During the 2026 Winter Olympics, athletes will leap off ramps, slide across ice and spin through the air. These performances will look different to my students who have studied physics through sports.

Break down the physics behind the MythBusters Rocket Car with this detailed explanation of net force! In this video, we analyze the forces acting on the rocket car, step by step, to show how Newton’s ...

Purdue University physics professor Erica Carlson explains why static electricity is worse in winter and offers practical ...

How do you create an inquisitive mind? Simply accumulating knowledge isn't good enough, suggest Lei Bao and colleagues (Am. J. Phys. 77, 1118–1123; 2009). Specifically, the teaching and learning of ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...