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Graduate Perpendicular force calculated from torque and point of application?
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Undergrad Can Strong Magnetic Fields Effectively Move Water Molecules?
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Graduate Building a Particle Accelerator: Understanding Vacuum and Magnetism Techniques
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Graduate Finding Sound Velocity in Iron: Examining Dispersion Curves
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Graduate Max. Applied force on outside wall of spinning drum
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Graduate Variables of the double inverted pendulum
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High School Some confusion about balanced forces
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High School How pressure is measured using a manometer
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Undergrad Radius as a function of Uniform Circular Motion
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Graduate Conservative forces and systems
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Graduate Question about fluid dynamics (calculating concentration)
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Undergrad Accelerating a wheel of two different materials.
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Undergrad Is there water flow against gravity?
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Undergrad Degrees of Freedom: Square & Triangular Lamina
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Graduate Is Rest Mass of Hydrogen Affected by Virtual Particles?
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Undergrad Is there a different law for balloon elasticity compared to metal springs?
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Undergrad Compute Impact Velocity Vector for Orbital Trajectory
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Undergrad Can Human Weight Wearing Shoes Be Less Than Body Weight Plus Shoe Weight?
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High School Which freezes faster Hot or cold water?
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High School How do you find terminal velocity?
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Graduate Gravitation as a Constraint Force
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Graduate Calculating force of explosion over distance in water
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Undergrad Why is atmospheric pressure the same indoors?
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Undergrad Calculating Drag: Measuring Time with Light Gates
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Graduate What is the relationship between the limit and curvature of a trajectory?
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Graduate Conversion of angular momentum to linear momentum
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Undergrad Spring damper system without a mass
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Undergrad Computing coefficient of friction without experiment
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Graduate Finding the ratios of diatomic, monatomic and ionized hydrogen
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Graduate How Do Cosmic Rays Affect the Integrity of Unshielded Spacecraft?
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Undergrad Reef Aquarium Tipping Force Help: Tank, Sump, and Stand Dimensions
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Graduate Shooting a bullet straight down?
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Graduate Model Angular Torque of Euler-Bernoulli Beam in Polar Coords
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Undergrad Beyond Kinetic Theory of Gases
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High School Force exerted over a small time and big time frame
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Undergrad Why Does a Person Lean Back on a Spinning Merry-Go-Round?
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High School How to interpret a Free Body Diagram for a Kite in Flight?
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Graduate What Are the Steps to Calculate Euler's Angles for Rotating a Vector?
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High School How Do MRI Scans Work? Explaining the Basics
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Undergrad Rotational Equilibrium and Normal Forces
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Undergrad Harmonic oscillation with friction
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate Signal Power After Attenuation?
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Graduate Deriving Moment of Inetia using just linear dynamics
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Undergrad Pendulum Potential energy equation
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High School Where Does an Object Move in Space?
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Graduate Unintuitive physics - rigid objects and compression waves
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Graduate Existance of particles in potential extrema
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High School Clarification between average velocity and average speed
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Graduate What is the meaning of nonholonomy in a system?
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Graduate Horizontal Velocity in Monkey-Dart Problem
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Graduate Experimental proof that gravity ~ 1/R^2 ?
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Undergrad Sound generated when a cup of water is hit
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Undergrad Question on gravitation law derivation
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High School If a ball is thrown upward with velocity of 1m/s, is vx = 0 while vy= 1?
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Undergrad Is KE a Derived Quantity in Dynamics?
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High School Working of a calibrated hall probe
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Undergrad Any compilation of all classical physics concepts?
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High School Please help; Explain phenomena about collision and water.
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High School What exactly is centrifugal force
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High School Will a ball on a string spin around its own axis when released?
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Undergrad Cross Product of Constant and Vector
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate Thrust on a Circular Trap Door Immersed in Oil?
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Graduate Equipotential of transmission or telegraph line
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Graduate Gravitation independnet of motion/momentum?
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Undergrad How much energy does it take to retain a running speed?
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Undergrad Velocities after off center collision
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Graduate Determining Momentum of a Particle from Radius, Distance, and Angle?
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Undergrad Gravity Variation Along a Rotating Space Station
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Undergrad Calculating Acceleration with Varying Mass: Tutorial & Exercises
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Undergrad Why does a ball continue to travel upwards when thrown into the air?
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Undergrad Calculating Impact Pressure on a Panel from Vertical Water Flow
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Undergrad Friction of a pipe and the effects on compressed air?
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High School Finger on the top of the straw, keeping the liquid in
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Undergrad Velocity in a pipe via a pressure test.
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Graduate Point masses versus infintesimal densities, is there a difference?
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High School How does a transistor work as a switch and amplifier?
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Undergrad How To Calculate Drag Coefficient?
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High School Understanding Potential Energy: FAQs & Tips
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Undergrad How to calculate energy density of mainspring?
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Undergrad Questions about conservation of momentum
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Graduate Schrodinger's Cat, Structures and the Observer Effect
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Undergrad Mixer Impeller Speed & Particle Velocity Discussion
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Graduate Rotation of Rigid Body: Analyzing Classical Mechanics
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Undergrad Movement of a ball on curved trajectory
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Undergrad Understanding Simple Harmonic Motion: Position and Velocity Functions Explained
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Graduate Deriving Orbital Trajectories from Universal Gravitation
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Undergrad Final volume of a falling droplet
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Graduate Electro-Magnetic Force: Photon Carriers Explained
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Graduate Is Clapeyron's Theorem Misinterpreted Regarding Internal and Strain Energy?
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Undergrad The vector nature of Angular Momentum
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Undergrad Vertical Spring PE and KE energy
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Undergrad Calculating Pressure on Tank Walls
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Graduate Torque on a hub as a result from a flexible arm
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Undergrad Need to calculate force from swinging pendulum
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High School Basic Fluid Dynamics: Calculating Exit Velocity & Mass Flow Rate
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Graduate Work done by compressing a container of gas
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Strange case: Bottle of water freezing
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Graduate Difference between Generalised co-ordinates and degrees of freedom
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Graduate Understanding Deflections of a Bar
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