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High School How does a normal pipette work?
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Undergrad The distance travelled in the Y-axis by an arrow
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Graduate Angular Momentum and Principal Axes of Inertia
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Undergrad What are the key calculations for designing an ice hockey puck launcher?
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High School Weird Subway Observation & What is Fire?
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Undergrad Force and Space (Their Relation)
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Undergrad How do action reaction force pairs arise?
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Undergrad How Do We Calculate Work Done in the Presence of Friction and Opposing Forces?
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Undergrad How Does Friction Provide Centripetal Force During a Car Turn?
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Graduate Vapor from high-energy particle collisions?
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Undergrad Why does the cricket ball swing?
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Graduate I'm stuck with my 'Balls in a vacuum'
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Undergrad Uniform Acceleration and Deceleration for Smooth Movement to (0,0,0)?
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Undergrad What is the pressure in a microscopic scale?
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High School Solving RC Car Motor Problem - Get Expert Help
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Undergrad Force required to separate two plates apart
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Undergrad Collision: Momentum, Kinetic Energy & Potential Energy
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Undergrad Understanding the Venturi Effect in Fluid Dynamics
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High School Conservation of energy and momentum
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Graduate DDWFTTW Circular Wind Tunnel Test
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Undergrad Pitch of sound: Elasticity vs Tension of string
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Undergrad How Does Direction Affect Scalar Work in Physics?
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Graduate Objects cannot have a velocity > c. But what about acceleration?
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High School What velocity to use to find momentum?
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High School Calculate Time Needed for Opposing Car to Catch Up at 60 MPH
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Graduate Conservation of energy, hypothetical situation
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High School What is the displacement covered by the man and bouncing ball?
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Undergrad Battery that will run a dc motor
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Graduate Fluid question: Detecting Blood Pressure in Mice
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Undergrad Calculating Force on a Ramp Using GPE: Clive's Question
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Undergrad Can a Funnel Improve Airflow in a Greenhouse Inflator Using PVC and a Vane?
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Undergrad Newton's Second Law: Force, Mass, and the World's Fate
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Undergrad Why Does Friction Act in the Direction of Motion for a Rolling Wheel?
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Undergrad Center of Mass & Gravity: Non-Uniform G Field Answered
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Graduate The force conversation of angular momentum creates
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Graduate Ice melting in water in a gravity free fall
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Undergrad Trying to understand potential energy with this tricky question
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High School The Weight of Earth's Atmosphere: Is It Being Lost?
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Graduate Pressure waves in a vortex towards the centre?
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Undergrad Force of 6" x 18" Steel Panel Weighing 3.25 Pounds Striking a Person
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Undergrad How Does Speed Affect Conductivity?
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Undergrad Momentum and Kinetic Energy of stationary ball collision
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High School Designing a Winning Egg Drop Project: Tips and Tricks for Success
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Undergrad Friction Coefficient for Brake Pads: Validity of F=2x(UN) Equation?
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Undergrad Calculating Centripetal Force Error with Given Parameters
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Graduate Derivation for Newton's Cooling Law
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High School Explaining Gravity: Newton's Universal Law and its Proof
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Undergrad Center of gravity (it's not center of mass )
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Graduate Double pendulum, time question
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Undergrad Calculating Triangle-Wall Collision Reaction: Speed, Angle & Velocity"
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High School Why is it tiring to push hard against a solid wall even though no work is done?
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Graduate Under free vibration does it vibrate in all the modes
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Undergrad Calculate Force in Newtons From 95 lb Weight Falling 1m
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High School Sound waves propagated as transverse waves
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High School Physics question about deriving a one dimensional kinematic equation?
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Undergrad What is wrong with my derivation for the moment of inertia of a sphere?
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Graduate Perception of motion in a void
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Undergrad Inextensible string exerts no force?
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High School How Do You Calculate Lead Time for a Moving Target?
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High School Ice and Boiling Water Experiment: Discover the Surprising Results
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Undergrad Superman Returns Phyics *SPOILER*
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Graduate Are water waves indicative of QED?
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High School Gas pressure in variable diameter pipe
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Undergrad Frictional Force: Contact Area & Motorsports Tires
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Undergrad Designing a Generator: Magnetic Spacing & Volts Generated
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Graduate Can Anything Achieve a 'Break-Through' Velocity That No Force Can Slow Down?
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Graduate Where does potential energy go when exposed to acid?
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Undergrad Wires and potential difference
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High School Tricking Archimede's principle
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Undergrad Making a Wind Tunnel for Education - Engineering Project
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Undergrad Top speed on a windy conditions.
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Undergrad Olympic Advantage (High/Long/Triple Jumps)
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Undergrad Why is the normal force constant on a moving inclined plane?
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Graduate Calculating the Optimal Pace for Uneven Splits
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Undergrad Why does the equation E=m*c2 not require any condition of matter?
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Undergrad Is the Bottom Velocity of a Ferris Wheel Really Twice That of the Top?
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High School What Causes the Squeak in Cheap Plastic Drawers?
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Undergrad Understanding the Physics Behind Gyroscopes
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Undergrad Nonconservative Work: Air Drag, Heat & Sound?
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Undergrad Two-Car Situation: Wheels in Motion
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Undergrad Hydraulic pressure dropping bottle
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Undergrad Perfectly elastic/inelastic collision
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High School Hitting a golf ball at a brick wall
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Undergrad Separating angular and linear momentum
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High School The Answer: Why Is Hydrogen Positive?
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Undergrad Attracting small splinters of glass with a Van de Graaff generator
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Undergrad Sound and pitch of brass instruments
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Undergrad Pressure change from cooling liquid.
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Undergrad A box falls one metre and hits a womans head
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High School Can a Front Wheel Drive Car Survive the Knight Rider Mythbusters Challenge?
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Undergrad Does Spinning a Flat Blade Clockwise Cause It to Move Upward?
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Undergrad Can you point me in the right direction for self learning?
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Undergrad Newton 2nd law + frame of reference
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Undergrad CRT direction of field in accelerating zone
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High School Atmospheric pressure 1Atm or 100 kPa?
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High School Falling Objects With Different Mass
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Undergrad The question no one seems to know average force
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Undergrad Calculating equatorial velocity
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Undergrad Can One Make the atmospheric pressure to store energy
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Graduate Induced Drag Airfoil: Proportional to Velocity^2?
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