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Undergrad What is the meaning of pressure of a gas?
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Undergrad How does gravity behave on the surface of a sphere?
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High School Egg Drop Project: Prepping the Container for a Successful Fall
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Undergrad Incompressibility and pressure on a container
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Undergrad Best Method of Focusing Solar Power
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Undergrad Force of gravity/weight vecotr placement?
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Undergrad Centripetal and tangential acceleration in rotational motion ?
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Undergrad Converting Newton to Joule: Understanding Energy Transfer in Crankshafts
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Undergrad Maximum Power transfer theorem ( Power dissipation in resistors in circuits)
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High School Question about the physics behind a guitar string
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Graduate Total energy non-conservation for explicit time dependent potentials
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Undergrad A Couple of Basic Questions about Mechanics
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High School Gravitational Force: Understanding the Universal Attraction
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Undergrad Spinning up a progressively smaller sphere
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Graduate How Does Superimposing Waves Illuminate the Uncertainty Principle?
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High School Official acceleration due to gravity in Brighton, UK?
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Graduate Principia: Deducing "It Will Have the Same Effect
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Undergrad Forces experienced while falling out a window?
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Undergrad Which Physics Principles Govern a Car's Impact on a Statue?
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Graduate Some doubts on signal velocity
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High School Weight vs Speed: Which Generates More Force?
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High School Magdeburg hemispheres(action and reaction pair)
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Undergrad Questions about shock waves from explosions and impacts
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Undergrad Power delivered by a generator.
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Graduate A block of cheese hits a steel wall
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Graduate Some Kinetic Gas Theory questions
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Graduate Angular velocity of a 3D rigid body with Eulerian Angles
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Undergrad Gravity: Will Low Velocity Bodies Revolve or Fall to Ground?
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Undergrad Angular Velocity or Angular Speed?
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Undergrad Conservation of Momentum not universal?
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Graduate How Do You Calculate Peak Velocity in Trapezoidal Motion Profiles?
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Undergrad What is the Submerged Volume of a Styrofoam Cube in Water?
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Undergrad Looking to learn physics about how a bicycle works and if it effects
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Undergrad Force of friction and Torque
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Undergrad How to Find the Critical Tipping Angle and Minimum Force to Tip a Table?
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Undergrad Impact force from a falling object
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Undergrad How to find force necessary to propel a 51g object 120 m/s
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Graduate Cause of stability in counter-rotating gyros
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Graduate Design Bicycle Cargo Rack w/ Shock Absorbers for Laptop
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Undergrad Why can lb's be considered a mass and a force?
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Undergrad Explore Elasticity: Is There a Constant Relation Between Elasticity & Density?
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Undergrad Frame of Reference: Constant Velocity & Inertiality
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Undergrad What is and how do I use the Parallel axis theorem
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High School Equation for angular acceleration
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Graduate Airfoil Induced Drag Energy Conservation
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Undergrad Does larger Champagne bottle = more pressure inside?
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Undergrad Centripetal Motion: Tangential & Centripetal Accel.
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Undergrad Belts and pulleys for WIND TURBINE ?
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High School How Did Archimedes Determine the Crown's Purity?
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Undergrad Questions on potential gravitational energy
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Undergrad Definition of Parallel-axis theorem
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High School Egg drop experiment design project
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High School Does friction restrict motion perpendicular to the plane also?
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Undergrad A pendulum of length 'L' having a mass 'M' attached as it's bob and it
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Undergrad Friction - Influence of mass with elastic materials
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High School Is Pressure Just Force Distributed Over an Area?
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Graduate Calculating Drag Force due to air on a Pedestal Fan blade
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High School So if I had a canoe floating in the water on earth it would sink lets
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Undergrad A roller coaster's force and energy?
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate Rotational Velocity from Linear Forces in Game Physics?
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Undergrad Elastic Balloon Filled with Ideal Gas
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High School Quantitative centripetal force apparatus-free body diagram
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Undergrad How to calculate the pressure in a sealed vessel with water.
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Undergrad Drop a spring into the ocean and other stuff
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High School What materials can transfer sound vibration?
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High School Why Mass of a Body is Not Considered When Calculating Work
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Graduate Torque (changing reference frames and adding)
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Undergrad Messed up classical mechanics problem:
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Undergrad Crookes Radiometer: Momentum Transfer Explained
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Undergrad Help with the non uniform circular motion ?
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High School Pounds is a unit of mass or weight
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Undergrad Steam at specific volume/pressure
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Undergrad Simultanious kinetic energy transfer between 3 objects
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Undergrad 32 tonne mass dropped from 1.5m
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Undergrad Static Friction and Centripetal Force
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Discover the Cutting-Edge Technology of the Single Molecule Car at BBC News"
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Graduate Configuration Space In Classical Mechanics: Definition
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High School Motion Puzzle [for fun and discussions]
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Undergrad Some Questions on Physics (Force) HELMETS
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High School Calculating Rotational Speed of Car Tyres: How Many Spins in a Given Distance?
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Undergrad What Causes a Balloon to Expand in Space?
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High School Calculating Force Needed to Break Objects with a Maul
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Graduate How Do Molecules Behave Near a Faucet According to the Continuity Principle?
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Graduate How Did Newton Confirm His Law of Gravitation?
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High School Investigating the Doppler Effect on Conversation Outcomes
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High School Moving bike stabilizes but standing bike falls
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Graduate The 'bullet video' and apparent momentum violation
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High School Impact Force (helmets) Safety Devices
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Undergrad Contemporary applications of Classical Mechanics?
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Undergrad Questions on Archimedes principle
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Undergrad Subtracting centrifugal acceleration from acceleration caused by movement
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Undergrad Removing air from water using vacuum
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Undergrad Experiments supporting Newton's gravitational theory
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Graduate Does a shrinking disk grow in the z-direction?
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Undergrad Calculating Damping Parameters for SDOF System
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Undergrad Pressing hydraulic pressure questions
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Undergrad If our bodies could run on fusion power
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How dowsing works to locate water source?
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Undergrad Prog Simulation: Force of spring across time intervals
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Undergrad Work of spring vs force of spring?
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