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Undergrad Help with integrating the kinematic equations
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Undergrad Forces that could cause an objects acceleration to increase when weights added
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High School Is acceleration possible without motion ?
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Undergrad Why does movement in waves produce harmonics?
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Graduate Surface element meniscus - free body diagram
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Undergrad Which variable(s) are adjusted for artillery targeting?
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Undergrad Get Azimuth & Elevation from iPhone Accelerometer Data
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Undergrad Classical mechanics, initial conditions question
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Undergrad Sound to destruct/ break concrete
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Undergrad Does a Pulled Air-Filled Rubber Ball Sink?
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Undergrad Question regarding sound waves in musical instruments
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High School Please help with a friction problem (due tomorrow)
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High School A Problem I Was Considering But Seems So Simple
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Undergrad Solving Continuity Equation in Water Flow
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Undergrad Intuitive meaning for Newton-meter
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Undergrad Average Velocity and Constant Acceleration
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Undergrad When given the angular velocity, why not multiply by time to find the # of revs?
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Graduate Hypothetical kinetics questions, just for fun
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High School Shooting a bullet up into the air
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Undergrad What happens when two masses touch?
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High School Is Acceleration a Factor in Calculating Momentum?
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Undergrad Problem understanding the definition of mechanical work
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Undergrad How can I counter the angular velocity of a car in a video game?
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Undergrad Why Do Objects Accelerate Despite Equal and Opposite Forces?
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High School Unraveling the Mystery of One-Half Coefficient in Kinematic Equations
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Undergrad Why Does a Bubble Move to the Middle in a Horizontal Pipe?
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Undergrad RADAR SPEED CAMERAS and HOT DAYS
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High School Why do particles gather in the center of a stirred pot of water?
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Graduate How does classical mechanics change if motion was not infinitely differentiable?
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Graduate Accelerometer's angle from ground to sky
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Undergrad Trying to reconstruct an accident
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Undergrad What is thermodynamic potential?
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Graduate Accelerometer measures non inertial or inertial ref. frame
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Undergrad Conservation of energy, momentum
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High School Is there any way to prove Newton's law
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High School How can I create the ultimate anti-gravity car for a physics competition?
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Undergrad Plotting Vehicle Path Based on Accelerometer Readings
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Undergrad Mastering 3D Trajectory for FPS Game Designers
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Undergrad Calculate Meeting Time for Equilateral Triangle Turtles | Classic Problem Solved
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Undergrad Energy, once again weird unclear thing
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Undergrad Conservation of Energy and Inertia resist acceleration
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Undergrad Conservation of angular momentum with energy
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High School Is there a buoyancy force or not?
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Undergrad Kinetic Energy in relation to the ideal gas law
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Undergrad Diffusion of water vapor in air
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High School Person in a bus (accelerating system)
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High School Designing a Device for Catching Eggs Dropped from Various Heights
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Undergrad Graphing Kinetic Energy over time
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Graduate Supersonic ballistics is nonlinear right and not solvable exactly right?
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Undergrad Captain America's shield properties
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Undergrad What is the relationship between friction and momentum?
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Undergrad Momentum:difference in final velocities
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Undergrad Solar Sail Acceleration: A vs B - Which is Faster? Find Out Now!
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High School Young's double slit,Newton's ring's
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High School Automotive/Truck Tire Pressure Vs. Load
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Undergrad Program that will draw a(t) knowing x(t) in SHM
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Undergrad How to calculate collision sounds?
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Undergrad Gravitational field strength at latitude
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Graduate Motion of a bullet inside a barrel
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Undergrad Boiling point of water in a closed container
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Undergrad Calculating Momentum in a Sword Swing
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Undergrad Need a pair of forumlas to help me build a lifting platform
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Graduate Conservation of ME and stable orbit
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Undergrad Find Center of Gravity for a Wheelchair
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Undergrad Battery potential energy versus mass
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Undergrad How Does Wind Energy Propel a Sailboat?
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Undergrad Scalar potential in EM and Newton's Law
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Undergrad I don't understand how a varied mass changes the acceleration
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Undergrad How to relate power and sound give some formulas
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Graduate Can Moment of Inertia Be Transferred Between Two Rotating Bodies in Contact?
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High School What Causes the Normal Reaction Force Balancing Weight (mg)?
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Undergrad Rotation of earth and weight of an object on the earth
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Undergrad How Does an Ultrasound Machine Detect Reflected Waves?
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Undergrad Calculating Turn Radius Change During Bank Angle Change
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Undergrad Impact Parameter: Definition & Meaning in Physics
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Undergrad Phsyics Kinematics: cannonball shot straight up
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High School Why does a rubber band shrink when heated with a hairdryer?
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Undergrad A heavy rod AB is suspended from a point O by two strings OA and OB .
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Undergrad Equilibrium Conditions for Coplanar Forces on a Rigid Body
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Graduate What causes things to BEGIN moving in a field?
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Graduate Understanding Negative Pressure and its Role in the Expansion of the Universe
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Undergrad Question about the Earth and Constant Angular Momentum
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High School A Ball Rolling : What forces are involved?
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High School Clarification on Frictional Forces?
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Graduate Why Do Photons Travel at the Speed of Light?
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Elementary science project - HELP
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High School Would KE be more if a ball was thrown at a smaller angle?
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High School How Does Atmospheric Pressure Relate to Gravity?
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Graduate Free-floating top; relation of precession angle and precession and spin rates
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Undergrad Question about uncertainties in slopes of cars
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Undergrad Classical Oscillator Resonance: Understanding & Amplification
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Graduate Uphill roller and conservation of energy
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Graduate Model Sling Load under Helicopter: Pendulum Dynamics
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Graduate What causes the emf in a moving conducting bar over a magnetic field?
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Undergrad Driving a car on to the back of a moving truck
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High School Finding Horizontal Force Needed to Move an Object
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Graduate Obit velocity vector variances, how it works?
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High School NOTE Newtons laws does NOT seem to work here
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Undergrad Elastic collision COR problem.
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Undergrad Ballistic Pendulum - Kinetic Energy vs Gravitational Potential Energy
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