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High School Spring Permanent After Cutting: What Happens?
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Graduate WHat is more fundamental - conservation of momentum or conservation of energy?
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High School Why is there no SI unit for sound?
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Undergrad Water vortex to eliminate rust in well water
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Undergrad Moment of inertia about different axes
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Undergrad Force on rope during a rope swing
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High School Understanding Momentum: Definition, Intuition, and Properties
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Graduate Troubleshooting Tube Bending Natural Frequency Equation
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Undergrad Help with a project - Air speed, compressed?
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Graduate Pressure Increase with Diameter Decrease?
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Undergrad Force components between two bodies
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Undergrad What is the significance of g_c in different unit systems?
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Undergrad Too early to learn Lagrangians as a first year?
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Undergrad Force resulting from a pressurized departing gas
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Graduate Collision of two particles, momentum and velocity
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Undergrad Tangential and radial accelereations of a flywheel
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Graduate Pressure Amplitude and Decreasing Intensity
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Graduate Why Do Internal Tension Forces Cancel Out in Rotational Mechanics Problems?
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Undergrad Want to find out the mass movement capability of my motor
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Undergrad Calculate work =variable force & variable distance
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Undergrad Designing a resonance tube with a defined ambient wind speed
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Graduate Overshooting in a critically damped oscillator
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High School Immediate Acceleration Possible?
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High School What is the approximate weight of a 20.kg rock
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Graduate Why do we treat velocity and position as independent in a lagrangian
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High School Moment of Inertia Explained: Definition & Examples
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Undergrad Did too much pressure cause slicing?
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Graduate Why use normal coordinates and what is the benefit?
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Undergrad Questions on Buoyancy: Learn About Forces & Fluids
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Graduate Continuum hypothesis of fluid mechanics (& relativistic fluids)
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Undergrad What software was used to plot this diagram of morse potential
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High School Max weight that anyone can lift using over head pulley.
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High School How can I easily derive the kinematic equations for constant acceleration?
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Graduate Uncovering the Overshadowed Contributions of Newton to Fluid Mechanics
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Undergrad The period of water oscillating in a U-tube
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Graduate Is the surface tension of a liquid droplet stable?
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Undergrad Solitary Waves - Velocity vs wave height
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Undergrad Understanding Momentum Conservation in Isolated Systems
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Graduate Reference frame for harmonic motion.
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Undergrad Understanding Simple Harmonic Motion and its Equations | Physics Explained
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Undergrad Can I Use Calculus to Explore the Results of My Bouncing Ball Experiment?
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High School Creating Vacuums: Moving Through Any Space?
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Undergrad TORQUE calculations for Brushless dc motor.
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Undergrad Vierd doubt about object collisions
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High School How does Archimedes' Principle work?
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Undergrad Linear acceleration on a rotating body
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Undergrad Why can't i apply the simple average velocity formula?
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Graduate Will a iron-projectile fired into a barrel-mounted Gauss-coil gain speed?
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Undergrad State of matter: Potential Energy - seperation graph
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Undergrad How much force a person must exert to escape the center of the earth?
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Undergrad Does the color of a hot body depend on its composition ?
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Undergrad Doubts about Gravitation and Force
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High School Simple question about choosing coordinates
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Undergrad Linear Impulse & Momentum - Distinguishing Impulsive & Non-Impulsive Forces
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Graduate A revolving tetherball vs. a spinning top
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Undergrad Practical Applications of Angular Momentum in Systems
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Undergrad Clarification on the (+,-) of gravitational value along it's Y axis
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Undergrad Understanding Buoyancy & Its Causes
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High School Can someone explain the following terms such as inertia momentum
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Undergrad Is the Acceleration of a Pendulum Zero at its Equilibrium Point in SHM?
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Undergrad Why Do We Divide Change in Volume by Original Volume in Bulk Modulus Formula?
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Graduate How Fast Do Electrons Drift in a Silicon Resistor?
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Graduate Calculating Gravity Inside Complex Spherical Bodies
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High School What is the maximum altitude for an industrial grade weather balloon?
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Graduate Understanding Fluid Dynamics: Free Surface of Liquid and Uniform Acceleration
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Undergrad Bullet Acceleration in Vacuum: Why Does It Stop After Exit?
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Graduate How to build a medium power cyclotron
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Undergrad Campbell diagram and is its applicaion
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Undergrad Motor Principle - Direction of Rotation
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High School Can a Single Force Maintain Equilibrium?
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Undergrad Unequal force at uneven attachment heights?
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Graduate Complex network theory to study ocean flows?
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High School Force over a frictionless Surface
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Undergrad How much liquid water can be produced through condensation in one day
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High School Difference Between Harmonic & Nonharmonic Motion: Explained
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Undergrad Satellite Explosion: Debris Travel & Causes of Slowing Down
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Undergrad Bicycle Wheel Platform Without using Angular Momentum?
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High School Sign convention for work of a gas
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Undergrad Caster Angles in Shopping Carts: How to Control Wheel Paths
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High School How does a stop-start-stop car conserve momentum?
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Graduate Trying to determine the Safe properties of Face Guards
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Graduate Solving Pendulum Equation of Motion in Cylindrical Co-ords
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Graduate Bead on the uniformly rotating wire
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Undergrad Can torque be fully understood through classical mechanics alone?
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Undergrad Why is the distance squared in Newton's and Coulomb's inverse square laws?
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High School Torque is defined about a point?
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Undergrad Orbital mechanics: Accelrating takes you into a slower orbit?
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Undergrad Calculate water pressure in tube end when tube is compressed
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Undergrad Does a barrel explode if it's filled with water?
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Graduate How would one lose angular momentum in a vacuum?
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Graduate Struggling with the Boltzmann Collision Term?
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Graduate Calculating Gyroscope Torque for Stabilization Design
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Undergrad Building a flat rectangular vacuum chamber
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Three Car Accident, Domino Effect
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Undergrad Radial and Tangential Acceleration
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Undergrad Acceleration due to centripetal acceleration
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Undergrad Ridiculous British moonshot question
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Undergrad Terminal Velocity: The Energy Exchange with Surroundings
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Undergrad 'Slackline' equipment load formula (weighted line between 2 fixed points)
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Graduate The meaning of floating potential
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