What Would Earth’s Temperature Be Like Without… OK, a couple of quick points. This is just the surface temperature of the Earth. Since the light from the sun just…
You Can Use This Silly Game to Do Some Serious… I'm a sucker for interesting online games that don't have a score or even a goal. In this case, it's a cartoon…
It’s Time to Break Bad Pandemic Learning Habits I’ve been in academics for more than 20 years as a member of the physics faculty at Southeastern Louisiana…
How to Use Physics to Tell If That Steph Curry… A few weeks ago, Sports Illustrated tweeted this video of Golden State Warriors point guard Steph Curry that…
How Far Can You Fly a Battery-Powered Jumbo Jet? The answer explains why electric cars are everywhere but electric aircraft are still a novelty. Stay connected…
The Physics of Scuba Diving Another unit is the bar, where 1 bar is equal to 14.5 psi. The value of 1 bar is very close to the pressure of air…
The Problem With Spinning Spacecraft While it would be awesome for people to be able to live in space, a "weightless" environment poses some serious…
The Physics of Smashing a Spacecraft Into an… There are a couple of things to notice. First, after the collision DART is moving backwards, because it bounced.…
How Far Would You Have to Tunnel Underground to… Now, what if I move outside this sphere? It turns out that the gravitational field due to a spherical distribution…
The Physics of Going Fast—but Not Too Fast—on a… Really, the only difference is that this is a downward-curving path with the center of this circular curve below…