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Undergrad Effect of Breaking Mass on SHM Time Period & Amplitude
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High School Why Does a Nickel Transfer Kinetic Energy Differently to a Penny Than to a Wall?
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Undergrad Brake Shaft Bending: Causes & Gyroscopic Effects
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Undergrad Momentum problem - answer doesn't work
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Undergrad Mass and Force distribution between two legs
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Undergrad Conceptual Understanding - simple
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Undergrad AZING SPIN: How English Spin Affects Billiard Ball Rebound
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Undergrad Help Needed: Deriving Expressions for Mass-Spring System
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Undergrad What is the true impact speed when two cars collide head-on at 50mph?
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Undergrad How are force and pressure related in a hydraulic system?
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High School Added force in a line of people pushing
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Undergrad An object moves towards another object, which moves in straight line
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High School Calculate the speed of other car
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Graduate Inertia of Isolated Mass: Can it be Defined?
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Graduate Energy conservation for a relativistic doppler shifted pulse
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Undergrad The velocity of two objects as they meet
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Graduate Are Fictituous Forces Conservative?
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High School Question about squaring velocity
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Undergrad How to determine the force absorbed by an object in a collision?
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Graduate Collision of Nuclie: Effects & Particles Created
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High School Speed of waves in different media.
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Undergrad Pascal's Paradox: Pressure Differences Explained
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Undergrad VB Code for Simulating Pendulum Swing Frequency & Baseline Changes
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High School Understanding Water Vapors and Their Temperature in Air
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High School Calculating Force Needed to Push 40in PVC Pipe Over
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Undergrad Do Fractals have anything to do with Brownian motion?
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Graduate Power Expantion in Lagrangian Derivation
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Undergrad Using chilled air to cool water
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High School Something wrong with the equations of work
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High School What is the formula for final velocity that has time in it?
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Undergrad Power Formula & Net Work: Is It Possible?
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Graduate Elastic collision momentum transfer
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Graduate How Does a Frictionless Pulley Influence Acceleration in Connected Masses?
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Undergrad Calculating Kinetic Energy of an Object Falling from Space
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Undergrad Understanding Vertical Circular Motion: Why Do We Set Normal Force to Zero?
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Graduate Why do rotating bodies continue to spin without an external torque?
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Graduate Spinning Bycle wheel on string (precession)
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Undergrad Air Cannon Projectile Velocity Calculations help please
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Graduate Why Do Spinning Tops Behave Differently in Theory and Reality?
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Graduate Breaking the sound barrier underwater?
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Graduate Is This Equation Correct? p² = p₀² + 2mΔk
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Undergrad Rolling Ball on a Horizontal Bar with Angular Velocity ω
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Graduate Something I don't understand with 2 moving masses
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Undergrad Formula for acceleration between to object.
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Undergrad Normal force calculation
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Undergrad What is a pseudo vector (in the context of torque) ?
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Undergrad Collision between alpha particle and helium atom
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Graduate A question that has been perplexing me for a while.
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High School Can Physics Explain the Secrets Behind Card Magic Tricks?
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Graduate What is the relationship between constant speed rolling motion and friction?
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Graduate Two-Mass Spring System: Find Position of Second Mass as a Function of Time
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Graduate How Does a Leaking Tank-Wagon Move and What Is Its Final Velocity?
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Graduate Why is there a wiwj at the end in the kinetic energy expression?
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Undergrad What is the ending pressure of the Helium gas?
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High School Frictional Force: Reaction Force & Turning Cars
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Undergrad How do I derive the projectile parabola equation using equations of motion?
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Undergrad Calculating Force Needed for Maglev Track: Mechanics Help Needed
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Graduate How Does a Holographic Grating Work?
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High School Calculating Force of a Free Falling Weight: 500 lb Steel Ball
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Graduate High Pressure Valve Opening - Collision Mechanics
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Graduate Boltzmann collision term irreversibility
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Undergrad Changing a planets rotation speed
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Undergrad [Paradox] Spring, work, force problem
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High School How do you derive this formula?
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Undergrad Calculating Torque on a Shaft: What Factors Need to be Considered?
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Graduate Angular Acceleration Differential
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High School How does a rocket launch straight up?
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Undergrad Calculating G-Force in Ski Jumping: 40m Radius, 37 to 9 Degrees
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High School Self-Spinning Seat Solution for Remigiusz
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Graduate Jumping in a Moving Box: Effects of Acceleration and Vacuum Conditions
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Graduate Airfoil lift in superfluid flow
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Graduate Pumping fluid against a centrifugal force
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High School Which Distance is Correct for a Free Falling Object?
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Undergrad Generating Power with a Motor and Generator Setup
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Undergrad Potential energy greater total energy in the system?
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High School Is this the correct way to find power?
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Undergrad What is the effect of conveyor belt inertia on the movement of a ball?
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Graduate Why does the spinning book have an unstable axis?
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High School What is the difference between Potential and Potential energy?
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Graduate Understanding the Contradiction: Point Charge near Grounded Conducting Sphere
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Undergrad Effect of Multiple Springs with Different Spring Constants on Plate Compression
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Graduate Gravity & Momentum: Direction's Role in Observation
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High School Throwing a Baseball to Break the Sound Barrier?
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Undergrad How do digital cameras capture images using the photoelectric effect?
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Undergrad Negative Gravity? Is GPE Really -mgh?
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Undergrad Partial pressure and liquid water
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Undergrad Earth's Gyroscopic Effect: Does it Cause Tilt?
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Undergrad Roller Coaster Physics: Finding Final Velocity
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High School A question about the motion of a flying insect inside a moving vehicle
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Undergrad Physics and Weight Training Questions
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Undergrad Does temperature affect a spring's properties underwater?
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High School Resultant Force Help: Converting m/s to mph
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Undergrad Why Does a Ruler Rise Up a Pencil When Swung at Higher Frequencies?
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Undergrad Is the Speed of Sound the Limit of Cause and Effect in a Medium?
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High School Why Does a Pendulum's Motion Change Direction Over Time?
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High School Solve Force F Applied to Objects with Masses m₁ and m₂
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Undergrad Vectors were introduced because they help physicists specify laws
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High School Could you walk across a swimming pool filled w/ ping pong balls?
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High School Confused by radial vs. centripetal acceleration
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Graduate How can the lift equation be derived using Bernoulli's law?
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