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Undergrad Is the Force to Peel Off Tape the Same as the Force to Drag the Surface?
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High School Friction as a reduction of power
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Graduate Why does a NACA 643-418 airfoil have a flat region in its lift curve?
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Undergrad F in Friction Diagram: Explaining Opposite Force to Normal
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Graduate Was Chaos really Newton's death ?
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Graduate Displacement of a composite beam
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High School What is Gravitational field strength exactly
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Undergrad Units for moment of inertia of a circle
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Undergrad Constant speed vs. repeated acceleration
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Graduate Is Gravity Caused by Pressure and Matter Repelling Dark Matter?
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Undergrad What happens when two masses collide and one is at rest?
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High School Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation: FG= Fg=Gm/r2
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High School Can someone explain this to me.
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Graduate Newton's law and energy of conservation
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Undergrad How much pressure is exerted on the hooves and ground when using jumping stilts?
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Graduate Link between atm. pressure by air weight and brownian motion
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Undergrad Does Kinetic Energy Loss Equation Hold When Both Objects Are Moving?
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Undergrad Required torque to move a carousal
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Undergrad Understanding 2D and 3D Stress: Differences and Applications Explained"
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Undergrad Gravitational Potential Energy Earth Question
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Undergrad Vector's Cross Product, HELP , Please
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Undergrad Calculating Moment of Force on Bicycle Pedal
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High School Are there theories for the different sound in different volume of beaker?
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Undergrad Net Torque and Conservation of Angular Momentum
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Graduate Help in part of the derivation of Retarded potential.
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Undergrad Force as gradient of potential function
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Graduate Verify Coriolis Acceleration Derivation on Merry Go Round
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Graduate Help in math in retarded potential.
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Undergrad Vector Multiplication: Dot & Cross Products
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Undergrad Pressure and flow rate - a novice seeks help
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Undergrad Understanding Terminal Velocity
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High School Understanding the Speed of Bullet and Bomb Blasts
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Undergrad Why are E=MC^2 and E=1/2MV^2 equivalent equations?
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Undergrad Physics Movie Project: Defying Laws of Physics in The Matrix
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Undergrad Force acting on a flat plate that is moving trough fluid
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Graduate Combination of translation and spinning, not rolling
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Graduate Effects of Multiple Gyroscopes in Defined Configurations
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Graduate Understanding Navier's Slip Condition: Fixed Walls & Applicability
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Undergrad Calculating Force for 500lb Electric Actuator Door
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Undergrad Understanding Spoilers and Down Force: How They Impact High Speed Performance
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Graduate Could a projectile shooting downward at near c lift 300lbs?
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High School How Does Drop Height Affect Glass Shattering?
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Undergrad Length/Time Period squared Relationship of a Simple Pendulum
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Undergrad Lifting strength of a bouy depending on variables
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Graduate Understanding kinetic energy under Galilean transformations
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Undergrad How can I accurately simulate pendulum effect in my paragliding simulator?
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Undergrad How exactly does a gyroscope relate to angular momentum?
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High School Maintaining Submerged Objects: Understanding Density and Height
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High School What is the solution to this basic surface tension problem?
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High School What Causes Drag in the Low Pressure Zone Behind a Car?
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Undergrad Moment of inertia for rectangular plate
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Undergrad Discovering Stokes Law to Understanding its Origins and Applicability
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Graduate Harmonics and oscillating atoms
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Undergrad How can I track positions from acceleration values?
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Undergrad Calculate Power Needed to Run Conveyor Belt with dm/dt kgs-1
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High School Where do I find information about gyroscopes?
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Graduate Conservation of energy and red shift
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Undergrad Programming Orbit Expansion: Change Radius w/ Centripetal Force
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Undergrad Moment of Inertia, difference between Ixc, Ix, and Io?
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Undergrad Statics - Confusion about forces direction
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High School Simply Supported Beam Q: Is It Possible?
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Undergrad Where are the maximum stresses located in a thin plate with opposing forces?
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Graduate Bending a patterned beam (FOSDT)
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Undergrad Rotational Motion: Rotational vs. translational kinetic energy
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High School Constant speed and acceleration.
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Graduate Why Doesn't Conservation of Momentum Apply if Earth Stops Rotating?
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High School Is Rotational Motion Possible in a Straight Line?
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Graduate Riding a roundabout on a train
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Undergrad Separating colours and slowing/accelerating waves
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Undergrad How Do You Convert CFM to Thrust?
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Undergrad How do the colors of the rainbow work
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Undergrad Calculating Force of a Bicycle Impact at 30 mph
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Undergrad Moment(torque) help (bycicle crankset)
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Graduate How does capillary action not violate conservation of energy?
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High School Mechanical Energy: Where Does It Go?
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Undergrad Is the Magnus Force Equation Related to the Drag Coefficient?
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Undergrad How to Build the Perfect Yo-Yo for a 30m Jump
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Undergrad Calculating Pressure Difference for CFM & Hole Size
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Undergrad Fraction solar power due to UV
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Graduate Book stacking - how rigorous is the standard proof?
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Undergrad The moment about points in a rigid body
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Graduate Canonical and conjugate momentum
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Undergrad Calculating Force of a Small Potato Cannon
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Undergrad Coefficient of Static Friction on a Turntable
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Graduate Seeking method to optimization force distribution among rivet joints
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Undergrad Angular Momentum conserved but not energy?
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Undergrad Breaking a Wall: What Determines its Threshold for Crumbling?
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Undergrad Problem with zero net torque using a particular axis.
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Undergrad Measuring Oxygen Partial Pressure with an MFC: Flow vs. Pressure?
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Graduate Understanding the Box-Ball Soliton System and Its Soliton Collisions
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High School Egg Safety Vehicle (Egg Drop Project in a car)
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Undergrad Moment of Inertia of a solid uniform sphere
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Undergrad Can the intensity of soundwaves be affected by the size of a gap?
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High School What is the direction of friction when a spool of wire is rolling on the ground?
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Undergrad Does Centripetal Acceleration Result in a Higher Velocity for a Released Mass?
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Undergrad Parallelogram Rule for combining forces (moments)
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High School What is a pressure reservoir? And how does it work?
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Graduate How is Greenwood's Classical Dynamics?
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Graduate Statistical Mechanics: Phase Transitions & Phase Diagrams
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