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Deriving the Pendulum Time Period Formula from "Fundamentals of Physics
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Does an Object Ever Truly Reach Terminal Velocity?
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Calculating work in a body of water
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Stopping distance: Locked wheel skidding & rolling tyres
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Newton's laws cannot be proven
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Calculating Force of Colliding Objects: A Newbie's Guide
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Calibration of a 3-Axis Accelerometer for fixing effect of gravity
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Calculating Work Done by Friction on Rotating Cylinder
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Can anyone explain what actually surface tension is?
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Blood Vessels do they NOT follow Bernoulli's principle?
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Grease under the eyes of football players - dumb or not?
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Calculating the gravitational acceleration
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Confused - chemical potential of an ideal classical gas
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Projectile Speed, Crosswind Relationship
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How does a rocket work in space
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Why does pressure increase towards the center of the Earth?
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Understanding the Relationship Between Wheel Rotation and Turning Difficulty
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Equations of Motion & Forces of a Motorcycle Suspension
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Conservation of momentum with initial velocity of 0
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What Is Kinetic Energy? Explained Simply
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Can a Helium Balloon Levitate Without Touching the Ceiling?
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Free fall velocity of object under water
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Relative velocity of perpendicular vectors
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How does force and torque affect the acceleration of a rotating object?
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Mechanical Advantage: Pulley Systems & Archimedes' Ship
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Calculate Dynamo Max Power Output
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Do Straws Function in a Vacuum?
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Why does water get 'hard' on impact?
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Quantum Mechanics: A graduate course
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Why cant i get the same torque from a gear drive as apposed to a chain drive?
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Collision at constant velocity
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Modeling a 2-Body Collision with Simulink
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Explaining Newton's Cradle: The Science Behind the Single Ball Effect
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Question on Bernoulli's equation
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What is the derivative of kinetic energy?
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Law of universal gravitation - why DON'T heavy objects fall faster in a vacume
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What is Inertia? | Learn About this Scientific Concept
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Does an Apple’s Gravity Influence Earth’s Movement?
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Understanding SF6 Gas Pressure and Phase Changes in Industrial Cylinders
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Contradiction in the equations of motion ?
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Potential distribution in metal cylinder
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Calculating Velocity Vector After Polygon Collision - Madison
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Can Car B Make it Past the X in Time to Avoid Disaster?
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Question about gears and torque
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Help with a creative writing piece (not homework)
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Calculating average speeds when distance is unknown
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Matter/antimatter collisions is now what bugs me
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I think I understood Bernoulli principle but I need to clarify one thing quickly
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Why Does Air Pressure Decrease as Speed Increases?
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Impact generated by a futsal ball vs. basketball ball at a wall
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Impulse required to stop a rotating body
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Work done against gravity, what am i missing
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Finding Electric Field from Potential: Understanding Why and How
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Visiting car guy, got a quick question about volume and compression
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What happens to a car's speed on ice?
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How is mass, energy and velocity defined?
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Can an antenna work as a lamp?
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Mercury 'surface tension' vs. density
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Why Does Water Flow Narrower from a Faucet at the Bottom?
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Horizontal component of projectile motion
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What is the Lagrangian in Mechanics and How Does it Relate to the Hamiltonian?
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Can Ice Remain After Water Cools to 0°C?
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The Lagrangian/Hamiltonian dynamics of a particle moving in a manifold
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Is there such a thing as constant velocity ?
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Does a chimney work in this situation?
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What is centripital acceleration physically?
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Pressure and Displacement sound waves. Pressure always lead?
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How do I calculate the impact force of a slide hammer under water?
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Eqs of motion for 2-body problem in EM?
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Moment of inertia of a solid sphere calculation
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What if Newton had thought differently?
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What is the Moment of Inertia for a Falling Disc?
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Where's the torque when you retract your arms on a spinning chair?
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Please describe elastic hysteresis in plain English
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Deriving Equations of Motion for Compound Pendulum with 3 DOF
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Simple Harmonic Motion: 1 Cycle = 1 Oscillation?
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Weight difference between an empty and a full memory stick
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Gravitational Potential Energy of a particle
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Does angular acceleration not always come with torque?
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Describing translation and rotation
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Calculate the force needed to lift
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Physics behind blood vessel constriction and blood pressure?
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Slowing a Car from 25mi/hr to Stop in 2s: How Long?
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Falling off of a building and ANY equations that would be associated with that
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Preservation of kinetic energy
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Model Maglev Train starting motor help
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Can Modified Cars Achieve 1.5G on the Skidpad?
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Which type of kite is better for low wind conditions: LEI or foil?
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Acceleration plus change in Direction
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Finding the Tension of string supporting a disc
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Orbital Speed: Earth vs Moon - How Does Altitude Affect Orbital Velocity?
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Temperature & Sound: Does Hotter Equal Louder?
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Tension producing torque on a disk
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How does a solid-state gyroscope work?
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Basis for conservation of mass-energy?
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Calculating Force of Car hitting wall
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Moment of Inertia of helicopter blades.
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Does that really work? Dowsing
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Why is rotational momentum I=mr²?
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How Is Kinematics Applied in the Modern World?
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