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High School Elevator Free Fall: Understanding the Physics and Sensation of a Cut Cable
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High School Quiz Question -- What happens to the cork?
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High School Equal Forces in Tug of War: Shared vs Separate Lines
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High School Would a straw work in a vacuum?
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High School What is the reaction to gravity's pull in a vacuum?
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High School Countering the Movement of the Ocean & different size boats/ships
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High School Mastering the Physics of Table Tennis: Understanding Forces and Flight Dynamics
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High School How Did This Guy Make a Soccer Ball Wobble On the Ground?
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High School Does Mass Affect the Rate of Free Fall?
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High School A Question about Loudness of Sound....
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High School Claude Dechales anti-Copernican arguments question
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High School Acceleration & Force: Lesser Force Impact on Mass
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High School How Do Missiles Reenter Earth's Atmosphere?
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High School Question about gravity, water and snow
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High School G-forces exposed during maximum perfomance Takeoff (Heli)
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High School What is the force acting on a seesaw?
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High School Friction guiding a car around a curve
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High School Ride a Supersonic Rocket: Can You Hear Your Friend?
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High School What is the deceleration rate of a fidget spinner?
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High School What Forces Affect a Motorcyclist's Cornering Performance?
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High School Water Container Force: Impact of Finger Dip on Scale Measurement
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High School (Hypothetical) 6ft hardened-steel cube dropped at 100 meters
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High School What property of a fluid determinates rising and sinking Velocities
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High School Air movement in an exhaust systems
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High School Understanding Nuclear Fission in Power Plants
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High School Can someone explain to me these equations of sound waves?
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High School What does y-intercept of a (a vs F) graph represent?
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High School Looking for a Gyroscopic Simulator program
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High School Understanding Newton's Third Law: Investigating the Equation F=Rv(m1m2/l^2)
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High School Gravitational force between two objects?
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High School Sound propagation with altitude/height
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High School Need help with gravitational acceleration SI units
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High School Fly in Elevator: Does Compression Affect Hovering?
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High School Can a bullet hit someone while free falling?
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High School Can the normal force be in vertical direction?
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High School A Question about the Speed of Waves....
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High School Adding a nacelle in front or behind the fan?
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High School GMm/r^2 for r=0? Force at Center of Object?
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High School Why is it harder to break tied spaghetti compared to separated spaghetti?
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High School Breaking a granite surface plate....
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High School Kinematics Equations: When to Use Each?
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High School Newtons and Newton meters for pushing a weight
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High School General Physics Question -- Max height of a projectile
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High School How to track the center of mass of a human in a video
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High School Question - Distributed weight on Camper Tires
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High School Velocity of Sphere Falling from Rest in Oil-Filled Beaker
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High School Poisson's ratio, steel rod for example
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High School Can Velocity and Mass Alone Create Force?
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High School Does Increasing Potential Energy Affect the Gravitational Pull on an Object?
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High School How much force would it take to jump on air?
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High School Volume Compression in Cylinders: Does Diameter Affect Rate of Loss?
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High School Need a bit more clarification on W=F.ds
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High School Why does Fdt go away during collisions while Fdx does not?
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High School How Do Gyroscopic Forces Affect the Spin of a Figgit Spinner?
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High School How do rockets propel themselves up?
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High School Pulley Carrying Capacity: Can It Handle 150 lbs?
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High School Can the speed of sound in air be faster?
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High School Moment of Inertia: Definition & Physical Meaning
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High School Is it possible for a feather to lift a car?
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High School Car acceleration on concrete and on asphalt
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High School Would it feel like it takes more energy or not?
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High School Momentum Conservation & External Force: Explained with an Example
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High School Newbie question -- A train in space with a ball floating in a train car....
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High School TagEqual force for different times: Pushing a car slowly vs quickly
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High School Why Is Tension Equal in a Frictionless and Massless Pulley System?
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High School Trebuchet Physics: Calculating Baseball Acceleration
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High School How did Newton explain his laws of motion?
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High School Clarifying Young's Modulus and Stiffness Equations for Cantilever Oscillation
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High School Is Velocity Equal to a*t in an Acceleration vs Time Graph?
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High School Confusion About Oscillating Mass
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High School Why does water seek its own level?
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High School A site that explains the physics behind particle Accelerators?
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High School Can a Circular Flow of Water with Turbines Generate Sustainable Energy?
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High School Regarding the Galilean transformation of x'=x-vt
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High School Coefficient of Restitution in x and y
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High School Falling question about terminal velocity
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High School What will happen if i throw a cricket ball through Saturn's ring
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High School Will a Rigid Ball Bounce off a Wall?
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High School Explain FBD in vertical circle
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High School Motion on a frictionless Surface
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High School A Question about Effect of Force on Rigid Bodies....
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High School Vacuum & Sound: What Happens to Energy?
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High School Rolling a spray paint cap on a surface
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High School You've probably seen something like this....hovercraft
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High School Can a plastic container break from having too much water
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High School Why Does the Sign of 'g' Change in Physics Equations?
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High School Floating 0.5 Density Wood Beam: Potential Energy Explained
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High School Difference between translation and uniform motion
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High School Advice For My Physics Experiment
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High School Calculating Net Force on Two Books: Explanation and Example
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High School Calculate Torque to lift 7'-9' pole with 5-8 lbs at the end
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High School What is the work function of Nichrome?
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High School What is instantaneous acceleration?
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High School I just found a new way to calculate Force
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High School Wooden Plank Problem: A Comprehensive Guide
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High School Understanding the Physics of a Loop de Loop on a Level Track
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High School Bouyancy: mass and displacement
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High School Leverage and weight positioning
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High School Why Is Gravitational Force Equal to Mass Times Acceleration?
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High School Are Events in Reality Defined by Causes?
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