Topic 3: Mechanics

A career in engineering would let you help people through designing and implementing the things they use in their daily lives.

This is the second part of a two-part activity on recycling yarn.

Resource page including articles and career profiles related to physics and aerospace.

Bernoulli’s equation is key to understanding why curveballs curve.

NASA engineers apply kinematics and dynamics to test parachutes designed specifically to help space probes land safely using aerodynamics.

You don’t have to pedal harder to go faster. You just have to understand a little bit about dynamics, gravitational force and friction!

Why do a baseball and a rocket need the same launch speed to get from Earth into space? It has to do with physics and gravitational force.

Arm wrestling isn’t just a test of strength. It’s also a test of how well you understand torque.

The game of billiards shows the principles of collisions, momentum & impulse, and kinetics at work!