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Graduate Differential Equation for the Orbit - Goldstein Chapter 3
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Undergrad Questions on Mechanics: Why is Tension at End of Whirling Rope Zero?
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High School Highest point an object can travel?
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Undergrad Challenge: measure body weight without bathroom scales
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Undergrad Does damping of period affect the period?
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Undergrad Constant volume or constant pressure?
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Graduate Newton's Constant Help: Kainaan's Question
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Graduate What is the Path of a Point Mass with Perpendicular Acceleration?
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Graduate What is the Theory of Elasticity?
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Undergrad What is Shear? Understanding Pure Shear
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Graduate Particle Colliders and Collision Energy
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Undergrad Mass Distribution between Car Tires
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Undergrad Impulse when 2 bodies stick together?
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Undergrad Fluid mechanics of water in a pipe
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Undergrad Fluid dynamics and pressure type question.
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High School How Long Does It Take for an Object to Fall to the Ground?
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Undergrad Ping Pong ball through a bowling ball
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High School Calculating Time and Velocity in Horizontal Projectile Motion
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High School Does heightening a sofa increase strain in the centre?
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Undergrad Torque required to reduce the speed of a rotor?
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Undergrad Solving a Confusing Torque Problem: Lever Equilibrium in Top View
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Undergrad Understanding Active and Passive Drag in Swimming for French Students
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Undergrad What happens to wavelength and frequency when a wave changes velocity
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High School How do satellites stay in orbit? Free fall or centripetal?
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High School What is Buoyancy? - Learn about Newton's 3rd Law & Vacuum Filling
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High School Why Does a Car Wheel Spin Backwards at High Speed?
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Undergrad Understanding Inertial Properties: The Role of Mass in Resisting Motion
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Undergrad What is the significance of sqrt{2gh} ?
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Undergrad What Causes the Coriolis Effect in Constant Velocity Circular Motion?
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Graduate A question about kinetic theory of gases
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Undergrad Is the Euler Buckling Formula Suitable for Calculating Balsa Wood Beam Loads?
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Undergrad How much force is needed for Super Jump Shoes ?
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Undergrad Retardation of a Balloon's Vertical velocity
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Undergrad Work associated with different wheel sizes on bicycles
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Graduate Principal axes of a rigid body
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High School Why does air escape through a pinched ballon?
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Undergrad Why don't race bikes have a high CoG?
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High School Calculating Water Pressure on Water Barrel Walls
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Graduate Using Gravity to obtain relativistic speeds
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High School Do You Have to Countersteer to Turn a Motorcycle?
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Graduate EM fields. Angular Momentum seems not to be Conserved
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Undergrad Inertial reference frame for 2&3 law
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Graduate Force needed to reach Lagrange Points
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Graduate I accidentally dropped a 1 kg object on the ground
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Graduate Position Derivative of Acceleration Due to Gravity
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Undergrad Force and Velocity: Resolving a Question
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Undergrad Banked curve: question about friction and normal force
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Undergrad What is the Reference Frame for Rotational Motion?
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Undergrad How can we understand the undetectability of acceleration in free fall?
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Undergrad Understanding Wind Power Variability in Crowsnest Pass
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Graduate Non Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
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Undergrad Power Loss in Cables: Is My Friend Correct?
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Undergrad Is there any other form of energy releasing fusion besides hydrogen
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High School Gravitational acceleration of a satellite
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Undergrad How Does Foot Placement Affect the Spin of a Soccer Ball?
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Graduate UV disinfection in water treatment
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Undergrad Calculate Solar Power Requirements: Formula for Home Energy Needs
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Undergrad Object sliding down smooth quarter circle as a function of time
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High School Why does the rope move with only 5N force applied?
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Undergrad What is the amplitude of the subsequent oscillations?
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Undergrad Work and Power of the Friction Force in an F=-bυ damped oscillation
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High School Describing the motion of feet while running
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High School If deceleration is given instead of acceleration can i find the force
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Graduate Clarify remark from Landau's Mechanics
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A giant ball of ICE hits a star
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Undergrad Dampening effect on a pendulum
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Undergrad Water displaced against surface area
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Undergrad Work done by action and reaction
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Undergrad Simple harmonic motion (doubt in the derivation of equation)
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Graduate Why Does a 3D Body Turn Differently Based on Force Angle and Propulsion?
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High School Difference between Mass and Weight?
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High School How do I draw a free-body diagram for an object sliding down an inclined plane?
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Graduate Can Powered Atmospheric Re-entry Reduce Heat Shield Dependence?
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Undergrad Diminishing Gravitational Acceleration with Distance
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Undergrad BALL BOUNCING INFINITELY to find distance covered
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Undergrad Space station mathematics question
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Undergrad Rock Climbing - American Death Triangle
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Undergrad Why does a bicycle wheel precess when suspended from a string?
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Undergrad Toggle Joint: Mechanical Advantage Explained
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High School Explaining the Difference Between Kinetic Energy and Momentum
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Undergrad Why Is an Accelerated Frame of Reference Non-Inertial?
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High School I in making a boat for a project
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Graduate What is the speed of Newtonian gravity?
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Graduate Partial derivative of coordinates
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Undergrad How can I calculate torque and force on a rigid body with an offset axis?
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Undergrad Net torque Problem in gear system
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Undergrad Elastic collision against a moving wall
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Undergrad Box on Box on Box free body diagram
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High School At the most elementary level what causes particles to have momentum?
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