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Graduate Particle Accelerators and Angular momentum (Crazy question)
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Undergrad How Aeroplanes Fly: Deriving Equation For Lift Force
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High School 'speed' of sound vs. 'feel' of sound? (e.g. subwoofer, tree falling, etc.)
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Graduate The choice of origin in solving the two body problem
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High School When ice melts in a full glass of water, will the water overflow
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High School Understanding Action & Reaction Forces
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High School Explanation of how the ride uses forces and motion.
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High School What are some examples of Newton's third (3rd) law?
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High School If a spinning top is is spinning in place is the spinning top moving?
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High School Riding a bicycle-What happens when u pedal?
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Undergrad Why the water in the center of a spinning bucket rises
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High School Why does the moon orbit the Earth, and not the other way around?
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Undergrad How Does Gravity Work on Halo's Ringworld?
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High School How Do Roller Coasters Use Forces and Motion?
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High School How do you go from a position vs. time graph to a velocity vs. time graph?
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Undergrad Calculating Buoyancy of Oil in Water
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Undergrad How can you find height in bernouli equation?
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Undergrad Wind Force Equal: Explaining the Answer to Why C?
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Graduate Designing an Airtrack for Mechanical Experiments: How to Get Started
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Undergrad How fast can a human safley accelerate?
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Undergrad Understanding How Airfoil Shape Affects Airflow and Lift in Plane Flight
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Graduate Wind load needed to topple a storm shelter
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High School Energy and bringing an ibject up an incline
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Undergrad How does traction compare to the width of a tire?
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Undergrad Torque on a square screw full with water
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Undergrad How Does Archimedes' Paradox Explain Buoyancy in Immiscible Liquids?
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Undergrad Using Sound to Read Discs, instead of EMRs.
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Undergrad Projectile at an angle (sum of vectors)
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Undergrad Will an increasingly narrow pipe create pressure?
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Undergrad Hooke's Law should be exponential.
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High School What does the scale reading represent?
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High School Mechanical Advantage Question - Ropes
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High School Archimedes Principle: B = δVg + T
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Undergrad Effect of pressure on Melting point
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Undergrad Gravitational Potential Energy: Feynman's "3 Balls" Example
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Undergrad Conservation of momentum and energy contradiction?
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High School Work & Zero Work in High School Physics Course
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Undergrad Acceleration and for direction
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Undergrad Misc Questions: Virtual work, RMS, Friction on incline, and Virtual Displacement
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Undergrad Mass Moment of inertia of a cylinder with 4 holes
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High School Confused about the pressure formula
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High School History of Uniform Circular Motion
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Undergrad Conservation of Linear Momentum and Inelastic Collisons
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Undergrad Finding a Solution to Obtain a Foam Ball with Restrictions
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Undergrad Bucket of water being swung in a circle.
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Undergrad Ind the distance traveled by the ball
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Undergrad Problem understanding angular momentum and Newton 2nd law
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High School Throwing a ping pong ball into a cup
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Undergrad Gravity and Uniformed Circular motion
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High School Understanding Energy and Work Done
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Graduate Energy when Force is perpendiclar to direction of movement
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Undergrad Is PUSHING a wagon mechanical advantage?
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Undergrad Calculate Balloon Volume from Helium Mass: 199 kg
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Undergrad Solving Discrepancy in Course: Free Body Diagrams and Tension
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Undergrad What is the actual 'mechanism' of friction
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Undergrad Example question on pressure of liquids
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High School Does the buoyant force change in different fluids?
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Undergrad Question on calculating the pressure outside lungs of diver
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Graduate Is there a Conceptual problem here? (Pressure in the Kinetic theory of gases)
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High School Can a Balloon be Filled with Vacuum in a Vacuum?
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Undergrad Negative distance? Can it be real?
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Undergrad Question about momentum transfer
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Undergrad Solving Truss Problems: Need Help!
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Undergrad Is the Inductance of an Ideal Transformer Infinite?
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Undergrad Kinetic particle theory's gas pressure
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Graduate Strange behaviour of viscoelastic materials
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Undergrad How does an object maintain circular motion at constant speed without spiralling
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Graduate Questions about the formula P = rho*g*h
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Graduate Path of a car accelerating around a corner
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Undergrad How Do You Convert Cylinder Pressure into Piston Force?
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Undergrad Help find the force of compression
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Undergrad Oscillation of Half-Full Water Bottle - Explained
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Undergrad Fluid statics with Pascal's barrel
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Undergrad Direction of rotation, brushless or brushed DC motor
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High School Kinetic/potential energies for a ball thrown down
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High School Understanding Acceleration in a Ball Thrown Upward
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Graduate Does the inertia of either a Bose-Einstein or Fermi-Dirac condensate
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Graduate What Are the Last Four Jumps in Hydrogen's Spectral Lines?
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Graduate Angular Momentum of a body after it loses mass
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Undergrad Pulley-to-Shaft-to-Pulley Calculation?
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Undergrad HELP Calculating forces in truss/bridge
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Undergrad Power needed for turbines and pumps
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Undergrad Moving objects vertically with horizontal pressure
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Graduate Does Galileo's Challenge Hold Up with Modern Physics Insights?
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Graduate Navier-Stokes equations for unique flow through a rectangular diverging pipe
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High School Mastering Circular Motion Analysis: Tips and Examples | Motion Project Report
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Undergrad Projectile Motion: finding velocity if given range, angle, and height.
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Undergrad What are the effects of different tensions in a rope?
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High School What equation to use for simple kinetics quesitons?
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High School Does water displacement theory apply to other liquids?
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High School How Is Displacement Derived from Velocity-Time Graphs?
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High School Difference between force and energy.
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Undergrad Impact force of an object dropped on a steel toed shoe
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High School Why displacement equals (average a) x (t)
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Graduate EM Group velocity & phase velocity in dispersive medium
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Undergrad Online Website suggestions - First Year Uni Student NEED HELP
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Graduate Why doesnt net torque cause angular velocity to increase upto infinity?
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High School Work Origins: Searching for the Proof Behind the Equation
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