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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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High School Work Energy Power: Where Does the Energy Come From?
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Graduate Mass-spring equivalent of microbubbles
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Undergrad Why does vertically falling rain make a slanted steaks on a window?
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Undergrad Flow rate of water dropping out of a pipe
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Undergrad Why does a gyroscope accelerate?
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High School Will this aerofoil generate lift, Bernoulli
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High School How can you make it go a certain distance?
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Undergrad How Do Density, Gravity, and Height Equate to Pressure?
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High School Avoiding a Wall with Circular Motion: A Physics Exercise
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Graduate Coefficient of Drag: Low Velocity Ellipsoids
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Graduate Circular motion on a banked curve
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Graduate Galileo and the centripetal force experienced by objects on the rotating earth
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Undergrad Does Flow Rate Remain Constant Throughout a System?
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Undergrad Gravitational Attraction: Does Smaller Mass Disappear?
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Undergrad Solving Problems with Rolling & Slipping: Help for Friction Confusion
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Graduate Oscillator with third and fifth order terms?
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Undergrad Escape velocity from solar system
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Undergrad Estimating spring coeff and damping coeffient of my car
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Undergrad Springs in series (with a little twist)
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Undergrad Rocket Launch: Upthrust Increasing?
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Undergrad Uniform Tension of Rope with Mass
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High School How Close Can to Perfection can a Bouncy Ball get?
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High School Help understanding a physics inertia experiment(Hammer and a heavy block)
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High School Understanding Work Done and the Role of Force in Solving Problems | 360J Example
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Undergrad Stress in Beams - Same Force, Same Area, Different Lengths
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Graduate How to scale a velocity profile
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High School How Can A High-Torque Motor Have Low a low RPM
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Undergrad Why didn't water entere the bottle?
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Graduate Is Acceleration of Acceleration a Valid Concept in Physics?
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Undergrad Dimensional Analysis Explained - MIT 8-01
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Undergrad How can inelastic collision actually have conserved momentum.
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High School Law of Gravitation: F=G.m1.m2r^2?
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Undergrad Forces on an underwater vessel
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Undergrad Resonance and conservation of energy
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Undergrad Rolling Gear and Rack Question
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High School Can a body be both solid and rigid?
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Undergrad Paradox of dV/dS*v=a at Highest Point
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Undergrad Why do things rise as they spin?
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Undergrad How does the formula for gravitation potential energy work?
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Undergrad Power in Fv: Is it Given by $\vec{F} \cdot \vec{v}$?
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Graduate Are the number of microstates of a gas just equivalent to pressure
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High School Why Can't I Understand the Equation for Calculating Distance in Physics?
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High School Difference between weight and mass?
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Undergrad Motorcycle Accident - Coefficient of Friction issues
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High School Terminal Velocity: What is it?
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High School Finding t in a Projectile Motion Equation
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Graduate IYPT question on elastic space and need ideas for a hypothesis to investigate
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Undergrad Time Machines: Can Airplanes Reach the Speed of Light?
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Undergrad Calculating Water Flow into a Pipe
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Undergrad Potential Energy and gravitation
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Graduate Is in-stream, low-flow, micro-hydro production of great power a fantasy?
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High School How do gears provide a mechanical advantage?
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Graduate Are We Walking on Forces When We Step on Ice?
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High School Physics: Comparing Stone Drops from 100m Building
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High School Why does a stream change trajectory?
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Undergrad What is the Constant Angular Velocity of a Watch's Second Hand?
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Undergrad Newton's Cradles vs Ball Bouncing off Wall
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Undergrad How to calculate pad deformation
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Graduate Big Bang & Motion: Origin of Atomic & Subatomic Motion
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Undergrad Gravity & Rotational Forces: Is It Possible?
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Graduate Spherical Pendulum Motion: Solve the Mystery
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Graduate Effect of freefall on hydrostatic/atmospheric pressure
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High School What is the difference between SHM,oscillation and vibratory motion?
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High School What Happens if Earth Suddenly Stops Rotating? | Expert Teacher Insights
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Undergrad A rubber ball, your family's minivan, and you.
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Undergrad Does the orientation of a crossbow affect its accuracy?
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High School Can iPads be used as motion detectors for AP Physics labs?
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Graduate Experimentobtaining sound from molecules
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Graduate How to Prove the Classical Angular Momentum Commutation Relation?
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Graduate How liquid pressure = dgh can be generalized
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Undergrad Calculating the output impedance of a function generator
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High School Why is the energy stored in a spring proportional to 1/2 * distance * force?
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Undergrad Spring Constant Dilemma: Understanding Discrepancies in Solving for k
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Undergrad Flow and Pressure: Increasing Air Circulation without a Fan
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Undergrad Thought Experiment: Fuel Consumption in Outer Space
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Undergrad Rotational Motion: The Relationship Between Linear and Angular Displacement
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Undergrad Creating a Generator in Orbit: Where Am I Going Wrong?
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate Buoyant Energy?
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Undergrad Using man-power to turn massive generator
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Graduate Small oscillations: How to find normal modes?
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Undergrad Rolling without slipping: Why point of contact has zero velocity
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Undergrad Forces on ropes connected to a slanted ceiling
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Undergrad Falling bodies and terminal velocity
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Graduate Effects of adjacent metals with different work functions
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High School Double slit experiment doesn't work
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Undergrad What is doing the work in the motor effect?
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Undergrad Curious - question about a pressure vessel and tempreature
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Undergrad Problem understanding rolling motion
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Graduate Poisson brackets of angular momentum components
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Undergrad Does static tension wear out a spring?
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Undergrad How to Evenly Distribute Wire Lengths When Wrapping Around a Cone?
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Undergrad Where is the Fulcrum for a Boat Hit by a Wave?
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Graduate Fluid mechanics: defition of shear flow [rate of deformation tensor]
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Undergrad I have a question about the physics an arrow
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