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High School Why would this star move outward?
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Undergrad Fluids: Bernoulli's Equation Derivation Question
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High School Torque applied by a continuous mass instead of point particle
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High School How Does Viscosity and Turbulence Affect Fluid Flow Between Plates?
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Undergrad Counter-rotating mass to counteract inertial spin
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Undergrad Mass vs Mass as a Force (Weight)
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Undergrad Absolute and relative motion/rest
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Undergrad Grip Strength: Comparing Pressure Needed to Hold 20kg Weight Plate
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High School Confusion while trying to build intuition of centripetal force
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High School Manometer: Calculating Height of Water
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Undergrad How do shockwaves in a 1D linear lattice work?
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High School How do I express the force of me falling 33 feet onto concrete?
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Undergrad Maximum hole diameter to prevent water leakage
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High School Lifting an object with a mass difference of just 1kg
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Undergrad How does inertia, a property of mass, arise?
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High School What Factors Influence Neutral Buoyancy in Water?
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Undergrad How Does the Book's Formula for Angular Momentum Differ from Mine?
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Undergrad Newton's Laws with one body inside another
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Undergrad How is static friction the centripetal force during a car turning?
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High School Need a bet settled about classical momentum
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Undergrad D'Alembert's principle vs Hamilton's principle
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Insights Quaternions in Projectile Motion
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Undergrad Would this violate or challenge Newton's laws?
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High School Understanding Galileo's Theory of Acceleration
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High School Average Speed vs. Velocity: Explained
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Graduate Why does mass/energy have inertia?
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Undergrad How to weigh a car topped boat?
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Undergrad Rotation about two axes and angular momentum
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Undergrad Trying to rotate a disc about two perpendicular axes
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High School Vacuum Audio Failure: Solutions & Tips
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Undergrad Why is there no torque along this axis?
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High School Dynamic pressure in pressure units
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Undergrad How do I add "rotation" vectors (pseudo-vectors?)
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Undergrad Why is the definition of work = force times displacement?
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Undergrad A question about why gyroscopes fall slowly
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High School Predicting types of collisions
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Graduate Derek Muller and UCLA Prof. Alexander Kusenko -- Downwind Physics Wager
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Undergrad Bicycle physics: Keeping balanced....
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Undergrad What force is needed to collapse this spring-loaded pair of arms?
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High School Calculating Force of Ball-Spring Collision
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Undergrad What Type of Workbench is Needed for a Press Machine?
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Undergrad Motorcycle model and tire force
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Undergrad Difference in destructive power between a heavy stick and a light stick?
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Undergrad Can a hose spray higher than the water tower?
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Graduate Whether a non-inertial frame is absolute
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Undergrad The main cause behind viscous drag
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High School Can you use hand tools on the moon?
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Undergrad Calculation of orbital velocity -- Geometrical solution
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Undergrad Questions about center of gravity
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Undergrad A scientific analysis of stopping the spin of Discovery One spaceship
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Graduate Constants in scalar and vector potentials
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Undergrad How to Solve Projectile Motion Problems in One or Two Lines
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Undergrad Max Height and Distance of Projectile: Theory & Simulation
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Undergrad Rotation: inertial frame vs. body-fixed frame
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Graduate Koopman–von Neumann mechanics references
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Undergrad Question about potential energy: gravity and a vertical spring
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High School How does gravity convert potential energy to kinetic?
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High School Calculate scaled down human model weight for practical experiment
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High School Does the colour of a container affect how fast water in it cools?
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Graduate Why is the integrated velocity times change in velocity zero?
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High School What Happens to the Wavelength of Light as it Passes Through Water?
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Graduate Ejection speed and travel distance of a ball in a pressurized water pipe
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Undergrad Analytical solution for freefall....
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Graduate Who Can Solve the Mystery of the True Torque?
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Graduate Symmetries in Lagrangian Mechanics
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Graduate Time of Impact of Gas Molecules on the Inner Wall of a Pressure Vessel
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Graduate Lagrangian mechanics - rotating rod
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Graduate Why does a photomultiplier tube produce a negative output pulse?
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High School Why do things with wheels get more balanced as velocity increases?
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Undergrad Measure angular velocity and acceleration from missing tooth wheel
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High School Cooling things in water vs air
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Graduate Hohmann Orbit Transfer: Minimize Delta V for Bigger Orbit
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Undergrad Can turbulence help measure liquid viscosity more accurately?
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High School What type of ball can bounce and travel the most?
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Undergrad Undamped driven oscillation — Is there a phase delay?
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High School What Objects Can Survive the Deepest Water?
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Graduate Frame indifference and stress tensor in Newtonian fluids
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Undergrad Car top boat loader: What is the lifting weight?
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Undergrad Two-body equation of motion resolution
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Undergrad Looking for Linear Motor Exercises
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Undergrad Water Pressure and Different Pipe Sizes
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Graduate Boundary condition: null traction on the boundary of an elastic block
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Undergrad Is my weight during the night a little bit more than during the day?
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High School Milky Way Velocity: How Fast Does Our Galaxy Move?
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Undergrad Atmosphere and volume - vacuum cannon limitations
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Graduate Types of Kinematics: Classical, Quantum & Relativistic
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Graduate The order of Euler Angle rotations for a top
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Challenge Physics Challenge: Spherical Ball Rolling on a Rough Sphere | Just for Fun!
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Graduate Newbie Physics Student Asks: Does Vapor to Ice Change Acceleration/Velocity?
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Undergrad Position of speaker in front of tube to produce stationary wave
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Undergrad Nonlinear spring made from many different linear springs in series?
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Undergrad Does anyone know the formula to find the angle after a collision?
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Undergrad Projectile Intercept Math & Trigonometry
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Undergrad Gravitational potential energy question - normal force on us
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Undergrad Looking to find the amount of energy stored in a clock spring
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High School Force equation: use mass or weight?
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High School Baseball Dad -- setting the speed of a pitching machine
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Graduate Variation of the Speed of Sound in metals under tension
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Undergrad "Air Pressure" is not "the weight of the air above you"
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Graduate Time Average Value of Pendulum String Tension
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