Newton's laws of motion are everywhere around you, explaining everything from why you feel pushed back in your seat when a car accelerates to how rockets blast off into space. These three simple ...

As the name suggests, horizontal motion occurs when the object is thrown horizontally, meaning it starts with zero vertical velocity. The only force acting on the object is gravity, causing it to ...

Asking students to identify an example of what something is—and importantly, what it isn’t—helps establish clarity and leaves ...

Physics, especially the part about forces and motion, often feels like a maze of confusing concepts and formulas. If you’ve ever stared at a problem about an object moving or a force acting and ...

Volkswagen sees a future where the bulk of the world’s freight is moved into city centers by train, then offloaded onto a fleet of smaller, light-duty commercial vehicles for final delivery. Those ...

Although most concepts are either thinly disguised production cars or outlandish design exercises that can't exist in the real world, the new Nissan V-Motion 2.0 sedan concept lands somewhere in the ...

Cylinder deactivation is pretty easy to understand in, say, a V8 or V12, where not all the pistons need to be firing all the time. But cylinder deactivation on a four-cylinder engine? That’s something ...