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High School How does air resistance affect falling objects of different weights?
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Undergrad How do I find the pressure capacity of a tungsten tube?
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Undergrad Calculate Time with Weight and Height | Air Friction Formula
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Undergrad A mass attached to two springs with different k values
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Undergrad Gravitational Potential Energy
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Graduate Outcomes of super extreme pressures
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Undergrad Elastic Collision of two tennis balls
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Undergrad Force applied perpendicular to velocity, kinetic or static friction?
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High School Head-on collision with a car equal to ones own vehicle
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High School Understanding Pressure in Static Fluids: Simple Tutorials and Illustrations
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Undergrad Moving a Spaceship to its Destination
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High School What Methods Can Determine the Coefficient of Static Friction?
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High School How to use arc tan to find an angle?
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Undergrad Is the concept of reactive centrifugal force valid?
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Graduate Water Surface Tension: Investigating Condensation Formation
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High School Vortex Generator for Performance Cars
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Undergrad How Much Force Can Tip a 16' Tall Theatrical Wall Packed with Lights?
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High School Pushing force vs. Friction force
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Undergrad What's wrong with my definition of work?
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Undergrad Optimal Speed for Transversing Rain: Why?
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Undergrad Direction of Torque and Angular Momentum
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High School Out of curiosity how is the contact force forumla derived?
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Graduate Hypothetical question about speed and distance across space
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High School Wall Acceleration: Physics Noob's Curious Query
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Undergrad Loads using pulleys in a deflection test apparatus.
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High School Measuring Water Flow From an Elevated Bottle: Physics in Action!
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Graduate Is linear momentum accurate for calculating torque in a rotating system?
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Graduate Hi,may potential, time dependent force field be called
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High School Trouble understanding Circular Motion(Uniform and Nonuniform) concepts
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High School Solve Physics HW: Kinetic Friction Coefficient
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Graduate Compressive force between objects
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High School Constant acceleration kinematics doubt
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Undergrad Can centripetal acceleration be called centripetal? jerk?
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Undergrad Stability of Bicycles: Why is it Easier Moving?
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Graduate Question about work done by expanding pressurized gas
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Undergrad Power and potental difference - battery
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Graduate Too Complex for me - multiple torques on rotating disc
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High School Need advice on creating power from air shaft
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Graduate Looking for a potential flow book
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High School Inquiry About Inertia: What Causes It?
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Undergrad Zigzagging Up an Incline: Does It Help or Hinder Cyclists?
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Undergrad How Do You Integrate dy/dt with Respect to y in Ballistic Equations?
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High School Understanding Friction and Newton's 3rd Law in Physics
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Undergrad Why is the change in velocity given as -2u?
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Undergrad Uncertainty In a Physics Experiment
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Undergrad Some questions regarding classical mechanics in space
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Undergrad Physical interpretation of equations
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High School What is the significance of resultant velocity in 2D motion?
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Graduate The Ultimate Speed: Light's Potential Mass
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High School Understanding Non-Zero Velocity vs. Non-Zero Acceleration
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Undergrad Calculating Power From Hydrogen/Oxygen Flow in Water Turbine
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Undergrad Rigid bodies and infinitely stiff springs ?
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Undergrad How To Measure Amoung Of Energy Released
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High School Bullet Velocities: Jet Firing 600mph Bullets
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Undergrad Why is there no sonic boom when shooting an air rifle at 1400 feet per second?
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Undergrad Fluids question - Pump flowrate ofdue to elevation head
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High School Understqarnding equations for angular velocity
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Undergrad Best way to approach this see saw on a turntable?
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High School Which thing determine friction in tyres of cycle?
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Undergrad Solving a 3-Car Crash: Physics Questions and Answers for Legal Defense
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High School Basic Pendulums Period^2 vs distance
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High School Quick Question about throwing a ball vertically
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Undergrad The derivative of Kinetic Energy
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Undergrad Relationship between turbulence and freezing?
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High School How Is Newton's F=ma Formula Derived and Understood in Physics?
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High School Why does F=ma not apply when pushing a car with constant velocity?
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Undergrad Is there a common misunderstanding of inertia?
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High School Velocity (Where did I go wrong?)
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Undergrad What Causes the Differences in Newton's Law on an Inclined Plane?
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Undergrad How to find out contact time of 2 Carrom men in carrom board game?
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Undergrad Calcuate Orbital Speed (without using distance)
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Graduate Big differential pressure when opening sleeve
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Undergrad Freezing time for 1mL of water
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Graduate Conservation of linear momentum and energy in a collision
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Undergrad What's the relation between chemical compositions and physical properties?
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Undergrad Why Does Strumming Force Not Alter the Pitch of a Guitar String?
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High School Calculating String Tension in a Simple Situation
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Undergrad Conceptual question about the Kinetic Energy Equation
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Undergrad Pressure variations with altitude
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Undergrad Rotational mechanics question?
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Graduate Placement of Reaction Control System on a Spacecraft
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Graduate Momentum vs. KE - which determines projectile penetration?
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Graduate Is a car more efficient in the Winter?
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Graduate Kinetic energy in an accelerator
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Graduate Is 100% rigid object theoretically possible?
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High School Difference between position time, velocity time and acceleration time graph
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High School Why is sound more intense at night?
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Graduate Potential inside NON-Conducting hollow spherical shell
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Graduate How to accelerate ions at home?
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Undergrad Calculating Ascent Rate and Peak Altitude of a High Altitude Balloon
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Undergrad Galileo's rule of falling bodies
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High School Why does a body has inertia and from where does it get that
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Undergrad What is the energy/work required to turn something?
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High School What does the direction of angular acceleration tell us ?
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High School Consider two cars one a chevy, one a Ford. The Chevy is speeding along
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Undergrad Distance covered under variable acceleration
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What's that sound on cars on a hot day?
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Undergrad Cause of Momentum: Forces & Particles Explained
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Graduate Non intersecting phase space trajectories
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Undergrad Unraveling the Mystery of the Gravity Train
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