Usually when an amateur bowler toes the line in front of a lane and ten pins, they’re not thinking about much else besides hurling their ball so it hits its target head on. But the physics of the game ...

A bowling ball doesn’t seem dangerous until it’s traveling at 500mph. Fired from a custom-built cannon, the ball smashes through doors, car hoods, windshields, and mannequins with terrifying force.

Bulletproof glass is designed to stop bullets, not bowling balls fired from a cannon. Using ultra-high-speed cameras, this ...

Saint Louis University mathematics professor Dylan Brody Johnson wrote a presentation for a Math and Computer Science Club about 10-12 years ago called "The Physics of Bowling." From that presentation ...

Sixteen bowling balls strung from a wooden frame swing back and forth in unison, then in an undulating curve, then into seeming chaos before lining up once again. Each bowling ball takes a slightly ...

A bowling ball might look round on the outside, but inside there is a distinct departure from spherical symmetry. That is what I learned from reading a wonderful article on the physics of bowling ...

Everyone knows billiards as the default example for teaching classical dynamics, but is ten-pin bowling a better choice, especially for getting kids interested? My wife (who is a primary school ...

Cricket and golf have little in common. Sure, there’s a tradition of wearing knitted jumpers while playing both sports, but from the point-scoring system and the number of players, to the size of the ...

If you've ever watched a batter get beaten by a ball that curved, jagged or dipped at the last moment, you've seen one of ...