Department of Physics

Metro-Area Teachers Discover New Ways of 'Launching Students Into Physics'

Friday, January 26, 2018
Physics teachers and STEM educators throughout the metropolitan area gathered at NJIT’s Campus Center Atrium this month as Gordon Thomas, professor of physics and NJIT “Excellence in Teaching” awardee, presented “Launching Students Into Physics” — a workshop aimed at helping pre-college teachers and communicators better engage students in all-things physics. The event provided an opportunity for community educators to participate in fun, inexpensive and interactive teaching techniques and lab experiments that they can use to prepare today’s students for physics at the college level, and...

NJIT Technology and Society Forum Presents: Resolving Complex Fluid Flows

Monday, January 22, 2018
From large-scale weather or environmental disaster predictions and efficient design of vehicles and power generators, to understanding how bacteria propel themselves and how nutrients are delivered to different organs in our body at the cell level — researchers will need to find new ways of studying the complex flow of liquids, gases and plasmas that drive or characterize intricate climatic, transportation and biological systems. In his upcoming Technology and Society Forum presentation, Joseph Katz will demonstrate how today’s latest multidimensional high-speed flow visualization...

Research that Ranges from Pipelines to Proteins

Wednesday, October 4, 2017
The research that Assistant Professor of Physics Cristiano Dias is pursuing has the potential to expand our knowledge of phenomena that can affect the creation of dangerous obstructions in undersea pipelines transporting natural gas and the formation of protein-based fibers in the brain related to diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Spanning disciplines and departments, it is work that underscores NJIT’s commitment to encouraging interdisciplinary investigation that promises not only to increase fundamental scientific knowledge, but which also offers the possibility of significant practical...

Putting Students Closer to Explosive Solar Events

Thursday, April 6, 2017
NJIT has a long-established reputation as a leader in researching phenomena originating on the star closest to Earth — the Sun. NJIT’s optical telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory and radio telescope array at Owens Valley, both in California, have greatly expanded our understanding of solar events that periodically impact our home planet, events such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that can disrupt terrestrial communications and power infrastructure in addition to other effects. Under the auspices of the university’s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR), NJIT...

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