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Undergrad How does one exactly calculate gravity? How to portray a visual?
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Undergrad Understanding Reaction Forces on a Hinged Pulley under Tangential Force
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Undergrad Thought experiment about fluid compressibility
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Undergrad Find acceleration component to hit target in 2D plane
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High School Question About Conservation of Momentum
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Undergrad Crushing Stress in Pin Design - What is Projected Area?
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Undergrad Can birds hover and soar at the same time?
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High School Would lots of sounds tend to cancel out?
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High School Understanding Work with Human Words
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Graduate How to derive 3D body motion from accelerometers
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High School I understanding Archimedes' principle.
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Graduate Independency of the frame of reference of the strain rate tensor
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Undergrad Solve Pulley Mass System - Relative Acceleration, Tension in Strings
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Undergrad How does an inverted aerofoil work?
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Undergrad Gravity conservation / gravitational forces
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Undergrad How Do Dynamic and Aerodynamic Concepts Differ from Static?
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High School How much power do you need to hover? (human powered helicopter)
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High School Understanding Stress & Strain in 9th Standard Physics
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High School Understanding Torque: Why is it Outward/Inward?
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High School How does density affects gas pressure?
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Undergrad How does a motocylist move his center of mass?
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Undergrad Understanding Torque Problems and the Role of Gravity: Explained"
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Undergrad Solving Roller Coaster Physics Problems - Centripetal Force/Acceleration
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High School The attraction between every two objects
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Graduate Incompressible fluid acquiring momentum
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Graduate Calculate forces acting on liquid film
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High School Torque Calculation: Direction of F1 & F2
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Undergrad Understanding Torque: The Role of Axis of Rotation in Force Calculation"
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Graduate When the Lagrangians are equals?
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High School Calculating Centripetal Force for Circular Motion: Tips and Tricks
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Undergrad Masses in contact with each other
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Graduate When do I need to use virtual work in writing the equations of motion?
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Undergrad Plank Movement in Empty Space: Rotate or Move?
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Undergrad Question about the collision of two objects (points) in space
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Graduate Do Bathroom Scales Account for Earth's Rotation?
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Graduate How Does Zero Moment Point Influence Robot Stability?
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Undergrad Why Is the Tear Drop Shape Optimal for Hot Air Balloons?
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Undergrad Deflection of an elastic curve
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Undergrad Is it possible to power a freight train with an animal motor?
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Undergrad Is Velocity in Angular Motion Referring to Tangential or Angular Speed?
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High School Why does pressure in liquid not dependent on the surface area?
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Undergrad Understanding Work & Power for Heavy Objects
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Undergrad 2 physics questions that I came up with that has been bothering me
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Undergrad Strong Steel wire but an elastic spring? Why?
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High School Centripetal Acceleration definition help
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Graduate Hot Air Balloon Shape and Pressure Gradient Within the Envelope
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High School What are contact forces, really?
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High School What is the momentum of an 80 car freight train traveling at 40km/h?
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Undergrad Water pressure and gravity in a storage cylinder
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Undergrad Earth's Rotation and Frames of Reference
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High School Elastic vs inelastic collisions formulas
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Undergrad Ball-Bearing Motor: Does Heat or EM Force Work?
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High School Acceleration in circular motion
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Undergrad How fast you can drive your bike but not get wet?
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High School Why Is Total Mass Used as the Denominator in the Center of Mass Equation?
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Undergrad Direction of friciton in bicycyle
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Graduate Blocks on a rotating disc connected by a spring
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High School Why Does Hooke's Law Involve Potential Energy? Explanation Needed!
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High School Which is Stronger: Rope of 100k Hairs vs Single Hair?
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Undergrad Measurement of upward force exerted by a human on a vertical jump?
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate Air Flow Velocity Between Two Tanks?
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Graduate Why Does Angular Velocity Reach 24 rad/s in This Motion Equation Problem?
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Undergrad Argument on centrifugal force
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Graduate Effect of very high accelerations on objects
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Undergrad How Does Dissolved Air Affect the Compressibility of Water?
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Graduate Does atmospheric pressure affect the saturated vapor pressure ?
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Undergrad Upside Down Rocket: Thrust & Conversion to Newtons
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High School What's affecting the friction?
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Undergrad Force in field? Why isn't it constant?
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Graduate Principle of Least Action via Finite-Difference Method
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Undergrad Is half of a soundwave, really a sound?
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Graduate Grav. acc. of object trade-off as vol. increases?
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High School What if earth's rotation stopped
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Graduate Calculating event time using gsl_poly_solve_quadratic
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Undergrad Solving Newton's 2nd Law: Wx = W Sin θ
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High School Coolant & Fridge Cooling Explained - Can Anyone Help?
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Undergrad How Thick Should Steel Be for a 20-Foot Water Cylinder with a Piston?
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Undergrad Forces generated by free falling objects
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High School How do airplanes fly with heavy weight and air resistance?
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Graduate Graduate Classical Mechanics Problem Book
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Graduate Question Fluid Mechanics(Robert Granger) fluid Velocity comp.
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Graduate Euler Angle transformation, help
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Undergrad Confusion regarding notation of instantaneous velocity wrt something.
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Graduate How Does the Moon's Motion Affect Earth's Equatorial Plane?
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Undergrad Newton's Discovery of Mass, Force & G in SI Units
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Undergrad Why doesn't the rain violate the law of conservation of energy?
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Undergrad Is Pressure Important in Thermodynamics of Solid Materials?
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Undergrad Need to calculate mass to potential horsepower
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Graduate Collision Response - sphere/plane & finding plane normal.
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Undergrad Can I Calculate the Variance of Forces in Non-Ideal Plane Balancing?
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High School If water is clear why does it make materials appear dark?
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Graduate Mapping Rotations of Relative Axes to Fixed Axes
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Undergrad Conservation law of child's blocks analogy
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High School What is the difference between water evaporation and boiling?
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Graduate Understanding Gravitational Potential: Negative Values and Decreasing Trends
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High School The Magnus Effect, what is the formula/equation?
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Undergrad Clear my concept of weightlessness
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Undergrad What Determines the Unique Characteristics of Human Voices?
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Graduate Bubble Game Collision: Calculating Deceleration
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Undergrad Coriolis movie of draining pool?
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