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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Among the reasons we love the L.A. Auto Show is the yearly display of outlandish concepts that is the Design Challenge. Compared to a Maybach rickshaw and a robot-knit Benz, Volvo's entry is a breath ...

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 ...