Let’s Play Two! That’s right–it’s time for a C2ST Double Header.
Due to unprecedented demand, Dr. Alan Nathan will be giving an encore of his Physics of Baseball program on Friday, August 2nd.
Continue reading “The Physics of Baseball #2: “You Can Observe A Lot By Watching” – Yogi Berra”
“You Can Observe A Lot By Watching” – Yogi Berra
Following Yogi’s advice, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Illinois Alan Nathan will use high-speed video clips to highlight some of the interesting physics underlying the game of baseball. The talk will focus on the subtleties of the baseball-bat collision, the intricacies of the flight of a baseball, and many other things. Continue reading “The Physics of Baseball: “You Can Observe A Lot By Watching””
C2ST PRESENTS: “The Physics of Baseball: You Can Observe A Lot By Watching”
When we think of the marriage of science and sports, most often the association conjures thoughts of sports psychology. Recently, the potent cocktail of science and baseball in the news has been negative—referring mostly to illegal pharmaceuticals. We at the Chicago Council on Science and Technology (C2ST) are bringing the study of physics to America’s pastime, for a doubleheader of sorts at US Cellular Field.
By Scott Michael Slone
You hear it humming and whirring, probably right next to you. It’s a small device that somehow takes your words and images and makes physical copies of them, all day long, and never stopping. It’s obviously your printer, but there’s a device coming around that would fit that description just the same, and yet has a much grander use. At the moment it exists as massive and expensive facilities, or centers and companies devoted to its use. It’s called nanofabrication, and researchers at Northwestern University are making it happen. Continue reading “Printing a Future”
By Scott Michael Slone
This article is by Scott Michael Slone, C2ST’s resident intern.
Robots are coming in from everywhere! By land, by sea, by air! Speaking of air, dozens of tiny robots known as quadrotors are making themselves visible! A quadrotor is a small flying robot that uses four propellers pointed upwards to fly. On their own they’re quite the acrobatic little fellas, and are capable of navigating themselves easily around their environment. The first video of this collection focuses on the swarm capabilities of the quadrotors being made at University of Pennsylvania. Continue reading “The Quadrotors are coming!”
By Scott Michael Slone
It has been nearly 36 years since the Voyager 1 was sent into space on its journey. Its purpose at the time: to take vivid and detailed pictures of the planets of our Solar System in a way that had never been attempted before. Eventually its primary mission was completed, giving breathtaking images of Saturn and Jupiter, as well as the famous picture of a “pale blue dot” known to some beings as Earth. Voyager 1 is still making its journey through the cosmos, and is now entering a region of space where the line between the Solar System and interstellar space is becoming more and more blurry. Continue reading “Voyager: Our Most Distant Explorer”
