Whether diving off docks, cannonballing into lakes or leaping off the high board, there’s nothing quite like the joy of jumping into water. Olympic divers turned this natural act into a sophisticated ...

Solve a basketball jump physics problem by tracking how mechanical energy changes from takeoff to peak height. This video explains kinetic energy, gravitational potential energy, and energy ...

The long jump is an event in track and field in which the athlete, after a quick run-up, takes off from the ground, trying to land as far away as possible on a platform filled with sand. In addition ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Pankaj Rohilla, Georgia Institute of Technology and Daehyun Choi, Georgia Institute of ...