Vertical circular motion is a special type of circular motion in which the forces acting on an object change as it moves along a vertical loop. Specifically, the normal force varies throughout the ...

Centripetal and centrifugal forces are central to circular motion, but they're not the same. Discover the differences between ...

When you swing a ball on a rope in a circle above your head, what keeps it moving in that circular path? This applies to any object moving in a circle, not just a ball on a rope - the force and ...

Listen to the full series on BBC Sounds. Newton's first law can also be used to explain the movement of objects travelling with non-uniform motion. This includes situations when the speed changes, the ...

Previous research indicated that 4-month-old infants perceive the unity of a center-occluded object when its visible ends share a common lateral translation in space. The present work investigated the ...