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Undergrad Understanding Earth's Rotation: Impact on Reference Frames
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Undergrad Angular Acceleration: Rod Mass & Angular Accel
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Undergrad Is it possible to accurately measure the Young's modulus of wood?
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Undergrad Power issues with power drill physics help needed please
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Undergrad Given a curve how to find the damping ratio?
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Undergrad Can someone clarify Wave Power?
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Undergrad Complaining Against Gravity - A New Perspective
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Graduate What Causes Imbalance in Rotating Bodies?
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Graduate Torque losses through gears due to inertia
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Undergrad Finding acceleration of blocks in a pulley system
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Undergrad How much force is required to jump?
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High School Why is the speed of water waves dependent on depth?
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Graduate Solvated ion in water solution with surface effects
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Undergrad Statics Question regarding Joint type & Reactions
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Undergrad Verification of moment of inertia calculation
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Undergrad Does the velocity of a skateboard affect the impact of a flat-landing drop?
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Graduate Foucault Pendulum: Proving Mach's Conjecture?
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Graduate Counter-torque in the gyroscope to oppose the torque
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Undergrad How do i find the direction of impulse in 3d?
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High School Tutorial: Vectors - Basics & Questions
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High School Mass/Weight Conversion on Scales
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Momentum transfer from a transiting bullet
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High School Acceleration of space craft in space?
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Undergrad Gulf Oil Leak: Explaining Pressure & Calculation
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Undergrad Wrapping my mind around vectors?
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Undergrad Difference Between Torque and Moment
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Undergrad Increase of velocity of center of mass of a certain system
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Undergrad Physics is behind how a centrifuge works
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Undergrad Question about angular momentum?
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High School What is the difference between displacement and distance?
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Undergrad Velocity of Head from Car Accident
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Undergrad Question about velocity change
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Undergrad Elastic materials affecting impact
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Undergrad Calculate Volume Flow Rate: Pressure & Speed
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Undergrad Help trying to calculate forces from Pro Wrestlers
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Undergrad How would one caclulate the G forces of the slingshot effect?
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Undergrad Understanding Trampoline Mechanics
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Graduate Does Instant Deceleration Cause a Dragster to Exceed Its Top Speed?
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High School How can we prove that spring constant is always positive?
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Undergrad Where are the Linear Generators?
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High School Ridiculous falling out of an airplane scenario
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High School Calculating Velocity and Its Signs
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Undergrad Disagreement: Who is Right About Rolling Wheel Forces?
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Undergrad Physics of baseball at Coors Field, Denver
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Undergrad Rotating Object Changing Direction
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Undergrad Tides due to the moon vs. the sun?
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Graduate What is the Hooke's Law Equation for a 3D System with Attached Spheres?
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Undergrad The maximum height within a bowl using friction.
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Graduate What is the Mathematical Definition of Differential of Acceleration?
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High School Hologram of a car or skyscaper.Is it possible?
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High School Why does the Cartesian diver sink when the bottle is turned upside down?
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High School Kinetic Energy of Cars: Does 4x Energy Needed for 0-20kph?
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Undergrad Oil spill: Water pressure VS. oil pressure
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Graduate Calculating Torque for Rotational System w/ CoF & Loads
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Graduate Understanding Open Differential Forces
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High School Resultant Force vs. Net Force: Clarifying the Difference
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Graduate A Different Spring/Work Question
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Undergrad You need to move a 500 N box across the floor. You pull on the box
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Undergrad A 70kg object is being pulled up a slope of 30 degrees such that the
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Undergrad Deceleration imposed by friction
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Undergrad Displacement & Pythagorean Theorem: Triangle ABC
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Undergrad Can we imagine that momentum is the total energy stored in the body at
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Undergrad Arbitrary choice of origin when linear momentum is zero
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Graduate Question about conservation of angular momentum around an axis
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Undergrad Calculating Ascension Rate of a Helium Balloon
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High School Is Displacement Always Positive in Two-Dimensional Space?
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Graduate Angular Momentum Question: M_z from Landau-Lifgarbagez p21
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Undergrad 2D motion, asking for distant land,
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Undergrad Hi.I am using a 3 axis accelerometer for motion detection. I can
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Graduate Lagrangian for E and B fields, not vector potential?
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High School Is this equation for acceleration on this website wrong?
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Undergrad Change in speed when water goes from straight line into a curve
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Undergrad Initial Acceleration of a motorcycle
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High School Slowing down the earths rotation and changing the moons orbit
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Undergrad Car on a Banked Curve (no friction)
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Undergrad Centripetal Force: Candle Flame in Vacuum
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High School Is Displacement Zero if I End a 1-Mile Run in the Same Spot?
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Undergrad What is the relationship between force and weight in rotating a disk?
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Undergrad How Can We Calculate the Radius of Gyration for a Rotating Disk?
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Undergrad How to get up/gravity-vector from 3-axis accelerometer data?
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Undergrad Acceleration of falling object on impact
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Undergrad Was Newton able to analyze perfectly elastic collisions?
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Undergrad Dominoes: Proving Zero Loss of Energy
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Graduate Trying to link linear and rotational dynamics
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Graduate Fluid in Equilibrium: Internal Motions, Velocity & Beyond
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High School Teacher's teachings are questionable
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Undergrad Asteroid Impacts on Deep Watery Planets/Moons?
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Undergrad Centripetal force- Car making a turn
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Undergrad Potential and potential energy
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High School Calculating Speed on Video: Understanding How to Determine an Object's Velocity
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Graduate Equilibrium in the Human Body using Torque
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Undergrad How Do Tire Forces Relate to Temperature, Pressure, and Speed?
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High School Very quick question about lift and apparent weight?
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High School Comparing C4+ and C4- Ions: Charge Differences
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Undergrad Centripetal Acceleration on an Inclined Plane
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Undergrad How mass affects projectile motion
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High School Do you jump higher when you run and jump, or just stand and jump?
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Graduate How to power an RF Linear Accelerator?
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Undergrad Hydrodynamics (related to the oil leak in the Gulf)
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Undergrad Question about the average force?
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