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Undergrad Motional EMF for loops of wire vs conducting plates
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Undergrad On Bodies Moving with a Constant Velocity
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Undergrad Radius vector in cylindrical coordinates
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Graduate Internal forces converting kinetic into potential energy (vice versa)
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High School Can I Generate Energy from Lakes to Clean and Revitalize My Backyard?
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Graduate Stress point calculation some practical help
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Graduate Stat-mech: Quadratic composition dependence
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High School Example of conservative and non conservative force
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Graduate Statically indeterminate systems
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Undergrad How does capillary action of a liquid not violate energy conservation?
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Undergrad What is the Lagrangian with constraint forces?
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Graduate Bubbles in a falling glass of champagne
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Graduate What is the purpose of modal analysis?
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Undergrad Will an AUV Ascend and Descend at the same rate?
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Graduate Understanding the Uniqueness of Retarded Time in Electromagnetism
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Graduate Conservative forces, Nonconservative forces and Potential Energy
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Graduate Prove forces of semiholonomic constraints do no virtual work
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Undergrad Wheel physics -- which scooter would be easiest to get to school and back?
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Graduate KE of off-center impacts in rotating and translating rigid bodies
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Sound transmission to the brain
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High School What are the units for inertia?
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Undergrad Relative volume of combusted hydrogen
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Undergrad What is the relationship between Flow Rate and Pressure
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Graduate Bernoulli-induced errors in altimeters
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Undergrad Proportionality theorem and projectile motion
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High School Keep that wheel a-turnin' -- How much energy is required?
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Graduate What is the physics behind line vortices and their equations of motion?
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Undergrad What is the relationship between work and potential energy?
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High School What is the purpose of a cosmology accelerator?
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High School Does ice melt faster in water because helps to change the phase
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High School How to Find the Center of a Ball Moving Forward
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Undergrad Water analogy in Particle Physics
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Graduate Lagrangian function of a double undamped pendulum
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Undergrad Calculus and Kinematic equations--- seeing the logic
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Undergrad Does Teaching by Numbers Limit Understanding of Elasticity in Rubber Bands?
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High School How can I determine the parabola of a projectile?
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Graduate Nonholonomic mechanics in Landau and Lifshitz
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High School What Other Types of Motion Exist Beyond Translation, Rotation, and Oscillation?
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Undergrad Rotational Work versus Linear Work
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Graduate Torque and Moment of Inertia of a Lever Arm
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Undergrad What are the effects of Buoyancy & G-force combined in this scenario?
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Graduate Brachistochrone Problem w/ Initial Velocity
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Undergrad Is Newton's third law valid for rotation / Torque?
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High School Thrust vs Gravity: What's Missing?
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Graduate Does a statistical mechanics of classical fields exist?
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High School Simple forces described in terms of fundamental forces
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Graduate Free body diagrams, coordinate systems origin/orientation
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High School Is the Braking Force of a Truck Really 0.8?
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Undergrad Gyroscope, Gimbals Frame, lack of precession
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Graduate Analytical Mechanics: Regularity Conditions on Constraint Surface
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Undergrad Signal Transmission Using Sound Waves
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Graduate Does Fluid Dynamics Explain Pressure Gradients in a Frictionless Tube?
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Graduate Circular and linear freefall
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Undergrad Help with deriving the formula for kinetic energy (using calculus)
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High School Question about venturimeter formula
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Graduate Vertical beam on a frictionless surface
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Undergrad What are angular momentum and torque?
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Undergrad Orbits from Impacts: Can Projections Achieve Orbit?
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Undergrad How will the pitch of a string change when I stretch it? (sound)
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Undergrad Are Olympic weightlifting records based on mass or weight?
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Undergrad Pressure experiment with a burning straw protruding from a hole in a bottle
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High School Damage by tire blowing up at 203 mph
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Graduate Calculating torque from moment results in CFD analysis
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Undergrad How to calculate the impact of a police K9
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Undergrad Seemingly Simple Kinematics Question
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Graduate Relaxation times of molecules during sound propagation
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Graduate Deriving Statistical Behavior of Particles via Classical Mechanics
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Undergrad Is Bernoulli's Theorem an Expression of Energy Density in Fluids?
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Undergrad The relation between impulse and momentum
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High School Discover the Surprising Power of Water: Tap vs. Fire Hose vs. Pressure Washer
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Graduate How does a Western free reed work? (musical instruments)
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High School Rigidity: Number of Newtons Required for a Material
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Undergrad I am confused about the meaning, and value, of kinetic energy
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Video of motorized top - is the explanation correct?
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Undergrad Which area should I use to calculate the force on a submerged surface?
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Undergrad Perceived Weight on Earthlike Planet w/ Faster Rotation
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High School What Forces Cause an Airbag to Jump When Detonated?
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Graduate Angular velocity in terms of Euler angles
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Graduate What Is the Meaning of Thermokinetics?
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Graduate Microcanonical ensemble generalized pressure
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Undergrad Classical mechanics -- Equations for simulating the motion of a body
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Undergrad Physics C: Mechanics - Negative Energy and Potential Energy Curves
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High School Mass of Hanging Rope: Calculate Easily
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Graduate Water Phase Diagram: Mathematically Modeling and Validating
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Graduate Exactly how do pressure waves work at the molecular level?
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Graduate Rotating body viewed from its own rotating ref. frame, then perturbed
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Graduate Conservation of Angular Mometum for a Car/Earth System
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High School Question: can we make wind during motion
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Undergrad Projectile Motion: Achieving a Semicircular Trajectory without Calculus
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Graduate Casimir Effect experiment and implications on motion theory
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Undergrad Why do we add turbulence to the rotating water in our experiment?
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Graduate Bernoulli Principle For Pitot Tubes
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Graduate Coriolis inertial acceleration
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Undergrad What is the free-body diagram for a massless pulley in free fall?
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Graduate Flow of air through an open tube with a balloon
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Graduate Parabolic Pressure Distribution in a Jet
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High School How does the weight on a scale change when an object is submerged in water?
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High School Energy to increase the radius of a circle composed of several disks
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Graduate Inertial Force in Fluid Mechanics
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Undergrad Why we jump with the same initial speed on 2 different planets?
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