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Undergrad How does gravity affect a single pulse traveling through a medium?
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Violation of energy conservation?
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Undergrad Effective punch: muscles or speed?
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Undergrad Why Is Friction Uphill When a Ball Rolls Uphill?
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High School Acceleration vs acceleration due to gravity
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High School Easiest way for two men to lift a pipe
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High School Factors affecting how hard a man has to pull on a pulley
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Graduate Rotational motion, frictionless.
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High School Jump Efficiency TheoryI am young so please no mocking.
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Undergrad The force pointing out involved in a buss-turn.
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Graduate What Are the Latest Advances in Wireless Power Transmission Technology?
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Undergrad Calculating Impact of an object (small rock) on the front of a moving car
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Undergrad What does my physics book mean? What values do these represent?
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Undergrad How can I accurately calculate damage in melee combat using physics principles?
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High School Explaining Hookes Law to a GCSE Physics Student
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Undergrad Impulse and impulsive force and momentum
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Graduate Speed of a Cumulative Compound DC Motor
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Undergrad 'Doppler Effect' advanced Sound Wave question
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Undergrad Final Exam Review: Motion of an Airplane
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Undergrad Interplanetary Trajectory Calculation
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Undergrad Power to life a piano question
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High School How fast is a character that can move at the Speed of Thought?
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Undergrad Is the product of P actually wug and what about
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Undergrad Does Increasing Downforce Help a Car Stuck in a Hole More Than Pushing It?
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Undergrad Conservation of angular momentum and change in rotational kinetic energy
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Graduate What is the relationship between torque and angular momentum in a rigid body?
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Undergrad Solving Dynamics Problem: Inertia at Work?
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Undergrad What happens to a sphere's velocity in freefall when elevator cables break?
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Undergrad What are typical values for 'K' in the Ostwald model for non-Newtonian fluids?
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Undergrad Friction direction in circular motion
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Undergrad Is there an instantaneous angular acceleration for a conical pendulm?
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Undergrad Finding work when displacement is a function of force
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Undergrad Can You Help Me Calculate the Toppling Force for a Horizontal Post?
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Graduate Principles of Particle acceleration
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Graduate Fluid mechanics Lagrange & Euler formalism
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Undergrad Tangential Velocity and the Moon
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Graduate Independent translational momentum
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Undergrad Physical speed of Edgerton's Trinity spool?
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Graduate Moment of inertia for inclined plates
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High School Acceleration in function of time and distance
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Undergrad Hydrodynamics velocity and speed
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Undergrad Is Standard Glass Strong Enough to Hold Back Water in a Bubble Panel?
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Graduate Calculating pressure change with load in elastic body
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High School What is the role of mass in understanding inertia and its effect on motion?
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High School Buoyancy force on the partially submerged object
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High School Friction: Equal and Opposite Forces.
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Undergrad Confused about reference frames
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Undergrad Accelerometer within a freely rotating sphere?
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Undergrad Understanding work done by friction
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Graduate Beam Curvature Measurement with a Capacitive Sensor
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Undergrad How to calculate tension in a cable
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Graduate Doppler Effect: Minimum Recessional Velocity for Its Effect
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Graduate Gravity, Pressure and forces - a thought experiment
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Undergrad What is the difference between relative velocity and resultant velocity?
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Graduate The Importance of Symmetry in Stress Tensors
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High School What Factors Affect the Value of Spring Constant?
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Graduate Effective/Centrifugal Potential
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Undergrad Circular motion (approximation of centripetal acc.)
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Undergrad Explanation of proportionality with falling objects.
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High School Why Does an Apple Fall to Earth, But Earth Doesn't Fall to the Apple?
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Undergrad How Does the Force of a Falling Object Change Upon Impact?
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High School Object and Friction on the object
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High School I just dont get the idea on how to do this [projectile motion]
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Undergrad Can Cargo Planes Carry Extra Weight: A Dark Knight Rises Analysis
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High School How does a unocycle / single wheel motorcycle work?
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Undergrad Center Cap vs Tire Diameter Rotation
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High School Solving Doubts on Rotational Motion
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Undergrad How High Can Water Climb in a Tank with a High-Velocity Inlet?
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High School Explanation of Ice Cube in water.
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Undergrad Torque due to static friction on a rolling object
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Undergrad How to prove Theta for a incline plane.
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Graduate What is the fastest way to remove all water content from steam?
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Undergrad Is This a Case of Motional emf?
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High School How can pulleys or levers multiply forces?
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Undergrad Bernoulli principle or due to Viscosity?
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High School Conceptual Area Under Velocity-Time graph confusion
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Graduate Dealing with conflicting no-slip Navier-Stokes boundary value constraints?
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High School Hey im so confused about moment of inertia. ?
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High School Conservation of momentum when bouncing a ball
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Graduate Newtonian Relativity: Galilean Relativity & Beyond
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Undergrad How Does Fire Work Explained in Layman's Terms
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Undergrad Reconciling Potential Energy and Work: Understanding the Relationship
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Undergrad How to support a sign on our museum wall?
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Undergrad What does it mean for a chemical reaction to do work on a battery?
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Graduate Ideal gas: total kinetic energy of molecules striking a vessel's wall
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Graduate How does circular motion in a cone without gravity work?
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Undergrad Centripetal and Centrifugal Acceleration.
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Undergrad Does pressure in water vary due to gravity and density changes?
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Undergrad Does the Conservation of Energy Apply to Rotating Wheels Connected in a Series?
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Undergrad Impulse of a force - effect on linear and angular momentum
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Undergrad Effect of pressure at ocean-bottom
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Undergrad Can an object travelling in a straight line have angular momentum?
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Undergrad Centripetal force experiment help
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Graduate Impossible Question: Maritime Freight
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Undergrad Self Leveling Seesaw. Is It Possible?
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Graduate Need help with a thought experiment about point of view,motion, and gravity.
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Undergrad Work with force changing with angle
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High School Perpetual Motion: Can It Be Achieved In Space?
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Graduate Energy Transfer in Melted Springs: A Question for Physicists
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Undergrad How an external force causes a body to move?
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