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Undergrad Relating terminal velocity, force of friction.
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Undergrad Question about Conserved Quantity Transfer from Train Track to Train
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Undergrad Is a 15kg object capable of generating 147N upward force in water?
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High School Weight of a Vehicle: Can Chickens Affect It?
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Undergrad Harmonics in Music: Pan Flute, Filters & Distortion
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High School I have a question about comet/asteroid/etc impacts
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Undergrad Doubt in resolving forces of a man in an elevator(normal force and weight)
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Undergrad Change of Momentum in relation to Force
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High School G-force of wind on a persons body.
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High School Acceleration of Sound & Velocity vs. Acceleration
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High School When water freezes, strange shapes may appear
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Undergrad Pressure at exit plane of pipe: static or total
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Undergrad Mass of a block floating over a heterogeneous density bar
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Graduate Death and conservation of information
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Graduate Constraint Forces and Conservation of energy
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Undergrad Why does a car jumpstart work?
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Graduate Theoretical top speed using multiple gravity assist
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High School Newton's Force: Same Distance, Different Masses?
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High School Mass or attractive force responsible for not flying away
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Graduate What Happens When You Pitch a Baseball at 90% the Speed of Light?
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Graduate How can I model an agent's movement in a liquid using 2D physics?
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Undergrad What is Radii of Gyration? Application
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Graduate Question about Lagrangean dynamics(inertia matrix)
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Graduate Independent carriers immersed in an insulating fluid
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Undergrad Vacuum Chamber: How Long Will It Maintain Pressure?
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Undergrad Net Displacement: Subtracting E from W Direction Vectors
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High School How to Find the acceleration from 3-axis accelerometer?
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High School Why Are Sound Waves Invisible to the Human Eye?
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Graduate Relation between binding energy and inertial mass
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Undergrad Acceleration of a 2D circle due to Gravity.
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Newton Papers Online - Notebooks & Principia Mathematica
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High School Is there Gravitational Potential Energy on a horizontal surface?
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High School How do i choose the right ac or dc motor
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Undergrad Effect of Humidity and Density on Speed of sound
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Graduate Derivation of Torricelli's Law From Bernoulli's Equation
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High School Is it Possible to Build a Device for Measuring Speeds of Arbitrary Objects?
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Undergrad Density & Speed in Relation to Power
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Undergrad Validity of netwon's laws on the earth's surface
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High School What Role Does Centripetal Force Play in Planetary Motion and Gravity?
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Graduate Lagrangian and Eulerian Specifications
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Graduate Does Bernoulli's Equation Apply to Ideal Gases in a Piston-Driven System?
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Undergrad Work Done on Object When Net Force is Zero
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Undergrad Need a better understanding of the formula P= F v
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Graduate Why does a sleeping top resist torques and return to its original position?
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Undergrad Total energy of system along axis
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Graduate Flywheel Energy Storage: Powering Common Products with Kinetic Energy
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High School Gravitational Potential Energy and weight
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Undergrad Can use Carbon to create Diode
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Undergrad Would the delay cause the box to move?
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Undergrad Collision of Ball with Table Tennis Playing Robot 2D Elastic Collision
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High School How Does Drag Affect Projectile Motion in Simulations?
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Undergrad Effect of distance in collimated space. NOT for homework.
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Graduate Sphere rolling in a semisphere
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Undergrad Is Mass the True Measure of Inertia?
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Undergrad Energy Loss during Inelastic collisions, Where does it go
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Undergrad Pascal Principle: Calculating Acceleration & Velocity for Hydraulic Lever
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Undergrad Comparing Flat vs Banked Road Maneuverability
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Undergrad Fuel velocity vs exhaust velocity difference?
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High School Which string cutten? (impulse)
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High School Why Does Board Breaking Hurt More When It Fails?
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Undergrad How Much Energy to Move a Moon-Sized Planetoid from Earth's Orbit?
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Graduate Terminal Velocity: Max Velocity of Sub Atomic Particles
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High School Understanding Angular Velocity in Circular Motion
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High School Why does pressure in an enclosed container go up under the sea?
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High School Centre of Mass: Hammer, Ruler, Balance
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High School Understanding Surface Tension: What Causes It?
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Undergrad 16 year old solves 300 year old problem set by Isaac Newton
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Undergrad Horizontal spring-block system
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Undergrad Is Potential Constant on a Conductor?
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Undergrad Thermo problem for a pressure vessel
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Undergrad How To Calculate Speed at moment of Impact
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Graduate Changing a velocity distributions
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Graduate Quick Question in projectile motion (H-J)
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High School Why Does Kinetic Energy Depend on Both Mass and Velocity?
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High School Building a Manual Ball Launcher: Solving the 22ft Roll Distance at a 45° Angle
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Undergrad Tunnels through the center of planet, oscillations
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High School Convert Extreme sound into usable energy
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A very good video on quantum mechanics
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Graduate Calculating Force to Push a Wheelbarrow Over a Curb: A Mechanics Analysis
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High School Why does the normal hydrogen atom lack a neutron
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Undergrad Applying forces to a body, outside it's center of mass.
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Graduate Does Q remain stationary with respect to P all the time?
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High School What effects can occur when a body moves in a circular motion?
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Graduate Ising Model Monte Carlo - interpretations
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Graduate Deflection of a tube beam where hollow is off-center
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High School Equations in Classical Mechanics
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Undergrad Is the table-cloth trick driven more by inertia or friction?
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Graduate Pulley dynmamics involving acceleration and time-varying tension.
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High School Why Does Gravity Do Equal Work on All Inclines?
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Undergrad Rotation and translation of an object
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Graduate Perpendicular components of the perpendicular plane
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Undergrad Conservation of energy and change in energy
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Graduate Finding Lagrangian: General Procedure?
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Undergrad Determine the problem of this force along the 2 axis of the pole
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Graduate When is Hamiltonian mechanics useful
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Undergrad Calculating Force Needed to Pull Plunger in Standard Syringe
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Undergrad Wind force, drag, something :v
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Undergrad How does wavelength change with speed?
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Undergrad Is Work Done at Constant Speed When Kinetic Energy is Involved?
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Undergrad Shape of a planet spinning very quikly
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