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Graduate Maximizing Momentum for a Rocket
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High School How Does Battery Voltage Indicate Electric Potential Difference?
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High School Why Does Friction Exist? Explaining 4 Forces
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Graduate Surface of Water in a Rotating Bucket via Calc. of Variations
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Undergrad Uniform Circular Motion and Centripetal Acceleration
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High School Forces in Objects: Analyzing Forces on Connected Structures
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High School F=ma with constant acceleration
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High School Principle Determining the Loudness (Intensity) of Sound
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Undergrad Fluid Flow out of a Liquor Bottle
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Undergrad How can you move a wheel chair sitting on it?
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Undergrad Calculate Rubber Band Force to Hold 5 kg Box Without Deforming >1mm
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Undergrad Does getting sucked up require more energy then getting pushed away?
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High School What carachterizes a good surf beach?
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Graduate Dual role of force acting on rigid body
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Undergrad Effect of rain on velocity of sound
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Graduate The role of center of mass in motions
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Undergrad Tension in the thread: Centripetal Force in the Vertical plane
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Undergrad What is this formula for?/What is it called?
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High School The multiple derivatives of position
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Graduate Understanding Inertial Force in 2nd Order ODEs: Proportional to Acceleration?
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Undergrad How Do Force and Angles Influence the Physics of Piercings?
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Undergrad Color of central circle in Newton's rings
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Undergrad I want to build a mini-hoverboard (2" by 8" scale model)
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Graduate Surface Tension - Lung Alveoli
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Graduate Work done by external agent in attractive potential
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Undergrad Escape Velocity Calculations for Multiple Masses
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Undergrad General equation of motion with gravitational field
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High School Force accelerates center of mass same regardless of where applied?
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Graduate Torque and Center of Gravity in Rotating Objects
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Undergrad Relationship between gravitational field strength and potential
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Undergrad Newton's 3rd Law is confusing me
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Undergrad Statistics of carriers in semiconductors
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High School Physics behind flow of water from a bottle
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Undergrad Nature of votexes and whirlpools
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Undergrad Why is potential energy considered negative in an inversed pendulum system?
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High School Can someone please explain what the parallel axis theorem is?
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Undergrad Conservation of Energy Question
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Undergrad Damping factor in critical damping
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Graduate Resources for analytical mehanics
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Undergrad Conservation of angular momentum on a rope
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Graduate Rotating frame: a question of interpretation
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High School Earth Spin and Rotation: Effects of Fast and Heavy Objects
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Graduate A body traveling for infinte time
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Undergrad Two questions regarding the conservation of linear momentum
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Undergrad Energy in damped harmonic motion
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Graduate A bar spinning with unlimited angular velocity
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Undergrad Formula relating angular displacement and tension.
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Undergrad Force = mass * acceleration. A question about gears.
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High School Throwing an object upwards and dropping it
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Undergrad What is the relationship between hanging weight and tension in a rope?
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Undergrad Bernoulli's principle, flow rate, velocity and pressure
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Undergrad Freezing Time of Water: What Factors Determine it?
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Undergrad Looking for a Physics Workbook with Calculus-Based Problems and Solutions?
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Undergrad Spring Recovery VS Counterweight
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Graduate How can I think of rotational diffusion inverse seconds?
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Undergrad Understanding the Sign of 'g' and 'a': An Apparent Weight Example
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Graduate Using Matrices to Solve Systems of Masses and Springs
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Undergrad Resolving 3D Forces for Determining xyz Components
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Undergrad Finding the location of a kinematic particle in motion based on time.
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Undergrad Falling Elevator - Projectiles
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Undergrad What is the Role of Centrifugal Force in the Discus Throw?
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Undergrad Why is angular velocity perpendicular to the plane of rotation?
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Undergrad Angular Velocity: spinning in chair, dropping weights with arms out
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Undergrad Two sounds with equal spl, one "louder" than other
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Undergrad How does conservation laws work in physics
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Undergrad Difference between gravitational and inertial mass
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Graduate Derivation of Bernoulli's Equation via conservation of E
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Undergrad Centripetal acceleration and tangential acceleration
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Undergrad The shape of water poured out of a glass
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Undergrad Physics for Engineers: Scalar/Dot Product Explained
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Undergrad Calculation of inlet pressure of the pump
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Undergrad KE constant in circular motion?
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Undergrad Race with Sticks - How to select the best one?
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Undergrad Forces on a car in circular motion
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Undergrad Coriolis Force, Motion of projectile
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Undergrad Pressure and density of compressible fluids.
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Graduate Work done on a rigid body in a collision
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Undergrad Why does static pressure decrease as CFM increases on blower fan charts?
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Graduate Using Effective Potential to Describe motion of an object
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Undergrad Friction Between Clothing & Giant Rock: 833 N & μ=4.58?
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Undergrad Momentum and Force: Solving Problem with Springs
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Undergrad Can something moving linearly without rotation have anguar momentum?
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Graduate Osmotic pressure, question on derivation (TD)
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Undergrad What happens when you fall at 100 mph into a flat water lake
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Undergrad What is conserved in collisions: linear momentum or angular momentum?
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Graduate What Makes a Sliding Book Stop Both Rotating and Translating Simultaneously?
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Undergrad Why does current flow from lower to higher potential in motional EMF?
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High School What causes the distinct color pattern when water hits a screen?
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Undergrad Explaining Electric and Magnetic Fields in EM Waves
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Graduate The operator of momentum (layman question)
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Undergrad How Does Friction Direction Change with Different Surfaces and Objects?
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High School Forces at freely-jointed and freely-hinged
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Undergrad Acceleration After Applied Force is Stopped?
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Undergrad Kinetic energy of water molecules after shaking
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Undergrad Want to understand ke formula without having to accept any assumptions
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Graduate Fluid Dynamics pipeline with a venturi injector
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Undergrad Vector component of the weight of an object
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Graduate Is it possible to impart a moment with soundwaves?
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