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Undergrad Calculating force when landing on a beam
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Undergrad Is non-linear Tension Force possible?
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High School Recoil dampening in silencers and supressors
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Undergrad Some questions from the navy oar mechanical comprehension
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Graduate Clarification of (misleading?) potential energy diagram
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Undergrad Water, salt and a green Jello electret....
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Graduate Calculating Orbital Trajectories for Spaceflight Simulators
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Graduate Potential energy of a dipole in an external field
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Undergrad Velocity calculation of an accelerated mass based on an increasing force
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Undergrad What causes tension in a rope moving in a vertical circle?
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Graduate What was the intuition behind the development of Hamiltonian mechanics?
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Undergrad Does speed affect energy consumption over a certain distance?
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Graduate Influence of vacuum in the Conservation of energy
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High School Question about acceleration and movemenr
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Graduate Analysis of a deformable body and Newton's 3rd Law
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Graduate What is meant by "the body is on the point of ...." in mechanics?
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Undergrad Calculate the change of angular velocity
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Undergrad Zero Friction Piston Ring question
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High School Derivation of Wheel Relationship Formulas
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Undergrad Strange turn of a rotating playing card when I throw it
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Undergrad Moment of impact in sports, what's really going on?
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High School Derivation of Cosine and Sine Method of Vector Sum
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Graduate Do we have "Newtonian space-time" in classical physics?
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If I tie an ant to a rock and let it fall from a high place, then....?
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Undergrad Why doesn't using a basis which is not orthogonal work?
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High School Moment of a force about a point
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Undergrad How momentum is conserved in an inelastic collision
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High School Silly question -- Perpendicular forces have no effect on speed?
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Undergrad Why Ground Flax Seed Takes Up More Space: The Science Behind It
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High School Conservation of Energy: Why are Normal Forces Zero?
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Graduate Analyzing Sound Through a Rectangular Slot
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Graduate Finding motion where the acceleration depends on position and time
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High School Blunt force vs cutting force in penetration
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Undergrad Is Kinetic Friction a Conservative Force?
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Undergrad Can a Lighter Fishing Rod Really Cast Further?
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High School How to calculate jump height from the force and a person's weight
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Undergrad Water stream projection distance calculation for different nozzle shapes
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Undergrad How Does Mass Influence the Reaction in Newton's 3rd Law of Motion?
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Undergrad Penny waterfall - Physics of a riding coin
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Graduate Physical Intuitions for the k-epsilon Turbulence Model
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Graduate What Happens to Relative Velocity When Coordinate Systems Differ?
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High School What does the scalar product of two displacements represent?
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Undergrad Integral for the calculation of torque
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High School Unraveling the Mystery of Mass and Acceleration
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Undergrad Rotational Kinetic Energy discrepancy
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Graduate Non-quasi-static Air Compression Calculation
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Graduate What is the optimal power variation for a cyclist on a varied race course?
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Undergrad Why the work done is the area enclosed by the graph of F versus x on x Axis?
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Undergrad Which inertial frame is used when resolving toward the centre
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Graduate Flaw in alternative approach to determine ideal gas speed distribution
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Undergrad Why Do Different Objects Share Similar Moments of Inertia?
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Undergrad My understanding of tension is a little loose....
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Graduate How Does Mechanical Power Flow Through Structures Like Drive Shafts and Levers?
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Undergrad Accurate Fluid Dynamics By Video Analysis
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High School Sign problems with vectors, how can we "resolve" this....
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High School Can we say that work done can be used only for mechanical energy?
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Graduate Potential Energy: Rigorous Understanding & E=mc²
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Undergrad What motor/gear box is needed to lift 160lb robot?
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Graduate A Puzzle Involving the Moon's Orbital Motion
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Graduate Classical EM vs Orbital Angular Momentum
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High School Ideal Ball weight to get the maximum range from a ball launcher?
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Undergrad Position as a function of energy
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High School Ambiguity when labeling arrows
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Graduate Work is not done by static friction when accelerating a car
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Graduate Maths for Sound passing through different mediums
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Graduate What is the inverse of the covariance operator in Brownian motion?
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Undergrad Is there any work done by static friction when accelerating a car?
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High School Do fluid oscillation characteristics depend on the viscosity of a fluid?
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High School Semantic question about equilibrium
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High School Kinematics and displacement, who is right?
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Graduate Understanding Ultrasound Focus and Intensity in Tissue Exposure
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Undergrad Question about the Signs of Rotational Motion
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Undergrad Can a pool ball come off a cushion faster than it hits it?
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High School Why does water freeze differently when leaves are present on a shelter roof?
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Undergrad Conservation of energy given the Earth's rotation?
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Undergrad Why the work done is coming out to be positive?
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Graduate Unraveling Landau's Mechanics: Why is Space Isotropic?
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Undergrad Elliptical motion: An object is moving at a constant speed?
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High School Sailboats providing their own wind
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Graduate What's an Ion's sound speed (Cs) in a plasma?
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Undergrad Escape velocity and gravitational freefall
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Undergrad Sail craft and apparent wind theory
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Undergrad Forces exerted on an anchor point from a falling object
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Graduate Velocity change under drag and other forces: small mass, large delta-t
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High School Why does an increase in surface area lead to a reduction in pressure?
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High School Forced Oscillations: Pendulum 1 Driving Neighboring Pendulum
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Undergrad How Does Elastic Collision Angle Relate to Mass Ratios?
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Undergrad How to calculate the pressure of an explosion?
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Graduate Is cavitation worse at depth? (Fluid pressure and Vapor pressure boiling)
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High School When an object is tossed up from the ground
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Undergrad Unraveling the Mystery of Work Done & Energy Transfer
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High School Can the Normal Force Produce a Torque on an Object on an Incline?
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Graduate Moving relative to a rotating helix
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Undergrad Capillary action, evaporative pumping or bio-mechanical pumping....
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Undergrad Angular Acceleration: Understanding the Relationship Between Connected Pulleys
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Graduate Projectile motion of a two-point rigid body
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Graduate Conserved quantity due to invariance under temporal rotations
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Graduate D'Alembert's principle and the work done by constraint forces
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Graduate How Do Inelastic Collisions Distribute Energy Between Heat and Sound?
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Graduate Control volume and the momentum theorem
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