This is the first article in a two-part series discussing innovative teaching techniques in college physics classes. Today's installment will focus on interactive programs instated at other ...

While teaching large physics lectures at MIT, Walter H. G. Lewin radiates enthusiasm. "And now, I’m going to blow your mind," said Lewin before giving a lesson about electrical circuits that seem to ...

The latest web celeb is a physics professor. Professor Walter Lewin, who teaches an introductory physics course at MIT, has become an internet celebrity thank to his outrageous antics, daredevil ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology officials say they will welcome a member of famed rap group Wu-Tang Clan to campus in May for the school's ongoing speaker series featuring hip-hop artists. The ...

Walter Lewin is an author, an astrophysicist and a professor of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who might be most famous for his eccentric lectures (which you can access online ...

For the past four minutes, Walter Lewin has been laboring at the chalkboard, bent on conveying a point—or rather, a series of small, swift points, so close together they resemble a perforation. The 76 ...