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Undergrad I think I understood Bernoulli principle but I need to clarify one thing quickly
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Graduate Impulse required to stop a rotating body
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Undergrad Work done against gravity, what am i missing
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Undergrad Finding Electric Field from Potential: Understanding Why and How
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High School What happens to a car's speed on ice?
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Graduate How is mass, energy and velocity defined?
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Undergrad Can an antenna work as a lamp?
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Undergrad Mercury 'surface tension' vs. density
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High School Why Does Water Flow Narrower from a Faucet at the Bottom?
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Undergrad Titanium vs steel hammer heads
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Undergrad Why Does Overcoming Static Friction Lead to a Decrease in Force?
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High School Horizontal component of projectile motion
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Graduate What is the Lagrangian in Mechanics and How Does it Relate to the Hamiltonian?
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Graduate Can Ice Remain After Water Cools to 0°C?
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Undergrad Understand Physics Moment: Get Answer to Concept, Formula & More
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Graduate The Lagrangian/Hamiltonian dynamics of a particle moving in a manifold
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High School Is there such a thing as constant velocity ?
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High School Does a chimney work in this situation?
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High School What is centripital acceleration physically?
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Graduate Pressure and Displacement sound waves. Pressure always lead?
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Undergrad How do I calculate the impact force of a slide hammer under water?
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Undergrad A push to an object in complete vaccum.
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Graduate Eqs of motion for 2-body problem in EM?
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Undergrad How is work calculated for a conservative force?
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Undergrad Convert Boat Sail Drive Forces into Speed | KGF to M/S & KM/H Conversion Help"
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Undergrad Moment of inertia of a solid sphere calculation
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Graduate What if Newton had thought differently?
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Graduate What is the Moment of Inertia for a Falling Disc?
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Graduate Can someone explain this can't understand notation
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Undergrad Where's the torque when you retract your arms on a spinning chair?
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Undergrad Please describe elastic hysteresis in plain English
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Graduate Deriving Equations of Motion for Compound Pendulum with 3 DOF
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Graduate What is the Jerk Due to Gravity and How Can it be Calculated?
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High School Simple Harmonic Motion: 1 Cycle = 1 Oscillation?
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High School Weight difference between an empty and a full memory stick
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Undergrad Gravitational Potential Energy of a particle
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Graduate Solve Suspended Compass Problem from Physics Olympiad
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Undergrad Does angular acceleration not always come with torque?
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Graduate Describing translation and rotation
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Undergrad Calculate the force needed to lift
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Undergrad Physics behind blood vessel constriction and blood pressure?
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Undergrad Slowing a Car from 25mi/hr to Stop in 2s: How Long?
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High School Falling off of a building and ANY equations that would be associated with that
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Undergrad Preservation of kinetic energy
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Undergrad Model Maglev Train starting motor help
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High School Can Modified Cars Achieve 1.5G on the Skidpad?
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Undergrad Calculating the Velocity Vector of a Tennis Ball
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Graduate Which type of kite is better for low wind conditions: LEI or foil?
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Undergrad Acceleration plus change in Direction
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Graduate Finding the Tension of string supporting a disc
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Undergrad Orbital Speed: Earth vs Moon - How Does Altitude Affect Orbital Velocity?
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High School Temperature & Sound: Does Hotter Equal Louder?
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Undergrad Tension producing torque on a disk
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High School Distance formula and addition of meters per s
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Undergrad How does a solid-state gyroscope work?
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Graduate Basis for conservation of mass-energy?
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Graduate Finding an equation to represent a jerk
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Undergrad Calculating Force of Car hitting wall
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Undergrad Moment of Inertia of helicopter blades.
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High School Does that really work? Dowsing
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High School Why is rotational momentum I=mr²?
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High School What is a Force? Explained and Examples
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High School How Is Kinematics Applied in the Modern World?
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Undergrad Man on a bike - leans into a corner. How?
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Undergrad What Happens to Bungee Jumpers if Cord is Cut at Apex?
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Undergrad Which Shape Has the Fastest Descending Inertia on an Inclined Plane?
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High School Understanding the Motion: Free Body Diagram of Ruler Pulling to the Right
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Undergrad How should i correct speed to keep induction constant for different viscosities
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High School Do Water Waves Slow Down and Change Amplitude in Shallow Water?
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High School Balancing a Bicycle: Why Hard When Not Moving?
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Undergrad How Can a PID Controller Improve Missile Guidance in a Game?
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High School Deriving the Formula for Gravitational Potential Energy
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Undergrad Calculate Force of Car Wreck: A and B's Mass & Speed
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Undergrad Energy created by a balloon released underwater
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High School How can you row a boat with a paddle?
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High School Suppose I inflate a balloon on the moon and then let it go. What would
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Undergrad U: Is there a way to convert force on impact into energy?
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Graduate Moment of Inertia, relation to other moments?
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Undergrad Force Required to Tip a Block of wood?
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Undergrad Calculating Spherical Collision Outcomes
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Undergrad Modeling Motion of Balloon Filled by Human
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High School Top Materials for Building a High-Performing Mousetrap Car | Expert Tips
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Graduate Solving Load Density Problem Using Moment Method (MOM)
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Undergrad Why Don't 8 Balls Move after Collision?
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High School Loudness of sound in air, liquid and solid
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Undergrad Calculating Basketball Velocity & Height in a Hot Tub
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Undergrad How can impulse be converted into power?
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Undergrad Car hitting a tree - calculating the force?
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Undergrad Negative to a Positive Gravitational Force
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Undergrad Momentof inertia and center of mass
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Graduate Universe mass responsible for inertia?
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High School Normal Force Explained: What It Is & Why It Exists
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Graduate Effect of water displacement on gravitation pull between ships
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Graduate Foucault Pendulum: Deriving Equations of Motion
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