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Undergrad Friction between rotating objects
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Undergrad Torque and Bending: How Force Affects Bending Length
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Graduate Why Does My Box Collision Fail When Not a Cube?
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Graduate Hypothetical Questions about Inertial Drives
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Graduate Flailing Arms and Balance: The Role of Arm Motion in Maintaining Upright Posture
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High School Ions in water - what does ppM actually mean?
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High School Calculating Brain Power Needed for Lifting Mass
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Undergrad Angular Momentum: Conditions & Answers
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Graduate How Does Particle P Behave When Suspended on an Elastic String in SHM?
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Undergrad Is Velocity Zero for Only an Instant at the Peak of a Ball's Trajectory?
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High School Trebuchet Projectile Physics - Height Formula
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Undergrad Normal Force on an Inclined Plane: Does it Depend on the Coordinate System?
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Graduate Is the outcome of a collision determined by the observer's perspective?
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Undergrad How Does Opening a Valve Affect the Force Due to Fluid Pressure?
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Graduate Bullet Hit Mechanics: Force, Momentum, and Rotation
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High School Measuring Potential Differences in a circuit
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Undergrad Is Inertia Quantifiable and Measured by SI Units?
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High School Can all Earth sounds be heard if amplified enough?
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High School Heating Water Beyond Super-Heated Steam: A Middle-Schooler's Question
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High School Understanding the Effects of Sound Wave Interactions
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Undergrad Weight of Earth's Atmosphere: How Much Does It Contribute to Gravity on Earth?
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Undergrad Max Force Humans Can Exert When Kicking Off Ground
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High School Can Sound Be Different on Other Planets?
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Undergrad Differentiating Vector v = ai + bxj: What Does it Mean?
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High School Gravity and Weight: Understanding the Relationship and Common Misconceptions
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Undergrad Understanding Drag on a Rotating Object
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High School How Is Momentum Conserved When I Start Walking or a Ball Bounces Off a Wall?
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Graduate What is Internal Energy + Pressure * Volume
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High School Find Coefficient of Friction for Physics Final Review
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Undergrad Calculate Force of Bullet Impact on Body Armor
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Undergrad Why does the Stone not pull the Horse
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Undergrad Gliding distance of an arbitrary object
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Undergrad Right Hand rule in regards to direction of velocity
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High School Why Does a DC Generator Crank Easily with No Load or Disconnected Wires?
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High School Salt Water Connection: Bridging Circuits with Water for Rube Goldberg Projects
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High School Velocity Change When Hitting a Wall
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Can All 3 Cricket Stumps Be Knocked Out?
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Undergrad Building a Robocar: Turning Challenges and Solutions
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Undergrad Does a vacuum act as anti-gravity?
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Undergrad If an ice skater is spinning on a frictionless surface
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Undergrad Does rotational kinetic energy affect the height of a ball thrown into the air?
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Undergrad Wave Velocity in Terms of Tension
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Car powered by can of tomato soup.
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Undergrad Net Reaction Force: Where do the Forces Act?
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Undergrad Having trouble grasping the Cross Product
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Undergrad Calculate Pressure in Fluid Motion Pipe with Bernoulli's Principle
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Graduate Euler´s equation for inviscid flow
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Graduate Torque <-> rotational velocity?
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Undergrad Determining Vertical Jump Height from Average Velocity
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Undergrad Does Running or Walking the Same Distance Use More Energy?
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High School Gas Molecules in Motion: An Exploration of Physics
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Graduate Newtonian Gravitation Paradox ?
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Graduate Aircraft wings - Kelvins Circulation Theorem and the conservation of vorticity
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Undergrad Converting Forces in a Circular Motion: Is It Possible and How?
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Undergrad Which Coordinate System Should Be Used for Force in Torque Calculations?
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High School What Causes Drag? Overview & Explanation
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Graduate Calculating Apollo 13 Command Module Drag Coefficient
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Undergrad Creating a Flying Device Using Vacuum Lift
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Undergrad Potential of a Grounded Conductor
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High School Will Running Increase Spit-Distance? Experimenting with Physics!
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High School Weird how two objects can makes sound
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High School Mass of the rocket doesnt stay constant
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Undergrad Averaging Polynomial & Non-Linear Functions: Examples & Explanations
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Graduate Understanding Magnetic Fields: Particles, Forces, and Motion Explained
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Undergrad Work-Energy Theorem: Bar, Resistor, & Magnetic Field
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High School Why is the SI unit for acceleration m/(s^2)?
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High School How Does Gravity Change Inside the Earth's Surface?
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High School When a ray is traveling from air to water
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Graduate Vector Potential: Finding the Vector Potential of a Long Wire
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Graduate Why does symmetry lead to a restoring force in precessional rotation?
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Undergrad What is the relationship between energy and velocity in this space vehicle?
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Undergrad Calculus Project: Position eq with Theta
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Undergrad Dynamics of rigid bodies physics
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Undergrad Friction force dilema. A new physics breakthrough?
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