Forces and Motion

The speedy steel plate: One of the fastest moving man-made objects ever detected was a manhole cover. As a result of the...

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Jerks and jounces: In addition to the familiar first and second derivatives of displacement, velocity and acceleration...

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The terminal velocity of a skydiver in the spread-eagled position is around 220 km/hr and, in the head-down position, 320 km...

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Two students at the University of Leicester published a paper considering whether a car could travel fast enough to be red...

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Cracks in glass plates can travel at speeds from 1 m/s to 1,500 m/s depending on the length of the crack and the stresses in...

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A long-standing debate has focused on whether you will get wetter if you run or walk in the rain. Proponents of the ‘running...

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Analysis of human footprints dating back 20,000 years suggests that one individual, known as T8, was running at 20 km/hr and...

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Researchers have recently attempted to answer the questions of why the largest animals are not the fastest. They suggest that...

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