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Spring, Damper, Mass: What does a Mass Do?
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Weightlessness and sound waves
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Water not conducting in my experiment
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Classical mechanics: centripetal acceleration
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Sliding/rolling billiard balls
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Inertia and Density question help
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Mechanical system clarification needed.
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Reaction forces in ball and socket joints
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How to Build a Car That Travels 5 Meters and Shoots a Target Sideways?
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Calculating air drag for a massive rocket
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Explore Newton's Laws of Motion with Dr. Donald Luttermoser of ETSU
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Is Water Really Blue? Explore the Mystery!
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Last question about Motor pics diagram here
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Is C14 Carbon Dating Truly Inaccurate for Absolute Archaeological Dating?
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Hi - What is perpetual motion?
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Unit of Mechanical Advantage of a machine?
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Finding angle between hydrogens and oxygen in water molecule
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Motion in 2D: Dr. Donald Luttermoser, ETSU
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How do different hull treatments affect water flow and boat speed?
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What is the significance of centripetal force in the period of a pendulum?
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Does Newton's Third Law Hold in the Presence of Gravitational Fields?
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What is the relationship between elastic forces and relativity?
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Calculate Minimum Water Depth for Safe Cliff Jumping | Physics Help Needed
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Phase Velocity of Plasma Wave > c
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What is the significance of potential in physics?
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What was Einstein's Unification Theory?
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Ice Melts, Water Level Changes in Beaker
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Will particle accelerators destroy the Earth?
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Really n00bish beginners' question about motion
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Weightlessness on Earth's Surface
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Speed & Stability: Bicycle Dynamics Explained
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How can hydrogen be used as a fuel for cars?
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How can the force of impact on a falling spring mass system be calculated?
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Coefficient of friction in soap?
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Measure Object Stability with Velocity and Disturbance
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Diff eq of mechanical system w/ friction with zero input
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How does sound resonance work?
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How does changing the moment of inertia affect angular velocity when spinning?
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Why wouldn't this device work?
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Why is lifting a fast travelling bike harder?
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Conservation of Energy in different inertial frames
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Free Fall Scenario: 100kg Piston Kinetic Energy After 20m Drop
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Velocity Acceleration and Gravity
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Velocity of propagation in lossy media
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Momentum and law of conversation of momentum.
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What Happens When a Projectile Is Fired Opposite to a Moving Car?
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Car moving at a constant velocity and many other questions on KE
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Question on rotation of a thin rod.
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Block on Inclined Plane: The Effects of a Fixed vs. Unfixed Surface
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Counting Time: Can Someone Help?
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What happens to your body when rotating a seat in a rocket at high acceleration?
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Pressure on Liquids: Where Does the Force Come From?
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Are There Any Particle Accelerators in Houston?
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Proof of Poincare Recurrence Theorem
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Can Wheels Increase Velocity When Separated From Vehicle?
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Perpetual Motion: Ideas & Input Welcome
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Position Vector: Why Does it Always Point Radially Outward?
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What is the formula for calculating pressure as a function of height?
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Question about centrifugal force and Bernoulli's law.
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A Hairy Ride - Motorcycle Physics
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How do you calculate pressure in a plasma?
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Angular momentum without rotational energy?
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Projectile Force Composition Help
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Velocity of mechanical waves
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Is Acceleration Measured on the Proof Mass or the Surface?
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Understanding Potential Energy Change in Constant Speed Motion
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Free Fall or What? Weight Change Explained
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Ballistics, trajectory and jerk.
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Power in Circuits: Voltage, Current, & Lost Power
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For Those Good In Physics water Level Problem.
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Photon Momentum: How Can It Exist With No Mass?
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Simple Hydraulics & Pressure trouble
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Measuring the potential of the atmosphere
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Friction coefficient and pressure
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Understanding the Relationship Between Drag Force and Velocity in Physics
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Kinematic Analysis: Solving the Challenge of Box Friction with a Smaller Object
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Can Decibels Measure Sound Wave Loudness?
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Sound waves distorted in certain speaker enclosures?
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Bouncing a ball force calculation
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How does it know the potential difference between the two objects?
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Supercooling Water: How To Keep Liquid Below Freezing
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Is the damage from a collision affected by the speed of the vehicles involved?
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Gravity, Light, and the Earth's Orbit: A Newbie's Questions
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Mysterious Lagrangian mechanics
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Underwater Currents & Wave Speed - Philipp's Question
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Understanding Momentum Conservation in a Closed System: A Question Explained
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Normalising a velocity spectrum
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(INTERSTING)question aboutNewton law of motion
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Gravity car wheel radius selection
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Centripetal Force: Spinning, Ejected Matter & Velocity
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Why Can't the Motorcycle's Contact Point with the Wall Serve as a Pivot?
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Accelerating Time: Examining the Link Between Space & Time
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Can Different Radii of Pipes Affect the Height of Liquid in a Tank?
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Terminal Velocity of Projectile
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Why Doesn't the Moon Fall When Orbiting Earth?
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Discovering Gravity: Newton's Observations and Laws Explained
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Period of simple orbit in central potential
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Can High-Speed Travel Really Allow Objects to Pass Through Walls?
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Calculating Constant Rate of Deceleration
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What Causes the Transition from Water Pillars to Drops in Wet Hair?
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