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Undergrad Why do horsepower and torque curves crossover around 5252 rpm's?
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High School Why do bodies at rest weight more than zero?
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Undergrad How Does Torque Affect the Movement of Unequal Weights on a Wheel?
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Undergrad What Water Pressure is Needed to Generate 2kW with 1.6 Liters per Second?
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Graduate Integrating the inverse square law
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Undergrad Calculating Force to Propel 160-lb Body Up 35 Inches
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High School How do i compute distance if shot at 45degrees
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High School Average Clamping Forces for Vehicle Brake Calipers
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Undergrad Deriving Centripetal Acceleration
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Undergrad Function to model intensity change over rotation
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Graduate Dampened Harmonic Motion Derivation
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Undergrad Help with a momentum exchange please
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Undergrad More conceptual problems about pressure,
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Does anyone have a idea on how lifters work yet?
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Undergrad Raising boiling point of salt water
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High School If I jump from height of 5ft to ground -what is g-force of impact
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Undergrad Conceptual problems with pressure, me to clarify
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High School Physics Q: Which has Less Friction - Cone, Wedge, or Sphere?
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Do the positions of stars determine our position in time,or does our
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Undergrad How do water crystals grow in freezing temperatures?
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Undergrad Momentum of the angular inertia of two solids.
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Undergrad Understanding Cross Product: Moment, r and F
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Undergrad When will two spheres with variable forces make contact?
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Graduate Maximizing Mechanical Work with Argon in a Pressurized System
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High School Calculating Final Velocity of 100kg Object Dropped from 100m
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Undergrad Dont understand Gravitation Inside Earth concept
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Undergrad Senior Physics/Comp Sci Project Ideas for Undergraduates
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Undergrad Is the force of gravity stronger or weaker in valleys compared to mountains?
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Graduate Inertia Translation Rotation Moments And Couples, car on accelerating Treadmill
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Undergrad Simple 2D collision formula developments
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Graduate Double Pendulum with motor between segments
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Undergrad How much does a falling object weights ?
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Undergrad Simple Harmonic Motion Lab Question
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Graduate The pressures at the center of a nuke are greater than in the earth's core?
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High School Front/Rear Wheels Turning: Pros & Cons
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Graduate Question from Lanczos book - genearlized momentum
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Undergrad Is Average Velocity the Minimum and Possible Value Due to Its Proportion?
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Undergrad How Can I Fix the Error in My 3D Motion Simulation?
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High School Understanding the Relationship Between Force, Displacement, and Distance
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Undergrad Gravity for a point inside the earth
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Undergrad Damping effect of swinging pendulum affect period?
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High School Designing the Best Potato Launcher: Catapults, Compressed Gas, and Combustion
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High School How to work out vacuum in in.hg
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Undergrad Derive the drag equation for automobiles?
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Undergrad Centre of Mass of two Gravitating bodies from rest
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Undergrad Gravatational Force between earth and moon
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Undergrad Velocity of Earth Around Sun: Recent Claims & Calculations
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Undergrad Tension on a box made of stretchable material
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Undergrad How to find the k constant of a spring?
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Graduate Idle thought experiment / question
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Graduate Question concerning Composition Dependent Gravity
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Undergrad Can a 3-axis gyroscope assembly resist movement in all directions?
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Graduate Race cars - Torque vs Hp - The Undiscovered Country (for many)
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Graduate Adding Inertia Tensors to 3D Shapes: Parallel Axis Theorem Explained
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Undergrad Pressure of Fluids - Questions & Answers
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Undergrad Is this a constant or variable force?
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High School What Part of a Ball Hitting a Parabola Hits the Focal Point?
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Undergrad Energy lost in rolling, sliding and torsion
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High School Measuring Constant of Gravitation in Basement - Experiment
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Undergrad Work done by spring forces - positive or negative
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High School Getting a Mouse Trap Car to Move
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High School Change in amplitude of pendulum
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Undergrad Help with deciphering wind loads
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High School Paper Towers - Any Known Record, we got 194 cm
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Graduate Is there a physical connection between Action and Angular Momentum?
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Undergrad Solve the Interesting Puzzle: Sprinkler Rotation
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Graduate Understanding Energy Conservation in Magnetic Fields and Current-Induced Wires
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Undergrad Ping Pong ball vs. golf ball and distance moved
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Undergrad Can an average person move a 550 pound safe up a 14 degree incline alone?
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Graduate How Can Non-Expressional Curves Be Used to Measure Energy Transfer?
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Undergrad Is a Rising Fastball Physically Possible?
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Undergrad Understanding Circular Motion: Notes and Explanation with Visual Examples
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High School Cop car and opposing directions
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High School Calculating the boiling point of water
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Graduate Artificial Gravity Field Generator Possible?
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Undergrad Crash & Sound Waves: Energy Exchange?
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Undergrad Kinetic energy was supposed to be simple
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Undergrad Question about space junk in orbit
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Undergrad What Happens When a Dirtbike Jumps off a Moving Train?
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High School Do Boiled Eggs Spin Longer Than Unboiled Ones?
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Graduate Could monopoles ever be created in particle accelerators?
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High School The mathematics of circular motion.
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High School Basic Physics Law: Why Brakes Make Car Front Go Down, Rear Go Up
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Undergrad Drop the Moon 1m From the Earth, what's the acceleration?
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High School What has to be true to use conservation of momentum vs. energy
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Undergrad Need a bit of help with arrow speed.
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Undergrad Can a 95 CFM Fan Generate Enough Force to Move a 150 lb Object?
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Who first put a feather & ballbearing in a vacuum?
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Graduate Where i can find complete data for material elastic constants?
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Undergrad Gravitation Force: Infinite Attraction & Separation
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Graduate Is L=T+w a Universal Definition in Lagrangian Dynamics for Dissipation Systems?
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Graduate Cork in a water bucket, knowing our day-to-day world
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Undergrad Force of Friction Change with Increasing Mass m?
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Undergrad Forward euler calculations for position and orientation
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Graduate New evidence suggests turbulent flow may become laminar over time
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Undergrad Question about mercury's vapor pressure
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Dark Matter Motor: Get Professional Impressions Here
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