Physics can feel inscrutable to students; this lesson helps them understand a graphing problem by analyzing their own ...

One must get the methods of measuring position and time working together if we are to obtain a reliable representation of motion. To that end we have developed a unique system composed of elements ...

Editor's Note: The Hyperloop is a totally imaginary transportation device that has captivated entrepreneur Elon Musk, who keeps talking about it. First imagined at least 100 years ago, it would ...

Your everyday notion of forces probably includes pushing and pulling and similar actions. Technically, when something is pushed or pulled we say that "a force is applied to the object". What happens ...

A horizontal line on a distance-time graph close distance-time graphA graph with distance travelled plotted on the vertical axis against time taken on the horizontal axis. shows that the object is ...

One of the most basic things students do in a physics lab is to collect data and use that to build a model. Most of these models come in the form of a mathematical function. But here is the problem.