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Graduate Pipe deformation under pressure
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High School Can High-Speed Blending Heat Up Water Due to Molecular Friction?
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Undergrad Pumping air into partially full beer bottles to preserve carbonation
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Graduate Nutational damping in satellites
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High School Calculating Force of a 600ml Bottle Underwater
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Graduate How can I accurately simulate collisions between circles and inclined planes?
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Undergrad Estimate Maximum Momentum You've Had: Physics Problem 10-1
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Undergrad Why Can the Center of Mass Lie Outside an Object's Surface?
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Graduate Calculating Moment of Inertia & Torque for a Rod on a Pivot
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High School How do wheels decrease the amount of energy needed to move an object?
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Undergrad Euilibrium of a deformable body
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High School Understand Velocity & Acceleration: Questions Answered
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Whats the sound that you hear from scratching a fork on a plate called
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Undergrad Continuity Equation - Why do the flow rates have to be equal?
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Undergrad Can a hilly out and back course be faster than a flat course
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Undergrad Optimum Angle for Object Pulling: A Plot Analysis
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Undergrad Magnet Bar Falling in Copper Pipe: Lenz's Law Impact?
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Undergrad Simple Atwood apparatus question
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Undergrad Acceleration in Water compared to Air
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Undergrad Maximum velocity of buoyant object
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High School How many times more powerful are gammaray bursts than supernovas
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Undergrad Something about a fly and a train though experiment
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Undergrad Learn Lagrangian & Hamiltonian Mechanics without Calculus of Variations
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Undergrad What Causes Fast Winds in Hurricanes?
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High School Displacement & Work: An Intro to Physics
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High School Inertia: Jumping in a Moving Train - Results?
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Finding the Law to Web Research
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Undergrad Understanding Rotational Mechanics - Find the Reasons!
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Graduate Please explain what an axis of inertia or principle axis of inertia is
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Undergrad Prove that an object, if thrown up under gravity
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High School Calculating Force Exerted by a Moving Train on a Track
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Undergrad Body of mass 2 Kg moving in the x-y plane
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Graduate Information, what counts as it, why isn't phase velocity etc. information?
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Undergrad What Formulas are Needed to Calculate Rotational Force and Power for an Electric Bicycle Motor?
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Graduate Question on remote power harnessing?
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High School Conservation of Energy Tutor | Physics Problem | x162,x163
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Graduate Rate of change of acceleration?
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High School Potential vs. Potential Energy
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High School The most basic question re: acceleration, velocity, and force
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Graduate Wolf Chasing Chicken: Brain Teaser Puzzle Analysis
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Undergrad Harnessing Power from Free Flowing Rivers: An Electrical Engineer's Exploration
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Undergrad Parallel and perpendicuar axis theorems and other stuff on rotational mechanics
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Undergrad Calculating the rotational component of a force on a Newtonian body?
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Undergrad Are Seatbelts Strong Enough to Protect Us During a Car Crash?
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Undergrad Deceleration calculation for moving screen objects
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Undergrad Finding a Solution for the Drag Equation
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Graduate Absorption spectrum of water in the UV range
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Graduate Conceptual problem with gravity
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High School Direction of an object when the net force is 0
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Undergrad Do Car Crash Velocities Really Add Together in a Collision?
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Undergrad Loop de Loop Problem: Equal Forces?
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Graduate Iron ball in water, reading on weighing machine
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High School A rod which flixed in only 1 direction.
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High School Elliptical movement of a svinging pendulum
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Undergrad Question on calculating load on tidal movement
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Undergrad Spinning block begins to twist in mid-air?
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Undergrad Conservation of momentum of ball thrown
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High School Find density on dropping a ball
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Undergrad Kinetic Friction Experiment Conservation of Energy Question
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High School How Does Wrist Rotation Power a Powerball's Rotor?
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Undergrad Barton's Pendulums - Energy Conservation
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Graduate Solenoid power and conical area
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Proving Car Was Parked After Hit and Run
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Undergrad Coservation of momentum in inelastic collisions
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Undergrad To estimate the required torque
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Undergrad G-Force Accelerometer conversion to Pounds per Square Inch
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Undergrad Does Every Object in the Universe Have Absolute Zero Potential Energy?
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Undergrad Calculating Force from Constant Velocity Collision
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Undergrad Why is force so confusing?Is Force Really That Confusing?
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Undergrad Potential Energy Clarification
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High School Running Before Jumping - What's the Explanation?
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Graduate Calculating Missile Descent Angle for Target Intercept
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Graduate Rotation about the center of mass and spin angular momentum
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Undergrad Energy Source for Supermarkets: Cars or Kinetic Engines?
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Undergrad Throwing the Ball on the Moon: Forcing the Confusion
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Undergrad How Do Moments and Lines of Action Relate to Equilibrium?
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Undergrad Projectile Horizontal Range: Debunking the Intuition
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High School How Do Newton's Laws Explain the Impact of Bird Strikes on Aircraft?
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High School Graphing Problem: Rearrange to a Straight Line Graph
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Undergrad Can a Wind Turbine Powered Boat Travel Directly Upwind Without Storing Energy?
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Undergrad What is the angle liquid will pour out of a glass?
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High School Initial velocity be larger or smaller once its calculated?
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Undergrad How Do Zero Gravity and Terminal Velocity Affect Passengers in an Aircraft?
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Graduate Questions about deriving the naviers stokes equations
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Undergrad Air drag on a wire moving lengthways
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High School Physics of riding a motorcycle
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Graduate Quantifying explosions - how to determine force/pressure/etc?
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Undergrad Discover the Meaning of Δy in Projectile Motion Formula: A Comprehensive Guide
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Undergrad Internal Ballistics: Determine Muzzle Velocity from Powder Mass
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Undergrad Newton's laws and non inertial frame of reference
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Undergrad Gravitational Potential Energy during a Free-Fall Impact
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Undergrad Equipotential Surfaces: Understanding & Conceptual Problems
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Undergrad Would the actual velocity be larger/smaller?
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Undergrad Does Friction Always Act Upward on an Ascending Cylinder?
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Undergrad Forces required to accelerate a mass on a spring
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Graduate What Frequency Excites Resonance in a Two-Mass, Two-Spring System?
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Undergrad Man on a Raft: Analyzing the Movement on a Frictionless Surface
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Graduate Formula and Methodology Request re: Shannon, Thorp et al.
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Undergrad Why Does Sound Travel at a Constant Speed in a Medium?
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