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Undergrad Unraveling the Mystery of Energy Transfer: Lowering Objects Slowly
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Graduate Is Phi a Generalized Coordinate in Lagrangian Equations?
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Graduate Generalized coordinates in Lagrangian mechanics
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Undergrad Flow of gas into a vacuum system through an orifice
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Undergrad Question about Centripetal Force
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Undergrad Speed limit of pressurised air
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Undergrad How High Will a Mass Fly on a Vertical Spring?
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Undergrad Calculating force on object being lowered/dropped into water
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Graduate Something I've never understood about non-inertial reference frames
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Undergrad Understanding Potential Energy and Functions: Verification and Clarification
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Undergrad Rollercoasters- find the g forces
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Undergrad What is the potential energy of a ball in a state of gravitational equilibrium?
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Undergrad Speed of sound and density relation?
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Graduate Dynamics of axially loaded bar
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Undergrad The Amount of Joules generated by a car wheel travelling at 30mph
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Undergrad Understanding the Relationship Between Force and Potential: Proving F = -dv/dx
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Graduate Projectile motion with air friction
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High School Do Generators Run Out of Electrons?
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Undergrad Force applied on a rotating disc
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Graduate Calculating Diaphragm Plates Needed to Stop 30,000 lb Object
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Undergrad Tracking Distance on one Axis with an Accelerometer
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Undergrad Atmospheric Pressure & Boiling Point of Water: 20 C
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Undergrad Simple impulse force question - force upon impact
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Graduate How does the Lagrangian apply to Brownian motion?
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Graduate Measure the speed of earth in universe
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Graduate Elastic collisions between multiple bodies
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Graduate Water Potential Theory Derivation: Xylem & Biomechanics Project Help
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Undergrad Projectile Equation - Parabola
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Graduate Wave Propagation in a Coil Spring
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Undergrad Bernoulli Eq vs General Formula: Pressure of Fluid
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Undergrad Particle-Rod Collision: Rotation or Translation?
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Undergrad Concept Of Linear Momentum and definition of Force
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High School Maximum displacement covered by a body in time half of its own time period?
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Undergrad What is the formula for calculating air convection velocity?
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Undergrad Puzzling Question about Rotation
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Undergrad Air brake over hydraulic brakes
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High School Pool Ball Impulse: Calculating Speed After Impact
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Graduate Need Help w/ The Physics of A Wheelie
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Graduate Lagrangian of the system of two masses
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Graduate A jump rope in the ground state gets excited.
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Undergrad Gravity, Free energy, and proving my pet idiot wrong.
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Undergrad Looking for math course that correspond to fluid mechanics
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Undergrad Angular Velocity in Curvilinear Translation?
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Graduate Is time just energy doing work?
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High School Normal reaction, is this a concept we really understand?
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Graduate Connection between phase, wave number and momentum
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Graduate Maximum precision of deterministic measurements
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Undergrad Earth's Momentum: Constantly Changing or Constant?
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Graduate Phase Transitions: Why is the pressure constant?
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High School Are Car Exhaust & Oxygen Identical Except Temp?
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Undergrad Why Does Sound Vary with Humidity, Not Pressure?
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High School What is the chemical formula for car exhaust emission
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Graduate Particles as Force Carriers - How Does It Work?
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Undergrad Intuitive understanding(energy&momentum in particular)
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Graduate Would a Falling Hot Coal Still Burn Someone on the Ground?
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Undergrad Understanding Centre of Mass for High School Graduates
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High School What is the Direction of Surface Tension and How Does It Affect Molecules?
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High School Conservation of Energy: Where Did Energy Originate?
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Undergrad Hockey helmet physics: me keep my damage from being brained.
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Undergrad Is Momentum the Reason Behind Inertia?
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Undergrad What is the relationship between a comet's velocity and the shape of its orbit?
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Graduate How to prove Galilean invariance
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Graduate Impulse for 2 Degree of freedom system
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High School Why Does a Car Move at Constant Velocity Despite Equal Opposing Forces?
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High School Driving a car onto a semi while both are in motion
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Undergrad Understanding Metacentric Height for Ship Stability
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Undergrad Verlet integration - first iteration
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Undergrad : Hydraulic Press & Pascal's Law
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Graduate How would this NOT work as a perpetual work/motion machine?
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Undergrad Orbital Perpetual Motion Generator
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Undergrad Pressure drop w.r.to time through a orifice dia(D) in a container of volume (V)
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High School Understanding Contact Forces: Normal and Tangential Force Explained
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Undergrad Gauss Law and potential Which one to use
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Undergrad Explanation of density and floatation
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Undergrad Practical problem - fill 1000 liter water tank with pump using solar power
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Undergrad Weight Scaling: Gravitational & Normal Force Balance
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High School A very dumb question (about different masses and accelerations)
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High School Projectile Motion: Ball A vs. Ball B - Which Reaches Ground First?
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Graduate Why is friction proportional to velocity?
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High School Potential difference in series and parallel
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Undergrad Is Potential Energy Just an Accounting Trick to Describe Energy Conservation?
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Undergrad Acceleration under Coloumb's Law
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Graduate Calculating Normal Forces for a Vibrating Beam with Two Impacting Feet
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Undergrad A definition of a Potential Well
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Undergrad Fluid mechanics - pressure, area, force question
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High School F = m*a Explained: The Relationship Between Force and Mass
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Undergrad Pulling forces together (Load Testing)
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Graduate Spring-block question from mechanics
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Undergrad The Zeno's paradox and one of its variations
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Graduate Gravitational Potential Energy discussion
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High School Motion of a Body: Can Acceleration Cause Motion?
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Undergrad Spinning Spool Physics Q: Is Circumference Dist. = Center Dist.?
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Undergrad Retrofitting a Disc Brake on an Aluminum Track Frame
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Undergrad Question on rotational transform matrix, I
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Undergrad How to measure force due to a tidal wave?
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Undergrad How to calculate trajectory of an object with air drag
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Undergrad Infinte distance with finite energy?
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Undergrad The same gunpower has different energy?
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Graduate Sliding, rolling and overall friction
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Undergrad How Do Rocks Break Apart in a Tumbler Through Collision?
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