So before we get to the physics of a slide that has alternating curved sections, let’s start with just a plain straight slide. (These can still be fun, as long as they don't get too hot.) ...

The Physics Behind Waterslides. A lot of science goes into providing a safe trip down. ... (90 kilometers) per hour as they plummet down a free-fall slide with fake snowbanks on each side.

The physics behind a very painful viral video. It is not true, as many have surmised, that cop-sized adults travel down slides necessarily faster than children by dint of their weight.

The local fair just ended. Of course there is a bunch of physics at these things. Let me share just one for now. More will likely come later. Here is the big potato sack slide. Here is a quick ...

How physics keeps people from falling off water slides, like world's tallest water slide in Kansas City named Verruckt. Skip to main content.

After six days of talks and discussions and an estimated 10,000 slides shown at the International Conference on High Energy Physics, a few slides stand out as likely to stick around for a while.The ...

To encourage discussion and engagement, a physics forum has banned PowerPoint slides in favor of low-tech whiteboards. A physicist is more than the sum of his or her slides. That's why, about six ...

By Margaret Harris. A couple of years ago, I came across what I thought was a funny (and physics-related) video about a water slide. The slide is called “Verrückt”, which my German-speaking colleagues ...