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Undergrad Buoyant Force at the bottom of a pool?
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Undergrad Deriving motion of a displaced piston on a gas cylinder
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Graduate What causes nuclear fission in a collision between two neutrons?
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Graduate Can albatrosses fly without using updrafts?
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Undergrad Calculating Kinetic Energy with E=h*f
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Graduate How prove angular momentum is conserved from the Lagrangian
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Undergrad If there is really a potential drop across resistors
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Graduate Irreversible Quasistatic PV Work
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Graduate Neurophysics: speed of neurons
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Graduate How Is Linear Velocity AE Derived in a Scholarly Paper?
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High School What is measurement unit of digital clear sound for devices
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High School Why ripple effect doesn't happen on air as it does on water?
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Undergrad Negative Force-potential energy relationship?
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Undergrad What is the Resulting Velocity of Ball 3 in a 3-Body Elastic Collision?
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Undergrad Triple Point Water: Why Used for SI Thermodynamic Temp
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Undergrad Intuitive meaning of Dot Product
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Graduate What is the relationship between work and energy in thermodynamics?
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High School How does the moon pull on the earth?
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Undergrad Calculate the force on a squre plane exerted by a pressure
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Undergrad Torque calculation needed for unique application
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Undergrad How Does Water Affect the Inductance of a Coil?
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High School Does covering half of a hose affect the flow rate of water from an open tank?
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Undergrad I need the parametric equations for a simple pendulum
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Graduate Development of mechanics of a rocking problem
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High School Physics Newbie - Newtons 1st Law - Frames of References & Observers
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High School Can Kids Analyze Catapults Using Net Torque and Force Calculations?
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Undergrad Launch Advantages in the East Direction?
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Undergrad Projectile impact contact time
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Graduate Proton Acceleration: Newton's Law & Coulomb's Law
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Undergrad Understanding Carbon Dating: Assumptions, Ratios, and Half-Life
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Graduate Small mass element for laminar (moment of inertia)
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Enforce clockwise spinning, but not counterclockwise
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High School What Happens When a Gyroscope is Spun on a Horizontal Surface?
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High School Measuring Liquid Flow: Steady or Not?
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Undergrad Calculating Efficiency of a DC Motor: How Do I Determine In and Out Values?
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Graduate How can i make a simple and practical particle accelerator.
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Undergrad Boiling Water Faster in Increments?
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High School It is involved the concept of inertia ?
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Undergrad Pressure Effects on a Water-Filled Bucket
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Undergrad Changing equilibrium point in damped simple harmonic motion
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Graduate Calculate number microstates? Why not include acceleration?
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Undergrad Point of application of resultant force from bound vector forces
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High School Some basic questions about pressure
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Undergrad Understanding Motional EMF: Why Can We Use the Formula for a Spinning Bar?
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Undergrad Know acceleration as a function of position, can I find velocity?
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Graduate Feynman's reversible lifting machine analogy- help
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High School Why does the Van der Graaf Generator produce a spark?
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Graduate Mozzi-Chasles Theorem: Learn & Discuss on Forum
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Graduate Sub atomic collision and modulation
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Undergrad Understanding Viscoelasticity - Questions Answered
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High School Confused about conservation of energy
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Undergrad How Does Angular Momentum Affect Gyroscope Movements and Moon Orbits?
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Undergrad Conservation of mass incongruent with He?
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Graduate Why Does the Moment of Inertia Change in Torque-Free Rotation?
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Graduate Navier-stokes flow around a sphere
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Undergrad Calculating 0-60 mph time for a vehicle
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Undergrad Instantaneous response of damped simple harmonic motion
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Graduate Gravity Assist-Elliptical Trajectories
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High School Power & Transformers - Understand the Basics
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High School Comparing Work Done Lifting a Box: Man vs. Woman | Understanding Force and Time
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Undergrad How to determine negative ambient pressure?
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Graduate Constant pressure or isobaric expansion of gas
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Undergrad Physics of Climbing vs. Walking (Horizontal)
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Undergrad Anti Lock Braking-with and without
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Graduate Can somebody explain boundary conditions, for normal modes, on a wire?
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Graduate Example about tangential and normal unit vectors
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Undergrad Torque & Joules: Fact or Fiction?
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Undergrad Solve the Elevator Jump Problem: 9.8m/s
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High School Density-Force Equation: Name and Equation
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Graduate An expression about kinetic energy
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Graduate Newton's Laws: Internal Degrees of Freedom
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Undergrad Center of gravity of a portion of cylinder
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Undergrad Pulley & Angle: Tension Calculation
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Undergrad Why Do Circularly Moving Objects Flip?
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Graduate Variational calculus in particle dynamics
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Undergrad Car Drag Formula Varies with Speed?
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Graduate Pressure-Time relation for polytropic thermodynamic process
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High School How Can Building Air Pressure Issues Be Managed in a Single-Story Property?
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Undergrad Does a Bowling Ball Fall to Earth Faster Than a Planet of Similar Mass?
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Undergrad Compaction of solids under weight of water
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Undergrad What is the Torque at the rear wheel in this gear setup ?
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Undergrad Massive Pulley Dilemma: How to Account for Acceleration?
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Graduate How Does the Cross Product Determine the Perpendicularity of Angular Velocity?
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Undergrad Potential energy of proton vs neutron
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Undergrad Pressure vessel exploding within an atmospheric chamber
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High School Linear Velocity vs Uniform Velocity
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Undergrad Why is the Lagrangian Defined as T-V Instead of T+V?
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Graduate Thermo - PV work and mechanical work
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Undergrad Does Einstein's Theory of Relativity Apply to Everyday Gravity on Earth?
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Graduate Where Does the Missing Kinetic Energy Come From in a Frame-of-Reference Riddle?
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Undergrad Force from power at rest = infinity?
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Graduate Question about straight-line ballistics
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Undergrad A tractor beam reels in objects with sound
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Undergrad Back and Forth Massive Motion makes fly more stable
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Graduate BBKGY equations of kinetic theory
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Undergrad Ideal gases do not possess potential energy
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Undergrad How Long Does It Take a Person to Reach Terminal Velocity?
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Graduate Idea for a perpetual motion machine
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Undergrad Calculating the turning moments for a passive wind turbine under yaw
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Graduate What is the Missing Component in the Equation of Motion for the Asimov Pendulum?
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