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High School In SHM , can we have maximum positive acceleration?
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High School Momentum Conservation Between Two Masses
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Undergrad Why doesn't my air vacuum device work?
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Graduate Derivation of ideal gas law by Hamiltonian mechanics
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Undergrad Given some body with a constant force F acting on it upwards
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Graduate Unanswered questions in Classical Mechanics?
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Graduate Find acceleration to stop at target in frictionless 2D space
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High School Free body diagram - Weight and normal reaction
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Undergrad What exactly is this resonance curve showing?
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Undergrad School bus crash resulting in death
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Graduate What Happens to Momentum in a Collision Involving Negative Mass?
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Undergrad Projectile Motion in the movie Matrix?
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Undergrad Static failure analysis of a pin
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High School Explaining Inertia: Box B Moving Left When A Moves Right
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Graduate How Do Impulse and Reaction Turbines Utilize Fluid Mechanics Principles?
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Undergrad Can interior pressure of a tornado be calculated?
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Undergrad Confused about a very basic concept: Pressure.
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Undergrad Vector valued velocity and acceleration question
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Undergrad Does tension in a belt drive system affect torque requirements?
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Undergrad Air Pressure Drop Problem: Solutions Explored
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High School Power of Crane: Changing Resultant Force & Acceleration
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Graduate Stress tensor rotation/shear stress
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Graduate Rocket Acceleration: Understanding Fuel Burn & Kinetic Energy
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High School Moments/torque in relation to laws of motion
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Undergrad Pendulum - How it affects gear train torque?
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High School Power & Velocity: Physics Explained
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Undergrad Falling object collision question
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Graduate How Do Bicycle Wheels Interact with Earth's Rotation at the North Pole?
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High School Direction of force acting on a body in uniform circular motion?
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Graduate Differential pressures in a chamber, revisited and clarified
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Undergrad Confusing Units after using Bernoulli's Equation
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Undergrad Need help finding the name of a fluid mechanics/frequency graph
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High School Why Does Sound Not Generate When Metal Ball Rolls on Cloth?
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Undergrad Which Matters More for Optical Components: Average Power or Peak Power?
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Undergrad Gardening Project: Flow Rate from pressure requirement
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Undergrad Rocket with higher velocity than its own thruster.
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Graduate Infinite coefficient of friction
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Graduate Directly Downwind Faster Than The Wind
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Undergrad Example of moment of inertia constant K, greater than one?
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High School Understanding Vector Addition in Physics
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Undergrad Work in Physics: Does it Always Involve Movement?
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Undergrad Why is there a limit to power supply?
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Undergrad Frames of reference, trajectory
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Graduate Ultimate Strength vs. Young's modulus
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Undergrad Mathematical definition of inertia
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Undergrad Area Under Graphs: Finding Work Done
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Undergrad Why is exit wound in a rifle gun shot injury bigger than entry wound?
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Undergrad Gravity Q: Acceleration w/o Terminal Velocity?
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High School Posibility of sound to put off fire.
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Undergrad Newtons 3rd law - how can this rope move?
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Undergrad Momentum conservation law: Head on elastic collision
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High School Understanding Significant Figures in Physics: Why Only 2 Sig. Figs. for t?
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Graduate Griffiths Chapter 10 del cross position vector
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High School Is Mechanics applicable in Space?
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Graduate Conservation of Energy from human physiology
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High School Force, accleration vectors or not
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Undergrad Equation for force from Vf, mass, and joules?
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Undergrad Friction as B times angular speed?
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High School Where does potential energy come from?
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Undergrad X and y components in force problem
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Undergrad Frame of reference - forces in a turn (airplane)
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Graduate Kinetic rotational energy of a bar hooked to a coil
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Undergrad Bouyant Force on submerged hollow object with air trapped inside
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Graduate Hydrostatic forces on a curved surface
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Undergrad Why angle of projectile has 2 solutions?
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High School What are the conditions used,While calculation of T of Pendulum
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Graduate Maximizing Mixing Efficiency: Inline Mixing Pressures & PD Pump Selection
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Undergrad If the Earth spun faster, would we be able to jump higher?
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Graduate Thin walled polymer balloon deflection
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Graduate Question on coriolis effect with drag force
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Undergrad Force & Physics of Lifting/Moving Objects in Pathfinder
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Undergrad Torque and rigid body rotation
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Undergrad Phase velocity and group velocity
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Graduate Indeterminism in Classical Physics
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Graduate What Type of Pressure Valves Are Needed for an Underwater Flow Widget?
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Undergrad Is energy the cause of motion?
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High School Weight and gravitational force?
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Undergrad Help with Pressure Calculation at Point C
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Graduate System and phase space trajectory
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Graduate Photo-Generated Carrier Dynamics?
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High School Understanding the concept of Kinetic Energy
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Undergrad Latitude & longitude & air pressure
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Undergrad Change in momentum when a body is thrown up and falls back down.
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Undergrad My idea for a helium generator
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Undergrad Where does the equation for gravitational force come from?
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Undergrad Classical interpretation of Wave Motion
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Undergrad How Does Absolute Pressure Differ from Gauge Pressure?
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Undergrad Normal force for a lever model
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Undergrad Physical effects of car collisions on metals
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Graduate Elastic Energy Momentum Tensor and Defects
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Undergrad Differences of Classical Mechanics when learned with Calc vs algebra?
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High School Centripetal Force and radius of the circle
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Undergrad How Can We Calculate the Distance Traveled by a Coin in a Physics Experiment?
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Graduate Finding pressure in a branch with known flows
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Undergrad Calculating the appropriate cable strength.
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Graduate Modeling Rigid Body - Unsure about Euler angles and angular velocity
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Undergrad The Durability of Bone: Long Falls
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Undergrad Bubbles in a Pre-Boiling/Boiling pot of water
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High School Elementary questions relating to Newton's laws of motion
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Undergrad Ride on Atlantis Space Shuttle: Questions about Lift Off & Re-Entry
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