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How to model a string with mass using Python

In this video, we show how to model a string with mass using Python, breaking down the physics, equations, and numerical approach step by step. Learn how to represent distributed mass, apply forces, ...
In this video, we model a catenary curve using a mass-spring system, showing how a chain-like shape can emerge from discrete masses connected by springs. We connect the simulation to real physics, ...
Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...
Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That's what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in ...
Longtime baseball researchers are testing how torpedo bats compare with traditional bats amid renewed interest in the ...
CENTCOM released a video showing the deployment of fighter jets and attack helicopters for a "large-scale" strike on Syria. The strike follows an attack on U.S. forces in the country on Dec. 13, 2025.
Two bills signed Thursday deal with how AI-generated people — real or entirely synthetic — can appear in commercial content. Two bills signed Thursday deal with how AI-generated people — real or ...
Throughout its five seasons, the Netflix show Stranger Things follows a ragtag group of teenagers and their parents as monsters from another universe — unleashed by the secret work of a government ...
Ramanujan’s elegant formulas for calculating pi, developed more than a century ago, have unexpectedly resurfaced at the heart of modern physics. Researchers at IISc discovered that the same ...
A U.S. special operations team boarded a ship in the Indian Ocean last month and seized military-related articles headed to Iran from China, U.S. officials said, a rare interdiction operation at sea ...
GenAI models have reached a point where the line between real and synthetic imagery is almost indistinguishable. Systems such as Sora and Gemini Nano Banana can preserve individual characters across ...