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Undergrad How Is Kinetic Energy Calculated and Converted into Electrical Energy?
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Undergrad Simulating Impacts of an Iron Man Suit: Free Program?
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Undergrad How Much Torque to Spin a Disk at 30,000 RPM?
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High School Find the Meaning of "Thrust" in Mechanics Questions
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High School Are Bullets Really Flying? The Science Behind Projectile Motion
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Undergrad Earth Rotation: Angular Momentum Conservation?
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High School At instances farmers have been injured when their tractors suddenly
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High School Space Experiment: Will Man Move When Weightless?
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High School Question regarding pulse waves
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Undergrad How does the addition of a weight change the speed of an air rising in water?
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Graduate Dot cancellation (holonomic constraints)
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Undergrad Gravity Problem: Equator vs Poles - What Happens?
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High School Brain Teaser: Gun Fired on Moving Train - What Happens?
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Undergrad Ideal Simple Machines: Input Work & Power Equal Outputs
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Undergrad Does Rope Position Affect Acceleration in Rotational Movement?
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Undergrad Carrier Swing & Deviation Ratio: Clarifying the Definitions
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Graduate Solve Spivak's Rocket in Empty Space
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Graduate Variable-Mass Systems: Newton's 2nd Law
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Undergrad Does a Bicycle Require Less Torque to Maintain Speed Than to Start Moving?
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Undergrad Physics books for (elasticity - hydraustatics)
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Undergrad Work in a PV Curve: Is the Work Done 0?
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Undergrad Flame in a centrifuge will go oblique?
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Graduate Object moving radially outward on Rotating Flywheel
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Undergrad Questions on the kinetic molecular theory of gases
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If this is not a Bernoulli spiral, what is it then?
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High School Finding the Center of Mass for a Group of Masses
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Undergrad Expression for time period of simple pendulum
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Undergrad Position in Motion: When to Use Cos & Sin in x=A*sin(wt+phi) or x=A*cos(wt+phi)?
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Undergrad Solving the Falling Pencil: How Small is the Degree Difference?
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High School Understanding Rest, Stillness, Stationarity, Motion, Movement, and Travel
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Undergrad How to find centre of gravity for a hemisphere shell?
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Graduate Oblique collisions between non-sliding surfaces
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High School Friction & Rolling: Flat Surface, Constant Speed
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Undergrad What is the difference between Langrangian, Hamiltonian and Newtonian Mechanics?
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High School Solving Speed, Road and Time Equations
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Graduate Cassini ovals being the equipotential lines?
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Undergrad Momentum & Impulse: Throwing a Ball at the Wall
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Undergrad Calculating Power from Acceleration
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Graduate Non-inertial Frames - Newton's Laws of Motion
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Undergrad How does accelerating an object affect the force of friction?
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High School What can I do with a CENCO High Pressure Mercury Arc Lamp ?
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Undergrad Coriolis acceleration right hand rule? ?
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Undergrad Only rotating bodies have angular momentum
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Undergrad Difference Between Inertial & Non-Inertial Frames | Practice Numericals
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Undergrad What a firecracker would do to a glass cub of water.
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Undergrad Tension Distribution/ hooks law
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Graduate Motorcycle tire circumference change with lean angle and acceleration
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High School Are only vectors capable of being negative in physics?
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Undergrad Calculating sling projectile speed from video.
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Undergrad Centripetal force discussion question (Washing machine).
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Undergrad Ballance egg on end on winter solstice
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Graduate Newton's laws and Uniqueness of Motion
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High School How Do Satellites Stay in Orbit with Centripetal and Gravitational Forces?
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Undergrad Why Is Using a Cold Water Pipe with Running Water as a Ground More Effective?
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Graduate Proof that a negative mass causes superluminal speeds?
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High School How does an object float on water?
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Graduate Paradox of Bernoulli's Theorem and Moving Frames
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Undergrad Intuitive explanation of the acceleration vector
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Undergrad Calculate velocity components x,y and z
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Undergrad Solving the Yo-Yo Problem: Force, Acceleration, and Confusion
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Undergrad Determining the 'Instantaneous Force' during impact
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High School Mechanical Energy in Bomb Blasts: Is it Conserved?
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High School Understanding Torque: The Basics and How It Relates to Rotational Force
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Undergrad Fire projectile to hit a moving object
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Undergrad Energy change and work involved in lifting a ball
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Undergrad Conservative Forces: Friction a Non-Conservative Force?
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Graduate [ Spring pendulum ] Centrifugal Force transmissibility
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High School Tension at two points on a string? (Tension in general)
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Undergrad Why elementary work is not an exact differential?
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Graduate Understanding Impulse and Energy Transfer in Elastic Collisions
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Graduate Rotating half cylinder energy and power calculation
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Undergrad Surface tension mathematical formula.
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Graduate New Video on One trillion frames per second camera
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Graduate Rotating fluid, curl and suspended object rotation
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Undergrad Basic question about basic concept: proportionality
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Graduate How do I measure chemical potential of a gas?
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Undergrad Force equilibrium of a thick-walled pipe
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High School Does Changing the Idler Diameter Affect Record Player Speed?
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Graduate Proof like Shell theorem for non-spherical objects?
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Graduate Consider the equilibrium situation on the picture attached. The wire
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High School Draw displacement time graph from velocity time graph
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Undergrad How would a person do against 12,000 N?
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High School Free falling object and tension on rope
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Undergrad A question about the speed of EM and mechanical waves
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Undergrad Judging force and pressure before a practical
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Undergrad T-Rex Speed: Analyzing the Effects of Gravity
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Graduate How Does Stick Length Placement Affect Projectile Motion in Tipcat Experiments?
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Undergrad How can I make a stone jump out of water?
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Undergrad Calculating Rotational Speed Change When Adding Mass to a Rotating Object"
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Graduate Revisiting Ballistic Motion in the Presence of Air Resistance and Fluid Dynamics
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Undergrad Center of mass and planetary motion
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Graduate Understanding Energy & Momentum in Motion
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Undergrad Horizontal acceleration of a person
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Graduate Can a Homemade Particle Accelerator be Built Safely and Effectively?
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Graduate I was thinking about a rod colliding with an external wall, if you
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Undergrad Fluids Mechanics, finding height in the piezometric tube
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Undergrad Using Special Case of Elastic Collisions in one dimension
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Undergrad Solving Tension in Hanging Sign: 117 N or Wrong?
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Graduate How Do Jumps and Discontinuities in Functions Affect Real-World Motion?
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High School Exploring the Speed of Sound: Explosive Examples and Visual Demonstrations
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