Our motion perception is remarkably well tuned to detect small changes in speed and direction. For example, soccer goalkeepers need to precisely judge the speed, direction, and curvature of an ...

James Clerk Maxwell conducted some of the first documented studies of free-falling objects during the mid-1800s, when the physicist analyzed the tumbling motion of a freely falling plate. But much ...

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Well, it is. If you consider the motion of the slinky as just one object, you can look at it's center of mass. From the whole slinky point of view, there is only one force on the slinky - the ...

We know “what goes up must come down.” But WHY? "Drop" in to find out! We know “what goes up must come down.” But WHY? Drop in to learn about the gravitational forces like acceleration and air ...

I often look at cases where things are falling. We typically call this "free fall" motion because the object is moving only under the influence of the gravitational force. With only the gravitational ...

Newton's laws of motion predict that an object will fall when its centre-of-mass lies beyond its base of support. But how does your brain know whether the tower will fall or not? Scientists in Germany ...