In an inertial frame of reference, a body with zero net force acting on it does not accelerate. When scientists speak of inertial frames of reference, they're invoking a coordinate system with no ...

In an article published in Communications Physics, researchers from the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna present a new framework for ...

The reaching movement can be thought of as a vector that starts at the current location of the hand and ends at the reaching target 1. Information about the location of the reaching target, initially ...

This PSSC film made in 1960 is one of the finest physics films ever made. All students should see it at some point in their studies. See the article '"Frames of Reference" revisited' by Alistair Steyn ...

When walking through an unfamiliar city, we might rely on different types of directions. Head east out of the train station, take a left at the stoplight, turn at the building with the mural. To move ...

One feature of spatial cognition is the ability to simultaneously discern position in multiple external (that is, non-egocentric) frames of reference. Although hippocampal and entorhinal cortical ...