Physics

The Unusual Physics of Floating Pyramids

8 Feb 2012

When it comes to drifting through the air, top-heavy designs are more stable than bottom-heavy ones like pyramids. The finding may lead to robots that fly not like insects or birds but like jellyfish.

The Physics of Flight

8 Feb 2012

Dr Berlin is Senior Affiliate in Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. E-mail: Richard.Berlin@gmail.com . Dr Berlin’s second collection of poems, Secret Wounds, which won the 2010 John Ciardi Poetry Prize—and which was selected by USA Book News as the best poetry book of 2011—is published by BkMk Press.

Physics Department ninth CMU entity to endorse vote of no confidence

7 Feb 2012

The Physics Department voted Thursday to endorse the vote of no confidence against University President George Ross and Provost Gary Shapiro. The department, which has 13 full-time faculty members and one adjunct instructor, voted with a majority to support the Academic Senate’s vote of no confidence by a voice vote, [...]