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Undergrad Speed of sound through a plate
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High School Velocity of Thrown Ball: 2.0m/s - Physics Q&A
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Undergrad Work, Velocity & Force vectors Help
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Undergrad General Acceleration/Tension Question
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Undergrad Where Does Energy Go When You Push a Moving Truck?
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High School Help me build the fastest downhill cart
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High School How to calculate potential energy of water in a tank?
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Graduate Has Statistical Mechanics Produced Any Results on Self-Organization?
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High School What Happens to Energy When You Throw a Rock?
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Undergrad Spring constant- calculating velocity
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Undergrad Gravitational forces between 2 masses
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Undergrad Does lifting an object higher increase its potential energy?
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Undergrad Understanding the Relationship Between Work and Kinetic Energy in Calculus
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Graduate Calculating Air Flow Within a Pipe
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High School Would a wind turbine on a moving car generate energy efficiently?
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Undergrad Projectile Motion: two positive times?
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High School Explaining Bicycle Gear Ratios to Non-Physicists
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Graduate How does anomalous dispersion affect the group and phase velocity of light?
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Undergrad How does an inertial force affect water movement in an open channel?
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Graduate 3d parabola (projectile motion) to hit a target on an arbitrary plane
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Undergrad Is Force Ever a Function of Acceleration in Classical Mechanics?
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Graduate Understanding the Double-Well Potential in Protein Electron Transfer
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High School How Can I Calculate My Target's Distance?
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Graduate Conservation of Energy in a Gyroscope Thought Experiment
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Graduate Galilean Relativity & Inertial Frames
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Undergrad Which unit of pressure is used in the ideal gas law?
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Undergrad Acceleration perpendicular to velocity in 2D
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High School Base Diameter of a standing pole
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Undergrad Calculating Force of Drag Using the Reynolds Number
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Undergrad How can acceleration affect fuel efficiency in a 1991 Geo Metro?
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Undergrad Can a golf ball gain speed when it goes round the hole and doesn't drop?
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Undergrad Surface tension of water against a gas not being air
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Undergrad Swing mass overhead - forces involved
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High School Calculate Speed & Acceleration for Weights Dropped from 10m
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Graduate Slippery finger pushing on a large drum head.
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Graduate Proving Conservation Laws for Galilean Boosts - Norm
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Undergrad Axis of Figure: Rigid Bodies, Rotation & MOI
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High School Can Wi-Fi reach a swimmer in a fresh water pool?
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High School How to measure the force of a squeeze
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High School How do you calculate a force of a object that is not accelerating
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Graduate Calculating Archimede Force Work to Inflate an Underwater Syringe
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Graduate Why does particle displacement A increase sound pressure?
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Graduate Is there a book(source) wich describes fluid mechanics from n-s equations?
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Graduate Drive Motor Requirements for Gearing/Torque Transfer
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Undergrad Make a Brushless DC Motor this way?
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Graduate Why does Newtonian mechanics include relative motion between inertial frames?
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High School Can a Spring Be Used for Energy Storage?
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Graduate Is Newtonian Mechanics more general than Hamiltonian Mechanics?
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High School Is it possible for electricity to jump a vacuum gap?
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Undergrad Cone or Cylinder: Which Will Collapse First in a Landslide?
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High School Falcons, Planes & Vortices: A 15yr olds Guide
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Undergrad Harmonic oscillator with/without gravity
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High School How Can Sound Waves Detect If Cars Exceed Speed Limits?
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Undergrad Rotation about the Center of Mass
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Graduate Mechanical Paradox: Weightless Rod w/ Wheel & Weight
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High School Is it possible to separate the 3 elements in cloth Carbon,oxygen and Hydrogen
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High School Why do we lean when carrying heavy objects
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Undergrad Circular Motion: Perpendicular Force & Velocity Change Explained Quickly
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Undergrad Calculation of tank height based on flow rate
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Undergrad Can I Spin in Zero-G Without Moving Laterally?
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Undergrad How do IR goggles create the illusion of seeing in the dark?
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High School Strange Observation of Ink in Ball Point Pen
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Undergrad Rotational Motion and torque problem
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Graduate Newton's laws in variable mass systems
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Graduate Why Does Minimizing the Action Describe the Path of a System?
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Undergrad Dynamo Drag: Does Adding a Coil Increase Resistance?
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High School Negative wire when jumping start a car
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Graduate How do I determine the minus sign in gauge transformations?
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High School Help (pic) Force of impact. Launched vs Dropped. Same height.
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Undergrad HiIf the moment of inertia exist to resist a body to change from its
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Undergrad Ineresting thought on earth's speed and rotation.
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Graduate Is Group Velocity Dispersion Infinite for Light in Air?
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Undergrad Why do hydrogen and atom bombs have such force?
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Undergrad What are the key concepts in rocket dynamics?
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Undergrad Coriolis Acceleration and Inertial Frame
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Undergrad What is the upper limit of harmonics in standing waves?
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High School Why is it that it's the gravitational force that keeps me on the ground?
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High School Classical Physics: Is Research Still Ongoing?
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High School How on earth can a piece of paper stand vertically on a single corner?
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Graduate Two interacting bodies in an external field
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High School Slowly walking in the rain or running fast?
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Undergrad Time & Bearing of Ships A & B 120 Miles Apart
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High School Does Throwing Distance Equal Arm Strength in Football?
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Graduate Where does the potential energy go?
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Graduate Intro to Continuum Mechanics: Explaining Rotation
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Undergrad What is this object called? It deals with Pressure.
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Undergrad Collision: Final velocities of two particles, calculated from impulse
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Undergrad How does force and tension affect the outcome of the inertial ball experiment?
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High School Increasing wave speed on a tring
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Undergrad Understanding Rocket Energy Expenditure: A Scientific Analysis
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High School How does a cup move on its own when pouring hot water into it?
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High School Vector Subtraction: S-T Magnitude Explained
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Graduate Propagation velocity of transverse wave on a bar
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Graduate Additivity of lagrangian and constraints on multiplication by arbitrary const
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Graduate Understanding the Body Frame of a Spinning Symmetric Top
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Undergrad Is the trajectory of a ball with friction calculable?
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Undergrad Will Aliens from High-Gravity Planets Move Faster on Earth?
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Undergrad Why is the surface of a conductor equipotential?
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Graduate Deriving the Electric Potential of a Hollow Sphere with Isotropic Surface Charge
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Graduate Coordinate conjugate to momentum.
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