Maybe you have noticed how much material there was (for me at least) in last week's MythBusters. One of the myths they looked at was the bus jumping over a gap in the road from the movie Speed. I am ...

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Have you ever sat down and thought “I wonder if a trebuchet could launch a projectile at supersonic speeds?” Neither have we. That’s what separates [David Eade] from the rest of us. He didn’t just ask ...

Suppose you throw some object near the surface of the earth. If the only significant force on the object is the constant downward gravitational force, we call this "projectile motion." Yes, that ...

I wish Angry Birds had been around when I was teaching high school physics. Please don’t think of the game as a hate crime against hogs, or an avian anger management program—instead, think of it as a ...

Human motion prediction and simulation represent a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field that integrates biomechanics, computer science and optimisation techniques to develop digital human models ...

Integrating typical standalone simulator technologies — driving simulation, traffic and transportation simulation, network and infrastructure simulation, along with associated human factors and human ...