https://paulstapel.com/categories/physics/Recent content in Physics on Paul's ParticlesHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usMon, 22 Jun 2026 22:53:40 +0200https://paulstapel.com/bachelor-thesis/Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:53:40 +0200https://paulstapel.com/bachelor-thesis/https://paulstapel.com/ground-up-special-relativity/Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:22:39 +0100https://paulstapel.com/ground-up-special-relativity/I am currently taking a course on field theory, and we are currently working with Lorentz transformations and the likes. I have never really liked the way lorentz transformations are introduced, as previously, they weren’t derived that much, and we just had to take them for granted. The book we are currently working with is also a bit lackluster when it comes to the full derivation of lorentz transformations and the likes, and so I wanted to give this derivation a shot to see if I could explain it in a more intuitive way.https://paulstapel.com/classical-mechanics-three-ways/Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:41:15 +0100https://paulstapel.com/classical-mechanics-three-ways/Classical mechanics is a very useful tool in describing the world around us. As I am currently taking a course about classical mechanics, I wanted to give a quick overview of the three main ways in which a classical problem can be solved in physics. We will also work through a simple example using the simple pendulum with mass $m$ and length $l$. This article will take you through the main steps you’ll have to take to tackle a problem and the derivation of the different methods.