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Two falling spools of thread, which hits first?
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How Does Cylinder Dynamics Change When Rolling Down a Steep Inclined Plane?
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AZING! How does the 3rd law explain the forces acting on a book on a table?
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Apparent paradox with angular and linear motion
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Does a floating object always rotate about its centre of mass?
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Classical Potential Barriers and their Resultant Forces
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Moment Of Inertia (calc vs physics different answer)
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Frictionless System: How Does Automobile Motion Change?
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Does static friction always act on objects at rest?
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Water that sucks while filling buckets
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Why Is the Potential Infinite at the End of a Charged Rod?
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Force and Acceleration: Necessity of Force for Acceleration
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Total mechanical energy of a point mass in an elliptical orbit
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Why Does Air Break Up into Swirls Behind a Blunt Body in Fast Motion?
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DC Generator: Equations & Graphs
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Measuring the pressure of a gas
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Is acceleration always positive
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Seismic sensor and accelerometer
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How Do You Model the Motion of a Rigid Body Under Eccentric Torque?
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Motion: Why we need acceleration?
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Is This Particle Accelerator Design Effective and Viable?
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About friction and elastic collisions
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Law of conservation of momentum
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UWB (Impulse) radar advantages over Pulsed radar
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Rigid Body Velocity: Reason & Reciprocity
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Dot product of acceleration and velocity
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Determine Lift Motion & Sketch Kinematics Profile w/ Newton's Laws
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How does boiling exactly work?
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Mastering Parabolic Motion in Online Games: Understanding Physics and Gravity
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Centre of Pressure: Explained and Examined
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Multi-Body Collisions: Solving Complex Interactions
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Is T=PV-M the Correct Formula for Calculating Buoyancy in Water?
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Understanding Pressure in Liquids
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Carbon di oxide emission of filament bulbs
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Center of mass and rigidity and torsions
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Torques: Find Load on Piers Supporting 700N Girder
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Conservation of energy and momentum in collisions
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Atmospheric pressure & the vacuum of space
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Pressure theory applied to a Venturi tube
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Ridiculously simple Pressure question
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Can aerodynamic trajectories ever be shaped like this?
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Question about acceleration and gravity
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Negative Work but Average Force positive in this situation?
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Can Reducing Pipe Diameter Increase Water Flow Speed in a Gravity-Fed System?
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Moment of inertia of system in 3D
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Calculating Young's Modulus for a Ring Chain of Springs
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Hydrostatic equilibrium in sphere
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Pedulum impact problem (tipping a screen over)
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Helium Balloon Weight on an Upside-Down Scale
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Why are the products of sound wave lengths and frequencies always constant?
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Using quaternions to perform rotations
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How do we prove Simple Harmonic Oscillation in a hanging spring?
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Energy conservation for a point at the Earth's surface
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How does the enclosed insect-cocoon jump 400 times its own length ?
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[fluid dynamics] are they trying to use the ideal gas law for LIQUIDS?
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What is the formula for velocity and time taken of object falling in water
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Two questions on acceleration and an experiment
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How I,V,R, and P relate and how Transformers Work?
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Did Newton Actually Discover Gravity with an Apple?
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Difference between analytical and continuum mechanics?
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Calculating Vapor Pressure of Water with Desolved Solids
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Energy waves from impact in a solid
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Calculate water pressure coming out of a pipe
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Rigid body kinematics problem: finding the velocity of the center of mass
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Interference of Waves in a Pool: Still Surface & Heating Effects
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Solving Spherical Pendulum w/ Friction & Generalized Force
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Angular Momentum of Rigid Bodies
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Initial Y-Velocity (time unknown) in 2D Game
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What Causes a Sphere to Rotate on a Ramp with Negligible Friction?
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Why Do Curved Sunglasses Lack Power Despite Their Design?
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Could it be possible for an object to bounce for a very long time.
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Speed of Sound and Moving Vehicles
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Work, kinetic energy, potential energy
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Mechanics: acceleration & curvature relationship
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? on Kin. friction/no friction and mag. of acceleration intuition
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[fluid dynamics] why are there no shear forces in a fluid at rest?
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What Types of Potential Energy Exist Beyond Gravitational?
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Understanding Newton's Laws of Motion: Solving a Tricky Equation with Blocks
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Confusion about how the momentum is transferred
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Rigid Body on Frictionless Surface
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Why does a pen fall over when placed on its tip?
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Negative Work: What Does it Mean?
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Tech Battery Basics: Understanding the Flow of Electrons and Energy
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Build a Particle Accelerator in Your Garage?
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Statistical Mechanics - Random Walk
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Can Kinematics Equations Be Used for an Entire Projectile Trajectory?
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Rotation of Bar: Force, Translation & Equations
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Nested rotations in a fluid: Implications and Visualization
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Free Fall and gravitational field strength
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Why do riders hang off a motorbike when cornering?
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Relating terminal velocity, force of friction.
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Is a 15kg object capable of generating 147N upward force in water?
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Weight of a Vehicle: Can Chickens Affect It?
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Harmonics in Music: Pan Flute, Filters & Distortion
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I have a question about comet/asteroid/etc impacts
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Doubt in resolving forces of a man in an elevator(normal force and weight)
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Change of Momentum in relation to Force
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Acceleration of Sound & Velocity vs. Acceleration
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When water freezes, strange shapes may appear
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Pressure at exit plane of pipe: static or total
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