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Undergrad How to transfer angular momentum between two flywheels?
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High School Does weight affect the acceleration of an object?
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High School Is Gravity Impacting Projectile Range Beyond Air Resistance Effects?
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Undergrad Understanding tension and centripedal force in a puck and weight
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High School Can You Use a Rubber Bracelet as a Buoyancy Reference for Freediving?
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High School To displace the Earth from its orbit
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High School Is the final velocity of a Tossed tomato the same as its initial velocity
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High School Work energy theorem by variable force
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High School Why does the work done by a weightlifter result in a net energy loss?
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Undergrad Understanding the physics of a bosun's chair and mechanical advantage
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Undergrad A problem with non evident first integral
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High School Misleading Textbook Equation for vf^2=vi^2 + 2ad
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Undergrad Principle of Stationary Action - Intuition
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High School Defining Impulse: The Importance of a New Quantity in Physics
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High School Questions on how helicopters fly
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High School What Happens to a Ball's Energy When Thrown Upwards?
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High School Same case of Newton’s third law
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High School Work done in lifting and lowering an object
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High School What is the need for the concepts of Work and Energy (KE)?
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High School About verification on Kinetic energy and work
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Graduate Find Euler-Lagrange Equations w/Given Init Pos & Vel
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High School What is tension and how does it affect a rope?
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Undergrad How Does the Angle at P1 Change Over Time Until the Object Falls?
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Undergrad Problem with Static Friction -- Two blocks on a platform
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High School Newton’s second law as one complete law
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Undergrad Rigid body physics (machine learning environment)
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High School Calculate needed dimensions of table - Center of mass, levers etc
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Undergrad Lift Force of a Rotating Sphere in the Air
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High School What gives satellites their tangential velocity?
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Undergrad Understanding the thrust generated by a typical jet engine
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Undergrad Olympiad Problem -- Revisiting the problem with 3 blocks and a pulley
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Undergrad Block sliding down an incline plane
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High School Simple Counter-balance/Counter-weight Calculation Problem
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High School Understanding Friction: Causes and Applications in Physics
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Undergrad What Determines the Order of Rotations for a Gyro?
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Undergrad Defining Characteristic Time and Distance in an Acceleration Function
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High School Why is a simple pendulum not a perfect simple harmonic oscillator?
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Undergrad Trying to calculate the net force/torque of a rock climber on a wall
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Undergrad Rotation of bike riding off cliff
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Undergrad Problem with understanding angular momentum
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Undergrad Can someone explain the vacuum pressure created by water pressure on waders?
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High School What is the concept of distance as an integral in Feynman lectures on physics?
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High School Can the output forces for F3 and F4 be the same as F2 in hydraulic lifting?
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High School Calculating Flywheel Mass and Diameter for Efficient Generator Drive
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High School Atwood machine -- Question about the pulley and weights
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High School Air Gun Sighted at a Falling Target Demonstration
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High School Rebound Height vs Air Pressure: A Puzzling Relationship
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High School Would a fall from 53 centimeters break the glass from a window?
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Undergrad Number of integration constants
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Undergrad How Does Table Rotation Direction Affect Gyro Stability?
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High School Hydrostatic pressure vs. gravity
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Undergrad Lifting power at the bottom of the ocean?
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Undergrad Can Any Quantifiable Variable Serve as a Coordinate in Euler-Lagrange Equations?
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Undergrad The time derivative of kinetic energy
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Undergrad Webb Launch Mechanics: Tangential Speed Benefits?
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High School Maximum Force on transom of a boat under acceleration
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High School Forces on a passenger in a car?
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Undergrad Would Icarus' wings fly in Earth's atmosphere and moon gravity?
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High School Work-Kinetic and Work-Potential theorems relation
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High School Question about a simple free body diagram
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High School Speed/velocity as a derivative
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High School About Second equation of motion
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Undergrad Angular Velocity: Vector or Not?
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Undergrad Kinetic Energy derivation assumption?
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Undergrad Angular Movement and Spiralling Motion
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Graduate Deriving Navier-Stokes: Lagrangian & Hamiltonian Methods
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Undergrad The centripetal acceleration of the planets in our solar system
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Undergrad Mechanical power generated by a force F
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Graduate Noether's theorem time invariance -- mean value theorem use?
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Undergrad Work Done/Energy Transferred in One Dimensional Collision
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Undergrad Time period of Beat (acoustics)
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Undergrad Dimensional analysis seems wrong for this equation: z = -1/(x^2+y^2)
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Undergrad Proving Torricelli's Law Using Bernoulli's Principle
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Graduate Why is this matrix symmetric here?
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High School Does gas expanding in a container cause displacement of the container?
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Undergrad Apparent Initial Acceleration due to Precession of Wheel Gyroscope?
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Undergrad Is the classical ideal rocket thrust equation correct?
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Undergrad What is the acceleration at the contact point between a wheel and surface?
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High School Why does a DC motor have a restricted speed?
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Undergrad Energy Transfer Between Inertia Wheels
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High School Grain direction for maximum tear resistance for a wire bound book
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate the Expulsion Force in a Bellow Simulation?
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High School Work and Friction: How Does Fxv Apply?
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Undergrad Impulsive force and simple integration
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Undergrad Conversion of Fluid Rotational Force to Rocking Motion
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Graduate Use internal pressure to compute work done by an expanding gas?
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High School Why Does a Body Experience Fictitious Force on Accelerating Objects?
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High School Inertial vs non inertial frames
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Undergrad Analysis of tennis string tension
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High School Confused about force body diagram for 2 body collision
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Undergrad Resolve moment of inertia at an angle
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High School Question in the momemtum-impulse theorem derivation
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Undergrad Liouville's Theorem and Poincare Recurrence Theorem
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High School Alternative elastic collision formula / physical interpretation
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Undergrad Equiprobability of Particles in an Isolated Box
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High School Newton's second law of motion -- Why is it F=m*a and not F=m+a?
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Undergrad What is the speed of a shock wave?
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Undergrad Manuscript on elementary rigid-body dynamics
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Undergrad Resulting force on a chamfered pneumatic piston
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Undergrad How weather conditions affect a golf shot
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