Contact

Reaching the right resource matters — especially when a question sits at the edge of what a search engine can actually answer. This page outlines how to get in touch with the editorial and research team behind Physics Authority, what kinds of questions are best suited to direct contact, and how to frame a message so it gets a useful response. The Physics Frequently Asked Questions page covers the most common queries; direct contact is best reserved for what falls outside that scope.

Additional contact options

The primary contact method is the message form managed through this site's publishing infrastructure. Beyond that, Physics Authority maintains an editorial inbox monitored on a rolling basis — typically reviewed within 3 business days for substantive questions. Requests for corrections to published content are given priority handling, since accuracy is the whole point of a reference site.

For questions about specific concepts — say, the distinction between special and general relativity, or why a free-falling object in a gravitational field is considered an inertial reference frame — the Physics Frequently Asked Questions page resolves a wide range of these without any wait. The How It Works section covers the structural logic behind the site's content approach, which answers most questions about sourcing and methodology before they need to be asked.

How to reach this office

Direct messages sent through the site's contact form route to the editorial team. The form accepts plain text; no attachments are processed through that channel, which keeps the inbox clean and avoids the particular chaos of unsolicited PDF submissions.

For content partnership or licensing inquiries — republication of diagrams, use of explanatory frameworks in educational settings — a plain-text description of the intended use is the most efficient starting point. Requests that arrive without a clear description of intended use take longer to evaluate, for obvious reasons.

Response windows break down roughly as follows:

1. Factual corrections — reviewed within 3 business days; if verified, corrections are applied editorially with a notation on the affected page.
2. Content clarification questions — addressed within 5 business days when the question falls outside what the FAQ already covers.
3. Partnership or licensing inquiries — initial response within 7 business days; complex licensing discussions may take longer depending on scope.
4. General feedback — read and considered, though responses are not guaranteed for every submission.

Messages that arrive on Fridays after noon Eastern Time are typically picked up on the following Monday. That is not a complaint about Fridays — just a realistic note about how editorial review cycles work.

Service area covered

Physics Authority is a nationally scoped reference resource based in the United States. Content addresses physics concepts, principles, and applications at a level appropriate for curious general readers, students at the high school and undergraduate level, and professionals adjacent to technical fields who need accurate foundational grounding without a graduate seminar.

The site does not provide tutoring, assignment help, or individualized academic coaching — that is a meaningfully different service from reference publishing, and the distinction matters. Think of it less like a helpdesk and more like a well-indexed library with a knowledgeable archivist who can point to the right shelf.

Content spans classical mechanics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, relativity, and the key dimensions and scopes of physics as a field — from the scale of subatomic particles (on the order of 10⁻¹⁵ meters for a proton's radius) to cosmological structures spanning billions of light-years. That's a range of roughly 41 orders of magnitude, which is either humbling or exhilarating depending on one's disposition.

Questions about physics education resources, concept explanations, or the relationship between physics and adjacent disciplines like chemistry, engineering, and mathematics fall within scope. Questions requiring individualized calculation review or homework grading do not.

What to include in your message

A well-constructed message gets a faster, more useful response. That is not a policy — it is just how communication works.

For factual correction requests:
- The specific page URL where the error appears
- The exact text or figure believed to be incorrect
- A named source that supports the correction (a textbook, a named NIST publication, a peer-reviewed journal — not a forum post)

For content questions:
- A clear statement of the concept in question
- What the existing site content says (if applicable) and where the confusion arises
- Whether the question relates to a specific application or a foundational definition

For partnership or licensing inquiries:
- Organization name and type (educational institution, publisher, media outlet)
- Description of the intended use — format, audience, and estimated reach
- Whether the inquiry involves a single piece of content or a broader licensing arrangement

Messages that begin with "quick question" and then contain 400 words of context are fine — they arrive frequently, and the context is always welcome. What slows things down is ambiguity about which page or concept is being referenced, since Physics Authority covers a broad enough scope that "the article about waves" could reasonably apply to more than one entry.

The How to Get Help for Physics page is worth reviewing before sending a general inquiry — it maps out the landscape of physics resources, human and digital, in a way that often resolves the underlying need more efficiently than waiting for a reply.