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Undergrad Potential & Kinetic Energy of Revolving Object (e.g. Moon)
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Graduate Acceleration of a curved trajectory
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Graduate Converting Linear Accelerator To Circular One
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Undergrad Wrote general equation for a free body diagram
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Undergrad Weight of water from molecular mass to grams per cubic centimeter
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Undergrad Understanding Force of Friction on Inclined Planes: Calculating μ and Ff
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Undergrad I`m making a flywheel and with the math
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Undergrad Required Bolt Torque to Induce Given Stress
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Undergrad Solving Inclined Plane FBD Issues with Components
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Undergrad Rear Wheel Friction: Cycling on an Incline
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Undergrad Bernoulli's equation explanation
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Graduate Harmonic Motion Lecture: Deriving Equations
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Undergrad Simulating particle motion in real time
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Undergrad Centripetal Force - How to describe it?
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Undergrad General question about a derivation
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High School Apple Rolling: Why Does It Always Roll on Its Side?
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Graduate Predicting Non-Rigid Body Motion
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High School Pulling on a bar-what forces are in action?
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Undergrad About elastic and inelastic collision
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Undergrad How is energy produced through nuclear fusion?
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High School How can I find the net force of this ? (image included)
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Undergrad Pulley problem (Two masses acting on a third body)
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Undergrad How Can a Spring-Attached Trolley Calculate Forces for Automatic Gear Changes?
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Undergrad Comparing Inertia of Disk, Hoop, & Sphere
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Graduate Bike/motorcycle leaning in a curve. What happens to the normal force N?
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Undergrad How Can Electric Fields Accelerate Ions in Solution?
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Graduate Poisson/Arago's spot in water?
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High School Why do stones bounce off the water?
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High School Is Centrifugal Force Real or Fictitious?
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Undergrad How Do I Calculate Torque for a Rotating Platform with a Stepper Motor?
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Undergrad How Does Differential Calculus Enhance Understanding of Projectile Motion?
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Undergrad Melting Ice in Seawater: Cooling Steel on Seabed with 30kg Ice Block at -20degC
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Graduate Deductively proving the conservation of momentum
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Graduate Can Momentum Transfer Exceed Double the Initial Value in Elastic Collisions?
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High School Relative velocity video (review and rate)
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Undergrad Motion of a rectangular rod in free space
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Undergrad What is the effect of acceleration on a projectile's motion?
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Undergrad Help finding propeller thrust.
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Undergrad Simple Harmonic Motion without damping
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Undergrad Calculating Force to Hold Cylinder in Position
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Undergrad Pressure in fluids and Pascal's law.
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Undergrad Youngs modulus vs Ultimate tensile strength
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Undergrad Does the angle of fall affect the change in kinetic energy of a log?
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Undergrad How Does Damping Affect the Behavior of Oscillatory Systems?
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Undergrad Solving Head-On Collision: Find Ball Speed w/o Knowing Bat Mass
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Undergrad Looking for an equation related to lifting force of air
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High School Why Does a Pen Bounce Higher When Dropped Vertically Compared to Horizontally?
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Undergrad Questions on force, collisions
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Undergrad How to find the kinetic energy of a pendulum?
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Undergrad Balancing a 3d weight vs lift system
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Graduate Is this description of superluminal speeds correct?
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Undergrad Conservation of Momentum v.s. Conservation of Energy
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Undergrad Why _doesn't_ this scheme work?
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Undergrad Identifying the expression for the constant term in a power relationship
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Undergrad What is the relationship between weight and g-force in determining F?
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Undergrad Prove a system is at equilibirum?
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Graduate Forced Harmonic Oscillator C Cos wt dC/dt = 0
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Undergrad Bernoulli's Equation and pressure increase
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Undergrad Why does a heavier sledder go faster?
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High School Kinectic energy of a system of 2 objects
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Undergrad Is it possible to generate lift without thrust?
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Undergrad Slingshot Effect: Exploring Energy Conservation
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Undergrad How do you firgure out distance from a shot fired from a sniper
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Undergrad Floating objects and measuring their weight
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Graduate Torque for rotating mass inside cylincder
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Undergrad Harvesting energy from the earth rotation
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Undergrad Is an unchanging two star orbiting system in equilibrium (force wise)?
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Graduate Conservation of energy in case of rotating falling rod
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Graduate Finding the vibrations of a Membrane, given some sound
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Undergrad Weird? About the direction of rotation of wheels
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Undergrad Exploring the Differences Between Jet and Propeller Engines: Thrust vs Lift
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Undergrad Physics Novice Struggling with mv dv = 1/2m d(v^2)
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Undergrad Kinematics: Understanding Tension in Strings
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High School About the movement of a cube and a sphere on a plane
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Undergrad I have been given ap project by my teachers to show the ratio between
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Graduate Integration when transform to center of mass frame
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Graduate Trying to fix a simplification issue for a general range formula
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Undergrad Friction and normal force on an incline
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Undergrad Explaining Gravity and Diffusion: Contradiction or Balance?
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High School Build a T-Shirt Launcher with Mechanics - Ideas & Tips
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High School How do you work out Young's Modulus?
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Undergrad I want to move an object on the screen a fixed distance in a fixed tim
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Undergrad Collision of Spheres: Equal Acceleration?
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High School Basic motion question involoving kinematics
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Undergrad Tangential force unit conversion
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Graduate Torque due to reaction force at contact point of two objects
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Undergrad Working out strain and stress of an elastic band (youngs modulus)
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Undergrad Why is pressure in liquids not volume dependent?
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Undergrad Vapor Pressure and Atmospheric Pressure
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Graduate Is there a power-energy relationship between matter and energy?
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Undergrad What is the speed of sound in an alloy with 91.67% gold and 8.33% copper?
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Undergrad How odometer works in physics ?
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High School Gravity: Explaining the Mysteries of Weight and Falling
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Undergrad Centripetal Force vs Radius: Exploring Uniform Acceleration Lab Results
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High School Sumobot Competition: Torque vs RPM?
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Undergrad Work done accelerating up a hill
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Undergrad Fire Truck Problem: Inertia, Effect & More
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Undergrad Finding speed of projectile propelled by pressurised air
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Undergrad How does atmospheric friction affect objects falling from high altitudes?
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Undergrad What is the trajectory of an object thrown within a rotating centrifuge?
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