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Undergrad Liquid Pressure: Understanding p=RO*g*h
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High School Help (required force to move a sliding door weighing 100 kg with two rollers)
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Undergrad A centrifuge have the speed of 1600rpm
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Graduate Frenet-serret formulas, local reference frame
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Undergrad Analysis of Structures: Finding Reactions & Forces in Trusses
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Undergrad Weight/mass discrepancy: Semantics? I say NO
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High School Assertion when assuming g = 9.8 or 10
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High School What is the relationship between osmotic pressure and osmolarity?
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High School Finding Acceleration Experimentally
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Undergrad Max Space Velocity: Reach Limit?
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Graduate Periodic Force Action: Can It Displace a Particle Without Integration?
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Undergrad Can osmotic pressure kill a man in a swimming pool?
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High School Equation Q: Ma=T-W & Ma=W-T | Tension Differences
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High School Draw the position time graph of a body moving with zero velocity.
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Graduate The Mysteries of Brownian Motion: Unpredictable Yet Causal?
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High School Law of conservation of 'force'.
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High School Understanding Propeller Speed: Explained for Beginners
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Undergrad How are these earphones receiving power?
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Graduate Attitude Control of Flying Object using Gyroscopic Coupling
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Undergrad What is the Net Force on M1 in Terms of T, g, and m1?
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Graduate What Is the Frequency Response of a Pressure Tube System in an Air Duct?
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Undergrad How to calculate force of a fall w/increased gravity
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High School Is Newton's Second Law the Definition of Force and Mass?
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Graduate What is the Angular Velocity of a Rotating Rod After a Collision?
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High School Calculating Thrust for Rocket Weight & Altitude
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Graduate What are the biggest problems of push / kinetic gravity theory?
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Undergrad Surface Tension(fluid mechanics)
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Undergrad Running a Car on Hydrogen Made from Water
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Undergrad Relation between magnus effect, speed and acceleration
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Undergrad Dipole Moment of Water: Understand 105 Degrees & Impingement
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Undergrad How does friction affect the spinning motion of an object?
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High School Pull Force vs Tension: Toy Car on Pulley
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Undergrad Criteria for a fluid being under 'pressure'
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High School Calculating Force Between Two Blocks on a Frictionless Surface
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High School Understanding Gravitational Potential Energy
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Graduate Pendulum driven by combination of horizontal and vertical excitation
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Undergrad If Kinetic friction is a constant can I accelerate forever?
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Undergrad Finding position of simple pendulum?
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Undergrad Understanding Friction Force: Net Force of X-Component Explained
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Graduate Precession: Explaining the Linear Motion of a Spinning Wheel
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Undergrad How Does a Tilted Force Table Impact Vector Equilibrium?
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Undergrad Find Torque About Any Line: How to Calculate n Vector
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Graduate HELP : Dynamics of Multiple horse pulling a carriage
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Undergrad Explore Methods for Measuring Unconstant Acceleration in Objects
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Undergrad Why can't we stop the Earth's rotation by walking in the opposite direction?
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High School Efficiency of Pendulum: Factors Affecting Amplitude
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High School Rotational motion of a cylinder
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Undergrad Pressure: Force or State of Matter?
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Undergrad How to calculate a car's velocity from given RPM and Torque?
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Undergrad Calculating Acceleration from Power: A Deeper Look
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Graduate Help with Navier-Stokes Equation: Symbols & Meaning
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Undergrad Car Speed Using 3axis Accelerometer
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Graduate How Does Changing Inertia Affect the Dynamics of a Three-Flywheel System?
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Graduate Centripetal force of rotating mass vs. flowing mass
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Undergrad Expert Help: Does this physics simulation appear realistic to you?
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High School Air Compression vs Water Depth
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Undergrad High Tire PSI = Better Performance
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High School Mass +Displacement: Find Acceleration
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High School What comprises the mass of the earth?
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Undergrad Calculating moment of inertia of a filled cylinder
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Undergrad Forces in the back seat vs front seat
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High School A mini project regarding soundwaves?
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Undergrad Rotational Mechanics: Rolling Motion of a Ball Down an Incline
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Undergrad Understanding Power in Solenoids for MRI
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Undergrad Gravity Simulation: Consistent Rotation Pattern?
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Graduate Question concerning curl for finding a conservative force field
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Undergrad What is the meaning of the sum of tan A and rad A?
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Graduate How do you know the vector potential inside a solenoid only depends on r?
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High School Can an object have both potential and kinetic energy?
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Undergrad Using accelerometer sensor to determine speed of person
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High School Conservation of momentum in Car Vs. Wall
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Undergrad Collision of two identical cars moving in opposite dirrections
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High School Can Sound Waves at 1100Hz Be Received and Emitted Effectively?
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High School Velocity, speed, acceleration and ?
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Undergrad Help with Urgent Physics Incline Problem
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High School It is an interesting point you raise, though.Why do objects have inertia?
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Undergrad Can the Foucault Experiment's Principles Be Derived Through Calculus?
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Graduate Critical Damping in Multi-Modal Resonant System
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High School Why Don't We Feel the Earth's Movement When We Jump?
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Undergrad What is the best book for understanding fluid mechanics?
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Undergrad Acceleration of gravity in space.
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Undergrad Speed Limit to Human Sprinting
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Undergrad Concerning a pressure coefficient
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High School General Question Kinematics Units
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Graduate How to apply Navier-Stokes equations?
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Graduate Numerical solution of vector potential
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Undergrad How Does Viscosity Influence the Rolling Motion of Cans?
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Undergrad Planes affected by earth's rotational spin
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Undergrad BEAR,SABLE, and building a better balloon.
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Graduate Action & Reaction: Point & Extended Body
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High School Laws of Conservation of Energy
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High School Propelling Vehicles with Light: A 15-Year-Old's Idea
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Undergrad Gravitational force: action and reaction
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High School Grab a bag of sugar and say this weighs 1KG
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Undergrad Torque vs Weight: Calculate Force for 6.156 kgf cm, 20 rpm, 5 cm Rad
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Undergrad Potential energy diagram for a nuclear reaction
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Undergrad Calculating Ball Speed and Direction After 2D Collision: Game Programming Tips
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High School Calculating Helium's Pushing Force Against Gravity
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Graduate Physical intepretation of mathematical impossibility
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Is building a particle accelerator legal ?
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