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Undergrad Velocity when two object collide in an elastic collision
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High School Hearing Sound: How Does It Travel?
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Undergrad Understanding Potential Energy of Hanging Mass on Spring
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Undergrad Newton's Law of Cooling Flawed?
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Graduate Action Minimization for Block on Inclined Plane
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Graduate Phase Transitions and Chemical Potential
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High School What Causes the Upward Force Counteracting Gravity?
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Undergrad Rotational kinetic energy versus translation kinetic energy?
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High School Questions About Gravity: Answers to Understand
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Graduate Is Time Simultaneous in the FTL Region?
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High School Mass, Inertia and Velocity Question
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Undergrad EMF + Water = Sudden Acceleration Of Your Car?
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High School How Can You Measure Static Friction Without a Spring Balance?
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Graduate Relation of gravity with centrifugal force & gyroscopic effect?
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Undergrad How can a true elasic collision exist?
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Undergrad Relation between torsional and linear spring constants for a cantilever beam?
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High School Mass vs Weight: Understanding Relative Atomic Mass
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High School Are Coefficients of Friction Independent of Weight?
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High School Calculating Final Velocity of Free Falling Objects
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Undergrad Bernoulli's principle / ref frames
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Undergrad Impact force: scooter compared to Accord
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High School Importance of a keystone in an arch?
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Graduate Using centripetal force to fight lenz?
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High School Earth is a inertial frame of reference
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Undergrad How Does Speed Affect Force and Power?
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Graduate Efficiency in trebuchet design
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Graduate Acceleration in an elastic collision
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Graduate How Does Immersion in Liquid Affect Body Pressure Under Acceleration?
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Undergrad How Much Force Is Needed to Tip a Loaded Cart?
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High School Velocity at the top of the path
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Graduate How does the noise power in a conductor depend on its length and resistance?
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Undergrad Does pumping for speed really work?
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Undergrad Adjusting Center of Mass for Equal Weight Objects
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High School Maximum Speed - T-shaped intersection
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High School Why motors can convert energy?
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High School Can you explain this? Hunting physics
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High School Toppling giving example of a block on horizontal surface?
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High School Help with Mousetrap Racer Project
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Graduate Understanding Angular Momentum in Rigid Body Rotation
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics in Three Dimensions
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Undergrad Can an airplane on a conveyor belt achieve flight?
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Graduate Is My Projectile Penetration Equation Scientifically Valid?
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High School Basic question about work and gravity
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High School What will happen in this situation
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High School What factors determine the speed of a projectile fired from an air gun?
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High School True Explanation of a Lever please.
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Graduate Torque-Free Precession of Spinning Plates
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Graduate Commutativity of Differential Operators in Lagrangian Mechanics
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High School How many times will the energy in a choclate bar lift 100kg?
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High School Is Centrifugal Force a Real Phenomenon or Just an Illusion?
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Graduate Force of gravity in terms of time, rather than distance.
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High School Quick question to wat this equation is?
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Undergrad Centripetal Force: Rotating mass
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Undergrad Angular momemtum conservation and collision
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Undergrad How to find the flow rate trough a pipe using pressure drop
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High School Why you call momentum for momentum?
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Undergrad What is the Angle Between Acceleration and Velocity Vectors When Speeding Up?
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High School Can a Plane Really Fly Upside Down?
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Undergrad Calculating force to displace water
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Undergrad Work vs. work (or physics vs. biology)
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Undergrad Normal force: Why not conservative?
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High School Can tension be generated perpendicular to a rope?
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Undergrad Which attains more height and why?
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Undergrad Water bubble inside a microchannel
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High School How to Calculate the Force Applied on a Plate by Another Plate?
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High School Speed of satellites in a geostationary orbit
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Undergrad Determination of coefficient of friction between two spherical particles
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Undergrad What is meant by friction loss?
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Undergrad Confused about water/compressed air
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Undergrad Tuning Fork - Simple Harmonic Motion
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Undergrad What is the relationship between Torque and Energy?
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High School Question about Center of Gravity
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Graduate Vector potential in cavity of arbitrary shape
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Undergrad Energy required to bend an elastic rod
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Undergrad How does evaporation work at the molecular level?
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Undergrad Elastic/Rubber Electric Contract & Relax - Find Answers
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Undergrad Pushing a rail truck where the mass is not constant
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Undergrad Understanding the Van de Graaf Generator and its Role in MeV Particle Production
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Graduate Force applied on suspending/falling mass
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Undergrad Mass on spring rotates - what happens?
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Undergrad Why Do Velocity Components Depend on All Spatial Variables in Fluid Mechanics?
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Undergrad GAMSAT Physics Q: Can't Understand Answer? Get Help Here!
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High School What Causes Liquid to Form a Link Chain Shape When Poured Slowly?
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Undergrad Conservation of mechanical energy
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Graduate Streamlines, streaklines and pathlines
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Undergrad Momentum-Work: Confused about KE = 1/2mv2?
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Undergrad Wind Tunnel Experiment(pressure problem)
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High School Calculate Speed of Rock after Falling 5 Seconds in Vacuum
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Undergrad Where does this kinematics equation come from?
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High School Elementary holicopter question
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Undergrad Is Normal Reaction Higher on Concave Bridges Than Convex Bridges?
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Graduate N-body Potential Reduction: Can It Be Done?
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High School Drop of water in slow motion - explanation needed
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Undergrad Exerting forces on massless objects
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Graduate Unlocking Limitless Green Energy: Harnessing Earth's Rotational Kinetic Energy
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Graduate Can you solve for delta d in jerk motion using this formula?
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Undergrad Understanding Force Pairs in Accelerated Systems: Explained for Beginners
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High School How many balloons would it take to lift an object?
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Undergrad Not Homework (but it sure looks like it though)
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Undergrad Question about momentum and larger masses
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