Can You Strike Out a Major League Player by… If you want to be a Major League Baseball pitcher, you need to be able to throw a ball really fast—like 85 to 100…
The Physics of ‘Sniping’ for Gold There are three forces acting on the debris. First, there's the downward-pulling gravitational force (Fg) due to…
What Do a Falling Apple and an Orbiting Moon… If you drop an object, it will fall. It's a motion that we’ve all seen hundreds of times. We’ve also all seen…
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…
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…
What Actually Happens If You Shoot a Ball at a… So, here’s the obvious next question: Is kinetic energy also conserved, just like momentum is conserved? The answer…
The World Is Messy. Idealizations Make the… Sometimes the universe is just too complicated to analyze.Heck, if you take a tennis ball and toss it across the…
Why Buzz Lightyear’s Rocket Launch Looks Better… This graph says that the vertical position of the rocket increases by a (nearly) constant amount from one frame to…
Will Nathan Drake Make This Jump in the… The time it takes for Drake to move in the vertical direction is the exact same time it takes for him to move…