rvsundaram, Author at AmazingPhysicsForAll

Tidal Locking: Why Does the Moon Always Show the Same Side to Earth?

Why does our Moon show only one side of it to Earth bound observers? What are synchronous rotation and tidal locking? Get answers here.

Is the shape of the crescent Moon like a ‘C’ or inverted ‘C’? What factors determine the shape? Get answers to these questions and many more.

What makes the sky so blue? It is due to a phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering. Learn Rayleigh scattering and much more on the blue sky.

Galileo Galilei, the founder of scientific method, was an Italian astronomer. He made fundamental contributions to the science of motion.

Albert Einstein, a creative genius, and the most celebrated theoretical physicists in the world, was born in Ulm, Germany in 1879.

Michael Faraday was one of the greatest scientists of 19th century. Starting as bookbinder, he taught himself science to become a scientist.

This explains how we arrived at the equation that determines that the time taken by a freely falling object is independent of the mass.

Galileo’s legendary experiment from the Leaning Tower of Pisa in the 16th century to demonstrate the nature of falling objects.

Chandrasekhar was one of the greatest astrophysicists of the 20th century. He discovered Chandra Limit and predicted black holes.

Chandrasekhar was one of the greatest astrophysicists of the 20th century. He discovered Chandra Limit and predicted black holes.