News tagged with laws of motion


Applying Newton's Laws of Motion to Baseball Pitching

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The April 2009 edition of Mechanical Engineering magazine profiles Mike Marshall, the former major league baseball hurler who teaches a pitching methodology based on Sir Isaac Newton’s three laws of motion.





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Embodied Cognition: Using Movement to Understand the Mind

Embodied Cognition: Using Movement to Understand the Mind

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created 15 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychology professors look at movement to study communication and cognition.


Gift Guide: High-tech happiness for $100 or less (AP)

Gift Guide: High-tech happiness for $100 or less

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created 16 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- No one's going to blame you for keeping holiday gifts minimal this year. But if you want to round out your handmade cards, scarves, pickles and jam with a gadget or gizmo, here are a handful of our ...


Physicist Jack Harris Is Honored by DARPA as One of Nation's 'Rising Stars'

Physics / General Physics

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Jack Harris, an associate professor of physics, has received one of this year's Young Faculty Awards (YFA) from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He is one of 33 "rising stars" across ...


Nature's fine designs: Scientists find modern lessons in ancient creations

Nature's fine designs: Scientists find modern lessons in ancient creations

Biology / Other

created 20 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nature and its bottom-up processes for creating robust and responsive materials are inspiring new generations of synthetic materials and creative design.


The end of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A new article in the December 4 issue of Science addresses how the combined efforts of government commitments and market transition could save forest and reduce carbon emissions in Brazil. The Policy Forum brief, entitled "The E ...


San Andreas fault

Quake prediction model developed

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The third in a series of papers in the journal Nature completes the case for a new method of predicting earthquakes.


Study Unravels Detail of 'Most Important' Cellular Signal

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study provides crucial details that promise to help researchers better understand, and perhaps fine-tune with drugs, one of the most important signaling mechanisms in human cells, according to a study ...


Samsung Announces the Premium I8910 HD Gold Edition

Samsung Announces the Premium I8910 HD Gold Edition

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Samsung Electronics today announced the availability of the I8910 HD (Omnia HD, GT-I8910) Gold Edition. This premium version of the ground-breaking full touch screen smartphone features a luxurious new look ...


Futuristic Intel Chip

Futuristic 48-Core Intel Chip Could Reshape How Computers are Built (w/ Video)

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (18) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or "single-chip cloud computer," that rethinks many of the approaches used in today's designs for laptops, ...


Tahoe faces new development battle: green vs. green

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

As snow begins to blanket Lake Tahoe, the region finds itself facing a new kind of development battle: green vs. green.



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