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Undergrad Possible title: How Does Water Affect the Force on a Metal Cube in a Vessel?
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Undergrad Explanation of Mpemba effect for freezing of water
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Graduate Rotational Motion & Conservation of Angular Momentum
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High School Can a Force on the Top of a Canister Move the Bracket Inside?
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Graduate How can we prove that Conservation of Momentum exists in Photoeectric Effect
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High School Using a pendulum to find the distance to the sun
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Graduate Three Masses - pulley, rotational and translational forces
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Undergrad Air Bubble in Water: Converging or Diverging Lens?
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Undergrad Okay have learnt alot about torque in general by getting help here, so
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Graduate A book pressed against a wall, thought analysis.
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Undergrad Are You Confused About Work-Energy vs. Impulse-Momentum?
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Undergrad Terminal velocity in a vacuum.
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Undergrad How does an antenna receive and transmit radio waves?
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High School Acceleration and coefficients of friction
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Undergrad Calculating Water Height for Pipeline from Tank A to B
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Undergrad As a gyroscope precesses, its center off mass moves in a circle
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Graduate Calculate Water Pressure & Design Energy Dissipator
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Undergrad Rotational Motion: A=rω, Tangential/Centripetal Acceleration
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Undergrad What is the relationship between kinetic theory and the gas laws?
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Graduate Describing quantities independently from frames in Newtonian mechanics
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High School Problem on momentum, finding mass, in order to find the velocity.
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Undergrad Determining the clamping force on a Tube
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High School How to Find Δh for Gravitational Potential Energy Using Trigonometry?
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Graduate Shoot a bullet at a half-infinite isotropic elastic solid.
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Undergrad Work, Energy & Friction: How Do They Fit?
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Graduate Moment of inertia in n dimensions.
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Undergrad Falling into a Volcano: Fact or Fiction? The Truth Behind the Myth
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High School If vector A=10i+49j, and vector B=vector A/2, then does vector
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Undergrad Mystery of Rotation of a Mass Hanging From a Car's Ceiling
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Undergrad What restricts the water flow?
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Undergrad Resulting directions and velocities of two circles colliding
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Undergrad Hypothetical question concerning vectors of steering?
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Undergrad When you can't use conservation of energy
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Undergrad Why do meteors burn up in our atmosphere / why are they moving so fast?
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Undergrad How Does Temperature Affect the Bounce of Squash Balls?
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Undergrad How do I determine Force or time from an impact?
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Undergrad Experiment with angular acceleration
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Graduate Vibration analysis of a structure with cyclic symmetry
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Undergrad Centrifugal force, fictitious?
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Undergrad Average velocity is measured through distance
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Undergrad Why a greater torque causes an object to rotate
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Undergrad Why Do Negative Signs Appear in SHM Equations?
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Undergrad Difference between different kinds of motions of a rigid body
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Undergrad Dc motor load increase as rpm increases?
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High School Why does the front end of the car lift up when accelerating forward?
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Undergrad Max Inclination for Segway: Calculating Force Push and Force Down
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Undergrad Vertical mass-spring system - force or energy?
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Undergrad Basic question regarding gravitation
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Undergrad Force from fluctuations in atmospheric pressure
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Undergrad Distribution of surface materials and friction
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Undergrad A centrifugal pump at the source tank sends fluid 200m
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High School Why Does a Hard Boiled Egg Spin and Raw Egg Won't?
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Undergrad Rotational motion of a solid sphere of mass
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High School How to calculate displacement from distance?
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Undergrad Classical example of conservation of angular momentum
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Undergrad What is the best way to incorporate physics into a tetherball game?
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Undergrad Plastic Bottle and Aluminum can crusher
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High School Understanding Escape Velocity: What Exactly is It?
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High School Creating a Partial Vacuum with Water and Air
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High School Origin of RMS Speed: Unveiling the Story
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Undergrad Pascal's Law - Weight of Water Involvement
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Undergrad Creating a Plinko Launcher for My Board: Ensuring the Puck Makes it Up
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Undergrad I don't understand Bernoulli's principle applications
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High School How fast would an object have to be moving to
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Graduate What is the reference frame the earth rotates relative to?
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Undergrad Impending Friction vs nonimpending?
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High School How Can You Determine the Mass of a Car Using Basic Physics Principles?
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Undergrad Transfer of kinetic energy from a larger mass to a smaller mass
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Graduate How Do You Calculate Acceleration at Different Points on a Helicopter Rotor?
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Undergrad Confusing case of work done by friction
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High School ZIPLINE PROJECT, make object travel 7.4 meters and back on a horizontal zipline
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Undergrad Force of an Object in Free Fall: Mass x Gravity
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Undergrad Simpler equation for perfectly elastic collisions.
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Undergrad Force vs. Displacement graph question
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Undergrad Why Do Water Waves Behave Mathematically as They Do?
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Graduate Active versus passive mass in classical mechanics
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Graduate Interpretation of the distribution of brownian motion
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Undergrad Mass of object in Escape velocity
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High School Tension same at both ends of the string?
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Graduate Parabolic path at constant speed
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High School Why Does Density Matter for Buoyant Force?
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High School How Are Simple Harmonics Related to Circular Motion?
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Graduate Guyan reduction for dynamic analysis
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Undergrad Spring oscillations determining period of motion
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Undergrad Solving Simple Harmonic Motion Question
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Undergrad Confusion: Van de Graaff generator
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Undergrad Problems with the Force equation
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Undergrad Rolling without slipping and torque
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Undergrad Air pressure calculation at an arbitrary point within a sphere
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Undergrad Time for liquid ejecting from a hole in tank to reach ground
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Undergrad Energy need to Accelerate 4300 lbs from 55 mph to 84mph within a quarter mile?
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Undergrad Another treadmill thread: is everybody wrong?
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Graduate Why is turbulence the most important unsolved problem of classical physics?
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Undergrad Translational equillibrium calculation when forces acting not at COG
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Undergrad Derive that the lagrangian in classical phyics is L=T-V
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Undergrad Relation between angular and linear velocity
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Undergrad Pressure of Liquid in Slanted Container at Depth
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Undergrad Why is the Acceleration vector perpendicular to the tangent ?
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Undergrad How Does Centripetal Force Relate to Planetary Motion?
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Conservation of energy in a system
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