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The idea of the project is to illustrate the physical concept of projectile motion through a simple animation and a fun game!The mathematical equations of motion will be worked into a Python program ...

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 ...

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American shot putter Michelle Carter won the gold medal in her discipline at the Rio Olympics on Friday, August 12. Her winning throw measured 20.63 meters (67 ft 8 in). This made me wonder: how fast ...