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Graduate Can intense gravity stop atomic motion ?
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Undergrad Help with calculating weight that steel tubing can handle
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High School Does Potential Energy Always Decrease with Conservative Force?
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High School What are the mechanics of gravity?
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Undergrad Is tension in a string cumulative?
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Graduate Why Does Water Behave Anomalously?
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Undergrad Force required to break tempered glass with apple?
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High School Possible forces acting on the ball rolling down a slope?
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Graduate Viscous term in the Navier stoke equation
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Undergrad How can I convert force (N) to RPM for my plant uprooting device?
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Undergrad How does an object's velocity change if it's mass suddenly changes?
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Undergrad How to add acceleration with velocity?
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Undergrad Impact of a horseshoe hitting a metal stake
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High School Weights at different altitudes
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Undergrad How Do You Solve for Position x(t) Given a Force Dependent on Velocity?
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Undergrad Vapor pressure + air pressure?
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Undergrad How Does the Integral of Force Relate to Potential Energy?
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Undergrad Predicting projectile peak based on vector points
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Undergrad Tension in pulley systems Concept help
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Graduate Why do free-falling fluids contract?
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High School Please help me understand this velocity time graph
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Undergrad Confused about the terminology moment
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High School Does weight of an object chance in uniform upwmotionard motion
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Graduate Thesis Title - Space Based Solar Power (recommendations)
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Undergrad Should the Z Coordinate Be Included in XY Plane Vector Problems?
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High School Explosions and Damage: How Does Size Affect Impact?
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Undergrad Bullet drop relative to line of sight
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Graduate Fluid mechanics and circular flow
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Undergrad Question about Acceleration and rounding curves
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Undergrad How does angular momentum create a perpendicular force?
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High School Rotation of a non pivot object
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Undergrad How stability is achieved in a bicycle?
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High School Calculate speed and height in given time for motion
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Undergrad Pressure as a renewable source of energy
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Undergrad Sink or float, high density low pressure VS low density high pressure
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Undergrad Why is Equal and Opposite Force Necessary for Work Against a Field?
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Undergrad Initial Velocity: Stone Released from Balloon
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Graduate Quaternions & Rotations in 3D Space: What You Need to Know
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Undergrad Why is sliding in dirt track racing faster?
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Graduate External damping force in Mass Spring Damper system
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Undergrad Archimedes principle and shapes of the body
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High School What is the speed of the river in km/hr?
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High School Question about the units of acceleration?
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Undergrad Questions on calculating material needed for lifting object
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Undergrad Calculating Air Flow Rate for Floating Ball in Vertical Pipe
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Undergrad Calculate Vehicle Speed on Impact from Weight & Height
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Undergrad How are square sound waves possible? How does a speaker sustain peak?
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Undergrad Why does a potential go to zero with infinite distance?
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Undergrad Converting dt graph (and table) to velocity/time using two point
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High School How much pressure is needed to lift water from 800 feet below ground?
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Undergrad What is the mistake in the derivation of the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation?
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High School Friction: Force & Electromagnetic Nature
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High School Understanding Forces and Energy in 2nd Grade Homework
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Graduate Solve 2-Body Equation for t w/ Given Parameters
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Graduate Highest Pressure Gases: Physics Experiments & Properties
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Graduate Simulating the Behavior of Rotating Fluids: CFD vs ALE
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Graduate How Does Retarded Potential Affect Energy in Moving Charges?
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High School Speed Pertaining to Circular Motion
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High School Cylinder on frictionless surface
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Undergrad Finding launch angel from velocities
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Undergrad Forces when lifting a weight and punching
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Undergrad Frictional force and Normal force
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High School Trying to recall an old experiment
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Graduate Nitpicky details of solid body motion
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Undergrad What is Torque and what is correct formula?
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Undergrad What is the relationship between stress and pressure?
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Undergrad Calcuting forces on a slope (cycling) -online calculators wrong?
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Undergrad Clarification in concept of planar motion of rigid body
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High School How do gasses in a bottle have the atmospheric pressure
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Undergrad Optimal Gear Teeth & Radius for Low Friction & Weight
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Graduate Partition function for position-independent hamiltonian
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High School Moment of inertia of a point mass
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Undergrad Resonant frequency of this pendulum?
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High School Fundamental Forces: Explaining to a 13yo
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High School Why perpetual motion machine wouldn't work.
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Undergrad Minimum Acceleration Needed to Avoid Hitting the Bottom While Diving?
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Undergrad Help In understanding Rate Of Change in mm per sec
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High School Physics turns and centripetal force on flat roads
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Graduate About Turbulence and Navier-Stokes
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High School Understanding Doubling a Release Load: Physics Basics
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Undergrad Moment about an arbitrary axis
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Undergrad Banked turns; do we use the x component of normal force or gravity?
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Graduate Skipping parts of Landau\Lifshitz Mechanics?
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High School Basic question about kinetic energy and momentum
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Graduate Conservation of energy, (lack of) proof
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Undergrad Multiplying Vectors in 3D Plane: Angles Explained
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High School Can Final Velocity Be Higher Than Displacement? | Explained"
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Undergrad Confused about projectile motion
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Undergrad PLease help with calculation Safety harness makes a person stop
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Undergrad Does a top pan balance show a greater value when a person jumps on it?
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Graduate Plane stress to a single element- help
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Graduate Rigid rod moving in potential field
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Undergrad Guitar String Maximum Travel Distance
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Undergrad How to find the moment of inertia of a cube?
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Undergrad This description of orbits seems wrong to me
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Undergrad Can you 'increase pressure' by restricting fluid flow?
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Undergrad Rate of flow, or velocity of fluid?
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Undergrad Can Rotational Dynamics be derived from Translational Dynamics?
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Graduate Gradient of the potential function
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Graduate Can Tension Do Work on an Object in a Fluid?
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