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Graduate Hydrogen tank de-pressurisation
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Undergrad Solving projectile motion equations
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Undergrad Is E = E(in) - E(out) + E(generated) a valid expression for energy conservation?
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Undergrad Falling down a hole through the Earth.
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Graduate Legendre transformation of the CR3BP equations
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Undergrad How do turbo molecular pumps create ultra-high vacuum levels?
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Graduate Compute Buoyancy Force on Irregular 3D Model in Real Time
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Undergrad Calculating muzzle speed from bullet drop without a chronograph
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High School What is the best place to put your hands on a steering wheel?
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Undergrad Induction motor starting direction
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Graduate How can something have both a constant speed and a precise location?
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Undergrad What happen to a Fly floating in the air when the train start moving
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Undergrad How much time does it take to the floor to stop a falling book?
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Undergrad How do I calculate the torque needed for a rotating cylinder?
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Undergrad Desert island, how to find weight
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High School How to Calculate Weight and Force in Physics: Astronaut Case Study
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High School Perpetual Motion Machine Question
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High School Calculating Force of Drag on Paper Helicopters
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Undergrad Robot Arm Design: Calculating Torque Needed
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Graduate Symmetry behind Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector conservation?
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Undergrad Question related to tv show How the Universe Works
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Undergrad Helium Balloon Problem: Understanding Acceleration & Wind Effects | Klockan3
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Undergrad Where did I go wrong in deriving potential energy?
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Undergrad What if I filled my vehicle with helium
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Undergrad Calculating Spring Constant of Compressed Air | Pneumatic Springs
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Undergrad Physics of Jumping: How Force Affects Height
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Graduate Chemical potential in ideal gas (does it have meaning ?)
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Graduate Pressure inside a car cabing lower than atm. ?
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High School Is the acceleration due to gravity positive or negative
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Undergrad Calculating new torque on a modified wrench
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High School Why Does Water Circle a Sink Hole?
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High School Atmospheric pressure is always exert on downward direction?
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Undergrad Can weight=atmospheric pressure*mass
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High School An flying object needs lift,but this lift is like buoyant force in air?
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Undergrad Acceleration of a mass hanging from a pulley problem
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Graduate [Irodov 1.65] Bar on top of a plank on a frictionless surface with a var. force.
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate the Mass at the Impaction Point of a Swinging Hammer?
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Undergrad Does Vacuum Hydrous Pyrolysis Lower Organic Decomposition Temperatures?
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Undergrad Is it possible to create an air compressor that can deliver 2000lbs of force?
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High School What happen to the kinetic and potential energy during the boiling and melting?
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Graduate Cleaning chromatography columns and hydrodynamics
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Undergrad Non Newtonian Fluids: Why & How Do They Respond to Stress?
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Undergrad Linear acceleration to angular acceleration
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Graduate Using Simulation for Graph Visualization
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Undergrad Light Speed: Photons & Bending - Educate Me
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Undergrad Why does a bullet cause more damage than the backfire of a gun?
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Graduate Water Phase Diagram: Is Vapour-Ice Coexistence at 0K, 0Pa?
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Undergrad Tracking the motion of spheres
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Undergrad Understanding for group velocity and phase velocity?
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High School Why speed is required to stay in air?
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Undergrad Reducing Resistance in Electrofusion Couplings for Steel Pipes
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Undergrad Build a Pasta Bridge: Physics Challenge & Tutorials
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High School Egg drop with two straws and 3 sheets of paper
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Undergrad What are the constraint forces on a circle with a particle?
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Undergrad Tension or is it to hard to work out with physics ?
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Graduate Work done by the gravitational force
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High School Is Normal Force Relevant in Frictionless Scenarios?
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Undergrad Physics of Passengers on an Airplane
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Undergrad How Does a Child's Spring Toy Car Transform Backward Motion into Forward Speed?
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High School How can I tell if a given car can go from 0 to x MPH over a distance of d feet?
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Graduate Stress tensor and viscosity relation
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Undergrad How Does Air Pressure and CFM Affect Performance in a Racecar Scoop?
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Undergrad Can 600 Tons of Force Be Applied with Two 300 Ton Cylinders?
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Undergrad High speeds due to gravitaional forces
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High School Something strange about new york city subways
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High School What Will Happen to a Fan in Space?
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Undergrad Help with understanding gravity and why some things float?
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Undergrad Vertical Movement: Alternatives to Using a Cam
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Undergrad Exploring the Earth's Center: Ball Drop Speed vs Distance Plot
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Undergrad Van de Graaff Generator in a Vacuum
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Undergrad Speed of wind turbine to the speed of air
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High School Does something weigh less 1km under the ground?
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Undergrad Calculate Position in 3D Space with Force and Impulse
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Undergrad Carnival ride Centripetal force question
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Graduate Is the conservation of energy a statistical phenomena?
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Graduate Is the Force on an Object in a Non-Inertial Frame Always Fictitious?
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Undergrad Interesting kinematics problem.
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Graduate Time required to empty a liquid filled contaier through an orifice
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Graduate Paradox in isentropic expansion? (statistical mechanics)
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Graduate Density constant along streamline of incompressible fluid
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Graduate Calculating energy produced by induction generator
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Undergrad Need clarification about two-force member
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Graduate Diffusion equation from random motion
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Undergrad Goldstein - CM - chapter guidance?
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High School What is the concept of work in physical science?
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Undergrad Rotation of a solid body about CM?
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Graduate Lagrangian mechanics - Euler Lagrange Equation
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Undergrad Questions about statics, mechanics, pulleys
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Undergrad Is the force on a moment/torque carried?
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Undergrad Invariant of Motion: Understand in Plain English
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High School Where does the energy come from to support things?
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High School Unexpected change in potential difference across a parallel circuit
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High School What's going on when the pendulum swings?
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Undergrad What is the force distribution in a string wave?
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Undergrad All Possible Forces Known To Man
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Graduate Directional (ultra)sound speakers
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Graduate Help me overcome my coriolis confusion (probably silly)
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High School Can a 1/60th Scale Model Locomotive Truly Mimic the Original's Performance?
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Undergrad Surface Tension Help i Cant Understand
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Undergrad Flywheel & Energy: Calculating Efficiency
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