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High School Health Risks Living Near Power Lines
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High School Why do rockets explode so easily when they tip over?
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High School Why do cars crash? (Instead of passing through each other)
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High School How does running in a moving train affect race times?
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High School Car Collision While Turning: Understanding the Outcome at Low Speeds
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High School Grokking the 1/2 * a * t^2 product
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High School How does hovering and constant climbing differ?
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High School Speed of a wave when crossing a boundary vs. not
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High School Relationship between mass and acceleration
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High School How absurd are these numbers really?
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High School Force of gravity along the radial direction
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High School Is a treadmill incline just a marketing gimmick?
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High School Why do chains on tires provide more traction in the snow?
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High School Thrust Calculation: 1000 psi Tank, 1 in² Removed
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High School Direction of Resultant Force on a Skydiver After Opening Parachute
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High School Difference between "1 kgf" and "1 N"?
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High School Relationship between Velocity and Acceleration
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High School Why does a wall break and not move when pushed?
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High School Why Are Heavier Objects Attracted to Each Other?
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High School Calculating Radial Piston Input Torque: An Interactive Spreadsheet Tool
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High School Constant Force: Energy Conservation & Path Independence
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High School Archimedes principle and the density of a rock
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High School The Mystery: How Boomerangs Work and Come Back Explained
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High School Airplane wings -- How do they work and why do they change shape?
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High School Throwing a ball in an airplane
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High School Water Velocity Question: Impact of Pipe Length on Flow Rate
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High School Relationship between launch height and range
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High School People Jumping Off a Car (Momentum Problem)
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High School How much time for a pencil to drop
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High School What are the physics behind fishing rods?
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High School Golf club "Swing Weight" and club head rotation
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High School Physics of Drifting: Friction, Inertia & More
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High School Formula of S in simple harmonic oscillation
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High School Physics in a manual angle grinder machine
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High School What is Force & Why? | Explaining Net Force
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High School Opening a car door at a high speed
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High School Representing Vectors: Calculating Force & Angle
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High School Gas Usage in Cars: Effects on Environment
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High School How do the nozzles on spray bottles work when misting?
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High School Can there be any acceleration without mass?
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High School Airplanes Landing & Altitude Problem
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High School Testing Accuracy of a 0.25 Water Manometer Using a 10:1 Inclined Mount
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High School Is the Law of Conservation of Mass Always Obeyed?
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High School Vector Math: Adding, Subtracting & Division
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High School Does the Earth have potential energy?
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High School Sound waves produced by an aircraft
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High School Relationship between counterclockwise and clockwise torque
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High School Arm-wrestling -- question about forces
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High School Tablecloth Trick: Explaining Newton's Laws
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High School Solving Pressure Equations: P=pgh & Bernoulli's
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High School What caused the strange water leakage from a sealed jug?
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High School Can ultrasound pass through metal?
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High School Understanding Batteries: Anode, Cathode, Electrolyte
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High School Inertia - two objects falling
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High School Why were Newton's laws of motion discovered so late?
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High School How Does Gravity Influence Energy Production in Hydroelectric Generators?
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High School Understanding Friction: The Impact of Contact on Object Movement
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High School How Is the Coefficient of Restitution Linked to Conservation of Energy?
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High School What happens if you put a drone on hover in a moving car
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High School Finding the mass of gas ejected by a rocket
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High School Understanding the Physics of a Ceiling Fan: Basics & Beyond
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High School How Much Force to Draw a 16-Pound Recurve Bow 1 Meter?
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High School Why does a frozen balloon have this structure?
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High School Is the lift generated by a hummingbird's wings an example of Newton's Third Law?
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High School Basic average acceleration confusion
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High School Is Constant Velocity Essential for Understanding Work in Physics?
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High School How do sound waves interact when two radios are facing each other?
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High School Can you separate hydrogen and oxygen molecules?
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High School Why Does a Cube Float When Dipped in Water?
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High School Ways to Spin a Flywheel using linear motion
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High School Can water vapor go directly into a solid
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High School Forces acting when turning a circle on a unicycle
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High School Why does egg float upwards in stirred bottle of water?
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High School What is the Effort in a Hand Holding a Tray?
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High School When did hydrogen combine with oxygen
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High School What is the relation of mass and power?
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High School How to calculate the distance that a bungee will extend....
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High School Uniform circular motion - origin of speed
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High School What potential difference actually means
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High School Troubleshooting Mass & Spring Dynamics
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High School Uses of the average velocity/speed
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High School Forces between two immovable objects
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High School Knowing if the elevator is moving or not
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High School Physics Behind Weebles: Can You Build One?
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High School Motion of a Door as I Walk by it Quickly (no contact)
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High School Rates of Change and Multiple Dimensions
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High School Tug of War: Force, Equilibrium, and the Third Principle
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High School A question about Newton's laws & free body diagrams....
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High School Calculate relative amounts of energy?
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High School Jumping on a boat that is moving
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High School The force of the stone on the rope
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High School Sound Intensity Propagation and Sound Waves
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High School Question about the physics term "work"
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High School How to project a high power white line
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High School F=ma -- True or an Illusion....
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High School Coefficient of Friction With only Time and Distance
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High School Optimizing Stick Rotation in Space: Ideal Center of Mass Placement
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High School How do you calculate how much force is applied to a thrown bal
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High School What happens to the pressure change inside a rising balloon?
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High School Do Hot and Cold Air Balloons Fall at the Same Rate?
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