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Undergrad A question about forces on a mass
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High School Sound questions about waves (Violin vs Flute at 256-Hz Tone)
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Undergrad Why do pendulums swing more slowly at the equator?
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Graduate Terminal velocity and drag force in one dimention
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High School Which force stops me falling through my chair?
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Graduate Counterintuitive Result Regarding COM Of A Hemispherical Shell
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High School Why Don't We Get Flung Off the Earth at the Equator?
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High School Me, Thinking About A Jump and A Fall
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High School Determining Car Acceleration from Y & T Values
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High School What is 400 Newtons and How Does it Relate to Everyday Life?
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Undergrad Initiation of rolling without an opposite force.
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High School Effects of banked angle on vehicles
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Undergrad Do Sound Waves Have Gravitational Force?
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High School Why do we say motion is relative?
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Undergrad Torque & Power: Understanding Angular Velocity
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High School Drummers Guide: Understanding the Impact of Fulcrum on Cymbal Mounting
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Undergrad Do we have Coriolis acceleration on the slider or is it purely centripetal?
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Undergrad How can I simulate a car's acceleration using torque and RPM?
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Undergrad Does Manometer Tubing Diameter Affect P=pgh Calculation?
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Graduate How can the overall potential energy be the same in these two examples?
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Graduate Supersonic Standing Still: The Physics Behind Wind Tunnel Experiments
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Undergrad Centrifuagal and centripital force
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High School Unit of sound/noise is decibels
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Graduate How Holograms Work: Explaining 3D Image Reproduction
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Graduate Energy & Pressure: Questions & Reflections
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High School Calculate the displacement of 3 different directions and distances?
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Undergrad Escape velocity for rocket launches
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Graduate Potential Arbitrariness in Electrodynamics - How Can It Be?
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High School Estimate Diameter of Moon Using Pencil Measurements
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Graduate State of water and max pressure
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Undergrad Potential Energy of Object After Earth Disappears
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Graduate Synchronized random bit generator
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High School Confusion with horizontal component of PROJECTILE MOTION
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Graduate Effect of centrifigual force on a gavity bound object
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Undergrad Can a Wind Propelled Ice Boat Outrun the Wind?
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Undergrad The Force Behind a Curve Ball: Spin and Projectiles
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Graduate Hydrodynamics: Meniscus Height in Thin and Wide Cylinders
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High School Question about kinetic friction force?
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Undergrad Understanding Order in Sound Plots in Automotive Industry
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High School Speed of rotation of an audio record or audio tape
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High School Understand Angular Momentum - Help from a Teacher for Eraniamayomii
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Undergrad Friction & Tyres: Why Thicker Car Tyres Give Better Grip
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Undergrad Optimal speed for deviation of a spinning sphere
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High School Why is there a delay in hearing sound after seeing an event?
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Graduate Solving Problem 1.8: Angular Momentum Conservation?
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Graduate Mass on a string.lagrange mechanics
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Graduate Free energy of a rotational system.
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Undergrad Understanding the Phenomenon in the Attached Picture
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Graduate What are the shear stress components on an arbitrary plane in a 3D stress state?
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High School Rarefaction? How is it formed. Sound (Simple question)
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Graduate Another question about complex potential
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High School Is holding something in a gravitational field doing work ?
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Graduate Phase velocity greater than propagation velocity
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Graduate Understanding Critical Damping: Exploring SHM and the T/4 Period
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Undergrad Why does an object rotate about its center of mass when thrown in the air?
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Graduate Calculating generator function in canonical transformation
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Undergrad Why does static friction exist without an equal and opposite force?
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High School Water Flow Rate From A Tap Attached 2 A Tank
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Graduate Buoyant Lift Creates Useful Energy?
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Undergrad Does Initial Velocity Effect Gravitational Accleration?
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Undergrad Gravitational Potential Energy
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Undergrad The Power of Mechanical Batteries
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Graduate What Is the Impact of Throat Velocity on Pressure According to Bernoulli's Law?
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Undergrad Fluid Mechanics: 2 Connected Cylinders w/ Different Diameters
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Undergrad Adjusting Air Column Length with Water: Why No Waves?
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High School How Kinetic Energy is Absorbed
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Undergrad Calculating the Sound of Moving Objects?
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Undergrad Phase & Frequency of Wave Propagation: Investigating Effects
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Graduate Where does the loss of gravitational potential energy goes?
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Undergrad Rigid Body Collisions: Physics for 2D Simulations
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Undergrad Wind turbine cut in speed decrease.
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Graduate Central force and orthogonal transformation
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Graduate Can Conservation Laws Truly Apply in Closed Systems?
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Undergrad Zip Wire Load Requirements: 50 - 80 Metres
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High School Frozen Salty Water: What's Really Happening?
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High School Calculating Weight of a Pushup: What You Need to Know
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Undergrad Range of Projectile from Trebuchet
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Undergrad Can the principle of rebound be applied to air molecules impacting a surface?
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Graduate Trying to Understand the Role of Water in Combustion
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Graduate How Much Force to Dent Steel and Crack Asphalt in a Sci-Fi World?
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Undergrad Critical damping provides the quickest approach to zero amplitude
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Undergrad Will a SHM eventually reach zero displacement or not?
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Graduate Looking for a low temp actuator or motor
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Undergrad Lagrangian in classical mechanics
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Graduate What is the science behind Bruce Depalma's Spinning Ball Anomaly?
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Undergrad What Role Do Weight and Friction Play in SHM with F = -kx?
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Undergrad Impact of rim weight on energy output when biking uphill
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Undergrad Derive conservation of mechanical energy for a simple spring.
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Undergrad Calculating Work Done by Speaker Cone at 40Hz
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Graduate Moments of inertia in image processing
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Undergrad Is Water for Gas a Viable Solution or Just a Scam?
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Undergrad SPRING CONSTANT- simple harmonic motion
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Undergrad Calculating Airplane Lift Energy Requirements
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High School How Many Laws of Motion Did Newton Discover?
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Undergrad How come speed of sound is not releated to frequency and more?
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Undergrad Can Gauss's Law Be Applied to Non-Symmetric Charge Distributions?
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Undergrad How to calibrate a rotational measurement device
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High School Solving Simple Harmonic Motion: Identifying Relevant Parameters
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High School Diverting an Object's Course with Minimal Force: An Easy Question
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Undergrad Experimenting with a Pendulum: Damping & Plotting Graphs
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