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Undergrad Work: does distance HAVE to be linear?
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Graduate Funny balloon thought experiment
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High School What Happens to Water Pressure in a Glass When Inverted?
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High School Angular momentum vs. Linear momentum
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Graduate What prevents infinite potential with Nernst Equation
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Undergrad Laws of Motion in weight lifting
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High School Why is average velocity=(v+u)/2
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Graduate Absolute velocity measurements
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High School Where Will the Ball Land After Passing Through Earth's Core?
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Undergrad Acceleration, Mass & Gravitational Tug
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High School A simple practical answer needed
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High School Measuring Force Exerted by Dropped Objects on a Surface
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Graduate Interpreting the L2 Norm of Force on a Path
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Undergrad Understanding Centripetal Force in a Pendulum System
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High School Why Does a Ball Stay Still on a Flat Surface?
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Undergrad What kills you when you fall down?
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High School Does Gravitational Force Decrease When Used to Move a Mass?
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Undergrad Breaking with Turning Wheels: The Science Behind Its Effectiveness
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Undergrad Beam Bending: Centroidal Axis Rotation
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Undergrad Calculating Tension on Cable & Winch for Remote Heliportable Wireline Work
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Undergrad Accelerator and Beams - Tools for Discovery and Innovation
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Undergrad Car's Max. Fuel-Efficient Speed
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High School Why does a whistle sound louder when you blow harder?
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Undergrad The Speed of Light: Examining Incremental Movement
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Undergrad Another strange physical event: This time regarding gravity.
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High School Pure water doesn't freeze at 32F ?
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High School What if there was a pole, whose length was the circumference of the Earth?
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Undergrad The role of surface tension in capillarity
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High School Conservation of Mass - Does Burning Wood Convert Mass to Energy?
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Undergrad Why Is the Balmer Series More Commonly Seen than Other Hydrogen Emission Series?
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Undergrad The Mystery of Fly Flight: Debunking Bernoulli's Law Explanation
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High School How much force or speed is needed to jump
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Undergrad Another conservation of momentum question, but this one involves gravity
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Graduate Bohr's calculation of stopping power
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Undergrad What Determines the Direction of an Object's Motion Expressed as Energy?
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Undergrad Best Heading/Orientation for Fastest Interception of a Moving Target
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Graduate Explaining Friction: Reconciling Quantum Mechanics & Contact Force
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High School Who introduced the concept of variable velocity?
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Undergrad Rolling different masses down a hill - Intertia Question
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Undergrad Tipping Trucks: Does Speed Matter?
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Undergrad Designing a Speed Retarding System for a Gokart
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Undergrad Driving Gyroscopes: Systems for Keeping Disks Spinning
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Graduate Building a Linear Accelerator at Home: Safety Concerns
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Undergrad The acceleration of falling backwards
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Undergrad Rotational degrees of freedom I don't get it.
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High School How to determine air-resitance for a dropped coin
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Undergrad Elastic Collision: Rotational Momentum and Linear Momentum
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High School Student Struggling with Hookes Law - 18 Year Old Physics Student
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High School Spaceship hit the ground with a velocity of 100 m/s
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High School Does a car's speed change when it hydroplanes?
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High School Why do car wheels spin backwards
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Undergrad Calculating Center of Mass in Binary Systems
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Undergrad Understanding Gravitational Force: Why Does My Effect on Earth Seem Negligible?
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Graduate Continuity Between Statistical Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics
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High School Are generators efficient when powering only one small appliance?
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Undergrad What would be the result of this collision?
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Undergrad Calculating Pressure at Depth in Oceans/Lakes
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Undergrad Determining mass distribution for team-lifting of arbitrary objects
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Undergrad Uncovering the Truth: Analysis of a Mysterious Car Accident on the Highway
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Undergrad Accelerating into space for a day.
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High School The mud flies off the tyre of a moving motor cycle in the direction:
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Graduate What Are Good Low Work Function Materials for Photoelectric Effect Experiments?
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Graduate Moment of Inertia of Solid and Hollow Spheres using Disks and Rings Respectively
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Undergrad What will be the value of r here.
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Undergrad Would You Float or Stretch in a Hollow Sphere at Earth's Center?
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Undergrad How to show that motion of a rigid body = translation + rotation
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Graduate A Bernoulli Bet (experts please)
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Graduate Seeking Stable Orbit: Investigating a Rigid Pole in Space
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High School Can a Cone Save an Egg from a 15-Meter Drop?
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High School Weight=mg and if g is the acceleration due to gravity
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Graduate Moment independent of direction of force?
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High School Flame becomes larger with water mist
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Undergrad Pressure in pipes related to pipe size and pump for water filtration system
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Graduate Gravity violating the conservation of energy in a closed system?
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Undergrad Where does the missing energy go?
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High School Discover the True Weight of Air: Experimenting with Gas Molecules"
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High School Acceleration Due To Gravity: Why Is It the Same for All Bodies?
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Undergrad Double Ball Drop and linear momentum
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Graduate Do Current Theories Fully Explain How Airplanes Fly?
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Undergrad Equations for surface-object contact.
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Undergrad Calculating Lift Capacity of Rotor Blades
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Undergrad Power spike in secondary solenoid
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Undergrad What causes the back emf in motors
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Undergrad Kinetic Energy Gain: Why Is There a Difference?
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Graduate About rotation and precession
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High School Conquering the Paper and Pen Challenge: A Physics-Based Solution
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Undergrad What Factors Cause Miscalculations in Skydiver Terminal Velocity Estimates?
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Graduate Question About Speed Of Movement Through Materials
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High School Understand the Physics of Throwing a Ball Upward
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Undergrad Angular momentum conservation principle
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Graduate Rigid body dynamics: Resting contact
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Undergrad How is this Bio-mass power plant plausible?
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High School How fast does the earth spin around its axis?
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Undergrad Air pressure variation with height
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High School Energy loss without displacement
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Graduate Modeling Plastic Cup Physical Behavior
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Graduate Differentiability in nature (how many levels typically occur? )
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Graduate Can spinning reference frames mimic gravitational fields?
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Undergrad Am I right to conclude this about mass?
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High School Why is Inertia Important in Physics?
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