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Undergrad Putting a golfball on a plane, but not directly up or down the plane
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Undergrad Gravitational Fields and Centripetal motion
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Undergrad Kg-meter required for 1 MWH generator
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Undergrad Understanding Vertical Mounted Spring Calculations with Conservation of Energy
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Graduate How do conservation laws arise from symmetries in classical mechanics?
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High School Calculating Distance and Average Speed for a Car Trip - Online Class Help"
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Undergrad Car mass and maximal speed when cornering
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Undergrad Understanding the centrifugal force
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Undergrad Help with calculating vertical jump with kinematic equations
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Undergrad Simple harmonic motion,the restoring force?
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Undergrad Factors affecting speed of travelling waves along a cable
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High School Hydrostatic Pressure Force must be perpendicular
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Undergrad How does a cockroft walton multiplier work?
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Undergrad Does logarithmic decrement depend on initial amplitude?
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Undergrad Inertia Matrix: What, How & When?
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Undergrad Difficulty understanding Newtonian mechanics with stationary force
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High School Water at 4 degree Celcius has maximum density
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Undergrad Does The Range Equation Work for Complementary Angles?
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High School Does required time for free falling bodies is independent of mass?
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High School Conservation of Momentum Question
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High School Can You Damage a Chair by Sitting Too Hard?
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Undergrad What is the total energy and velocity of a ball in a vertical circular path?
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Undergrad Calculate RPM From Pendulum Swing Set
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Undergrad Power in terms of work and energy
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Graduate A question about the relationship between momentum and force
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High School How can I raise water to the first floor in a multi-story building?
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Graduate Understanding the Rotation of a Freefalling Rod
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Undergrad What is the best air density for sound quality.
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Undergrad What is the Role of Internal Energy in the Conservation of Momentum?
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Undergrad Quick question regarding kinetic energy, potential energy and velocity.
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Graduate Possible webpage title: Understanding Voltage Measurements in Biological Systems
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Undergrad What is phase velocity and how does it relate to group velocity?
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Undergrad Elevator physics. [very graphic]
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Graduate Fixed Mass of Viscous/Inviscid , Compressible/Incompressible Fluid
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Undergrad How Far Will a Rolling Ball Go?
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Undergrad Understanding Tension and Slings for Industrial Abseiling
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Undergrad Proving Two Bodies Moving Together are One System
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High School Can Newton's Laws of Motion be simplified?
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Undergrad What Are the Physics Behind Bouncing on a Trampoline?
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Graduate What Equation Models Boundary Layer Thickness in Early Stage Pipe Flow?
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Undergrad AC vs DC power loss across a resistor
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Graduate Static and dynamic analysis of a crank with pedal
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Graduate Can Decreases in Pressure Propagate as Shockwaves in Fluids and Gases?
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High School Confusion about springs and hooke's law
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Graduate Calculating Viscosity from Acceleration: Is it Possible?
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Undergrad Calculating Maximum Distance for a Lost Silencer: Odd Firearm Question
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Undergrad Velocity change when an impulsive force is applied ?
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High School Why does a Scale Balance Horizontally?
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Graduate Centrifugal forces + pressure and CG
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High School Levitating on a bus, would you move toward the back of the bus?
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Graduate Calculating Light Source Power from Photon Concentration & Wavelength
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Undergrad Solving Angular Momentum Problem: Dividing by L/4 Explained
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High School Please discribe mole and how it works
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High School The use of the terms speed & velocity
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High School Difference Between Speed and Velocity ?
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Undergrad Flywheel Inertia: Fixed Internal Quantity?
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Undergrad Velocity Profile: Fluid Mechanics Explained
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Undergrad Water Vacuum Pipe: How High Can it Work?
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High School F=ma Confusion about answer given for F
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High School How to build a simple AC motor with Styrofoam
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Undergrad Conservation of energy flywheel experiment
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High School Question about the difference of pressure between two point in a liquid
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Undergrad Utter confusion regarding distance covered during acceleration in free fall.
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Undergrad Confused with resting membrane potential
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Graduate What is the Effect of Distributed Mass on the Time Period of a Spring?
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Undergrad Lyman, Ballmer, Paschen series?
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Undergrad Compression by spring, potential motion
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Undergrad Straw sucking height calculation
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Graduate Behaviour of Gyro in space compared to on Earth / in gravity
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High School Two identical snow globes are smashed together, but only one breaks. Why?
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High School Speed of someone sitting in a car
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Undergrad How many g's was I subjected to ? I should not have survived.
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Undergrad Work done for irreversible process
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Undergrad Power in AC Circuit: Can Power Be Made Arbitrarily Small?
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Undergrad Mechanics behind capillary depression.
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Undergrad Normal and Friction Force Relationships went turning curbs
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Undergrad How to solve general forces equations as variables?
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Undergrad Impulse/momentum of cart rolling over a step
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High School Speed of a Satellite at 320 kn: Calculate Time Period
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Undergrad Why do red color attenuate in water the most and in air the least?
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Undergrad Joule's Apparatus and Kinetic Energy
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Graduate Aproximating a morse potential using a taylor polynomial
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Graduate Ratio of Damped to Initial Oscillation Amplitudes - 20 Cycles
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Graduate Compass Dip Error and Acceleration Compensation in Aircraft Navigation
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Undergrad Stiffness Equation for Spring Dimensions: How is it Derived?
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Undergrad Work done by a spring & its potential energy
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Undergrad Momentum of an arrow or a sword thrust?
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Undergrad How does increasing momentum affect kinetic energy?
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Undergrad Power of a thrust to maintain an extended spring
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Graduate Resonance- Circuit and Mechanical
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High School Does standing on bathroom scale depress or compress spring
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Undergrad Work energy theorem clarification.
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Undergrad How Accurate is My Calculation of Calories Burned During Weight Lifting?
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High School Why air flow created by ceiling fan goes downward?
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Undergrad P-T Graph of Water: Understanding Density & Expansion
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Undergrad Difference between blast, shock, pressure and sound waves?
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Graduate Can Dipole Moments Be Added Like Forces?
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High School Do kinetic energy conserved in a 2 dimensional collision?
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Graduate The Primacy of Conservation Laws: Rethinking the Concept of Force in Mechanics
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Graduate Determening the Period of Coupled Oscillators
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