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Undergrad Does the Period of Simple Harmonic Motion Depend on Spring Constant and Mass?
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Graduate Fluid mechanics: Flow and velocity of a fluid
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Undergrad Is There A Relationship Between Young's Modulus And Spring Constant?
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Graduate Path Calculation of point mass in gravitational field
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Graduate What happens to energy in a gyro vs. flywheel problem?
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Graduate Development of Bernoulli's equation
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Undergrad Reference frame to calculate centroids
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Undergrad Finding mass of spring from time period.
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Undergrad Where does the spring's energy go ?
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Undergrad Understanding the Centripetal Force of Whirling a Mass on a String
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Undergrad Constant velocity problem, where does increase in energy come from?
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Undergrad What is the Potential Function and Gravitational Field of Earth?
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Undergrad Calculating Work to Close a Valve in Hydrodynamics
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High School Make solid ice from supercooled water?
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Undergrad Fluid Dynamics - increasing pressure
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Undergrad Physics Lab: what happens if we ignore gravity?
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Graduate Drag coefficient of a sphere ()
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Undergrad Why Does Precession Occur and How Does It Affect Gyroscopic Motion?
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Undergrad Difference between simple harmonic motion and stationary sinusoidal wave?
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High School Are ping-pong balls hydrophobic?
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Undergrad Particle acceleration for Hyper drives?
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Undergrad Work Energy Theorem and Potential Energy violation?
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Undergrad Why does DataStudio compute velocity from x(t) the way it does?
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Undergrad Basic Hydrostatics question, RL applications
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Graduate Drift Velocity in a Vaccum Diode
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Undergrad Solving Multiple Leverage Math Problems
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Graduate How Would Gravity Work on a Planet-Sized Ring?
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Undergrad What is the impact of Earth's rotation on the force of gravity?
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Undergrad The physics behind human whistling-where does the sound come from?
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Undergrad 3 dimensional torque from angular velocity
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Undergrad Torque on a hinge to a gate that is 69 inches long
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Undergrad Why Do Objects in Dynamic Equilibrium Continue Moving?
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Undergrad Pressure At Surface And Scale Height
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Graduate Can sound waves travel in a material at a speed faster than the speed of sound?
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Undergrad Sum of work = Work done by net force
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Undergrad Sledge Hammer Lever: Calculate Force to Hold in Place
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Undergrad The paradox of lost energy details below?
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Undergrad How to prove a car must turn in a curve?
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Graduate Speed of Time: How Fast Does Time Travel?
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Undergrad Friction force in rotational motion
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Undergrad What Does Speed Mean in the Context of Standing Waves?
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High School Weight of a fluid when I put my finger in it
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Undergrad Pressure Transmitter Installation at 410 deg C
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Graduate Conservation of angular momentum and tangential velocity
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Undergrad Probability Density Functions in Fluid Mechanics
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Graduate Action and Reaction or Conservation of Momentum?
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Undergrad How Is Drift Velocity Calculated in a Conductor?
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Undergrad This is a question about a potential invention for a low drag gas nose bullet.
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Undergrad Momentum Calc: Football Player Collisions
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High School Different Methods for Physics Experiments?
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Undergrad Don't reversible processes always do the most possible work?
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Undergrad Why does an object start to fall under gravity
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High School Understanding the Relationship between Work and Power in Accelerating Objects
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Graduate Rotational Kinetic Energy of a Non-Symmetrical Fixed Top
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Undergrad Breaking surface tension in a water droplet (within a 0.88mm tube)
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High School Help with Physics signs and directions
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Undergrad Calculate Rate of Disintegration of Projectile
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Undergrad Pushing a railway car without spinning the wheels?
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Undergrad What material has the lowest tensile strength?
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High School Brush DC Motor Science Project HELP
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Undergrad Most Probable Speed - Atoms From An Oven
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Graduate Momentum and energy equations for a car rolling over a step
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High School Question about springs in series
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Undergrad Chain of Similar Pendula (Soltion)
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Undergrad Question about high speed objects
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Undergrad What exactly is an inertial reference frame?
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High School Question about Inertia: Force to Overcome Mass of 1kg?
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Undergrad Comparing Trampoline Jumps on Earth vs. the Moon
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High School Calculating Speed for Warmed Brakes on a Hill
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Undergrad Understanding G.P.E and Gravitational Binding Energy - A Conceptual Question
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Undergrad Calculation of circles parameters embedded in 2 rotating discs?
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High School Calculating Force to Move Block Horizontally - Abraham
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Undergrad Concept of Pressure head and velocity head
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Graduate How do I measure flexural vibrations on a rectangular plate supported by rods?
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Undergrad Why does viscosity have units of pressure times time?
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Undergrad Why Does Energy Seem to Disappear in a Gyroscopic Wheel Experiment?
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Undergrad I am trying to build a basketball shooter.
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Undergrad Object launched from a moving vehicle
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Undergrad Statics: Bending of a beam/evenly distributed force problem
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Undergrad Integrating Acceleration for Distance
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Graduate Are Newton's laws of motion redundant?
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High School Problem with the word (deceleration)
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Undergrad Angular momentum vectors and frisbees
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Undergrad Centre of Gravity and Centre of Mass
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Undergrad Order of Dark Fringes: Understanding Interference Patterns
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Undergrad Understanding Projectile Motion: The Impact of Angle and Air Resistance
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Undergrad Physics of spring airgun cylinder system?
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Undergrad Expression for pressure Volume work
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Graduate Why is the conservation of information not taught alongside cons of energy
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Graduate Air Molecules at Mach 1: Understanding Collisions and Net Velocity
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High School Freezing Salt Water Experiment
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High School Why longer arms allow you to throw further
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High School Springs in Parallel? | Visualizing Compressed Springs
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High School Forces Acting on Accelerating Car
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Undergrad Is the Dot Product Simply the Square of a Vector's Magnitude?
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Undergrad Gravitation potential and gravitational binding energy
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Undergrad Why is the total force on an object treated as acting on its center of mass?
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Graduate General equation for the speed of sound?
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Undergrad Falling (toppling) rigid tower (uniform rod)
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Undergrad Estimate Damping Coefficient of Car with Hand Bouncing & Dropping
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