Acceleration

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

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The highest empirically recorded acceleration survived by a human was experienced by the test pilot John Stapp while strapped...

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Galileo’s comments may have influenced Newton’s development of the first law of motion. In the English translation of The...

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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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Researchers have investigated the causes of shoelaces coming untied during walking. A team from the University of California...

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An engineer, Alfred Clark, published a series of articles about the dynamics of rollercoasters in Rollercoaster! the official...

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Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

The inventor of the air bag, John W Hetrick, attributes his invention to an accident that occurred when he was out a Sunday...

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An analysis has been carried out on the dynamics of pieces of toast in order to test the prediction of Murphy’s Law that toast...

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A number of scientific investigations have studied the motion of falling cats. Galileo had one of the characters in his...

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Gravity assists are used to alter the path and speed of spacecraft. Perhaps the most extended gravity assist ever achieved was...

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