As illustrated by the High School Musical song “Get’cha Head in the Game,” squeaky sneakers are a common, if not expected, soundtrack to basketball games. Flexible soles sliding against hard floors ...

A spinning basketball hurtles from the top of a dam, turning a simple ball into a high-speed physics experiment. As it falls, rotational motion interacts with gravity, air resistance, and impact ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – A physics theory that’s proven useful to predict the crowd behavior of molecules and fruit flies also seems to work on another group – NBA players. A model based on density functional ...

Many basketball players like to spin the ball on their fingers. It is some sort of juggling move that can be learned in a few days (see figure 1). To make the ball spin in balance on your fingers it ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – A Cornell University research team has employed a variation of a theory first used to predict the collective actions of electrons in quantum mechanical systems to evaluate basketball ...