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Undergrad Water in a spinning bucket: a better explanation
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Graduate Derivation of equation for catenary
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Graduate Solving Fluid Dynamics Problem: Granite Floating in Mercury & Water
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Undergrad Is the Center of Mass an Abstraction?
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Undergrad Releasing mechanical energy over time
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Undergrad Driving Round Bends: Why Do We Take the Inside Line?
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Graduate Ultrasound velocities in h20/propylene glycol mixtures
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High School Brain teaser on inception pressure cookers
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Graduate Pressure field of an irrotational vortex
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Undergrad What happens to wavelength of sound in liquid?
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High School Vectors: Reminder of Bare Basics & Vector Forces
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Graduate Determinism of classical mechanics
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Undergrad Constructing a DC motor driver
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Undergrad Tennis Court Speed Measurement
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Undergrad How Do I Calculate the G Forces of a Car on an Elliptical Path?
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High School Why is Work Defined as Force Times Displacement?
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High School Need a certain pulse-on-string simulator And an oscilloscope too
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Undergrad Difference between emf and potential difference
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Graduate How Does Shell Theorem Apply to Asymmetrical and Perforated Shells?
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Undergrad Center of gravity in wrong place?
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Undergrad What Does the Vector Diagram of a Turning Vehicle Look Like?
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Undergrad Rate of effusion dependance on pressure
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Undergrad How fast, on average, does the gas come out of a rocket's nozzle?
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Undergrad Compressible vs. Incompressible Flow Equations
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Graduate How does dynamic pressure affect static pressure?
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High School Projectile Mechanics: 3-D List for Researching
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Undergrad Conservation of momentum/energy
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Undergrad Projectile Arrow Angle Transformation Equation
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Undergrad Gravity Basics: Negative Signs & Direction
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Undergrad Help needed, converting weight to a falling force.
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Undergrad Underwater projectile affected by Coriolis Effect
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High School What makes two sounds similar?
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Graduate Classical Mechanics - Box sliding down a slope
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Undergrad Fluid mechanics, why does the air flow faster over the wing?
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Undergrad Weightlessness in a common swing
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High School Does pressure affect the weight of water?
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Undergrad Simple Torque from Gravity Problem
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High School Understanding the Relationship Between Force, Acceleration, and Momentum
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Undergrad Weight required to balance a boom stand?
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Undergrad Simple (?) question: Effect of mass when placing vs dropping object on spring
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Graduate Trajectory Path from 2 Distance Sensors
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Graduate Computational and Experimental Work
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Undergrad Pascals principle and hydraulic lift
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Undergrad Can conversion of medium occur in sound?
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High School Understanding Newton's Second Law: How kgm/s2 Relates to Force
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High School Mechanical waves compressions and rarefactions
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High School Simple Harmonic Motion: What is Phase Constant?
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Graduate Are Principal Strains Always Tensile/Compressive or Can They Be Shear?
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High School What is significance of torque
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Graduate Could you help to calculate precession analytically?
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Undergrad Does Gravity Between Two Equal Mass Objects Cancel Out?
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High School How to calculate theoretical initial velocity?
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Undergrad Questions about Galileo statement?
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Undergrad Conceptual issue with rolling sphere and friction.
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Undergrad Wind Turbine Power: Calculating Max Output
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Undergrad Rotational kinetic energy explaination
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Graduate Problems with Inertial Reference Frames
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Undergrad Two boxes with same initial velocity on a 2d track but one is at top of a hill
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Undergrad Calculating Load Applied to Anchors Holding a Car in River
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Undergrad How Much Impulse Is Needed to Stop a Baseball with Unrealistic Momentum?
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High School Converting unidirectional linear motion into rotary motion?
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High School Gravity and Weight: Newton's Second Law
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Undergrad Conservation of Linear Momentum+ Elastic and Inelastic collision
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High School Difference between volume displaced fluid and volume of the object
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High School Help my dad and I settle a argument
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Undergrad 2 springs attached by a rigid massless bar
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Undergrad Calculating Force of Two Objects Colliding at 17 mph
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Undergrad Integrating a squared velocity
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High School What Is the Drag Coefficient of a Missile Compared to a Torpedo?
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Undergrad How Does Calculus Resolve Zeno's Paradox of Motion?
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High School What is the difference between potential difference and potential?
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High School Why Is Normal Force Less Than mg at the Top of a Hill?
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Undergrad Upward speed of an object in water
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Undergrad Seeing the Unseen: Can You View Objects at Light Speed?
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Graduate Why speed of the molecules is bigger the less they weigh?
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High School Using Sound for Estimations: Calculating Time and Distance in Relation to Sound
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Undergrad Kinetic energy and crumple zones
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Undergrad How can I incorporate wind into a basic projectile simulation?
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Undergrad The acceleration of an Elephant and a Paper Clip
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Undergrad Cooling 27L of Water from 100°C to 20°C in 5 Minutes
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Undergrad Physics of Cars: Steering, Oversteer, Understeer, & Braking
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Undergrad Need Help with a Formula to convert Change in RPM to torque applied
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Undergrad Kepler's Law vs Newton's Amendment
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Undergrad Calculating pressure on a surface after reaching final velocity
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Undergrad Friction and forces in rollers
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Graduate A point mass inside a spherical shell
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Graduate How Do You Derive the Equation of Motion for an Inverted Pendulum with Springs?
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High School Question about calculating work done
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Graduate Calculating Work with Pressure in a System
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Undergrad Sound and air movement: do they affect each other?
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High School Does Water Reduce the Impact and Heat of Collisions Compared to Air?
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Undergrad Pressure in Fluids: What's Really Going On?
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Undergrad Why amplitude doesn't affect speed of sound?
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Undergrad Normal force on top of a loop?
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Undergrad Solving Torque in Stretcher/Paramedic Problem-Unsure About Fulcrum
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Undergrad Velocities seen from the center of mass
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Undergrad Vapor Pressure: What Affects Gasoline Evaporation?
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Graduate X-t plot of underdamped motion
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Undergrad F=ma applied to slider crank piston motion
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