Discover how a spring-powered spacecraft can launch from a low-mass asteroid! Explore the physics of propulsion, escape velocity, and momentum in this exciting and educational demonstration. Perfect ...

Jump start physics problem with a mass on a spring. This video explains the setup, key assumptions, and the step-by-step physics needed to solve for motion, energy, and forces in a spring–mass system.

This spring, physics professor Marcelo Gleiser is leading PHYS 82.01, “Question Reality!” for the first — and last — time in person. Gleiser said this is his last term teaching at the College.