Model: This is some type of representation (conceptual, mathematical, physical, computational) of a real object. Example: a model of a bouncing ball would produce results that agree with a real ...

[T-Kuhn]’s Octo-Bouncer platform has learned some new tricks since we saw it last. If you haven’t seen it before, this device uses computer vision from a camera mounted underneath its thick, clear ...

First, in my defense I was just making a model based on the data I had. Of course, I am talking about my first super bounce ball post. Just to get you up to speed, I wanted to see how fast you would ...

Back in the fall of 1989, I was a freshman at Williams College, and one Monday night that fall there was some sort of problem with the cable TV in our dorm, so a bunch of us went next door to watch ...

The internet has gone bonkers over the ball, attempting to figure out what the hell is going on in this colossal optical illusion. Since Kevin Parry, from Oregon, posted the video, which shows himself ...

[Eric Archer] constructed an analog computer to model the physics of a bouncing ball. The core is a TL074 opamp that does all the integral math. He had no trouble finding descriptions of analog ...

Researchers from the University of Bristol have revisited a well-known classroom demonstration where a lighter ball is dropped on top of a larger heavier ball and offer a model to explain the ...

Researchers have carried out detailed molecular dynamics simulations to understand the motion of intriguingly ball-shaped C60 bucky balls on metal surfaces. The shape suggests several interesting ...

Here's how to get more bounce from a normal tennis ball - buddy it up with a heavier ball for twice the impact. Hold a ball in each hand and decide which ball weighs more (has greater mass). It might ...