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Graduate Bead sliding on a uniformly rotating wire
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Graduate Finite bending of an elastic block - Equilibrium equations
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High School Gravitational potential energy question -- Ojbect sitting on the Earth
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Graduate Extension of an elastic block of Neo-Hookean material
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Graduate Proving Energy Conservation in a Gravitational System with Multiple Bodies
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High School Why do we add Kinetic and Potential energy?
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Graduate Orbital mechanics: is ballistic capture possible without acceleration?
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Undergrad Accelerometer on a dropped object
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Graduate Equations of motion of damped oscillations due to kinetic friction
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Undergrad Time Reversal Breaking in Classical Systems
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Graduate Problem: Estimating pressure of compressive garment
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Graduate Hydrostatic Pressure in Freefalling Water Tank: Comparing Point A and B
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Undergrad Learning DEs: Solving 2nd Order Differential Equations
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High School Mechanical Advantage of a pulley with horizontal effort
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Question about Plasma Ball (can I leave it running all night?)
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Graduate Rack of blocks held horizontally under pressure
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Graduate What speed v(t) enables constant power by solenoid pull?
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Graduate Reference frame in collision problems
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Graduate Observation about the rotation of a disc
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Graduate Why is "dr" not used for moment of inertia calculations?
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Graduate 4 Pole Induction Motor Working Principle
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Graduate What speed v(t) enables constant power by release compressed spring?
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High School The sound that rushing water makes
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High School Myth: When you toss something, air aside, it follows a parabolic path
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Undergrad Kinetic energies in two reference frames
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Undergrad Find time from distance-speed graph
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Undergrad Air pressure to energy, am I missing something?
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Undergrad What are the downward forces on a neutrally buoyant body in water?
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Undergrad Balloon inflated by external vacuum: why won't it burst?
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Graduate Testing Newtonian Gravity: Collision of Two Masses
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High School How much salt/other product add to water so a medium acorn floats?
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Undergrad Fictitious forces and their associated energies
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Undergrad Is acceleration still equal in the presence of air resistance?
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High School How can I calculate the load on each line in a pulley system?
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Undergrad Plasma ball and effects luminous
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Undergrad Is there any motion hidden within potential energy?
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Undergrad What Happens When a Rigid Body with a Fixed Point Moves Along a Closed Path?
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Graduate The Lagrange equations from mechanics
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Graduate Why Does Hagen-Poiseuille Predict Higher Exit Velocity Than Bernoulli?
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Undergrad Elastic collision in 2 dimensions
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Undergrad Open Channel Flow: Dynamics & Forces in Irrigation Channels
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Undergrad Help understanding how my "magic" siphon works....
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Graduate Investigating Wake Profiles of Different Objects
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Graduate Chemical potential and fugacity
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Undergrad How to Master Projectile Motion Without Quadratics
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High School Question about the role of mass in inclined planes
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Undergrad What height was reached by a projectile of a pressurized system (pics)
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Graduate Maximizing Horizontal Range of a Projectile
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Graduate Elastic collision considering the angle of impact
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Undergrad Timing a bouncing ping-pong ball
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Undergrad Axes of the 2-d coordinate system used in vector resolution
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Undergrad What determines the direction of static friction forces?
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High School Discover the Law of Levers: Uncovering Evidence and Documents | Prove It Now!
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Undergrad Direction of Angular velocity and Angular momentum?
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Graduate Potential energy increase of an expanding stellar object
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Undergrad Does Raising My Arm Change the Center of Mass?
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Graduate Equation of a sound wave with viscous damping in ideal gas
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Undergrad How can evaporative cooling air conditioning work?
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Could you point me to interesting videos about plasma balls?
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Undergrad What if the Earth (and the Universe) were 2d?
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Undergrad Projectile Motion with a backwards Rotation/Tumble
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High School How do surface piercing propellers work?
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Undergrad Why can a person cycle more in a day than they can walk or run?
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Undergrad What Is the Physics Behind the Sweet Spot on a Baseball Bat?
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Graduate Motion involving Translation & Rotation |Kleppner and Kolenkow
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High School Homemade cloud chamber not working
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High School Confused about some basic mechanics principles (force , PE)
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High School Looking for an example.... (misalignment of the Apollo 11 rocket)
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Undergrad Centripetal acceleration problem (box sitting on a table)
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Graduate Can a gyroscope lift a fulcrum (and itself), hinged to the floor?
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Undergrad How to introduce dissipation to a spinning top
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High School Gravitational force between two masses
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Graduate Elastic collision formulas -- Derivation blunder
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Graduate Max tip speed of a spinning cable
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Undergrad The Gyroscopic Effect: Precession, Nutation, & Boomerang Return
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Undergrad Law of Conservation of energy and Wnc
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High School Coriolis effect and water experiment
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Undergrad What is "Apparent Power" (VA)?
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Graduate Analysis of a Frictional Contact Problem with Adhesion
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Undergrad How pressure affects partial pressures (and dewpoint)
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Graduate Two cylinders rotating with contact at an angle (reformulation of the problem)
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Undergrad Physics of exercising and forces felt
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Graduate Sign of potential term in Lagrangian mechanics
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Undergrad Rail gun - point of application of force?
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Undergrad How does the slanted mast track improve railing on a windsurf board?
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Undergrad Physics of sailing/windsurfing systems
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High School An arrow vane claim (fletchings as airfoils)
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High School When do I use this k5 Kinematic Equation
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Graduate Simulating an elastic bouncy ball
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Undergrad A question about humans and acceleration
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Undergrad Law of inertia (inertial observer and inertial frames of reference)
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Graduate Probability of cosine of angle between two directions in collision
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Undergrad What is the secret behind Shi Yan Ming's extraordinary punching power?
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Undergrad Does the Normal contact force act through the centre of mass?
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Graduate Wall made of Pendulum -- thought experiment
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Undergrad Force on an object that is stationary in flowing water
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Undergrad Why is my derivation of the catenary wrong?
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Undergrad Force required to open a swinging gate
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