I don’t really do much with horse races, but you have to admit that this is like the Atlanta Falcons being up 28–3 over the New England Patriots — and then the Patriots win. Sorry if you are Falcons fan. I know that one hurts. OK, so here’s the deal…

Let’s be honest — the world is made of springs. OK, maybe they aren’t literally springs but they are approximately springs. Yes, for small oscillations we can approximate stuff as a simple harmonic oscillator. The Physics Problem Suppose you have a mass (m) connected to a spring and the mass…

There’s a very good chance that you have at least plucked a guitar string. When you do that, you deform the string under tension with some initial state. After that, the “plucked” parts of the string interact with the other parts of the string — and you get a wave. …

You might not realize that they are important in physics — but you pretty much need both Stoke’s Theorem and the Divergence Theorem for vector stuff (like Maxwell’s Equations). However, they can be a little difficult to comprehend. I’m not going to derive these two equations, instead I am just…

You just never know when you might have to jump over a car that’s speeding straight towards you. Oh, and maybe that car is a McLaren sports car — you know, it could happen. Even more importantly, this could be part of a TV show called America’s Got Talent: Extreme. …

Some people were super upset when it was decided that Pluto should not be called a planet. I mean, countless students had grown up memorizing the following sentence: My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas. Of course, this is a mnemonic to help us remember the VERY IMPORTANT…

I’ll be honest — I really don’t know much about figure skating. It’s not even one of my favorite winter sports to watch. But here we are — thinking about the physics of the quad. Oh, what the heck is a quad? From what I understand, a quad is when…

I’m continuing to post my pre-class starter questions for physical science. The basic idea is to give them something to think (and hopefully discuss) with their neighbors before the start of the start of the lesson. …

Let me be perfectly clear — I mean like x-ray clear so that you can see what I’m thinking (see what I did there). I don’t care if you couldn’t really have x-ray vision like in episode 5 of Peacemaker (on HBOMAX). …