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Undergrad Centripetal and Centrifugal force
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High School Is Constant Velocity Assumed in Work-Energy Problems?
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High School F=ma, no acceleration with constant velocity?
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Undergrad Physics l help due today dont kno how to do it speeds
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Undergrad How to Find Final Velocities in an Elastic Collision?
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Undergrad Assistance in Free Body Diagram Question
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Undergrad Comparing pressure of air in a tire installed in a car & a free tire
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Undergrad What Are the Forces Acting on a Gyroscope and How Can They Be Calculated?
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Undergrad Gyroscope coupling force force question
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Undergrad Is 3500 lb/in Referring to Force per Inch of Width?
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Undergrad What Is the Maximum Speed a Car Can Travel Without Skidding on a Circular Track?
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Undergrad Is the ADA's Sample Physics Problem Incorrect?
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Graduate Pendulum with its pivot accelerating upward
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Undergrad Keeping output air pressure constant.
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Graduate a man is broken, a horse splashes.
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Undergrad What Provides the Centripetal Force for Circular Motion?
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High School Direction of frictional force acting on car
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Undergrad Work - Kinetic energy theorem Need more fundamental understanding
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Undergrad Solving Hydraulic Systems with Pascal's Law - Joshua
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Graduate The response of a mass suspended between two poles to an angle of heel
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Undergrad Is force times acceleration equal to power?
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I found this site because i have some ideasabout springs.
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Undergrad Calculating Coefficient of Drag: Pressure & Friction Drag
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Undergrad Derivation of sagging expression
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Undergrad Stuck between two large masses - does it get pulled apart?
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High School Finding Average Velocity of Entire Trip
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Undergrad Some doubts regarding rotational dynamics
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Undergrad Angle for SHM(Simple pendulum)
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Undergrad The Concept of Pressure in Bernoulli’s principle
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Undergrad Is the Radial/Transverse coordinate system a non-inertial reference frame ?
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High School Ideas for physics car design project?
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Undergrad Curious about something very very cool
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Undergrad Why Is Potential Higher at the Positive End of a Conducting Rod?
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Undergrad Venturi Principle: Is p1=p3 and v1=v3?
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Undergrad Why do SUVs see fewer MPG on the Highway?
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Graduate Calculating average power of a set of data
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High School Cracking an Egg: The 9.81N Mystery
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Graduate Compressed Air - Bernoulli Equation
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Graduate Explicit time-dependent potential
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Undergrad Differing Mass, Same Size, In Atmosphere- gravitational acceleration
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Undergrad Why Does the Mass on a Spring Homework Yield Contradicting Equations?
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High School Why is it that object of more mass attains less velocity
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Undergrad Question about conservation of momentum
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Undergrad Conservation of Angular Momentum and Energy?
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Undergrad Will this stick spin if it has no pivot?
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Undergrad Why do objects follow different trajectories in freefall and orbit?
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High School Is tension really just a matter of perspective?
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Undergrad Conceptual derivation of (classical mechanical) energy?
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Undergrad Depth of Water and Energy Required to Boil
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Graduate Capillary Tube Rise: Does Water Reach Max Height & Stop?
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Graduate Does conservation of energy for unsteady ideal fluid hold?
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Undergrad Quick P. Energy Derivation Question
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How Fast Was the Car Going When It Hit My Dog?
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High School Does an object stop when reversing direction?
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High School Newton's Weight on Earth: Reason Explained
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Undergrad What Are the Best Approximations for Small Oscillations in Classical Mechanics?
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Undergrad Basic Statics - A weird outcome. Contradictory?
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Undergrad Tension force at molecular level
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Undergrad Why Use Impulse in Experiments?
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Undergrad Change in pressure and Internal Energy
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Undergrad Why are liquid surfaces at constant pressure?
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Undergrad Shooting accuracy on a moving target
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High School Physics of Automobile Drifting Question?
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Undergrad Will a falling object minimize air drag?
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Undergrad Controlling helium balloon attitude
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Undergrad Water Rise in Cappilary Tube - Where does the energy come from?
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Graduate Working w/ Complex representation E-field
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Undergrad Sign Convention for Spring and Pendulum Equations of Motion
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High School Work Force x Displacement: What Counts?
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Undergrad Range of Water Flow with 2bar and 45° Angle
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High School Change volume and pressure of a given amount of liquid?
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High School Average Velocity vs Instaneous Velocity
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Undergrad Rotation of a sphere and cube full with water
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Undergrad Lifting/breaking an object with circular motion
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High School We wouldn't exist without hydrogen. Right?
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Undergrad Calculating Gravitational Field Strength of Elliptical Mass Distribution
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Graduate Ideal Gas Law/Estimate of Cooling Power
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Undergrad Weight of the support of a pendulum with initial speed
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Undergrad Impressive harmonic motion demonstration
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Undergrad Rotational Mass and Energy Required
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Undergrad How do you derive the results, a=dv/da
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Graduate Particle Accelerators effects on Earth
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Undergrad Velocity from acceleration if acceleration is a function of space
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Graduate Equation of motion from matrix
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Undergrad Why is there an induced current in a dc motor?
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Undergrad Calculating Velocity After Impact: What Went Wrong?
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High School Minimum Speed for the Water to not spill
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Undergrad Regarding action reaction forces
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Graduate Central Forces and Angular Momentum
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High School Speed and relative damage in car crash
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Undergrad Coefficient of 'Kinetic' Rolling Friction(?)
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Graduate Will nuking jupiter start a helium/hydrogen fusion reaction?
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Graduate What makes some forces unnoticeable?
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High School Acceleration, and displacement
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Undergrad How to measure and calculate drift of falling object in air
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Undergrad Harmonic Oscillator (not sure where to post)
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Undergrad Inclined Plane Friction: Independent of Mass?
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High School Is Filling 4 Tube Steel with Concrete a Stronger Option for Sail Shade Supports?
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High School Why stream of water sent in upward direction spread like fountain?
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High School Density question - can a heavy object float in water ?
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