The subject of this month's feature column from the American Mathematical Society Online is the solution to the "Three Body Problem" of Newtonian mechanics. The problem deals with three orbiting bodies of equal mass and...

Created by Edward Kluk of Dickinson State University, this web site provides course materials for an introductory mechanics class. Topics covered include: kinematics, forces, energy, and momentum. Each page features a...

This website, created by Robert Harris of Iona College's physics department, has links to many interactive applets that are useful to demonstrate physics principles. Topics covered include mechanics, waves, electricity...

This activity from the Exploratorium provides a technique for determining the center of gravity of a long, thin object using only one’s hands. A yard stick, with a piece of clay to displace its center of mass, is placed...

This site, created by Tom Roger of Intuitor.com, is dedicated to describing the poor physics that can be found in many movies. It includes general discussions of common movie mistakes, with simple but thorough...