One of the many awesome things about physics is you can study it anywhere. I’ll prove it with a fun problem that involves a cart and a ball. Not just any cart, but a cart that rolls along a table and ...

A boy kicks a ball horizontally over the edge of a cliff with a speed of \(6ms^{-1}\) as shown in the diagram. The ball hits the surface of the water \(3s\) later. (a) Calculate the vertical speed of ...

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When the soccer video game FIFA 14 went on sale this week, it boasted a ball that, at long last, could sail smartly through the air. In earlier versions of the game, unless the ball was kicked long ...

[Herman Erlichson was a physicist and a historian of science (he had Ph.D.s in both). He was also an avid golfer - and my uncle. He passed away just over a year ago, and I've been wanting to write ...