Robyn Millan's redesign of Physics 13 changes the way the fundamental laws of physics are taught at Dartmouth.
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Six Dartmouth College undergraduates are competing in the International Physicists’ Tournament in Gothenburg, Sweden from April 8 – 13, 2017.
[more]Title: "Colliding Cosmologies: Cultural Conflicts and the Future of Astronomy on Mauna Kea" (Video)
[more]In a cataclysmic binary, a more-or-less normal star orbits a white dwarf so closely that matter spills from the normal star onto the white dwarf. A rich variety of behaviors results -- nova explosions, dwarf nova outbursts, accretion disk precession, magnetic channeling of the accretion flows, and much more. The light grasp and instrumentation at MDM Observatory are well-suited to studies of these objects.
[more]Stellar Population research is conducted to study the early formation history of our Milky Way galaxy and nearby satellite galaxies. Computational stellar models are compared to observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and other optical/infrared telescopes to determine the ages of stars. FACULTY CONTACT: Brian Chaboyer
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