Tag: Acceleration

How to Measure the Impact From a Collision

Not only do I get the "shape" of the acceleration curve for the colliding cart, but I also get a maximum acceleration of –6.67...

The Problem With Spinning Spacecraft

While it would be awesome for people to be able to live in space, a "weightless" environment poses some serious challenges. Humans function best...

Business Growth: 12 Tips for Acceleration – Under30CEO

Constant growth offers your business resilience and greater sustainability, economies of scale, greater bargaining and buying power, higher market dominance, and diversification. This gets...

The Physics of That Spinning Hug in Dua Lipa’s Music Video

Great, now let's use these same ideas to show why you can't hug someone while leaning super far back (unless you are on an...

How Far Away From Perseverance Did the Descent Stage Land?

Dare Mighty Things. That was the hidden message in the parachute of the Mars Perseverance rover. It's not quite as mighty, but I...

Council Post: Why ‘Think Big, Start Small’ Is The Best Approach To Digital Acceleration

As VP of Operations at BairesDev, Damian oversees the entire customer relations life-cycle, safeguarding the company's operations.   getty The...

How NASA Finds the Mass of the Dirt Grabbed From an Asteroid

It's important to realize that the two sticks have the same mass, but different moments of inertia. The moment of inertia depends not just...

Why Doesn’t the Earth Have a Bunch of Mini Moons?

Putting this together with the net force, you get the momentum principle. It's kind of a big deal in physics.So, it seems like...

Manufacturing In The U.S. Is On The Cusp Of Massive Change—Here’s How To Keep Up

Manufacturers—who create products from raw materials or components, either by machine or by hand, in ... plants, factories,...

What Happens If You Smash a Boat Into a Whale?

Ed note: Today marks exactly 10 years since Rhett first started writing physics posts for WIRED. Congratulate him on Twitter!On the show ...

Car on a Trampoline: More Kicks With Kinetic Energy

Yes, the change in the y position is negative, since the object is moving down. All that's left is the time. I looked at...

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