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Graduate Is Turbulence Necessary for Lift on a Wing?
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High School Does sound pass through bricks? Can I deflect sound away?
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Undergrad Is Mechanical Energy Conservation Free of Ambiguity?
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Undergrad How far do gamma rays extend from an accelerator?
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Graduate Potential Flow Theory: Circulation and the Kutta-Jukowski Theorem
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Undergrad Laminar-turbulent transition and Reynolds number
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Undergrad Why Doesn't the Ball Rotate When Hit by a Pivoting Rod?
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Undergrad Does it take longer to accelerate from high speed to higher
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Undergrad Does density of a medium affect the conservation of momentum?
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Graduate Friction loss in water flowing through a globe valve?
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Undergrad Will a vortex form if you pump water up via the bathtub drain?
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Undergrad Raising humidity - how much water is needed?
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High School What is the entire gear reduction ratio of a vehicle?
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Graduate Toy Problem to Understand Products of Inertia?
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High School Where does the torque come from?
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Undergrad Why launching closer to the equator constitutes an advantage
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Undergrad Maximum Strain For Samples of Different Cross-Sectional Areas
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Undergrad General guidelines on the physics of flows at junctions?
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Undergrad Why is a time varying force nonconservative?
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Undergrad Definition of potential energy
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Undergrad Velocity definition and parameter dependence
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Undergrad Constant 1 g acceleration problem
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Graduate 2-Way Interaction between Rotation and Translation
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Graduate Spherical Pendulum - elliptic integral
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High School Help please with a physics bet (2 cars colliding vs. 1 car hitting a wall)
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Undergrad Amplitudes of longitudinal sound waves
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Undergrad Velocity, barrel length and bore volume
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Graduate Momentum conversion drive possible ?
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Graduate Can the Electric Field Outside a Conductor Have a Tangential Component?
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Undergrad Tippe Top Animation: Real-Time Motion Simulation
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Undergrad Stability of circular orbits in an arbitrary central force field
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Graduate Empirical and Definitional Content of Newton's Laws
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Undergrad Ball hits a pivoting rod, what torque changes the angular momentum of the ball?
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High School When is the parallel axis theorem not appliable?
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Undergrad Is it possible to have water levels at different heights without a pump?
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Graduate Discontinuity of velocity in a problem on mass flow and momentum
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Undergrad Can You Explain the Mystery of 9.8m/s^2 Acceleration on Earth?
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Graduate Constraints in Rotation Matrix
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Graduate Counter-intuitive 2D collision
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High School Is there a way to calculate the Drag coefficient from any given object?
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High School Significance of the solution of the Euler-Lagrange equation
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Graduate Expressing Elliptic Orbitals As Speed Functions.
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Graduate Work done by irreversible and reversible processes
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Graduate Can a Spinning Astronaut Use a Tethered Bowling Ball to Gain Motion in Space?
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Undergrad Rosetta orbits and phase space
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Graduate Exhaustive Projectile Analysis
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Undergrad Problem about uniform thin disk
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Undergrad Why don't we consider Earth's forces/movement in problems?
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High School How scientists calculated the weight of Mars
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Graduate Can We Cancel the Derivative of dt in These Equations?
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Undergrad Normal Stress Vectors: Sketch 1 vs Sketch 2
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Graduate How to Calculate Final Pressure in a CO2-Saturated Sealed Vessel?
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Graduate Landau vol.1 Mechanics: Expansion of L' and Dependence on Velocity
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Graduate Origin of the "underpressure" or "negative phase" in a blast wave
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Undergrad How do I determine I for a truncated cone in the bending of a Stylus Shaft?
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Graduate Is this a valid way to calculate capillary force / pressure?
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Graduate Crank Journal Turning w/ Attached Bar: Does it Ever Stop Moving?
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Graduate Must the limits on the propagation speed of waves refer to a media?
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Undergrad Mars: estimations about its colonization - liquid water issue
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Undergrad Lagrangian and the Euler Lagrange equation
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Undergrad Understanding Stress in Pipe Walls: Impact of Internal Air Pressure
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High School Why do we need a separate center of gravity idea when we have CoM?
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Undergrad When a bird flaps it's wings up, doesn't the pressure drop below?
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Undergrad Assistance with Sound Wave Reduction/Amplification Experiment
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Graduate Energy Conservation and the Dragons (Game of Thrones)
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Undergrad Stationary waves in a vertical rope
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High School Hypothetical Gravity Question #2
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Graduate Randomizing phases of harmonics
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Graduate Question about Particle disintegration (Landau mechanics page 43)
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Undergrad Confusion About Rotational Motion
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Graduate Gravitational potential energy -- Why is it always negative?
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Graduate Orbital and spin angular velocity?
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Graduate Should angular velocities always be referred to frames?
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High School Control volumes and Reynolds transport theorem
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Undergrad What happens when a car turns?
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High School Gun Recoil: Will Wall Impact Momentum & Velocity?
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Undergrad Stresses Caused By Deformation For Bending
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Graduate Car in corner -- relative airflow
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Undergrad Downhill Bicycle Braking Question
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Graduate Motion when 2D forces are exerted on masses at each end of a baton?
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Graduate How do I read this equation for air friction/drag on an object?
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Graduate Derive Newtonian gravity from symmetry?
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High School Why do beats sound pleasing to the ears?
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Graduate How Does the Action-Reaction Principle Apply to a Screw Fastener and Nut?
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High School Action-Reaction forces and angles
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High School Question about Action-Reaction Forces
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Graduate Energy conservation .... contradiction?
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Graduate Calculating Final Positions & Velocities for M1, M2 & Spring After DeltaT
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Graduate Rectilinear movement seen from a rotating reference frame
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Graduate Surface Tension - Using hot soapy water to wash clothes
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Graduate What is the Relationship Between Time and Force in Particle Motion?
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Graduate Understanding the Tomlinson Model of Sliding Friction
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High School If a wheel gets rid of friction, how does it move?
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Undergrad Can We Travel Close to the Speed of Light?
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Undergrad Using Half of a Dome for Whispering Gallery Effect?
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Graduate Has the time "dimension" no spatial extension?
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Graduate The Lagrange–d'Alembert principle for rigid bodies
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Graduate Estimation of the power in a received radio signal
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Graduate Bernoulli’s equation for a rotating fluid
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High School Why does Greiner call them theorems?
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