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High School How air pressure reacts in a car tyre.
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Undergrad How Is Acceleration Derived in a Frictional System with Two Boxes?
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Graduate Potential Energy/Work done paradox?
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Undergrad Is the earth in a non-inertial reference frame?
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High School How Does a Hydraulic Motor Function in a System?
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High School Pascal's law, pressure, consequences
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Graduate Fictitious forces in rotating frames of reference
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Graduate Runge-lenz vector, constant of motion (Anal. Mechanics)
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High School A phenomena i cant fully understnad
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High School Universal gravitational constant
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Graduate Nuclear Reactors, Atom Smashers, and Particle Accelerators
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Graduate Potential of a conductor in a non-uniform E field
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Undergrad Sound waves: How do we know it is the fundamental harmonic?
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Undergrad How to calculate motor force from power?
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Undergrad Can You Explain Pressure Differential Between Heat Exchanger Sides?
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Graduate Physics and Baseball, relating the two
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High School How do you calculate resultant velocity?
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Undergrad Force in spring due to falling object
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Undergrad Acceleration right after ball bounces
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Undergrad Calculating Speed of 7lb Object with 1.34hp Applied
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Undergrad Direction of friction in rolling.
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Undergrad What is the definition of a rigid body according to Wolfram Scienceworld?
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Graduate Equations of motion of a double pendulum
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Undergrad Lift from airfoils, decrease lift as a result of curved shape at large angles?
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Undergrad Strings holding a cube from above and below
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Undergrad Potential energy of pendulum in terms of displacement.
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Undergrad Can Young's modulus be applied to slinky springs?
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Undergrad The Effect a Raindrop Has On a Bullet
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Undergrad Force of a nail inside an MRI machine
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Graduate How do asteroids create their own mini-planetary systems?
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Undergrad Mileage on Mars - Effect of Gravity on Mileage
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High School Why dont we feel earths rotation?
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Undergrad Torque calculation of a gate rotating around its pier
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Undergrad A concept problem in overpressure
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Undergrad Understanding Newton's Third Law: Explaining Vertical Motion in a Helicopter
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Graduate Higher order time derivatives of position
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Undergrad How much of torque do you need to start wheels slipping?
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Graduate Rate of change of angular velocity
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Undergrad Shear modulus and shear strain relationship?
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Undergrad How Much Shear Force Can PVC Withstand Without Fracturing?
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Undergrad Center of Gravity and Centrifugal Force
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Undergrad Doubts on Rotation: Seeking Physical Understanding
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Graduate Relativistic vs. non-relativistic quantum mechanics
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Undergrad What speed do you need to drive to keep the Sun stationary?
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Undergrad Gyroscope speed change question
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Graduate A confusion in work and potential energy
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Undergrad Rotation without slipping and the direction of friction?
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High School General question about potential energy
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Graduate Variation of Elastic modulus with size
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Graduate Euler's Fluid Equations: Gradient of a Vector
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Undergrad What is the Three-Body Problem in Physics and Why is it Considered Unsolvable?
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Graduate Help understanding Angular V as it applies to Kepler's 2nd law
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Undergrad Calculating Trebuchet Mechanics
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Undergrad Changes in volume change total force?
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Undergrad How to understand the concept behind the rolling spool on a tabletop
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Undergrad What happens in non-uniform circular motion?
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Graduate Mumetal Metalwork: Bending 0.004" Permalloy-80 for 6" Radius
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Undergrad A river flows with a velocity of 3 m/s east
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Undergrad Conceptual Q: Angular Momentum
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Undergrad Mathematics necessary for relativity, quantum mechanics, etc?
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Undergrad Does the spring constant of rubber affect the rate at which it cools?
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High School How is work dependent on displacement rather than distance?
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Undergrad Motion of a ball along a groove on a rotating disk
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Graduate Rate of change of angular acceleration?
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High School What does 'k' in Newton's law of cooling represent?
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Undergrad Work done on free falling object as function of time
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Undergrad How Can We Find the RPM of a CD Through Audio Analysis?
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Undergrad What hath Newton wrought in the two centuries after his death?
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Undergrad Angular acceleration of a beam?
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Graduate Why is the pulse in picture 20130320182307.png positively chirped?
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Undergrad Is support force a true force ? it seems incompatibe with F=ma
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Undergrad Parallel Axis Theorem Clarification
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Undergrad The angular speed of precession for a gyroscope is given by
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Undergrad A question in the derivation of work done
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Graduate Free Vibration of Spring system with two DOF
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Undergrad Horizontal force on a pendelum - what drives it upwards?
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High School How is lift force proportional to speed up?
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Undergrad Question about relative speeds.
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High School Attempting to graph momentum help
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High School What Would Happen to a Bee in a Revolving Restaurant?
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Undergrad The behaviour of a vacuum without the influence of air pressure?
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Graduate Does the angle at which an object is fired affect its escape velocity?
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Undergrad Simple Harmonic Motion: Limitations of T
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Undergrad Having a problem with Centrifugal/Centripetal force in zero gravity
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Undergrad Why is water at rest in a rotating cylinder?
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Graduate Questions about accelerated frames of reference
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Undergrad Misconception of Newton's laws?
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Undergrad What are the Reasons for the Experiment Set-Up in Measuring Young's Modulus?
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Undergrad Potential difference of an inductor equal to minus the induced emf?
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Graduate Interpretation of the fictitious force
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Undergrad Rocket Burning fuel causing change in mass
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Undergrad Torque Sum with applied torque off axis
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Undergrad What exactly is the Normal Force?
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Undergrad How to Determine x(t) for a Particle Given Initial Conditions and a(x)?
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Undergrad What Type of Energy is Absorbed in a Bicycle-Tree Collision?
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Graduate How does Particle Wave Duality Work?
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