Introduction Did it ever occur to you that tennis, bowling and shopping carts bumping into each other all involve collisions? It is fascinating how just a few rules of physics can predict the outcome ...

In the last episode of MythBusters, they wanted to see if a tornado could make some glass cut off a person's head. The first attempt was just to take some glass and through it at a simulated human ...

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I always keep an eye on upcoming movies with interesting physics. In this case, it's Captain America: Civil War. The most recent trailer is fine, but let me look back at an earlier clip that shows ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The angular momentum integral of the equations of motion of the n-body problem of celestial mechanics defines a family of lower dimensional ...

A new theory-based approach provides access to the minute transverse motion of quarks within protons. Nuclear physicists have developed a new theoretical framework that allows them to calculate a ...

The study of molecular collisions and energy transfer dynamics is central to our understanding of chemical reactions and the redistribution of energy at the microscopic level. This field spans from ...

Between 29 June and 9 July 2025, LHC physicists pushed the study of the quark–gluon plasma into new territory.