

Three-dimensional space gained a fourth dimension—time, and the concepts of time and space, so far separate, began to be treated as a whole.