A ball is sitting motionless on a dome. According to standard physics, it should stay put indefinitely, at least until the ball or the dome is perturbed. Suddenly, it begins sliding down the dome ...

[Herman Erlichson was a physicist and a historian of science (he had Ph.D.s in both). He was also an avid golfer - and my uncle. He passed away just over a year ago, and I've been wanting to write ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. Listening to the Giants-Falcons football game in the car this afternoon ...

Baseball season is upon us and we thought we'd share with you the awesome physics of the curve ball. Here's a great video from Tetra Research of a curve ball in flight which will help us understand ...

It's that World Cup time of the year—so that means it's also time to talk about soccer physics. What about the impossible kick? The "impossible" kick has a ball leave the ground and then take a curved ...

When the soccer video game FIFA 14 went on sale this week, it boasted a ball that, at long last, could sail smartly through the air. In earlier versions of the game, unless the ball was kicked long ...

What happens when a natural force—and we're not talking the explosion in "CaddyShack"—moves your ball? This is a situation that comes into play quite often, especially on seaside courses where winds ...

Wiffle ball is a variant of baseball played with a plastic perforated ball. Eight three-quarter-inch, oblong holes cover half the ball’s surface area, while the other hemisphere is uninterrupted.