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High School What happens to us/earth if the earth suddenly stops rotating?
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Undergrad Are Helmets Really Effective in Preventing Head Injuries from Bike Accidents?
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High School Sound of symphony from single source
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High School Experiments regarding Soundwaves and Frequencies
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Undergrad Searching for Rolling Friction Coefficient for UHMW Polymer Rollers
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Graduate Strain elastic energy of a continuum
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Graduate What is a nonholonomic constraint?
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Undergrad Suppose i have a bucket full of water in a closed room,the water is
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Undergrad Cricket ball swing-How to explain it
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Graduate Wind powered vehicle (Derivation)
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Graduate Degrees of freedom and falling chalk
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High School Net Torque: Calculating Momentum & Time
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Undergrad Semi-conductors and how they work?
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Graduate Energy of a system: multiply by velocity?
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Graduate Double Pendulum Motion: Plotting theta2 vs Time
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Graduate Pressure on a Sphere due to an Interior Force
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High School Leaving car in gear when parking on a hill
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Graduate What happens to water at just above absolute zero degrees?
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Undergrad Is Using Water to Cool a Room Effective?
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Undergrad Horizontal water rocket thrust calculations - HELP
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Undergrad Warm air rising vs centripetal force
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High School Understanding Work in Physics: Explained by the W=FD Formula
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High School If you travel around the world, what would the velocity be?
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Undergrad Deriving Torricelli's Law: Pressure, Viscosity & More
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High School Gravity Question: Acceleration of Ball After Release?
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Graduate How Do Gyroscopic Forces Affect Flywheel Torques?
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How many ants does it take to carry a human infant away?
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High School Using a Power Supply - Questions & Answers
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Undergrad Finding Speed of an object from various factors.
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Undergrad Lateral car velocity in a corner
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Undergrad Forced Oscillations: +ve Sign of Fcoswt
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Undergrad What Equation Should I Use for Bouncing on a Trampoline in a Video Game?
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Undergrad Question regarding conservation of angular momentum
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Undergrad Calculating Rotational Force for a 5000kg Suspended Load
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Undergrad How does heat dissipate in the vacuum of space?
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Undergrad Why Does a Car Fall in a Loop When Centripetal Force Isn't Enough?
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Graduate Solving Boat Movement without External Force Applied
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Graduate The Heisenberg Uncertainty of Bowling Balls
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Undergrad Integration of motion equation
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Undergrad Dropping a mass directly over the north pole
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High School About expt re Newton's 2nd law
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Undergrad Sticky ball falling down conveyer
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Graduate SH driven oscillator amplitude at resonance equation
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High School Period and frequency of a pendulum doesn't depend on mass?
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High School SHM: Frequency & Period Unaffected by Amplitude
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Graduate Understanding the Invariance and Limitations of Conservation Laws
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Undergrad Work done by non conservative force
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Undergrad How far can a person dive at 14' above the water?
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Undergrad Calculating the Size of a Pressure Vessel for 9 bar/130.5 psi
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Undergrad A basic doubt (about inertial frames)
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Graduate Classical Mechanics and Lagrangian/Hamiltonian Formalism: A Quick Review
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Undergrad What is the expression for work done in a perpendicular collision?
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High School Angular velocity and those damn radians
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High School Water balloon slingshot velocity question
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High School Confusion about liquid having more pressure at the bottom
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Graduate Is planck time the same in all reference frames?
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Graduate Does Reducing Synchrotron Radiation Enhance Particle Accelerator Beam Lifetime?
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Graduate Why rotational kinetic energy of a closed system is not conserved?
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Graduate How Does Pulley Size Impact Efficiency in Large Scale Lifting Systems?
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Graduate How Do Steel and Wood Creep Under Constant Stress and Torque?
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Graduate Do Photons Experience Changes in Potential Fields?
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Undergrad Work Done by Spring: Solving the Mystery
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Undergrad How Does the Coefficient of Restitution Affect Velocity in Collisions?
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Undergrad How Does a 60kg Person Fare in a Collision With a Car Traveling at 17m/s?
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Undergrad Why is the tension of a rope not doubled with one weight on each side?
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High School Calculating Curve Line in a Graph: An Example
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Graduate Drag Force at very very high Renolds Number ?
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Undergrad Coefficent of drag(egg shaped body)
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Undergrad Ball caught in a stream of air
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Undergrad How does composite armour work?
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Undergrad Work function and ionization energy
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High School Motor and alternator in same shaft
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Graduate Speed of our reality perception…
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Undergrad Calculating Pressure Drop and Hole Size in a Pipe
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Undergrad Why my friends wheel system won't reinforce itself
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Graduate Conservation laws, Noether's theorem and initial conditions
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High School Acceleration when an object hits the ground
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Graduate Is all heat added to a gas converted into pressure change?
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High School What is Air Pressure? Understanding the Weight of the Atmosphere
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The Pink Panther: Can We Avoid Hurt?
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Graduate Why Is Momentum Defined as 'Quantity of Motion'?
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Graduate If a bullet was singing a song, what would the shock wave sound like?
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Undergrad Does Spinning A Sphere Increase Drag in Air?
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High School Fly Behavior in a Car or Glass Bottle
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Undergrad Calculating speed and reversing inertia
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High School Difference between inertia and momentum?
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Undergrad Why Isn't Gravity Infinite at the Center of the Earth?
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Undergrad How Do I Calculate the Force of a Punch in Ft/lbs?
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Undergrad Understanding Sound Wave Amplitude in the Equation s=Sm cos(kx-wt)
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Undergrad Two-Dimensional Elastic Collision
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Undergrad Question about sound waves - lengths and related
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Graduate Regarding angular momentum axial thrust force etc. space stations
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Undergrad Number of resistors for potential divider?
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High School Does the mass of a wheel affect the length of time that it spins on an axis?
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Undergrad Angular acceleration and Steiners theorem
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Undergrad What is the relationship between force and distance in an inverse square law?
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Undergrad Physics of a Slap: Rigidity & Momentum
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Undergrad My Perpetual Motion - Would it work?
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High School How do I find the distance traveled if I know the acceleration and time?
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High School An object in motion going over a jump. Physics of height and distance traveled.
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