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Graduate Why does a horizontal (wheel vertical) gyroscope eventually fall?
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Undergrad Representing Force as a Unit Vector - Explained
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High School Net Force & Conservation of Energy: Analyzing the Laws of Motion
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Undergrad Measuring pressure across a centrifugal pump
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Undergrad Turbine-powered subway train (3 parts)
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Undergrad Adding Vectors: Using Angles and Formulas | Vector Addition Explained
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High School Force of a small object Vs a larger object.
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Graduate Lagrangian sought for given conservation law
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Undergrad Physics behind Newton's Cradle
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High School Conservation Laws (Linear & Angulat Momentum)
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Undergrad Looking for help in Introduction Mechanics(Kleppner) and EM(Purcell)
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Undergrad Why Don't Rockets Use Centrifugal Force for Launch?
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Undergrad Sucking cranberry juice out of a hose
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Undergrad Are Vectors Coordinate Invariant in Special Relativity?
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Undergrad Equations needed for force required to lift water Take 2
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Graduate Conservation of Information Law
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Undergrad What is the equation for calculating how high I can jump on other planets?
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Graduate How is the natural period of vibration obtained experimentally?
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Undergrad Switching time of a mechanical switch - capacitive model
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Undergrad Stopping Rocket Spin: A Space Physics Mystery
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Undergrad The relationship between the moment and curvature
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Hamiltonian Mechanics
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Undergrad Quick question about power lines and E=IxR
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High School How to Calculate Catapult Velocity and Maximum Height?
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Graduate What is the mechanism behind the rotation of a bar by a moment?
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Undergrad Conceptual Problem with Friction FBD.
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High School Can sound from any source create thrust?
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Undergrad Bernoulli's principal and pressure difference due to altitude
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Undergrad Bullet Energy Transfer (Stopping Power)
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Graduate Water waves vs. other wave types
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Undergrad Cost of Solar Power: $9000/KW - Learn How It's Calculated
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Undergrad What does this paragraph mean?
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High School Distance of travel in circular motion?
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Graduate Potential Difference of Split Capacitor: Understanding Charge Dis-Equilibrium
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Undergrad The best place for a beam support?
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Graduate Questions about fusion point of water, experiments
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Undergrad Calculating Rotor Moment of Inertia and Time to Slow Down
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Undergrad Does Newton's Law of Gravitation Account for Horizontal Surface Area?
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Undergrad Measuring Angular Momentum Changes in a Rotational Inertia Experiment
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Graduate Information field giving rise to quantum mechanics.
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Graduate Accelerating a moving object with force
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Graduate Rotational Mechanics: Comparing Cylinder P & Q
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Undergrad What causes rotation, a couple or a moment? (conceptual)
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Undergrad Calculating max speed at a turn with downforce
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Undergrad Conceptual Question about Mechanical Energy
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High School Understanding Vector Components: A Simple Concept with Examples
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Undergrad Conservation of Mechanical Energy and Momentum in total inelastic collisions?
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High School Example Problem Involving Forces
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Graduate Seesaw Saga - Velocity transfer on a seesaw
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Undergrad How Does Net Force Affect Acceleration and Molecular State?
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Graduate Non-linear force to linear force equation
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Graduate Newton's law in non inertial frame.
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Undergrad Lifting a weight up and bringing it down: work done
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Undergrad Resolving Forces: Logic & Effects
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Graduate Calculating 3D Impact Coordinates for Golf Ball Collisions
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Undergrad Difference between pressure and stress
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Graduate Simulating a system of levers with opposing force?
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High School Conceptual Question about Conservation of Momentum
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Undergrad Calculating Centripetal Force for Swinging Car Rear - 13.87 Feet Distance
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Graduate Which way did Newton find F = ma?
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Undergrad How to calculate spinning disc torque which resists tilting of the disc's axis?
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High School Why don't heavy objects fall more SLOWLY?
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Undergrad Why is there a under pressure effect after opening of a refrigerator door?
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Graduate Hilbert space formulation for non-quantum mechanics?
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Undergrad Work (energy) that causes a crack without distance
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Undergrad What is the weight needed to push water through a pipe?
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Undergrad Kinetic Energy, Density and distance embedded
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High School Website for obtaining distance travelled by a ball
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High School Sphere spins faster at poles/axis?
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Undergrad How fast would a man's combat speed be if he kicked a Cannonball?
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Graduate What is the difference between flow work and kinetic energy?
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Undergrad Detecting the movement direction using an accelerometer
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Graduate Fiber bragg grating and pressure
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Undergrad Can gravity cause an expansion of a sphere?
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High School Projectile Motion is Symmetric
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Undergrad If theta is considered small in problems
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Undergrad Rotation of free solid object in vacuum, location of axis of rotation
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Undergrad Is Gravity Simply Acceleration According to Newton's Laws?
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Undergrad Exploring Momentum Conservation in a Falling Ball and Earth System
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High School Relationship between Drag Force and Wind Speed
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High School Motion - zero velocity but still having acceleration
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Graduate What Happens to Potential Energy in a Disappearing Field?
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High School Would different intensities affect the droptime of parachutes?
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Undergrad Calculating Force of a Side Collision: Help Appreciated
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Undergrad How to calculate the speed of a vehicle on impact
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Undergrad Orbits for classical mechanics
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Graduate Behavior of wire subjected by two equal and opposite pulling forces?
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Graduate Galileo's experiment and equivalence principle
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High School Constructing an Egg Drop Device with Limited Materials
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High School What weight does our weighing machine show?Is it the mass or weight(mg)?
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Graduate Can Kinetic Energy in Electromagnetic Waves Explain Their Speed in a Vacuum?
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Graduate Is stress tensor a 3x3 or 3x3x3 tensor?
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Undergrad Calculating distance between two Accelerometers
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High School Relative velocity inside a train
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Graduate Stability of Orbits: Understand Gravitational & Kinetic Energy
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Undergrad Calculating Peak Amplitude of Water Wave Motion
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Undergrad Why when two conductors connected by a conducting wire gain the same potential?
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Undergrad How Is the Work Done by Friction Calculated on an Inclined Plane?
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Graduate Pressure from mass without external gravity
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