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Undergrad Solving Vectorial Equation: F vs a Angle Relationship
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Undergrad What is the expression for air pressure below Earth's surface?
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Undergrad Power Spectral Density - how can I get a link back to the original signal
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High School Now, for the title:What's the Bullet Speed?
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Undergrad Mistake on wikipedia (Moment of inertia of a quadrant)
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Undergrad Wave equation - v speed or velocity?
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Graduate Significance of D'alembert's principle
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High School What is the maximum weight a string can hold before breaking?
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Undergrad Potential is a scaler quantity
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Graduate Elementary time - how does it work?
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Undergrad 2d Elastic collision concept and formula
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Graduate Coriolis effect vs common sense
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Undergrad Mass-Spring Equilibrium Point: Affect on Position, Velocity, & Acceleration
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Undergrad What is the nature of wire tension in a physical system?
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Undergrad Angular momentum in gyroscopic effect
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Graduate Universal Rotation: Kurt Godel's Time-Loop Theory
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Undergrad Discover the Influence of Horizontal Centripetal Force on Spinning Motion
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Undergrad Question regarding a rolling ball
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Undergrad Question regarding Negative Velocity
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Undergrad Direction of pressure in a liquid
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High School Create DIY 12v Electric Bicycle Motor
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Undergrad Why Is Momentum Calculated by Multiplying Mass Times Velocity?
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Undergrad How does the weight of airplanes affect atmospheric pressure?
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Undergrad Confused with mechanical waves
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Undergrad Calculating Vertical Acceleration from Centripital enduced movement
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Undergrad Need Help Calculating Torque Required For Project
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Undergrad Converting belt tension to radial compression force
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High School Graphs of Acceleration: AS Student Physics Question
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Graduate Phase changes in relation to pressure changes
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Undergrad Need help simplifying units of slope for an angular acceleration vs torque graph
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Graduate Formulas for constant power acceleration
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Undergrad Advanced Egg Drop Assignment - Create a Rocket & Vehicle for Success
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Graduate Energy, Non-coplanar solar system orbits for space ships
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Undergrad Lift more complex than Bernoulli?
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Graduate Massive rotating drum on bearings with friction
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Undergrad Why is the Net Acceleration of the Earth Non-Zero?
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High School Why is it easier to throw someone with a judo throw?
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Undergrad DC motor and AC generator's output
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Undergrad Intuitive explanation of momentum conservation problem
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High School Simple harmonic motion vs. harmonic motion
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Undergrad What is the Optimal Water Flow Rate for Different Pipe Diameters and Pressures?
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Undergrad Why Does Accelerating Faster Reduce Gas Mileage?
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Undergrad Battery re-powered from wheels of a car?
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Undergrad Calculating Moment of a Beam | PSU Professional Portfolio
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Undergrad Calculating the escape velocity of a pressurised gas
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High School The concept of work and types of energy
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Undergrad Why Does Gas Pressure Vary with Altitude and in Enclosed Spaces?
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High School Why doesn't a moving bicycle fall?
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High School Could someone explain why work is force times distance?
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Undergrad Flow Through Pipes: Paraboloid Curve & Reason
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High School Why Don't Planets Fall into the Sun?
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Undergrad Visualising Sound: Wavelength, Frequency & Amplitude
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High School What is the Energy Efficiency of the Human Body for Weight Loss?
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Undergrad Is Position Really a Vector in Classical Mechanics?
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Undergrad Measuring Slipperiness of Fluids on Inclined Planes
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Graduate How to handle simultaneous particles collision in simulation?
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Undergrad How do the laws of thermodynamics affect hydrogen on demand systems?
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Graduate Imbalanced ball's affect on static friction
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Undergrad Finding acceleration given tension on a ramp?
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High School Master Darts in a Moving Elevator to Precision Aim
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Undergrad Cooling a pond with river water?
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Undergrad What is the Maximum Power a 24 kWh Battery Can Supply in a Second?
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Undergrad Finding the Force Applied to a Heavy Bag
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Undergrad How can I calculate forces on a vehicle frame?
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Undergrad Kinematics with projectile motion(2 questions)
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Graduate Force to Potential Energy to Force again gives wrong formula
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High School Instantaneous acceleration/ velocity
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Undergrad Beyond the norm Dynamics question
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Graduate Simulating Pseudo-Newtonian Motion on a 2D Plane
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Graduate Forces Producing Rotational & Translatory Motion: Exploring Mechanics
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High School Balanced and Unbalanced Forces
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High School Understanding Mass vs Weight - Can I State My Weight in Newtons?
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Undergrad How Do Springs Work? - Explaining Physics Mechanism
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Graduate How Can Nuclear Energy Be Modulated in Reactors?
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Undergrad Speed of sound - why does adding ethanol to water increase the speed of sound
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Undergrad Attenuation coefficient of water
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Undergrad Force Conversions - horinzontal vs vertical
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Undergrad Why Is Alternating Current Preferred for Long-Distance Power Transmission?
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High School Work on constant-velocity objects
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Undergrad DC motor turning at constant speed eventually
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Undergrad Can a piece that expands when blood flows through it decrease pressure?
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Undergrad Compressive force on a cylinder wrapped with a string
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Undergrad Calculating Reaction Force: Box on Rigid Wall with Applied Force of 100 N
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Undergrad Why does rotating a ball on a string faster makes it horizontal
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Graduate Fluid Mechanics: a nozzle that pulls nozzle forward
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Undergrad Is there a delay of 1 or 2 seconds in generation of back emf in a dc motor
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Undergrad Calculating Maximum Dive Depth: Tips for Cliff Divers | Get the Facts Here!
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Graduate Problem involving a rotating frame. Help
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Graduate Equation 1.51 in Goldstein's 3rd edition of Classical Mechanics
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Undergrad Can You Have Impulse Without Doing Work?
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Undergrad Why classics assumed that the force constant in two different references frames?
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Undergrad Gravitational force & escape velocity
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Undergrad Understanding Trig In Force Diagrams
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Undergrad Calculating coefficient of friction
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Undergrad Liquid being pushed out of a nozzle - how to calculate it?
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Undergrad Calculating Rotational Inertia of Flat Plate
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Undergrad How does a rotating wheel apply torque/force on a ball?
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High School List of all the cross and dot products in physics?
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Graduate Centrifugal twisting moment of a propeller
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Undergrad Coriolis force thought experiment
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