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High School Mastering the 5 Kinematic Equations: An In-Depth Look at Motion Rules
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Undergrad Releasing Energy from Water: Heat, Latent Heat & Expansion
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Graduate Angular velocity irrespective of axis of rotation?
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Graduate Rotating and kinetic energy kinematics
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High School Does the gas inside a balloon affect the buoyancy?
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Undergrad Question about motorcycle emergency braking
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Undergrad Why is Torque perpendicular to the force?
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Undergrad Why do Gaussian Surfaces work?
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Undergrad Help me out please - Car accident analysis
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Graduate Calculating pressure of supercritical water
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High School How to determine direction of forces?
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High School Gravity Law: Force & Mass Relationships
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Graduate Computing Natural Frequency of a Torus System: 3D vs. 2D Added Mass
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Undergrad Angular acceleration of a massless pulley
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Graduate Group Velocity Derivation: Understanding the Role of Ignored Terms
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Undergrad An intuitive approach to torque's dependence on radius
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High School Solving Kinematics w/ Negative Acceleration: Meaning of Negative Root?
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Undergrad Do physics equations work in non-SI units?
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Graduate Will a Jet-Powered Rigid Link Reach a Steady State?
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Undergrad How to apply force to individual rigid bodies based on impact?
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Graduate Centripetal Acceleration of an Ellipse
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Undergrad How to find angular velocity from torque?
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High School Two object run together to the earth despite of their mass
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Undergrad Normal Force and Atmospheric Pressure
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Graduate How does the compressibility of hydraulic fluid affect force?
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Undergrad Static friction in body with no intention to move
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High School Rotational speed at axis of rotation?
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Undergrad Tension on A Rope of Negligible Mass
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Graduate Calculating Angular Accerlation for 3D Rotation
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Graduate Relation between wavefunction of the photon and the Four-potential
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Graduate D'alembert's Principle: Doubts Explained
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Graduate Harnessing the Earth's Rotation: A Revolutionary Idea?
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Undergrad Trying to understand the bouncing ball
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Undergrad Will a Stick in Space Rotate or Translate?
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High School Why Does One Side of a Belt Fall When Hung Unevenly?
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High School Basic question regarding dynamics concepts?
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Graduate Variable MOI: Rotational 2nd Law
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Graduate Centre of mass of a solid hemisphere (Feynman way)
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High School Random number generator circuit
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Undergrad The gravitational acceleration g
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High School Measuring Speed of Objects as They Approach You
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Undergrad Can a rotating object have zero kinetic energy?
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High School Graphs of acceleration, velocity, position
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Graduate Mechanics of double helical gears
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Undergrad Can you miss out a factor in scalar potential?
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Undergrad How is pressure on an object ?
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Undergrad Doubt: Basic question on Work-Energy Method?
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Graduate Unit Normal Vector in Acceleration
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Graduate Lagrangian: q and q-dot independence
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How do you melt a car using a building?
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High School A spring attached to the other side of the galaxy
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Undergrad What does a sound wave amplitude physically consist of?
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Undergrad Clarification in the definition of force
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Graduate Partition between kinetic and potential energy?
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Undergrad Putting it all together (calc and physics)
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Graduate Explanation of Rayleighs work on vibrations of liquid droplets
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Undergrad Can we experimentally prove the momentum of a photon without mass?
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Graduate Fluid flow - pressure v volume?
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Undergrad Rocket acceleration, how high does it go?
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Undergrad Conservation of angular momentum of a bullet
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Graduate Doubt in Law of mutual interaction
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High School Sound vs Distance: Why Do We Hear It Better Closer?
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Undergrad Question of conservation of energy in this thought experiment
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Undergrad How dense would something have to be to stop a bullet?
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Undergrad Friction & Work: Questions & Answers
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Graduate Lagrangian equation for motion
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Graduate On representation of expansion in fluid flow
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Undergrad Wave Convergence generator, pretty patterns
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High School Understanding Normal Forces: Explained and Demystified
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Graduate Conservation of Linear Momentum
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Undergrad How Does Newton's Third Law Apply to Different Types of Forces?
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Undergrad Acceleration upwards and the effect of 'g'
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Undergrad Why do air foils produce lift?
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High School Vertical lines on postion vs. time graphs.
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Undergrad Why do skin burns occur when friction is applied to the skin?
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High School What are causing the cup to fly out?
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Undergrad Why doesn't a spinning coin flip over?
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Undergrad What Is The Mathematical Relationship Between AC Power And DC Power?
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Undergrad Best algorithm for an object that moves across an area
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Undergrad Understanding Forces: Explaining maa and mbb in a Simple Example"
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Undergrad Small block on a rotating table
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Undergrad Doubt in Inertial frame of reference
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High School Is Motion Scalar or Vector in Nature?
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Undergrad Can the Properties of the Lever be Deduced without Experimenting?
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High School Is Centrifugal Force Responsible for Falling Out of a Car on a Sharp Turn?
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Undergrad Pressure, energy density, and power of a fluid flow
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Undergrad Bernoulli Eqn: Gauge vs Atm Pressure?
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Graduate Quick question on coupled pendulum kinetic energy
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Undergrad Understanding the Dynamics of a Falling Slinky
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Undergrad Momentum: History & Newton's 2nd Law
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Undergrad Something I don't understand. [Kinetic & potential energy]
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Undergrad A decent k value for Newton's law of cooling for water?
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Graduate Lagrange-Young equation in Fluid Mechanics
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Undergrad What is the velocity profile of a truck or tractor pull?
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Undergrad Static pressure in Air Handling Unit
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Undergrad Understanding the Definition of Average Power in Sinusoidal Functions
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Graduate About Taylor & Wheeler 3-1 practice problem
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Undergrad Fluid mechanics problem, need explanation please
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Undergrad Simple Fluid mechanics question, Need Help
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Graduate Reference frame in relative motion
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