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High School Need help understanding tires and adhesion
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High School Aristotle's Theory of Motion: Natural & Violent
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High School Acellerating car vs constant speed car
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High School Weight of pulley with mass attached to it.
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High School Rolling Motion: With and Without Slipping
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High School Why Do We Slip on Ice? Explained | Kinetic & Static Friction
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High School Archimedes Principle: Weight of Immersed Object
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High School Simple Harmonic Motion: Finding Amplitude, Velocity, and Acceleration
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High School What are the rules for static and kinetic friction?
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High School Can Liquid Metals Defy Gravity and Form Perfect Spheres While Falling?
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High School Quick throwing and dropping ball Question
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High School How Would a Hollow Earth Structure Impact Gravity?
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High School Which Funnel Will Allow Water to Flow Faster?
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High School Deriving the gravitational constant factor for lbf
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High School Cooling Hot Water: Find a Solution in 10-15 mins
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High School What is the need for introducing the concept of G.P.E?
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High School How do you know if you need cos or sin?
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High School Trash Can Fire Tornado: Does It Really Happen?
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High School Why water looks transparent while spray looks white?
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High School In work W = F*D, what does D represent?
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High School Can force be applied in vacuum?
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High School Relate inclined plane's angle of incline to FBD's weight COM
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High School Are parallel vectors always in the same direction?
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High School Does Newton's 3rd Law Violate Itself When We Push an Object?
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High School Elastic Collision: Understanding the Role of Positive and Negative Signs
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High School Limiting Friction & Centripetal Force: Explained
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High School Can Objects Continue Traveling Forever in a Vacuum?
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High School Calculating the Effects of Velocity and Gravity on Orbital Motion
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High School So if we used the brake, the accleration would be?
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High School What Are Common Misconceptions About Newton's Laws of Motion?
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High School How come weight difference doesn't cause problems in trade?
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High School Why having a low center of mass guarantee stability?
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High School Is F = -mg a mistake in orbital mechanics?
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High School Do liquids absorb sound better than solids?
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High School Need help explaining river-boat problems
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High School Variation of the classic problem about the student and bus
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High School We dont know how a bicycle works Really?
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High School Bicycle Physics: Breaking the Math Barrier
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High School How to separate oxygen and hydrogen?
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High School Understanding the Horizontal Component of Normal Force in Banked Curves
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High School Discover the Fascinating Relationship Between Moon Gravity and Vacuum in Space
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High School What is the speed of sound from a fast-approaching train?
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High School Calculated G force and don't know what to do now (punch force)
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High School Why do diamonds lose their sparkle in water?
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High School How could a lever be used to lift the object
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High School Hot Air Balloon Descent: Does it Keep Accelerating Until Impact?
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High School A momentum question following collision
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High School Mass of Impact: Calculate Weight & Force
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High School I'm wondering about air travel and the rotation of the earth
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High School Definition of torque - What is r?
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High School Who Hits the Water First? Investigating Free Fall Bungee Jump Physics
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High School Why Does More Vapour Form When Taking a Bath in Colder Weather?
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High School Center of Gravity and Center of Pressure
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High School Why is the reaction force different when passing through different materials?
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High School Do I weigh 50 kg or 50 * 9.8 kg?
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High School How much weight am I lifting when I pick up one end of a canoe?
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High School The Addition of Two Vectors: A Visual Guide
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High School Action Reaction force on the earth
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High School Which thread breaks first when subjected to different forces?
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High School Having problem with centripetal and centrifugal force
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High School Confusion in Newton's 3rd law of motion
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High School Change in direction affecting velocity
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High School Can't get this tension derivation........
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High School Analysis Of Stilts Movement Research
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High School How a net force acts on 'Earth'?
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High School Why do waves form in a glass of water when hitting the table?
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High School Why Is It That An Apple Will Fall To The Earth?
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High School A 100 metre potato drop will it be unharmed (check)
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High School Gravitational attraction between two masses
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High School Ping-pong balls, Bernoulli, and water
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High School Is a Spaetzle Maker a Lever? The Science Behind Noodle Extrusion
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High School Does a force have to *cause* motion to do work?
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High School Why Do Objects Move? | Molecule Physics
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High School Acceleration for Position-time graphs
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High School How can kinetic friction force be constant if....?
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High School Understanding Momentum & Force: Self-Studying Physics Tips
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High School Difficulty in understanding graphs in kinematics
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High School Finding Horizontal Force in a Crank at 10N
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High School Finding range of a projectile from a graph
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High School Gravitational field strength calculation
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High School Momentum Conservation: Ball & Wall Impact
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High School Why atmospheric pressure does not crush us?
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High School How do forces propagate through the chain?
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High School What are the forces involved in the following case?
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High School How does rainwater compare to home water in terms of potential harm?
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High School Can Reversing an Airfoil on a Prop Plane Still Create Lift?
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High School How did Newton come up w/ 1st law? Why does friction exist?
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High School Calculating Stopping Force for an Object in Motion
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High School Explaining the Difference between Static & Dynamic Friction
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High School Understanding Work Done: A Bicycle Puncture Example
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High School A formula for conservation of energy
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High School Does more angular monentum mean faster spin?
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High School Could a person do this? -- Push a cruise ship by hand
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High School Stick-Slip with Chalk: Understanding the Physics
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High School Understanding Point Mass: An Example
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High School Upside down Cup with water to hold the plate
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High School Which material combination has the highest coefficient of kinetic friction?
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High School Non-dissipative losses in elastic collisions between rotating discs?
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High School Does the Soccer Ball Move If I Kick It with Equal Force?
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High School How constant acceleration affects the tripulation of a spaceship?
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