Your Parents Prefer to Believe in Magic
The Kansas Classroom
Date: August 26th, 2008
Olym-pics
Beijing 2008 - It’s a wrap at The Big Picture (39 photos)
If you look at the high jump of Blanka Vlasic, you can see how it’s possible to do a high jump with your center-of-mass (focus on the physics) never rising above the bar, though I think in this jump it is higher, since [...]
Putting the Proper Spin on it
Rotating Grid Illusion
Oh, way cool. A rotating grid looks like a bunch of smaller grids when you rotate it.
Yes, John, You Had a Question?
I notice that the answers are posted for the “Presidential Physics quiz” in the NY Times (original quiz wording) and, well, blech. Sorta. I’ve read decent things about the Physics for Future Presidents book, but I don’t want this to be the example for “how to quiz presidents and justify the answers.”
QUESTION 1. [...]
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