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High School Calculating Power with Solar Cells: Series vs. Parallel
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High School Is Center of Mass a vector or scalar quantity?
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High School Is the value of g negative or positive?
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High School FPS System: Why 1 Slug = 15.59 kg?
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High School Why removing and replacing remote battery makes it work?
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High School Can someone explain elastic band physics
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High School What (if anything) is sound made of?
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High School Kepler's Law of Areas: Radially Directed Force
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High School Hardware that can produce sound waves with frequencs 0-200hz
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High School A doubt about tangential and normal aceleration, pilot g forces
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High School Exploring the Concept of Moment Conservation in Structural Engineering
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High School Would a Feather Experience Gravitational Attraction to a Battleship?
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High School How does a Triple Beam Balance work?
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High School Kinetic energy change with initial velocity
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High School G-Force Displacement -- Is it possible?
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High School How Does Latitude Affect Gravity and Centripetal Force on Earth?
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High School Law of conservation of momentum in a non isolated system.
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High School What is the formula for gravity loss on a rocket launch and how was it derived?
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High School Bike Wheels: Do Different Sizes Spray Differently?
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High School Can we mimic a perpetual motion machien?
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High School When Will I Start to Fall After a Rope Is Cut?
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High School Does Normal force always HAVE to be perpendicular to plane ?
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High School How can energy be lost to friction?
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High School Is Inertia Caused by an Object's Mass and Gravitational Force?
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High School Applications of coupled pendulums
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High School Carbon dioxide and global warming
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High School How can potential energy be negative?
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High School Why do objects accelerate with a net force?
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High School Is There an Easier Way to Tell if Other Cars are Accelerating While Driving?
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High School How do you find acceleration with F=mg and F=ma?
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High School Sailboat Speed Question: Can a Motor Increase Speed Beyond 10 Knots with Sails?
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High School Upthrust & Floating: Confirm Position in Liquid
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High School Why Does a Ball Bounce Back After Hitting a Wall?
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High School Why sound produced by rapids varies in pitch based on height
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High School Is centripetal force greater than centrifugal force?
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High School Kinematics: Understanding Trajectory Equations
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High School Why does a falling object experience constant acceleration due to gravity?
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High School Why Doesn't a Helicopter Drift Away as the Earth Spins?
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High School Pressure from a fluid on a solid piece of metal
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High School "Force Coupling" and "Force Decoupling"
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High School I need the name of this equation for my IA?
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High School Cooling and its effect on particle speed
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High School Proof / derivation of d'Alembert principle?
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High School Why won't two objects stick when put tightly together?
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High School Can you me understand free body diagrams
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High School On what area is the pressure of the gas acting?
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High School Calculating Linear and Angular Quantities from Applied Force
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High School How much could heaviest flying animal weight?
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High School Energy vs. Force: Understanding the Relationship and Implications in Mechanics
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High School A statistical definition of Young's Modulus?
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High School Net force on 'ground' with object on top of it....?
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High School Conservation of Angular Momentum
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High School Do We Include Signs in Conservation of Momentum Equations?
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High School Confusion about Newton's laws, sum of forces equals zero
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High School Pitot Tubes and Static Pressure
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High School Question about a bob held by string in a bell jar spinning
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High School Reaction Force, Centripetal Force
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High School Force required to move an object upwards
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High School Energy release from 75c drop in water temp, 1L?
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High School What factors affect the rate of sinking objects in water?
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High School What Axis is Used When Calculating Torque?
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High School What is the effect of centripetal force on velocity?
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High School String constant of a folded and a cut up rubber
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High School What cause the pizza dough go to circular motion
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High School Direction of acceleration, vector quantity
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High School Relative speed : Two trains crossing each other
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High School Buoyant Force: Pressure, Gravity & Upward Thrust
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High School Frictional force and surface area in contact
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High School Sign Convention for Projectile Motion on an Inclined Plane
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High School Confirm: Upward Force > Weight of Object
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High School Why don't bowed musical instruments deaden their sound?
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High School Does the gravitational force change for a spinning wheel
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High School Helicopter Spin: What Makes Objects Fall Out?
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High School Could this book be Shaum's Outlines Theoretical Mechanics?
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High School Airplanes stay level at higher velocities?
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High School Gravity between objects on Earth
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High School How much force was applied by the horse?
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High School Difference conservative and non-conversative force
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High School Calculate Speed over Time: Net Thrust of 5.25 m/s & 124 Secs
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High School What is Galileo's Law of Inertia and How Did He Prove It?
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High School Why Use Dot Product vs. Cross Product for Vector Calculations?
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High School Why do we multiply force and displacement in physics?
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High School Driving a nail into a wooden block
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High School Kinematic equation without time
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High School Does the mechanical advantage change if the load applies force?
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High School Why do arrows deviate from the target in archery?
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High School Will my special siphon work please?
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High School How Can You Linearize a 1/x Graph in Physics Lab Data?
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High School General information on back pressure in a syringe
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High School Velocity of Ball: Up or Down Slope?
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High School What will happen to the water level of the swimming pool?
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High School What's the difference between velocity and average velocity
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High School How do you know a force if a force is radially symmetric?
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High School Leaf Blower Thrust for Bike: 450 cfm @120 mph
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High School Computing force given mass and distance
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High School Friction Independent of Area: Understand It Here
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High School Force directly proportional to negative of displacement?
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High School Having difficulty in understanding vertical circular motion?
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High School Why Is Projected Area More Relevant Than Surface Area in Physics?
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High School Drop Ball Moving: Initial Velocity 0m/s?
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