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Body rotating about its center of mass
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Effect of time on the acceleration of an object initially at rest?
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Torque coordinate transformation
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Torque for sharpening pencils with different diameters
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Generators of infinitesimal transforms from Goldstein (1965)
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Help please -- Amplitude of a spring - does it change with mass?
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The order of calculating velocity and position alters the solution?
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Pressure differences in a leaking vacuum vessel
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What is the Mathematical Definition of an Inertial Frame?
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Demystifying the Often Misunderstood Bernoulli's Equation - Comments
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Maximum Work Theorem : Herbert Callen
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Contradicting values of pressure for liquid cross-sections
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How does the pressure drop as a fluid flows through a pipe
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How Do Aerodynamics Influence Rocket Movement?
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F=ma -- How did Newton find this?
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Perceived gravity in circular motion
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Why Is the Third Pendulum Traveling the Fastest?
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Why does the axis of rotation pass through the metacentre?
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Beyond Viscous Drag, Cavitation, Laminar Flow, & Reynolds
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Moment of inertia of a thin uniform rod
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Acceleration of mass depends upon K and L of a spring?
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Rolling with slipping and conditions for not slipping
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Sound of 2 identical horns cancels out?
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Calculations on a fireworks rocket?
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Average Velocity of gas molecules calculated with a Boltzmann distribution
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Calculating Fuel-Payload Ratio for Martian Rocket Lift-off
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Filling water cup/bucket: which way is faster?
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Calculating the pressure on a surface exerted by opposing forces?
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Work Adiabat 1rst Law Calc VS Adiabat Calc
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Why do ultrasound waves not travel through air well?
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Does greater acceleration result in more work done?
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Rigid Body Mechanics - 2 or more bodies
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Questions Regarding the Inertia Tensor
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What is the condition of true weightlessness?
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How Does Pressure Affect the Boiling Point of Water?
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Is my solution to this question about a collision valid?
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Phase relation between strain and particle velocity
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Potential Energy for "stone + field" physical system
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Does the spin angular momentum count?
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What happens with the puck in a non inertial board?
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Barton's pendulum, phase relationship
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Rest energy in classical mechanics
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Servo-Constraints in Mechanics - Comments
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Hear Through Walls: How & Why?
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Is Hooke's law related to the time-squared rate of acceleration?
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Effective acceleration due to gravity in non-inertial frame
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I stumbled here pursuing my question on Solar Probe momentum dumping
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What do surface tension vectors mean in this quote?
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Frames of Reference: A Skateboarder's View - Comments
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Frames of Reference: Linear Acceleration View - Comments
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Quick Question: Rate of Change of a Rotating Vector
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So tension is not a force....?
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Fluid dynamics: pressure in pipes
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Simulating shape of spinning water surface
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Direction of acceleration of an incline
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Newton's bucket experiment, Why the debate?
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Lagrangian mechanics -- Initial questions
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Is the weight of a small satellite in its orbit zero?
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Energy conservation and friction
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Why does flowing water cast a shadow?
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Sound wave intensity (dB) and sound processing
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Kater's Pendulum: Why Wooden/Metallic Masses Matter
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Do Air Molecules in a Sealed Elevator Accelerate Equally When It Speeds Up?
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What is the final velocity of an object sliding down a frictionless ramp?
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Rotating speed of a proton ion
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Needing to know the pressure in a water tank
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Calculate Frequency of Flat Spring Steel for Reed Valves in a Pulse Jet Engine
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Velocity Ratio in Gears & Wheels Systems: Inverting?
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Torque-Free Precession and Wobble direction
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Collisions Toolkit: Impulse, Momentum & Energy Formulas
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Why is force vector F but acceleration vector a not A?
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Angular Momentum in Spherical Coordinates
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Pressure & Gravity: Help for Vietnam Student
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Temp and Pressure measure of KE(average)
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Pressure gradient causes conservative force?
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Is Newton's Equation for Gravity Accurate for All Situations?
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Calculating a Ballistic Coefficient (BC) from two velocities
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Conservation of Angular Momentum on a rotating disc
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The impulse of an object during deployment
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Radially falling towards the Earth
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What's the "d" in that formula? (work formula)
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How to calculate the energy of an arbitrary pulse
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How does weightlessness work and can we create it on Earth?
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Escape Velocity and the Motion of Two Massive Bodies
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Power waste (conceptual doubt)
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Why a smaller spring will build up less force?
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Contributions to Dynamics - China
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Net force on an object and its motion....
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Perpetual motion machines can't exist (Feynman's lectures)
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Angular and linear velocity question
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Sound Wave Doppler effect question
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Relative velocity and force relationship
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Something I don't understand about a simple tension problem
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Artificial gravity in a rotating space station
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What is the physical significance of A and B in mass spring SHM solutions?
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Impulse Load Timestep: Reverse Engineering to Obtain dt?
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Laws of motion while climbing a Rope
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Regarding the measurement of horsepower
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Is Constant Linear Velocity Possible in Rotating Particles?
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Help with Newton's Law of Cooling
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