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Explore the Ball Up/Down Problem from the Feynman Lectures in this clear and engaging physics lesson! This video explains the underlying principles of motion, forces, and energy transfer step by step, ...

John Hopfield, one of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, is a true polymath. His career started with probing the physics of solid states during the field’s heyday in the 1950s before ...