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Undergrad Does normal contact force exert torque?
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High School Understanding Negative Velocity: Is Increasing Velocity Always Positive?
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High School Only using 2/3 Motion equations
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Undergrad Question about climbing and fall forces generated
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Graduate A question on The Nature of Gravity in relation to close proximity to earth
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Undergrad Direction of Centrifugal Force?
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Graduate Parabolic Motion: Analyzing Forces & Investigating Results
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Undergrad How Do You Build a Stable Homemade Mini-Blimp?
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High School Can a Pulley System Effectively Lift Patients Out of Bed?
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Undergrad The Physics of Christmas Decorations
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Undergrad Centripetal force ( Swinging a bucket in a vertical motion )
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Undergrad Centripetal Acceleration/Artificial Gravity
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High School Calculating Accelaration Due to Gravity for Year 10 Student
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Undergrad Rocket science, thrusters and spin
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Graduate Fluid Dynamics-D'Alembert's paradox
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Graduate What Causes the Discrepancy in Doppler Shift for Satellites in Orbit?
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Undergrad Does Work Have Infinite Speed in Physics?
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Undergrad Direction of friction when rolling without slipping
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Undergrad Why is the slope of a V2 Vs. X Graph 2a?
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Undergrad Center of Mass of Truck with weights added
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Undergrad Force in relation to angular momentum
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Undergrad How can I calculate the lift of a helium balloon?
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Undergrad The Physics of Fire by Friction
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Undergrad Impulsive Tension: Debunking Its Usefulness in Calculating Momentum Change
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Undergrad Calculating Stream Function of Incompressible Fluid from Velocity
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Graduate Calculating Nozzle Reaction Force for Pressurized Gas Cavity
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High School Does a curveball really curve? or is it just an illusion
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High School What is inertia? What is its source?
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Undergrad Equal Pressure Canister Collapse
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Undergrad How to calculate max velocity of a vehicle from torque and RPM?
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High School Conservative and Non Conservative Forces
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Undergrad If The Sun Turned Completely To Water, Would It Freeze Or Boil?
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Graduate Lattice-gas Monte Carlo Simulation
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High School What are some examples of pressure and depth?
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High School What does vigorously boiling water do?
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Undergrad What could be causing the high energy losses in the pendulum?
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Undergrad Calculating Minimum Shaft Diameter: Factor of Safety vs Maximum Shear Stress?
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Undergrad Why Does Swiping a Card in a Plastic Bag Help It Read at the Checkout?
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Undergrad AA battery to lift 1000kg up 1meter
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High School Measuring Speed Decay - Calculating Time to Stop
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High School Momentum of Wall: 2mv Explained
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High School Conservation of Energy graph help
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Undergrad What Causes a Rod to Slip on a Moving Truck?
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Undergrad Aircraft trajectory from point a to point b
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High School Potential vs Kinetic Energy Graph: Linear or Parabola?
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High School When a ball spins to left, shouldn't it curve right?(hurricane vise)
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High School Understanding Acceleration: Pulling a Box at an Angle
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Undergrad Can we make vehicle motor simulation more realistic?
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High School The Great Egg Drop Contest: Design a Protection Device
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Undergrad Understanding Buoyant Force Measurement with a Regular Scale | Explained
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Graduate How does this circuit technique work?
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High School What are the key steps for drawing a mass-spring free body diagram?
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High School What is the rotation direction of a system with a force applied at point B?
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Undergrad G-Force and Water: Can Submersion Help?
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Undergrad Question about two torques on rigid body.
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Graduate Calculating Distance Wood Block Travels After Spring Released
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Undergrad Rotational Equilibrium Torque about any axis.
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Undergrad Is perpetual motion truly impossible?
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Undergrad Calculate distribution of mass
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High School Is position and resultant vectors are same?
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Undergrad Buoyant Force and Massive G force protection?
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Undergrad Is it Incorrect to Add the Speeds of Players for NFL Helmet-to-Helmet Hits?
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Undergrad Calculating G-Shock of Dropping 5kg Box from 20m
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Undergrad A question about the relationship between power and torque
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Graduate Correcting accelerometer mounting angles
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Undergrad Plumb Bob: Is My Understanding Wrong?
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High School Calculate Centripital Force for Circular Motion
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High School Velocity of particles on a disc
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Undergrad Hulk's Abilities: Examining His Strength, Leaping, and Bullet Endurance
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Undergrad Torque, Internal forces & external forces.
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Car Accident: Need Assistance Please
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Undergrad Equation Manipulation with Differentiation or Integration?
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Graduate What Are Embedded Axis Frames in Euler Equations?
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Undergrad Confused by velocity in spherical coordinates
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Graduate Forces resulting from rotation of a spacecraft.
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High School Zero work when carrying object?
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Graduate Contradicting Effective Potentials for Kepler's Problem
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High School If the Earth were to stop spinning, would we weigh more?
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Undergrad Force Required to move heavy pendulum
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Undergrad What is the Weight Reduction with Each Added Pulley in a Pulley System?
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High School Can you verify if there is a error in the notes or i am just stupid.
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Undergrad Does Torque Affect Acceleration in Motors?
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What force in the universe is the strongest or the most powerful?
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Graduate Discover the Fascinating Physics of the Tippe Top | Princeton Physics Dept.
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High School Why doesn't the moon fall on earth?
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High School Angular,rotational, translational and tangential velocity
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Undergrad How Do I Calculate the Movement of a Ball in Air for My Program?
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Undergrad Spring Force Gauge: Is It Possible to Use a Spring Not Obeying Hooke's Law?
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How Do Iron Man's Repulsor Rays Work?
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Graduate Feynman's vector potential, a physical meaning clue
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Graduate Amplification for Action Potentials
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Undergrad Need some help with Rotational Physics and determining angular velocity.
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Undergrad Rotational stability of an m&m
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High School The Physics Behind Tablecloth Trickery: Newton & Inertia
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High School Build a Vacuum Cannon | Hacked Gadgets
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Undergrad Simple harmonic motion - vibration frequency
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Undergrad Calculating Orbital Period of Satellites
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Undergrad Is Negative Force a Valid Concept in Mechanics?
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Undergrad Proof that the Force of Friction is μmg
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Graduate Two precession rates for a spinning top (forced precession)
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