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Does a bug hitting your windshield slow down your truck?
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Insights The Slinky Drop Experiment Analysed
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I Sound between two rooms - closing which door affects the sound most?
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I Calculus Question within Lagrangian mechanics
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A Is the Approach for Verifying Lagrangian Acceptable?
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I Is Transverse Strain Zero at the Bolts of a Clamped Circular Membrane?
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B Force Profile of a Hinged Rod on the Ground
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I Drag Coefficient of a 'flexible' object (e.g. a piece of paper)
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I Why L=L（v^2) in inertial reference system?
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I Velocity transformation between frames rotating relative to one another
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I Car, gas and total energy calculation
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B Allegedly "debunking" the Cavendish Experiment
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I Optimizing Drumstick Bounce: Finding the Magic Fulcrum Point
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I Help with some confusions about variational calculus
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I Is it possible to create linear acceleration using nothing but different moments of inertia beteen a wheel and axle?
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