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Undergrad How do I calculate the mass acting on the cart in a pendulum impacting device?
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Undergrad Linear momentum confusion(help required)
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High School The velocity of photon in media
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High School Calculating GPE of a 500lb Weight Lifted 40'
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Undergrad Ideal Gas in Piston (Constant Pressure vs Rate of collision)
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Graduate What is the motion of a particle that fails the velocity selector?
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High School Does stirring water help bring it to boil faster?
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Undergrad I fell 20ft through the ceiling; what was my force of impact?
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Undergrad Suspension calcluations, spring.
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Undergrad Velocity & Frequency Wave on String
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Undergrad How to calculate the velocity reduction in pipes
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Undergrad Vaulters pole breaks into three pieces
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Undergrad Why do parked cars emit doppler shifted sounds when you drive by them?
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Undergrad How do nodes on a string produce tension if they are stationary?
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Undergrad Calculation of Spin of Ball in Table Tennis
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Graduate Relative and absolute potential?
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High School Where do 4 principal states of matter work together?
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Undergrad Collision between hard spheres
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Undergrad How Can Gravity Affect Distance Traveled in a Coding Simulation?
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Undergrad Using rotating vector to draw sine waves
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Undergrad Does a horizontally spinning weight = no motion weight?
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Undergrad Reaction force of freely rotating rod
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High School Potential difference on complex circuits
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Undergrad Does wind help a runner run laps faster?
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Undergrad How its Possible for Bumblebees to fly?
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Undergrad Pressure inside a bladder when subjected to an outside liquid pressure
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Undergrad Newton's Cannon: Finding the displacement, velocity, acceleration
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Graduate What is the significance of the 1/2 in Hooke's Law integration?
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Undergrad Gravity & Inertia: Proportional to Mass?
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High School Force on Bottles: Results & Calculations
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Graduate Will Object Move When Rockets Synchronously Fire & Shutoff?
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Graduate Optimizing Air Pressure for Hovering: Calculating the PSI Needed for Static Lift
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High School Why Gold Plating is Done in Mobile SIM cards?
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Graduate Can a Magnetron Effectively Propel Protons in Linac Design?
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Undergrad How are nodes and antinodes added to harmonics of open air columns?
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Graduate Calculating Potential in a Conducting Sphere and Wire Configuration
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Graduate Speed of atoms ejected from an oven
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Undergrad Does the Speed of EM in a Medium Vary for Different Wavelengths?
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Undergrad How Are Energy and Work Interconnected in Thermodynamics?
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High School How High Will Water Waves Be When Dropping a 1kg Rock from 2 Meters?
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Graduate Solution of damped oscillation D.E.
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Undergrad Max Depth of Submarine Modeling: 80kpa
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Undergrad How is power transfered in a transformer exactly?
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Undergrad Sound waves through air column
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Undergrad Work & Gravity: How to Lift a 5 kg Box 1 Meter?
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High School Ok so my teacher has recently covered this chapter, but one of the
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Undergrad Is reference frame important when looking at work done?
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Undergrad Classification of Three-Dimensional Forces/Vectors
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High School Boiling water to save energy, start a low or high gaz setting?
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Undergrad Calculating impulse of a collision
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Undergrad Bouncing Ball Conservation of Energy
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Undergrad Good explanation of aeroelastic flutter
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Undergrad What do physicists refer to when they say a object is at a certain speed?
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Graduate An inclined conveyor belt, gravity, and rolling shapes of differing types
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Graduate Physics / Biomechanics / Weightlifting Question
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High School Work done in lifting an object against gravity
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Undergrad Does Sequential Rowing Increase Boat Speed?
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Undergrad Solving inclined plane in different axis.
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Graduate Is the energy conserved FOR EACH BODY in a two-body central force problem?
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Undergrad Does a Thicker Pipe Increase Pressure?
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Graduate Methane global warming potential
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Undergrad How fast is air blown from a propeller.
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Undergrad Can a body have velocity and not move?
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Undergrad How Does Newton's Laws of Motion Explain a Multi-Car Rear-End Collision?
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Undergrad Is momentum in Y direction conserved in this case ?
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Undergrad How Much Force is Applied to a Spotlight at 100 MPH?
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Undergrad Directly UPWIND faster than the wind
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Undergrad How can sound distance be calculated without triangulation?
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Graduate Why does the Split-finger baseball pitch break?
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Graduate Friction acting on a ball (2D)
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Graduate Systems (under control) which constantly go from stable to unstable states.
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Graduate Gravity to surface and speed of stars
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Graduate Drift Velocity ambiguity in relation
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Graduate How to get this equation - Mechanics by Landau and Lifshitz
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Undergrad Raising an Object with Force mg: Intuition and Physics
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Undergrad Why Is the Triangle Derivation for Force on an Inclined Plane Incorrect?
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Undergrad Calculating volume of bottle of water.
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Undergrad How to find max deflection of spring between 2 masses ?
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High School Is It Safe to Touch Metal Inside Your Car if a Transmission Line Falls on It?
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High School Does Friction Oppose Motion on an Inclined Surface?
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High School Why do attractive force have a negative sign? like F= -GMm/r^2
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Graduate What Does Phase of a Gaussian Pulse Mean in Wave Propagation?
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Graduate Does a Lagrangian preserving transformation obey the equations of motion?
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Undergrad Free Fall: Weight & Air Resistance
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High School Sound/accoustics - guitar string question
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High School Work done on or by any object?
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Graduate Two falling spools of thread, which hits first?
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Graduate How Does Cylinder Dynamics Change When Rolling Down a Steep Inclined Plane?
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High School AZING! How does the 3rd law explain the forces acting on a book on a table?
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Undergrad Apparent paradox with angular and linear motion
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Undergrad Does a floating object always rotate about its centre of mass?
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Graduate Classical Potential Barriers and their Resultant Forces
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Undergrad Why Do I Need to Divide the Velocity by 2?
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Undergrad Flow rate (CFM) in a different inlet are & outlet area
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Undergrad Moment Of Inertia (calc vs physics different answer)
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Undergrad Frictionless System: How Does Automobile Motion Change?
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High School Does static friction always act on objects at rest?
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High School Water that sucks while filling buckets
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Graduate Why Is the Potential Infinite at the End of a Charged Rod?
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High School Force and Acceleration: Necessity of Force for Acceleration
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