News tagged with ball
Making waves: Mathematicians crack quantum chaos conjecture
Oct 10, 2008 |
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The American Institute of Mathematics announces that Soundararajan and Roman Holowinsky have proven a significant version of the quantum unique ergodicity conjecture. Their work, based in the pure mathematics area of number ...
Baseball diamonds: the lefthander's best friend
Jul 07, 2008 |
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Baseball diamonds are a left-hander's best friend. That's because the game was designed to make a lefty the "Natural," according to David A. Peters, Ph.D., the McDonnell Douglas Professor of Engineering at Washington University ...
Researchers break world record for drive systems
Nov 14, 2008 |
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In future it can be expected that the drill used in material processing will become even faster and the compressor used for vehicles and airplanes even more compact. In order to drive these rotary applications ...
Physicists aim to help golfers by producing better balls that fly farther
Nov 24, 2008 |
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At the 61st Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics this week, a team of researchers from Arizona State University and the University of Maryland is reporting research that may soon give avid ...
Experience soccer games through your cell phone vibration
Oct 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Buzz buzz...it’s a goal for the home team! By synchronizing a cell phone’s vibrations with the ball in the field, researchers have designed a method that allows cell phone users to experi ...
Space Sportilization: Former Redskin Player Ken Harvey Offers A 21st Century Game on the Moon
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 24, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ken Harvey, former linebacker for the Washington Redskins is trying to capture the imagination of young people by proposing a 21st century game of "Float Ball" to be played in zero-gravity. ...
Professors teach robot to 'play ball'
Sep 26, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Baseball is elegant in its simplicity. Pitch a ball, hit the ball. Score more runs than your opponent and you win the game.
Synthesis with a template: Carbon-free fullerene analogue
Apr 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by Manfred Scheer at the University of Regensburg has now synthesized the first example of an inorganic, carbon-free C80 analogue.
Nothing But Net: The Physics of Free-Throw Shooting
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Pay attention, Shaq: Two North Carolina State University engineers have figured out the best way to shoot a free throw - a frequently underappreciated skill that gets more important as the ...
NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Ready to Ship to Florida
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers are getting ready to pack NASA's Kepler spacecraft into a container and ship it off to its launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The mission, scheduled to launch ...
iPod Touch offers video-game fun
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 25, 2009 |
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My video-game addiction took on a new, smaller footprint after the holidays. Resigning myself to the fact that my four-year-old iPod was never going to die of its own accord, I proactively put the clunky, ...
