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High School Compressed air at high pressure can cause frostbite?
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High School Understanding Displacement: Direction and Magnitude
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Undergrad Terminal velocity with an initial velocity?
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High School Pendulum Experiment - Finding relationship between period and length
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Undergrad Household liquids with low surface tension?
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Graduate What is the mistake in assuming that a finite force can start an object at rest?
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Undergrad Highest frequency before mechanical failure
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Undergrad Relationship between speed of sound and density
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Undergrad General Rule for Spring Compression?
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High School Cardboard Boat: Calculating Buoyant Forces
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High School Motion cannot be created or destroyed
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High School Solving the Mystery of Car Fog - Explaining the Science
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High School Why does water boil faster in a kettle then on the stove?
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High School The physics of the classic game Asteroids
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High School Swinging pendulum that swings forever?
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Undergrad How Does MIRIAH Satellite Technology Function?
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Graduate How Do You Find A Central Force Orbit?
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Undergrad Modeling Rolling Ball in x-y Plane
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Graduate Did the physics of the accident contradict the truck driver's testimony?
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Graduate What Is Sound? - Understood at Atomic Level
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Graduate Can Nanoscale Vibrations Affect Particle Positioning?
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High School Physical meaning of momentum equation
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Undergrad How do solar sails defy the laws of physics?
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Graduate Poynting vector power flow question
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High School Is There Power Involved in Holding a Weight at Rest?
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Undergrad About 'Coefficient of Restitution'
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Undergrad Pigeons flying in a truck on MythBusters
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High School Conservation of Energy, Matter & Space
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High School Can someone explain mass energy conservation?
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High School Calculate Force Constant for Safe Bungee Jumping: F=700N, x=9m, k=77.77 N/m
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High School Why Are Catgut Strings on Musical Instruments Wrapped With Wire?
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High School Tension in string when force is applied to both ends
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High School How Fast do I need to go to make my landing?
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Graduate Trajectory of a bullet with drag
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Graduate A thrustless propulsion device Help me out
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Undergrad Gravity On a Ring Around the World
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Undergrad Real world Aircraft landing deceleration problem
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Undergrad Effect of pressure on hydrogen spectrum
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Undergrad Is Acceleration Constant on an Inclined Plane?
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Undergrad The Mystery: Solving a Brain Teaser with Water and Weight
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Undergrad How Does Ruler Length Affect Spring Constant and Oscillation Frequency?
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Undergrad Is this correct (buoyabcy forces - irregular object)?
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Undergrad Parallel Axis Theorem and interia tensors
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Undergrad Newons laws on calculating force upon impact.
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Undergrad Sliding friction, position/velocity as a function of time?
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Graduate The principle of reversible Kater's pendulum and why its rod's ends are pointed
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Undergrad The coefficient of restitution
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Undergrad Definition of Fluid: What is Shear Stress?
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Undergrad What is the relationship between sliding and rolling motion of a ball?
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Undergrad Calculating Torque on a Turbine
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Undergrad Rolling Without Slipping question
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Undergrad Is rolling resistance related to relative motion at the point of contact?
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Undergrad Linear and angular acceleration.
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High School Is There Truly Any Matter That Remains Motionless in the Universe?
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High School What is Damped Harmonic Oscillation?
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Undergrad Calculating Rope Strain for 90' Tree Cut
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Graduate Reynold's Equation: Navier-Stokes to Const. Density Flow
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Graduate Why is the Stress Tensor Symmetrical?
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Undergrad How does air resistance change with acceleration?
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Undergrad Ball Drop Impact test - equations?
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Undergrad Can you explain the basics of Newton's law?
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Undergrad Impact area of a steel ball on a surface
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Undergrad Driving a Car on a Straight Road: Analyzing Forces
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High School Angular Acceleration and Gravity
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Graduate Transverse waves mechanics in a rope
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High School Force of Vehicles Traveling at 13.4112m/s
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Graduate Motion equation of moving particle
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Undergrad Circular accelerators vs Linear Accelerators
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Undergrad Xkcd (angular momentum problem)
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Undergrad Airplane and Conveyor Belt Debate
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Undergrad DWFTTW: Can a Craft Go Faster than the Wind?
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Undergrad Inverted Pendulum: Relate Force to Angle/Displacement?
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Undergrad Sailing Upwind. What are the theoretical or practical speed limits?
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High School Relationship between gravity/kinetic energy
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High School Simple Finding Spring Constant
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Undergrad M"Calculating Flywheel Force: Understanding the Two Flywheel Problem | CCM
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Undergrad Transverse mechanical waves - fundamentals
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Undergrad How can I calculate wheel thrust for a given acceleration and time?
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Undergrad Can a Cart Move Faster Than the Wind?
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Graduate Are parabolic trajectories really accurate for objects in motion?
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Undergrad Sliding Friction between two Plates as a function of surface roughess
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Undergrad How Does a Jolly Balance Relate to Archimedes's Principle?
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Undergrad Forces Acting on a Moving Hinged Bar
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Graduate Interesting mechanics questions
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Graduate What is the mathematical representation of pressure and amplitude in a 1D wave?
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Graduate What is the proof behind the Coriolis force formula?
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Undergrad Climbing a Pulley: Conservation of Momentum & Energy?
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Graduate Gyroscopic effect on tilting rotor?
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Undergrad How does rotation influence the motion of objects like a thrown pen?
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Undergrad Determining Effective Force of Gravity
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Undergrad Angular momentum conservation and energy considerations
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Undergrad Why does drop time remain constant regardless of initial horizontal velocity?
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Undergrad Impact Force after falling of a chair
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Graduate Ball rolling down an incline between 2 rails
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Undergrad Sailing downwind faster than the wind: resolved?
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Graduate Changing force on a moving object
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Graduate Rolling Ball on Horiz. Plane: Friction, Torque & Angular Vel.
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High School Do we weight less during high tide?
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High School Cars & Torque: Flywheel to Drive Shaft
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