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Undergrad Maximizing Basketball Shooting Accuracy: Physics Considerations
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Undergrad How can I convert global rotation to local rotation for objects?
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Graduate Friction between a pre-tensed steel hoop and a cylinder
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Undergrad Rail-Guns: Recoil Comparisons and Momentum Questions
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Undergrad Why does an aluminum disc rotate in an induction meter?
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High School Understanding the concept of relative motion
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High School Can the shape and amount of water in a glass affect the sound it produces?
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High School Calculate KE of Projectile after Passing through Object.
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Undergrad How exactly does a mood ring work?
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High School Is There a Time Lag Between Force Application and Motion?
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Undergrad Can Kinetic Energy be Determined without Finding Velocity?
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Graduate Energy by Impluse Momentum Through a Gear Reducer
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Graduate Inertia: What it Means & Why It Matters
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Graduate Why is Flow Work defined as pV and not pdV?
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Undergrad Spectroscopy how does it work?
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High School Water desalition: Verify request to new Idea for desalination
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Undergrad The Science Behind the Impact of a Punch: Understanding Force and Velocity
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Undergrad Two objects, one accelerating downwards onto another
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Undergrad Is μN a fundamental law of nature or just an approximation for friction?
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Undergrad Re constant acceleration in space
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High School Friction & Wheels: An Overview
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Undergrad Force exerted: on a foot run over by a car VS a car staying on a foot for longer
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Undergrad Understanding the Physics of the Collapse of WTC Towers
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Undergrad Work during free expansion of a gas
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Graduate Can I get some physicists opinion on this experiment
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High School I can't quite understand the concept of force.Force = Mass *
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High School If a wire is stretched to double of its length.What will be the strain
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Graduate How to see this equality (Lagrangian mechanics)
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Undergrad Can Shorter Arms Provide a Mechanical Advantage in Weightlifting?
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Undergrad Vinyl records, RPMs, and velocity. How does it work?
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High School Can I Turn a Car Upside Down Wearing the Crysis 2 Suit?
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Graduate Do we know the position of the center of the Universe?
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Graduate Connection between the generators of the Galilean group and physical quantities
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Graduate Sports in Rotational Artificial Gravity
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High School The Mysterious Stabilization of a Spinning Top
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Solve Water Pipe Problem: Simple Picture Problem w/Friend
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Undergrad Question regarding water physics /
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Undergrad Calculate vehicle speed based on impact results?
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Graduate Plotting Height vs Time for an Object Under Air Resistance
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High School Bouncing ball and coeff. of restitution
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High School Question related to the pressure of water
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High School Need information regarding accelerometers
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Undergrad Curvature and its affect on strength
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Graduate Angular momentum extended body
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Undergrad Derivation: Simple Harmonic Motion
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Graduate Is frictionless vacuum possible?
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Undergrad How does centripetal force affects the path?
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Graduate Can a Claw Design Hold a Spinning Ball Against Centripetal Force?
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Graduate How can the velocity at points of change in pipe systems be determined?
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Undergrad What is the surface height of a still pond after an object is dropped in it?
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Graduate Large Water Body: Calculating Mass, Volume & Surface Tension
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Graduate Understanding Bernoulli Loss in Fluid Dynamics
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Undergrad How Much Force Does a Bullet Impart on Impact?
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Graduate Helmholtz resonator/Bernoulli's Principle
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High School Lab Question - Pulling wire under tension
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Undergrad What is the advective acceleration
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Undergrad Calculation of the moment of inertia
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Undergrad Archery trajectory computation
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Undergrad The property of spheres that gravity acts on the shape as one component?
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High School How far can a modern arrow penetrate through steel?
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Undergrad Does Pushing a Pram Burn More Calories Than Walking Alone?
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Undergrad Damped mass spring system with with external forcing function
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High School Slinky on an Escalator: Will it Move Forever?
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High School Drawing a Wheel Under Acceleration - RWD Car
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Graduate Computing parabolic orbital trajectory
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Graduate Whittaker 1904 paper on scalar potential functions
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Graduate How Does Friction Affect Acceleration in a Torsional Spring Cylinder System?
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Undergrad Compression and output velocity
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Undergrad Why is a Hydrogen bomb called a hydrogen bomb?
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Graduate How much energy do I use when swinging a sledge hammer?
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High School Sound waves to test for faults in girders
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High School Possible to break a glass if you emit a loud sound?
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Graduate Interpolation of pressure from one mesh to another mesh
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Graduate What Causes the Coriolis Effect When Throwing a Ball on a Merry-Go-Round?
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Undergrad Optimal Trajectory for a ball thrown WITH INITIAL HEIGHT
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Undergrad Help me rationalize conservation of energy
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Graduate Generalised energy and energy (lagrangian mechanics)
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Undergrad Why Does a Block Accelerate Even When Forces Are Equal?
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Undergrad Torque Calculation on a Spinning Wheel
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Undergrad Calculate Final Speeds Two Mass Spring System
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Graduate Understanding Precession, Nutation, and Spin in Rotating Objects
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Graduate Vapor pressure, its decrease and subsequent lowering of boiling point
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Graduate 2D construction made of square blocks. Breaking by gravity
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High School Projectile Motion comparing height and initial velocity
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Undergrad Trivia: Potential of the hydrogen atom
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Undergrad Force on a String: Understanding Constant Tension
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Undergrad How to calculate the torque from a free rotation object?
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Undergrad A Reverse Startup Oscillation?
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Graduate Algorithm for acceleration of projectile undergoing squared velocity drag?
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Graduate Why Do We Include Coriolis Acceleration in Motion Equations?
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Graduate Degrees of freedom an constraints
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Undergrad Projectile motion: solving for variable angle
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Undergrad Question regarding DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS
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Graduate Can nonholonomic constraints always be expressed as inequalities?
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Graduate What is the most general solution for a 2-DOF system?
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Undergrad The Hydrogen Atom Ground State: Radiation Emission
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Undergrad Simple rigid body collision reaction
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Undergrad A car dealerships garage door hit my wifes car.
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High School Vertical and horizontal motion
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Undergrad Column Pressure and conservation of energy
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