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Undergrad Sound Absorption Experiment: Research and Testing
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Undergrad Conservation of energy during compression?
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Is this scientific idea really feasible?
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Undergrad Why thrust decreases then increases with velocity?
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High School Constructing the Perfect Egg Drop Device
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Graduate Why is solving the 3-body mechanical problem considered impossible?
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Graduate Crash of two cars: What was the speed of car 1 at imact?
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Graduate A hypothesis of the basic working of the physical reality.
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High School Physics Suggestions - Over my user level
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High School What is the physical significance of work?
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Undergrad Angular Momentum: Disk + Point Mass at Margin
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Graduate How Does Photon Momentum Conservation Work in Light Reflection and Scattering?
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Undergrad Work Calculations: Lift Object w/ Force > Weight?
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High School Hello everyone, first time post here. Before the question, a brief
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Undergrad Perfectly Elastic Collisions in 2 Dimensions with Round Objects
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Undergrad What Determines the Maximum Normal Force a Table Can Exert Before Breaking?
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High School Could an open window make opening a door easier?
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Undergrad Contradictory FBD's for simple pulley problem
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Graduate Applicability of Bernoulli's principle to ideal gases
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Undergrad Sound Power Question: How Much Energy Is Needed?
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Undergrad Parallel Plates and Potential Difference
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High School What effect does a nuke have underwater?
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Undergrad When an object hits the ground - ?
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Graduate Calculating Balloon Range and Altitude
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Undergrad As close to perpetual motion as we might ever get.
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Undergrad Conservation of Energy: Why Does One Planet Moving Violate It?
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Undergrad Static friction constant and Kinetic friction constant
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High School Understanding Scalar, Vector and Distance Terms
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Graduate Calculating Fluid Friction in a Spiraling Tube of Varying Diameter and Shape
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High School Newton's 1st Law: Proving Equal Forces Acting on a Box
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Undergrad Understanding Rocket Motion: Conservation of Momentum and Gravity's Impact
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Graduate Is Warp Drive Possible and What Power Would It Require?
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Graduate Balance proves gravity isn't a force
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Undergrad How Does Angling a Steel Target Affect Bullet Deflection and Energy Absorption?
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Undergrad Question about satellites falling 'around' Earth
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Graduate Accelerations and rates at a far away point.
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Undergrad The Physics of Rotation: Why Does It Happen?
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Undergrad Is Half the Energy from a Cannon's Recoil Wasted?
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Undergrad Bernoulli's principle with venturi effect
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High School What would happen inside a spacecraft with no power?
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Graduate Post collision angular and linear and velocities of a rotating sphere
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High School Why does the water level in a glass flask first decrease and then increase?
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Graduate Lagrangian Mechanics: Degree of Freedom & Constraints
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Undergrad Earth's rotation and geosynchronous satellites
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Undergrad Chadwick's experiment and proton velocity
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Graduate Car Crash Physics: Comparing Head-On Collisions & Relativity
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High School Lets make something fly How to build a plane
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High School Why Can You Balance a Bicycle in Motion But Not When Stationary?
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High School How do hammer and nails transfer energy?
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate Resulting Velocity Vectors in 3D Collisions?
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Undergrad Leveraging with opposite forces
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Undergrad Degree of freedom of two point mass
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High School Motion/Rest: Definition & Explanation
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Undergrad What happens to Newton's 2nd law if there is a changing mass?
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High School Calculating Force with F=MA: Simple Physics Question
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Undergrad Air pressure dependent water evaporation
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Undergrad What Could Cause the Atmosphere to Hold More Water?
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Undergrad Finding Range of the Projectile
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Undergrad Where Does Ball Lose Contact on Ramp?
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Undergrad Initial velocity of air from tank
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Graduate Doubt regarding constants. Elastic Beam Theory.
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Undergrad Spinning Top Dancer: Moment of Inertia?
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High School Understanding Equilibrium: Analyzing Two Boxes in Balance
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High School Watch 8th Star Trek Movie - Champagne Bottle Impact
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Graduate Calculate Gravitational Field on Torus Using Gauss' Law
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Graduate 1D three-body problem (with spherical shell)
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Undergrad Could Lucy's Train Antics Really Happen According to Physics?
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Undergrad Simple Harmonic Motion with Springs that have Mass
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Graduate 1D three-body problem (with spherical shell)
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High School Water pressure in multiple tanks
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Undergrad How does force decomposition help us understand the physics of friction?
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Graduate Multiple Rotating Masses in Revolution
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Graduate Accelaration of gravity g(t)=?
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Undergrad Graph of Magnetic Flux for DC Motor from 0-360
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Undergrad Looking for a compressed air formula
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Undergrad Rotating a marble in a glass tube ?
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High School Explain when will upthrust change?
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Undergrad Calculating Torque for Rotating Disk on Flat Surface
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Undergrad Can Spin Angular Momentum Keep Satellites Oriented Towards Earth?
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Graduate How does the rate of change in mass affect the motion of a system?
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Graduate Proving rotational motion using Newton's laws
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Graduate Resolving the Paradox in Deriving Gravitational Potential Energy Function
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Undergrad Why is moment of inertia varyiing with the square of the radius?
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High School Opposing forces but opposite travel = no work?
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Graduate What are the central pillars of classical mechanics?
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Undergrad Modelling forces acting on a sail
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Undergrad Bernoulli's principle and the 3rd law of motion
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High School What Are the Key Differences Between 2D and 1D Projectile Motion?
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High School How can Newton's Laws be applied to the motion of a bus and a person on it?
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Undergrad Torque and segmented lever arms
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Graduate Potential Inside Cube: What Is the Center's Potential?
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Graduate Falling chimney internal torque
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Undergrad Calculation of angular acceleration (two rotating frames)
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Undergrad Liquid in a vertical pipe open at the lower end and closed at the top
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Undergrad Calculating torque for a bent lever
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Perpetual Motion Balls: Buy & Learn What You Need
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Graduate Poisson Brackets: A Simple Example in Classical Mechanics
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Undergrad Can the Fosbury Flop Technique Overcome a Wall?
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Graduate Counterbalancing the tilt of earth
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Undergrad Find Axle of Rotation for Force on Rocket in Space
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