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Undergrad Forces affecting a body at the bottom of water
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High School Is Any Applied Force Truly a Normal Force?
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Undergrad Why does the weight of opened cold coke change over time?
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High School Is someone know how to calculate vertical G-force
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Undergrad Is Static Friction Always Present as a Force?
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Undergrad Vehicle Moment of Inertia? How?
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Undergrad Calculate Height Difference Given Osmotic Pressure
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High School Why can't diodes with built-in potential be used as batteries?
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Undergrad Conservation of Momentum of a body of mass
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High School How Can I Optimize Paper Wing Designs for Aerodynamics in a Physics Project?
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Undergrad Negative Tension: Myth or Reality?
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Undergrad Alternating acceleration understanding ?
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Undergrad Calculating Water Dam Forces and Stress for Building a Durable Dam
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Undergrad Conductor Tension Due to Birds Landing & Flying Away
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Undergrad Helicopter - Variable Air Density
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Graduate Kinetic Energy in Spherical Coordinates? (For the Lagrangian)
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High School Negative value of displacement
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Graduate Colision and deformation between 2 objects
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Undergrad How do aeroplanes fly upside down?
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Can 1,000 Boats Really Push the Chao Praya River Out to Sea Faster?
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Undergrad New Research Project: high velocity projectiles with small masses
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High School Will running during rainfall makes you more wet?
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Undergrad Weight of water in different vessels
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Undergrad Drag force = Mass * deacceleration?
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Undergrad Does Pipe Size Affect Water Level Equilibrium in Tanks?
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Undergrad Calculation of NonUniform Circular Motion
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High School Circular Work Vs. Straight line work
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Graduate Continuum Mechanics: Stress on Opposite Sides of Infinitesimal Cube
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Graduate Vibrating String under Gravity: Solutions & Considerations
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Graduate Moment of inertia of curved cuboid
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High School Barometer Planet: How a Barometer Works
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Graduate Do Particle Accelerators Experience Torque?
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Undergrad Could Turning Icebergs Pose a Threat to Shipping?
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Undergrad Does 2 spring @ 30 degrees = 1 @ 90?
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High School Relative motion of the earth and an aeroplane held above the earth's surface
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Undergrad How can a non-flowing fluid have kinetic energy?
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Undergrad Breaking force over set distance.
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Undergrad Why weight on an incline is different?
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Undergrad How does the iphone 4s camera work?
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High School Different types of movement force
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Undergrad Understanding Beam Deflection: Theory, History, and Formulas Explained
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Undergrad Earning from home made generator
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Graduate Analyzing Vibration of Bicycle Frame as a Spring Mass System
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Undergrad Kinetic Energy and Angle of Velocity - Clarification
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Graduate Can gravitational potential energy be converted to mass
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Graduate Integrals of motion some more important than others?
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High School Momentum Question: Wagon Collision w/ Velocity v & Mass m
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Graduate How to relate kinematics of a moving frame and that of a laboratory frame?
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High School 12V Car Battery Amps: How Much Current Generated?
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Undergrad Calculating Acceleration with Mass and Power
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High School How wood is less dense than water?
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Undergrad Can Ferrofluids Withstand 50 Psi Pressure?
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Undergrad GPMs of water with elevation changes.
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Undergrad Energy required to lift 1 pound 3 inches at 70 MPH
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Undergrad Calculating Kinetic Energy of Mass Using Electron Flow
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Graduate Product moments of inertia- what are they intuitively?
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Undergrad Impact of a cannonball on a brick wall
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Undergrad Introduction to hydrodymanics?
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Undergrad Trajectory of a rigid body with two wheel with different speed
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Graduate Initial Conditions in Classical Physics
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Undergrad Equipotential with Spherical Conductors
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Undergrad Trying to really understand work
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Undergrad Sum of External Forces, Center of Mass Translation
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Graduate Incorrect solution to impulsive dynamics problem?
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Undergrad Why is Work a Scalar? Understanding its Definition
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Undergrad Is it possible to use Newton's Law of Gravity AND Einstein's Theory of Gravity?
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Undergrad Solving Pressure Problem: Hello, World
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Undergrad How Big of a Motor Do I Need to Move a 12t Cart on Rails at 5m/min?
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Undergrad Move a Tricycle: Calculate X_current Position
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Undergrad How to convert acceleration as a funtion of position to a function of time?
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High School Acceleration across a frictionless surface
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High School Why Does Sound from Above the Surface Sound Faint Underwater?
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Undergrad Why Does the Derivative of Momentum Appear in Angular Momentum Calculations?
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Undergrad Hair-brained venturi idea, will it work?
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Undergrad Ping-pong ball floating on a bowl of water
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Undergrad Why is potential energy the NEGATIVE of the work done?
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High School Rain Collection: Does Wind Affect Filling Speed?
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Undergrad Induction coil powering a crt: how does it work?
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High School What are the Common Causes of Power Line Noise?
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Undergrad Pressure on a lateral side of a tank
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Undergrad Bulk Modulus and the speed of sound
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High School Answer: Basic Physics Question - Free Fall in 2D or 3D?
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High School Why is vector division considered undefined in F=ma?
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Undergrad Lowest center of mass of a container + fluid
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Undergrad Curious Question about Velocity
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Undergrad What Defines the Role of Microscopic Bumpiness in Friction?
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Undergrad How heavy should my set piece be?
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Undergrad Calculating Net Force on Mass m2
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Undergrad Calculating Drag Force on Spheres for Airsoft/Paintball
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Undergrad Length of Spring at Equilibrium: Find Solution with Mass, Length & Constant
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High School Negative and positive results when dealing with Newton's Laws
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High School New to Physics Forum and would like some help with concepts
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High School Tips on solving 2D Kinematic problems
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High School What would happen if a spring was between two moving objects?
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Undergrad Could a ball lying on the ground spontaneously bounce?
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Undergrad Test your knowledge of inertial forces
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High School Why do iron ships float in water?
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Undergrad Unveiling the Mysteries of Cepheids and Hubble's Work
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Undergrad Force exerted by a rolling body
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High School Calculating Force of Bird Impact Using Newton's 2nd Law
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