There are few sports more exciting than playoff baseball, but behind every pitch there is also a fascinating story of physics ...

The terms projectile and trajectory are introduced. Projectile Motion: The terms projectile and trajectory are introduced. Students learn to describe horizontal and vertical components of a projectile ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I ...

I wish Angry Birds had been around when I was teaching high school physics. Please don’t think of the game as a hate crime against hogs, or an avian anger management program—instead, think of it as a ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

An M777 155mm howitzer fires at Yuma Proving Ground's Kofa Firing Range. (Chuck Wullenjohn/U.S. Army) HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The U.S. Army is slated to begin evaluating a hypervelocity projectile for the ...

Have you ever sat down and thought “I wonder if a trebuchet could launch a projectile at supersonic speeds?” Neither have we. That’s what separates [David Eade] from the rest of us. He didn’t just ask ...

Jacob Buchalter (he/him) is a full-time Staff Writer based in the US and is an all-around creative media-obsessed individual who truly cares a bit too much about pop culture media, art, and all things ...

This is because projectile vomiting is not just throwing up. It involves more force. Sometimes, a child’s vomit, when "released," can go flying across a room. A child who vomits way too much and with ...

Some flowers may be using their pollinators as sexual battlegrounds. To see if the projectile pollen blew away the competition, evolutionary ecologist Bruce Anderson and colleagues simulated ...