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Graduate Why Does Second Collision in Ballistic Pendulum Lead to Initial State?
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Undergrad Constant Circular Motion Not Really Constant
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High School Work by a Spring Force - Understanding Uinitial and Ufinal
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Undergrad Seesaw problem with a man connected to a fan by a rope
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Undergrad Conservation of energy in rotating bodies
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Graduate Calculate work done by variable force
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Graduate Conservation of energy in Gravitation
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Undergrad When can I treat a joint as a fixed conection?
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Undergrad Starting torque to move vehicle
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High School Question sound hammer damage objects in room
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Undergrad Understanding basic statistical mechanics formulas
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Graduate Thought Experiment - Centripetal Force
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Graduate Is there some geometrical interpretation of force from Newton's Laws?
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Undergrad Why does a stationary wave form at a free end of a water tank?
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Undergrad Fulcrum, balance point and scissor lift force
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Undergrad What makes a door move, the torque or the force or both?
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Graduate Equations for a mass falling to Earth from a distance
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Undergrad Friction of a rope around a cylinder
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High School Trying to understand the relationship between Newtons, Joules and Work
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Graduate Pool Ball Physics: Questions on Impact Spins
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Undergrad Why is the 'motionless solution' not always valid in classical mechanics?
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Undergrad Why does mixing blue and yellow create green?
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Graduate Constant velocity in a central force field
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Undergrad Increase efficiency in the cargo ship industry without a propellor
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High School What are your favourite classical physics puzzles?
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Graduate Questions on operating a nuclear power plant on the Moon or Mars
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Undergrad Vectorial issue of friction
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High School Could Archimedes' problem have been solved a little differently?
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Undergrad Rotation within a vacuum vs rotation with a pressurized environment.
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Undergrad Friction in Rotations: Do We Disregard It?
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Undergrad Fire protection -- Water in a cylinder pressurized with Nitrogen
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High School Friction between pulley and rope
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Graduate On the non-applicability of Newtonian mechanics
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High School Why is Young's modulus constant below the limit of proportionality?
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Undergrad Why Does Friction Provide Centripetal Acceleration in Circular Motion?
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High School Why do we take k=1 in the derivation of F=k*ma?
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Graduate How Does Compressing Fully Ionized Gas Accelerate Ions to High Energies?
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Graduate How Does Jet Injection Work in Fluid Dynamics?
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Undergrad How Does Angular Momentum Apply to Earth and Spinning Bike Wheels?
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High School How do I know in which direction an object is moving?
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Graduate Two disks -- An educational problem
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Undergrad Can Precession Explain the Stability of High-Speed Ice Skaters?
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Undergrad Understanding Newton's 2nd Law
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Graduate The definition of generalised momentum
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Undergrad Free inclined plane and a block sliding on it
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Graduate Have anybody considered travel with faster-than-infinite speeds?
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Graduate Formula for the energy of elastic deformation
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Graduate Energy transformed in a collision
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Undergrad Orbital maneuver by applying a thrust in the radial direction
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Undergrad Spinning Bike Wheel Example, how is angular momentum conserved?
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Undergrad Prerequisite mathematics for intermediate mechanics?
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Graduate What is the source of inertia?
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Graduate Conservation of energy in a CM system moving at constant velocity
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Graduate Fluid mechanics - Linearized shallow water equations
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High School Mobility in a Strong Gravity Environment vs. Moving Mass?
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Graduate Confusion about the derivation of acceleration relative to rotating frames
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Graduate Yaw stability -- center of gravity must be ahead of center of pressure
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Undergrad Equations of Motion Revisited
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High School An amazing fact which I learned today about pressure
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Graduate Confusion about tidal locking and rotational kinetic energy
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High School How does water flow from a faucet?
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Undergrad How Does the Position of a Free Vector Couple Affect Its Behavior?
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Undergrad Frost preferentially forms on non-vertical car windows?
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Graduate Is Mach's Principle truly a paradox in rotational frames?
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Undergrad What is the minimum gyroscope speed to yield force precession?
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Undergrad Water pressure affects air pressure
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High School Dot Products -- Some questions to help my understanding
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Undergrad Can the velocity in a funnel be higher than in freestream?
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Undergrad How viscous forces affect force transmission in hydraulic systems.
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Undergrad Why constant pressure over different shapes produces the same force?
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Undergrad Relationship between Drag Force & Viscous Torque on USA Football
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Graduate Can spin angular momentum get converted to orbital angular momentum?
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High School Explore the Hypothetical: What Happens to a Spinning Top with No Forces?
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Undergrad Can an object maintain uniform motion without any external force?
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Undergrad Calculating Heat Gained by Supercooled Water
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Undergrad Runge-Kutta Projectile Approximation From Initial Conditions
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Undergrad Newton's law of gravitation -- Limitations and Improvements
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High School Clashing approximations for this precession problem
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Graduate How to calculate acceleration of blobs in any degree pendulum?
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Graduate Rotating birefringent calcite crystals: precession of image?
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Undergrad Steady precession of a gyroscope
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High School Can pressing on a screw generate torque?
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Undergrad Force to accelerate an object downward faster than g
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Undergrad In which situations does the equation for torque t=Iα hold?
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Undergrad Angular momentum conserved with multiple gears?
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Undergrad Can PCA Be Used to Derive Equations of Motion?
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Undergrad Kinesculpture Stopping: Is It Physics or Complaints?
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Graduate A non-spherical Earth's gravitational potential?
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Graduate A doubt in the rotational analogue of F=ma
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Undergrad Which version of the Kepler Problem is correct?
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Graduate Visualizing the SHM of 2 blocks attached by a spring
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Graduate Equation of motion of a marble moving on a generic vertical guide
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Undergrad Why are these pulleys equivalent?
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High School How can an object move without acceleration?
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Graduate Conceptual questions about Angular Momentum Conservation and torque
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High School Does Gravity decrease at a steady rate as we go away from the Earth?
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Graduate Is angular momentum conserved in a non-inertial frame?
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Graduate Conical Pendulum with varying string length
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Undergrad Could Physically Slamming on a Table Damage the Home Floor/Structure?
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Graduate Component forces of a pendulum
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