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High School Question about Forces and Couples
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Undergrad Question about System of Forces
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High School Falling objects: remedial education desperately needed
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Graduate No friction needed a phenomena I can't understand
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Undergrad Static moment VS Moment of inertia - what's the difference?
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High School Weight vs Water Resistance: Comparing Exercise Challenges
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High School Can you break the sound barrier under water?
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Undergrad Calculating Elevator Free Fall After Passing the Earth's Core
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High School Why are micrometer calipers preferred for measuring diameters?
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Undergrad If Moment of Inertia units are mm^4, how do you use it in calculations?
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Undergrad Wind turbine on a boat efficient?
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Undergrad What is the extent of Calculus in Halliday and Resnick's Kinematics textbook?
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Undergrad Can I treat blocks as a single axis of rotation?
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Undergrad Inclined Plane Physics: Cylinder vs. Superconductor
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High School Proof and challenge about projectile motion
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Graduate Energy-momentum tensor: metric tensor or kronecker tensor appearing?
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High School What is the Young's modulus of balloon?
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Undergrad Height values based off barometric pressure
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Graduate Newtonian derivation of Scwarzchild radius
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Undergrad What causes an object to eventually come to rest after bouncing indefinitely?
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Graduate Securing a 3D Frame: How to Analyze and Solve for Loads?
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High School Does a bottle of water or a bottle of ice roll downhill faster? [Video]
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High School Derivation of expression for force
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Undergrad How Do Tractive Forces and Rolling Resistance Affect a Car Wheel's Motion?
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High School New to Physics. Can you explain?
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Graduate Calculating equipotential surfaces
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Undergrad Torque Required to Spin Solid Cylinder
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Graduate Rotation of a body about a point with decreasing radius
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Undergrad Constant pressure and constant volume?
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High School Dense Helium Balloons: Will They Rise or Fall?
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Undergrad Why Do You Move Backwards When Jumping Inside an Accelerating Bus?
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Graduate Celestial Mechanics: Solving Differential Equations for N-Body Systems
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Graduate What Physics Principles Govern Force Diagrams and Object Deformation?
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Undergrad Rotated Section - Moment of Inertia
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Undergrad Recurve vs Longbow: Stored Energy & Arrow Velocity
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High School Powering Propeller with Pulley
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High School Projectile motion experimental vs theoretical results
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Undergrad Does Water Evaporate Differently in a Beaker vs. a Pan Under a Bell Jar?
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High School Simple pulley question- single fixed
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Graduate Flow rate relation with height
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High School Hovercraft vibration noise problem
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Undergrad Conservation of Momentum question
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Graduate Conservation of energy in ALL frames of reference?
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Graduate Β+ decay: voiding conservation of mass or creating something with negative mass
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Undergrad Is This a Shockwave? - Physics Forums
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High School Test Hovercraft Equation for Science Fair Project
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High School How an object in translatory motion comes to rotary motion
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Graduate Classical and Quantum Mechanics via Lie algebras
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Undergrad Momentum of a rocket with pressurized gas
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Undergrad Will Replacing My Bike's Shock Absorber with Solid Steel Damage the Frame?
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Undergrad Calculating Collision Speed: Momentum or Kinetic Energy?
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Undergrad Confused with the principles in Vector Moments - with Pictures
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Undergrad Does Spring Coefficient Affect Velocity Change?
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Graduate Helix Formation with Elastic Rope: Equations of Motion for X(t) and (Theta)(t)
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High School Free Fall: Understanding Conditions & Air Resistance
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Undergrad Solving Collisions with angles problem
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Undergrad Connected Pendulums: Momentum Transfer Time
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Undergrad How to calculate the velocity of a bullet fired by a rifle?
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Undergrad Osmosis, osmotic pressure, vapour pressure
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Undergrad Bernoulli Equation VS. V1A1 = V2A2
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Undergrad The Mystery: Bat Speed vs. Weight in Slowpitch Softball
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Undergrad Softball Bat Speed vs Bat Weight
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Graduate What will happen if I assemble magnets with flush joints and the same polarity?
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Graduate Galactic Rotation, Outboard Mass Included?
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Undergrad Why only kinetic energy in the work-energy theorem?
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High School I was just wondering if there is any formal proof that two
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Undergrad What kind of force would be needed to push the Moon into the Earth?
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Graduate Do Photons Follow the Rules of Mechanics for Collisions?
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Undergrad Tennis ball speed after bounce
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High School Can a moving car's weight be accurately measured on a scale?
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Graduate Blood flow, Bernoulli's equation and Poiseuille's equation
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Undergrad Effect of motion in friction calculation
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Graduate Same Link Between Momentum, Energy & Mass
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Undergrad Can you do sum of all moments on a point that's not a rotational axis?
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Graduate Tidal energy - drag on the moon?
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Undergrad Variation on Pendulum Function
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Undergrad Bernoulli Principle with Bullets
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Undergrad Find Approximate BTU of Air in 10 Cubic ft of 95F Water
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Graduate Calculating a vector from a known angle and a known vector
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Undergrad Calculating Water Pressure in a 100ft Pipe
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Undergrad Why do we rotate along with the earth's rotation?
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Undergrad Work-Energy Theorem: Understanding Vertical Movement
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High School Calculating Power and Work Done for a Punch
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Undergrad What is the math of this effect?
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Graduate Angular deflection problem in asteroid game
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Graduate Liénard-Wiechert potential derivation
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Graduate Law of Gravity Deduction from Parabolic Trajectory?
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Undergrad The physics behind slipstreaming/drafting
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Graduate Retarded potentials in disspersive media
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Undergrad *2 trucks each going 50km/m hit head on with a force of still 50km/h ?
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Undergrad Atwood's Machine using Angular Momentum
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Graduate Parallel axis theorem, cube (Confirm)
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Graduate Constant of motion in velocity dependent motion
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Undergrad Physics of tubing behind a boat.
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High School Projectile motion parabola shape
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Undergrad 3D statics - is there a simpler, shorter way to solve problems?
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Undergrad Elastic Collisions in Three Dimensions
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Undergrad Centripetal Acceleration on a car
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Graduate EM attraction between a solenoid and interstellar hydrogen
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Graduate Fourier components of vector potential
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