In a recent post, I introduced you to my Law of Human Inertia: The tendency of people, having once established a life trajectory, to continue on that course unless acted on by a greater force. In this ...

Christina Harvey, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, uses a combination of wind tunnel studies and modeling of inertial forces to understand how birds ...

I always enjoy MythBusters. Great material for blogs. Also, one of the things I like is that Adam and Jamie are not professional scientists. This means that if they make some mistakes, that is just ...

Centrifugal force () is the apparent force that draws a rotating body away from the center of rotation. It is caused by the inertia of the body. In Newtonian mechanics, the term centrifugal force is ...

Back in December, I praised SyFy's new space opera The Expanse for getting gravity right by understanding the Equivalence Principle. This is the idea that the effects of gravity and acceleration ...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 2, 2017 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has worked with the U.S. Air Force to complete six flight tests to validate the GPS Aided Inertial Navigation System II aboard the Miniature Air ...