It's impossible to talk about football these days without talking about the problem of big hits. The giant dramatic collisions between players moving at high speed are at once one of the great ...

The physics he observed is complicated and is presented in two soon-to-be-published papers. In layman’s terms, however, there are three primary forces acting on the football.

The average football sack can produce a bone-shattering 1600 lbs of force. Armed with new tools, researchers are now studying the science of a gridiron fundamental: The tackle.

American football has undergone numerous rule changes in the last century and a bit, radically changing the game. The laws of physics have remained the same through all this, but what would happen ...

Physics of building a better football / By Rhett Allain, WIRED. If you took a time machine back 50 years and watched a football game, you'd notice a lot of differences.

The Super Bowl meets physics in this football mystery : Short Wave If you've ever watched part of a professional football game, you've probably seen a tight spiral pass. Those perfect throws where ...

The Physics Of A Football Player's Performance The New York Giants' Brandon Jacobs is a 6'4", 270 pound running back. And with that kind of size, you think he'd be able to run right through would ...

Physics dictates that the more efficiently a football spins after it is thrown, the more stable it will be during flight, resisting wind and other outside forces. Kevin Tresolini The News Journal ...

Science Physics Football Physics And The Science Of Deflategate. Does the ideal gas law explain 11 deflated footballs? By Chad Orzel. Published Jan 23, 2015 8:50 PM EST ...

A football deflated to only 10 psi has a mass of 0.36 ounces (10.2 g). The difference is about the weight of a paper clip, Eads said. Similarly, a difference of 2 psi in a football isn't that ...

The Physics of Football. Bryan Healey Jun 4, 2018. Just yesterday, a stretch of time when Sundays mysteriously disappear began. It's baffling to many (mostly women), and it's a miracle of physics ...

The NFL requires that all game footballs be inflated to a pressure between 12.5 and 13.5 pounds per square inch (psi), and that they weigh 14 to 15 ounces (397 to 425 grams), ESPN reported.