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Velocity
Velocity: The velocity of an object is the rate of change of its position with respect to a frame of reference, and is a function of time. Velocity is equivalent to a specification of its speed and direction of motion. Velocity is an important concept in kinematics, the branch of classical mechanics that describes the motion of bodies. Velocity is a physical vector quantity; both magnitude and direction are needed to define it.
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MAY 02, 2017
Earth & The Environment
A new study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters aims to clarify a dispute about a previous study’s
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 21, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
When Henry J. Heinz started selling ketchup in bottles in 1876, he chose glass to show his product was pure and uncontam
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
FEB 22, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, then you know New Horizons made history back in 2015 when it flew past Plu
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 31, 2017
Cardiology
In the United States, heart disease is dangerously common and very expensive. Many people with heart disease and at a hi
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 25, 2017
Videos
Did you know that the Earth is actually slowing down in its rotation? Studies show that its rotation has slowed about 17
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
DEC 23, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Jupiter is the largest known planet in our Solar System today, and astronomers have a lot of questions about it, but one
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 06, 2016
Space & Astronomy
When astronomers look for new galaxies, they’re looking for huge clusters of stars, or bright spots, where it&rsqu
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 16, 2016
Videos
It's Olympic season and that means high dives in Rio. Whether it's one athlete, or two in tandem, the physics of these 1
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 26, 2016
Videos
A vortex is a physics phenomenon that occurs when a gas or a liquid moves in circles. At the center is a vortex line tha
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 27, 2016
Space & Astronomy
SpaceX recently landed another Falcon 9 rocket at a drone ship in the middle of the ocean. Although it was a success, Sp
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 22, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Following a successful rocket landing on May 6th by commercial United States-based space company SpaceX, CEO Elon Musk h
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 24, 2016
Microbiology
Very small fibers made by a bacteria have the unique property of transporting charges at speeds of 1 billion electrons p
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 12, 2016
Chemistry & Physics
How do people, not just professional baseball players, throw stuff a such high speeds? Humans in general are the
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
FEB 10, 2016
Space & Astronomy
There’s a lot of buzz going around the internet lately about the mysterious death of a man on a college campus in
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 06, 2016
Chemistry & Physics
In a recent paper whimsically titled “Elastic spheres can walk on water,” a group from Utah State University
...
Written By:
Cassidy Reich
NOV 13, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Scientists have mapped the weather patterns of planets in our own solar system for years, but for the first time, scient
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 14, 2015
Technology
Boeing, the airplane manufacturing company that builds for massive air travel companies, claims to have created the worl
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 09, 2015
Videos
The concept of quantum entanglement has been one that theoretical physicists have been arguing over for decades. Einstei
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 15, 2015
Space & Astronomy
It turns out, we've got a big problem circling above our heads. It's getting worse with each passing day, and if we don'
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUL 03, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Part I of this article, published yesterday, explained how long-term exposure to weightlessness causes some really signi
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUL 03, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Supernova. Pulsar. Black hole. All of these are celestial events that astronomers study, hoping to find clues about how
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 14, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Future deep space missions will require propulsion this is more efficient than chemical rockets. Though it i ...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
APR 01, 2015
Plants & Animals
Humpback whales are renowned for their ability to produce songs of remarkable beauty, complexity, and duration. But scie
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
NOV 19, 2014
Space & Astronomy
The possible existence of Earth-like binary planets was described and discussed recently at the American Astronomical So
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim