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High School Does acceleration affect impact energy vs constant velocity?
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High School Mousetrap Car Energy efficiency
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High School Limiting case for an Atwood's machine
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High School Trying to understand wind forces on a door
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High School Why higher speeds need more power if the backward force is the same?
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High School Applied Mechanics -- Billiard Balls
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High School How Does Constant Power Affect Rocket Acceleration in Space?
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High School Using energy principles to find equilibrium depth of floating object
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High School Newton's first law?
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High School How to derive the 4 laws of motion using Calculus?
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High School Effect of mass on the acceleration of an elastic pendulum?
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High School The Effect of Linear and Rotational Motion on Measured Weight
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High School A scenario of non-uniform circular motion
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High School Average velocity as a weighted mean
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High School Beam on an inclined plane
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High School Question about pressure of a liquid
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High School Why is the 3 body problem unsolvable? And what will happen if someone solves it?
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High School Why is displacement the integral of acceleration with respect to time? [corrected in thread]
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High School Understanding Newton's Third Law and the Net Force on Objects
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High School Work done when moving an object
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High School Why Does a Spring Return to Its Original Position After Being Stretched?
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High School What is the Correct Reading on the Scale in This Mass/Scale Puzzle?
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High School Water Wicking between two containers
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High School Why Does Hooke's Law Use a Negative Sign in Scalar Form?
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High School The work done by two objects on each other
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High School How hydraulic pressure can change the magnitude of a force?
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High School Conservation of Energy: Ball on a U-Shaped Ramp
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High School Sympathetic motion generated by cleaning Rubik's cube
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High School Study of SHM of an object attached to a vertical spring
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High School Zero acceleration = zero net force?
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High School Box being pulled up a slope with friction
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High School The weight of one of three bricks
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High School An explosion under a pile of timber and rocks
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High School Acceleration of an Object Moving in Circular Path
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High School Why do sails on a boat generate lift perpendicular to the sails?
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High School Problems with modelling the vertical motion of a dust particle
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High School Deacceleration causes object to move backwards?
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High School Question about Newton's 3rd law: Two boxes sliding toward each other and colliding
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High School Reducing resonance in a rotating "World"
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High School Inclined treadmills and Galilean Invariance
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High School Question about the definition of Torque Equilibrium
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High School The horizontal speed of an object does not affect the time it takes to fall vertically?
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High School What limits a rocket's max speed if in space drag is zero?
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High School A universe where Zeno is right and the law of inertia still holds
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High School Inertia of a rolling dumbell
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High School The ghost rad unit in angular motion
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High School Is this formula for Fnet valid for various man-in-elevator scenarios?
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High School Why do objects break? (in the case of a body at rest on a surface)
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High School Why Do Objects Bounce? Exploring Momentum and Energy Conservation
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High School Would there be any varying forces acting on individual wells in rotation? (stir/shaker plate)
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High School Easier to pedal with physics
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High School Waves travelling between strings
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High School Doubt regarding relative acceleration
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High School Can conservation laws take time to obey?
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High School Is water pressure on an inclined wall less than the weight of the water?
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High School Constant jerk motion: acceleration vs. position
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High School Validity of hydrostatic pressure equation
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High School Formal definition of work done
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High School Acceleration regards F=ma
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High School Rubber band force-extension graph
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High School Torque Calculation - Not a basic application
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High School What Is Mass and How Is It Defined in Physics?
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High School Looking for quality data from ticker time experiments (for quadratic regression analysis)
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High School Will there be water coming out of the last hole?
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High School Measuring Shock Absorbency / Kinetic Energy
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High School Path traced by a point on the periphery of the ball? Helix?
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High School Is velocity ever a scalar quantity?
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High School How to understand formula for bending of a rectangular rod?
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High School How does an object gain potential energy?
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High School Proper Understanding of Dynamical Systems and State Space
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High School Understanding randomness in universe
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High School direction and magnitude of force on an arrow that left a bow.
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High School How is tangential velocity measured in m/s when it’s r * w?
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High School Analysis of Simple Pendulum Motion
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High School thickness of skin of soap bubble
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High School Can energy be decomposed?
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High School Vertical Compression Strength of Different Hollow Rods
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High School Time to fall from 200 miles
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High School Creating drag to reduce falling speed
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High School Are the following two formulas equivalent?
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High School Acceleration as a function of position
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High School Deriving v(t) from F(x), for Linear Motion
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High School Newton's Third Law in space
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High School Balancing on Pulley system
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High School Hold a hammer at the top vs bottom of the handle
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High School Strain on a foil sheet separating two compartments in a cylinder
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High School Concrete formwork pressure
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High School Velocity of the tip of a 2m pole hitting the ground
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High School Rotational Kinematics -- questions about a=mg sin(theta) / (m+I/R^2)
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High School Formula for time in terms of acceleration and distance
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High School What determines heaviness of objects in Space?
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High School Newton's First Law -- Mistranslated for 3 centuries
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High School Resnick Halliday Krane: Venturimeter formula mistake?
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High School Can we differentiate with respect to a vector?
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High School Will there always be a vector product for 2 vectors in a 3d plane?
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High School Liquid Flow Calculation out of a pressurized tank
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High School Are frictional forces action forces or reaction forces?
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High School Friction forces on the tires of a moving car
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High School Friction and Newton's laws in car braking systems
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High School 4 pounds over the weight limit of a tv stand
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