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Graduate Calculating Initial Impulse for Billiard Ball to Roll Without Slippage
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Undergrad Acceleration due to gravity, and the force of landing on the ground
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Undergrad Fuel Cell with unpressurised Hydrogen and Oxygen
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High School Why do we lose balance in a bike when at a standstill?
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Undergrad Pressure of liquid and evapouration of water
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Graduate Equilibrium configuration in Lagrangian mechanics
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Undergrad Terminal velocity of a rocket using dimensional analysis
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High School Is speed of sound constant and cannot be varied?
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Undergrad Trebuchet: Projectile Arm Length to Counterweight Arm Length Ratio
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Graduate Circular motion experiment using accelerometer and gyroscope
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High School Understanding Energy = Work: The Relationship Between Force and Distance
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Graduate Rigid Body Dynamics: Rising the Rough Rod
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Graduate Derivation of Hydrodynamic Equations from Interacting Particles
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Undergrad Question: Understanding Fluid Pressure and Its Relation to Flow Speed
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Undergrad Equation of motion for a rigid body
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High School What is Newton's gravitational constant mean?
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Undergrad What Do You Get When You Integrate Force?
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Undergrad Science of disturbing a spinning top
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Graduate Solve Rigid Body Collision: System Approach w/Cons. Angular Momentum
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Graduate Derivative of Angular Momentum
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Undergrad What happens when a steel wheel explodes due to centrifugal force?
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Graduate Perpetual Motion using Brownian Motion?
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Graduate Calculating Water Rocket Performance: Thrust, Velocity & More
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Undergrad Why do trucks have bigger brakes?
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High School Trying to figure out the most efficient throwing motion
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Undergrad Is Angular Momentum also conserved in 3-dimensions.
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Undergrad Understanding Uniform Circular Motion: Explanation & Diagrams
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Graduate Understanding the strain energy function invariant term
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Undergrad Calculating Force to Push Cylinder Over Another
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Undergrad Determining Frequency Shift for Moving Sound Sources
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High School Object rotation in vacuum and the Friction force
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Undergrad Question about the Two-Body systems
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Graduate Precession at LOW angular velocity
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Undergrad Physics laboratory project - bumpers/crash tests
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Undergrad Increasing Stability of Object in Water
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High School Direction of friction in rolling motion
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate the Acceleration of Buckets Using Tension and Mass?
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Undergrad Can Sound Fall? Investigating the Possibility of Gravitational Effects on Sound
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Undergrad Is Work Done Always Zero in a Conservative Field?
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High School Why are we thrown backwards when a train stops?
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Undergrad Weight/force of accelerating object
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Undergrad Speed and distance in a car crash
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Undergrad How does the distribution of mass affect the rotational inertia of a disc?
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Undergrad Why does a boiled egg rotates while a raw egg doesn't?
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High School How to Calculate Net Force using Newton's Second Law?
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Graduate Thought experiment: Origin of inertia is gravitational?
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Undergrad Pendulum with a Spring: Analyzing Damping Effects
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Undergrad How does impulse relate to energy when the net force is zero?
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Undergrad Calculating Water Flow Time in a Tube | Gravity-Powered Flow Question
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Undergrad Estimating torque conveyor belt
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Graduate I need data from the Cavendish Experiment
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Undergrad [Drift velocity] Factors affecting velocity
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Graduate Solar Sail Physics - Do they work on a large scale?
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High School Total pressure load on a chain
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Undergrad What Happens to the Excess Energy in a Compressed Spring?
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High School Force on the top hinge of an open door
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Graduate How does magnetization affect the magnetic field around a bar magnet?
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High School Marble spiralling inside a cylinder
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Undergrad I with understanding of Inertia of a slender rod and plate?
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Graduate SL(3,R) Generators and their Interpretation
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Undergrad Work done on body moving in a circle
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Graduate Paradox of motion implies discrete space?
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Undergrad Spiral motion and the centripetal force
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High School Force, Acceleration, mass and time
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Graduate Can an oscillator with infinite harmonics be excited at only one frequency?
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Undergrad Statistical uncertainties Monte Carlo
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Graduate Variation of gravity in a Rotating SpaceStation
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High School Potential difference and terminal potential difference
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Graduate Uniform circular motion (centripetal acceleration & force)
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Graduate Energy and momentum conservation
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Graduate Control Moment Gyroscope Gimbal Motor Torque
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High School Seesaw Balancing: The Science Behind Weight Distribution Explained
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Undergrad Having trouble thinking about conservative forces
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Undergrad Radiowaves bouncing off of ionosphere
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Graduate Rotational Mechanics: Sphere collision problem
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Undergrad Tension Direction: Rope Angle, Middle & Ends
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Undergrad How Does a Rotating Ball Affect Force Directions in a Box?
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Undergrad Why is escape velocity given when total mechanical energy is zero?
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High School Propeller rotation direction question
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Undergrad Why is the work done by an ideal gas the area under a PV diagram?
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Undergrad Why water turbine have higher efficiency then steam turbine?
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Undergrad Will siphoning continue during free fall in an elevator?
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Undergrad Speed of a wave and its particles
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Undergrad Negative and positive work - Question
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High School What determines the coefficient of friction?
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Graduate Dart Energy from Compressed Air
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Graduate Overcoming Electrostatic Forces for Fusion: Can a Faraday Cage Help?
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Graduate How Can I Calculate the Power Spectrum for Data in Binary Cellular Automata?
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Undergrad Exploring the Forces of Pressure and Attraction in a Dynamic System
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High School Effect of reservoir location on water throw from hose
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Graduate Voice Coil Position: Impact of Fringing Field on Dynamic Microphones
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Undergrad How do i make a heavy object float?
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Graduate Michelson and Energy Conservation
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Undergrad Pressure problem(Fluid mechanic)
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Graduate About Ensemble Average for gas molecules(classical mechanics regime)
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High School Win Tug-of-War: Where to Place Strongest Person & Physics Explained
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Undergrad Software to draw free body diagrams and vector diagrams
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Undergrad Rotating drum being stopped dead by a pin
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Undergrad Equation for Gravitation potential energy
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Undergrad How to calculate average velocity
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